/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, saying Harvard has created an unsafe campus environment by allowing “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” to assault Jewish students on campus. It also accused Harvard of coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party, saying it hosted and trained members of a Chinese paramilitary group as recently as 2024.
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-foreign-student-457d07268fba9c1f6f7f32fe0424bc3b

Suspect charged with murder in shooting of Israeli embassy staffers
The suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez, was observed pacing outside the museum before the shooting, the Metropolitan police chief, Pamela Smith, said. After opening fire, he walked into the museum, was detained by event security and began to chant “Free, free Palestine,” she said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/israeli-embassy-staff-shooting-washington-dc

Woman shot at CIA headquarters after crashing into gate
The woman has been preliminarily identified as 27-year-old Monia Spadaro, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident told NBC.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/cia-shooting-headquarters.html

Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests
“Emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate. We have an established forum for employees who have opted in to political issues,” says Microsoft spokesperson Frank Shaw in a statement to The Verge.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email
https://archive.ph/9r3Io

Green Card Holder Detained by ICE at Immigration Appointment, Wife Says
Kasper is the family's sole provider and works as a foreman at The Welding Works and is in the process of completing construction on the family's home. Savannah, who homeschools their children, described the effect of her husband's detention as devastating.
https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-holder-detained-ice-immigration-2075236
https://archive.ph/3V44d

Split Supreme Court Won't Allow First Religious Public Charter School in US
Public education and First Amendment advocates on Thursday celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to allow the nation's first religious public charter school in Oklahoma—even though the outcome of this case doesn't rule out the possibility of another attempt to establish such an institution.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-religious-charter-school

Jersey City may be first in NJ to ban landlords from using AI to set rent
Jersey City councilmembers will vote Wednesday on a law that would ban landlords from using sophisticated rent algorithm software that renters’ advocates say uses artificial intelligence to drive up apartment prices. If adopted, the measure would be the first of its kind in the Garden State.
https://gothamist.com/news/jersey-city-may-be-first-in-nj-to-ban-landlords-from-using-ai-to-set-rent
https://archive.ph/deJLa

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935 - It’s Joever feat. David J. Roth (5/19/25) (Chapo Trap House)
We planned this episode to cover the spate of stories revealing just how out of it and diminished Joe Biden was during his term, and new details about the political flunkies and media stooges who were complicit in covering it up. But yesterday Biden’s team announced an almost certainly life-ending cancer diagnosis. So we’re joined by David Roth to discuss how it’s finally well and truly Joever.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/935-its-joever-feat-david-j-roth-51925

Project Esther and the weaponisation of Zionism
The first “key takeaway” listed in the report is that “America’s virulently anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and anti-American ‘pro-Palestinian movement’ is part of a global Hamas Support Network (HSN)”. Never mind that, in reality, there is no such thing as a “global Hamas Support Network” – just as there is no such thing as the HSN’s alleged “affiliated Hamas Support Organizations (HSOs)” that the Heritage Foundation has also taken the liberty of inventing. Among these alleged HSOs are prominent American Jewish organisations such as Jewish Voice for Peace. The second “key takeaway” of the report is that the so-called HSN is “supported by activists and funders dedicated to destroying capitalism and democracy” – a curious choice of terms, no doubt, from a think tank that is doing its best to eradicate what remains of US democracy as we speak. The phrase “capitalism and democracy” appears no fewer than five times in the report – although it’s not quite clear what Hamas has to do with capitalism aside from governing a Palestinian territory that has for more than 19 months been on the receiving end of billions upon billions of dollars’ worth of US-funded military destruction. From the perspective of the arms industry, at least, genocide is capitalism at its best. And as per the genocidal logic of Project Esther, protesting the mass slaughter of Palestinians is fundamentally anti-Semitic – hence the need to pursue the prescribed national strategy of “extirpating the influence of the HSN from our society”.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/5/19/project-esther-and-the-weaponisation-of-zionism
https://archive.ph/sxw4b

Works of Marx and Engels 1879 :Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle[Abstract]
It is an unavoidable phenomenon, well established in the course of development, that people from the ruling class also join the proletariat and supply it with educated elements. This we have already clearly stated in the Manifesto. Here, however, two remarks are to be made: First, such people, in order to be useful to the proletarian movement, must bring with them really educated elements. This, however, is not the case with the great majority of German bourgeois converts. Neither the Zukunft [fortnightly Berlin magazine] nor the Neue Gesellschaft [monthly Zurich periodical] has provided anything to advance the movement one step. They are completely deficient in real, factual, or theoretical material. Instead, there are efforts to bring superficial socialist ideas into harmony with the various theoretical viewpoints which the gentlemen from the universities, or from wherever, bring with them, and among whom one is more confused than the other, thanks to the process of decomposition in which German philosophy finds itself today. Instead of first studying the new science [scientific socialism] thoroughly, everyone relies rather on the viewpoint he brought with him, makes a short cut toward it with his own private science, and immediately steps forth with pretensions of wanting to teach it. Hence, there are among those gentlemen as many viewpoints as there are heads; instead of clarifying anything, they only produce arrant confusion — fortunately, almost always only among themselves. Such educated elements, whose guiding principle is to teach what they have not learned, the party can well dispense with.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1879/09/17.htm