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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/55660820

Christian Parenti: Woke Politics and The Deep State compactmag.com/contributor/christian-parenti

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42875362

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41927269

Jan 16, 2026

The ICE agents subsequently stopped their vehicle, surrounded the car, discharged pepper spray into it, then smashed the car’s windows and dragged out both O’Keefe and her friend.

O’Keefe said that after being detained by agents, they started taunting her, with one agent telling her, “You guys got to stop obstructing us, that’s why this lesbian removed is dead,” an apparent reference to Minneapolis resident Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE agent last week.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57350918

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41925810

Mon 19 Jan 2026 13.00 EST

On Tuesday, she plans to introduce a bill in the House of Representatives urging the US to end the political and economic dominance of billionaire oligarchs, halt the corporate subsidies and tax advantages that fortify their power and reinvest in the American people to defend democracy from authoritarianism.

The legislation is supported by Our Revolution, a political organisation that spun out of the senator Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential run, which is launching a “Defund the Oligarchy” campaign with research showing that individuals and corporations who funded Trump’s election received a staggering return on their investment.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41879579

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/49989363

https://xcancel.com/hasanthehun/status/1978483209236296133#m

@hasanthehun there is no guarantee that the death of the democratic party will create a socialist workers party, the only guarantee is that we accelerate towards fascism. not that it matters because we are seemingly headed there regardless of what i say and do

Intellectual Property is Broken [Dean Baker]

https://youtu.be/cJJZUgt8kVM

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Reclaiming Democratic Classical Liberalism

https://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Article-from-ReclaimingLiberalismEbook.pdf

"[L]iberalism expresses a skepticism about government[s] being able to “do good” for people. Instead an important role of government is to ... maintain the conditions for people to be empowered and enabled to do good for themselves, for example, in establishing ... the private property prerequisites for the functioning of a market economy as emphasized in ... economic [thought] (e.g., Heyne et al. 2006, pp. 36–38)."
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D.C. Council Considers Grant Program To Fund Local News Outlets

https://dcist.com/story/23/10/24/dc-council-local-news-funding-bill/

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