Free states can resist attempts to block funding for healthcare, education, food, and housing by making those basic needs into universal basic rights protected by law. Meet everyone's basic needs, it's the right policy and a defense against fascist division and scapegoating.

Why All Vaccines Should Be Free: COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further... "Want to ease the burden of health-care costs, and especially hospitalization? Easy. Just spend whatever it costs to provide all Canadians with free vaccinations — for life."

How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health - "Across Finland, 43 daycare centres have been awarded a total of €1 million to rewild yards and to increase children’s exposure to the microscopic biodiversity that lives in nature."

The luxury effect: "wealthy parts of cities have more wildlife, and more wildlife diversity – a finding that can have profound implications for human health and wellbeing..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you cloak your racism and bigotry in the lie of just wanting to "preserve your culture" then your culture is racism and bigotry, your culture actually should be destroyed, and it's the duty of every decent person to help destroy it.

"Sycophantic AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear ... Sycophancy has been a concern for a while; an outcome of how AI systems are trained, as well as the fact that their success as a product is often judged on how well they maintain user attention." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

He wants to be paid a trillion dollars? Of course he does... finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

"I will be a voice for peace, a voice that builds on our policy of neutrality, a voice that articulates the existential threat posed by climate change ... Together, we can shape a new republic that values everybody, that values and champions diversity..." — Catherine Connolly

"Scope downgrades US credit rating on public finance, governance deterioration..." archive.is/202510242246... www.reuters.com/business/sco...

The problem isn't actually AI, it's capitalism and AI as we know it. Consider the Holodeck in Star Trek. It's generative AI based on prompts with no regard for IP rights because in a post-scarcity society you don't need to worry about food, housing, and other basic needs.

Mainstream US media has always had serious issues but it is now completely unreliable. Written articles, radio news, and television broadcasts are uncritically repeating what the Trump regime says, using their specific language and phrasing without fact-checking it.

Without substantial changes to the food system, the worst effects of climate change will be unavoidable, even if humans successfully switch to cleaner energy. apnews.com/article/plan...

Sotomayor's dissent: "Imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating. You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe."

This idea that military service history disqualifies someone from being a leftist is wrong. Veterans against war are essential members of any society and social movement that aims to end military imperialism, and they have often led the anti-war movements throughout history.

There are fascists running the United States government right now. It's really obvious who the fascists are and who opposes them. Everything else, at this moment, is honestly a deadly distraction.

"The Pentagon has moved to clamp down on the military's communication with Congress, banning even service secretaries and the Joint Chiefs of Staff from communicating with lawmakers without approval from an interim official who reports to Hegseth." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Indonesian police have become the long arm of a regime obsessed with control while the economy, bureaucracy and public morality are increasingly run by generals and Prabowo loyalists. The democratic backsliding that began under Jokowi has been perfected www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2025...

"the intent is to ensure that any individual person who’s acting under color of law or as an agent of the state has as much leeway to act out their personal bigotry as they want, without any concern about consequences" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Senator Merkley is still holding the floor and talking about the Trump regime's authoritarianism. www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

"If veterans can achieve awareness, transformation, understanding, and peace, they can share with the rest of society the realities of war." — Vietnamese peace activist and Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh.

The slow stream of small negative stories about Platner are obviously just bits of opposition research being strategically released to try and protect the political establishment and the status quo by stopping his populist and leftist campaign platform from winning.

Meanwhile... there are actual Nazis in the White House running a Christofascist white supremacist campaign of terror across the country, targeting migrants and trans and other queer people, and anyone they decide isn't American enough. Everyone opposing those fascists is an ally.

Platner is very obviously awake to injustice on a structural level. Bad faith attacks that try to frame him as secretly evil are exactly what was wrong with non-intersectional identity politics, the kind used by corporatists to attack anyone who challenges their wealth and power.

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"Federal workers stood in a food bank line as the government shutdown continues and families try to figure out how to put food on the table." www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/g...

"The jobs Hu does demand unpaid trial periods and have no base pay, and he works mainly for commission or a handling fee, which his employers can reduce on a whim." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

A $600 toilet camera "designed to peer into the bowl using sensors and analyze what it sees using algorithms to provide insights" with a fingerprint sensor to ID you. www.theverge.com/news/802727/...

"A Tragic Homecoming For Man Killed By ICE Agents: After nearly two decades in Chicago, Silverio Villegas González returned to Michoacán in a coffin. His death at the hands of federal agents left two families divided by borders, shattered with grief..." blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/20/a...

"The White House is one of the most important historic buildings in the United States ... 'first and foremost a public trust, an important part of our national heritage.'" — Society of Architectural Historians, Oct 16, 2025

Remember the Trump regime is not just cutting social services and benefits so they can give tax breaks to billionaires, they're doing it because the more people struggle to get food, housing, and healthcare, the more they can scapegoat, blame migrants, and recruit more fascists.

The first country to anchor a live, population-scale identity system on a public network. One of a few govs to apply blockchain technologies at a national scale, Bhutan is integrating its National Digital Identity platform with the Ethereum blockchain. finance.yahoo.com/news/bhutan-...

Being anti-fascist means opposing "the core tenets of fascism, including dictatorship, extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for and dismantling of electoral democracy, and violent retaliation against those who question or defy this autocratic power." www.cifrs.org/post/trump-s...

One small step each day, no matter the setbacks, no matter how long the road seems. Every breath a fresh opportunity to try again.

The object’s fall to Earth highlights the growing problem of space junk – and how humanity is dealing with it. 🧪 🔭

1. A federal judge has just ruled in favor of 16 states and schools that refuse to comply with Trumps trans ban demand. The administration is threatening to pull tens of millions in federal sex ed funding. Now, they will be blocked. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Happy Diwali - Across traditions, light means truth, renewal, and resistance to darkness. Explore The Power of Light — an interfaith Diwali feature from Hindus for Human Rights celebrating how communities across the world honor the light within and around us. www.hindusforhumanrights.org/diwali-2025

"The Many Layers of Diwali - Rama’s return to Ayodhya after victory over Ravana is widely celebrated as Diwali by Hindus. It is also celebrated by Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs for different reasons." thewire.in/religion/the...

"Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants" - Create "some ideal of an integrated society that does not exist, and lay its arbitrary expectations on immigrants who must now alone prop up the delusion that the problem isn’t in the place they are coming to, but in them."

Culture seems to be getting more evil because it is.

MAGA seem to get their information primarily from recycled screenshots of memes, which they apparently believe become more true and more powerful the more artifacts they have from being constantly downloaded and uploaded, like fine wines.

Billionaire "success" under capitalism is not creation, or improving lives other than their own. It's lying, cheating, stealing. Deception and extraction as a personality. Never contributing, just concentrating and amassing wealth through pyramid schemes and confidence games.

People are not our enemy. Our enemy is the fear, greed, hate, intolerance, bigotry, violence, fanaticism, ignorance, discrimination, and other delusions in their hearts and minds. Our task is to transform them, to transform culture. Revolution means re-inventing culture.

It is not a coincidence that Biden and Trump had effectively the same COVID policy (prioritizing protecting the economic status quo over people's lives), and effectively the same Israel policy (supporting the genocide with weapons, money, and political cover).

Billionaires have always propped up neoliberal policy, profiting directly by preventing everyday people from having housing, healthcare, education, and other basic needs. But now they are backing a truly fascist regime. This shift must be recognized before it can be fought.

Remember: organizing the proletariat into a conscious, united, political force requires that whenever millions of people mobilize in a diverse coalition against fascism you have to stay home and write monetized click-bait short form content about how they're protesting wrong.

"Accountability is reserved for crimes. And what counts as a crime is defined by the ruling order of the land. The ruling order in Palestine doesn’t see settler terror as a crime — settler terror is an essential part of the state project." www.vashtimedia.com/protective-p...

This isn't recklessness, it's an intentional display of force from the fascists of their control over the military, meant to warn any states who might disobey: "Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

They wear hats that say "make America great again" and shirts that say "freedom" while they destroy what little was good about the country, and take away everyone else's freedoms. They aren't a political party to vote against, they are fascists. They are today's Nazis.

"A falling object, possibly from space, [may have] caused damage to the windshield and frame on a United 737 MAX over Colorado on Thursday ... In his remarks after the incident, the captain reportedly described the object that hit the plane 'space debris'" avbrief.com/united-max-h...

Targeting free speech with NSPM-7: "An American doing nothing more than protesting and calling ICE names is detained and held in custody. His name now appears alongside the word "domestic terrorism" in an official federal government press release." www.kenklippenstein.com/p/no-kings-p...