Odeh

[Tamanisha J John @TamanishaJohn]

@drake_theguy @bench2252 An authoritarian regime is when the bourgeoise (or elite) class(es) holds overwhelming power over the structures of a society, and uses the state to enact their will — supporting its small enriched minority over the interests of the mass majority of a population.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

vote for me for league of their own streamer at https://t.co/ggo2bXeUbQ

[DSA @DemSocialists]

Parabéns @LulaOficial 🇧🇷 !!!!!!

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The commander of the Israeli military unit likely responsible for killing 5-year-old Hind Rajab is currently in the U.S.

As a party to the Genocide Convention and the Geneva Conventions, our government is obligated to arrest and investigate him for these war crimes and acts of genocide. I stand with @HindRFoundation in calling on the DOJ to follow the law and take action.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

[adri ♡ @socialistadri]

Hasan Piker pops off on Neera Tanden for almost 3 minutes straight about her stupid fucking tweet and this was the most cathartic, justifiable crashout he's had on stream in a very long time. It was long overdue.

[adri ♡ @socialistadri]

Hasan Piker reacted to @ishowspeedsui's new movie trailer that Speed produced with Barack and Michelle Obama. Hasan is so proud of him:

"I'm just very proud of what he's been able to accomplish and who he has become. It's huge. This is massive. Look, I'm very proud of anyone and everyone that is in this hellish, nightmarish sphere of influence and content that will rise above.

Instead of constantly softserving the hackiest, lowest common denominator, reactionary bullshit, someone who can see the humanity in others, someone who will try to highlight the most exciting and diverse modes of existence you see in every part of the universe.

iShowSpeed has been able to do that. I always give him props for this reason. He's very empathetic. He's very interested in showing the world in a positive light. His Africa streams were phenomenal. Everything that he does I pay attention and will always glaze and hype up."

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is one of the biggest geopolitical mysteries of the year: why did China just save the world economy?

Because, make no mistake, it absolutely did. Analysts are pretty much unanimous on this: had China not dramatically - and I mean dramatically - reduced its oil imports this year, the price of crude oil would have gone through the roof and dragged the global economy down with it.

For proof, read how Javier Blas from Bloomberg - widely recognized as one of the world’s top energy analysts - explains what China did to Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer on their podcast “The Long Game” (https://t.co/bBD8yFFUdC).

As Blas puts it, China went “from 11, 12 million barrels a day to less than 6 million barrels a day” of seaborne crude imports, and that “freed a lot of oil for other countries, particularly in Asia.” India, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia “could buy the barrels that China was not buying.”

To be clear, China wasn’t the only factor - surging US exports and the IEA’s emergency release helped too - but it was by far the biggest: JPMorgan reckons China accounted for about 74% of the fall in global crude trade (https://t.co/JCmFXYJcfh).

So it's no exaggeration to say that it is China, first and foremost, that saved the world economy this year.

If you remember the early days of the Iran war, none of this is what was predicted. In fact some US think tankers, such as the (always horrendous) Zineb Riboua from the Hudson Institute, were even cheering the war as being “all about China… the opening act in the larger contest against China,” the moment the US would crack “the central pillar of a regional order that Beijing has assembled” (https://t.co/RaCE05TcMp).

Seven months on, what actually happened is that not only did China come out of the war unscathed economically, and strengthened strategically, it also ended up shielding the world economy, America’s included, from the fallout of the very war that was supposed to be its undoing.

Breaking news: if you do something that’s supposed to be a “blow” to someone else - some sort of 3D chess move to gain the upper hand - and they end up having to rescue you from the fallout, maybe it wasn’t such a brilliant strategic move after all.

So how did China pull it off? And, more intriguingly, why did it choose to rescue countries, including the US, from a war that Washington’s own hawks were openly selling as a strike against China itself?

And why do this when it effectively dampened Iran's leverage considerably, even though they're supposed to be China's "ally" (which, as we'll see, is false)?

This is the topic of my latest article. I went very deep researching all the Chinese sources I could find on this, looking at the exact legal mechanisms, and at what officials, oil refiners and state media actually said.

The answer turns out to be far stranger than I expected: no-one in Beijing actually ever ordered an import cut. China, effectively, seems to have saved the world economy incidentally, as a by-product of its own domestic policy to protect Chinese consumers.

Which is the real story here: China has become so large and so important it can just rescue the world economy as a mere side effect.

In fact what I discovered, hilariously, is that the Chinese were just as surprised as anyone else: it’s only weeks after Western media started crediting China with saving the world economy that Chinese media picked up the story. And even then, CCTV’s first take in July (https://t.co/xLPyaJeZnT) presented it as something 外媒称 (wàiméi chēng, “foreign media claim”) 🤣

Almost like a giant suddenly waking up to its own powers. Because, that's the thing: intentions fade, consequences stay. Intentional or not, as Igor Sechin, the head of Rosneft, Russia’s largest oil company, put it (https://t.co/ckinOaHzJ7), the consequence is that it's now China, not OPEC, who calls the shots on global energy markets.

The valve of global oil pricing is now in Shandong, not in Zhongdong anymore (Zhongdong, 中东, is the Middle East in Chinese).

Full article here, with how China’s 20-year strategic nightmare, the “Malacca dilemma”, has now effectively become its leverage over the rest of the world: https://t.co/HsxPLJp45X

[Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc]

Either the AI bubble will pop, which will create a Great Depression-level market crash.

Or the AI valuations will be justified, which only works if AI replaces a huge number of workers and we get massive unemployment.

Either way, we are headed towards a monumental crisis.

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

Hind Rajab’s final phone call lasted approximately 70 minutes in the released audio recordings, but the entire communication lasted more than three hours.

The full recording was heartbreaking, but this specific part continues to haunt us to this day. The Israeli occupation continues to kill children til this day.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Mahmoud Khalil urged pro-Palestinian protesters in New York to keep holding Mayor Zohran Mamdani accountable, but criticized those calling him a “genocide enabler,” warning that such accusations diminish the meaning of genocide.

“That takes away so much from the word genocide,” Khalil said, comparing the accusation directed at the New York mayor to the way Israel’s supporters indiscriminately invoke antisemitism.

Khalil acknowledged protesters’ frustrations, but urged activists to move away from “purity politics” and internal infighting, and instead focus on grassroots organizing, political education, and extending one another “some grace.”

Palestinians being killed cannot wait for endless theorizing about liberation and revolution, he argued. The priority must be stopping U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.

@ryangrim | @mahmoudkhalel

[Odeh @odeh_gammoh]

@OS2NOX Hey, is there a world I can you/Hasan in touch with a mayoral candidate for Fontana? Shes backed by Bernie Sanders and the local DSA(I'm one of the co-chairs)

https://t.co/Gf25xZ5L7k

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

lion

[PK Gandakin 🪿 🚩 @pkgandakin]

While protest was good, the tactics of the socialists who showed up were largely sectarian (ie, trying to convince people Zohran was a goyslave for Netanyahu and join book clubs) rather than oriented towards actual criticism and further mass action. Sad to see but where the revolutionary communists are absent, sectarians breed like mosquitoes

[ostonox @ostonox]

@GavinNewsom sign an executive order on a data center moratorium coward

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.

At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.

It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.

Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

https://t.co/6zcGDYIzCC

Please share this story with as many people as you can.

[Anti Nate Silver @AntiNateSilver]

“the IRGC says vote blue no matter who” is only surprising if you’re unfamiliar with history

SDS met Vietnamese communists in the 60s, expecting them to preach militancy, only to be told to build an anti-war popular front

“third worldists” rarely listen to the “third world”

[Anti Nate Silver @AntiNateSilver]

“We thought we’d start a revolution and everybody would join us. It was a fantasy; it was a delusion.”

https://t.co/jniWxv1g0d

[Chris Sommerfeldt @C_Sommerfeldt]

"This is something that we will be not only continuing to discuss, but we'll be implementing," Mayor Zohran Mamdani says when asked what's causing the holdup in abolishing the NYPD's SRG unit. "It'll be not on an inshallah timeline, but an actual one."