“Bernard-Henri Lévy, whom my doorman takes for a journalist, journalists take for a philosopher, and philosophers take for my doorman.” — Pierre Bourdieu, Recueil d’interventions, 1961–2001

The United States, now featuring death squads

Please take the time to read this superb @jamellebouie.net column. It establishes a baseline of truth for anyone who wants to think, talk, and write honestly about Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

ICE cannot be reformed. DHS cannot be reformed. They must be splintered to the wind and their members put on trial. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

All those folks who preferred Parenti have been vindicated www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Fanny Schoonheyt, born in Rotterdam in 1912, was the only woman among the contingent of Dutch volunteers to take up arms in defense of the Spanish Republic.

Altering an arrest photo to smear a protester is propaganda. The way the White House did it is nakedly racist. This is how the fascist state manufactures consent: reshape reality, then punish dissent. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you care about Iranians, demand an end to Western sanctions that punish civilians, fuel misery, and destabilize society. No country can freely choose its future while under siege. Westerners’ only role is to pressure their governments to stop regime-change warfare.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

The fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother Renee Nicole Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross has led to a major leak of ICE personnel data to the ICE List, an online database aimed at holding masked federal agents accountable.

If you’re curious about the heated rivalry emerging between #SaudiArabia and the #UAE in Yemen and Sudan, this piece by Annelle Sheline will be an interesting read:

The same people who stayed silent—or applauded—while Palestinians were burned alive by the hundreds now claim to oppose the killing of Iranians in the streets. Hypocritical, but predictable.

“If the communist Party is the party of revolutionary hope, then fascism, as a mass movement, is the party of counter-revolutionary despair.” — Leon Trotsky, Fascism: What It Is & How to Fight It

Jonathan Ross is a white supremacist, confirmed

“Do not pledge loyalty to people who would sell you out in the blink of an eye.” @premthakker.bsky.social sits down w/ MN Attorney General Keith Ellison amidst an effort to investigate Renee Nicole Good’s murder after she was killed by an ICE agent earlier this week. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/keith-elli...

🔴 BREAKING: Israel says it will suspend 37 humanitarian orgs operating in Gaza starting Jan 1, claiming they failed to comply w/ new Israeli vetting rules, according to the Associated Press. The affected groups include some of the world’s best-known aid organizations, among them: ▪️ Multiple...

The Nazis rationalized their hatred of Jews by portraying Jews as swindlers and crooks, too lazy to work hard but greedy enough to deceive German gentiles. The ongoing conservative smear of Somali migrants in Minnesota is nothing less than borrowing from Hitler’s playbook.

How long can racist conspiracy narratives circulating in political discourse persist before they translate into real-world harm against innocent Somali migrants in Minnesota?

The move to drop Juneteenth and MLK free-entry days while adding Trump’s birthday shows how the capitalist state uses public spaces to reinforce racist ideology, erasing liberation struggles and centering power instead. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Senate Republicans — joined by 8 Democrats — passed a bill that will raise health care premiums for millions. After 40 days of standoffs, Democrats got nothing. Establishment politics failed—again. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bad...

This is what conservatives want: a return to the days of slave patrols chaining up Black people like animals. This was never about public safety. It’s always been about reminding Black people who holds the whip.

"I think it’s unfair for the young people in the city. Give them more resources; all these resources that are going to stadiums and other places, why don’t you put a community center, or the community centers that we have, more funding into them?"

Turns out when you flood the streets with improperly trained federal law enforcement, you get more random violence, not less

The Washington Post is losing its prestige as fast as Bezos can buyout the few real journalists they have left. But it should still be a tremendous stain on US journalism that so many journalists silently stood by while Israel massacred their colleagues. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

Your feelings today about Trump using federal power to target Black youth in the name of “fighting” crime would be the same as they would have been in 1989 toward the Central Park Five.

It’s way too late, but it looks like the German government is realizing the answer to its history of genocide and antisemitism isn’t blind support for Israeli genocide and racism.

Obama realized in 2014 that starting WW3 over the Crimean Peninsula was a dumb idea. Now all the liberal outlets who had nothing to say then are going to use peace talks as an excuse bash Trump (while staying quiet on far worse things he’s doing)

Getting my classroom ready for school to start

If Marx turned Hegel on his head, modern conservatives have done the same to Lenin: seizing state power and establishing a dictatorship of the reactionary working class

This is not a new conservative strategy; this is right out of the Jim Crow playbook. In utter defiance of their arguments against affirmative action, they are eager to see color when it comes to securing power

While DC may no longer be “Chocolate City,” it still has a large African American community. This isn’t about crime, but about the state terrorizing people of color, especially children, cheered on by folks like @potomacfever pining for slave catchers

As the regional bourgeoisie barter over Palestinian lives, Israel prepares to deepen its genocide. All this symbolic finger-wagging does nothing to address the colonial conflict at the heart of the problem.

Trump's administration isn't preserving history but actively rewriting it, using state power to resurrect a monument to slavery's defenders and spending millions to defend a legacy of oppression while real needs go unmet.

Bowser's silence isn't weakness, but a stark admission of D.C.'s powerlessness. Leaders representing communities of color are forced to submit to federal authority just to survive within a system rigged against them.

While superficially boosting state revenue and narrowing trade deficits, Trump’s protectionist measures merely displace capitalism's fundamental contradictions onto the domestic working class through inflation and potential demand destruction.

The mass killing of starving civilians awaiting aid in Gaza is more proof of the extremes to which settler-colonial regimes will go to maintain dominance. Imperial support ensures impunity for acts condemned elsewhere as crimes against humanity.

Trump’s tariff escalation is the classic imperialist tendency of monopoly capital to weaponize trade as a tool of coercion. Nationalist rhetoric masks the economic subjugation of weaker capitalist states within the global hierarchy.

Trump’s use of state power to pursue political vendettas against those who challenged his legitimacy exemplifies the bourgeoisie’s manipulation of the state apparatus for personal and class preservation.

Trump’s entanglement with Epstein exposes the moral rot of the elite, where exploitation and abuse by the wealthy are shielded by state secrecy and media deflection. Trump’s denials reflect the bourgeoisie’s need to protect its own from accountability.

The US state is weaponizing immigration policy to intimidate and discipline a vulnerable labor pool. By tying arrests to arbitrary quotas, it undercuts the potential for proletarian solidarity across lines of nationality and legal status.

“The United Nations said Tuesday that more than 1,000 Palestinians have now been killed by Israeli forces while seeking food since the start of a new aid distribution system launched by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in late May.”

What is happening in Gaza is a crime against humanity. Atrocities committed against innocent people, doctors collapsing from exhaustion, and the ongoing starvation of Palestinians are all ample evidence that Israel is committing genocide.

Trump’s sudden push to unseal grand jury testimony reflects an opportunistic attempt to reframe a scandal rooted in elite impunity as a partisan smear, deflecting attention from the systemic rot of a ruling class that includes both him and Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

Ruling-class unity emerges when elite networks and their ties to exploitation are at risk of exposure. Anti-elite posturing bends to the imperatives of elite protection and political stability. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Monuments to white supremacy, like the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain in Georgia, are not about “heritage.” They are active tools to legitimize a social order rooted in racial hierarchy and exploitation.

Overcrowding and food scarcity in ICE detention centers aren’t “administrative failures.” They’re the predictable outcomes of a carceral immigration system designed to dehumanize surplus labor while enriching private prison contractors.

By routing arms through NATO allies, the U.S. maintains the appearance of restraint while deepening its role in a proxy war that primarily serves the interests of its military-industrial complex. Ukraine is a marketplace, not just a war zone. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-t...