JP

No, YOUR exhaustion is self-inflicted. #YNWA

[JP @bleeptoast]

@TorstenBell @RishiSunak Political focus is forever on reducing help for the sick, the disabled, the poor and the refugee. I'd love for it just once to be on reducing help to corporations driving climate change, tax-dodging non-doms, or fast-lane PPE-promising Tory donors.

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

I have seen no evidence in the last few years that the police work in the interests of the people. However I have seen plenty of evidence of police springing into action whenever the establishment or their force’s reputation is under threat

[Paul Garvey. @PaulGarvey4]

2 obvious reasons staring everyone in the face but no-one in power has the cojones to state these to the Tursts and then stop it:

1. Zero Tolerance, leading to...
2. Selection by Compliance.

I'll get these recognised for the blight they are, in the end!

https://t.co/vFDybwfvOI

[VCF UK 🟪🟪🟪 @UKVCF]

For decades the Foundation has reminded those in power that the problem is not that children are ‘hidden’ but that children known to the system are not helped. The tragedy of Sara Sharif was that she was not protected nor the systemic failures addressed... https://t.co/d23Nh5gFFF

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The @JustStop_Oil Stop activists who threw soup over the Van Gogh painting case to demand climate change action, are currently in prison.

Right now, the Getty Villa, museum of precious Greek and Roman artefacts, in LA, appears to be on fire.

#PacificPalisades

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Every person sleeping rough is a failure of our state.

But the gripe that asylum seekers are in hotels while “OUR” homeless are on the streets is pure rubbish.
“OUR” homeless are largely in hotels & bnbs too.

And it isn’t acceptable long term accommodation for anyone. #r4today

[Russell @ATLCWorker]

Capitalism is great.

We have 3 guys whose hobbies include space travel and most of us can’t afford to go to the movies.

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

Democrats love to act like Republicans, lose, then conclude that the problem is that they’re still not enough like Republicans.

[Richie Floyd @richiejfloyd]

There is research published on this topic, but it is purposely ignored by people who simply do not want their class interests threatened

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

Harris campaigned w Liz fucking Cheney, on having most lethal military in the world, on building the wall, on big biz and fossil fuels. And yet centrists are trying to gaslight us into believing that it was woke that destroyed her candidacy god they truly want to drive us insane.

[RECLAIM @RECLAIMproject]

The government has announced a new National Youth Strategy - something we're excited about! Young people will be invited to co-produce the strategy. We hope that working-class young people are represented in the process, as they are vital to creating a strategy that serves them.

[JP @bleeptoast]

Cole Palmer "hottest talent in the Premier League this season" 7 goals and 5 assists. Mo Salah 10 goals and 10 assists 🙄 #CHEARS

[JP @bleeptoast]

@OptaJoe I think he might have been the best counter attacking forward in the world for a decade

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

@diets_tweets Climate (and other crises) drives shortages. Shortages get exploited by monopolistic suppliers for super profits. Prices soar, so do profits in key industries. This is the primary mechanism crushing living standards.

[Tony Collins @tontytrains]

The answer to the question "do liberals ever learn" is being answered on both sides of the Atlantic today: no; when it goes their way it's cos people want them, and when it goes against them it's cos people are terrible. It's never them, never their fault

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Labours approach is taking this country down the exact same route.

If you continue to make people's conditions worse whilst claiming the wealth of the few will trickle down - then this is obviously fuel to far right populism.

We need to continue to grow the alternative.

[The Seagull Has Landed @Red__Tim]

I think what I'm least looking forward to from a UK perspective is liberal talking heads congratulating themselves that "at least we're not heading that way over here" when any clear-eyed analysis of the last election result will demonstrate that's *exactly* the path we are on.

[JJ @SocioTechGlobal]

@PhilipProudfoot @Eldon_Katz Tweeting is not praxis I hope this helps

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[JP @bleeptoast]

@TaintlessRed That chance he created for Salah... 🤌🏻

[JP @bleeptoast]

@Okwonga Staggering arrogance and loss of perspective, but not from Amorim or anyone representing Porto. I'm actually ashamed for that journalist.