/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Pennsylvania court overturns limits on Medicaid coverage for abortions
A Pennsylvania court on Monday said that the state’s constitution guarantees a right to abortion while striking down a decades-long law banning the use of state Medicaid funds to cover abortion costs. The ruling by a divided seven-judge panel of the appellate-level Commonwealth Court is a major victory for Planned Parenthood and abortion clinic operators who first sued Pennsylvania over its Medicaid funding restrictions in 2019.
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-medicaid-constitution-99e28f10c901f5120b034545a865e09b

US appeals court allows Texas to enforce migrant arrest law
The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on a 10-7 vote overturned a 2024 injunction that had blocked enforcement of the law, which Democratic then-President Joe Biden's ​administration had challenged on the grounds that immigration is the prerogative of the federal government.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-allows-texas-enforce-migrant-arrest-law-2026-04-24/

Workers in Santa Clara County, California, put on leave amid child welfare crisis
The alleged sexual assault and killing of 2-year-old Jaxon Juarez — who the Department of Family and Children’s Services placed in the home of a cousin with a criminal record of child endangerment — marks the third high-profile child death under Santa Clara County’s watch in three years. Eight county employees connected to Juarez’s case file were placed on leave between April 8 and April 16. County Executive James Williams on Thursday said that number has jumped to 10, pending personnel investigations.
https://apnews.com/article/child-death-santa-clara-county-employees-leave-310810b9f20fcbdb91a8e2b646a438d1

One person in custody after Trumps evacuated in shooting incident at White House correspondents’ dinner
There were reports that the US Secret Service had guns drawn as White House pool reporters were rushed out of the room and Secret Service agents yelled “shots fired”. In a post on Truth Social, Trump praised Secret Service and law enforcement and said the shooter had been apprehended. He said he was waiting for a decision about whether the event would continue.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/donald-melania-trump-white-houe-correspondents-dinner

getting a bit weak news anon but tybna anyways

The New Democratic Machine — And The Billionaires Behind It
The scandal was minimal, a blip in a Democratic primary race in New York’s Hudson Valley. But the incident was an early sign of a powerful new political machine playing an unprecedented role in Democratic primaries. The problem emerged in February. Jackie Rosa, a political communications strategist, had been fielding press questions for Cait Conley, a combat veteran vying for New York’s 17th congressional district, as though she were a campaign spokesperson. But when controversy erupted after Rosa circulated a memo bashing Conley’s opponent as a “far left political operative,” the strategist claimed she’d mounted the attack on behalf of an outside group, not the campaign. However, Rosa’s email sign-off listed an affiliation with a different political group — and her email address was tied to yet another organization, a shadowy Delaware consultancy. Four separate entities, all tied to a single strategist, seemingly collaborated on messaging against a candidate, even though campaign finance law theoretically limits close coordination between campaigns and outside spending vehicles. What exactly was going on? All of the organizations, it turns out, belonged to a new dark-money-backed enterprise of unparalleled scale and complexity. The influence network brands itself as boosting Democrats’ electoral prospects ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. But the project’s true ambitions go much further.
https://www.levernews.com/the-new-democratic-machine-and-the-billionaires-behind-it/
https://archive.ph/uAAva

Ireland: fuel protests show the way
“At this stage Micheál Martin is not in control. The people of Ireland are in control. They have every motorway blocked in Ireland. They have businesses shut down. […] This is a revolution.” These words by James Geoghegan – agricultural contractor and prominent spokesperson of the Dublin’s protest – broadcast across national radio waves at the height of the fuel protests, paint a vivid picture of the mood that reigned at the blockades that began on 7 April. Dublin city centre was at a standstill for almost a week as farmers and hauliers who had been stretched beyond breaking Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2791372
It will be even worse it will create a flood of libtards that "understand how things work" and just retell a movie they saw.

>>2792035
Liberals already do that. They think Death of Stalin is a documentary.

>>2791372
is that the riddler

>>2791987
leftist matcha hasan zoomers like ruzzia because it's fighting against nazi genocidal regime in ukkkraine
rightwing fuentes tucker zoomers like ruzzia because it's orthodox civilization fighting jewish zelenSSkkky in ukkkraine
other zoomers who aren't so into politics like ruzzia because soviet memes they saw on ifunny 10 years ago
simple as. who dislikes russia?

>>2792696
Yup, that is Paul Dano.

>>2789280
>Cultural touchstones include Deltarune, Hazbin Hotel, Genshin Impact
literally what?

>>2789991
how are millennials this insane you're like 40 and balding. sit down unc

>>2789589
That's not why she's wearing it lol, she's wearing it because Dylan Klebold wore one.

>>2789544
That's what I was getting at with " it also largely applies to the Samantha Rupnow types as well if you swap a few words around.".

Houdini deleted his "solidarity is a buzzword" thread after the people who were dumb enough to give him money rightly got mad at him LOL

>>2770674
dont worry leftypol always remembers.
i remember those late-night incel posts.

>>2770674
You just made me think of that Revolutionary Blackout guy who is now an ACP orbiter (or something) complaining about No Kings because nobody gave money to his food bank charity scam a few years ago.

Houdini is a juche gang proxy.

>>2786505
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>it amounts to the same thing, since the financial capitalists are the comprador booj in thrall to the imperial core while the indsustrial capitalists are the national booj who wanna develop the productive forces and exercise sovereignty over the natural resources. It basically is the modern equivalent of the difference between tories and patriots in 1776. Loyalty to the metropole of capital vs a national independence movement.
underrated trvke

>>2786715
Western europe had pesants until the 1960's, and it's countries were already well developed

>>2786213
It loosely follows that the opposite is true in the developed world and that the current protectionist turn is reactionary.

>>2786779
> the Austrian school as lackeys of finance capital against workers
remember what Von Mises was doing furing ww2: serving Engelbert Dollfuss under "Austrofascism"

>>2790868
omg, thingnoticer, are you back???

>>2790868
Unfappable

I was always a big fan of the original series, This is the first time I watched an episode of the Adult Party cartoon and I can now see why people Hate it and Love it at the same time. It can go from a funny gag of Red waxing a women's pussy like he is waxing off paint to a terrible gag of watching him stuck between a hairy dude's calves.

Moved to >>>/siberia/776913.

>>2791301
This
We need less Jeffrey Epsteins and more Oprah Winfreys

>>2791046
>>2791060
>sophisticated material analysis is when you post random graphs without context and spout reactionary nonsense to defend some allegedly 'better past' of a settler colonialist bourgeoise oligarchy
okay

>>2789502

Realizing that the only way to see true change is to completely flip the system on it's head is obviously required for many'a leftists

These cattle who would chose what we have now over any left wing economic system have yet to have this realization and never will because they are either to brainwashed from the residue of the Red Scare or they have no empathy and re in a position which benefits from the system.

The only reason to pose these hypothetical ways to do the best within the system is if you have completely abandoned the idea of any serious socialist movement gaining power.

>>2789502
These are "safe" solutions that doesnt threaten them or the status quo. Its about rationalization of self-interest.

>>2791992
asinine but incredibly common worldview.
let me ask you this: trade unions are effectively regulated into pointlessness in england. there are so many restrictions on what you can do that it's basically impossible to withdraw your labour in a way that does real damage. would "supporting"* a future centre-left government in weakening or repealing the 1980s-1990s laws that gave effect to this situation - an undoubtedly reformist act - really constitute "abandoning" the idea of any socialist movement gaining power? would it not make more sense to think of this change as the first and most obvious direct step towards building the kind of left-wing institutions that can actually take power in future?
once you accept this broad principle, all of the rest follows.
ironically the left would do well to read a lot of rightoids and neoliberals on incentives. why is it that the bourgeoise can run a lemonade stand but we can't? easy: they're being paid. building a serious revolutionary org is hard work, but you get exactly the same - perhaps better - short term rewards by posing as radical online. the ROI on cosplaying a revolutionary is so much better than the ROI on seriously working towards it.

*a wonderful non-term which can mean anything from "saying 'yeah cool good' on leftypol.org" to "actively a member and works 16 hour days to help the party"

ben roberts smith situation is crazy:

> old mate is complaining about being in an aussie jail like he's not on trial for offing prisoners
> dickhead is doing two weeks in lockup on purpose by not filing for bail as a media stunt
> katter and the cockroach are losing their shit
> seppo propaganda outlet channel 10 conspicuously not mentioning the wife beating and the substance of the war crime allegations
> greens tying themselves in knots calling him a black sheep like the ADF protects us and not the angloamerican empire
> it's been years since the courts validated the war crime allegations
> crazy this is happening during the oil crisis
> urkrainian volunteer also picked up
> mcbride still in prison

curious what this signals from canberra, there's a few readings:

> labor is relitigating the forever war on terror because the yanks fucked us over and abandoned us (requires too much spine)
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It's the planting season and there is a mouse plague, authorise ZP50 you dumb muppets

Welcome to Did You Know Australia.
Did You Know: The children of Australian veterans generally don't like Nazism?

>only 1 chud boo’d the welcome to country in Sydney despite the massive working class support the boo’ers got last year
Total middle class victory, the middle class exertion of force upon the working classes most sacred day is now uncontested as the welcome to country has successfully jumped from the company board room to Anzac Day, the working class has been defeated

Trump administration pushes DoJ to pursue denaturalization cases – report
The US government can ask a court to remove citizenship status of people who illegally obtained it. In some cases, people who have been denaturalized have been caught lying to officials or caught entering into a false marriage. In other cases, people who commit crimes can be denaturalized.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/trump-administration-denaturalization

Mamdani vetoes one protest buffer zone bill, ‘allows’ another to become law
The other protest buffer zone bill, Intro. 1-B, would establish protective measures near houses of worship. Mamdani said he would “allow it to become law,” but did not indicate that he would put his signature to it. Under the city charter, legislation sent to the mayor’s desk may become law within 30 days if the mayor neither signs nor vetoes it.
https://www.amny.com/politics/mamdani-vetoes-protest-buffer-zone-bill/
https://archive.ph/Rwtox

Maine Gov. Mills Ripped for Veto of Landmark AI Data Center Moratorium
The bill, LD 307, which passed both chambers of Maine’s Legislature with bipartisan support earlier this month, would have stopped state and local governments from issuing permits for data centers with electric loads of 20 megawatts or more until November 2027, giving the state time to study their effects.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mills-veto-data-center-moratorium

South Dakota Supreme Court rules officer names can be kept secret
Two police officers involved in a shootout with a suspect in 2024 can have their names protected from public view to prevent someone from potentially locating or harassing the officer or their families, according to a ruling Thursday by the South Dakota Supreme Court that reversed a lower court’s decision. Justices ruled that Marsy’s Law, a state constitutional amendment approved by South Dakota voters Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Tybna!

Mandelson, May elections, and the markets: Pressures pile up for Starmer
In these troubled times, spare a thought for poor old Keir Starmer. Britain’s hapless Prime Minister can’t catch a break Everyone – and everything – seems to be lining up against him. And events, at home and abroad, are unlikely to offer any respite. Amongst voters, Starmer is the most unpopular PM in recent history – as will no doubt be seen in the upcoming May elections. The Labour leader and his party are on course to receive a drubbing in contests for the Scottish and Welsh devolved parliaments, and in local councils. But it is not only the electorate who, rightly, despise Starmer. Nobody is happy with the current occupant of Number 10. Across the pond, Donald Trump is also fuming about the uselessness of his British counterpart. Angered by the UK government’s refusal to join his disastrous war on Iran, the American President has repeatedly lashed out at Starmer: remarking that the Labour Prime Minister is “no Winston Churchill”, and threatening to tear up Britain’s trade deal with the USA, if Washington’s normally obedient poodle does not yield to his master’s call. Of course, Starmer’s stance towards Trump’s war has nothing to do with political principles, and everything to do with political expediency. The Labour leader has repeatedly demonstrated that he is happy to grovel and fawn before his boss in the White House. But with the British public in no mood for an Iraq 2.0, Zack Polanski’s Greens breathing down his neck, and elections approaching, Starmer is calculating that a few anti-Trump noises and a dash of feigned defiance might play well with voters and backbench MPs alike.
https://communist.red/mandelson-may-elections-and-the-markets-pressures-pile-up-for-starmer/

Rizospastis organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece: On Zyuganov’s outrageous statement and its coverage by the Greek bourgeois media
Various bourgeois media outlets in our country did not conceal their satisfaction, tinged with a dose of irony, at the recent provocative statement by Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the Central Commitee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), who declared from the floor of the Russian parliament that a new 1917 —that is, a nPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The evilness of zionists never ceases to surprise me