BREAKING: Two sources tell @theprospect that the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration has asked for a plan for cuts to 50% of the workforce, including at the 1,200 field offices that serve millions of beneficiaries.

👉🏿I am shocked and revolted listening to Donald Trump Jr say: “I honestly can’t imagine that anyone in their right mind would be picking Ukraine as an ally when Russia is the other option. The US should have been sending weapons to Russia”

NEW: In an email obtained by The Bulwark, the acting Social Security administrator made clear they're going to outsource-privatize operations. The expectation is it will be the call centers that seniors depend on. with Joe Perticone thebulwark.com/p/elon-is-comi…

“Any casual observer of the Supreme Court can see what many prestigious constitutional lawyers can’t, which is that the conservative justices are frequently accomplices to Trump’s assault on democracy,” writes Adam Serwer 🍝. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Did anything bad happen after it was ignored?

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Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Happy birthday to Paul Robeson — pro athlete, actor, singer, civil rights activist, and socialist — born on this day in 1898. When he traveled abroad, Robeson made a point to sing for workers. Here he is performing ‘Joe Hill’ to Scottish miners in 1949.

3/3 Bush's Blunder by Mark Greenberg July 2, 2002 prospect.org/features/bush-… drive.google.com/file/d/1DC8Z9i… Atlanta Rey #DisabilityRebellion Dr Jay Watts Revolution Breeze Disability News Service Disability Rights UK DPAC Sam Disabled Man #CareNotCuts Margaret R. Somers #WelfareNotWarfare

BREAKING: French dock workers in Fos-sur-Mer refused today to load machine gun ammo destined for Israel's army

My two thoughts on this are: 1) If every Dem would talk like this, the party might be a real opposition 2) It's shameful that some Dems have been more focused on using their platforms to demonize/undermine this guy than on fighting Trump

The GOP has officially passed the largest wealth transfer in US history. $975 billion in income tax breaks for the 1%, the largest cut to food stamps in history, a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid, and many more acts of class warfare.

Important point:

Happy Fourth of July, cry my beloved country!

“What to the slave is 4th of July?” By Frederick Douglass, read by James Earl Jones.

Of course, the Medicaid and SNAP cuts are appropriately getting the most attention. But almost lost has been the dramatic expansion of ICE, dwarfing every other law-enforcement agency combined. I had feared a private Trump vigilante force. Much worse. An official one.

On July 4, 1901, socialist luminary and labor agitator Eugene V. Debs proclaimed in a fiery speech: "I like the Fourth of July. It breathes a spirit of revolution." We reprint the fiercely anticapitalist address here in full. jacobin.com/2020/07/eugene…

🚨 Netanyahu is coming to Washington D.C. Join us to make sure this wanted war criminal is not welcome! 🗓️ SUNDAY 6th & MONDAY 7th JULY ⏰ 6PM 📍 WHITE HOUSE, 17 & PENNSYLVANIA NW RSVP ⬇️

New issue! Volume 5, Issue 3 of the Journal of Law and Political Economy. Read it here: escholarship.org/uc/lawandpolit… This issue on features articles by Abigail Faust, Shireen Morris, Margaret R. Somers, and Michael Swerdlow, and reviews by frankpasquale.bsky.social or [email protected] and Lucas Osborne.

Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a