Trump Is Putting America’s Weaknesses on Display What China can learn about the limits of American military capacity

“Trump’s war in Iran is putting America’s strategic and military weaknesses on display for other rival nations—most notably China,” Phillips Payson O'Brien argues:

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion.

If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over.

And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

Resisting Trumpism Can Revive the U.S. Labor Movement The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights present an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.

"As labor leaders contemplate the conflicts that might emerge in coming months, they should consider lessons from what happened in Minnesota as well as Chicago and Los Angeles where local unions also played important roles in mobilizing resistance."

Extraction by @triofrancos.bsky.social — the book I’ve wanted for years but didn’t know how to even describe. Deep research, political analysis, clear/compelling prose, and moral clarity at the global scale that the Green Capitalist era demands: www.theariofrancos.com/extraction

Invisible plumes and ‘terrible pollution’: the reality of the US gas sites rated ‘grade A’ Exclusive: Guardian investigation into reliability of methane certification issued by MiQ reveals weakness of voluntary model

NEW: An investigation into "certified gas" shows that MiQ-certified sites in the Permian are likely emitting more methane than is claimed.

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annnnd here's the follow up / companion piece on Gas Outlook. We have more video and photos showing what methane looks like at the "certified" gas sites
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Nurses Forge Alliances to Protect Patients From Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Support and rights advocacy are seen as a duty of care for many nurses who are organizing to protect their patients.

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I study fascism. I’ve already fled America. On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... WHY DO PEOPLE FLEE AND NOT FIGHT?

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

The U.S.-Iran War Is Illegal. Here’s Why That Matters. If this war continues without accountability, it threatens even more dire consequences in years ahead.

The U.S. and Israeli war has, from its very beginning, violated both U.S. domestic and international law.

The Price of War How America’s history with Iran has already shaped ordinary lives

The current U.S. war in Iran, and the language being used to justify it, strongly resembles past patterns, and that resemblance has consequences.

The nonsense case against birthright citizenship Meet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump.

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Federal "God Squad" votes to override endangered species laws for offshore drilling Never mind that it may drive Gulf whales and sea turtles to extinction.

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Lawrence Browns game teaching history of residential and racial segregation in Baltimore is genius. Legos are such a great way to engage and simulate accumulated disadvantage versus accumulated advantage! @towsonu.bsky.social

How My Widowed 77-Year-Old Mom Lost Social Security Benefits For Five Months With its workforce slashed, the Social Security Administration too often falters when processing survivor benefits. It took help from a Congressman to work it out.

How My Widowed 77-Year-Old Mom Lost Social Security Benefits For Five Months

This week at Democracy Docket: Trump's doomed anti-voting order, DeSantis spreads election lies — and Harmeet Dhilon for AG? With his popularity plummeting, President Donald Trump took a major step this week aimed at grabbing control of U.S. elections. But in truth, the anti-voting executive order he issued Tuesday only und...

With his popularity plummeting, President Donald Trump took a major step this week aimed at grabbing control of U.S. elections. As always, Democracy Docket brought you everything you needed to know on it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"10 Years on From the Paris Agreement: Time to Take Stock!", New Podcast Episode - Paris Peace Forum The Paris Peace Forum is pleased to announce the release of a new episode of its podcast series 60′ Diplo, dedicated to one of the most pressing challenges of our time: 10 years on from the Paris Agreement: time to take stock! In this episode, our gu

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"10 Years on From the Paris Agreement: Time to Take Stock!", New Podcast Episode

We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!

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You can’t judge the Iran war by its stats No matter what the pro-war crowd tells you.

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Please buy your ticket and come support South Baltimore Community Land Trust. We fight for both housing and environmental justice! we have been in the struggle a long time and there is so much more to do!

The Next Coup Attempt And How to Stop It

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
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Those of us who advocate for the migrant and the poor, and feed the hungry, understand that hunger is not an accident but a result of systems designed to keep the wealthy comfortable and the working class desperate.

What a glorious day! Thanks to @johnduda.bsky.social and Meg from @redemmas.org for putting together an incredible climate conference. The book fest brought together a kick ass ecosocialist crew @alybatt.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @joobilly.bsky.social among others

Israeli former PM calls on ICC to halt West Bank ‘Jewish terrorists’ after prosecutions stop Guardian analysis of settler violence shows no Israelis prosecuted since 2020 for killing Palestinian civilians, as former military, police and spy chiefs describe ‘organised Jewish terrorism’ Middle ...

Absolutely Lawless when it comes to killing and stealing land. Inside and out.

“Since 2020 Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,100 Palestinian civilians… at least a quarter of whom were children… No one has been charged over… these deaths.”

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looking forward to this gathering of folk like @triofrancos.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social @nikifabs2024.bsky.social using their powers to think/write/organize about climate change and will be there tabling with mine at noon too 🌱

Cannot wait 🙌

Today! @joobilly.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @robbieshilliam.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @nikifabs2024.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social @jmhattem.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social + local climate organizers coming through 4 a bookfest on capitalism & the climate crisis!

You definitely wanna come out and hear @triofrancos.bsky.social talk about lithium and extraction! She is a force to be reckoned with … a powerhouse! We are so thankful for @redemmas.org to always host such important conversations ✊🏼Sat April4 @ 4 pm

Trump's executive order on mail voting is plainly unconstitutional "We'll see the president in court," says Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.

There is no serious legal case—none at all—for Trump's attack on mail-in ballots.

Sorry but seems like a big fuck you to the world to launch a rocket while illegally bombing another country, not to mention the amount of fuel while you're upending global energy supplies, and the emissions. Generally pro scientific exploration but this feels like desperate propaganda #artemis

Why we should 'fight like hell' against Big AI Podcast Episode · Ideas · March 25 · 54m

The more I learn about AI companies and their impacts, the more I think about Richard White’s Railroaded, which upends assumptions about the rationale & impacts of RRs in the 19thC, and the empires they enabled. @karenhao.bsky.social
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