as a person who was in the military i will always speak out against US military imperialism. if you’ve ever been in the military, align yourself w/the global south, w/Black, brown & Indigenous folks all over the world & speak out, loudly, against US imperialism //thread
Police DO NOT prevent crime; they respond to it. Crime is prevented by higher wages, guaranteed health care, food security, high-quality child care, housing, good schools, and addiction treatment.
‘Taxing AI’ won’t protect our water or air. It will however give Dems a way to make it seem like they’re doing something about the outcries, without doing anything drastic.
‘Get a cut of your own destruction’ has always been a terrible offer and it’s time we reject it with fury
happy pride to everybody who saw the predominant ways of the world and knew, somewhere deep and undeniable inside of them, there was another way to be.
happy pride to everybody not just carrying queer legacies but also forging new paths, knowing the costs
thank you
🚨BREAKING : Palestinian sisters from Gaza reach global finals with innovation born from destruction
Palestinian sisters Tala and Farah Mousa from the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza have qualified for the finals of the 2026 Earth Prize after developing a project that transforms rubble from destroyed buildings into sustainable construction materials.
If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, bailouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive? And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?
The American education system does not teach empire.
This is not an accident.
It teaches the Revolution. It teaches the Constitution. It teaches the Civil War in a way that frames it primarily as a story of "national healing" rather than unfinished reckoning.
It teaches World War II as the definitive American story: the sleeping giant awakened, the "arsenal of democracy," the liberation of Europe, the moral clarity of that specific conflict deployed as a permanent filter through which all subsequent American violence can be viewed as basically continuous with defeating Hitler.
It does not teach the Philippines, where the U.S. military killed somewhere between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people between 1899 and 1913 during the Philippine-American War, a war most Americans have never heard of.
It does not teach the Banana Wars, where the U.S. military intervened repeatedly in Central America and the Caribbean to protect the commercial interests of American corporations.
It does not teach the full history of Iran: the 1953 coup that removed a democratically elected prime minister and installed a Shah who ran a torture state, because the elected prime minister wanted to nationalize Iranian oil.
It does not honestly teach Korea, 1945-53. Guatemala, 1954. Vietnam, 1954-75. Lebanon, 1958 and 1982-84. The Congo, 1960-65. Cuba, 1961. Brazil, 1964. Dominican Republic, 1965. Haiti, across the 20th century. Indonesia, 1965. Greece, 1947-49 and 1967-74. Laos, 1964-73. Cambodia, 1969-75. Chile, 1973. Angola, 1975-1991. Argentina, 1976-1983. Nicaragua, the 1980s. El Salvador, the 1980s. Grenada, 1983. Panama, 1989. Afghanistan, 1979-92 and 2001–21. Iraq, 1991-2003 and 2003-11. Somalia, 1992-95. Sudan, 1998. Yugoslavia, 1999. Yemen, 2002-25. Venezuela, 2002 and 2014-present. Honduras, 2009. Libya, 2011. Syria, 2012-26. Ukraine, 2014-present.
It does not teach these things honestly because a population that understood them would have a very different relationship to the word "freedom" when its government uses it to justify intervention.
The ignorance is load-bearing.
Remove it, and the entire moral architecture of American exceptionalism becomes uninhabitable.
They know this.
The curriculum is not an oversight.
The curriculum is a choice, made deliberately, renewed continuously, defended furiously whenever teachers try to expand it.
The most powerful weapon American empire has ever deployed is not the aircraft carrier.
It is the history class.
Inside one of Gaza Strip's hospitals, a wounded survivor of the war broke into a traditional dabke dance, sending a message of resilience, hope, and unshaken spirit to his loved ones.
I’m 43 now. I’ve worked 50-70 hours a week my entire adult life. I’ve lost years of time with my children and loved ones just so we could afford to live. This life is not only cruel, but unnecessarily cruel. A better world is possible.
@EvanDShapiro@Forever_noir_ yes, it’s undeniable that the Trump admin is much more violent & repressive but don’t ignore the volume of injustices that also occur under liberal admins. it’s obvious this shit is WWE. one party alley-oops the other. wash, rinse, repeat.
@EvanDShapiro@Forever_noir_ & while we’re throwing out facts that can be found on the world wide web, the Obama admin expanded the Bush admin’s post-9/11 drone program & ordered more overseas strikes than any other admin.
Microsoft even disabled the ICC Chief prosecutor Karim Khan and his team's email accounts on behalf of Israel. Francesca Albanese was cut off from all her bank accounts; unable to open new ones or use/ get credit cards.
When you confront them, they will come at you for everything, from every angle— to discredit and silence you. They control the banking systems through which money flows globally, whether through financial institutions or intermediaries like Stripe.
When the US sanctioned Albanese last year, it wasn't just her money that was frozen— her hotel bookings were cancelled, her health insurance refused to reimburse her, she couldn't even use most apps. Even the Christmas gifts her 13-year-old daughter received were sanctioned.
And she was reprimanded only after she began focusing her attention on the powerful American corporations complicit in funding and enabling the genocide in Gaza.
She wrote letters to 48 companies, universities and financial institutions notifying them that they were complicit in and profiting from a genocide— the Trump Administration instantly moved to punish her.
They have infiltrated and can manipulate every facet of your existence in ways beyond your wildest imagination. They will try to exploit every component of your life in order to make it work against you.
Remain cognizant of this in every aspect of what you think is your *private* life. They don't just control the weapons that kill, but the algorithms on your phone that can be used to dictate your life as well.
Some of y'all think socialism means "living comfortably". Both Marx and Lenin were describing an ongoing class struggle. If you are okay with exploiting the global South to have free healthcare, you're not socialist. You just want the ugliness of ur capitalism hidden from view.