Trump’s turn toward nakedly corrupt transactionalism is less a new paradigm of power than a form of crisis looting at the level of the state. My latest, for @LPEblog:
I can explain why the Nazi salute is back (the people in power are nazis) and I can also explain why the Zionists don’t care (they are also nazis). Check please
It rules being in the last generation to learn anything in an already disturbingly illiterate time. If you’re a book-reader born before 1997 you get to be a genius for the rest of your life
The poorest country in the Middle East is being bombed by the richest country in the world for daring to take a stand against genocide. All power to Yemen, a model of material solidarity, justice, and bravery 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪
Seeing people say stuff like “oh was Israel supposed to just do nothing after 10/7???” with the implication being that Palestine was supposed to do nothing after decades of colonial violence. This is what we call racism
This is really quite incredible. While Israelis were making rat memes of him tucked away in tunnels, Sinwar was hiding in plain sight on the front lines, facing down Israeli tanks
Trump doesn’t think abortion is bad and Biden doesn’t think it’s good and they both have to pretend otherwise for electoral reasons. It’s extremely perverse