The Masque of the Red Death, but Red Death is just trying to contact Prospero about his car's extended warranty.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

"The International Role of China" by Elisseos Vagenas of the KKE (from S4A Livestream #87) YouTube video by Socialism For All ☭ Intensify Class Struggle

An essay from 2010 shows the extent of capitalist restoration in China.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Em...

International Law Is Being Used to Restrain Iran, Enable US and Israel Western countries condemn restrictions in the Hormuz Strait more than the “clearly unlawful war,” says Maryam Jamshidi.

“International law is being deployed in this moment as a way of restraining and regulating Iranian behavior, while effectively allowing the United States and Israel a free hand to do what they want,” says law professor Maryam Jamshidi.

Expecting to recieve tariff refunds has real big "my dad will be back from buying cigarettes any day now" energy

Oh...Prego was invented by Campbell's. That explains the quality.

A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Imagine getting taken out to the Meadowlands in the middle of the night for a mock execution because Tony Prego heard you call it "sickly sweet, soupy shit" on the marinara monitor.

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my bff/former partner just moved to NYC to live with a family member.

this family member has turned out to NOT be safe AT ALL.

if U r in NYC and can put up a 43yr old trans masc enby for a day or two PLZ respond here or DM me

theyve only been in NYC 2 days they urgently need help

Steve Kornacki: New Gen Z poll shows clear divide on Israel-Palestine NBC News chief data analyst Steve Kornacki breaks down a new NBC News Decision Desk poll for Meet the Press showing Americans are evenly divided in their sympathies between Israelis and Palestinians, ...

A new NBC News Decision Desk poll shows that 75% of all Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israelis.

It also shows that 74% of all of Gen Z, total, sympathizes more with Palestinians than with the Israelis.

Abby Martin Went to Israel: It's Worse Than You Think "The whole world has to isolate this rogue apartheid genocidal maniac serial-killing pathological-lying state."

@abbymartin.bsky.social via peaceandplanetnews.org

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L: A young W B Yeats wearing pince nez and a large bow tie. R: A middle-aged Aleister Crowley wearing a large (possibly homburg) black hat and the ‘I’m mad, me’ expression that he always put on for photos

Ah! 19 April – 126th anniversary of the day William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley downstairs as they fought for control of the British branch of the not-at-all-ridiculous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Battle of Blythe Road. According to legend, anyway... 🧵

Centrists will tell you that the Civil Rights movement was a coalition of willing centrists, but no it wasn't. It required real fucking pain & was often obstructed by people who were more dedicated to order than justice. I think there's a name for those people.

Jewish trauma is real.

The Holocaust was real.

Antisemitism is real.

And none of that makes the genocide of the Palestinians and Lebanese any less real.

French MPs withdrew a bill against 'new forms of antisemitism' after 700,000 people signed a petition opposing it. The bill would have effectively banned criticism of zionism and israel. It is an attempt to weaponise antisemitism to shield the apartheid ethnostate of israel from criticism.

Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire ‘The world thinks Palestinians don’t need help any more,’ aid organiser says, despite desperate need as winter nears

The idea that Gaza fundraisers are scams is a self soothing lie liberals on this site tell each other to make it easier to ignore the genocide.

Ignore them if you will, but actively working to make it harder to get the resources they need does make the complicit in genocide.

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LIVE: Iran Forces Lebanon Ceasefire. Will Trump Restrain Israel? YouTube video by BreakThrough News

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"Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there."

- Ralof 3:16

I can no longer use the word gender in any federally funded research. As Butler cogently argues, the goal “is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate gender as a concept” altogether.

Steven Pinker Doesn’t Know Anything About Marxism Bill Gates’ favorite writer keeps spewing out lazy clichés about Marxism being a “disaster” whenever it’s “implemented.” But he’s way off-base, and Marx deserves better critics.

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“Getting it Wrong”: The First City-Funded Shelter Focused on the Trans Community is a Nightmare — Assigned Mariah Lopez, Executive Director of S.T.A.R.R., continues to fight for justice in the New York City shelter system conditions for trans clients and employees alike.

In NYC, a shelter for trans people experiencing homelessness should be a godsend to the most vulnerable members of our community, but issues including predatory cis men lying their way in have made it a nightmare.

And @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn't answering activists' emails...

Death rate in immigration detention has reached a 22-year-high, raising physicians' concerns A report in the medical journal JAMA said the most recent spike in deaths took place in a system with “longstanding failures” that were compounded by Trump administration policies.

New research published in the medical journal JAMA on deaths in ICE custody shows that “systemic weakness” in medical care at the agency has become more serious in the past two decades, physicians say.

DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the research.

Fierce resistance confronts Israel’s Lebanon invasion, with Jon Elmer YouTube video by The Electronic Intifada

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Seen in this context, the prospect of deradicalization is nothing more than a forlorn hope for avoiding the harsh reality, which is the following: The only way Israel can ensure how the Gaza Strip will be governed, and who will govern it, is to govern it itself. Moreover, the only way Israel can govern the Gaza Strip without becoming an external oppressor of "another people" is to remove "the other people" from the confines of the Gaza Strip itself. This is the only feasible path to durable deradicalization of Gaza. This is not radical right-wing radicalism. It is merely sound and sober political science. The writer spent seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli defense establishment, is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies, a member of the Israel Defense & Security Forum

Open call for the full ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on the Jerusalem Post.

This is Israeli political culture, and as the author note: “This is not radical right-wing radicalism. It is merely sound and sober political science.”

Genocide as as a science.

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Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor.

The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.