#Birmingham bin #workers discuss way forward in their fight as #strike enters seventh week
The bin workers’ uncompromising stance finds no reflection in the position of Unite’s top officials, led by general secretary Sharon Graham.
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We're seeing manmade horrors unfold right in front of us every day as a result of late stage #capitalism imploding & still #Americans are like "maybe we can do capitalism without the bad stuff"
It's all bad guys, all of it, sorry. build #communism now.
The Trump regime is abducting people and human trafficking them to #concentrationcamps in #ElSalvador & other places. Trump should be #impeached & removed from office, everyone abducted must be returned.
Never again means never for anyone. End #genocide, #AbolishICE.
"The Trump administration’s decision to target ActBlue has instead resulted in the left-leaning platform’s biggest fundraising day of the year." #actblue #trump #fundraising #democrats #democraticparty #USPolitics
https://newrepublic.com/post/194450/donald-trump-attack-actblue-donations
The New Republic · Trump’s Attack on ActBlue Just Blew up in His FaceDonald Trump’s attempt to target the major Democratic fundraising platform has instead galvanized donors.
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One of the problems with explaining America's descent into a fascist dictatorship to people who aren't particularly familiar with how fascist movements in history have operated, is that because the only frame of reference most folks who haven't studied fascism have to operate from are fully-realized fascist dictatorships like the one Hitler constructed in Nazi Germany, they often can't equate what they're seeing, with what they understand fascism to be. They don't realize that the erosion of our rights, and the establishment of one party authoritarian rule are almost invariably a process, and as such when you view an obviously fascist regime enacting that process in the same way fascists before them have done so, it's a pretty good sign that they're planning on reaching the same destination other politically-empowered fascist movements have arrived at.
I mention this because it is very clear to me that the Trump regime is working towards both rigging American elections permanently, and criminalizing its political opposition in any way possible. A good example of the latter situation might be Trump's corrupt Department of Justice promising to prosecute Democratic Party elected officials who don't cooperate with his mass deportation plot by letting ICE run roughshod over the cities and states they administer. A more subtle, but equally revealing example would be the announcement that Trump is ordering Attorney General Pam Bondi to drum up an investigation into ActBlue, a fundraising platform used to support liberal and progressive political causes; which for the most part means getting Democrats elected to office.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/donald-trump-actblue
'Authoritarianism in Action': Trump Orders DOJ Probe of Democratic Donation Platform ActBlue
"U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday launched his latest attack on political opponents by directing the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, a critical fundraising platform for Democrats and progressive organizations.
The order came in the form of a memorandum that the president signed shortly before heading to his Virginia golf course for a $1 million-per-plate fundraiser for MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC that has been accused of receiving illegal straw-donor contributions.
In his memorandum, Trump raised "concerns" about straw donations—when a donor makes a contribution through another person or entity—and directed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to "investigate allegations regarding the unlawful use of online fundraising platforms to make 'straw' or 'dummy' contributions or foreign contributions to political candidates and committees, and to take all appropriate actions to enforce the law."
Trump's memorandum cites a recent report from House Republicans accusing ActBlue of "a lack of commitment to stopping fraud." ActBlue and House Democrats rejected the GOP findings at the time, calling the document "less of a report and more of a desperate effort to change the subject."
Frankly most people who know about ActBlue are probably only aware of them because of the incessant emails they'll send you once you've donated to any other fundraising campaign on their platform, but the reality that it's the premier fundraising arm for both Trump's liberal and progressive political opposition is pretty much the point here. As such I think Democrat leaders calling this another "distraction" need to take a walk outside and touch some grass, because this is clearly the Trump regime targeting its political enemies as part of an overall plan to essentially rig American politics.
We can talk till we're all blue in the face about getting money out of politics, but when the fascist GOP can take full advantage of billionaire money because of Citizen's United, and the Klepto Kaiser is simultaneously trying to shut down the political opposition's small dollar donation apparatus because of a fake corruption scandal cooked up by the regime's allies in Congress, you are looking at an obvious way for the nazis to put their thumb on the scale and thereby pre-determine the outcome of American elections. The fascists' attempts to excuse all of this by pretending they're trying to stop foreign straw donations, while celebrating the lawless rule of a man whose family is up to their eyebrows in Saudi bribe money, is just the crassly hypocritical cherry on top of this nazi shit-cake.
Common Dreams · 'Authoritarianism in Action': Trump Orders DOJ Probe of Democratic Donation Platform ActBlue | Common DreamsRep. Jamie Raskin called Trump's memorandum "the kind of edict you'd expect from a power-mad dictator in a Banana Republic."
Liberals really need to take a step back and ask themselves why "I will not vote for #genocide" was such a controversial statement to them.
Things to try after doing a #Genocide
from #WaPo's #PerryBaconJr
Paywalled. (Thanks be to all the little gods.)
Below's what's claimed to be brass rubbings of the WaPo article.
(Note the pressumption is that the thing to do is get re-elected. Not disband. Not devote the rest of their lives to being human shields around Gazan children.)
https://www.rawstory.com/2028-election-terrified-by-uncertainty/
Raw Story · 'Terrified by uncertainty': Analyst flags five 'smart tactics' he says could help Dems win
The real #WeaponizationOfGovernment:
#Trump & #GOP ramp up investigations of #Democrats
Trump directed his AG to investigate fundraising platforms such as #ActBlue, the central fundraising apparatus of the #DemocraticParty — escalating his effort to use his power to target political opponents & —in this case — the core machinery of his opposition.
#TrumpLies #Propaganda #Disinformation #ConspiracyTheories #Gaslighting #law #Incitement #Extremism #Radicalization
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/24/trump-act-blue-bondi-investigate-fundraising/
The Washington Post · Trump and GOP ramp up investigations on Democrats’ top fundraising platform
After spending decades *accusing* #Black women of having babies to get payments from the #government, they want to encourage #white women to have babies to get payments from the government.
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I don't plan on writing a ton about electoral politics until it's clear we're going to have elections that aren't just straight up rigged, but I expanded some thoughts about Gavin Nesom for the I told you so-s later:
Picture Show: Gavin Newsom is the Problem
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/21/picture-show-gavin-newsom-is-the-problem/
"Speaking frankly, I think Newsom’s eliminationist policies towards unhoused people in California, and his willingness to chum around with nazi Trump regime propagandists on his podcast while agreeing they make some good points about things like trans rights, should be enough to disqualify him from political life immediately, let alone a 2028 Dem nomination run. This is in addition to the fact that he’s a soulless neoliberal who talks like a progressive but has been quietly transforming California into a police state."
Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution" · Picture Show: Gavin Newsom is the Problem | on NIDCGavin Newsom is a reactionary collaborator and if you care who wins a hypothetical 2028 US election, you should hope his bid for the Dem Party nomination fails.
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#EnverHoxha said in “ #Imperialism & the #Revolution” that people stopped doing the reading. And when people stopped reading, they were no longer able to solve problems that arose in a #Marxist way.
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The fact that most #communist parties degenerated isn't an indictment of #Leninism, it was failure to continually adhere to Leninism that led to that happening.
#Socialism is a #science. It's not something that gets willed into being out of nowhere. You need a #scientific framework to go by. There's a reason #Marxism / #Leninsim works & #Anarchism, for example, doesn't.
All #borders are imaginary lines. All borders are products of western #capitalism, #imperialism, #militarism, #whitesupremacy, & #colonialism. When #liberals talk about "protecting our borders", always know that it's all coming from a place of white supremacy, colonialism, imperialism, & capitalism.
155 years ago, on April 22, 1870, #VladimirLenin, Russian revolutionary, leader of the #Bolshevik party and the October #Revolution, the third classic of #Marxism #Leninism, was born.
I've been pretty clear about my belief that electoral politics in a wholly captured free market fundamentalist oligarchy isn't going to help us stop fascism; which is why I have been devoting a lot less attention these days to election discussions. If I were to articulate an important goal for me in the field of electoral politics however it would be to ensure, by any reasonable methods whatsoever, that Gavin Newsom does not win the 2028 Democratic Party presidential nomination; because he's absolutely a type of fascist himself, and also a complete fucking dipshit who would struggle to win an election against even heinously unpopular nazis like Stephen Miller or the Trump sons.
Look, personally I think Newsom's eliminationist policies towards unhoused people in California, and his willingness to chum around with nazi Trump regime propagandists on his podcast, while agreeing they make some good points about things like trans rights, should be enough to disqualify him from political life immediately; let alone a 2028 Dem nomination run. Very Serious PeopleTM however have played these morally inexcusable activities off as savvy "realpolitik" decisions that make him an ideal candidate to stop Trumpism at the ballot box; despite the fact that no reasonable person should consider "getting elected" on a Republican platform to be any sort of "win" for people who aren't Republicans and nazis.
Personally, I have always thought that Newsom's "political instincts" are actually garbage and pretending he's a brain genius smooth political operator is basically wish-casting for bougie liberal strategists who wish Reaganism were more popular and Bill Clinton was still president. As if to prove that point, Newsom recently argued that Trump literally kidnapping and trafficking an innocent man to a slave labor prison in El Salvador was the "distraction of the day" and an "80/20" issue for Republicans; as if the installation of a fascist dictatorship and the obliteration of our constitutional rights were a debate about paper straws or which airport should be named after the Klepto Kaiser.
As this short video analysis from Francesca Fiorentini from The Bitchuation Room points out, not only is this argument callous and reactionary in nature, but all available evidence strongly suggests it's just terrible fucking politics too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6I-SLWzGMU
Folks, I honestly couldn't give a rat's ass who wins the 2028 Democratic Party presidential nomination; I'm here to fight nazis. But for those of you who still believe stopping fascism has anything to do with electing Democrats who enable fascism, the fact that "important" people in the mainstream discourse are touting Newsom as a leading candidate for the next US presidential election should fucking alarm you. The Democratic Party just lost an election to a reality TV show nazi by appeasing fascists and running as sensible Reaganite Republicans; Gavin Newsom isn't the solution, he's the fucking problem - and if you run that stiff for President, the Democratic Party *will* fucking lose, again.
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I don't buy that #socdems are this naive.
I think they have too much invested in the current system & simply don't want a #revolution.
From my observations, the " #BreadTube" gang seem to all be upper, #middleclass kids.
