The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy, by David Mosse – 30 October 2019 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

Where Does Caste Fit in A Global History of Racial Capitalism?, by Sheetal Chhabria – 13 July 2023 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

This issue includes a #ClassicsRevisited collection on Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism and beyond, including contributions by Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social, Anuja Bose, Sheetal Chhabria, Sharon Wright Austin, Kris F. Sealey, and H. L. T. Quan, w/ an introduction by Robyn Marasco.

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

To them every part of government - even Social Security - is just a source of enrichment for their billionaire friends. "Privatizing" Social Security is just about getting Wall Street a bunch of fees to manage money.

I wish @ACLU would run for president, like the whole organization as a team. If citizens united grants corporations personhood, then @aclu.org and @aclum.bsky.social can run for president.

“What good is a union in hell?” An urgent question for every labor organizer who thinks bread and butter issues are all that matter.

A new kind of sick. Trump Administration Will Burn 500 Tons of Food Meant to Feed 1.5 Million Children - People

Federal immigration agents can now deport people to countries that aren’t even their own, with as little as six hours’ notice.

“Gun violence has become a cutting-edge U.S. export—but one that will harm, not help, its positive balance of power. If U.S. policymakers do not take gun violence more seriously, they will only ensure that this balance goes further off kilter.” - Jacob Ware, Everytown Survivor Fellow

Trump and Noem fired the people who answer the emergency phone line. It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.

"There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery." —Karl Marx

The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader.

🚨 🇺🇸 #ICE delay taking detained woman to hospital—left her handcuffed & covered in own vomit for 8 hours. She suffered medical emergency during arrest—not given medical care. Now agents stalk the hallways & lobby of hospital 24/7—creating "hostile environment" for staff & patients.

Report from someone at federal immigration court (26 Federal Plaza) in NYC: “I’ve seen at least two detainments today where they [ICE agents] haven’t even let them [asylum-seekers] go to their hearings first.”

War criminals discuss war crime - Netanyahu, Trump discuss forced transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza flip.it/uoDT._

Trump understands that federal student loan debt is a tool of social control — a way to structure society based on who gets relief and who doesn't. Sadly, he's using it to keep people indebted when he could use it to liberate people. This is classism. apnews.com/article/stud...

Rep. Joaquin Castro on Texas floods: "I don't think it's helpful to have missing key personnel from the National Weather Service not in place to help prevent these tragedies."

The wretched, murderous aid scheme in Gaza was developed by the Boston Consulting Group—along with schemes to "relocate" Palestinians. The company blames rogue elements. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

Imagine this is you. You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.

Court papers filed Wednesday state that Mr. Abrego Garcia was beaten, deprived of sleep, and subjected to psychological torture during the nearly three months he spent in Salvadoran custody. It is unacceptable to send people to other countries to be tortured!

They’ve destroyed American medical research, the American education system, the American university research system, and the aid system that protected millions of lives, and they’ve given our anti-immigrant masked paramilitary police force a budget the size of a nation

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

BREAKING: Congress just gave final approval on a budget bill that guts Medicaid, defunds Planned Parenthood, and supercharges funding for ICE. We the people will bear the brunt of these harmful policies — and we won’t forget who caused this devastation to our health, rights, and dignity.

The nation’s immigration detention centers will have more funding than the federal Bureau of Prisons.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

She’s right.

This graph takes the annual budget ICE will now have from the bill that just passed and compares it to the entire defense budget of large countries. ICE will have about as big a budget as the entire Canadian military. www.newsweek.com/immigration-...

Terrifying piece by @fionaharvey.bsky.social Worth mentioning that the global population is predicted to be up 50% by 2050, by which time crop yields could be down up to 30% Are you and your family members ready to cut your calorie intake in half? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia offered his first account of the “severe beatings” and other abuses he says he suffered while jailed in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison. He says in a court filing that he lost 31 lbs in two weeks. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

I really struck a nerve here. I stand by what I said.

FROST: "They say they're pro-life because they want the baby to be born, go to school and get shot in the school. Die in the school, die on the streets." FOXX: "You are not going to come into this room and impugn our integrity!"

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Ladies and gentlemen. Today is a new day. Today is an episode of Israel’s crimes. Today, I drew this family tree of Abu Samra family. Three brothers who were slaughtered along with their wives and their children. TWENTY THREE HUMAN LIVES.

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

NEW: The govt says it plans to begin proceedings to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to an unnamed third country (not El Salvador, where an immigration court found he is in danger of persecution) once he is released from TN criminal custody (as soon as tomorrow).

White House Deputy Press Secretary now claims that this representation—made by a Justice Department attorney in federal court just a few hours ago—is “fake news.”

This. Is. Insane. Read this, please.

You may have seen videos recently of masked ICE agents aggressively confronting bystanders by shoving phones in their faces and taking pictures of them. Leaked emails show that they’re likely using facial recognition tools to identify and surveil these bystanders. This is a fascist police state.

And these are the same people that think rent control is “pie in the sky.”

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

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"We live in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and yet, one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty," says @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social from the campaign trail as the city votes today in the Democratic primary election.

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.