The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway

the hater's council just vetoed this actually.

"a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder.

"hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

In 2010, Senator Chuck Schumer called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to investigate whether the Gaza aid flotilla that Israel attacked was tied to Al Qaeda

I was holding on to something I’d written, unsure if it felt worth publishing, and then this really made me feel like we just gotta try everything right now. So here:
open.substack.com/pub/luriethe...

Or we might think of the predecessors to the Greek crisis, the IMF structural adjustment programs imposed on so many countries around the world from the 1980s onward. I'm sure that to their hosts the young American economists parachuted in for SAPs looked much like Big Balls or whoever does to us.

truly incredible to (1) not be doing everything you can to delay and obstruct, (2) receive historically high call volume demanding you max out delay and obstruction, and (3) complain that the callers are focusing on the “wrong” people

Chicago Legal Responders Network has produced a series of short videos about what to do if ICE shows up at your house, stops you while driving, etc. Available in Spanish and English. Please share with those who may find them useful.

Here's what to do if they show up at your house.

Onerous conditions like not doing genocide or attacking our country

Labor union agreements thwart President Trump's return to work order, prompting the administration to issue new directive, saying: "Supervisors should not begin discussions around the return to in-person work with bargaining unit employees until HHS fulfills its collective bargaining obligations."

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now.

The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country.

The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

...comes out of the most disgraceful defeat just as immaculate as he was innocent when he went into it, with the newly won conviction that he is bound to win, not that he himself and his party have to give up the old standpoint, but, on the contrary, that conditions have to ripen to suit him. \

But the democrat, because he represents the petty bourgeoisie – that is, a transition class, in which the interests of two classes are simultaneously mutually blunted – imagines himself elevated above class antagonism generally.

Only one must not get the narrow-minded notion that the petty bourgeoisie, on principle, wishes to enforce an egoistic class interest. Rather, it believes that the special conditions of its emancipation are the general conditions within whose frame alone modern society can be saved and the class

Instinct taught them that the republic, true enough, makes their political rule complete, but at the same time undermines its social foundation, since they must now confront the subjugated classes and contend against them without mediation, without the concealment afforded by the crown,

struggles whose first law is indecision; wild, inane agitation in the name of tranquillity, most solemn preaching of tranquillity in the name of revolution – passions without truth, truths without passion; heroes without heroic deeds, history without events; development,

While each separate representative of the people represents only this or that party, this or that town, this or that bridgehead, or even only the mere necessity of electing someone as the seven hundred and fiftieth, without examining too closely either the cause or the man,