John Edward Benoit

Another American fighting to stay alive.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family.

That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know.

I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Zionist congressmen will say stuff like this in a country built on slavery where the voting rights act was just gutted and a guy was just found not guilty for shooting a 14 year old Black kid in the back.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Pentagon DIA says Israel has ramped up spying on US officials since Trump showed interest in a deal with Iran

Israeli human espionage and technical collection is at a ”critical level,” the DIA states

Israel placed Stingray spy devices throughout the White House during the first Trump term

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

The Dems are a majority genocidal party, just like Repubs.

We need a party that fights genocide AND oligarchy, climate collapse & endless war.

Cancel your registration in the duopoly & we might have a fighting chance.

[Dr. Butch Ware @ButchWare]

‘Butch doesn’t even have ballot access.’
Any ‘leftist’ that repeated that was running cover and carrying water for Dems.

In 2022, Matthew Hoh, a former military whistleblower who protested the war in Afghanistan was disqualified from the ballot in his Green senate run when Dem operatives impersonated Green Party officials and called signatories telling them that Hoh was withdrawing from the race.

Today, Dems moved to disqualify Pete Karas from the ballot in Wisconsin.

In 2024 Democrats spent 6x more suing Greens off of ballots than the total Stein/Ware campaign budget.

Develop some pattern recognition.

My campaign followed the rules and regulations- to the letter. But Team Blue genocide counts on libs; ‘progressives,’ and even ‘leftists’ to run pro bono psyops for them.

And some folks fall right in line.

[Howie Hawkins @HowieHawkins]

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[Green Party of California @cagreens1]

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[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Israel first on steroids. Shame on both parties, taking marching orders from US President Netanyahu.

[John Edward Benoit @JohnBenoit88]

I challenge you to find a 20 minute video with more vital information than this one! https://t.co/8ZGTu66QoB

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

Funny how @RepLuna called the police to arrest me (they didn’t once they saw the video) because she said I touched her arm. 10 minutes later @RepMariaSalazar grabbed my face. I’m not complaining because she didn’t do it maliciously, I’m just pointing out the lunacy of @RepLuna

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The Lawfare Defense Fund, a nonprofit founded by Trump donors, has raised at least $36 million to provide legal assistance to the president's allies, including those who consider themselves unjust victims of the legal system. https://t.co/i7vFjflQ5L

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Hasan Piker discusses being barred from entering the U.K., his participation in a recent humanitarian mission to Cuba, for which he is reportedly under investigation by the Trump administration, and his support for progressive and antiwar candidates in this year’s midterm elections.

https://t.co/pbd5bRIE3k

[Zephyr Teachout @ZephyrTeachout]

Assemblymember Torres has been nothing but a hero for consumers on surveillance pricing, and the bill is a good step forward.

But in the middle of the night, the business lobby complicated the discount language, clearly trying to make it harder to enforce, and, most importantly, the bill
is only enforceable if one of dozen already overloaded lawyers in the New York Attorney General's office brings a case. It makes it illegal for Doordash to charge you more because an algorithmic read of your data says you're depressed, but you can't bring a lawsuit if Doordash rips you off that way.

Governor Hochul should use chapter amendments to make sure that people who are harmed can sue. No one should have to take exploitative data-based pricing sitting down.

[Howie Hawkins @HowieHawkins]

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[Zephyr Teachout @ZephyrTeachout]

Uber and Instacart and the gig industry is going all out to stop the One Fair Price Act in NY, after both repeatedly denying that they use the surveillance prices.

Don't listen to me, listen to @GraceGedye at Consumer Reports:

"Large corporations are aggressively fighting this bill because they want to be able to profile consumers and charge them different amounts, a tactic that makes prices less transparent and leads to consumers with the fewest options or those in the most desperate situations paying much more. These companies are profiting by collecting vast amounts of data about individual shoppers — how often we search for or hover over particular items, whether we live near competitor stores, inferences about our likes and dislikes, our dietary needs, our income, our family size, and more.”

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[Green Party of California @cagreens1]

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Let's get to work then!
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[Green Party of California @cagreens1]

We thank all our Green & left unity slate candidates who run for office to serve, defend & build the communities and the world we need and deserve.
We Greens put people, planet and peace over profit because that's the only way we can survive capitalism.
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[Howie Hawkins @HowieHawkins]

The key to building the Green Party is growing the party bottom-up, starting in our local chapters.

Check out our Local Organizing Resources and get starting in your community!

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[Kshama Sawant @cmkshama]

Jacobin magazine, the principal mouthpiece of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, today released a hit piece on Amazon labor leader Chris Smalls, @Shut_downAmazon.

It could be legit if Jacobin had had an honest critique of Smalls to clarify what class struggle unionist leaders should be doing. But the article is not that at all.

It’s a hatchet job against a leading labor activist who has refused to toe the line of the DSA and the business unionist labor leaders who give cover to the so-called progressive Democrats and to the Democratic Party as a whole, despite shocking betrayals by them against working people.

The crux of the real reason why Jacobin went after Smalls is contained in this sentence: “[Smalls] blames the two-party system for the state of the American labor movement…”

Smalls is spot on about this and the need to break from the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a new party of the working class.

The DSA leadership, on the other hand, sees giving cover to the Democratic Party as job number one. The Democratic Party is the party under whom the genocide in Gaza began and which engineered the breaking of the railroad workers’ strike — both under President Joe Biden. ALL Democrats in the House, including DSA star AOC voted to break the strike. The Democratic Party is one of the two most powerful capitalist parties in the world, and in no way represents working people or the oppressed.

Business unionist labor leaders are those who have made peace with the capitalist system and are driven by protecting their careers, which means placating the bosses, not organizing the rank and file against the bosses to win substantive working-class victories. Refusing to fight the bosses also means aligning with the parties of the bosses, like the Democratic Party.

The overwhelming majority of the labor leadership today is business unionist, with some crucial exceptions like Smalls. We need a reckoning in the labor movement.

Brother Smalls has put his life on the line for the antiwar movement in solidarity with the Palestinia people against the Israeli state’s genocide bankrolled by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Smalls went on a Gaza aid flotilla carrying food, baby formula, diapers and medicine in the context of catastrophic levels of mass starvation in Gaza. The flotilla was attacked by the Israeli military, who physically assaulted Smalls, and kicked and choked him.

In contrast, AOC has voted for the Iron Dome which is part of the Israeli state’s genocidal apparatus.

For having the temerity to expose AOC and other self-described “progressive” politicians, Smalls is called “narcissistic” by Jacobin, a term the magazine’s editors were apparently forced to retract after they got huge amounts of flak on all social media.

Personal attacks and character assassination like in this case are often used by the political establishment’s spokespeople as proxy for their real objections — in this case, the threat they feel from Smalls openly calling out the Democratic Party’s actual role.

The only way of rebuilding a militant labor movement is to pose a concrete threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, which in turn requires a challenge to the business unionist labor leadership. That is the basis on which I won the nation’s highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax during the decade I was the sole socialist on the Seattle City Council.

I am now running as an independent revolutionary socialist against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. I am calling for an end to all military aid to Israel and an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war. https://t.co/sh3zyhgTI7

[John Edward Benoit @JohnBenoit88]

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