At this point I'm extremely unsurprised

This does not surprise me

The Democratic Party's formula for the last 50 years has been "Let's be friendly with extreme wealth and maybe we can also get modest policy wins sometimes." The last 10 years and this year in particular should be conclusive proof of how badly this has failed. But we're stuck with it anyway

The third-country removal tracker has been updated with this week's transfer deportation/chain refoulement. Egypt took Russians in ICE custody and forced them onto a plane to Moscow; Kuwait took Iranians in ICE custody and forced them onto a plane to Tehran. hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...

groimes they med a trutskyist gruk

Look at this US Consumer Product Safety Commission lulling us into a false sense of security here in the Greater Chicagoland Area

“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”

groimes they med a trutskyist gruk

I guess this is a milestone. One hopes this won't be used as an excuse to further fail low income people who are terminally ill, like it has been in other countries.

As lawyers, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were involved in bringing this travesty of a case to SCOTUS, and they have now all joined Clarence Thomas—who voted with the majority here—as justices of the court.

You can't be a Republican or mainstream Democrat unless you have complete amnesia about the endless instances of mass murder committed with the support of the USA worldwide during the last 80 years.

I feel sorry for those who will be looking through these. Take care of yourselves.

No one has even brought it up, but Chicago really, really needs a congestion charge.

The climate of Chicago is roughly similar to that of Dnipro, Ukraine.

Huh. Wonder why so many Dems voted for it. I wonder how many of these overlap with the impeachment nays Shills for grifter capitalism all!

Governors saying the actions of ICE will not be tolerated while doing nothing to enforce those words is getting mighty old. Have any ICE agents been arrested on any state charges. What do they expect from their constituents when the people in power are only delivering lip service.

I bet Venezuela will figure out how to mass produce cheap drones though. They’ve been working on drone tech for a decade

ding ding ding!!

This is pure fantasy—there’s no mechanism to annul a presidency and clearly no appetite among Dem politicians to prosecute

Everything is progressing rationally

one thing about marxists is we're literally ideologically anti-terrorism. lenin constantly dunked on left wing terrorism as individualist petty bourgeois behavior. makes persecution of people studying marx even more ridiculous!

They don't want to impeach. Incredibly, they assert there has not been enough investigation of the president's criminality

Democrats agree that America should continue exploding oil-rich countries. They don't like having Trump in charge of the project but that's not a deal-breaker.

H Res 939 Trump Impeachment "A Republican motion to table the matter easily succeeded 237-140, with the help of 47 Democrats voting present and 23 voting in favor of tabling." thehill.com/homenews/hou... @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social + Can Fuck right off democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-...

This bit stood out to me in the release: per a 10/31 Chalkbeat report, 38 Chicago neighborhoods saw a school attendence dip sharper than in the district as a whole amid Midway Blitz. Chalkbeat reported that "about 40% of those are home to large immigrant or Latino populations."

Yep.

"for up to $10,000" is so unserious

In 2003 they had to pretend Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Now the Imperial Republic just explicitly goes for the oil. This, by the way, is not popular in the polls.

Adams, of course, has experienced this poltergeist behavior personally, which is why he's commenting about it

We have this strange situation in this country where somehow, car streets are taken care of by cities, but everything else is the "responsibility of the property owner". This is very nonsensical

My impression is that, all it would take is a substantial shock, like the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, to send the entire market into a crash.

Congratulations to TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: The Box of Miscellaneous USB and Firewire Cables You Started Collecting in 2007

TIME magazine is owned by Marc Benioff, owner of Salesforce, who literally ran an AI agents puff piece about his ow company in the magazine. I’m unsurprised he thinks a bunch of grifters are person of the year, he thinks they’re cool

The every alternate windows theory

Yeah, if a big account quote posts dunking on me, you get blocked. Immediately.

This thread is an important read, IMO

Chicago Magazine journalist Kelley Engelbrecht is a pro-ICE fascist.

Just stop for a moment and recognize how far AOC has fallen.

The People's Republic of fast trains

In a world of people like Hakeem Jeffries, be Al Green.

If you're any form of anti-capitalist and your takeaway is somehow still ”Lenin was bad” rather than “Lenin made mistakes” or “Lenin’s ideology was pretty different than mine“, you’re missing the boat.

Lenin was a figure of world-historical importance as the leader of the first successful people’s revolution ever. Thanks to Lenin we now know it’s possible to sustain a people’s revolution for more than a few months. This applies whether you’re an ML, demsoc, left anarchist, Trotskyist, whatever.

“The imperial republic’s war machine MUST keep turning, this is an emergency“ —115 House Democrats

It certainly hasn’t been a consensus view that this Center will give more than it takes. It was built on public parkland in Jackson Park.

fuck the Democratic party 👍

"People are saying that piracy is hot. And no one does it like Scurvy Don. They're throwing out all their books on Blackbeard... kids don't want to read about loser pirates. They want to read about Scurvy Don and his scalawags"

"They're throwing out all the books on Blackbeard. The only pirate America's kids will ever want to read about again is Scurvy Don, the biggest pirate king who did the biggest piracy ever."

Yarrr matey

Capitalism is theft. Socialism is justice.

Where's the Congressionally approved letter of marque and reprisal per the Constitution? /s