DACUS: No more the drudge and idler ten that toil where one EVERY BEASTIE BOY: REPOSES D: But a sharing of life's glories Bread & roses bread & EBB: ROSES D: Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life EBB: CLOSES D: Hearts starve as well as bodies bread & roses, bread & EBB: ROSES

"Nokomis Center administrators say the suspects crawled through the hole they made and broke open office doors. Mohamed said documents including enrollment records, employee information and financial documents were gone." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

I am impressed by how bad the new Avatar movie is

Apparently there has been a wave of fighting about Stalinism over on Twitter. I miss out on all the fun here

Trump administration reportedly freezes all childcare payments to all states

How Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s long alliance ruptured ft.trib.al/0OJl2Ub

"AIPAC knows their brand is toxic." "AIPAC donors have supported its picks by giving to other dark-money groups." "The candidates can say they received money from donors, not AIPAC, to avoid association." #California #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #Weapons #Voting

A scenario I’ve been entertaining: Dems do well in the midterms but mostly don’t change and in reaction the normie liberal base goes absolutely nuts in 2027

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

In addition to cutting off childcare payments to MN, the Trump admin is imposing additional reporting requirements and a snitch line that apply to childcare centers nationwide x.com/hhs_jim/stat...

MAGA might want to stop and think about how this is going to play out for them but alas they are incapable

"China and the US are ending a tension-filled year for trade relations with a truce still intact but plenty of issues making it hard to see how the ceasefire on tariffs holds through 2026." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

'AI-related borrowing now accounts for about 30 per cent of net investment-grade issuance, according to Goldman Sachs, and is expected to grow in 2026, despite concerns over the level of debt being taken on by the AI “hyperscalers”.' www.ft.com/content/faa3...

Today Taiwan faces record-setting military drills from the PRC. But, people in Taiwan will remain largely cool and unphased. Most won't even notice the threats. Why? In my new book, I write extensively about why some types of PRC threats mobilize civil society and others do not:

New episode! We spoke with Mingwei Huang about her book on Sino-African relations in Johannesburg and racial capitalism. We dove into how race configures Chinese capitalist processes in South Africa. Listen on Apple: tinyurl.com/BRIMingwei Listen on BuzzSprout: tinyurl.com/MingweiBuzzS...

Q: Can you say any more about the explosion in Venezuela that you mentioned in a radio interview. Did the military do that? TRUMP: Well, it doesn't matter. But there was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. We hit the area.

China's clean power capacity additions picked up in November, with 13GW of wind and 21GW solar. China has already added almost as much wind&solar in Jan-Nov as in the full year 2024, ahead of the end-of-year and end-of-five-year-plan spike expected in December.

ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.

Resistance to factory closures continues in China. These workers at a toy factory in Dongguan needed to fight for days, blockade a road, and their "victory" was getting half of what they were legally entitled to. English video:

"While questioning the state-led, top-down nature of environmental governance and cooperation is pivotal, such criticisms will be better received when China’s valid claims to being a solution provider for the world are well acknowledged."

Every Senate vote to confirm Trump nominees is embarrassing but the unanimity to make Rubio Secretary of State is an institutional humiliation www.ms.now/opinion/marc...

A wild statistic from @katie0martin.ft.com here. www.ft.com/content/a9f5...

New from @noamscheiber.bsky.social, featuring @emilymazo.bsky.social @js-tan.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org @alphabetworkersunion.org & many more: “tech worker activism has continued amid the crackdown, albeit more cautiously” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

“residents of Jabo professed surprise at the strikes, saying the projectiles had landed in empty fields, causing no casualties, and that Jabo had been relatively shielded from violence. The last attack by militants had occurred two years ago, they said”

NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

The U.S. strikes against the Islamic State in Nigeria followed President Trump’s threat to take military action to protect Christians from attacks by Islamic militants. Trump did not specify which attacks he was referring to, nor did he cite evidence for the claim that Christians are being targeted.

Chains shall he break

Nice

It’s Christmas Eve, and the FT’s gift is to keep on telling it like it is: “In the president's second term the rich have got richer and the poor are getting poorer.”

“SPV structures also increase the danger that financial stress for AI operators in the future could cascade across Wall Street in unpredictable ways.”

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

if someone claims they're concerned about palestinian rights and then starts shouting about how "all hasidim are pedophiles," that person is simply an antisemite and should be derided as such. the cretin in the next two posts below has 100k followers on insta. 🧵

"I am deeply worried that President Trump has brought about a collapse in the governing capacity of American political institutions...But I am no longer worried that President Trump has created a durable political economy that realigns the electorate." newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/everything...

Ford is doubling down on its partnership with Chinese battery giant CATL to make grid-scale batteries. Could it be the industrial policy solution the US needs to cut reliance on Chinese imports? 🎁 link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"In the hopeful event that more globally minded but people-centered alternatives to Trump come to power… the U.S. would do well to embrace a more multipolar approach to global economic governance, or it may see the institutions it built be eclipsed by their alternatives" prospect.org/2025/11/27/b...

While the EU supported declarations at the G20 heads of state summit and the AU-EU summit, acknowledging the need for a debt architecture reform, its actions in New York last week told a different story, warns Eurodad.

It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too. Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.

It's hard to ignore that this happened just as Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. was slipping away, with Kushner pulling out of the financing and Trump bad-mouthing CBS. Time to please the king again

"The world’s economic relationships are being rewritten. An old order is dying even as it’s unclear what will replace it." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

"China’s urban institutions welcome these young migrants as labour, not as families. Once children arrive, the barriers harden" www.eastisread.com/p/wang-ou-mi...

This is very poorly done state TV

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me. Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

16 shots and a coverup

I wanna say that right now China is making it harder for people to exit and also ICE will kidnap random nonwhite people off the street for no reason

It was reported some time ago that this is key to Rubio’s thinking and it is pretty clear in the NSS

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

It’s an oft noted contradiction of capitalism that we live in a golden age of public health research and discovery and simultaneously a barbaric age of disease, neglect and public disinvestment