Incredible, sharp, critical reflection on Habermas’ legacy from Nancy Fraser. This is the postmortem I’ve been hoping would come and also sums up so much of my relationship to his work

AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

Trump and MAGA have been using rape as a way to justify ICE. It is always a football fit for strategic use, never the main issue, main story, the tragedy we are focused on overcoming. Progress is not impossible- we have not yet really tried to achieve it.

Chavez was a great leader in many ways- an intellectual farmworker that broke stereotypes. He corrected most of his early mistakes, but not this one. Women are not pawns, or inevitable collateral damage. This is not nature working—this is power working.

Watch Maria Hinajosa’s interview with Dolores Huerta on DemocracyNow today. Heartbreaking. But heartwarming that she is getting mostly support from the movement. Rape happens everywhere and within movements, any institutions and war zones one is struggling against large structures, often alone.

The old world is dying and the new world is struggling to be born; now is the time of monsters— Gramsci.

Sen. Martin Heinrich: “Remember when Republicans said we couldn't afford those tax credits for your healthcare? Now they’re burning through almost a billion dollars a day on their Iran War”

you don’t hate rich people enough

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

The EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas called the situation in Iran “perilous” after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Tehran, while other EU leaders urged restraint so the conflict doesn’t escalate.

A major shift, via Gallup. More from @joshuakeating.bsky.social www.vox.com/politics/480...

This (latest) military aggression - the bombing of Iran - has nothing to do with democracy, justice, women’s rights, human rights, civilization, or the rule of law. All of these will be undermined.

‘Remember libraries? Sort of like the internet but slower, and most of it’s true!’ - Steve Earle, last night at the Gramercy Theatre. Great show.

The US hockey team came to support Trump. Should have cheered for Canada.

Bro is gonna be mayor for 9 terms

Heard the best analysis of the Mexican govts war on cartels today on DemocracyNow. You won’t hear this anywhere else.

With more party support, Jackson might have been elected president in 1988. If he had, I know our foreign policy would not have been as disastrously wrong as it was under Bush, Clinton, Obama.

Jackson was not just an ‘impassioned orator’, though he was a truly great orator. He linked international justice to justice in the US. He called for multiracial worker power and people power. He persuaded millions of whites to vote for him and his broad justice platform.

Just finished Sathnam Sanghera’s wonderful, massive Empireworld. Without letting the British empire off the hook one bit, he showed nuance, complexity, and he both models and explains the latest historiographical thinking.

Can’t believe we are still doing this

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

what conservatives angry about Bad Bunny look like

William Shakespeare wrote this speech 400 years ago about people in London wishing that immigrants go back to where they came from, performed by Sir Ian McKellen on the Stephen Colbert show:

* US Companies Announce Most Job Cuts for Any January Since 2009 @bloomberg.com

Podcasts that are trying to find the truth: Katie Halper, The Dig, VenezuelaAnalysis and of course DemocracyNow.

I am having a hard time listening to lies and distortions these days, and they are on PBS and NPR as much as anywhere. Please send help.

As far as one can tell from this bonkers press conference it sounds like Trump thinks the Venezuelan regime is going to agree to let US companies run the oil industry in return for no further attacks.

“We’ll be selling oil in large amounts to other countries,” Trump tells a reporter after kidnapping Maduro, announcing “we” will run Venezuela. This lawless thug and his criminal henchman have abandoned the international order. Yes, there is no bottom.

The NYT’s weak concerns about the invasion of Venezuela now expressed are too little too late- they have been building support for this on their editorial pages AND news stories for months.

The subterfuges for imperial interventions have changed, but the methods, and the economic motives, have not.

Guillermo Gómez- Pena

First they came first Venezuela…

Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.

It is the western rule of international law that should be in question. If you can lie for Israel and Saudi Arabia one minute, and legitimize US imperialism in Venezuela the next, people should be taught to never trust your structures or what you have to say

Start from the beginning position that the US and global north has no moral right to continue its centuries of impeding in the affairs of other countries. Then it follows that this is imperial, not that it is illegal. And illegal to who, the institutions that capped for Israel’s genocidal war?

Simply heartbreaking. Both in imperialism’s brutality, its apparent initial success, and the lack of a significant anti-war movement against this imperial villainy.

You could make this argument for bombing and regime change in the US. “Donald Trump was ineligible for the presidency in 2024 under the 14th Amendment, and therefore the United States must be bombed to restore democracy.” Somehow I don’t think the pundit class would be so credulous in that case.

It’s going to be very revealing to see which media actors and outlets embark on a project of defense and moral laundering for this illegal and shockingly reckless war.

Exactly

Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.

My question is who the fuck is next? If he’s now just doing this shit without any oversight at all, and with absolutely no one stopping him, why *wouldn’t* he invade Canada? Why *wouldn’t* he invade Greenland? Why *wouldn’t* he take back the Panama Canal?!

Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything

Will any countries demand the immediate release of Nicholas Maduro by the US? How far beyond the fucking looking glass are we?

kidnapped. the word is kidnapped

Happy Holidays from Detroit

Donald Trump didn’t just pardon a political ally. He erased the verdict against a former foreign president convicted as a major cocaine trafficker, blowing up one of the most ambitious drug prosecutions in US history. The case was built over years by career investigators spanning multiple

one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers