if you’ve ever worn black to a protest, used Signal, or carried a first aid kit, a federal jury just decided that can all be evidence of terrorism. a quick thread on the Prairielands convictions from last week, and what they mean for the right to protest in the US:
NEW PHOTOS: The man who opened fire at an Austin, Texas bar overnight. 2 dead, 14 injured.
Ndiaga Diagne, a U.S. citizen born in Senegal, wore a shirt saying "Property of Allah". His undershirt referenced Iran.
If you believe now is the time to talk about the internal issues within the Islamic republic, then you have sided with Zionism and US Imperalism. And if you have spent the last few months doing so, you prepared the intellectual ground for today’s attacks.
The EU is willing to block approval of a trade deal with the US, because the US’s moves towards Greenland are contrary to EU interests.
Israel’s conduct in Gaza is not, however.
European Union lawmakers are poised to block approval of the EU’s trade deal with the US over President Donald Trump’s vow to impose tariffs on countries that supported Greenland in the face of American threats. https://t.co/4iaPFtsQGG
This is how evil Dick Cheney is.
Every recent high-profile death, the queen, Charlie Kirk, Kissinger, the healthcare CEO, was the source of jokes and memes.
Today I’ve seen hardly any jokes and memes. Just thought pieces and that the world is better off without him and his ilk
@BarackObama Friendly reminder that Obama, pictured here with Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, and Ali Abunimah, knows the history of Palestine and Palestinians very well and consciously chooses to dehumanize them
Today marks two years since the genocide in Gaza began. More than half a million Palestinians have been slaughtered by Israeli state terrorism yet both parties of U.S. imperialism continue to back this modern-day holocaust.
Democratic and Republican politicians in the U.S. Congress have provided over $21 billion to Israel to carry out these horrors, first under President Biden, who presided over the genocide for 15 months, and now under President Trump.
The brutal mistreatment of courageous activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla, including Greta Thunberg and Amazon union leader Chris Smalls, detained and assaulted by Israeli forces, has been met with deafening silence by Democrats, including progressives like AOC and Bernie Sanders. My opponent, Democratic Congressmember Adam Smith, has also remained silent, not surprisingly. Smith has called antiwar activists “left-wing fascists” and demanded they be arrested. He has voted again and again to fund the genocide and to repeatedly block United Nations food aid to Gaza, despite overwhelming evidence of catastrophic mass starvation in Gaza.
The Democratic Party has not a shred of credibility left. Instead of “never again,” the Democrats have voted again and again to fund the Gaza holocaust. As recently as July, 207 Democrats, including Adam Smith and AOC, voted to fund Iron Dome, which is part of the weapons apparatus that has allowed the Israeli state to act with impunity with its onslaught against Gaza as well as other nations in the region, including Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
We need a new party for working and oppressed people in the United States. A party that will base itself on militant mass movements, on mass strike action, and mass civil disobedience to end this genocide and to fight unambiguously for working people and the oppressed against the billionaires and their rotten system.
My independent socialist campaign for Congress is calling for an immediate end to all U.S. funding to the Israeli state, an end to the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, an end to the apartheid system in Israel, and an end to both genocidal parties of the U.S. billionaire class.
We need a global intifada — a mass uprising against this violent capitalist system — on a working-class basis. The Palestinian intifadas began in 1987 as a series of uprisings against the Israeli occupation. During these intifadas, Palestinians fought back with mass protests, civil disobedience, and strike action in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. This resistance has been met with brutality by the Israeli state backed to the hilt by American imperialism.
We need an intifada of the millions which follows the historical example set by the Palestinian masses, and the example being set now by the Italian working class. These are examples of broad unity and militant working-class action against the genocide and occupation. We need general strikes that will shut down the economy, the ports, and the capitalist system as a whole until our demands are met.
Some hope that Trump’s latest “peace plan” could end the massacre. But history tells us that the Israeli state plans to carry through its plan of mass murder and ethnic cleansing to the end, unless they are stopped by a mass international antiwar movement. The Israeli state itself was created as a bulwark for Western imperialism. It acts as a force against regional working-class movements and on behalf of the capitalist class, which also includes the uber-wealthy individuals in nations such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.
The only way out of this cycle of genocide, war, poverty, and climate catastrophe is to end capitalism itself. That’s why I’m a revolutionary socialist.
Will Smith’s son walks around Paris with his face painted red and his underwear on display.
Jaden Smith has been described as a ‘fashion icon’ by the fashion industry and has been made the new creative director for Christian Louboutin men’s.
Video: Taeib Gedeon