Feds terrorize Chicago neighborhoods: legal immigrants kidnapped, apartments ransacked, children zip-tied Apt homes were ransacked, and people pulled outside and handcuffed regardless of immigration status. Young & old were held outside for about 5 hours. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

New T-shirt for casual Friday! Got to hang out downstairs with the physics folks. Always good times and nice to see Sir Isaac! #mathhumor #physicshumor

For the afternoon crowd! 📚❤️📚

“I hate my enemies!” Trump proclaimed at Charlie Kirk’s funeral. “You are nothing!” Stephen Miller told the left. After this unprecedented outpouring of fascist bile, the Democrats didn’t even make a peep. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The Socialist Equality Party advances this program as the basis for the struggle against Trump and the degenerate oligarchy which he represents. Our program is not for the pessimists, the skeptics and the demoralized, but for the fighters. There is no time to lose. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Charlie Kirk employed the tactics and broad outlook of George Lincoln Rockwell. He did not "practice politics the right way," as Ezra Klein claimed; he was a bully who used rhetoric and sophistry to create self-serving spectacles.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/... ABC/Disney joins fascist purge, suspends Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely over Kirk remarks

There’s an energy on campus during move in that is really powerful. Young people excited as they move out of their parents’ orbit and begin a college life full of promise. Happening right outside my window. I’m feeling good today.

The SEP will oppose every attempt to criminalize democratic, progressive and left-wing opposition. We will apply this principle in the defense of all organizations & individuals targeted by the Trump regime, regardless of their political differences w/our party’s program www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Silverio Villegas González, a Mexican immigrant and father, was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Franklin Park, Illinois. González was unarmed and not posing a threat. He had no convictions or violent offenses. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The Socialist Equality Party is established in Turkey as a section of the International Committee of the Fourth International The foundations for the formation of a Trotskyist party in Turkey were laid by the late comrade Halil Celik www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

"It is politically appropriate to condemn the killing, which accomplishes nothing progressive ... But that is no reason to glorify the victim or cover up the bloodthirsty, bigoted character of his political perspective." #CharlieKirk www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

At least 1 worker kidnapped at Hyundai plant and facing deportation despite possessing legal visa Despite this worker having their “papers in order,” he has been kidnapped, held in ICE custody for the last week and will be forced to leave the country. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Epstein “birthday book” lays bare corruption of American ruling class The release of Epstein’s “birthday book” is not simply another lurid scandal. It is a window into the true character of the ruling class. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump launches ICE raids in Chicago, as Supreme Court tramples Fourth Amendment protections The Court is allowing the Trump administration to violate the Fourth Amendment... without even rendering a written opinion www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Had a great time at Rose City Comic Con with @kendareblake.bsky.social, @rosieethor.bsky.social, and @lishmcbride.bsky.social! Thanks to everyone who came by our panel, and to @powells.bsky.social for this awesome display!

More than 700 nurses and case workers at Grand Blanc’s Henry Ford Genesys Hospital launched a strike Monday. The strikers have shown that they are determined to win their demands for safer staffing, decent working conditions and improved wages. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Trump’s attack on a small ship in the southern Caribbean was a crime justified by outrageous lies. The US seeks to terrorize and control Latin America in preparation for the coming war on China. Workers across the Americas must unite. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Despite the limited information currently available, it can be stated unequivocably that this was an unwarranted act of mass murder in violation of US and international law, against people who have not been convicted of any crime. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

In the three weeks since Trump deployed the National Guard to occupy Washington D.C., the Democratic Socialists of America and its publications have said virtually nothing. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

An accurate and devastating exposure of the ruling class assault on public education, as well as a strong explanation of the power educators and the broader working class have to stop this. #educators #teachers #strike www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

All detainees must be immediately released and given means to return to the place from which they were abducted, and their families and loved ones given full information about their status (their health condition, estimated time/location of return, and means to contact the detainee now).

The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers oversaw a sham contract vote during an online meeting in which discussion was censored. These crude, antidemocratic methods are a sign of anxiety and weakness on the part of the union. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen warned in an op-ed that Trump’s attempt to seize control of the Fed is profoundly dangerous. She could offer no objective explanation for this move, though, instead attributing it to Trump’s personality. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

New from me for @thestranger.com With Feucht coming to Seattle this weekend I took some time to lay out his playbook, in detail. Understanding how the rage machine works will help folks respond while keeping those most vulnerable safe www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...

www.wsws.org/en/articles/... A coup against science: Kennedy tries to push out CDC director, four other public health officials resign

A concerted campaign has been launched, openly backed by the Conservative Party, Reform UK, the police and the courts, to create a mass fascist force in Britain www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Weekend trip to Leavenworth (Washington) was a hit! For those unfamiliar, it a Bavarian-themed town in the Cascades. There’s lots to do in the area: hiking, rafting, and the like. We just walked around town, stayed at a lovely pension, had a great dinner. #leavenworthwashington

www.wsws.org/en/articles/... Pentagon authorizes DC Guard contingent to carry weapons of war as Trump threatens martial law in Chicago, San Francisco, New York

The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls comes out one month from tomorrow! This #middlegrade #historical is set in Colorado in 1910, and it's for everyone who's had to decide whether to take what's handed to them or make their own way. Preorder here! www.jandersoncoats.com/the-unexpect...

Casual Friday, and the end of Summer Quarter. Thought I’d pop in to the Biology Room here at the IC. Man, this place has everything! #biology #mathematics #uw #instructionalcenter

US government revives McCarthyite bans on socialism, imposes ideological litmus test on immigrants - World Socialist Web Site share.google/9XohGeIVn3mg...

The stock market boom, hailed by Trump and many others as an expression of the health of the US capitalist economy, is in fact a fever chart of its diseased character and the harbinger of yet another financial crisis. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The Air Canada workers’ strike showed that workers will not take the violation of the right to strike lying down. This struggle must continue as a conscious fight against the treacherous unions and against capitalism. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

“Leon Trotsky was the personification of the revolutionary movement of the working class for socialism. His assassination was the culmination of a criminal onslaught against the working class on a world scale.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

“Trotsky’s death deprived the working class of a strategist of incomparable genius” On the 85th anniversary of the assassination of Leon #Trotsky www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The DSA is “committed” to becoming an independent socialist party. But, because of our “undemocratic and uneven electoral system,” see, they’re taking a “party surrogate” approach. In English, this means they support the capitalist Democrats. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The Department of Labor's second rejection of Will Lehman's complaint against voter suppression in the UAW election of 2022-2023 shows that buttressing the union's flagging credibility is a political priority of the government. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

UPDATE: The liberals have ordered a return to work ending the strike less than 48 hours after it started. Air Canada takes hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies yet their staff eat leftover meals because they can't afford groceries. Disgraceful

Capitalism is incompatible with human life. "In 2014, US children were about 1.6 times more likely to die than their counterparts in peer countries. By 2022, that gap had widened dramatically: American children were now 2.3 times as likely to die." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

#Opera #arts #Music #artist #blacklisting Netrebko is being punished for not lending her voice in favor of the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, although she has made clear her opposition to the invasion when it took place 3 and ½ years ago. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

The assassination of Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif in a targeted Israeli airstrike on a journalists’ tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday has provoked a wave of mass anger and condemnation around the globe. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

A production of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca by the Royal Ballet and Opera, provocatively scheduled by management for Tel Aviv in 2026, has been cancelled after widespread opposition from artists and staff. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Kilroy Was Here.

From Los Angeles to Ukraine: The continuation of the war raises new horizons for social struggle Workers and community members are increasingly fighting backed against their forced conscription in the US-NATO war against Russia. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Around 300 Jewish public figures have delivered a scathing indictment of the Labour government’s complicity in Israeli war crimes & its authoritarian crackdown on protest at home. Their open letter begins with the powerful declaration, “Proscribe genocide, not protest.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...