BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy, by David Mosse – 30 October 2019 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

Where Does Caste Fit in A Global History of Racial Capitalism?, by Sheetal Chhabria – 13 July 2023 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...

This issue includes a #ClassicsRevisited collection on Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism and beyond, including contributions by Rafael Khachaturian @rafkhach.bsky.social, Anuja Bose, Sheetal Chhabria, Sharon Wright Austin, Kris F. Sealey, and H. L. T. Quan, w/ an introduction by Robyn Marasco.

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.

Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

To them every part of government - even Social Security - is just a source of enrichment for their billionaire friends. "Privatizing" Social Security is just about getting Wall Street a bunch of fees to manage money.

I wish @ACLU would run for president, like the whole organization as a team.

If citizens united grants corporations personhood, then @aclu.org and @aclum.bsky.social can run for president.

And such an invocation of history makes it seem like we can all just kick back and watch things unfold towards their historically-sanctioned destiny.

“What good is a union in hell?”

An urgent question for every labor organizer who thinks bread and butter issues are all that matter.

A new kind of sick.

Trump Administration Will Burn 500 Tons of Food Meant to Feed 1.5 Million Children - People

Federal immigration agents can now deport people to countries that aren’t even their own, with as little as six hours’ notice.

“Gun violence has become a cutting-edge U.S. export—but one that will harm, not help, its positive balance of power. If U.S. policymakers do not take gun violence more seriously, they will only ensure that this balance goes further off kilter.” - Jacob Ware, Everytown Survivor Fellow

Trump and Noem fired the people who answer the emergency phone line.

It’s not really incompetence because they know what they are doing. They are intentionally breaking government - even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis.

"There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery." —Karl Marx

The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company’s $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader.

🚨 🇺🇸 #ICE delay taking detained woman to hospital—left her handcuffed & covered in own vomit for 8 hours.

She suffered medical emergency during arrest—not given medical care.

Now agents stalk the hallways & lobby of hospital 24/7—creating "hostile environment" for staff & patients.

Report from someone at federal immigration court (26 Federal Plaza) in NYC:

“I’ve seen at least two detainments today where they [ICE agents] haven’t even let them [asylum-seekers] go to their hearings first.”

War criminals discuss war crime -

Netanyahu, Trump discuss forced transfer of Palestinians out of Gaza flip.it/uoDT._

Trump understands that federal student loan debt is a tool of social control — a way to structure society based on who gets relief and who doesn't.

Sadly, he's using it to keep people indebted when he could use it to liberate people. This is classism.
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Rep. Joaquin Castro on Texas floods: "I don't think it's helpful to have missing key personnel from the National Weather Service not in place to help prevent these tragedies."

The wretched, murderous aid scheme in Gaza was developed by the Boston Consulting Group—along with schemes to "relocate" Palestinians. The company blames rogue elements.

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Imagine this is you.

You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.