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‘Biggest Wealth Divide in Modern History’: Graphic Shows Shocking Reality of US Economy
“Absolutely incredible,” commented Kobeissi Letter. “Over the last six years, the S&P 500 has risen +130% while US Consumer Sentiment has collapsed by -55%, to its lowest since data began in 1952. We are witnessing the formation of the biggest wealth divide in modern history.” Kobeissi Letter produced the graphic one day after the University of Michigan’s latest survey found consumer sentiment hitting the lowest level on record.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-k-shaped-economy-graphic

A New Orleans attorney was punished for exposing a clergy abuser
When an attorney representing survivors of a clergy abuse scandal that drove the city’s archdiocese into bankruptcy learned about Hart’s past, he took steps to get him removed from the Brother Martin high school, an all-boys institution that draws dance team members from a girls-only college preparatory school. A federal judge presiding over the church’s bankruptcy fined the lawyer, Richard Trahant, more than $400,000.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/23/richard-trahant-new-orleans-clergy-abuse

California Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency for Orange County chemical leak as officials search for solutions
It was previously believed that the temperatures were cooling inside the Garden Grove industrial tank, at GKN Aerospace, estimated to contain 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate. However, after crews embarked on a risky operation inside the danger zone, they learned temperatures were increasing at a rate of about one degree per hour. It was at 90 degrees on Friday night after starting the day at 77.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/garden-grove-chemical-leak-plans-orange-county-california-evacuations/

San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges, leaving asylum cases in chaos
Asylum denial rates have soared as the administration has fired almost 100 judges seen as too liberal, and approved using hundreds of military lawyers to replace them. Immigrants have been arrested when they arrive at courthouses or government offices for scheduled appearances. But amid the nationwide upheaval, San Francisco is the first major city to be left without a primary immigration court, leaving chaos and dysfunction in a region long known for its friendliness to asylum seekers. The two remaining judges will work from another federal building in the city but will be part of an immigration court across the bay.
https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-immigration-court-closed-asylum-8a0946a7cd4bcc9bd925d075cabef44a

Democratic chair faces calls to quit over ‘shambles’ of election autopsy release
Martin suppressed the document for months before finally bowing to internal pressure and releasing it on Thursday. The slapdash nature of the autopsy, omitting Joe Biden’s decision to run for a second term and failing to mention the words “Gaza” or “Israel”, has only deepened a crisis of confidence in his leadership.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/23/dnc-chair-ken-martin-democrats-election

Fatah’s Eighth Conference: A Stark Expression of the Defeat of the Comprador Class and the Fragmentation of the Movement
The division within Fatah is not merely an organizational dispute or a difference in viewpoints, as some attempt to market it, but rather a reflection of the collapse of an entire project founded on the illusion of the “independent state” and the Oslo Accords. It is the project of a comprador Palestinian class that stole all Palestinian institutions, seized the keys to the prisons and the seal of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and whose functional role is to entrench the reality of occupation while securing its own interests and privileges. The movement that once led the “Palestinian national project” has, under the dominance of a parasitic stratum, individual leadership, and bureaucratic security apparatuses, been transformed into a crisis-ridden framework devoid of legitimacy and national direction, disconnected from the pulse of the Palestinian street and from the liberation struggle taking place on the ground. It is even disconnected from Fatah’s own base and supporters. The loud popular question today is: where is the movement while the Palestinian people are subjected to a genocide?
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/33047/

Congress Is Trying to Preempt State Robotruck Regulations
After months of industry lobbying, House lawmakers inserted a provision into a must-pass transportation funding bill that would block states’ from setting safety standards for self-driving trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles — despite mounting calls for tougher safeguards. On Sunday, House lawmakers announced a deal on a congressional funding package for surface transportation and highways, which would determine policy and spending for the country’s roads, bridges, trains, and highways for the next five years. Buried in the one-thousand-page legislation was a provision that would grant a longtime wish of the autonomous vehicle industry: override state autonomous commercial vehicle regulations and instead install a light-touch national framework allowing nearly unrestricted expansion of self-driving trucks across the nation’s highways and roads. According to the Truck Safety Coalition, an advocacy group of trucking accident victims and survivors, the proposal sacrifices “commonsense safety measures to satisfy industry interests.” This preemption clause comes after dozens of states have implemented or proposed their own rules for autonomous commercial vehicles. While two dozen states have fully approved autonomous vehicles on their roads, ten states, including New York and Massachusetts, have imposed more rigorous safety and reporting requirements restricting such technologies on their thoroughfares. Pending legislation in New York and other states would furthermore require human operators to be present in every autonomous vehicle. California previously banned autonomous vehicles but revoked the law earlier this year following industry pressure.
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/congress-self-driving-trucks-safety

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. 1852 (National Assembly vs. Bonaparte)
As soon as the revolutionary crisis had been weathered and universal suffrage abolished, the struggle between the National Assembly and Bonaparte broke out again.
The constitution had fixed Bonaparte's salary at 600,000 francs. Barely six months after his installation he succeeded in increasing this sum to twice as much, for Odilon Barrot wrung from the Constituent National Assembly an extra allowance of 600,000 francs a year for so-called representation moneys. After June 13 Bonaparte had caused similar requests to be voiced, this time without eliciting response from Barrot. Now, after May 31, he at once availed himself of the favorable moment and had his ministers propose a Civil List of three millions in the National Assembly. A long life of adventurous vagabondage had endowed him with the most developed antennae for feeling out the weak moments when he might squeeze money from his bourgeois. He practiced chantage [blackmail] regularly. The National Assembly had violated the sovereignty of the people with his assistance and his cognizance. He threatened to denounce its crime to the tribunal of the people unless it loosened its purse strings and purchased his silence with three million a year. It had robbed three million Frenchmen of their franchise. He demanded, for every Frenchman out of circulation, a franc in circulation, precisely three million francs. He, the elect of six millions, claimed damages for the votes which he said he had retrospectively been cheated out of. The Commission of the National Assembly refused the importunate man. The Bonapartist press threatened. Could the National Assembly break with the President of the Republic at a moment when in principle it had definitely broken with the mass of the nation? It rejected the annual Civil List, it is true, but it granted, for this once, an extra allowance of 2,160,000 francs. It thus rendered itself guilty of the double weakness of granting the money and of showing at the same time by its vexation that it granted it unwillingly. We shall see later for what purpose Bonaparte needed the money. After this vexatious aftermath, which followed on the heels of the abolition of universal suffrage and in which Bonaparte exchanged his humble attitude during the crisis of March and April for challenging impudence to the usurpatory parliament, the National Assembly adjourned for three months, from August 11 to November 11. In its place it left behind a Permanent Commission of twenty-eight members, which contained no Bonapartists but did contain some moderate republicans. The Permanent Commission of 1849 had included only Order men and Bonapartists. But at that time the party of Order declared itself permanently against the revolution. This time the parliamentary republic declared itself permanently against the President. After the law of May 31, this was the only rival that still confronted the party of Order.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch05.htm

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