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Wdym the "real history" takes place after 1893? Half a million workers, nearly ten percent of the US population at the time, went on strike in 1886 demanding the eight hour workday. Some estimates say the Knights of Labor alone counted 20% of blue collar workers as their members. The late nineteenth century labor movement is only rivaled by the peak of the twentieth century labor movement. There's a substantial history of industrial struggle and worker organizing dating back centuries in the US. It's not as well documented or state sanctioned as twentieth century union activity, but it most certainly happened.

If you wanted to write an interesting paper, exploring why people think labor history started in the twentieth century and the effects of that would be interesting but maybe too broad. There are plenty of individual events, people, struggles, and perspectives in pre-1893 labor history you could focus on though.

Israel and Iran have traded blows once or twice a year for the past few years now. It is worrying how it seems to be escalating year over year but imo it won't evolve into a full scale conflict this time. Iran is desperately toeing a fine line between looking weak demanding diplomacy and responding with a commensurate military action but they genuinely do not want an all out war with Israel.

For the Israelis these regular attacks are partly to destabilize Iran but primarily to shore up support at home.

It would not surprise me if the Trump regime actually played a role in making this happen to distract from what's going on here in the states but maybe I'm giving them too much credit.

You might be able to staple it. Super glue might also work.

I'm running about $600 a month for two adult vegans and two cats (including non-food essentials).

When I was single in the early 2020s I could get it under $200 a month but I'm willing to treat myself a little more now.

Israel has a right to defend itself (kidnap civilians in international waters and torture them)

Apologies for being pessimistic but it's not gonna matter at all. It might even be worse if he does win. Half the Democrats are already planning independent runs. The other half will do everything in their power to sabotage his run from inside the party. If he does win the primary then the whole New York Democratic apparatus is going to withhold its support for him and will quietly support Cuomo.

If he somehow manages to win in the general election despite this then the whole bureaucracy will just cease to cooperate with him and ever single issue will be blamed on him. The papers will say "The People's Republic of NYC, another failure of socialism". He's an AOC/old school DSA guy which means he's unlikely to have the guts to seize and wield power the way he would need to because the norms are too important.

This is the problem with the DSA program that they actually carry out. They are able to build electoral machines that win elections but they're toothless at the end of the day. When they get into office they are simply not compatible with the bourgeois state as it exists and the actual power brokers in the DSA are unwilling to smash any part of the capitalist state with mass action.

Edit: if I were to offer a solution rather than just a criticism I would say after the primary he should run for mayor regardless of whether or not he wins and he should spend the entire campaign explaining to New Yorkers that if they want things like universal childcare, free busses, and rent freezes then they need to make the system untenable until they are won. He needs to explain to them very explicitly that no politician can or will deliver on those things and all the forces of the state are aligned against them.

There was a local city council race during which an Instagram anarchist posted implying that two male DSA candidates had made transphobic and sexist comments in DSA meetings. I said to my partner, having worked with both the candidates when I was a DSA member, that I highly doubted either of them said anything the poster implied they said.

When my partner DMd the anarchist asking about the comments the anarchist said that neither of the candidates had said those things and were both excellent candidates to vote for lmao.

Some people just stir shit. There's also definitely coordinated efforts by some anarchists to undermine the growth of communist parties, particularly PSL.

Watching these protests and the ones in 2020, I can't help but feel like domestic government here is barely hanging on by a thread. i have yet to see cops or military anywhere that look prepared for an actual insurrection. They're only ever ready to be violent against unarmed and basically peaceful protestors. If a couple thousand people across the country decided to take up arms and actually fight the state I could very easily imagine it would cause the whole damn thing to fragment.

I don't know if that would be a good thing. It would probably look more like the Chinese civil war than a revolution. The the fact that it's even a possibility is quite alarming though.

Idk how bad it's going to be but UNFI, one of if not the largest grocery wholesalers in the US and Canada, is currently suffering from a cyber security breach and they are seemingly non-functional. UNFI is the primary supplier for most organic, natural, and health food stores but they also supply significant amounts of product to traditional grocery operations as well.

The downstream effects of this could be bad in conjunction with the tariffs and the current labor unrest in the grocery industry. Expect shelves to be looking light for the next few weeks.

Palestinian resistance captures enemy combatants: "Free the hostages"

Israel kidnaps civilians on the high seas:

The only two things he could really do would be to stop deducting federal income taxes for state employees and shut down the ports.

If he was serious he'd shut down any business in CA that paid federal taxes but this is all a bluff anyways.

Aside from taxes there is a lot he could do to interfere with the federal government in the state but I doubt he would.

It probably doesn't need to be said here, but it should be hammered into every liberal's head around us that the Democratic officials that are trying to exculpate themselves in this article are the ones that have armed and trained the police and national guard that are cracking the skulls of people against ICE. Trump did not send the LAPD in on that first day. Hell the LAPD statement is saying "actually Mr. Trump, we would have made ICE's job easier if you hadn't slowed us down".

Just because they say a few token words against Trump does not make them any less guilty.