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Mired in postproduction 🇵🇸

[Bolshetrick.bsky.social @Bolshetrick]

TLDR; of Todays city council arts and economy meeting.

Portland Oregon baby

[Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar]

Ethnic cleansing and genocide are being publicly advertised by the Israeli government, but vapid commentators & public officials in the US keep talking about Israel's imaginary peace efforts.

[Mitch Green for Portland City Council, District 4 @mitch4portland]

Thinking about PSR workers out there today in the cold trying to make sure our houseless neighbors make it through the night. Will be a high priority for me to make sure PSR has the resources it needs to do its job, while making sure mgmt isn’t working against them like Rene did.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

Canadian journalist just got intellectually slapped‼️

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Jeffrey Sachs is asked who he will vote for in today's election. He replies: "I'm a firm non-voter. Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, it's sickening, it's obvious, we see it every day, and if a candidate can't say something about that I can't support them, period."

[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.

[nephew by marriage @CobraFontaine]

Whatever you may think of the man and his politics it is undeniable that Donald Trump is a great stand up performer

[Mitch Green for Portland City Council, District 4 @mitch4portland]

Here's my take on social housing.
https://t.co/hqMx8ACklS

[Mitch Green for Portland City Council, District 4 @mitch4portland]

Setting aside the Trumpian rhetoric here, it's just not a claim supported by the facts. Virtually all in and out county movers are producers. The people leaving who are "fleeing" taxes are households who make an Adj Gross Income of $104k, well below the preschool tax burden. 1/n

[Angelita for PDX @pnwpolicyangel]

Unfortunately, a “ceasefire” means nothing now because its meaning has been corrupted by elected officials who want to placate the public on a popular policy issue while continuing to send billions of dollars to buy more bombs. We need an arms embargo now.

[Mitch Green for Portland City Council, District 4 @mitch4portland]

The Portland we deserve is within reach but only if we get organized. Watch this video and then give me $5

https://t.co/qzqlEFFbmV

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

So sorry I was slow responding to your email, I was tied up watching this over and over again

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

There is no other way to say this: the (lack of) reaction to the scenes of sheer carnage, burned refugee bodies, and decapitated babies coming out of Rafah tonight from the U.S. political and media establishments is nothing other than the normalizing, the banalizing, of genocide.

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

Hamas is not exogenous to the Palestinian people but a part of its national & political fabric. For 233 days, weve insisted that it’s impossible 2 militarily destroy Hamas, still that false discourse has facilitated the worst mass atrocities incl burning children alive in tents.

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

I am trying to pull on anger but I am grief stricken. My stomach turns when I try to speak. How do I explain that burning children alive in tents is bad? Who does not know that? What is this system we’ve built that has normalized advanced tech barbarism & dares to lecture us?

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Eric Andre just posted this video

[Shane Loeffler @shane98c]

@saaaauuull Antarctica is showing up too