the newest political tweets thread (3/26)

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Nazia Kazi@NaziaKaziTweets
News-reading Americans know about Yemen war plans being leaked on a Signal chat. How many of them know Obama’s bombing of Yemen led to the largest modern cholera outbreak in US history? That destroying Yemen has been a commitment of “both” parties for over a decade?

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Joshua Citarella is an interesting guy. I’ve watched several of his interview-podcasts recently. He’s an artist and a socialist and he writes a lot about…I dunno how to describe it…kinda about young people online who have lost faith in the political system.

Anyway, here he talks about one of his little books about the memes online leftists have created after the first trump term.

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I heard historian Roy Casagranda (who i listen to a lot) say this:
“In 1973, the top 1 percent had 8 percent of the wealth, today the top 1 percent makes 40 percent of the wealth…and then the next 15 percent make another 40, so the top 16 percent of amerika make 80 percent of the wealth…”

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Casagranda is asked why the labor movement didnt win the fight to keep all the new deal stuff going. Why the shift to the Right in the US?

(starts at 48 min)

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Alac Karatkatsansis on copaganda

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The Onion doesn't miss. pic.twitter.com/6u3YDktqwl

— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) June 20, 2025

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Imperialism

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I heard historian Roy Casagranda (who i listen to a lot) say this:
“In 1973, the top 1 percent had 8 percent of the wealth, today the top 1 percent makes 40 percent of the wealth…and then the next 15 percent make another 40, so the top 16 percent of amerika make 80 percent of the wealth…”

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Casagranda is my hero…… America peaked in 1973.

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joemad wrote:

Casagranda is my hero…… America peaked in 1973.

Yeah, i love him too. He came outta nowhere for me. I’m watching his vid on the Apaches this week. (He does go on too many long digressions for my taste, though.)

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…i wonder about this all the time. This point here at about the 24 minute mark, or so. That America is so full of layers and layers of propaganda, PR, Advertising, Lies, that the most sensible default-state to be in is: insanity.

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…if nothing else its worth listening to 5 minutes or so, starting around the 32 minute mark of that ‘Insane’ vid. Ya got Bannon yakking about the playbook that was developed back in 1905…

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Sigh. I basically agree with Russell Dobular here. (from ‘Due Dissedence’ part of the ‘dirtbag left’) I set it to play at the 1:07 mark where he makes a little speech. Such a dark view, but i share it, fwiw.

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Javier Bardem. (maybe, my favorite actor, btw)

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/javier-bardem-gaza-genocide-palestine-film-workers-1236518172/
Javier Bardem Says ‘Free Palestine’ on Emmys Red Carpet and ‘I Can’t Work With Someone That Justifies or Supports the Genocide’

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wv wrote:

Sigh. I basically agree with Russell Dobular here. (from ‘Due Dissedence’ part of the ‘dirtbag left’) I set it to play at the 1:07 mark where he makes a little speech. Such a dark view, but i share it, fwiw.

Yeah, I share that view, too. I don’t know why that view isn’t more widespread. There have been plenty of articles on this. The techno-feudalists say this stuff out loud. Their intentions are clearly documented from multiple sources, from multiple points in time. They even say it on camera. And, as was pointed out, they control everything already. At this point, I’m not sure what they’re waiting for. They see most of us as a threat to their survival, and their need for our labor, as he said, is diminished significantly. And the left is not organized, and never will be. It requires leadership, and leaders don’t survive. They capitulate, or they die. Not much of a choice.

Meanwhile, they have everybody at each other’s throats over a dozen trans athletes.

There is zero chance of avoiding the dystopia they have carefully prepared for, and I don’t know what they’re waiting for at this point. AI to develop a bit more? Some civil disturbances? Maybe they’re fine hiding behind the facade of democracy until that ultimately gives way. I dunno. But the future is bleak.

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There is zero chance of avoiding the dystopia they have carefully prepared for, and I don’t know what they’re waiting for at this point. AI to develop a bit more? Some civil disturbances? Maybe they’re fine hiding behind the facade of democracy until that ultimately gives way. I dunno. But the future is bleak.

The future is bleak but the resistance is coming from some blue state governors. Apparently the national democratic party establishment doesn’t control those guys.

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Apparently there is a general strike in Italy over the gaza genocide. Of course you have to search non-mainstream sources to find any info on it.

Imagine how the American future would look if the left had been able to…uh…exist, and organize general strikes, etc.

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https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/italy-faces-nationwide-strike-over-gaza-several-sectors-affected/3694709
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Italy on Monday is experiencing a general strike over the situation in Gaza, which affects many sectors, including transportation, schools, and public services, news agency ANSA reported.

Workers across Italy went on strike following calls from grassroots trade unions to protest the situation in Gaza, with demonstrations held in several cities, including Genoa, Livorno, Milan, Rome, and Bologna.

The general strike, which began at midnight and continues till late Monday, is disrupting multiple sectors, particularly local public transport and railways, schools, public services, and ports.

The USB union called for “the immediate break-off of relations with the terrorist state of Israel, which is the concrete way in which Italy can, and must, react to the genocide that is taking place.”

Protesters disrupted ports in Genoa and Livorno, blocked university lecture halls in Bologna, marched in Milan to show support for a Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, while triggering train cancellations in Rome and the closure of Milan’s M4 metro line as part of nationwide strikes.

“In Italy, the general strike has shut down train lines, ports, highways, schools & shops. With a genocide ongoing, there can be NO business as usual. Stay peaceful, everyone. Do not react to any provocation. Freedom for all allows no mistakes,” the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, also said through the US social media company X.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has been carrying out a genocide in Gaza, which has so far killed nearly 65,300 Palestinians, most of them women and children.

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Zooey wrote:

Yeah, I share that view, too…

Meanwhile, they have everybody at each other’s throats over a dozen trans athletes.

There is zero chance of avoiding the dystopia…

I dunno. But the future is bleak.

Yeah. Its a strange psychological-space to be in. So many weird aspects.

Living in a very-red-state, and watching the effects of decades of mountains of propaganda on Americans is….well…i have no more words.

There’s no escape. I just finished a book by Susan Casey. (ive read all her books) This one was about the Deep Ocean. (Billionaires have been building little deep-ocean submarines that they carry on their yachts.) She has many chapters on the mysteries and beauty of the Abyss. So much incredible life down there. People think of the ocean floor as kinda empty but the bio-mass is unbelievable. Anyway, then she has a chapter on what the corporations have planned for the ocean floor. Deep ocean dredging. Like mountain top mining only in the ocean. And huge nets to scoop up all the tiny life. And liquify it. To feed cows and things. What could possibly go wrong if corporations suck up all the tiny life in the ocean.

The people of the Earth will be affected in ways that defy description. But they have no say in any of this. The laws on this are enough to make you faceplant for a lifetime. I could go on. And this is just one tiny aspect of ‘the situation’.

Interesting times.

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The future is bleak but the resistance is coming from some blue state governors. Apparently the national democratic party establishment doesn’t control those guys.

I see only Gavin Newsom. And I see him mostly just defending the interests of the Democrat Party.

He has done some meaningful things, however. The alliance with Oregon and Washington to form the West Coast Health Alliance to protect people from Trump’s destruction of the CDC is important and valuable. He has also sued the feds (and won – at least for now) over its illegal use of the military as a police force. There are other examples.

He is not fighting the overall system, though. He’s still a shitlib. He backed off trans rights, and he intervened to kill a bill for universal health care within California that would have passed in the state government without his personal opposition to it. I think of him as an old school Democrat. Massively better than what we have now, but I dunno if he will ever take on Thiel and his psychopathic band of delusional sociopaths, or even do anything that alters our society’s trajectory.

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Billionaires have been building little deep-ocean submarines that they carry on their yachts.

I would be surprised if those yachts don’t also have full-equipped “hospitals,” and hydroponic gardens. Just like their bunkers.

They are prepared for the collapse and the mayhem that follows, whatever the precipitating event happens to be.

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Jimmy Kimmel on the FCC guy. (i dont even know when Jimmy Kimmel is on tv. I am assuming he’s a late night host. I guess, like most old people i stopped watching tv when Johnny Carson called it quits)

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I like hearing from what i call ‘baby leftists’. Ie, people who have recently figured it out.
This lady named Amanda Seales made me smile. She’s ornery and entertaining.

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Sometimes Cory is funny.

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Just somethin that interested me. Changes in Vietnam government. Might wanna give it two-minute listen, or so.

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On the liklihood of the new dem-socialist NY Mayor going ‘balls to the wall’ on socialist policies…
(started at 2 hour 40 min. mark)

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NY Post
https://nypost.com/2025/11/10/us-news/communist-student-elected-to-ithaca-common-council/
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Upstate NY city one-ups Zohran Mamdani by electing Communist student, 20

By Anthony Blair
Published Nov. 10, 2025

The leaves aren’t the only reds upstate this fall.

After Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won last week’s New York mayoral race, an upstate city has gone one better by electing a full-blown Communist.

Hannah Shvets, 20, a student organizer and member of the Communist Party USA, was elected to the Ithaca Common Council on Thursday in the Democratic stronghold’s Fifth Ward, which covers the western half of Cornell University’s campus in the city.

Shvets, a Democrat and Cornell sophomore, defeated independent candidate and former Democratic primary hopeful G.P. Zurenda after winning the endorsement of groups that include the Ithaca branch of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Ithaca Tenants Union.

Shvets has also participated in numerous anti-Israel protests since Hamas’ attack on the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023, according to left-wing outlet People’s World, which celebrated her victory.

Four out of 10 seats on the Ithaca Common Council were occupied by Cornell students ahead of Nov. 4’s election.

Among her ambitious pledges were raising the minimum wage to $25 an hour — just under the $30-an-hour figure promised by Mamdani — and adopting a just-cause employment policy that would make it far harder for employers to fire workers without good reason.

Similar to Mamdani, she campaigned on protecting rent-stabilized tenants from eviction except on grounds allowed by law.

“I just think it’s really important now to bring together issues of affordability and issues of justice. We need to find ways to make Ithaca a place in which both locals and students can live and afford to live and thrive,” the Austin, Texas-born Shvets said, as reported by the Ithaca Voice.

Shvets’ campaign did not respond immediately to requests for comment.

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