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President @thenation , founding editor @jacobin , democratic socialist.

New York

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Bhaskar Sunkara

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It’s been 40 years since the US invaded Grenada and 40 years, 6 days since Maurice Bishop’s murder. I’m in The Guardian writing on the Anglophone world’s only socialist revolution, its incredible accomplishments, and why it ended in fratricide & invasion.

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The US invaded the island of Granada 40 years ago. The legacy of revolution lives on | Bhaskar...

Why we must remember Maurice Bishop and the Grenadian revolution

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This guy is a more effective communicator than 95% of left-wing electeds. Connecting the moral purpose of Palestine solidarity protests with his values as a father 🫡

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We’re a country that doesn’t respect working-class ingenuity

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Most effective left-wing propaganda in years.

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This kind of discourse, in this case and more generally, is the enemy of solidarity.

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I love how white people scream "I'm a professor," like that's supposed to make them immune to police brutality

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Dubai is a great advertisement for revolutionary socialism.

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Busting out all the artillery against nuclear 🤷🏾‍♂️

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We’re in Berlin with the 👑

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The dictatorship of the proletariat will be a better place.

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Lula has more vigor than every center-left politican in the West put together.

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Had 5,000 copies of this book sitting in a warehouse for a few years. Time to let them loose.

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10 months

Medicare for All has been seemingly erased as a core, immediate demand of the socialist left. Obviously, it’s not viable as legislation today but it’s barely brought up as a cause. Really night and day to 3-4 years ago when it was at the core of Bernie’s campaign.

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2 years

Good job from @AOC making clear that the people who confronted her were far from leftists.

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I wish we lived in a world where @AOC challenging AIPAC and the rest of the lobby, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, and showing up at a protest encampment was politically opportunistic.

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AOC visits students in the Columbia University protest encampment today. @CBSNewYork

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Every time I read about assisted suicide in Canada, I'm more shocked. This is one issue I definitely got wrong (and disability rights activists were right about).

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The Canadian State Is Euthanizing Its Poor and Disabled

Canada boasts one of the world’s highest assisted-death rates, supposedly enabling the terminally ill to die with dignity. However, this suicide program increasingly resembles a dystopian replacement...

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Considering we have incredible levels of inequality, no universal health care and a limited welfare state, rising “deaths of despair” and more, is it that hard to figure out why people were inspired by an egalitarian movement?

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

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It's still hard for me, as someone who has always thought the Bernie movement was dumb and pointless, to comprehend how deeply some people felt inspired by it at the time.

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“The actions of Hamas should not be tied to whether a three-year-old can eat.” — @AOC

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Jeremy took a cab to do his speech at the @jacobinmag_de event in Berlin. The cab driver was from Palestine, recognized him, and refused any fare, saying he’d drive Corbyn around for free any day.

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1 year

Gentrification is such a confusing and culturalist framework for describing how precarious the housing market is under capitalism.

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11 months

@Hellachans No, their servants should

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9 months

AMLO and Lula – insanely popular left-of-center leaders in our hemisphere – would be a better topic of study & discussion for socialists than bananas or sunscreen

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World Elects

9 months

🇧🇷 #Brazil , President Lula (PT) approval rating poll: ⏫Approve: 60 % (+4) ⏬Disapprove: 35 % (-5) Quaest, 14/08/23

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2 years

Having nominally liberal forces adopt such racialized views is so depressing. This is the enemy of solidarity.

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Can't believe it's been three years since Michael Brooks' passing. He was a unique talent as a presenter, a truly compassionate guy, and a great friend. Take a second to remember him today!

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Voting to force workers to accept an agreement they dont want is a betrayal of the class. There’s no excuse for it. AOC, Bowman, Bush, Omar & others wouldnt vote the wrong way on a bill about oppression, even if it meant bucking party consensus. Why is this treated differently?

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7 months

The most popular Jewish politician in the world has his event boycotted by German politician Saskia Eske, because he’s not pro-Israel enough. So insufferably on brand, I had to write about it last night.

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German Social Democrat Leader Boycotts Bernie Over Palestine

German Social Democratic Party leader Saskia Esken has boycotted a Bernie Sanders event over his supposedly anti-Israel statements. Bernie’s statement? “The targeting of civilians is a war crime, no...

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"Pro-labor" until it matters. This decision by Biden undermines two years of rhetoric.

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President Biden

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As a proud pro-labor President, I'm reluctant to override the ratification procedures and views of those who voted against the agreement. But in this case – where the economic impact of a shutdown would hurt millions – I believe Congress must use its powers to adopt this deal.

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3 months

Why did Anat Schwartz get prominent bylines covering a highly contested topic with no prior journalistic experience?

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Ryan Grim

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Merely *being* Palestinian is enough to get you banned from Israel-Palestine coverage at the NYT but @Anatschwartz can call for Gaza to be turned into “a slaughterhouse”—and with no reporting experience, and a background in Israeli intelligence, be assigned front page stories

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11 months

Bill Simmons voice: kinda liking Prigozhin as an irrational confidence guy.

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8 months

Vladislav Zubok’s Collapse is such a good book. Combined with reading the Taubman biography, I went from considering Gorbachev a noble failure undermined from outside forces to someone who doomed reformed efforts with his own incompetence and hubris.

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2 months

Today’s defenses of Israel are going to be remembered by history just as poorly as this.

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2 years

File under “You Love to See It”

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10 months

Governor Abbott just signed a law overturning mandatory workplace water breaks — he was protesting that through a thirst strike in the heat. Exactly the kind of bread-and-butter stuff that democratic socialist electeds should be doing.

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Name something you’ve done more impressive than @GregCasar ’s 9 hour hunger strike.

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1 year

New @BernieSanders book dropping soon: “It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism” 😃

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2 months

Shawn Fain 2028. There’s no better alternative and there will be no better alternative between now and then. There should be a prominent campaign from a labor-left figure in every election after that too.

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When you’re working covertly but you want the credit, so you risk war with Russia by bragging to the Times everyday.

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2 years

Haven't read it, but I'm for changing zoning laws and making it easier to construct housing. You can still do that while expanding rent controls and building a ton of new public housing. Having a supply of anything is not end, just starting point for a battle over redistribution.

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downwardly mobile gentrifier 📉🎀🏴‍☠️

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2 years

wonder what @sunraysunray and others think of The Nation publishing this YIMBY shit.

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2 years

Happy birthday to top dog Bernie Sanders. A republican, a socialist, and someone who has devoted his life to advancing the cause of justice and democracy.

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The Guardian has legitimately amazing headlines — better than prime NY Post!

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Except that's not what he said. He said: "We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people." That's moral clarity, not rot.

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I simply cannot fathom the moral rot in someone's soul that leads them to win an award for a movie about the Holocaust and with the platform given to them, to accept that award by saying, "We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness."

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Wow, @Shut_downAmazon did a great job on Tucker Carlson. He pivoted immediately to bread-and-butter issues and a broad defense of union rights and didn't take any of the bait.

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Chris Smalls on Tucker Carlson.

ALU, CHRISTIAN SMALLS, Amazon labor union

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This is why we call it the bourgeois media

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American exceptionalism

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9 months

People mad at this as if AOC was one TikTok away from solving homelessness but instead decided to do sunscreen 🫤

@RepAOC

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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US sunscreens are far behind the rest of the world and our regulations aren’t necessarily making our sunscreens better or safer — but it doesn’t have to be this way!

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Back when Hitchens was good… he was really good.

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A friend described Fetterman’s new politics as “I’m Hillary Clinton but I smoke weed and dress obnoxiously.”

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Watching this debate I gained even more respect for Fetterman and what he represents.

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Reminder: Justin Timberlake did a labor theory of value movie and it wasn’t bad.

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2 years

It's not just about housing, every successful experience of the Left in power – from Brazil under Lula to the heights of Nordic social democracy and more – involved finding a growth model that worked at both expanding the economy and making it more egalitarian.

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2 years

@katewillett Building market rate stock can be connected to expanding rent controls on older stock (with newer stock incorporated into those schemes after a set # of years). Not having a supply crisis is good for building support for nonmarket housing schemes and giving renters more leverage.

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2 years

This is what the new anti-worker language sounds like

@matthewstoller

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

2 years

Another astonishing clip from the Cato Institute event today, this one from the influential Adam Posen, head of the Peterson Institute. He says a focus on domestic manufacturing is simply a “fetish for keeping white males with low education in the powerful positions they are in.”

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Hillary Clinton felt entitled to the Democratic nomination. Her dislike of Bernie Sanders isn't more complicated than that.

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Yow, Hillary unloads on Bernie in ⁦ @alivitali ⁩’s new book

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2 years

The main barrier to AOC becoming president isn’t her gender or her ethnic background, it’s the fact that the Squad (and democratic socialists more generally) hasn’t figured out how to get its message out beyond deep blue districts.

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Biden had just finished calling for higher taxes on the rich. Did you want AOC to boo him at that moment? She never promised pure opposition. She never ran on “not one penny, not one man.” Maybe you can say she should have, but there’s absolutely no betrayal here.

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AOC really became the same ineffective, party loyalist, establishment democrat she criticized to get elected

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2 years

This is a really nice personal essay from Michael Brooks that went unpublished during his lifetime. "Why the War on the Poor Must End."

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Michael Brooks on Why the War on the Poor Must End

Two years ago, our late friend and comrade Michael Brooks wrote an unpublished piece about his family’s experience with food stamps and Trump��s assault on the SNAP program. We publish it today, the...

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10 months

The Squad are allies to our cause. But it's wrong to see them as either the embodiment of a socialist program or as barriers to it being enacted. There are things we could be doing better, but creating a mass movement around socialism is hard. AOC isn't standing in the way.

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Ro Khanna has some of the better rhetoric on jobs and the need for a more egalitarian country. He also condemned Hindu nationalism in forceful terms & stuck his neck out to back Bernie when it wasn’t popular. He’s not a socialist, but I’d take him over 99 percent of Congress.

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2 years

Let’s please not abandon the “green jobs for all” phase of the climate movement to go back to this.

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Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.

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Pete Buttigieg and Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw palling around a few months ago

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“If the Left wants to change this country because it hates it, then people will never listen to the Left. [We must] see, beneath corruption and meanness and the commercialization of human relationships, men and women capable of controlling their destinies.” – Michael Harrington

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This is an honest description of the difference between broad progressive and socialist politics. Socialists know that capitalists (*as capitalists,* not individual outliers) can’t support policies that give the working class more rights, much less freedom from class domination.

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🕷Dante Atkins🕷

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The most significant ideological disagreement I have with most DSA I types I run into is this: I care about progressive policy, not class politics. If rich people support good policy and poor people don't, I don't care. I want policy. A united working class is not my objective.

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2 years

Somehow I anticipate angry replies about a left-wing politician being happy in public

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2 years

Happy Saturday 🌞

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2 years

We had eight years of inspired oratory that gave us almost nothing (but Trump)

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2 years

The article was written 40 days ago, and the date of publication is very clear on it. But Paul Mason won't let that stop him.

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Corbyn's Jacobin article is a catalogue of platitudes designed to mislead people about StW. He still won't acknowledge the Bucha massacre was perpetrated by Russia, but that's not the biggest problem... 1/

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Stewart is playing into Tucker’s hands on the subway thing. Plenty of liberal democracies have great public transit. We don’t — that’s the price of austerity and elite neglect. (Stewart’s point about the groceries though is pretty obvious.)

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Jon Stewart unironically tells Tucker Carlson that the reason why the US can’t have clean functioning subways or cheap grocery prices like they do in Moscow is “the literal price of freedom”

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1 year

Has Jon Stewart been getting way better?

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The Problem With Jon Stewart

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Danger! Workers are doing too well! Call the Fed to shut that down! A conversation with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Watch the full interview in our latest episode, now streaming on @appletvplus .

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I was critical of Bernie last fall but the idea that he’s is worthy of rebuke for statements like these is absurd. Objectively, he’s calling for a major shift in US policy that would help the cause of Palestinian liberation.

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Children are starving in Gaza. Instead of opening up the borders and allowing humanitarian aid to come in, Israeli soldiers are shooting people who are desperately trying to get food off of trucks. This must stop. The U.S. cannot continue funding the Netanyahu war machine.

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Can’t think of a better Bastille Day PSA

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Dreams do come true

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2 years

Very low bar but considering LBJ’s crimes in Vietnam, Biden is certainly the best president since FDR.

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Ken Klippenstein

@kenklippenstein

2 years

Biden refers to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as “what’s her name, that woman who believes in the — anyway” lol

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2 years

Haven’t played many shooters since the early 2000s but my cousin tells me the kids don’t even say “gg” anymore. Total moral breakdown.

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I’ve never felt more sympathy for Kamala Harris.

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Six years ago, Trump dialed up the economic war on Cuba and reversed the modest Obama-era gains. Biden has continued his policy. It's a duty of every US socialist to oppose the embargo.

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Cuba: 60 Years of a Brutal, Vindictive, and Pointless Embargo

Where Obama was willing to try “engagement,” Biden administration policy remains mired in Cold War clichés. The Nation has always believed there is a better way.

www.thenation.com

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5 months

Nothing more American than a moral panic

@GovKathyHochul

Governor Kathy Hochul

@GovKathyHochul

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Calls for genocide on college campuses violate New York's Human Rights Law, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, & SUNY's Code of Conduct. We're prepared to take enforcement action if colleges & universities are found not in compliance. Read my letter to college presidents:

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There’s no more vital electoral contest for the US left this cycle.

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George Latimer, who is running a primary against Jamaal Bowman, has received more than $1.3 million from AIPAC’s PAC, according to its FEC filings. That’s more than one out of every three dollars he has raised so far.

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2 years

On this day in 1983, the US military launched an illegal and entirely offensive invasion of Grenada, snuffing out the Anglophone world’s deepest attempt at socialism. I’m working on a history of the revolution and its aftermath right now, which should be out next fall.

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1 year

Kyrie Irving knows enough to know that the system doesn't work, but not enough to know what to do about it.

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New York Basketball

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“How am I free if I know kids are still working in the cobalt mines in the Congo, making Teslas” — Kyrie Irving on Twitch

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Can not make this stuff up, this literally makes the case that Cleopatra, an absolute monarch, was oppressed. We need Marx now more than ever.

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Opinion | Fear of a Black Cleopatra

A new Netflix docuseries has reignited an old debate: Was Cleopatra Black? But a historian whose work informed the show says we’re thinking about her race all wrong.

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It’s too late to put the genie back in the bottle, but legalization was a mistake and at the very least we need far-reaching federal regulation of sports betting.

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2 years

Wow, @krystalball did a great job here in the face of astounding ignorance.

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10 months

Working-class parties — from Leninist to social-democratic ones — won state power in a third of the world. Most everywhere else, as oppositional forces, they profoundly changed capitalist societies. That’s not to mention the impact of class-based organizations like trade unions.

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@HeerJeet When has your strategy worked?

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6 months

An important left-wing cultural center in Berlin is shutting down after having their public funding canceled. Their crime? Hosting a panel called “Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East.”

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Oyoun cultural centre to close after Berlin cuts funding - The Berliner

Left-wing Neukölln institution Oyoun has had its funding withdrawn by the Berlin Senate for its stance on Israel.

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Absolutely incredible march — filled with calls for peace and justice. The only insanity I saw was from a handful of counter-protesters.

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@snmrrw @pjayevans

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Rethinking the merits of social democracy

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I've been recommending this book to people for a while. Is there a better (introductory) overview out there?

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Bhaskar Sunkara

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“Theatre kids for war in the Middle East,” my new PAC.

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Chelsea Hart چلسی هارت

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This you @SecBlinken ?? Ewwww #OpIran #IranRevolution

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Matthew Chapman

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Sanders is basically imagining a bottomless money pit system where anyone can go to any clinic and get the boutique care the wealthy in our country enjoy, whatever test they want, whatever specialty service they want, anything, for free with no deductibles or copays or anything.

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On some issues the commonsense of America is getting worse.

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Bhaskar Sunkara

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He can throw, why can’t he run? #bernie2024

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Jane O'Meara Sanders

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Better close-up of ⁦ @BernieSanders ⁩ starting the game off with the opening pitch tonight!!

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Bhaskar Sunkara

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@katewillett Building market rate stock can be connected to expanding rent controls on older stock (with newer stock incorporated into those schemes after a set # of years). Not having a supply crisis is good for building support for nonmarket housing schemes and giving renters more leverage.

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Bhaskar Sunkara

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The Trump era media climate: liberals wanted to believe the most vile stories about America, even if the reality of oppression and exploitation in the country was much more banal (and largely rooted in class). Figures like Hasan Minhaj cashed in.

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Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”

In his standup specials, the former “Patriot Act” host often recounts harrowing experiences he’s faced as an Asian American and Muslim American. Does it matter that much of it never happened to him?

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Bhaskar Sunkara

10 months

This is where populism — railing against the establishment without a real class analysis — leads you. (It’s a good rhetoric, but it has to used only as a tool to convey real egalitarian politics.)

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Cenk Uygur

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Imagine if the right-wing and the left-wing got together to fight corruption. I know many on both sides will say that you cannot work with those monsters. And you must not be naive. Yes, I understand. But what if we got together just once to fuck the establishment?

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I’m in the @guardian today discussing why the legalization of sports gambling in the US has been a disaster. It’s fueled a public health crisis that’s only going to get worse while big corporations rake in cash.

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The legalization of sports gambling in the US was a mistake | Bhaskar Sunkara

The Toronto Raptors’ Jontay Porter was just banned for life for violating betting rules. There will be much more of this to come

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1 year

Diminishing the power of the courts is a key democratic struggle. Good to see @AOC point in this direction.

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AOC: I believe that The Biden Administration should ignore this ruling. The courts rely on the legitimacy of their rulings and what they are currently doing is engaging in an unprecedented erosion of their legitimacy

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Absolutely disgraceful behavior. This shouldn’t be a part of sports.

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Steven Reese🌐🇺🇲

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Cuban representative at the Cuba Vs. USA game in Miami given a warm welcome by Cuban diaspora.

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The racialism acceptable in American commentary is absurd.

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@georgejoseph94 @NYCMayor @yoavgonen I wonder if that robbery was insurance fraud

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Good morning

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