Liberals hate Republicans until one of those Republicans wants to endorse their right-wing Democratic candidate

Whether it’s Sanders, AOC, Novara Media or Jacobin, the left institutions of their era turned out to be socially, culturally and dispositionally conservative. They set back the left globally because they have been successful at repackaging reactionary politics with a lefty sheen.

Thought he was gonna say Israel fr

Creepy to think a lot of the people from the airport protests during Trump are now “Madame President”ing someone who’s openly promised to be tougher on migrants than him

With the 9/11 slogan “never forget,” this piece explores what it is Americans forget (or are asked to forget) about US foreign policy thenib.com/what-we-forget/

For those precious few interested in a politics of substance rather than form, a great assessment of last night’s presidential debate.

One of the most memorable lessons I got in an undergrad classroom was a careful analysis of how Bill Clinton won not one but two elections by courting the Republican right. Today’s students are learning the same lesson in real time.

People kept talking about the Pelosification of AOC when what ended up happening was the Cheneyfication.

What do we make of campus culture’s obsession with electoralism as the singular way to “do” politics?

So many who can see through anti-Palestinian propaganda in mainstream media/academia refuse to apply the same critical lens to other perversions cooked up by empire

Dems prefer elected officials who show up consistently. To break the rail strike, for instance, or oppose single payer healthcare, or funnel multibillion dollar weapons packages to genocidal regimes. You may not agree with their actions but at least they’re *present*

I’m old enough to remember him throwing Corbyn under the bus

A world class city where shoddy construction near your home will destroy it while you sleep and the mayor will approve a basketball arena sure to decimate historic Chinatown #philly

people saying “they’ll use this on us next” “they’re the testing ground” “when this happens to us remember this” and mind you it’s happening to people literally right now?? where’s that “i think you guys might be thinking about yourselves too much” meme

Philadelphians are getting a lesson in the futility of the tools of “democracy” (calling your elected officials, mass demonstrations, speaking at town halls, petitioning city council) taught in civics class when dealing with a government designed to serve capital.

You betta thank a union memba for withholding an endorsement from two right wing candidates

Murtaza Hussein is like if you cloned Mehdi in a lab but the technology wasn’t quite there yet

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The US plans to execute an innocent person knowingly, Marcellus Williams, and they did the same with Troy Davis not long ago.