Raekwon’s new album is called Emperor’s New Clothes and here he is explaining the origin of that title and the folktale behind it to Fat Joe and Jadakiss

Carol Marin John Hancock-ing it by signing twice

outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund

Last week, 65,000+ residents voted to elect a democratic socialist mayor. All Council races that had a DSA-endorsed candidate won by overwhelming margin. These results send a clear message: people want leaders who will fight for working-class communities, not corporate interests.

This—agents driving around in circles and provoking the community—has gone on for hours at this point with no discernible goal other than to inflict terror. They also just fired pepper balls at someone.

So… socialistcall.com/2025/06/22/s...

Dick Cheney is dead and DSA is alive

It was very disappointing when that picture dropped of Cheney’s huge hog

Hahahaha

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Yeah the “legal case” for a third term is nonexistent. It’s absurd to interpret the amendment to mean that someone can’t be “elected” more than twice but can *be* president more than twice. OTOH it shows the right knows Trump has hollowed out their political apparatus and wired it directly into him

The left’s personnel settling into nonprofits and academia with the collapse of mass organizations in the 70s, and the political logic of nonprofits, and academics’ instinct towards novelty, have just wrecked working peoples’ movements. It boils down to an instinct that universal demands are suspect

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products

They really turned this unfortunate elder man into Wil E Coyote lol

In my ultraliberalism I referred to this as Tyre difference between organizing the 100 people in a room versus organizing 100 people into a room

To the contrary, it “explicitly requires” using every means available, including the tools this administration has created that were assumed to be unconstitutional, to break the institutions they rely on, crush their organizations, and exclude them permanently from any social safety.

You know what would stop political firings, just-cause clauses in union contracts

Very few schools are selective, much less highly selective. What guys like Andreesen are playing on is the sense of exclusion that comes from cost, and the conflation of admissions with assistance. Making public college free would collapse any association w exclusion for like 99% of people

It makes me wish I had a YouTube channel to analyze it frame by frame, second by second. I have soooo much commentary to share lol

American campists are sincerely among the most gullible dimwits out there. A bunch of Americans who feel confident deciding which Black and brown people are traitors and which are heroes based on a podcast they listened to

"“Your agency will be broke by July, over two months before the end of the fiscal year” - Sen. Chris Murphy ICE's parent agency is running out of funds. Any delay - say, by organized parents - that costs them man hours helps drive them into political crisis. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

This guy is from right over by dere

The problem with the debate is the “spectrum” itself, liberalism and Marxism aren’t really on the same line, where being more liberal gets you closer to being a Marxist and being less Marxist gets you closer to being a liberal.

What’s that expression about a healthy society being one where elders plant trees whose shade they’ll never sit in

This is a very well known phenomenon, we saw it before with Trump support during election season when he’s a tv show versus after the election when it’s your life. neuroscientists call it “post-nut clarity”

Lots of people being very critical of Dick Durbin’s legacy but let me ask you this, did your Senator give an entire generation of high school kids very cool slang for based on their first name being a noun and last name sounding like a verb with a dropped ‘g?

“Solidarity is a force stronger than gravity. It lifts us up. And we need to get ready for a general strike!” - Sara Nelson speaking at the Bernie rally in Montana this afternoon. www.youtube.com/live/5pst2Y7...

Chicago DSA member @ramsincanon.bsky.social: Mobilizing people is not equal to a movement, esp when that mobilization needs little decision-making or commitment. Hundreds of millions vote... millions send auto-generated emails to Congress. These individual acts accumulated do not mean a movement.

The rage against elite institutions is probably the most important element of American style fascism. universities and esp elite universities are the most visible place of social stability for the big bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeois concentrate their upwards rage on them

Among the many cool things about the members of Wu Tang is that their real names are like Dennis, Corey, Jason, Cliff and Gary

To be able to be the most powerful person in the room even while acting like a baby is the height of every type of domination—masculinity, white supremacy, whichever. It’s the being the baby part and nobody being able to do anything about it that is the strongness

Nobody better embodies the negative results of our society’s reversal on its long-time, strong anti-nerd norms than Musk. When capital accrued to nerds bc of computers, the nerd, free of his salutary yoke under the cools and unsure where to get approval, lost his mind

Gonna post some of the hits

Sara for president of earth

These essays are almost ten years old, still unfortunately relevant No More Surges: Chicago Police and Violence medium.com/@ramsincanon... The Mass Closure of America medium.com/@ramsincanon...

The latest, one of our best, with @ramsincanon.bsky.social on Ultraliberalism and how the Left must abandon it open.spotify.com/episode/05G5...