Isn't it the very existence of federal contracts with Palantir that needs to be reversed?

Honestly think that AOC would have a fairly easy time consolidating support within the Democratic establishment and that her real challenge is the media.

Worth thinking about how John Fetterman's position polls at 5% among Democratic primary voters and AOC's polls at 75%

Hotel magnate Thomas Pritzker is retiring as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, after new documents were released detailing the extent of his association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

US labor unions should get ahead of this and secure labor neutrality agreements from prospective Chinese firms. In the early 2010s BYD made such an agreement for its electric bus factory in Lancaster, CA, which was subsequently unionized www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

'Within the Washington policy community, including key officials under the Biden administration, there’s a “race to the bomb” logic vis-à-vis China... But Beijing doesn’t seem focused on AGI.' www.high-capacity.com/p/does-china...

Excellent

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

More than 140 Asian immigrants were arrested during the first few weeks of Operation Midway Blitz. Powerful reporting from @estheryjkang.bsky.social www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Be Okay

What they've done to the HK labor movement is so incredibly sad, it pains me every time I think about it

With the future of nuclear arms control so bleak, I wanted to repost a brief comment from last year. Nuclear deterrence is not automatic. In the Cold War it was organized through elaborate bureaucracy, in the neoliberal period through market mechanisms. All of that is now gone!

Helpful overview of how the US and other global north countries are undermining multilateral institutions and/or weaponizing them for great power conflict. Ends with a fair and concise assessment of the alternative approach to sustaining and reshaping multilateralism led by China

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. “I was right there, and they — all of them — made the decision to deny me access to give him the best possible chance of survival.”

There are sections of the Iranian and Venezuelan diasporas who oppose US imperialism against their countries of origin but many of them end up alienated from US antiwar activism because it is dominated by organizations that reflexively defend the governments of Officially Bad Countries

Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...

This is a phenomenal explainer by @rajakorman.bsky.social of the obstacles for China to globalize the yuan, and what would need to change for it to do so. Highly recommend.

I'm sorry but if you are a public commentator and your line in 2024 was like "pro-worker Republicans like Josh Hawley and JD Vance are building an interesting new labor-friendly lane for the second Trump administration" you are both dumb and dangerous and should retire

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

"A century earlier, it was precisely this layer of second-generation immigrant youth that led the era’s mass strikes and unionization efforts during the Great Depression." It is a recurring pattern that immigrants form the vanguard of struggle for the whole working class jacobin.com/2026/02/immi...

NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @creacleanair.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/wC1nbXO

'Governments outside the US would need extreme amnesia to feel confident betting their economic security on Congress or any US administration continuing to send money abroad after America’s immediate needs had been met — or refraining from using stockpiles for political leverage.'

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Biden administration: We’re going to engage in some ridiculous balloon shoot down shenanigans. Trump 2.0: Hold my beer.

I'm just a historian here noting that the US has a long history of playing up supposed incursions to justify the invasion of Mexico... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This is a huge deal. After years of leading in fundraising, Dem small donors are (rightly) pissed off at the spam texts and emails, as well as at congressional leadership. Meanwhile, GOP billionaire money is hitting record levels. Perfect storm. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

"The percentage of U.S. adults who anticipate high-quality lives in five years declined to 59.2% in 2025, the lowest level since measurement began nearly two decades ago" news.gallup.com/poll/702125/...

Japan's electoral system produced a highly unequal result in Sunday's election. The right-wing Liberal Democratic Party won a historic 2/3 supermajority with just 37% of proportional rep votes & 49% of district votes. The LDP+Ishin coalition won 76% of seats with 45% of PR & 56% of district votes

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

the wet market narrative is *bad for the Chinese government* and they have actively suppressed it at every turn! these people are incapable of the most basic understanding of the world.

Caption this

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Cuban government has informed airlines that they only have about 24 hours worth of fuel left for planes. Beyond the obvious damage that suddenly shutting down any country's air travel would have, a not at all small % of food and medicine in Cuba comes by luggage on airlines efe.com/economia/202...

Tuberculosis has been circulating in ICE prisons for months. I wrote it back in August and there is no doubt in my mind that there are way more outbreaks than we're aware of. We have to get people out of these camps.

国際社会からどう見られるか以前に、人権が守られる保証のない国で暮らす際限のない不安感について訴えていきたい。

The only thing they have left to offer their base is the promise of freedom from the despised inhibitions of liberal society

“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said. “Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back. “Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”

"A growing number of Chinese international student organizers are taking on leadership roles within their union locals, shaping the political consciousness of their peers and helping to bridge unions and their largely unengaged Chinese membership" spectrejournal.com/knowledge-wi...

Damn axios has an accurate headline for once.

The US seeks price floors with allies to build ex-China mineral supply chains. If US allies and trading partners start pricing US political risk alongside Chinese leverage, Western minerals coordination will get much harder to sustain. My latest at @piie.com. www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

incredible day for sickos

"Beneath the headline numbers lies a global economy that is fragile, uneven, and increasingly ill‑equipped to deliver sustained and inclusive growth." unctad.org/news/mirage-...

A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...

Here’s a quick hit about how Stephen Harper, Mark Carney, and Tiff Macklem all warned that Canada must diversify its economy away from excessive exposure to the US within the space of about 24 hours responsiblestatecraft.org/us-canada-re...

It’s far past time for a deep rethinking on foreign policy among Democrats. I’m very hopeful about how @aoc.bsky.social will contribute to that. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

I cannot begin to express how happy I am that everyone, including the people I hate viscerally, now agree with me specifically