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A woman’s hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide
Daphy Michel, 31, died March 2. She was found at a bus shelter in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office found her cause of death to be hypothermia and ruled the manner a homicide, “indicating the death was caused by the actions of another individual” and should not be interpreted as a declaration of criminal guilt, the office said in a statement. The office released its findings Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/haiti-woman-homicide-ice-e31e7109eba053b41f6b0319640df042

Cruz breaks with Trump on key endorsements as 2028 looms
Cruz this week announced he was backing Rick Jackson for Georgia governor and Alan Wilson in South Carolina's race for governor. Jackson, a wealthy health care executive, faces Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in Georgia's June 16 runoff. Wilson, South Carolina's attorney general, is up against Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in a runoff taking place on June 23.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/13/ted-cruz-trump-endorsements-2028
https://archive.ph/ZdgZ6

Blaze at 1m-sq-ft California warehouse rages into third day: ‘We’re struggling’
The fire has been raging at the medical supplier Medline Industries’ warehouse in Tracy, a city of more than 100,000 residents located about 55 miles (90km) east of San Francisco. Officials expect to be battling the fire for a few more days.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/california-warehouse-fire-tracy

Some people are making guns with 3D printers. A new law seeks to cancel their print jobs
A New York law signed last month and a bill in the California Legislature both would direct panels of experts to come up with standards for firearm blueprint detection algorithms. The technology would analyze every design submitted for 3D printing, compare it to a digital library of firearm parts, and reject those that are similar. Though the study process would start now, the mandate that 3D printers come equipped with firearm blocking technology wouldn’t begin until 2029 — or later, in New York’s case, if the study group determines it’s not yet feasible.
https://apnews.com/article/3d-printers-firearms-ghost-guns-737b48cd483da5394076bc99d94619ca

Spencer Pratt unloads on ‘commie animals’ in aggressive L.A. mayoral race concession video
Pratt apparently conceded his loss in the Los Angeles mayor’s race in an aggressive new video in which he unloaded on the two runoff candidates and threatened to release alleged recordings of one of them that would “make her resign in shame.”
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/spencer-pratt-aggressive-video-la-mayoral-race/
https://archive.ph/ZRbHC

Federal Agents Search Voting Rights Group in Ohio
More than 100 agents with the Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I. retrieved records or questioned people connected to the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a progressive organization focused on social justice and voting rights, according to Prentiss Haney, a board member with the group.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/us/politics/federal-search-voting-rights-group-ohio.html
https://archive.ph/bfh3e

Elon Musk: What kind of system produces a trillionaire?
"If a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" The old remark by Don Marquis has never been more relevant. Elon Musk has officially become the world's first trillionaire. Predictably, the newspapers, television networks and business magazines are treating it as a historic achievement. A monument to innovation. A triumph of genius. Proof that capitalism rewards talent. But a trillion dollars is not a measure of talent. It is rather a measure of power. No human being creates a trillion dollars. No human being earns a trillion dollars. A trillion dollars represents the labor of countless workers — miners, engineers, technicians, drivers, factory workers, programmers, cleaners, warehouse employees — whose collective work is transformed into private wealth. The billionaire appears at the end of the process and claims the credit. The defenders of capitalism want us to marvel at the size of Musk's fortune. We ask a simpler question: Who produced it? Not Musk alone. Not even remotely.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2026/06/elon-musk-what-kind-of-system-produces-a-trillionaire.html

Mamdani and the ABCs of Marxist State Theory
More than four months have passed since Zohran Mamdani, a young activist from the Democratic Socialists of America, rose to the position of mayor of one of the wealthiest and most important cities in the world. His electoral victory over the Democratic Party establishment candidate, Andrew Cuomo, was viewed sympathetically by many and seen as an expression of a leftward shift among a generation that led the university campus occupations in solidarity with Palestine and has been radicalizing since the rise of Bernie Sanders. His campaign centered on “affordability,” with proposals including free public transportation, taxes on billionaires, and anti-repression demands, such as the dissolution of the police’s most violent units. For these reasons, his candidacy was widely perceived as a challenge to the U.S. political and social order. Yet, as soon as the task of administering the state apparatus took hold of both the candidate and the organization, they made a series of concessions to economic and political power. These concessions sparked intense debates within the organization and Jacobin, the magazine affiliated with DSA’s right-wing and prominent intellectuals. Amid this discussion, editor Peter Frase published an article opening a broader debate on the contradictions embodied by the Mamdani phenomenon in relation to the task of governing the state. This intervention appeared in the context of ongoing controversies within the organization itself, in which there have even been discussions about censoring criticism of the newly elected mayor.
https://www.leftvoice.org/mamdani-and-the-abcs-of-marxist-state-theory/

Marxism and the National Question by J. V. Stalin (1913) Introduction
The period of counter-revolution in Russia brought not only "thunder and lightning" in its train, but also disillusionment in the movement and lack of faith in common forces. As long as people believed in "a bright future," they fought side by side irrespective of nationality – common questions first and foremost! But when doubt crept into people's hearts, they began to depart, each to his own national tent – let every man count only upon himself! The "national question" first and foremost! At the same time a profound upheaval was taking place in the economic life of the country. The year 1905 had not been in vain: one more blow had been struck at the survival of serfdom in the countryside. The series of good harvests which succeeded the famine years, and the industrial boom which followed, furthered the progress of capitalism. Class differentiation in the countryside, the growth of the towns, the development of trade and means of communication all took a big stride forward. This applied particularly to the border regions. And it could not but hasten the process of economic consolidation of the nationalities of Russia. They were bound to be stirred into movement. The "constitutional regime" established at that time also acted in the same direction of awakening the nationalities. The spread of newspapers and of literature generally, a certain freedom of the press and cultural institutions, an increase in the number of national theatres, and so forth, all unquestionably helped to strengthen "national sentiments." The Duma, with its election campaign and political groups, gave fresh opportunities for greater activity of the nations and provided a new and wide arena for their mobilization. And the mounting wave of militant nationalism above and the series of repressive measures taken by the "powers that be" in vengeance on the border regions for their "love of freedom," evoked an answering wave of nationalism below, which at times took the form of crude chauvinism. The spread of Zionism [1] among the Jews, the increase of chauvinism in Poland, Pan-Islamism among the Tatars, the spread of nationalism among the Armenians, Georgians and Ukrainians, the general swing of the philistine towards anti-Semitism – all these are generally known facts. The wave of nationalism swept onwards with increasing force, threatening to engulf the mass of the workers. And the more the movement for emancipation declined, the more plentifully nationalism pushed forth its blossoms.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.htm