/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Trump administration celebrates rise in self-deportations: ‘We’re seeing sky-high levels of reverse migration’
By losing their legal status, many migrants will find themselves without work, and some may want to return to their home countries. However, the majority will likely remain in the United States despite their fears. Lawyers caution that the decision to leave voluntarily should be carefully weighed, as the official narrative surrounding a potential return may be misleading.
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-02/trump-administration-celebrates-rise-in-self-deportations-were-seeing-sky-high-levels-of-reverse-migration.html
https://archive.ph/YbEZO

Democrats’ win in Wisconsin court race also is a big loss for Elon Musk
Musk and his affiliated groups sunk $21 million into flipping the Wisconsin Supreme Court to conservative control, only to see his candidate defeated by 10 percentage points on Tuesday. The losing margin was four points larger than that of the only other Republican on the same statewide ballot, who was not tied to Musk’s money.
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-81f71cdda271827ae281a77072a26bad

US judge throws out corruption case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams
A United States federal judge has permanently dismissed corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, even as he criticised the Trump administration’s argument that the case should be dropped because it was hindering the Democratic politician’s help with an immigration crackdown.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/2/us-judge-throws-out-corruption-case-against-nyc-mayor-eric-adams
https://archive.ph/H6Svh

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Celebrate the New People’s Army on its 56th Anniversary!
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) greets the New People’s Army (NPA) on its 56th Anniversary on March 29, 2025. For almost six decades, the NPA has fought eight bureaucrat-capitalist, pro-imperialist and landlord-controlled regimes, exemplifying the Filipino people’s spirit of courage and determination for democracy and independence. In the tradition of the Katipunan, the NPA started as a small, poorly-armed force in 1969. But with the support of the oppressed and exploited Filipino people, it grew into a force so formidable that the semi-colonial and semi-feudal ruling state considered it the number one threat to its power.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/18056/

With Section 230 Repeal, Dems and Media Offer Trump New Censorship Tools
In a move that threatens to constrain online communication, congressional Democrats are partnering with their Republican counterparts to repeal a niche but crucial internet law. According to tech trade publication the Information (3/21/25), Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.) has allied with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) to reintroduce a bill that would repeal Section 230, a provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Section 230 dictates that when unlawful speech occurs online, the only party responsible is the speaker, not the hosting website or app or any party that shared the content in question. Section 230 grants platforms the ability to moderate without shouldering legal liability, a power that has historically had the effect of encouraging judicious content management (Techdirt, 6/23/20). Additionally, it indemnifies ordinary internet users against most civil suits for actions like forwarding email, sharing photos or videos, or hosting online reviews. Dissolving the provision would reassign legal responsibility to websites and third parties, empowering a Trump-helmed federal government to force online platforms to stifle, or promote, certain speech. While the ostensible purpose of the repeal, according to Durbin, is to “protect kids online,” it’s far more likely to give the Trump White House carte blanche to advance its ultra-reactionary political agenda.
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>>488496
People were furious with the Zionist for enabling a genocide, attacking democratic rights and journalism.
>With Section 230 Repeal, Dems and Media Offer Trump New Censorship Tools
Now People will get even angrier because the Zionists are also fucking with the internet.
Even people who previously didn't care about what happens in far away lands will now be given reason to oppose Zionism.

The political lesson we are learning is that freedom of speech has been violated unless there's proof that censorship is not possible.

I literally thought OP's pic was holding a bunch of bongs.

>>488524
That's how they get u

Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation case must continue in New Jersey
The ruling does not guarantee that Khalil will be moved out of a detention facility in Louisiana, where he is being held as the government seeks his deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel. But it will allow his attorneys to make their arguments for his release before a judge in New Jersey.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/mahmoud-khalil-case-new-jersey

Major union launches ad campaign featuring detained Tufts student
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents nearly 2 million members in the United States and Canada, is launching digital ads and projections on buildings in Washington, D.C., and other cities, according to details of the campaign shared first with The Hill.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5225863-tufts-student-detained-union-ad-campaign/
https://archive.ph/EFsfi

Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison
Abrego Garcia, who attorneys say fled gang violence in El Salvador more than a decade ago, had been identified by his wife in a photo of detainees entering intake at El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison CECOT.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/maryland-father-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador-prison/index.html
https://archive.ph/2ROL5

US Supreme Court weighs law on suing Palestinian authorities over attacks
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This State Is For Sale
If you own a Fortune 500 business, you probably incorporated it in Delaware. The state has long been favored by corporate America, offering tax-benefits and a bespoke, pre-Revolutionary War court system tailored to business needs. But now Delaware’s standing as the country’s top corporate haven is under attack. This week on Lever Time, senior podcast producer Arjun Singh sits down with The Lever’s Katya Schwenk and Luke Goldstein to learn why the tiny East Coast state has been corporate America's haven for decades. But there’s more to the story. Why are other states now battling to seize its title — and how does it impact the rest of us? And how is the involvement of Elon Musk making everything worse? The Lever's reporting explains why Delaware is ground zero in the national oligarch takeover and why what happens in Delaware doesn’t stay in Delaware. It means corporate deregulation from coast to coast.
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_9069_31bafb1a-dd4a-46d9-90ec-92f9beda0df0&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F9069%2Ffeed-rss.xml

Get out of the state of shock! – On the automobile crisis
On the 20th of December 2024, VW’s works council and management agreed on an austerity programme that, among other things, would result in the elimination of 35,000 jobs by 2030 – most of the jobs will be cut in ‘too expensive’ factories in Germany. The production of the VW Golf is to be moved entirely to Mexico. Job cuts are also intensifying among suppliers, and are reaching machine and plant manufacturers (Kuka Augsburg). Mercedes wants to double the share of production in low-wage countries from 15 to 30 per cent – in Kecskemét, Hungary, costs are claimed to be 70 per cent lower than in Germany. In 2023, an hour’s work in Hungary cost 12.80 Euros, compared to 41.80 in Germany. At nine per cent, corporate tax is lower than anywhere else in the EU. In addition, Orbán subsidises Audi, BMW and Volkswagen with hundreds of millions of Euros. The country is attracting people from Kazakhstan and Mongolia to counteract the shortage of labour and rising wages.
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>>488470
>The tragedy of Syria: ‘multipolarity’ fails to substitute for anti-imperialism
While this is true, i'm not entirely sure the Soviets would have protected Syria either if they had been busy with a war in Ukraine.

Also during the last 20 to 30 years, Arab nationalism was less effective at counter hegemonic activities than para-state groups like Hezbollah or the Houties. The only exception is Iran where it's gone the other way. Maybe it being such a large country is the reason.

Prince Andrew sex accuser Virginia Guiffre ‘has days to live’ after ‘car crash’
Sex trafficking victim Virginia Guiffre has claimed she has ‘four days to live’ after being hit by a bus.

The woman abused by Jeffrey Epstein as a teenager, and who has also accused Prince Andrew, shared a photo of herself lying in a hospital bed coverered in bruises.

Bidding farewell to her loved ones ones, mum-of-three Ms Guiffre wrote on Instagram: ‘This year has been the worst start to a new year, but I won’t bore anyone with the details but I think it important to note that when a school bus driver comes at you driving 110km as we were slowing for a turn that no matter what your car is made of it might as well be a tin can.

‘I’ve gone into kidney renal failure, they’ve given me four days to live, transferring me to a specialist hospital in urology.

‘I’m ready to go, just not until I see my babies one last time, but you know what they say about wishes. ST in one hand and wish in the other & I guarantee it’s still going to be st at the end of the day.

‘Thank you all for being the wonderful people of the world and for being a great part of my life. Godbless you all xx Virginia’.

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>>488445
So Andrew Prince has conspired to get Virginia Guiffre assassinated by car accident.
Am i understanding the implication correctly ?

>>488446
There are a lot of people who would want to kill her actually.

>>488448
Oh right, because she was a sex-slave on Epstein's sex-island. And she could say who all those rich and powerful people were that raped her.

>>488445
Due Dissidence on the Virginia Giuffre story

>>488411
>China lays down the law in facial recognition first with focus on privacy, security
I wish that biometrics would go away entirely, but privacy regs are a good start.

Eventually face-id will get relentlessly exploited, because it's like people having their password tattooed on their forehead. And then we can go to cryptographic keys stored on tokens, which will work like regular keys except that it's more convenient, because you can have lots of keys on one token instead of a cluttered key-ring, also lock picking will get a lot more complicated.

>>488414
Le Pen is a french politician irc (not sure what her politics are) , so is this a maneuver to politically neutralize her ?

Or is this for real and she got caught with the hand in the cookie jar ?

>>488423
>Le Pen is a french politician irc (not sure what her politics are)
She's a Nazi or close lol
>Or is this for real and she got caught with the hand in the cookie jar ?
Idk read the article and tell us.

>>488431
>Idk read the article and tell us.
Admittedly I didn't read it yet, i might later, I'm hesitant because the guardian might contain too much ruling ideology which could cause me mental irritation.

Anyway Melenchon (which is lefty or at least socdem) said he opposed it because the people should decide about political leadership, not the courts.

Alexander Mercuris' take is that this will boost Le Pen's political popularity. He also thinks that if Le Pen is embezzling funds then the ruling parties are most likely doing it too, and that this would damage the law, because it would loose political impartiality.

I'm wondering if this isn't the point, maybe the goal is to boost Le Pen and to damage trust in legal institutions. With an eye on the genocide in Gaza the current political leadership in France might have an incentive to damage the legal system.

>>488364
no

>>488235
That's entitled as fuck, first of all no one said this board is for English speakers only, no one is obligated to give you shit, and second of all that's super lazy considering that every browser can auto-translate a website, and deepseek is free.

>>488265
>first of all no one said this board is for English speakers only
rofl who is the entitled one here? Someone expecting English communication on an obviously English-speaking forum, or someone assuming we all ought to be able to read and understand Arabic? Where do you think you are?

>>488267
sir this is مجلس شيوعي شرقي

>>488330
Wow so true sister. OP should've just translated the entire thing

>>475051
kids named capitalists:

>>475051
I think the idea is that states live in anarchy with each other. They want the opposite of this that is one state enforcing rules to other states.

>>479399
>one state enforcing rules to other states.
The world's a sphere, can't be done. Even ignoring the complications of geography, sphere's will produce at least 2 major centers of power. Power projection diminishes with distance to the center and if you live on the surface on a sphere, you get 2 optimal spots for a center of power. If you add in geography you probably get between 5 to 7.

>states live in anarchy with each other
Unification by power of Dominion can't solve this, we need to find a different way.

Maybe the offices of politicians need to have globes.

<"freedom and democracy"
>you're either at work or in prison
>no one can influence public policy
I miss the times when this narrative was believable.

>>479399
this is the standard realist position, the dominant position
id argue that the US is the global state, though this may be changing
often we call "authoritarianism" or "dictatorships" are actually forms of anarchy, a lawless system of laws where disorder becomes a tool of control
what they call the "rules-based international order" might in practice be a reflection of that

>the Turkish section of the International Committee of the Fourth International
Is this a real organization or… a couple guys in an apartment that wooswoos wants us to think are really important?

>>488255
idk

>>481855
>Assange was up for several days redacting before release to avoid information that might get informants killed.
So even if shit got out later, Assange clearly acted in good faith.

>and you better believe the Vault7 leaks were damaging as fuck to the CIA.
Idk, a public release is far from the worst scenario. The CIA gets to see that too and realize what's compromised, and likely react fast enough to do a lot of damage controle. If somebody wanted to inflict more damage they would release the information that compromises operational security to the CIA's opponents but not the public.

>It's what prompted them to plot assassination and eventually forced Assange out of the embassy.
IMHO going after Assange was not rational, it confirmed the accuracy of the information, the rational thing to do was to deny that the released information was authentic. As a spy agency the best thing is secrecy, the second best thing is ambiguity.

So Assange went back to Europe to speak about his case to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today. He's surprisingly sharp after years in solitary confinement. He mentioned journalists killed in Gaza and Ukraine several times. Aside from Gonzalo Lyra I'm not aware of any other journalists who have been targeted in Ukraine.

>>484648
>He's surprisingly sharp
I wasn't surprised about that tbh, but yes his intellect hasn't been diminished by the ordeal.

>He mentioned journalists killed in Gaza and Ukraine several times. Aside from Gonzalo Lyra I'm not aware of any other journalists who have been targeted in Ukraine.
I think that might be a language bias. Lyra probably was one of the few that published in English. Most of the journalists there probably were Ukrainian and they published in their local language. But yeah the Zelensky regime went fascist, they banned most of the media, abandoned any pretense of democracy when they stopped doing elections, and they're basically snatching people off the streets, usually for military conscription but also political persecution. So they probably murdered a bunch of regime critical journalists too.

Former Spanish military man who spied on Assange for the CIA is investigated for falsifying evidence
A Madrid court opens a probe into why the owner of a security company tried to blame the former ambassador of Ecuador, now deceased, for ordering wiretaps against the WikiLeaks founder

A new legal battle has begun for David Morales, a former Spanish military man who spied on Julian Assange for the CIA during the latter’s time at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Madrid Court No. 43 is officially investigating Morales — who is the owner of UC Global S.L., the company that was in charge of security at the Ecuadorian embassy in London — for allegedly falsifying official documents and committing procedural fraud. Judge Fernando Fernández Olmedo has summoned Morales to testify as a suspect, according to court documents obtained by EL PAÍS.

The former marine allegedly forged official documents and evidence to defend himself before National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz, who is investigating him in a separate case for other crimes, including recording the WikiLeaks founder’s conversations with his lawyers inside the diplomatic mission in violation of attorney-client privilege. The spying took place as the Australian’s legal team was designing its defense strategy against the U.S. extradition request.

The opening of new proceedings at a Madrid courthouse comes after Judge Pedraz recused himself and asked the Madrid courts to investigate Morales for alleged forgery of official documents and procedural fraud. Court No. 43 has accepted Pedraz’s recusal and opened proceedings against Morales.

Since his arrest in September 2019, Morales has denied any involvement in the wiretaps against Assange, but months later, he reversed his statements and told Judge José de la Mata (the first judge to oversee the case at the National Court) that it was the former Ecuadorian ambassador to London, Carlos Abad, who had ordered him to record the conversations of the Australian cyberactivist. This confession came a few weeks after the diplomat’s death.

Microphones
To bolster his testimony, the former military officer presented as evidence, among others, an alleged email from former ambassador Abad, dated January 27, 2018, in which he asked Morales to place a microphone in the Embassy meeting room. Morales asserted that the device was only placed for testing and then removed. This vePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>488146
Interesting write up, I wonder how that character went from Spanish military to cia spook. This also poses the indirect question how do you make rights actually stick, if even embassies aren't safe from shitfuckery

Riots in Romania

>Ryan Grim
Surely there's a better source for this scam. The Duran boys talked about this a lot right as it was going down. A better comparison would be when one of those scammers (Fusion GPS?) involved in the initial Russiagate fabrications was caught trying to astroturf bad PR about a Republican congressional candidate around 2017 using fake Facebook posts.

>>488096
>The Duran boys
Who?

>>488097
These guys.

>>488096
>better comparison would be when one of those scammers (Fusion GPS?) involved in the initial Russiagate fabrications was caught trying to astroturf bad PR about a Republican congressional candidate around 2017 using fake Facebook posts.
By the way, does anyone remember what I'm talking about here? I'd really like to find this story again because I think this was very much the template for the Romania scam.