/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>491503
How can i write to him myself?

https://x.com/ProudSocialist/status/2001697364130832484
Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing has concluded with a bombshell from Luigi’s lawyer:

The cops lied and made up that Luigi’s mom said “it’s something she could see him doing.”

She never said that. They fabricated this statement to try to implicate Luigi.

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/2016967807859380537
BREAKING: A Minnesota man reportedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail in New York by impersonating an FBI agent, per ABC

BREAKING: Judge TOSSES Death Penalty Against Luigi Mangione
Status Coup reporter JT Cestkowski reported on the breaking news that a Judge has tossed the death penalty as a possibility in the case against Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Status Coup has been the LEADING NEWS OUTLET covering the Luigi Mangione case throughout 2025 and now 2026 and we would like to cover his trial—which is expected to begin in October—ON THE GROUND.

>>492751
This is not a good look.
The DA fucked this one up.

BreakThrough News:
TODAY: Over 100,000 people in San Francisco took the streets against ICE today as part of the nationwide shutdown, flooding Mission Dolores Park in the Mission District, a historic Latino neighborhood.

Over 100 businesses in the Bay Area shut down for the day, and the shutdown was called by union leaders, students, and faith leaders.

https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/2017421891078590532

>>494178
https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/2017448781210439779
Massive anti-ICE demonstrations and student walkouts across the country took place as part of the nationwide shutdown in solidarity with Minneapolis. Growing calls for an expanded strike began earlier this week in the wake of Saturday's killing of Alex Pretti by CBP.

https://x.com/pslnational/status/2017299792464921013
Footage from Marietta High School in GA this morning shows hundreds of students being physically blocked by administrators from engaging in a student-organized walkout in defense of immigrants and all people being terrorized by ICE. Reportedly the superintendent of the Marietta Schools system attempted to physically restrain students as students demanded to assert their constitutionally protected first amendment rights to assemble and peacefully protest.

This despicable behavior of intimidation and harassment of students by school administrators should be condemned by all and they will be held accountable! We stand with the thousands of students across Georgia courageously walking out of classes today in protest of the racist mass deportation machine!

https://x.com/anthonycabassa/status/2017424190044049638
Riot cops fire "less than lethal" rounds into anti-ICE demonstration in LA.

https://x.com/BTnewsroom/status/2017427032334868840
Tens of thousands in Tucscon, AZ joined the nationwide shut down to demand ICE out of Arizona. Organizers say this is the largest protest in recent memory.

Nerdeen Kiswani:
This is deeply disturbing and not enough people are talking about it.

Zohran Mamdani just went to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens, venerating the founder of the racist, Zionist Chabad movement.

The Rebbe’s movement has a long history that should make anyone pause. In 1991 a car in his motorcade killed 7‑year-old Gavin Cato, a Black Caribbean child in Crown Heights. The first ambulance to arrive was Jewish Hatzalah, which took the Jewish driver and passengers before treating the child, who was killed by the motorcade. The Rebbe never apologized or took responsibility.

Fast forward to April 2025: Chabad invited far-right Israeli Minister Itamar Ben‑Gvir to their Brooklyn headquarters. Outside, a mob of Orthodox men chanted “death to Arabs,” surrounded and chased a woman they thought was a protester, threatened her with rape, kicked her, hurled cones and trash cans, and another Jewish supporter of Palestine was hospitalized with a bloody head wound. Hundreds followed her for blocks before police got her to safety.

Chabad-Lubavitch is actively cheering on and materially supporting the Israeli military. Branches have raised tens of thousands of dollars for the IDF, a Chabad charity in the U.K. was officially warned for buying military equipment for soldiers, and senior rabbis in Israel lobbied the government on war policies and settlements, framing military action as religiously mandated. Their “Moshiach” messaging and flags are everywhere — on Israeli tanks in Gaza and across NYC streets — signaling a messianic justification for this violence.

So Mamdani is venerating the leader of a sect that:
• is politically and rabidly pro-Israel,
• has tolerated violent, anti-Arab racism,
• never reckoned with a racist tragedy in its own motorcade,
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>>492796
https://www.cpusa.org/article/as-the-far-right-grows-so-should-the-all-peoples-front/
As the far right grows, so should the all-people’s front – Communist Party USA


The few socialist legislators serving in Washington, D.C., and Albany, NY, who refuse all capitalist contributions are the exception — some capitalist funding goes to nearly every progressive legislator.

Communist candidates cannot accept money from billionaires and monopolies. But we can’t impose our position on every progressive and left-of-center liberal candidate. If we do, we will end up with only a few candidates to support. The task of halting the extreme right requires a much broader electoral front. How does our Party march side by side with anti–extreme-right elected officials from a capitalist party? Primarily through the mass movements, nearly all of which are involved in every election we have.

Our tactics must jibe with our strategy. What exactly do we mean by “tactics”? Lenin answered, “By the Party’s tactics we mean the Party’s political conduct, or the character, direction, and methods of its political activity” (Two Tactics). At the least, we must not be sectarian. Instead, we should be broad in our approach. We should not hammer on the shortcomings of elements of the all-people’s front. Many forces of the front do that already; there is no need for us to pile on. Communists, more than any other political force, must work to build up the coalitions involved.

This is true especially after primary elections are over and voters face the choice of a decent liberal candidate or an extreme rightist. Harsh criticism of a Democratic candidate, who will either defeat or lose to an extreme-right Republican, serves no positive purpose. Some on the left think they must cleanse their brains and souls by telling the masses how flawed the better candidate is. In an age of rampant misinformation, which hits people from many sides, this is an especially poor tactic. Nearly half of the population gets its news sometimes or often from social media (most likely Facebook) (Pew Research). Watch segments from the three cable “news” networks — Fox, Newsmax, and One America News. See which stories they pound on and which Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

https://x.com/KlonnyPin_Gosch/status/2006874926762840119
WTF did I say. Straight out the gate, Ziohran issues an Exec Order that appears to give Commish Tisch license to establish “no protest zones” including 60 ft perimeters around houses of worship during “non-religious activities” to protect freedom of speech (meaning settlement recruitment drives at synagogues), the exact proposal that Rabbi Schneier of Westhampton Beach was lobbying the transition team to impose lmfao. They’re basically going to proscribe protesting outside Isntreal related events held in synagogues, dress it up as combatting antisemitism, while also pantomiming enshrining free speech by creating designated corrals out of the way where people can hold their signs in a non-intrusive fashion, out of the sight of the aggrieved genocidaires, god forbid they be challenged or have their street view blotted out by angry people…

Incredible. Just as I predicted.

>>492628
DSA has no leash on its candidates because it doesn't run them on their party ticket. Their condemnation and lobbying of their former darling AOC has done nothing to her. They just provide free canvassing for Democrats who hold their cards, that's it. That's all they are.

https://x.com/NerdeenKiswani/status/2017308387466203466
Nerdeen Kiswani via Twitter - Mamdani applauded the cops who shot a 22 year old Bangladeshi man going through a mental health crisis. They then detained the family, took their phones away, demanded passwords and didn’t allow them to go to the hospital to see him. They called 911 for medical help, not NYPD.

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/2016986072505340114
AbbyMartin visits Alex Pretti's vigil in Minneapolis and calls on the public to join the national strike this Friday against ICE to disrupt capital and the bipartisan killing machine of US imperialism

PSL National:
We support the call from Minnesota-based Black and Somali student organizations — on Friday, January 30, join the national day of action to say ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE!

Last Friday, people from all walks of life came together in the Twin Cities and all across Minnesota had a day of “no work, no school, no shopping” and shut it down. It captured the imagination of the whole country. They’ve shown the way for all of us — to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN. What happened in Minnesota can happen across the entire country.

Now is the decisive moment. The Minnesota General Strike has given us a historic opening. If we all take a stand now, we can stop the killings and the kidnappings, and end Trump’s war on our most basic rights!

Make a plan. Organize your people. Stay tuned for actions this January 30 around the country.

MintPress News:
Meta began blocking users from sharing links to ICE List, a database that compiles the names, photos, and roles of thousands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents.

Users on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads reported that attempts to post the site’s URLs result in error messages stating the content “goes against our Community Standards”.

The site’s founder, Dominick Skinner, noted that links had been shared without issue for over six months, but the block was implemented overnight following the site’s increased viral attention after a data leak involving 4,500 DHS employees.

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone stated the links violate policies against sharing or soliciting Personally Identifiable Information (PII), specifically targeting data about "government IDs of law enforcement, military, or security personnel".

>>494159
THIS is AI slop.

https://x.com/CallaWalsh/status/2013555472108810432
Ansarallah leader: “Because the Kurds tied their entire reality to the Americans, trusted them…here they are, selling them to al-Julani… This is a lesson for those who take heed and for those who tie their fate to the Americans and believe that they are protected.”

>>493850
Full:
A Lesson

Because the Kurds tied their entire situation to the American, trusted in him, and considered themselves safe from any harm, here he is selling them to al-Jolani and leaving them as easy prey that doesn't even possess claws. And this is a lesson for those who take heed, and for those who tie their fate to the American and believe they are protected.

And likewise, what is happening with the Europeans regarding Danish Greenland and the insistence on taking a land that is supposed to be under American protection and the protection of the NATO alliance. But there is no protection for those who pawn themselves to the American, even if they are European with blond hair.

ISIS flags flowing Syria after US-backed rampage
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate explain how the military assault by the new Syrian government of former Al Qaeda leader Ahmad Al-Sharaa has opened the door for a resurgence of ISIS after removing the Kurdish SDF from the country's strategically significant northeast region.

They point out that the military campaign was approved by the Trump administration, which has embraced Al-Sharaa even as it demonizes what it calls "radical Islam."

Al-Sharaa meets Putin as Russia seeks to secure military bases in Syria
Kremlin has not indicated whether it will agree to al-Sharaa’s repeated requests for Bashar al-Assad’s extradition.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow as the latter seeks to shore up Russia’s presence in the country, including militarily, just over a year after al-Sharaa ousted Russia’s former ally, Bashar al-Assad.

Speaking at a news conference before their meeting on Wednesday, al-Sharaa thanked Putin for supporting unity in Syria and what he said was the “historic” role Russia had played in the “stability of the region”.

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Putin and al-Sharaa spent more than a decade on opposing sides of Syria’s civil war, prompting concerns in Moscow about the future of Russia’s military presence there.

Before the talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “the presence of our soldiers in Syria” would be discussed. They are stationed at the Khmeimim airbase and the Tartous naval base in Syria’s Mediterranean coastal region.

Earlier this week, Russia reportedly withdrew its forces from the Qamishli airport in Kurdish-held northeastern Syria, leaving it with only its two Mediterranean bases – now its only military outposts outside the former Soviet Union.

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Russian forces have reportedly begun a rapid withdrawal from their military outpost at Qamishli airport in north-east Syria. The pullout occurred just as Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in Moscow for a state visit on 28 January 2026, to discuss the future of Russia's remaining military presence.

Analysts suggest Putin is sacrificing isolated outposts like Qamishli to secure long-term rights to the more vital Hmeimim airbase and Tartus naval base on Syria's Mediterranean coast. Despite the "conciliatory tone" of recent talks, Russia's continued sheltering of Bashar al-Assad in Moscow remains a major sticking point, as Sharaa has repeatedly requested his extradition.

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MintPress News

>>494133
You couldn't have posted this in >>493397 or >>491673 or >>493952 or >>487075?

>a meeting of ISIS groupies
yeah no thank you

>>494138
I guess I could have posted it in USApol since it covers multiple topics related to that, but I didn't. Sorry!

>>494139
You mean the White House or the IMF?

>Tim Heidecker, comedian
lolwut

Indication That Alex Pretti Was Known to Federal Agents Raises New Questions Over Protester ‘Database’
CNN reported Tuesday that Pretti, the Minneapolis nurse who was fatally shot by Border Patrol agents while acting as a legal observer and trying to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed by one officer, was known to federal officers before his killing last weekend. About a week earlier, he had been tackled by a group of agents who broke his rib when he was protesting the detention of a community member.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/protest-database

Officers confront protesters at Texas facility as lawmaker visits father, son detained in Minnesota
As protesters moved closer to the facility in the small town of Dilley, Texas state police officers arrived on a school bus and shouted instructions for the crowd to move back. Some of the officers then deployed pepper balls, dispersing the crowd. Castro later posted a picture on social media of his visit with 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-crockett-ice-5yearold-minneapolis-27d8a75f2e51a18d97933b5ae99adf10

‘Do Your Job!’: Protesters Gather Outside Walz’s Office to Demand Criminal Charges for Trump’s Killer Agents
“We are demanding that they bring charges against the killer officers,” said Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for Minnesota, which organized the protest. “We want the identity of the officers. We know the federal government is not investigating. They are lying to the American people. They are denying us justice. It is time for the state to do their job.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/tim-walz-ice-protest

Alabama inmate activists from an Oscar-nominated film are moved to solitary, attorneys say
Sledd said she has been able to talk to Poole once since the transfer and he told her the men are being held in separate cells on an isolated and closely guardePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Ice Storm | Chapo Trap House
Episode 1005 - Ice Storm (1/26/26)
Will and Felix talk about the horrific killing of Alex Pretti. We talk about the execution, the man Alex was, why the right despises him, the inspiring response of the people of Minnesota, and reasons to hope that we haven’t irreversibly opened the gates of Hell. We also talk about the public responses, ranging from the bizarre justifications from Mike Cernovich and JD Vance to Sohrab Amari’s attempt at aloofness to the [???] from Tom Friedman. Plus: Marie Glusenkamp Perez dealing the shittiest weed in the world.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/1005-ice-storm-12626

The ACLU Wants to Shrink Workers’ Speech Protections
Back in 2024, I wrote about a curious case at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in which the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was pursuing exotic legal theories that would, if adopted by the NLRB or courts, curtail the rights of workers across the country. This included the theory that the then–general counsel of the NLRB, Jennifer Abruzzo, was illegally appointed and the theory that the NLRB must defer to private arbitration proceedings even in the absence of a collective-bargaining agreement. The former theory would have invalidated a large amount of precedent established by General Counsel Abruzzo, while the latter theory would have allowed employers to limit the rights of workers to pursue unfair labor practice charges at the NLRB. The ACLU was pursuing these theories as part of a scorched-earth effort to not provide back pay and reinstatement to one of its former employees, Katherine Oh. Oh, along with her coworkers, had criticized the way certain managers treated employees and the ACLU fired her in response to those criticisms. In firing her, the ACLU claimed that Oh, who is herself nonwhite, was being racist by criticizing her likewise nonwhite bosses even though her statements contained no racial content at all. Both a private arbitrator and an NLRB administrative law judge (ALJ) have since ruled in favor of Oh and against the ACLU. The arbitrator ruled that, in firing Oh, the ACLU had violated its own just-cause termination policy, while the ALJ ruled that, in firing Oh, the ACLU had violated Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act. DespiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

TYBNA

No reason to defend biji biji anymore lmao

REGIME CHANGE 2.0 | Target Tehran | Tariff overdose | Greenland summit | Starmer U-turns | Lira RIP
🔥 REGIME CHANGE 2.0 — the drums of war are beating again, and George Galloway is LIVE to expose it. As Washington sharpens its focus on Tehran, tariffs choke economies, Greenland re-enters imperial fantasy, and global instability accelerates, tonight’s edition of The Mother of All Talk Shows confronts the most dangerous phase yet of Western power politics.

The new year opens with familiar tactics in a new form: sanctions as weapons, propaganda as cover, and “regime change” repackaged for a fractured world. From Iran to Ukraine, Gaza to Venezuela, George examines whether 2026 is heading towards outright global war.

🇮🇷 LIVE FROM TEHRAN — Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor at the University of Tehran and one of the most authoritative voices on Iran–US relations, joins George direct from Iran. As tensions rise and threats multiply, Prof. Marandi explains how Tehran is reading Trump’s moves, the risk of escalation, Israel’s role, and what an attack on Iran would really mean for the region and the world.

⚖️ HERE COMES THE JUDGE — Judge Andrew Napolitano, host of Judging Freedom and former Senior Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, returns to MOATS to dissect the legality of regime change, tariffs, sanctions, war powers, NATO expansion, and whether the West has abandoned international law altogether.

Tonight’s programme covers:
– Regime Change 2.0 and the renewed targeting of Tehran
– Trump, Israel, Mossad and the Iran pressure campaign
– Tariff overdose and economic warfare
– Greenland summit fantasies and imperial overreach
– Starmer U-turns and the collapse of Western credibility
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BLACKMAIL | Pay up or Greenland gets it I Trump tariff threat | Blair ‘rules’ Gaza | Harry’s war
💣 BLACKMAIL — Pay up or else. George Galloway is LIVE as Donald Trump issues a stark warning to Europe: pay the tariffs, or Greenland gets it. As power politics turn brazen, Gaza is “ruled” from afar, ICE tightens its grip inside the United States, and war rhetoric escalates across multiple fronts, tonight’s edition of The Mother of All Talk Shows exposes the coercion, hypocrisy, and danger shaping the world in real time.

🌍 Global blackmail is back — and it’s no longer subtle. From Trump’s tariff threats and imperial fantasies to Western complicity in Gaza and the silencing of dissent, George opens with a forensic monologue on a world where pressure replaces diplomacy and force replaces law.

🇷🇺 Chay Bowes — political commentator and geopolitical analyst — joins George to break down Russian Rules, NATO propaganda, Ukraine, the Western media narrative collapse, and how the balance of power is shifting despite everything we’re told. As Washington and Brussels lose credibility, Bowes explains who is really winning the information war.

🇵🇸 Dr Annelle Rodriguez Sheline — former US State Department official and Middle East research fellow at the Quincy Institute — returns to MOATS to dissect Gaza, Blair’s role, US policy failures, and why Washington’s Middle East strategy is collapsing under its own contradictions. A rare insider’s view of how policy is made — and why it keeps failing.

Tonight’s programme covers:
– BLACKMAIL: Trump’s tariff threat — pay up or Greenland gets it
– The return of imperial pressure politics
– Blair “ruling” Gaza and Western double standards
– ICE, repression, and fear inside the United States
– Ukraine, Russia and the propaganda war
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TRUMPLAND | It’s a matter of time | Deadline Davos | RIP Old World Order | Terrible beauty is born
🌍 Welcome to TRUMPLAND.
The old world order is collapsing — and something new, dangerous, and unpredictable is being born.

On The Mother of All Talk Shows, George Galloway dissects a rapidly accelerating global crisis as Donald Trump’s return to power sends shockwaves through Washington, Europe, the Middle East — and beyond.

Is Greenland next?
Is Davos finished?
And is the post-war global system finally dead?

Tonight’s show breaks down the economic, military, and geopolitical consequences of Trump’s second coming — from Trumponomics to war, from Gaza to the Arctic, from Wall Street to the battlefield.

🎖 Ret. Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar joins live with a frontline war report, bringing firsthand insight into US military thinking, the Gaza humanitarian crisis, and the expanding conflict zones now pulling the world toward confrontation.

📉 Professor Richard Wolff, world-renowned economist and author, delivers a devastating analysis of Trumponomics, global capitalism in crisis, and why the economic foundations of the Western world are cracking under pressure.
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ROGUE STATE: Trump, Gaza, Davos — War, Power and the Collapse of the Global System | MOATS LIVE
🌍 The world is sliding into chaos — and tonight on MOATS we confront it head-on.
From Gaza to Davos, from Washington to Beijing, power is being rewritten in real time. Donald Trump’s return to the centre of global politics, the collapse of old alliances, and the failure of international institutions have ushered in a dangerous new era. This is ROGUE STATE.

🎙️ George Galloway opens with a searing monologue on war, empire, and the breakdown of the so-called “rules-based international order” — as elites gather in Davos while the world burns.

🎖️ Scott Ritter — former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector — delivers his unflinching War Report, analysing Ukraine, NATO, Russia, Gaza, Iran, and the accelerating march toward global confrontation. What is really driving the wars of 2026, and who is losing control?

🌏 US–China relations under the microscope with Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order. As Washington hardens its stance on Beijing, is the world heading for a permanent economic and strategic fracture — or something worse?

📱 Gayatri Galloway brings you the Social Media News Update, tracking the stories going viral as governments struggle to control the narrative.

📞 Your calls live from around the world — the voices you won’t hear on the mainstream media.

IRAN ARMADA | Trump war threats | ICE melting | Ukraine peace deal stalled | Starmer in China
🚨 | BREAKING NEWS: Iran and Trump on the brink. Is war inevitable now?

Tonight on The Mother of All Talk Shows, George Galloway takes on a world sliding towards disorder — and asks who is really in control.

As Donald Trump appears to retreat under pressure at home, the US immigration system is in open crisis, protests rage, and the machinery of enforcement begins to fracture. Meanwhile, an Iranian naval armada moves into position, the war in Ukraine reaches a critical moment, and Western unity looks increasingly fragile.

Joining George tonight:

🔴 Jeffrey D. Sachs — Professor of Economics at Columbia University and UN Policy Adviser — on global power, war, diplomacy, and the accelerating collapse of the international system.

🔴 Craig Murray — former UK Ambassador — on Venezuela, lawfare, state secrecy, and how Western governments suppress dissent at home and abroad.

From Washington to Tehran, Kiev to Beijing, and Westminster to Caracas — this is HOMELAND, and nothing is as it seems.

Trump says US Justice Department ‘looking at’ Ilhan Omar’s wealth
“Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me,” Trump wrote in a social media post. “Separately, a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive 20 Billion Dollar, Plus, Welfare Fraud that has taken place in Minnesota, and is at least partially responsible for the violent organised protests going on in the streets.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/26/trump-says-justice-department-looking-at-ilhan-omars-wealth
https://archive.ph/OwTM5

Funding deal begins to unravel as Senate Democrats vow to oppose DHS bill over Alex Pretti shooting in Minnesota
Six of the 12 annual spending bills for the current budget year have been signed into law by President Donald Trump. Six more are awaiting action in the Senate, despite a revolt from House Democrats and mounting calls for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s impeachment.
https://apnews.com/article/senate-democrats-homeland-security-funding-government-shutdown-f727fa0f3865990f191d4d5770e04752

Feds yank contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton after Trump tax leak
The Department of the Treasury said Monday that it is canceling all contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton after a former contractor who worked for the consulting firm leaked tax information belonging to thousands of people, including President Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/treasury-department-booz-allen-hamilton-trump-tax-leak/

As LA maternity wards close, patients are giving birth in ERs: ‘There’s no system to care for these women’
Los Angeles county has seen at least five maternity wards close since 2023 and 16 since 2014. As these maternity wards have shuttered, the county has seen a rise in emergency room visits and admissions from people for labor and delivery. From 2016 to 2023, Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

Episode 517: Sex, Lie, and Videotape (TrueAnon )
We talk through a series of court cases featuring the enigmatic Kyrsten Sinema, Betar USA, and the surge of ICE agents in the Twin Cities and beyond.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-517-sex-148853040

The Right to Abortion in Puerto Rico Is Under Threat
Abortion is legal in Puerto Rico … for now. But Governor Jennifer Gonzalez recently signed a law establishing legal personhood of a fetus from the moment of conception. The law gives the fetus similar personhood rights as an unborn child. For example, the mother can claim the child to get financial benefits or name it as her heir. Since Roe v. Wade was overturned in the United States in 2022, several measures to restrict abortion have been introduced in Puerto Rico, though none had previously succeeded. Abortion remains technically protected under the right to privacy in the island’s Constitution. However, feminist groups and activists are mobilizing and are warning that laws like this threaten abortion rights. On December 22, the Coalition Aborto Libre Puerto Rico (Free Abortion Puerto Rico) called for a pañuelazo (a mass demonstration for abortion rights, specifically in Latin America, where activists gather to publicly raise and wear green bandanas) in rejection of this law. Building off the Marea Verde movement in Latin America for abortion rights, protesters called for the protection of women rights and denounced how the state is dismantling immigrant and LGBTQ+ rights.
https://www.leftvoice.org/the-right-to-abortion-in-puerto-rico-is-under-threat/

On the Minneapolis General Strike: Now is the Time of Praxis
People have taken to the streets. The city of Minneapolis has declared a strike—the first general strike in decades. It is a victory for our organizational capacity and shows that we are not outnumbered, merely out-organized. How many children will the soldiers of the Epstein regime kidnap before people rise up in arms? This number remains to be known. But we can know this: the sleeping bear of labor has awoken from its slumber.The people, the masses, the working members of this nation, are sickPost too long. Click here to view the full text.