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Two things to remember when an AI pusher calls you a Luddite 1-The Luddites were a movement by skilled textile workers that smashed machines as a protest tactic to get better labor conditions from exploitive factories 2-The Luddites failed because the bosses had them killed

I don't care who you are, what your opinions are about policing: You should be outraged that the Mayor of NYC, Eric Adams, is demanding major cuts to the budget of NYC Public Libraries when *a single day of the NYPD budget could make up the difference.* x.com/jacobin/status…

This is just the best

Dakota riders on horseback brave bitter December weather to travel hundreds of miles to honor 38 men hanged in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. MPR News n.pr/3BXBcBo

As Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan pretends to apologize—remember—SW got a $7B federal bailout, spent $5.6B of that on Stock Buybacks, gave their CEO a raise to $9.1M,& forced frontline workers to 16 hour shifts under threat of termination—while spending $0 updating their software😳

Y’all still out here letting the elected officials tell y’all how to “celebrate” #MLK Day? How about we listen to our ancestor!

Construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway required the forcible displacement of tens of thousands of people across the two boroughs. Designed by Robert Moses, the highway cut a nearly 15-mile gash through some of the most densely populated neighborhoods on the planet.

Don't share the video & traumatize people in your lives. Send love to Tyre Nichols' family & NEVER stop calling for justice. Cops killed more people last yr than any other year. Don't tell us to be peaceful. We're angry & scared. We're fighting for our lives & our families.

When a #FreightTrain carrying toxic chemicals derailed near #EastPalestine, #Ohio, bursting into flame and sending up clouds of poisonous vinyl chloride smoke and gas, our immediate concerns were for the people in harm's way and the train's crew: nytimes.com/2023/02/04/us/… 1/

Today, on WEB Du Bois's birthday, I stumbled across this fascinating passage from Herbert Aptheker: "It is worth noting . . . there is good evidence that Lenin's studies of the U.S. made him the debtor of the labors of WEB Du Bois, though neither man knew this at the time... 1/8

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To deflect from his crimes, Donald Trump is attacking ColorOfChange for supporting progressive prosecutors. He posted a video naming Color of Change and philanthropist George Soros, and violent threats against Color of Change have followed predictably. 🧵

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

Neely’s last words were literally about how going to jail was easier than accessing the social safety net support to get back on his feet and lead a life. Yet leaders want to raise his record as if that warrants a public execution on the subway? What have we come to?

A migrant fisherman-turned-politician takes on European overfishing in Africa’s waters after successfully winning a seat in Spanish regional elections. Find out more about Serigne's story here: aje.io/Serigne

Richard Pryor talks about why media executives censored his shows, to blunt his message of working class unity, and how maintaining racism to keep people divided is intrinsic to capitalism

Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, gets millions in tax breaks while arguing that the IRS shouldn't give Americans free tax filing. The company gets “research” tax breaks that might be bigger than what it would cost the IRS to provide free filing. Link: itep.org/intuit-tax-bre…

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