/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Puerto Rico drops climate lawsuit after DoJ sues states to block threats to big oil
Puerto Rico’s lawsuit, filed in July, alleged that the oil and gas giants had misled the public about the climate dangers associated with their products. It came as part of a wave of litigation filed by dozens of US states, cities and municipalities in recent years.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/puerto-rico-climate-lawsuit-trump

More than 25 protesters arrested after taking over University of Washington building
More than 25 people were arrested after a group occupied an academic building at the University of Washington, demanding the school sever ties with Boeing as the war in Gaza continues, according to the university and a spokesperson for the group.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/protesters-university-washington-building/story?id=121505881

UFW Members Detained by ICE; U.S. in Talks with African Nations over Accepting Deportees
In western New York, advocates are demanding the release of a group of labor leaders and members of the United Farm Workers who were taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a raid Friday. At least 14 employees of Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms were arrested that day and are now being jailed at an ICE facility in the city of Batavia
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/6/headlines/ufw_members_detained_by_ice_us_in_talks_with_african_nations_over_accepting_deportees

Senate confirms Trump's pick to run Social Security amid upheaval at the agency
Bisignano, a donor to President Trump and the former CEO of payments technology company Fiserv, will lead the federal agency that runs programs providing retirement, survivor and disability benefits, as well as supplemental income for the very poor.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5357629/social-security-administration-frank-bisignano-confirmed

Sen. John Fetterman dismisses claims from former staffer that he's on a 'bad trajectory'
“John frequently exhibits the kind of alarming behavior you told us to look out for when he was discharged (and has continued to do so since we last talked in December),” Jentleson wrote. “But the main thing I want to raise with you is that John appears to be off his recovery plan — at least mostly off it, and possibly entirely off it.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/john-fetterman-dismisses-claims-former-staffer-bad-trajectory-rcna205208

Not just Alcatraz: the notorious US prisons Trump is already reopening
While California lawmakers swiftly dismissed the Alcatraz announcement as “not serious” and a distraction, the Trump administration’s efforts to reopen other scandal-plagued facilities are well under way or already complete, in partnership with for-profit prison corporations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/06/alcatraz-trump-immigration-plan-prisons

Religious school reprieve from NY education standards to be included in state budget
The state education department approved substantial equivalency regulations in 2022 and has spent the intervening years implementing a process for private schools to demonstrate compliance. That work has been particularly controversial for some yeshivas – schools run for and by the Orthodox Jewish community – where a state investigation found in 2023 that some offer little to no instruction in English, math and other non-religious topics.
https://gothamist.com/news/new-york-yeshivas-education-standards-budget
https://archive.ph/F2yXS

Officials in a Mississippi county settle lawsuit filed by 2 Black men tortured by deputies
Rankin County officials announced last week that they had settled a lawsuit filed by Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker—who were brutalized by sheriff’s deputies in 2023—for $2.5 million.
https://apnews.com/us-news/mississippi-michael-jenkins-eddie-terrell-parker-lawsuits-law-enforcement-7173cee79fcbcbd89216a6fc03088378

Episode 456: Multilevel Marketing Madness(TrueAnon)
Bridget Read joins us to discuss her new book Little Bosses Everywhere .We talk through the post-2020 explosion of MLMs, the specifically American history of pyramid schemes, guru charisma, dark accounting magick, and more.
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/multilevel-marketing-madness

Communist Party of Pakistan: Down with chauvinism and war hysteria, long live proletarian internationalism
The escalating hostilities between India and Pakistan deliberately intensified to evoke war hysteria and precipitate a potential military confrontation are profoundly detrimental to the interests of the peace-seeking masses in both nations. The Communist Party of Pakistan registers its deep apprehension regarding this deteriorating situation. In a communiqué issued by the Central Committee, the Party unequivocally condemns the recent act of terrorism in Pahalgam, in which innocent tourists were brutally slain. The statement asserts that stoking bellicose sentiments and transforming tensions into armed conflict would be catastrophic for both states. War begets nothing but ruin. For Pakistan, already ensnared in a debt-ravaged economy and subsisting on loans from the IMF and other predatory financial institutions, the consequences would be even more devastating.
https://www.idcommunism.com/2025/05/communist-party-of-pakistan-down-with-chauvinism-and-war-hysteria-long-live-proletarian-internationalism.html

The RIAA's Full Frontal Assault on Archive.org
They're launching a full-frontal assault on Archive.org. The record company—well, technically the RIAA, the Recording Industry Association of America—is behind it. They’re suing Archive.org for $700 million. Nearly a billion dollars.
"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly." —Aldous Huxley
Why? Because Archive.org digitized and is now hosting a bunch of 78 RPM records from the 1920s. These recordings would be lost to time—accessible only to hardcore collectors—if not for Archive.org. You can’t buy them. You can’t stream them. They weren’t available anywhere, until now. Many of them were literally considered lost media before being digitized and archived. These are wax records. Obsolete. They’re ancient—old as hell. And now the RIAA is suing Archive.org for $700 million, using this as a pretext to dismantle the entire platform, including the Wayback Machine. Let’s get real. If you use the internet, you’ve used Archive.org. It’s become a foundational layer of digital culture and history. Say you’re doing a research project and want to see what Nintendo’s website looked like when the DS launched—what the marketing was like back then. Archive.org can show you that. The Wayback Machine can take you there. Hell, I once lost code from my own website. Guess who had the backup? Not me—them. I used the Wayback Machine to retrieve it. That makes them invaluable. But the record companies don’t care. They want Archive.org gone. Why? Because corporations crave absolute control over the past, over the narrative, over what people can see, learn, and hear. Control equals profit. If the only music you're allowed to access is locked behind a paywall—or limited to the corporate-approved "classics" from 1980 onwards—they win.
https://erikhoudini.com/#post?id=942221&title=the-riaa-s-full-frontal-assault-on-archive-org

Whelp, first the book publishers attempted to extract their pound of flesh from archive.org. Sadly not enough people paid attention and the precedent was set. Now come the other hordes of idea monopolists to try and undo the last 30 years of computing.

>>489352 (OP)
Why didn't Vietnam leave behind a communist Cambodia?

>>489366
Probably for the same reason Vietnam isn't communist today.

>>489354
>They’re suing Archive.org for $700 million. Nearly a billion dollars.
Yeah those loony damage-claims prove they're clearly making it up as they go along. We have to conclude it's just a type of mafia that has hacked the legal system for an extortion racket.

>But the record companies don’t care. They want Archive.org gone. Why? Because corporations crave absolute control over the past, over the narrative, over what people can see, learn, and hear. Control equals profit. If the only music you're allowed to access is locked behind a paywall—or limited to the corporate-approved "classics" from 1980 onwards—they win.
You are not wrong about their intentions. But consider that the Internet Archive is an attempt at coexisting. They don't necessarily win, by making coexistence impossible.

>>489365
>Now come the other hordes of idea monopolists to try and undo the last 30 years of computing.
This struggle has been going on for millennia, and we keep getting our Libraries burned down. We keep inventing new ways to store and distribute information and they keep destroying it. The Internet has come very close to solving the problem, but maybe there's still something we need to figure out.