No union "leader" is more responsible for trump's 2024 victory than Sean O'Brien of @teamsters.bsky.social who essentially endorsed trump. O'Brien basically picked Lori Chavez-DeRemer to be US labor secretary. Like trump but also the hoffas, she's corrupt + immoral www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
We already knew that the Zionist gov't and military of Israel hated Palestinians, all Arabs, Iranians, Muslims of all sorts, Black people and more. Now we know that they hate Christians too. The allegedly Christian "leaders" in the US watch, fund, and enable www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...
ICYMI — new HUNGARY 🇭🇺 PM Magyar says Netanyahu will be arrested if he goes to Hungary
Communists Helped Build the Mighty New York Hotel Union. Great stories, great history! An Interview with @shaunrichman.org by Jenny Hunter in @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/04/comm...
...maybe - just maybe - he's actually the worst president in history
AI lobbying is skyrocketing. Meta spent more on lobbying in 2025 than America’s three largest oil and gas companies combined.
By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.
Dockworkers Against War. In Sweden, after Russia invaded Ukraine dockworkers boycotted Russian ships i& did same for Israel’s arms trade. They prove the power of working-class solidarity against militarism. Erik Helgeson interviewed by Artem Tidva @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/04/swed...
This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.
Charlize Theron on the Night Her Mother Killed Her Father in Self-Defense
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated story. These things are prevalent in a lot of homes. Women really get a very, very unfair shake, even in this country.
Nobody takes it seriously.
Lebanese News
Israel continues with their ethnic cleansing op in southern Lebanon
🇮🇷 Iranian protesters violantly attacked by the government
Oh, sorry, wrong video.
🇮🇱 It's the self-described "only democracy in the Middle East" bashing 100s of anti-war protestors chanting slogans against Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the war with Iran
Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax
NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty
ICE + 2 maga dips*t middle-aged, greedy white dudes from Alabama got an 85-Year-Old French Widow Arrested. She had Married Her G.I. Sweetheart. It's insane how horrible GOP-dominated Alabama and US have become, so-called conservatives who've weaponized gov't www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
Virginia Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups! White supremacist groups shouldn't be eligible for tax exempt status. These groups spread the racist lies that white Southerners were the tragic victims of war of northern aggression & slavery wasn't so bad. Screw them! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
Banksy is a masterclass 🙌
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
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Klein: I agree that it is a revolutionary technology, that it is going to transform our economy on the scale of the Industrial Revolution.
But unlike the Industrial Revolution, which created huge numbers of jobs, the goal of this revolution is to eliminate jobs.
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.
For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.
One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
I was stoked to be interviewed by @workingclasshistory.com podcast on Ben Fletcher since I literally wrote the book on him! Bonus: @pmpress.bsky.social is offering 40% discount on my book, *Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly* Use coupon code MAYDAY until 5/1/26
I was stoked to be interviewed by WCH podcast on Ben Fletcher since I literally wrote the book on him! Bonus: @pmpress.bsky.social is offering 40% discount on my book, *Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly* Use coupon code MAYDAY until 5/1/26
Our latest Photo of the Week: Since the US-Israel attacks on Iran and Lebanon, unions around the world have been joining in the calls for an end to hostilities. This march last week in Lisbon was led by CGTP members. (Photo: CGTP)
Happy birthday to the late great Ben Fletcher! Haven’t heard of him? If you know of Fred Hampton, you should! Both were revolutionary Black socialists persecuted by US gov’t for fighting for a multiracial socialist world—Hampton via the Panthers and Fletcher by organizing workers in the IWW
Thanks to the people of Hungary who voted out trump’s mentor! Looks like I’ll finally be able to visit the beautiful city of Budapest again!
I learned a lot from and am smarter because of this fascinating conversation!
I talked to the brilliant Kathi Weeks about her new book, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, about Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway, and about abolishing work, the prison, and the family
A campaign poster with a blue background featuring the text: "Vote Yes on Redistricting in Virginia." There is an outline of the state of Virginia, and the poster is endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign PAC, with the HRC logo. A colorful top border is present.
VIRGINIANS: This is bigger than politics…this is about protecting your voice. Show up and vote YES on redistricting in Virginia.
Early voting is open and election day is April 21.
