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[Edward Ongweso Jr @bigblackjacobin]

These guys are doing PHENOMENAL work

[audrey @phlegmme]

Got rejected by multiple car insurance companies because my driving is so avant garde and unprecedented that to put a price value on it would cheapen the human spirit

[socialist sopranos memes @gabagoolmarx]

One night around then, I had this dream: it was my pop's hundredth birthday even though he’s been dead for years. The whole family's there, grandkids, everybody, he’s wearing one of these gold paper crowns like at Burger King. Anyway, I give him this present, this mellifluous box, with ribbons, he opens it up and looks at me, this gaze of absolute disappointment, there's nothing in the box, so he hands it back to me, "Go fill it up” he says, "Come back when I'm two hundred"

We have this ritual at my house for years, our kids are in boarding school, every night I come home from work strip down, jump naked in the pool, Nicole brings me a scotch and water, we sit, relax a little, talk, I go up to bed the air conditioning, she brings me a light dinner on a tray. One night during all that fighting with John, I come home, I'm exhausted, so tired, so tense I skip the pool, I go right upstairs flop on the bed. Nicole comes up with the drink and she says "Darling, I think it’s time you took a rest". I say '"Yeah, I'm gonna, we'll take a vacation". She says “That’s not what I meant. I don't want to be the wealthiest widow on Long Island, I want you to quit now". I'm not ashamed to say this, but she made me cry, that wonderful, loving woman. That dream with my father with the empty box, it wasn't about being boss, it was about being happy.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

KNEECAP messages from #Coachella2025 Gig opening 🔥🔥🔥

[A 𒉭 🍜 @ssjnoodles]

This Ayah really affected me deeply

when i think about joining in with trends, excessively going out to socialise with my boys, maybe just taking it easy for the weekend, skipping some optional Ibadah,

i think about what my Lord has in store for me, and that is better

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Al Jazeera anchor: “In response to your protest, the NFL says you’ll now be banned for life. Would you still have done it if you knew the risks?”

Super Bowl protester Zul-Qarnain Nantambu: “The risk of a ban? I was afraid I’d get sniped by a Secret Service bullet. I can watch a football game on television if I choose to, sir.”

[issa @IssaAli25]

Everyone knows Israel is granted total immunity but sometimes you need a 16-part thread and a link to an in-depth article to really hammer how evil and complicit the U.S really is

[Brett Murphy @BrettMmurphy]

There is a ceasefire deal, so I want to share this story from my past year reporting inside the State Dept. trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:

How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza? 1/

[qamarinitiative @qamarinitiative]

Imams in Syria drafting their upcoming Jumu’ah Khutbah

[Patch @_foxygrandpa__]

Breloom's Pokedex number is 286. Proverbs 28:6 reads, 'Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.'

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Don’t let the imperialists derail the Palestine solidarity movement, please please please.

[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.

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

First time visiting Washington, DC. So many sights to see. I think I’ll start with this place, which is not on any tourist maps, and leave a hefty donation.

[Patrick Wyman @Patrick_Wyman]

More like Geneva Suggestions

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

"So, take notes butcher Biden. The ancestors of the Ireland that you claim to be from disown you. Keep our country out of your mouth."

A strong speech by MEP Clare Daly.

[issa @IssaAli25]

Unguarded? Max 3

[The Ginger Swindler @lilydsmith]

From the people that brought you “I can land a plane in an emergency” I present the NBA 3 pointer

[Pelham @Resist_05]

Palestine delivers the greatest speech in modern history at the UN Security Council…🔥