DC Council to vote on short-term and permanent youth curfew proposals The DC Council is set to vote Tuesday on a short-term proposal and a permanent bill to make changes to the District's youth curfew. It would also give the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)…

Washington DC cannot house its youth, educate them, or employ them, so it has settled on the next best thing: making it illegal for them to stand outside after dark.

Netanyahu Says Israel Is Refuge for Christians After Soldier Hammers Jesus Statue in the Face Netanyahu called Israel the only country in the Middle East where the Christian “standard of living” is growing.

So an Israeli soldier takes a sledgehammer to a statue of Christ in Lebanon, and within 48 hours Netanyahu issues a statement calling Israel the sole refuge for Christians in the Middle East.

Middle East crisis live: Iran claims it has ‘new cards for battlefield’, and weighs talks in Pakistan Iranian official stresses no decision made on taking part, as US vice-president JD Vance is set to travel to Islamabad for negotiations

You blockade a country’s ports and then ask why they won’t sit at your table. The ceasefire was already dead when the USS Spruance opened fire. Everything since has been theatre for the domestic newscycle.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Trump Is Making Federal Prison Even More Dangerous for Transgender Inmates New directives from the Bureau of Prisons amount to government-mandated conversion therapy.

The same government that lectures every sovereign nation on human rights has formalised coercive psychiatric treatment for captive people whose identity it reclassified as a disorder.

Trump’s decision to blockade Iran ups the ante on prices Trump’s blockade of Iran is rippling beyond oil, squeezing fertilizer and helium supplies and raising the risk of higher food prices and wider economic disruption.

Oil exceeds $100 while American gas reaches $4.13. The blockade does not harm Iran so much as the U.S. worker, now funding a military expansion he never authorized. Washington wages war, and the ordinary citizen pays the invoice. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Iran war escalation could trigger global recession, IMF warns Growth forecasts cut for US and global economy, while UK suffers sharpest downgrade in G7

The IMF downgrades global growth to 3.1% and raises inflation to 4.4%, citing the Iran war initiated by Israel and the U.S. The institution tasked with stabilizing capitalism now documents its scheduled demolition. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Not a great week already for WMATA general manager Randy Clarke.

“Stab Caesar to death? Aren’t you concerned about the optics?”

IFRC strongly condemns the killing of Lebanese Red Cross paramedic Hasan Badawi, while on an ambulance mission | IFRC Beirut/Geneva, 13 April 2026: Lebanese Red Cross paramedic Hassan Badawi was killed and another paramedic injured on the evening of Sunday, 12 April, while they were part of a Lebanese Red Cross…

Drone strikes on Red Cross ambulances in Tyre. A medic killed in Bint Jbeil. The “rules-based order” in practice: rules for the periphery, impunity for the client state.

Trump deletes Truth Social image depicting him as Jesus: 'I thought it was me as a doctor' President Donald Trump in May 2025 posted an apparent AI image depicting himself as a Catholic pope after the death of Pope Francis.

A puppet of capital posts himself as Christ, then says it was a doctor. The retraction is not a correction. It is a loyalty drill. The masses cannot afford medicine but are handed icons. This is bourgeois decay selling itself as salvation. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/13/t...

Trump claims U.S. will close Strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks collapse After talks between the U.S. and Iran collapsed, President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. will "blockade" the Strait of Hormuz.

Whether or not Washington has been fully subdued, it has been forced into negotiations on unfavorable ground. Tehran dictated the conditions of the discussions, compelling the U.S. to dispatch a delegation to third-party territory. www.npr.org/2026/04/12/n...

I still have an X account but in no way do I think the culture/discourse/whatever is superior there compared to here. I sometimes see socialists on X complaining about scolds on Bluesky, and all I can think is, “You like being on 4chan more than you like being held accountable”

ICE arrested nearly 20,000 people in the DMV. The DC "Safe and Beautiful" Task Force arrested another 10,000 since August. Many charges get thrown out of court. But not before people lose their jobs, their housing, their families. The process is the punishment.

The Center Cannot Hold: Neoliberalism, the Third Way, and the Crisis of the Liberal Order “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The…

"The postwar truce held because the ruling class feared what a radicalized working class might do with a competing model on offer. Once the Soviet Union dissolved, so was any incentive for concessions. Capital no longer needed to buy social peace." bakuninmatata.medium.com/the-center-c...

The state of the world today is not an accident. It is the outcome of a neoliberal order that destroyed working-class living standards and concentrated wealth at the top. We are living with a political order that has lost its capacity to respond to the crises it created.

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Dear liberals,

No fascist regime ends in impeachment.

No fascist regime has so far managed to pass power to a successor because every fascist regime implodes in a carnival of massacres.

You will not find a solution unless you face the problem with sober eyes.

JD Vance Learns in Real Time Trump Left Him Out of Iran Attack Plans Two different reporters told Vance to check his phone.

This is a classic example of fascist polyocracy: personal rule, private fiefdoms, and charismatic authority. Trump is playing Rubio and Vance off each other in the same way Hitler and Mussolini manipulated their ambitious lieutenants newrepublic.com/post/208724/...

Australia charges ex‑soldier with 5 war‑crime murders in Afghanistan Roberts-Smith is only the second Australian veteran of the Afghanistan campaign to be charged with a war crime.

Australia’s most decorated soldier shot unarmed, detained Afghans and got a Victoria Cross for it. imperialism doesn’t produce heroes. it produces this.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

This is teaching social studies in the United States in 2026

BBC fakes a Tehran civilian’s quote begging to be nuked and calls it journalism, then edits it without a correction or explanation. I guess propaganda from state media is only bad when it’s presented in a language other than English?

‘Proactively fall in line’: Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly changed content after Trump returned to office Two former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.

Apparently, “never forget, never again” came with a postscript: “as long as it is politically convenient”… The US Holocaust Memorial Museum quietly removed content against racism and fascism to avoid displeasing Trump

Arab Americans in Michigan warn centrist Democrats attacking Hasan Piker: ‘They haven’t learned from 2024’ Heated debate in a key swing state likely marks a preview of things to come as the midterm and 2028 election seasons ramp up

AIPAC is funding the "Democrat" in Michigan while El-Sayed is the only one who won't take corporate money. The party will still tell you with a straight face to "vote blue no matter who" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

8 DC teens arrested after officers assaulted in SW Waterfront fights The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) arrested eight teens Saturday night after responding to several fights in the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood.

I am immensely more concerned about the threats posed to Washington, D.C., caused by white guys in West Asia than that posed by Black kids in Southwest. wjla.com/news/local/p...

The problem with being a US centrist in 2026 is defending an indefensible status quo. If you’re arguing for a system that ordinary hardworking people know is rigged or broken, all you will convince them of is that you live in a different reality to theirs

Will row over Iran conflict spell the end of Nato? Donald Trump and his senior advisers have threatened to leave Nato over alliance members’ reluctance to join the war in Iran.

The demise of NATO would be objectively good for world peace. Its sole purpose was to sustain US hegemony over Europe and to contain US rivals for influence (Russia). It has become irrelevant since US foreign policy became more unilateral

I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.

The US built a world system dependent on free maritime passage, then picked a war that shuts the passages.

US, Israel Vote Against UN Resolution Condemning Translatlantic Slave Trade The resolution overwhelmingly passed with 123 votes in favor and only the US, Israel, and Argentina voting against.

The law doesn’t precede the relations of production. It expresses them. Slavery was legal because the class that wrote the law owned the ships.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ truthout.org/articles/us-...

ENGELS: It is a universal revolution and will, accordingly, have a universal range.

MARX: Give us a fiver, Fred, we’re skint