/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/2075382818838814973
Officials in Auburn, California, are panicking after a mysterious group of people stole the majority of their Flock cameras and threw them into a nearby canal.

The incidents are continuing, and they have no idea how to stop them from happening again.

"They're completely destroyed."

"There's a big uproar regarding government camera surveillance."

Lindsey Graham is dead.

https://x.com/TheJeffPutnam/status/2076283984825225677
Since Flock loves to track our locations, it only seems fair that we know theirs.

Flock Safety's new GA plant is located at 1885 Mitchell Rd, Smyrna, GA 30082

Flock went to great lengths to keep that address hidden.

That probably means it should be public info.

>>497693
The one act of his career worth celebrating.

US citizen guilty of violating sanctions on Iran
An American citizen has been found guilty of violating US sanctions on Iran by a federal jury in Boston.

Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi was charged with conspiring to unlawfully export electronic components to Iran and was also accused by prosecutors of helping an Iranian business associate get around US export control laws two years ago.

The Massachusetts resident had worked at Analog Devices prior to his arrest in December 2024.

Prosecutors alleged the scheme involved the creation of a front company in Switzerland. Sadeghi was found guilty on three of the five charges.

https://aje.news/9m5azt?update=4766854

According to Donald Trump, "a part of [Lindsey Graham's] body literally blew up."

Under Israeli pressure, US seizes Max Blumenthal’s devices on return from Tehran reporting trip
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal was targeted by an Israeli doxxing outfit and Laura Loomer when he arrived in Iran to report on Khamenei’s funeral and the war. Upon his return, US agents seized his electronic devices and subjected him to interrogation. “Our reporting at The Grayzone has clearly become a problem for this criminal cartel,” he commented.

On July 10, 2026, American journalist Max Blumenthal was traveling back to the United States from Iran, which he had visited to report on the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the largest gathering in human history. While in Iran, Blumenthal interviewed members of Iran’s negotiation team, top political officials, academics and average citizens for a series of video and print reports for this news outlet, which he founded.

He also documented several US and Israeli war crimes from the ground, including the destruction of an entire neighborhood in Eastern Tehran which left at least 40 civilians dead.

Upon reentering the country at Dulles International Airport, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) interrogated Blumenthal about his trip, searched his belongings, and demanded that he provide access to his smart phones. When he refused to open his phones, CBP officers forced him to turn them over for detention. Other journalists and travelers have been threatened with the loss of their passports for a month for failing to hand over their devices.

Blumenthal entered Iran exactly as reporters working for establishment media outlets like CNN and NBC did – on a press visa granted by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. While in Tehran, he participated in official press events alongside those mainstream reporters, who were also in the country to cover the Ayatollah’s funeral. When journalists from CNN, NBC, and other American outlets returned to the US, however, they were not subjected to the same harassment Blumenthal experienced, nor were they required to give the US government their electronic devices.

Blumenthal is a widely recognized journalist in American independent media, with a record of reporting spanning 25 years. He is the author of four books, including a New York Times bestselling volume, and numerous widely viewed documentary films. Having reported from numerous countries and conflict zones around the world, he is the winner of several awards, including the Online Journalism Award and, most recently, the Pierre Sprey Award for Defense Reporting and Analysis.

“It was precisely because of my journalism that I was targeted by the Trump administration,” Blumenthal commented. “The US government is clearly threatened by my reporting from Tehran, where I showed the massive crowds of mourners and ferocious public backlash to the assassination of [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei, exposed US and Israeli war crimes against civilians from the ground, and conducted candid interviews with officials and negotiators. The seizure of my devices was a clear act of intimidation aimed at deterring me and others from doing further critical reporting from Iran about the illegal war ravaging the country, which is likely why my interrogators from CPB demanded to know if I would be returning to Tehran any time soon.”

Jenin Younes, a civil liberties lawyer who serves as President of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), also protested the US government’s seizure of Blumenthal’s devices. “The practice of seizing and searching a journalist’s phone or other electronic devices at the border raises grave First and Fourth amendment concerns,” Younes told The Grayzone. “Absent a legitimate and particularized national security justification, search of phones should not be a condition of entering the country. The Supreme Court has recognized the important privacy interests in modern smart phones, an interest that is not diminished simply because an American is crossing the border. The search and seizure of Blumenthal’s phones is yet more concerning because it appears to be viewpoint based discrimination, given that prominent associates of the current administration have singled him out for condemnation because of his views.”

Targeted by Israeli doxxing outfit and accused predator Laura Loomer for reporting from Tehran

In 2025, Blumenthal traveled to Iran to participate in a public media festival, report on US-Iranian negotiations, and produce a documentary on Iran’s Jewish community. When he returned to Washington, CPB did not demand his electronic devices.

Yet almost as soon as he arrived in Tehran, with the Khamenei funeral underway, Blumenthal was immediately subjected to defamatory attacks by Trump-aligned individuals and Israeli organizations supportive of war on Iran. Leading the charge was Canary Mission, an anonymous doxxing outfit based in Israel, which portrayed Blumenthal as an “extremist” who had traveled to Tehran to “honor” the Ayatollah – when he had, in fact, reported on the funeral as a journalist.

Founded in 2015 to ruin the lives and career prospects of university students involved in Palestine solidarity activity, Canary Mission has since been used by the Trump administration to select international students for arrest and deportation. An investigation by the independent outlet Drop Site revealed that the outfit was based out of an Israeli non-profit called Megamot Shalom. Among the top supporters to Megamot Shalom is the Wexner Foundation. Established by the billionaire lingerie tycoon Les Wexner, the foundation that featured Jeffrey Epstein as a trustee until the wealthy sex offender died in prison under mysterious circumstances.

Laura Loomer, a close ally of President Donald Trump, followed Canary Mission’s lead by calling for the US military to massacre attendees of Khamenei’s funeral, including Blumenthal and all other journalists covering the event. She then smeared Blumenthal as a “shill for Islam and communism” for reporting from Iran. Loomer escalated by wishing for the journalist to be swatted, jailed and denationalized: “I hope you’re raided in a heavily armed raid by the @FBI at 5 am and that @SecRubio [Secretary of State Marco Rubio] strips you of your passport for aiding the Iranian regime as they chant Death to America,” she tweeted at Blumenthal.

An apparent victim of botched facial surgeries, Loomer is credited with compelling Trump to fire numerous holdovers from previous administrations. These include the National Security Council’s top Iran expert, Nate Swanson, who correctly warned that Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz if the US attacked it.

Loomer has functioned as a gun-for hire for unsavory billionaires, lobbying firms, and various Zionist interests, defaming individuals who interfere with their malign objectives. The Orthodox Jewish Medicare fraudster Joseph Schwartz appears to have also hired Loomer to smear the judge ruling in his case as an antisemite. This year, Loomer visited India on a propaganda junket covered by India Today, a newspaper close to the Hindu supremacist BJP party of President Narendra Modi. While there, Loomer paid homage to the Dalai Lama, a longtime CIA asset who has publicly molested children by forcing them to suck his tongue.

For her part, Loomer has been accused of sexual assault by several former associates. These include Alan Jacoby, a MAGA activist who called her a “sexual predator psychopath” who “groped me in the parking lot, grabbing my crotch very aggressively and demanding I come back to her NYC hotel room to engage in some vile descriptive sexual activities.”

Milo Yianoppolous, Loomer’s former friend and communications director, has branded her a “rapist,” telling reporters he severed ties with her after she sexually harassed a young male campaign aide. When Loomer threatened to sue right-wing pundits Lauren Southern and Cassandra Fairbanks for accusing her of sexual assault, Southern responded: “Based on reports that you and I know exist, I think Cass [Fairbanks] and I will be fine.”

Blumenthal commented: “The new architecture of repression is being managed by a collection of knaves, con artists, sex pests, and mass murderers who fear accountability for their crimes. So perhaps it’s not surprising that someone who has been repeatedly accused of vile transgressions, or a propaganda operation of an Israeli government engaged in genocide, could have instigated the Trump administration to treat my journalism as a form of illegal activity. Our reporting at The Grayzone has clearly become a problem for this criminal cartel, and that’s why we have to keep going.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/07/13/israeli-influence-max-blumenthals-devices-tehran-reporting/

Darline Graham Nordone, sister of Lindsey Graham, picked to fulfill remainder of his Senate term

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lindsey Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as her late brother's temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced at a news conference at the Statehouse on Monday that Nordone would serve the remaining months on Graham's current term, which expires in January. A person familiar with the appointment process but not authorized to speak about it publicly said Nardone would be sworn in Wednesday. She will be the first woman to represent the state in the U.S. Senate.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-urges-s-c-governor-to-appoint-sen-grahams-sister-as-temporary-replacement

>>497757
>that picture
>red coat over black shirt
>white pearls
>ladybug-like color scheme
Unironically did Lindsey Graham secretly transition?

>>497757
That's some shocking nepotism. Is the Graham family the only residents of South Carolina?

"Shut This Sh*t Down": Abby Martin PROVES AI Data Centers Are Secret Military Weapons
Friend-of-show Abby Martin, journalist and filmmaker behind the Empire Files, Gaza Fights for Freedom, and Cuba After Castro, returns to Useful Idiots on the premiere day of her bold new film: Earth’s Greatest Enemy.

The new documentary examines how the Pentagon, exempt from international climate agreements or emissions laws and rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting, is the world’s single largest institutional polluter—spewing carbon, contaminating water, and scarring landscapes across the globe.

Martin went deep into Washington as well as into the communities and ecosystems it destroyed in order to expose the truth about the US military and put pressure on its most powerful conspirators, from bought-out politicians like Nancy Pelosi to squirming army officials to corporate profiteers like Palantir’s Alex Karp.

In this interview, Abby recounts the most shocking discoveries she and her team made while unraveling the story and filming where the military didn’t want them to be filming. She also reveals bonus secrets she uncovered that aren’t in the documentary, explains why a movie on such a serious topic is filled with biting gallows humor, and the real way that AI data centers are “going to literally kill us all.”

Trump ‘is a FALSE MESSIAH, and he is your enemy, and HE MUST BE KILLED’ — Florida congressional candidate William Upham

‘There is NO DOUBT in my mind that the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, is the ANTICHRIST’

hi

>>497765
I think there are some other ones. They just need someone to rubberstamp the same shit.

>>497805
He is one of them. Whether he's the final one or not, let God deal with him. It's what He said to do, leave it to Him.

>>497821
Nah that's lazy. Guy has a point.

>>497805
I don't usually mind BS that the White House Twitter account says, but if there are any dumb bullshit fans on right now you might get a kick out of the apparent White House response to the accusation from Christians that Trump is the Antichrist.

https://www.twz.com/land/new-500m-artillery-shell-plant-failed-to-produce-any-155mm-parts

New $500M Artillery Shell Plant Failed To Produce Any 155mm Parts

<A scathing new Pentagon Inspector General report found problems at the plant delayed the Army's 100,000 round-per-month goal.

>The inability of a munitions plant in Mesquite, Texas, to build a key part set back the U.S. Army’s plans for ramping up production of 155mm shells to 100,000 rounds per month, according to a scathing new report by the War Department’s Office of Inspector General (DOWIG). Despite receiving close to $500 million from the U.S. Army funded through supplemental spending bills from Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023, General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS), failed to make a single subcomponent needed to produce the badly needed shells as of last March.

>“Without the 30,000 additional projectile metal parts anticipated from the Mesquite facility, the Army will be unable to reach its monthly capability goal of 100,000 155-mm artillery rounds,” the report concluded. “As of March 2026, the CPE A&E [Capability Program Executive Ammunition & Energetics] officials have not developed a plan to produce the additional rounds that are supposed to be produced at the Mesquite facility.”

<UPDATE: 1:20 PM EDT July 15 –

>GDOTS responded to our request for comment.

>“GDOTS and our U.S. Army customer have reached an agreement on a path forward for the Mesquite facility, which includes additional GDOTS investment to complete the project. We appreciate the collaborative efforts of the U.S. Army in working toward a positive resolution that enables this facility to deliver essential munitions to the U.S. military. For additional information, we refer inquiries to the U.S. Army.”

Lmao

Are we going to fucking jail? Damn man, I know I have talked about the us gov and trump coming for us for years, but, kinda insane that it's really happening. I have been keeping my head low in fear of this for the last 6 months, but, I can't abandon other leftists……but what can be done? Fuck man, i'm shook, ngl.

>>497940
What are you talking about?

>>497941
Trump is starting to go after people on the left under the guise of being agents of communist cuba

>>497940
>what can be done?
Are you in jail yet?
If not: get guns, get bullets. Lots. Store some away where they won't be found.

Do you have any skills? Can you build custom computers, can you program, can you weld, can you do chemistry, can you do home repairs or maintenance or construction? Any of these fields is extremely useful, and you need to set aside some time and money to put them to work for revolutionary purposes.

If you have any unnecessary expenses (subscription services, entertainment, snacks & confections, alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, etc.) then ditch those right away.

Everything that's going on right now was completely predictable 3 years ago when student protesters were mass-arrested, FISA was expanded, a federal court ruled that Biden might be guilty of genocide complicity but that it was outside of a federal court's jurisdiction, the Supreme Court ruled that the president of the United States was basically infallible for anything, even domestically, and the National Guard was deployed to the NYC subway system. And, of course, all of this happened while Trump was being backed by Project 2025 and Project Esther, and was clearly preferred to win by the powers-that-pay-off-both-candidates-in-every-race. Had the American movement taken the writing on the wall with the necessary urgency and responded with the necessary militancy and unity, things would be better today than they are. The same principle applies now.

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/2079604840724939211
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Damon Calls For The Arrest Of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani

He doesn’t explain why, but argues for this simply because Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is being threatened with arrest if he travels to New York.

>>497944
Organizing mass action and solidarity is far more important than hoarding ammo.

>>497942
Examples? Reminder the Biden administration went after the "African People's Socialist Party" for supposed ties to Russia. This crap has been going on since the Russiagate hoax.

>>497965
>Examples?
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-political-terrorism-event-us
Adely, Suzanne: The president of the National Lawyers Guild who participated in the Nuestra América Convoy and who, the report notes, praised Venezuela’s 2024 elections.

Amazon Labor Union: A labor union founded by Christian Smalls that participated in the 2026 Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba.

Antifa: A decentralized group of self-described “Anti-fascist” political activists

Assata’s Daughters: A Chicago-based Black Lives Matter abolitionist offshoot that trains young activists in the radical spirit of Assata Shakur.

Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees (AIPAC): A California-based umbrella nonprofit that funds left-wing media and delegations to Cuba and Venezuela.

Bass, Karen: The current Mayor of Los Angeles and former Congresswoman who was a Venceremos Brigade organizer in the 1970s.

Benjamin, Medea (Susan Benjamin): A co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange who organizes Cuba solidarity efforts.

Black Alliance for Peace: An activist group that maps U.S. military bases and police training facilities as targets for radical agitation.

Black Lives Matter (BLM) (including Global Network Foundation, Grassroots, and at School): A sprawling racial justice network whose leaders and offshoots, the report says, have expressed solidarity with Cuban regime and radical figures like Assata Shakur.

Boudin, Chesa: The former District Attorney of San Francisco and son of Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin.

changingFrequencies: A Black Queer Feminist-led abolitionist project aiming to disrupt waht it calls the “Medical Industrial Complex”.

Claudia Jones School: A Washington, D.C.-based organizing collective that conducts popular education and, the report says, pro-Cuba lobbying.

Code Pink: Women for Peace: A left-wing protest group that describes itself as anti-war and organizes solidarity delegations to Cuba.

Cohen, Ben: The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s who attended the wedding of Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans.

de la Cruz, Claudia: The co-founder of the People’s Forum, IFCO executive director, and 2024 presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

De Los Santos, Manolo: The co-founder and head of the People’s Forum who the report says maintains deep relationships with Cuban regime elites.

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA): A major socialist political organization that has organized official delegations to Cuba.

Ensler, Eve (V): A prominent playwright who attended the wedding of Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans.

Equality for Flatbush: A Brooklyn-based Black Lives Matter abolitionist group fighting gentrification, police, and ICE.

Evans, Jodie: The co-founder of Code Pink who married Neville Roy Singham.

Floyd, George: A Minneapolis man whose 2020 death sparked nationwide uprisings that the report notes were praised by Cuba.

Garza, Alicia: The co-founder of Black Lives Matter who credited Assata Shakur as a key influence in her organizing work.

Goodman, Amy: The host of Democracy Now! who the report notes attended the wedding of Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans.

Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees: An activist group led by Black women that organizes to defend Black migrants and block deportations.

Hirsi, Isra: A campus activist and daughter of Ilhan Omar who was suspended from Barnard College for organizing anti-Israel encampments before traveling to Cuba.

IFCO / Pastors for Peace: An ecumenical foundation that organizes aid caravans to leftist regimes and serves as a fiscal sponsor for numerous radical U.S. groups.

Larudee, Paul: A U.S. citizen based in San Francisco who serves as the North American coordinator for the pro-Iranian “Resistance Axis” coalition Al-Tajammu.

Mamdani, Zohran: Mayor of New York

National Lawyers Guild (NLG): An association of radical lawyers that provides legal defense and “legal observers” for various left-wing groups

National Network on Cuba (NNOC): A coalition of over 60 American groups dedicated to lobbying for Cuba and coordinating nationwide direct actions.

Omar, Ilhan: A Democratic Congresswoman and mother of campus activist Isra Hirsi.

Party for Socialism and Liberation: A leftist political party that fielded a 2024 presidential candidate and conducts protests.

People’s Forum, The: An activist hub for anti-ICE and pro-Cuban agitation.

Piker, Hasan: A streamer and left-wing political commentator who, the report notes, traveled to Cuba to film a documentary and participated in the Nuestra América Convoy.

Pressley, Ayanna: A Democratic Congresswoman who, the report notes, publicly praised convicted murderer Assata Shakur upon her death.

Singham, Neville Roy: A Shanghai-based American technology magnate who funds various left-wing activist groups.

Smalls, Christian: The founder of the Amazon Labor Union who participated in the 2026 Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba.

Thousand Currents: A progressive nonprofit that served as the fiscal sponsor for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.

Villaraigosa, Antonio: A former Mayor of Los Angeles and Speaker of the California Assembly who was a Venceremos Brigade alumnus.

Viva Palestina US: The American branch of an international network that, the report says, previously provided convoys and funds to Hamas.

Waters, Maxine: A Democratic Congresswoman who, the report notes, once wrote a letter urging Fidel Castro not to extradite fugitive Assata Shakur.

Wilson, Diane: A co-founder of Code Pink.

Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective: An organization that runs recurring solidarity delegations to Cuba.

>>497966
>Antifa: A decentralized group of self-described “Anti-fascist” political activists
This one has always been completely meaningless political posturing on Trump's part. "Antifa" isn't an organization, it's just a word, like "terrorist", that can be applied to anyone engaged in a certain kind of activism. Reminder Obama set the stage for this manner of deprivation of basic civil liberties when he signed the 2012 NDAA that included the provision that anyone can be called a belligerent by the US government and detained indefinitely without trial.

>>497966
This appears to just be a blacklist meant to intimidate so far. I'm looking for examples of them actually detaining or prosecuting people.

>>497968
>This one has always been completely meaningless political posturing on Trump's part. "Antifa" isn't an organization, it's just a word, like "terrorist",
These two thoughts are self-contradictory. It makes zero sense to call something "meaningless political posturing" in one sentence and then immediately compare it to the policy of the "war on terror" in the next. The vagueness of the terms themselves is the meaning and the point, and that's why people are right to be worried about it.

>Reminder Obama set the stage for this manner of deprivation of basic civil liberties
It was Bush actually. It would be wrong to say Obama stopped it or didn't actively continue it, but the biggest ramping up occurred under Bush in the '00s. This is a historical fact, but it neither excuses the crime itself nor provides a reasonable excuse for anyone to lay down and take it, nor to take further crimes. The American left has a serious meekness problem.

>>497969
They've been doing this. You can go back to the mass arrests of student protesters in 2024, but there's already (unsurprisingly) a precedent for the Trump admin escalating political repression, particularly against opponents of zionism, see:
>>488052
^which actually contains multiple instances of ICE (an offshoot of the Bush-era invention the DHS) abducting legal residents off the street for anti-genocide activities. That thread doesn't even have all of them, btw, there've been enough of these that keeping up with it in addition to everything else has been difficult - the Ya'akub Vijandre case hasn't been posted about there yet:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/12/photojournalist-detained-ice-social-media
And any case that is discussed is publicized, which means not all of the existing cases are being discussed.

We've also seen Max Blumenthal detained temporarily, and his electronics seized, a member of ACP briefly detained when coming back into the US, and I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a lot of instances because it really seems like I've been hearing about this kind of thing a lot since 2024. I think that people in the U.S. need to understand that they do this stuff and that further escalation is not unlikely, because the response during Bush, and every response since, was inadequate.

>>497964
how long have we been saying this now?

>>497964
Missed you saying this - no, I frankly beg to differ.
Forget "hoarding ammo," there is a high probability that anyone on the left in the U.S. who I make this recommendation to has no ammo whatsoever. The U.S. left lacks guns and does not know how to shoot to this day, and that is a baseline which is easy and cheap to fix for now, but which could become way harder at any time. There isn't a choice between "hoarding ammo" and "organizing mass action," there is a dire situation where the American left will not be prepared for even tiny strategic amounts of revolutionary action or even the most basic self-defense in the amount of time necessary to do any good whatsoever. Hoarding ammo and organizing mass action (of the kind which will adequately address the problem at a large scale) are ambitions, and both are completely valid ambitions, but anyone who thinks either of these is attainable within a reasonable amount of time is living in a fantasy world; these aren't the options in front of us any more than hoarding a nuclear stockpile is.

With this in mind, my step one is to arm, because I know that many people are not doing this. In fact, in the United States, it's very common for "socialists" to spend what little money they accrue on hedonism - treats, drinks, drugs, luxuries, games, movies, art, fancy stuff. Anyone who is really concerned about the state of things in this country will get nothing out of all that, but will be more equipped to deal with the worsening situation if they are armed. An organization made up of armed people is automatically more powerful than an organization of disarmed people, regardless of whether those people armed first and then joined the organization - and so, I recommend that those who have not yet joined an organization, and who may not live where an organization already flourishes, to arm. I recommend that they also start or join an organization, and express solidarity towards those other workers who oppose the state of things, but they must arm. There's no excuse not to, and the better armed they are, the better, and the more practice they get shooting, the better, so their aim will be improved.

Hoarding ammo isn't a good idea in humid climates, even with dehumidifiers and dessicants. I sold everything except for a handgun and varmint rifle since I don't hunt anymore. I miss my compound bow with peep sights and silencers more than any long gun, though. Fishing is more practical with a better return on investment. If youse want to belong to orgs or clubs to make yourself a target it's up to you. But the reason the far right has higher numbers than the left isn't so much organization but sloth aided by algorithms. They binge watch bodycam/ dashcam footage and get linked to maga pig slop. The same happens with food and music 'reaction' channels. The European tourist "reaction" channels give the far right the impression of solidarity by feeding the reactionary impulse and ideation of American exceptionalism and supremacy.

>>497982
>But the reason the far right has higher numbers than the left isn't so much organization but sloth aided by algorithms.
It's true that algorithms push (and I say push, because it actually isn't just down to them getting recommended stuff they already like, the algorithms of western "tech" companies actively push "right wing" shit, I know because I don't watch any of it but still get "recommended" a bunch of it by the algorithms) fascist stuff, but I disagree about the first half of this sentence. I think it's unproven that the far right actually has higher numbers than the left; what the far right do have is institutional backing, more money, greater militancy, and largely unchecked violence. All of this, but especially the institutional backing and larger amount of money, gives an impression of a group which is much larger and more prevalent than it is; this itself is a tactic, and you can see it on the small scale with the historic "Swarmfront" strategy, or on a larger scale with the JIDF, the Maccabee Task Force, and US intelligence influence operations.

The American left would gain a lot from organization, whether public or not, and I think that clandestine organization would still be necessary even for American leftists who are nervous about joining orgs publicly. So while my first recommendation is "arm," I think that writing off organization as a means to increase the collective power of working people, is a bad idea.

>>497983
All fair points, but perhaps existing orgs need to be retooled and new orgs are needed. The so-called right is fueled by 'casual' reactionaries for the aforementioned reasons in that it gives them a sense of community and solidarity which overshadows their own material conditions, hence voting against what would otherwise benefit them personally. If the left could effectively clarify reality it might make some converts and turn the tide.

>>497987
To illustrate my point, this couple has been in the same parking lot at 71st and Memorial for months and every day passersby only saw a large sign saying "fuck trump". Since the heat dome over the city, which otherwise diverts tornadoes, became smog with the UV/heat index around 110°F, the disabled duo decided to waste space in their own town where they finally got arrested. Nobody is happier about this than Democrats who viewed their actions as counterproductive, yet the comments to this bodycam footage are primarily from the collective reactionary right who view this couple as representative of what they view as "the left", which is anyone who isn't a registered Republican, with no room for distinction or nuance.

>>497991
>Nobody is happier about this than Democrats who viewed their actions as counterproductive, yet the comments to this bodycam footage are primarily from the collective reactionary right
These are the same group.

>>497993
Pretty much, but they don't know this.

>>497994
Oh, true, yeah.

>>497966
https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/2080378664009470340
MintPress News - The U.S. Government Is Targeting Independent Media Outlet BreakThrough News

Through its Ways and Means Committee the House has issued a subpoena, demanding the media outlet hand over internal documents, communications & financial records.

BreakThrough News says it is being targeted because of its reporting on ICE abuses, the Gaza Genocide, Cuba & American foreign policy.

Anthony Fauci apparently pleaded the Fifth 111 times in today's US Senate hearing.

"Fauci, the face of the country’s pandemic response and director of National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 38 years, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

In his opening statement, Fauci said committee Chair Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) “obvious obsession” with his “prosecution” compelled him to plead the fifth.

“The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up in his words ‘behind bars,’” Fauci remarked.

Throughout the three-hour hearing, Fauci declined to answer every question GOP senators lobbed at him. Republicans on the panel spent the morning lambasting the infectious disease specialist for his handling of the pandemic, while Democrats defended him against GOP attacks."

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5998421-florida-ag-investigates-fauci-senate-hearing/

What was he being asked that he had to do it that many times?

>>498111
Didn't get he a pre-emptive pardon by Biden on his way out? What does he have to fear anymore?