Democratic leadership in Congress presided of losing the House, Senate, White House and popular vote to MAGA. The Democratic Party currently has a 29% approval rating. Senator Schumer is canceling public appearances, fearing protest. Yet the entire leadership remains intact?!

Democrats are being weak. Just like they were weak on not passing Build Back Better. Just like they were weak on not codifying Roe when they had the majority. It’s time for new party leadership at the federal level.

The federal minimum wage is still $7.25/hour. Republicans have held power, they have not raised the wage. Democrats have held power, they have not raised the wage. Both are complicit in the lack of action. $7.25. Still. In 2025. Unacceptable.

This feels like pretty important news. www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-say...

The Israeli military invaded Kamal Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza, forcing staff and patients to walk on foot toward southern Gaza. Gaza’s Health Ministry reports losing contact with the hospital as a massive fire engulfs several departments.

Delighted Health Insurance Executives Gather In Outdoor Coliseum To Watch Patient Battle Cancer theonion.com/delighted-he...

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

The largest strike against Amazon ever is happening right now. The working class in this country is fed up and fighting back against corporate greed. Withholding your labor is a right.

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

🚨IMPORTANT: If you’re mad about private health insurers getting between you and your doctor and destroying your life, wait until you find out what Trump’s nominee Dr. Oz aims to do to Medicare. Oz has had big personal investments in UnitedHealth.

All four episodes of Drop Site’s first investigative podcast series, The Palestine Laboratory, are available for free on your favorite podcast platform. www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestine-...

These are the reporting projects that tell the story that corporate media ignored & Dem pundits/elites tried to suppress. It’s the story of Obama campaigning as a populist, then converting his mandate into a Wall St rescue — and that betrayal creating backlash conditions for Trump’s rise.

media millionaires paid by billionaires are employed to tell hundredaires that they can one day be thousandaires if they keep worshiping billionaires

Israel has killed over 1,000 doctors and nurses in Gaza, deliberately targeting hospitals and blocking medical supplies, according to the Wafa News Agency. Over 310 healthcare workers have been arrested, tortured, or executed.

this is one of the fundamental problems with popularism. it can only ever be tactical, because in the long run treating polls as exogenous renders the whole exercise of politics deterministic.

So… no brunch?

There are no more hospitals in northern Gaza as Kamal Adwan Hospital goes out of service. In Lebanon, Hezbollah’s new Secretary General, Naim Qassem, says the movement will not negotiate before a ceasefire. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/10/israels-genocide-day-391-israel-kills-200-palestinians-in-ga…

Watching the Harris campaign repeatedly put the kibosh on Walz’s good ideas (most recently his call to abolish the electoral college). Starting to wonder if maybe he should have just stayed the governor of Minnesota where he has the power to actually effect positive change.

More generally, this article by Matt Duss is rightly damning of the Biden administration's quite contemptible policy.

Please read and share this absolutely heartbreaking letter from 99 American medical professionals who have worked in Gaza over the past year. www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-o...

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Israel committed another massacre in an area it has designated as a "safe zone." The airstrikes buried entire families in the sand. https://buff.ly/47rXLwH #Palestine #Israel

STOP USING FELON AND PORN STAR AS SLURS YOU FUCKING GHOULS

Call Democrats! Tell them to let Palestinian voices be heard at the DNC! #LetPalestineSpeak act.newmode.net/action/ifnot...

Uhm, hello? *tap tap* Is this thing on? Yeah. Yet another study — this one using observational data — puts AMOC collapse at mid-century on our current emissions path. arxiv.org/html/2406.11...

NEW: In the aftermath of the Haniyeh assassination, this is not a "coming" regional war, it is an escalating one. And if Kamala Harris is going to be president, this is the moment where she needs to make really clear if she will change course from Biden.

Enjoyed writing this, hope you enjoy reading it. Happy 4th everyone. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-americ...

maybe he’ll get less old

Giving a cop the mugshot treatment because he arrested a rich person who was guilty and acting like that’s totally normal should be a moment that open’s people’s eyes to the jig.

western countries used to be able to present a plausible narrative of their moral superiority to the public. modern media has made that untenable. which doesn't mean things will necessarily get better, only that there is now a tension between the public narrative and reality that must be resolved

Here's Macklemore's song Hind's Hall, wow: www.instagram.com/macklemore/r...

I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

Americans are getting fleeced by corporate giants, economic data show the fleecing is driven by corporations abusing their outsized market power to pad their profits with ever-higher prices… …and the New York Times is blasting out emails demanding Biden and Democrats stop mentioning these facts.

Just finished reading “Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me” by Harvey Pekar and JT Waldman. It’s a nice brisk read that I would recommend to anyone looking for a brief illustrated history of Israel and a Jewish man’s disillusionment with the Zionist project.

I keeping thinking about the panic in liberal media a few years ago about Trump possibly being beholden to foreign governments. Now Biden is unconditionally supplying Israel with weapons for their massacre while turning a blind eye to their blatant war crimes. Beholden much?

The immorality of the existence of billionaires, visualized. #EatTheRich

Well this is fucking depressing. #gunviolence