🧵📖 The Long History of Attacks on Affirmative Action

Over the years, right wing politicians and corporate media outlets have built up a false picture of what affirmative action and “diversity, equity and inclusion” actually means. In their distorted narrative, these programs look like a corporate executive lecturing employees about using politically correct language, or an “unqualified” person being promoted over a “more qualified” person.

But the truth is that affirmative action is an essential tool developed to uproot the system of racist dictatorship that governed the United States until the Civil Rights revolution of the 1950s and 60s. With his latest executive orders, Trump’s hopes to put the last nail in the coffin of affirmative action after a decades-long campaign that played out under both Democrat and Republican administrations. Affirmative action is an essential tool developed to uproot the system of racist dictatorship that governed the U.S. until the Civil Rights revolution of the 1950s and 60s.

Unless there’s a last-minute deal, the federal government is set to shut down tomorrow at midnight. Why?

Because Elon Musk woke up one day and decided he wanted to block aid to natural disaster victims and farmers.

Here’s what happened 🧵 Congress was about to vote on a bill called a “Continuing Resolution", which would fund the operations of the federal government.

But yesterday, Musk started tweeting around the clock about how he hated the bill and that he would fund the campaigns of politicians who ran against Congress members who supported it. (2/7)

🚨CAMPAIGN STATEMENT

🧵Biden and Trump Facilitated This Genocide — We Must Build an Alternative from the Whole Rotten System

A powerful people’s movement has emerged in every corner of the country and all around the world, united to demand: Free Palestine! Israel and the U.S. have money and military might on their side, but it is absolutely clear that the people of the world stand with Palestine.

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Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia, presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, criticize Zelensky’s visit to Washington and oppose another massive spending package to finance the proxy war against Russia. 🧵 Socialist presidential candidate Claudia De la Cruz and her running mate Karina Garcia spoke out against plans by the Biden administration to spend an additional $24 billion on the war in Ukraine – the main purpose of President Zelensky’s visit to Washington today.

Most of what your schools, media, and your boss tells you about socialism is wrong.

Let me break it down. (Thread) “Socialism is impossible because of human nature.”

Wrong. We are taught that humans are violent, exploitative and selfish because that's what those who benefit from capitalism (the rich and establishment politicians) want us to believe.