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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 3h

Just to.make clear GOP rhetoric on "states rights" was always just opposition to civil rights.

Never anything else.

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 3h

The Senate has defeated a plan from Democrats to block President Trump's use of National Guard troops in various cities - if local officials oppose their deployment from other states.

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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 6h

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment

New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

www.nydailynews.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 6h

Trump will try to put Democratic leaders across the nation in detention camps before the 2026 elections to take out any potential opposition to him stealing the election.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

CNN: We have just learned that Letitia James has just been indicted by the DOJ

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 6h

Billionaires are buying every institution from the media to voting technology companies that might challenge a MAGA theft of the 2026 elections.

The oligarchs are preparing the way for a Trump fascist coup next year.

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 9h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 10h

2nd Amendment thing about to bite MAGA in the ass as they try to indict people for being "violent" insurrectionists

Gun control spread back when Black Panthers started drilling with guns- and white folks suddenly whole less fond of guns
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

In unusual move, federal grand jury refuses to indict couple found with guns outside Broadview ICE facility

Prosecutors moved to dismiss a criminal complaint against the couple but have not ruled out new charges.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 10h

Oh yes - and yet I am a strong supporter of Mamdani. Marxist Hegelianism in practice :)

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 10h

That part where you say you are a Marxist. As Marx himself said himself of sectarian followers: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist" As Engels wrote commenting on this, few issues are "settled" and need to be continually debated so there is no "Marx 101"

www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Letters: Marx-Engels Correspondence 1890

Marx-Engels Correspondence

www.marxists.org

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 11h

Hate to break it to you, but I teach Marx to undergraduates at CUNY, so my version gets more distribution both via this site and to students in NYC than your sectarian version.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 11h

I mean- I'm sure your little ML grouplet has infinite critiques of the 7th Congress plenary of the 5th International's discussion of this issue - but most people recognize that NYC voters electing a socialist to be mayor is workers exercising their control of collective transit decisions.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 11h

The government OWNS a third of the land in New York City in the form of streets, sidewalks and a few other uses. How to use that - which is very much a means of production - is very much a socialist decision.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 12h

We are talking about workers collectively through their government controlling use of publicly owned land. You can create some esoteric definitions of socialism, but that seems like clearly a socialist policy question.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 12h

And what "is" socialism? (as if there haven't been about 300 branches of socialism in modern history)

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 13h

The Catholic-Protestant divide in politics is one of the underdiscussed aspects of American voting, but for both whites and hispanics, protestants voted Trump by twenty points more than catholic compatriots- and the majority of hispanic Catholics voted against Trump.

prri.org/spotlight/re...

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 13h

In remarkable turn, Pope Leo - rewriting text originally written by Pope Francis - makes Liberation Theology's "preferential option for the poor" official papal doctrine.

"He calls for a renewed commitment to fixing the structural causes of poverty"

apnews.com/article/vati...

Pope Leo condemns economies that marginalize the poor while the wealthy live in a bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

apnews.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 13h

Mamdani relentlessly focuses on socialism he can actually deliver as mayor like faster buses and safer streets.

100 years ago local socialists delivered safe drinking water, gaining label of "sewer socialists"

Mamdani may inaugurate era of Fast Bus Socialism

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/m...

Mamdani Vows To Defy DOT Insiders, Political Bosses To Pursue His Streets Agenda - Streetsblog New York City

Mamdani pledged stand up to bureaucrats and political power players who oppose his plans to make streets safer and buses faster.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 13h

Just insane that Trump won the Presidency in 2016 largely because the NY Times and other media lost their minds that Hillary Clinton occasionally used an (apparently very secure) private server for some messages with State Department staff.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 14h

This. Every Dem leader needs to repeat this until te media can't ignore the accusation- and need to keep asking Trump and GOP leaders if they are going to steal the 2026 election.

Make THAT accusation the continual context for Trump's deployment of troops: they are a prelude to a 2026 coup.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 16h

Having promoted ethnic cleansing in Gaza six months ago, Trump only reversed course as political support for Israel began collapsing across the world, in public polling and across even his own MAGA base.

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 16h

Trump allowed nine months of starving Gaza and continuing mass bombings hoping to expel all Palestinians.

Only when Europe turned against Israel & began recognizing Palestine - and US population began turning on Israel - did Trump abandon support for israel's ethnic cleansing campaign.

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 23h

A reminder that Hamas proposed exchanging all hostages for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in February 2024

Netanyahu delayed any deal so he could avoid prosecution in Israel and continue mass murder in Gaza

nypost.com/2024/02/07/n...

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 16h

It is laughable that anyone is calling for Trump to get a Nobel Peace Prize, when six months ago he was calling for cultural genocide in Gaza, supporting the expulsion of all Palestinians so he and allies could make a real estate land grab in Gaza.

www.npr.org/2025/03/11/n...

Moving Palestinians out of Gaza? Trump's idea takes on a life of its own in Israel

Arab countries reject Gaza displacement as ethnic cleansing, but Israeli officials say they are working on plans to make it happen, and polls suggest most Israelis are open to the idea.

www.npr.org

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 16h

Probably more important for Trump, a core of MAGA ideologues had turned on Israel, from Tucker Carlson to Steve Bannon, arguing Trump was breaking rightwing support for him over Israel

responsiblestatecraft.org/maga-israel-...

MAGA to Trump: Supporting Israel attacks is a 'middle finger' to voters

Supporters react angrily and swiftly, suggesting that he is not putting America first

responsiblestatecraft.org

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 16h

Even stalwart pro-Israel institutions like the NY Times recognized in recent months that Israel had destroyed its political support among US voters.

www.commondreams.org/news/us-poll...

'Stunning Reversal': New York Times Poll Finds US Support for Israel Has Plummeted | Common Dreams

Public opinion in the US is shifting dramatically in favor of Palestinians over Israelis, with more Americans expressing sympathy for the oppressed. Is this a turning point in US support for Israel's ...

www.commondreams.org

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 16h

Trump allowed nine months of starving Gaza and continuing mass bombings hoping to expel all Palestinians.

Only when Europe turned against Israel & began recognizing Palestine - and US population began turning on Israel - did Trump abandon support for israel's ethnic cleansing campaign.

Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 23h

A reminder that Hamas proposed exchanging all hostages for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in February 2024

Netanyahu delayed any deal so he could avoid prosecution in Israel and continue mass murder in Gaza

nypost.com/2024/02/07/n...

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 23h

This is the most immediate donation to a candidate I can imagine. Go for it @chiosse.bsky.social!

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/z...

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 23h

A reminder that Hamas proposed exchanging all hostages for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in February 2024

Netanyahu delayed any deal so he could avoid prosecution in Israel and continue mass murder in Gaza

nypost.com/2024/02/07/n...

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 1d

Can we all just admit the filibuster is dead?

For anything GOP wants - cutting taxes, judges, approving 100 nominations- Senate now operates by majority vote.

When Dems get back majority, packing Court, minimum wage, Roe & voting rights should all pass w 51 votes.

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

The Republican Majority in Congress Just Used the ‘Nuclear Option’ to Make Herschel Walker an Ambassador

The appointment of the former star running back and failed Senate candidate to represent the U.S. in the Bahamas was one of a batch of more than a hundred Trump nominations pushed through in bulk.

www.esquire.com

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