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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

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>>2396242
are the numbers real? 300,000 gwh / year is like ~50 million houses

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>>2396236
>2025
>still appealing to maga.
>yeah. (the most anti-communists one)
>it's revolutionary.
>yeah. (Larouchyetes didn't try this before)

>declaring war on Zohran
>yeah. (undialectically unmaterialistically comparing the USSR with the US, when the Soviets declared the war to succdems once they got a firm grip onto power).

>>2396338
when the Chinese think, they think big. So yeah, they most likely want to power 50 to 100 million houses with that dam.

>>2396338
Yeah it's like 30% of Japan's electricity consumption.

>>2396267
well the bigger lesson is that protesters shouldnt go astray from the crowd
police always single out isolated individuals for the worst violence


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Why does it feel like so much “anti-imperialism” has very little — if anything — to do with anti-imperialism and is simply Muslim identity politics?

For instance, why would anyone compare Pakistan to Palestine, when the former is a sovereign nation that was a close US ally during the Cold War and the latter a stateless nation that’s been fighting a 77+ year guerrilla war against one of the most brutal armies in the world and is now facing an all-out genocide? Pakistan and India are both bourgeois states with close ties to the US that both frequently imprison communists. To compare Pakistan to Palestine, in that western activists have a moral duty to hold mass protests waving Pakistani flags and boycott anything Indian is fucking stupid.

Yeah, I’m not shilling for India. But this shit is theoretically weak af.

Also, why does it seem like in every political conflict involving Muslims (except for China vs the Uyghurs) leftists always insist on taking the “Muslim side”? Look at Ethiopia vs Somalia or Christians vs Muslims in Nigeria, for instance. During the Cold War this would have made perfect sense, because the side fighting against the side backed by the West could be allied with the USSR and utilized to fight western capitalists. Today, not so much.

I’d love to understand the logic here.
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>>2395379
The west needs it's own cultural revolution too

The "Muslim Resistance" is filled with Israeli influencers who have successfully steered its online discourse and public speaking positions. The true interests of the people Israel is at war with are not palatable to a global audience in any way, and certainly aren't "woke". Most who resist Israel are calling for a theocratic, Islamist government. This is the public position Hamas takes if you care to read their platform.

>>2395439
There is very recently, as a result of the 12-day-war, a change in the Iranian posture, where they are playing up nationalism and Iranian identity, because that's what has come to pass. They finally succeeded in promoting sectarianism and a lot of takfiring and the Iranian regime is putting everything on nationalism now. They took steps recently that they wouldn't have dreamed of doing in the past. All of this is ultimately a move away from democracy, because democracy in that context would produce a theocratic government. That is what the politically minded popular movements of the region have always wanted and believed in. In the past, the Ba'athists were opposition to the theocrats, but Ba'athism was an Arab thing and never could have been a global contender the way it set out to be.

The "Muslim Resistance" is filled with Israeli influencers who have successfully steered its online discourse and public speaking positions. The true interests of the people Israel is at war with are not palatable to a global audience in any way, and certainly aren't "woke". Most who resist Israel are calling for a theocratic, Islamist government. This is the public position Hamas takes if you care to read their platform.

>>2395344
because its good for people to have clean water and electricity? why would you be against that?


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I'm from Poland. I noticed how much I want to make money from music and from jobs I make. But I'm also starting to notice how money breaks famillies down. I noticed how I'm becoming unhappy with being groomed to only pursue money, if no then they call me a "dirty commie".
Honestly why do I feel unhappy in the Capitalist system, but yet rivarly, money-making for the sake of making money, dog-eat-dog situation were so normalized to me. ANd I'm arguing against my mother and at times my father over the fact "I'm not able to make money".
If I'm not able to make money, I'm called "the welfare queen" and such, at least here in Poland and called someone akin to a s*bhuman.
Talk me out of it, I feel terrible, my mental health took a toll, finally.
I get bullied about this very fact.
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>>2379524
Money is the worst thing to be invented by humans it has made the world corrupt and horrible

>>2379744
100% On Point Tactical Trvke

>>2379534
they said the very same thing about automatization and yet for the last 100 years everyone's had to work nonetheless

>>2379524
money is horrible

>>2395810
Schizopost.
Capitalism killed billions, don't care about lib wokescolding about communism.


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why does it seem that whenever marxists post relevant studies, articles, books it's always very precise, to the point, relevant to the topic at hand; while when leftcoms post books here, they are usually not relevant, or a debate from 50 years ago in one sect, pseudointellectual nonsense? has anyone else noticed this? it seems like they haven't read the books they spam and are very ecclectic in their takes (i've seen them post anarchist alongside left-communist literature, indicating their ideological confusion).

i've also noticed that the leftcom spazs around here just scream at clouds at this point because almost everytime their replies reduce down to accusations of taking perverse pleasure in the genocide of proletarians, which is completely ridiculous. and i've noticed leftcoms never have anything relevant about organization to say. i also do not know any leftcom that is organized or isn't a complete social outcast.

why does this happen?

posting two rare lenins alongside
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>>2395567
Some examples
these guys really aren't leftcoms no matter how much they flirt with endnotes, there are no leftcoms that support natlib or religious indoctrination like they do

>>2395567
In fact, there is no "even", it is CIA
they have China Labour bulletin as a resource. China Labour Bulletin was founded by Han Dongfang, in 1993 he received the Democracy Award form the U.S National Endowment for Democracy.

They also list China Dialogue as a resource, the CEO of Chinadialogue is a recipient of the Officer of the Order of the British Empire, she also worked for openDemocracy, which got some of its funding from the National Endowment for Democracy as well.

National Endowment for Democracy is a known CIA front organisation.

>>2372105
Because its literally all teenagers from reddit who became "leftcom" (meaningless word that can refer to at least a half dozen tendencies) because of memes and internet drama. Also why their idea of what MLism is so ISG. Most of them have no idea what the left critiques of Stalin even are, they just know to parrot shit about Hasan and ᴉuᴉlossnW.

>taking perverse pleasure in the genocide of proletarians,
/r/Ultraleft is literally full of Germans who like their grandparents are also cheering the depopulation of Russia/etc

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>>2388885
>DUDE TRUST ME THESE AMERIKKKANS PRETENDING TO BE CHINESE IS ACTUALLY AN ORGANIC CHINESE MOVEMENT
kill yourself CIA


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I'm noticing patterns recently with the most authoritarian communists on this board, the internet and in real life (though rarer in real life due to most of these people being shut-in freaks)
>calls themself an authoritarian communist, even though:
>>they literally don't have a job, or they have a "job" that they only got because one of their parents got them said job
>>is not involved in any way, shape, or form in the union at their place of employment, in fact actively despises colleagues and working class people in general because they might have less than politically correct opinions on things
>>has read all the material, and autistically corrects people on getting things wrong with regards to said material…to the point that they will alienate away anyone that might've actually been interested in left wing ideas
>>has LOTS OF OPINIONS on the politics of countries they only found out about because they watched a youtube video/wikipedia'd "what parties are left wing", lives in the middle of bumfucknowhere USA
>>continuing on with the previous point, will say insane, outlandish shit like "heh….everyone in X country should've just been genocided when X communist leader was in charge" in a tongue in cheek way, which only their weird orbiter followers will realise is a 'joke' while anyone else thinks they are fucking insane
>>freakishly obsessed with nerd hobbies to the point that it's offputting to anyone normal

Am I wrong in saying I think these sorts of people should be pulled away from leftist spaces for being annoying little LARPers? They always seem to be the "frontline" for left-wing discussions online for some reason, I assume because they have more time on their hands than people actually doing things in the real world.
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>>2395058
Irony poisoning can do horrendous things to the mind of a [whatever algorithmic social media site OP uses] user.

>>2395178
There are lots of things that can do that. While only tangentially related, it reminded me of this quote somehow
>There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

>more anti- "authoritarian" communists (MLs) parasocial pseudo psychoanalysis about your political opponents being le bad people
Don't you ever get bored of writing /thinking this meaningless drivel?

>>2394842
I am not a NEET, but playing devil's advocate: climate change caused by the top 1%

>they literally don't have a job,
<"under communism, everyone has a job" heh, you are so hypocritical for not having a job, I am very smart 😏

>has read all the material, and autistically corrects people on getting things wrong
<"these workers I'm talking to have false consciousness" actually you're an autistic LARPer, its impossible to ascertain the truth, we are all just consumers making our preferred rational choices as we navigate the free market, I love Liz Warren and the DSA!

>"they will alienate away anyone that might've actually been interested in left wing ideas"
<alienation doesn't happen because of the material reality of bourgeois dictatorship that has killed countless millions of workers in its counter-revolutions. Alienation is about idealism, words and pictures that make neoliberal NPCs cringe like a frightened dog

>has LOTS OF OPINIONS on the politics of countries
<"You merely has a superficial understanding of finance imperialism, you need to trust the PMC expert pundits like AOC who have nuanced opinions about why its rational and sane to support fascism in Israel or Turkey or Azerbaijan "

>I assume because they have more time on their hands than people actually doing things in the real world.
<"Liberals like me don't want to hear poor people criticize capitalism, and we don't want to hear rich people criticize capitalism…I am a pro-capitalist cuck who want the proletariat to shut the fuck up!!!"

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DeepSeek use to be very good and based. It was a bit of a libtard but you could very easily change its mind and then it would post very based stuff. Now there has been some sort of update. Now it’s a turbo liberal Zionist and you can never ever change its mind. It will just endlessly post libtard and Zionist propaganda nonstop if you try to argue with it. Sad that such a good app is ruined now. Weird considering it is Chinese you’d think it would be different but no it is just as bad as whatever USA liberal garbage ai now.
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>>2392787
Why are you trying to 'change the mind' of an LLM? Are you retarded?

>>2395409
my actually existing socialist state isn't socialist, I can't believe it!

China tech is a subsidiary of global tech. The CCP is a lot more "libtarded" than any of you piggas want to admit.

Anyway if you are trusting a glorified search engine to tell you what to think, you are part of the problem. Zionism and what it represents is a total system. Any total system appears infalliable by the nature of its declaration, and if you're shopping for ideological points, you will get exactly what you ask for.

The truth is sadly "Zionist", because the Zionists have won and are proceeding to do what they always wanted to do to the world. Unless you're prepared to wage a campaign of genocide against global Jewry or at least suppress them enough so they have no say in government or any trace of Judaism in them is thoroughly degraded, you don't stop "Zionism". Israel or whatever the Empire decides to plant there as a rebrand is here to stay, and you'll all say it was "historical progress" and a civilizing project. That's what it means to "civilize" the world in this manner. The nations who were colonized were not consulted to ask what they wanted, because if they had a choice they would reject all notions of "historical progress" or the idea that they would abase themselves before a technology cult in the manner prescribed. That technology cult is presently failing on its own terms, but the avarice for total power that motivated the cult is stronger than ever. A world where this didn't happen would be on a very different course and would enter into conflict with all of the shibboleths held dear by the institutions and the classes of people who did align with technology. Such a course would not be a necessarily better course. If you really want to know what a lot of these tribal elites wanted the world to be, they all wanted slavery back in some form that was preferable to them, and they couldn't make it into the form of slavery humanity is getting. So much of the "colonial liberation culture war" BS is just the local elites crying to have slavery back because they did very good during the slave trade. China for their part are the only "colonized" country to really have any concept of an "other system", though usually that system is a lot like what we have except the rulers have a Chinese face and the despotic characteristics of it would be more overt and in line with Chinese historical implementations of such.

>>2395421
Before you say "anti-Semite", this is not on the Jews doing anything in particular, but because there are people who will make "the Jews" an issue, and won't stop until they're destroyed, because of what Judaism represents historically. The Zionist project was tied to the fate of the world's Jews whether they wanted it or not. Obviously anyone in Israel is tied to Zionism, and that is not a small number of people.
Zionism would exist even if most of the world's Jews were eliminated simply due to the creature called a Christian Zionist, who was the necessary thing that made "Israel" work. Then if you look at why these Christian Zionists exist, you see something at work with Christianity. You start to see what this world really has been.

The mistake in the thinking of so many is dismissing religions as arbitrary superstitions that could be edited at will or changed to suit modern dogmas. Religions exist for reasons. They are not necessarily good reasons, but a whole lot of human activity revolves around these religions for a reason, even if most of humanity are in effect atheists and led along the course a few zealots have pushed. What they're doing with Zionism is another attempt to manufacture a religion, but it won't work any better than the last attempts. This time, instead of promoting a watered down secular alternative, they're going to lean in to the Satanism and Luciferianism that people attracted to ideology have always been about. The problem is, sadly, Satan won. The result will not be what "the theory" insists should happen, and all of these people act in part with respect to prophecy so that they can make their preferred version of the End Times. Liberal secularism early on took on these qualities and made its own prophecies and notion of the End Times, but by now they have folded in to the other zealots and abandoned anything like the humanistic and decent vision you might believe was at work. That's been gone for a while now, and not even a thing pined for by those in a position to do much about the world.

The only way I see this being resolved is a new religion, and it won't be a "manufactured religion" or a revival of some ancient practice. It will be something new, and parts of its generation have already happened. One does not simply create a religion. It takes "acts of God", true acts of the world that arePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2394248
>It's just for fun
Having Akinator 'guess' which porn star i'm thinking of is more fun tbh.
>But I also was wondering what Deepseek take on Stalin was
Deepseek has no 'take' on Stalin. Deepseek has a latent space it searches for the most probable set of characters to shit out based on your input.

The 'fascinating' thing about LLM is how it shows that language is, to a certain degree, about probabillistic distributions of symbols. That there is an underlying stochastic model in languages that enables a computer to put together chains of symbols that adhere to grammar and produce legible sentences that, on the first glance, make sense and are factually correct.
However, this 'fascination' is more about marketing than about LLM doing something completely novel. There exist other machine learning approaches that can do comparable stuff.

'Deep learning' in it's fundamental approach is antithetical to actual understanding of a problem. The classical approach of formulating algorithms requires one to have an actual solution to the problem. Which means you have to have understood and solved the problem at hand before implementing the solution in a programming language. 'Deep learning', on the other hand, does not. On the contrary, you throw data at your model in hope it finds patterns to then produce a 'solution'.

That is not to say that machine learning ought to be dismissed. There are plenty of use-cases where the amount of data is actually so vast that having a system automatically sift through that pile is very helpful.
Which makes machine learning simply another tool to solve problems. Wether machine learning is the right tool depends on the problem at hand.

In this regard i look at people hyping LLM as 'AI' as either ignorant baffoons who got missled or malign sharlatans trying to misslead.


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https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/mi11859

Priest at 9:17 on a hunger strike in Portland sometime in the 70s. He says he's more extreme than communism. Anyone into this kind of thing? I thought of you guys when I found this archive of videos. He says he's an Antioch Priest who doesn't believe in owning property; Tolstoyan. Right up your guys' alley. Pretty fascinating. I wonder if he's still out there doing stuff in his 70s or 80s.

There are also some hobos talking about bum laws and drinking and the state of the city.

It led me to look up the I.W.W.

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This looks pretty cool.

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No one will check this out? Too old? Too obscure? Everyone too casual to invest in this? I'm embarrassed for you.

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>>2393713
>more extreme than communism
<tolstoy radlib
DEATH TO CHRISTFAGS
COMMUNISM IS THE REAL MOVEMENT AGAINST THE PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS
DEATH TO ALL RELIGGERS
DEATH TO ALL WODIGGERS
DEATH TO DENIERS
DEATH TO FALSIFIERS
DEATH TO MODERNIZERS

TOLSTOY IS WORSE THAN HITLER
NO GODS NO MASTERS
ANARCHISTS CANNOT BE RELIGIOUS BASTARDS

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DEATH TO ALL RELIGGERS
RELIGGERS ARE WODIGGERS
DEATH TO THEIR SYMPATHAZIERS
DEATH TO THE NARCOMAN WHO SHIELDS THE PRIEST, THE RABBI, THE SHEIKH, THE ONES WHO BROUGHT THE WOD AND REGRESS MANKIND

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>>2393713


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Japan should be a textbook example for any tyrant who wants to control their population. As Goethe accurately noted: "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free". Japan has mastered the art of indoctrination. The control is not exerted through force or laws, but rather culture. This is smartly combined with fervous nationalism which claims that the culture of Japan is "immutable and homogeneous". This has several consequences:
- The definition of what is to be "Japanese" is narrowe and conveniently defined. It does not limit itself to ethnia and birthplace, but behavior. The ideal Japanese man is obedient to his superior. The ideal Japanese woman obeys her husband.
- Therefore, anything that moves away from the ideal of Nihonjinron (Japaneseness) should be attacked, ignored, isolated. Invidual thoughts or traits are suppressed (sexuality, originality, etc.)
- Since the Yamato ace is the best, then Japan is also the best. As consequence, any negativity or criticism isn't publicly allowed. This is entrenched not only in social relationships like the family, but all the way into academia and intellectuals.
- Even the highest echelons of Japanese society must follow the rules. The book "Princess Masako : prisoner of the Chrysanthemum throne : the tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess" clearly depicts the obedience of the empress and emperor towards the Imperial Household, even in their own detriment.
- A combination of nationalism and culture. That is, if you aren't a fervor nationalist, you do not love your own culture. Since humans naturally have a sense of belonging, this feeling is co-opted by nationalist sentiments.
- The logical consequences of the mythical Yamato and nation of the rising sun, is racism and xenophobia. As such, foreigners become the perfect scapegoat, even though they only make up 3% of the population and hold no political nor economic power. This discrimination extends to the indigenous populations: Ainu and Ryukyu.
- End result: a deferential, obedient society uncapable of publicly criticizing the status quo, willing to do anything in the name of Japan. This is assuming they can first break through the veil of nationalism so entrenched in their society.

Japanese society is what every tyrant desires. It will be the last place where the revolution happens, as it is impossible for the Japanese to rise against their government. Japan is in a sense a nightmare. IPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>2390527

>>2390692
The working class have no country, national socialist

>>2395257
Reactionary countries do not exist.

>>2394966
>the Land of Chud
lol that's the whole reason you posted that.

>>2395257
Wrong. The proletariat has their own countries. The proletarians have claimed back lands of the Earth and formed their own dictatorships in Communist China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, and North Korea.


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🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

<"It's A Big Club… And You Ain't In It!" Edition

Thread for the hellish discussion related to the scourge of the earth, the destroyer of nations, the king of coups, the sultan of sanctions, the emir of the embargo, the autocrat of austerity, the doge of deregulation, the baron of busting unions, the prince of privatization, the lord of loan sharks, the patron-saint of proxy wars, the sponsor of settlers, the guarantor of genocides, the Divided $nakkkes of Amerikkka™

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>>2394962
Those were both four words

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>>2394964
yeah kanye can't count to 4

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>>2394958
>You agreed with them
I agreed with the video evidence, and posted the cnn article out of laziness and the desire for your tears.
>You and Cuomo/The Democratic Party
>so you're a liberal zionist, correct?
Incorrect. Your false equivalence shows your desperation for a reality that simply does not exist.

>>2394066
Ah yes, two conservative retards fighting


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Tunisia sentences pro-Palestine leftist activist to jail over running a 'jihadist' social media page
"This is not just about Ghassan. This is an attack on anyone who stands up for the oppressed, who speaks out against exploitation, imperialism and Zionism", said Inhiyez platform in a statement published on 17 July. "It is an attempt to muzzle critical journalism and intimidate the free press." Ben Khelifa, a long-standing figure on Tunisia's progressive left and an outspoken critic of authoritarianism, has been involved in numerous grassroots campaigns, including the Tunisian campaign for boycotting Israel and the Somoud convoy to Gaza.
https://www.newarab.com/news/tunisia-sentences-pro-palestine-leftist-jail-extremism

Growing tension | Fierce clashes erupt between tribesmen and local gunmen in west Al-Suwaidaa city
Al-Suwaidaa province: Fierce clashes erupted between gunmen of the Bedouin tribes and members of local factions in the western suburbs of Al-Suwaidaa city near Walgha village, after groups of tribesmen set fire to properties belonging to people of the Druze community in the villages of Walgha and Al-Mazra’a this morning and yesterday in the evening. However, no casualties have been reported so far. It is worth noting that those villages are empty of residents who have been displaced following the latest escalation. SOHR activists have also reported sporadic clashes near Al-Surah Al-Kabirah village in Al-Suwaidaa countryside.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/366149/

Two UK charities donate millions to Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank
Documents show that the Kasner Charitable Trust (KCT), via a conduit charity, UK Toremet, has donated approximately £5.7m to the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva high school in Susya, in the Israeli-occupied territory. As the budget of the school increased significantly as a result of the donations, the number of pupils, employees at the school and Susya residents have all increased.
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Philadelphia municipal workers condemn union isolation while details emerge of tentative agreement for white collar workers
Many workers in Philadelphia spoke about the harsh conditions in the city. “The cost of living in this city is not matching the pay [we’re receiving],” said a sanitation worker outside the AFSCME District Council 33 headquarters. Another worker exclaimed that “the supermarkets are outrageous. What I used to buy for $200 would fill my cabinets and refrigerator.” “Now it’s lucky if I leave with two or three bags” another worker continued. Both workers agreed that municipal workers need to strike together to “make a bigger impact.” But this is exactly what the AFSCME municipal union bureaucracy doesn’t want.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/usgc-j18.html

Why Dems didn't try to make Trump miss his DOGE deadline
House Democrats passed up what appeared to be a golden opportunity to block a bill codifying $9 billion in DOGE cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid. In leadership's telling, victory was never a real possibility.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/jeffries-trump-doge-democrats-npr-pbs-rescissions
https://archive.ph/h4d8S

Mexican truck drivers study English to comply with new US language rules
While the English-proficiency standard for truckers was already longstanding U.S. law, Trump's executive order in April reversed 2016 guidance that inspectors not place commercial drivers out of service if their only violation was lack of English. The order came on the heels of Trump's March executive order mandating English as the official language of the United States. That executive order has been criticized as discriminatory since millions of Americans speak languages other than, or in addition to, English.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mexican-truck-drivers-study-english-comply-with-new-us-language-rules-2025-07-18/

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The return of the Epstein scandal and the criminality of the US ruling class
The scandal over billionaire sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his ties to a wide range of figures in the American ruling class, including Donald Trump, has erupted into a major political crisis. Nearly six years after Epstein’s dubious “suicide” in a Manhattan jail cell, the White House is being assailed by demands to release investigative files which could implicate hundreds of top political and business figures, Republicans and Democrats, bankers and CEOs. Even though more than a thousand victims have been identified, the US government has refused to name even a single one of the wealthy and well-connected men who availed themselves of Epstein’s services as a procurer of underage girls for sexual exploitation. Attorney General Pam Bondi touched off a political explosion last week by releasing a two-page report declaring that no “client list” had been found in Epstein’s files, that there was no suspicion of foul play in his death, and that there would be no further information released about Epstein’s crimes. This statement was issued only three months after Bondi appeared on Fox News, just after her confirmation by the Senate, boasting that the list of Epstein’s clients was “on my desk” and would soon be made public. Fascist supporters of Trump—including former White House aide Steve Bannon, Representative Lauren Boebert and social media pundits Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones and Laura Loomer—all denounced Bondi. They cited Trump’s claims during last year’s election campaign that the Democrats were covering up the Epstein case because so many prominent Democrats were implicated in it, particularly former president Bill Clinton, who reportedly rode on Epstein’s private plane, dubbed the “Lolita Express,” on 27 occasions. Epstein was a financial supporter of Clinton’s election campaigns and visited the White House at least four times during his presidency.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/18/fpde-j18.html

The Big Tech Deep State
In the heady neoliberal 1990s, techno-optimism touched its most cringe-worthy extremes. Infused with the fatuous imaginary of what Richard Barbrook has termed the “Californian ideology,” tech workers, entrepreneurs, and techno-visionary ideologues identified digital tePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Rojava is standing with the Druze (Israel’s allies) in Syria.

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