Capitalism’s recurring crises have long fueled predictions of its inevitable demise. Vivek Chibber explains why breakdown isn’t guaranteed — and why political agency, not historical laws, will determine whether we get socialism or barbarism.

'He Didn’t Carry a Weapon': Israel Is Killing Lebanon's Medics at an Unprecedented Rate Zeteo speaks to the colleagues and families of some of the more than 130 Lebanese paramedics killed in Israeli attacks since March. Read now: zeteo.com/p/lebanon-is...

don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer

@tpgroberts.bsky.social is right; this is a pogrom. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

My Republican colleagues just held another hearing attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center for supposedly “manufacturing hate.” But when it comes to the very real hate groups fueling racism, violence, and extremism across this country, suddenly they have nothing to say. Spare me the theatrics.

Trump got called out on his lies? Time for his singnature move: a hissy fit

There are CONCENTRATION CAMPS in the US in the year 2026. It’s up to all of us to shut them down and free them all.

Across China, a marked rise in people driving electric vehicles has led to a drop in air pollution in many cities. s a result, fewer people are dying from pollution-related diseases. go.nature.com/4ofIY0K

We could save the world if we have the will to do it:

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

A new European Citizens' Initiative petition has called on the EU to come up with legislation that would let polluted rivers or deforested woodlands “take” their polluters to court, giving natural bodies legal rights akin to those of a company. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/poll...

"It’s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious," Ted Chiang writes, "or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are." theatln.tc/D4SzWQfW

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

ONEST Newsroom: Europe Wants to Be Less Reliant on American Tech. Here’s Why. (This is what’s going to really affect the US tech bourgeoisie) www.onestnetwork.com/europe-wants...

Trump Administration Tries to Shift Blame for Ebola Response After cutting its support for frontline healthcare workers in Central Africa, the Trump administration is pointing fingers. theintercept.com/2026/06/04/t...

What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries? The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport. [1/7]

A humbling lesson for the genocide-enabling Starmer government and its war on free speech and peaceful protest Via @skwawkbox.org

From the UK to New York, the real fightback is against the multi-millionaires and billionaires who have stolen our wealth and power - and the media that protect them. Zohran gets that. And we do too: join.greenparty.org.uk

The U.S. killing spree continues. Another attack yesterday left 2 more dead. 207 civilians have been murdered in the campaign. We're tracking every attack @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

I will obviously do a proper thread later of the big new UN report into AI environmental impacts but here is the link if anyone wants to have a look unu.edu/inweh/collec...

Since Ring's "Familiar Faces" feature was rolled out late last year, the company has recorded the faces of millions of Americans without their consent.

The Labour Muslim Network is demanding Starmer government explains itself over the decision to ban left-wing Muslims Hasan Piker & Cenk Uygur By @willem-moore.bsky.social

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

Operation Epic Failure: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-iran

War criminal Blair is trying to influence Labour policy on AI with all the subtlety of a cartoon villain - but @zackpolanski.bsky.social isn't letting it slide

🚨 BREAKING: The genocidal state of Israel has attacked Gaza City killing at least 10 - including FOUR CHILDREN. 20 others were also wounded. Where is the international condemnation? Why does the UK still maintain arm and trade sales with a terrorist state?

The same people who anointed Starmer, and are trying to anoint Farage, are looking for all and any kompromat on Polanski. When you read weird stories in the papers against Polanski, and they seem desperately thin, know that they went dumpster diving and that rubbish was all they could find.

It's impossible, obviously, to run the counterfactual, but if they hadn't murdered USAID, the odds of this outbreak happening go way down.

Resistance from within immigrant detention facilities is increasing, threatening to return ICE to the headlines despite the Trump administration's efforts to make us forget. We should gather outside Delaney Hall and other detention centers around the country to support the detainees on strike.

Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.

Accurate reporting is important, but it is absolutely not enough Industries must not be allowed to operate by dumping the environmental and social cost onto the rest of society for their own profit

Our new pied-à-terre tax will have the ultra-wealthy elite — those who own $5 million apartments in New York City but don’t actually live here — pay their fair share.

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Hier een interview met flotilla activist Jesse van Schaik over hun mishandeling, aanranding en illegale overval door Israel! En hoezo is dit niet op onze eigen journaals en nieuwsprogramma’s? 🥺🤷🏽‍♂️ #Flotilla #Israel #Gaza #Terreurstaat #Marteling #WaarIsJetten #NOS

Terrorist state.

"Having compassion for other human beings is not a crime."

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

The scenes of international activists being assaulted and humiliated by Israel demonstrate how little respect the genocidal state has for international law. Imagine what Israel is capable of doing to Palestinians when the cameras are off. Everybody with a conscience must stand against this BARBARISM

Carole Cadwalladr on why appointing Matt Brittin as director general could be a huge mistake for the BBC

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A damning Department of War report finds that the Pentagon didn’t fully implement any required civilian harm mitigation measures.

GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

Today, we remember the victims of the Nakba — the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the creation of Israel in 1948, under British colonial rule and with the backing of Western powers after WWII. We will not rest until Palestine is free.

Abysmal. All these criminals must go in front of a tribunal.

New research shows that more people abandoned Labour because they were too tough on immigration - and because of their support for Israel - than because they were too soft on immigration.