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An important article from #WhiskeyLeaks, via @SonsOfLibertyOfficial: “The Empty Garage: Young Men Are Waiting For A Better Deal”

A few excerpts:

The left does not need to imitate bro culture. It needs to stop abandoning masculinity to grifters. Trucks, beer, guns, work, family, and responsibility are not the problem. Cruelty is.

But here is the problem for Democrats and the broader left: being right about Trump failing is not the same thing as offering men somewhere to go.

The left does not need better bro cosplay. It needs a serious answer to male drift.

Start with honesty. A lot of young men feel useless.

That is not an excuse for cruelty. It is not an excuse for misogyny. It is not an excuse for treating women like vending machines for sex, comfort, status, or unpaid therapy. It is not an excuse for racism, authoritarian politics, or hiding inside some podcast guru's idea of strength.

But the wound is real.

A man who cannot see a path to stable work, a decent home, a family if he wants one, and some basic social respect is not going to be inspired by a policy memo written in conference-room English. He is also not going to be rescued by being told that his desire to provide, protect, build, compete, marry, father, lead, or be taken seriously is automatically suspect.

That is where the grifters enter.

Read the article here:

https://whiskeyleaks.org/the-empty-garage-young-men-are-waiting-for-a-better-deal/

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The Empty Garage: Young Men Are Waiting For A Better Deal

The left does not need to imitate bro culture. It needs to stop abandoning masculinity to grifters. Trucks, beer, guns, work, family, and responsibility are not the problem. Cruelty is. #bluepill

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The State of the US Left w/ Arun Gupta

Journalist Arun Gupta returns to CounterPunch Radio to discuss the state of the left, antiwar politics, and much more. Arun talks to host Eric Draitser

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"Subversion of Law and Order": ICE Violence Escalates at Newark's GEO-Run Jail, Delaney Hall http://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/29/li_adorno_movimiento_cosecha_delaney_hall

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“Subversion of Law and Order”: ICE Violence Escalates at Newark’s GEO-Run Jail, Delaney Hall

We get an update on protests at Newark, New Jersey’s Delaney Hall, an ICE facility owned and operated by the private prison company GEO Group, where hundreds of immigrant detainees have been on a hunger and labor strike for the past week demanding their immediate release. New Jersey Congressmember Analilia Mejía recently toured the facility and spoke to people who described being arrested and detained after attending routine ICE check-ins, being held for months in appalling conditions even after signing voluntary deportation orders, and being hospitalized after they were beaten and pepper-sprayed by armed ICE agents. “What we need to understand is that this is a for-profit model, and they are failing human beings,” she says. “The reality is that this is a rogue administration that has handed undue power to agencies, to ICE agents and to entities like GEO Group [that] are now acting with impunity.” Meanwhile, says Li Adorno, a community organizer with the immigrant rights group Movimiento Cosecha, protests outside the facility in solidarity with the strike have grown increasingly contentious. Local investigative journalist Bob Hennelly explains that the Trump administration’s targeting of Newark for immigration enforcement has escalated since federal agents arrested and charged Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and New Jersey Congressmember LaMonica McIver with trespassing after inviting them into Delaney Hall last May. Hennelly says “there’s a much broader implosion of the administration of law in New Jersey … [and] a collapse of federal law enforcement in Newark.”

Democracy Now!

"It's About People Feeding Their Families": Indigenous-Led Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Bolivia http://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/29/kathryn_ledebur_bolivia_andean_information_network

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“It’s About People Feeding Their Families”: Indigenous-Led Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Bolivia

Protests in Bolivia are demanding the resignation of Rodrigo Paz, the country’s first right-wing president in decades. Since Paz took office in November 2025, the country has been placed under austerity measures that have led to a surge in poverty rates for much of Bolivia’s rural and working-class population. We speak to Kathryn Ledebur, director of the Andean Information Network in Cochabamba, Bolivia, about the monthlong protests. “Bolivia is a country where, for 19 years, Indigenous people and social movements enjoyed equal rights and political inclusion,” she explains. “There’s a huge break between what Paz promised and what he’s done in practice, which is select a white, upper-middle-class Cabinet with only two women, reject any genuine dialogue, reject interaction with the Bolivian social movements, or even have any empathy for people and what they’re going through day to day.” Ledebur also discusses the Paz administration’s growing ties with the Trump administration as the U.S. seeks to expand its so-called war on drugs throughout Latin America.

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Meet Nadia Milleron: Jury Awards Family $50M for Daughter's Death in Boeing Crash http://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/29/nadia_milleron_boeing_737_max_aviation

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Meet Nadia Milleron: Jury Awards Family $50M for Daughter’s Death in Boeing Crash

A jury in Chicago has ordered Boeing to pay nearly $50 million to the family of Samya Stumo, a 24-year-old who was one of a total of 346 people killed in a pair of Boeing 737 MAX jet crashes less than a decade ago. Stumo died aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March 2019, just months after another 737 MAX jet, a recently introduced model at the time, crashed in Indonesia. “They knew that there was a malfunction with the plane. The plane crashed in Indonesia, and then somebody inside the company decided to keep flying the plane and did not fix whatever it is that was wrong,” says Stumo’s mother, Nadia Milleron. Milleron adds that while her family welcomes the latest settlement, she plans to continue pursuing legal action and serious scrutiny of Boeing’s safety practices. “This trial that we just had was not about accountability,” she explains. “This idea that they can just pay money and then continue on with the same behavior, that’s what we object to, and that’s why we want to expose what they’re actually doing in the company that could have caused these crashes.”

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