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Independence Day is such a ludicrous, gaslighting holiday it's amazing! This is the day where the government says "Hey, congratulations! You're living on land stolen from Indigenous Americans, using an economic infrastructure that was built on....
excluding everybody who wasn't a White male, and has never been redesigned to make it equal and fair for everybody who lives here, but at least the forces of greed that are crushing you and everyone around you, driving people to live under overpasses and stand on street....
corners asking for spare change aren't the British! They're Americans, just like you! You may not be able to afford your rent next month and wind up on the street, or go bankrupt if someone in your family has a heart attack; the amount of money you possess may be worth more or...
less tomorrow based on the whim of some sociopathic billionaire bankers at the Federal Reserve and your federal government may be allowing other sociopathic billionaires to cause an eviction crisis so they can steal the homes of 20 million American families; our country may...
be fighting wars and killing innocent civilians to steal their country's natural resources or deliberately starving them to coerce them to revolt even though the overwhelming majority of us OPPOSE this, we may even be allowing businesses to utilize slavery to get your...
chocolate bar or your cell phone or your Levis; you may go to protests and notice the police are there to protect property, not you; you may be under warrantless surveillance RIGHT NOW and not even know they're watching you and you may not even be able to question what the...
government tells you on social media without being censored, you can't even check out Iranian TV or Russian TV or Chinese TV because we don't allow it, but you're free! We're independent. And if you don't like it, then you can pack up your shit and move to Cuba (except you...
probably can't afford it, and the US isn't allowing air travel there). We don't want socialism here because then we won't have all these freedoms!" Yay freedom!
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When Israel conducted another massacre in Gaza in May, US media told us that antisemitic attacks against Jews were rising. The truth is that the pro-Israel lobby paid for an advertising campaign that included deceptively edited videos and...
misinformation, to convince American Jews that they need Israel in order to be safe.
For example: a video of a Jewish guy being beaten by Arabs, one of them using a crutch, did not include the part where the guy (who no one could have known was Jewish)..
attacked a Palestinian protest, so all that was shown was the response to his attack.
And this same dynamic- Jews attacking and then pretending to be the victims, while only focusing on the response, is totally in line with how Israel and American...
You have got to be kidding! You're not pushing Medicare For All (which you co-sponsored) forward, you're not worried about the climate crisis beyond offering tax incentives, you're not trying to get low income households electric vehicles, you're not worried about rents or...
the coming eviction crisis, not worried about workers earning livable wages, not worried about Joe Biden supporting a Haitian dictator that refuses to leave office or funding neoNazi militias in Ukraine or helping ISIS by bombing anti-ISIS militias in Iraq and Syria, not...
worried about underpaid teachers having to pay for school supplies or art, band and physical education classes being gutted- you're worried about the cost of lumber????
Some people seem confused: from 1976 until the present, the Democrat Party moved farther and farther to the right until in 2016, Bernie Sanders and the rest of the left said "Enough is enough. We have to move to the left and enact some of these common sense policies."
To protect their donors, especially in the healthcare and weapons industries, the DNC rigged the 2016 primary election for someone they knew would lose, and pretended that Russia was the reason she lost.
Since 2016 the party has moved even farther right, because to defeat Donald Trump the DNC would have to appeal to the right, since the change the left wants was never a consideration for the Democrats, even though they sometimes SAY it is or co-sponsor bills they don't support.
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With Nicaraguan elections coming up, the anti-socialist trolls are out already. I want to share this article by @BenjaminNorton from a few months ago, about a law requiring foreign agents to register. One name you'll hear a lot is Chamorro.
Nicaragua’s neoliberal former President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, came to power in 1990 thanks to a US-backed terror war and blockade of the country, along with funding from Washington’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
The Chamorro clan is one of the wealthiest and most powerful oligarch families in Nicaragua. Many right-wing opposition leaders in the Central American nation are Chamorros, and they enjoy a close relationship with the US government.
330 Members of the House of Representatives signed a letter saying that $3.8 billion to Israel for weapons (we need to stop referring this as "aid". This isn't aid.) should be unconditional. "Since the Biden administration is already firmly....
committed to continuing unconditional military aid to Israel’s right-wing government, the letter appears to be a reaction to the recent introduction of a bill that would prohibit U.S.-provided arms and security assistance from being used in certain...
violations of international humanitarian law, such as the military detention and abuse of children, the demolition of homes, illegal confiscation of Palestinian property, or the annexation of occupied land."
And yet what have you said in defense of Julian Assange, a multiple award winning FOREIGN journalist who is being charged with crimes that amount to basic journalism and making sure his source is safe, you government stenographer?
Bob Woodward says that ALL journalists will use stolen information, arrange for meetings to accept documents and make sure their sources are safe. This is what the government is trying to convict Assange for 175 years for doing. mintpressnews.com/bob-woodward-r…
Over 1000 journalists recognize Julian Assange's contributions to journalism and the threat to freedom that his persecution represents.