Lisa B.

🌍 an earth patriot | creative | #kidlit | writer | working class solidarity + anti-war | former: @LisaForPG | gamer | only unpopular opinions here

[Amunet @freakoutsideofx]

Happy Juneteenth!!

[Lisa B. @lnburnam]

Happy Juneteenth, folks!! ❤️💚💛🖤

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

Oh look! There’s Cory Booker aligned with the same right wing he claims to fight against. One BIG CLUB folks!

[Duopoly Destroyer @realnikohouse]

Israel will get an Executive Officer in the US Department of Defense as Congress officially merges US & Israeli intelligence communities in new NDAA legislation.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Meanwhile, folks are getting pressured into "I regret my 2020 tweets."

[Lisa B. @lnburnam]

🔥🔥Abandoning capitalism IS the goal.

But in the mean time, we must stop letting the ultrarich rig the system against us. When people can't afford a quality education, a living wage, healthcare, or a decent retirement, it becomes impossible to fight back.

[CEPR @ceprdc]

Yes, we live in a capitalist economy (whether or not we keep it is another question), but while this is the current system—we can end the tyranny of the billionaire class.

Getting rid of government-granted patents and copyright monopolies, making #privateequity responsible for its liabilities, ending Wall Street bailouts, taxing financial transactions, closing the carried interest loophole, making non-compete agreements unenforceable, AND taxing the rich are essential to solving the billionaire wealth problem.

The Jonas Salks and Frederick Bantings of the world gave away the polio vaccine and insulin for next to nothing.

The internet came out of a military project.

Great innovations have always happened without the system being rigged to funnel profits to a tiny few.

Capitalism has been structured to maximize inequality and wealth concentration.

That means we can structure it differently, too.
https://t.co/d5yY4S8ESo

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Good note, well done community

[Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog]

@jacobin The Meteoric Rise and Narcissistic Fall of Jacobin, a gate keeping rag.

[Lex Steppling @LexStepp]

@jacobin You will run a hit piece on an organizer while running cover for the “progressive” politicians who consistently stab the movements they grifted off of in the back. Despicable shit, but not surprising.

[Unwashed & Unruly Pod @unwashedunruly]

@jacobin Jacobin attacks black union leader and activist for daring to criticize “socialist” electeds who are ensconced in the Democratic Party and have given cover for a party that perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. Surprised they didn’t use the word, “uppity”.

[The Palestine News Network @PaliNewsNetwork]

@jacobin Long Live Chris Smalls

[Lisa B. @lnburnam]

@jacobin The caucasity of this article.

It's OK. Editors can say "this isn't well thought out, try again." Not everything has to be published immediately.

Also, what's gained from trying to minimize this man's 'political contributions' to US labor and the international left?

[Rathbone @_rathbone]

@SocialistMMA @jacobin 😂 The audacity of an op-ed writer to criticize the “political contributions” of a labor leader who started the ALU and was tortured by the IDF for delivering aid to Gaza is astonishing.

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

@jacobin Imagine writing an article so horrible that you have to lock your account down afterwards 💀

[Lisa B. @lnburnam]

.@jacobin @annierlevin's wrote a horrendous hit piece. Characterizing Smalls every move as ego serving & low key deriding his embrace of hiphop aesthetic is gross.

So, supporting 🇵🇸, calling out #metgala26, & criticizing our failed 2-party system is bad?
https://t.co/apGwZeFmLw

[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

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Every single one of these people is a war criminal.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The most darkly funny aspect of this video is that Ivanka Trump speaks as if she went on some profound, prolonged spiritual and philosophical journey to ascertain the meaning of life, and concluded that the most elevated human state is to live on a gigantic private island in the Mediterranean, in a sprawling mansion paid for with the billions of dollars given to her husband by the Saudis and Emiratis to ensure favorable treatment by him and by her dad in their exercise of the powers of the American Presidency. Real uplifting stuff. 🙏

[Lisa B. @lnburnam]

Tagging those who might be interested in this study: @SabbySabs2 @briebriejoy @karenhunter @AfricanaCarr @talmonsmith @besttrousers @thegrioblkpods @AmeshiaCross

[Lisa B. @lnburnam]

This is exactly the kind of research we need by @algernon_austin. It dismantles the malicious stereotype that Black people, Black men especially, don't want to work. And it also helps people understand why Black women face their own distinct economic challenges in relationships.

[CEPR @ceprdc]

NEW RESEARCH: Black men ages 25 to 54 had an employment rate nearly 10pp below White, Hispanic, and Asian men in 2025. 

CEPR’s @algernon_austin analyzed decades of data and found that education gaps and soft skills don't explain it. Anti-Black discrimination does. 

Black men needed 1.3 MILLION MORE jobs just to reach parity with White men, costing Black America roughly $65 BILLION in lost earnings.

Today's political environment is deepening that harm by piling on and exacerbating existing structures of economic racism. But this is not a moment without hope. Read the full report for policy solutions:  https://t.co/yWmGnUF0CZ