"By convincing the public that federal spending is limited by taxes, the ruling class manufactures consent for austerity."

https://x.com/HamptonThink/status/1918161630728470903

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Happy May Day, brothers and sisters! 🌹 ✊
Keep fighting for regular people’s right to a healthy, secure, and prosperous future. The wealth of this planet deserves to be protected and enjoyed by all.

#MayDay #workersRights #WorkersUnite #Unions #solidarity

Cable news has just stopped reporting on gas prices. No stakeouts at the gas pump talking to people about how much gas costs and how they can’t get anywhere.

No Republicans whining about the president not taking action.

Nothing.

Maps Show How Much Gas Prices Have Gone Up in Each State Under Donald Trump -
https://www.newsweek.com/maps-gas-prices-gone-each-state-donald-trump-2066540

TOO POOR TO WORK

Capitalism has damaged us all deeply and I think most ppl have a kneejerk "feeling" that poor people need to work harder, even if we disagree with capitalism as a concept. But it has ingrained subconscious biases into us that are often hard to notice, let alone resist.

We see someone poor, working class, lumpenproletariat, homeless or housing insecure and we apply different measures than we would for any "normal" person. We think they should get by with less stuff, less security, less dignity, less privacy (dangerous for abuse victims! but getting access to help requires giving up privacy, whether you go through official institutions or mutual aid) and that they should somehow work harder or be more resilient or be a more committed activist.

If you've not been there you probably think it can't ever happen to you, you'd find ways to avoid it, you'd be more resourceful etc. I used to think that. But I ended up homeless due to domestic abuse and I've not recovered from that yet even though I'm lucky and privileged enough to have found a place to live.

And what I'm experiencing is a vicious cycle where I'm literally too poor to work. I have no spoons because worries about basic necessities eat me alive. I have no desk, let alone laptop. I am physically and mentally disabled from having been poor and abused all my adult life — they go hand in hand because abuse makes you unable to function and isolates you from any safety net you might have had, so you end up poor, which makes you a target for abuse. Wether that's state sanctioned bureaucratic abuse to suss out benefits scroungers or interpersonal abuse because you're in no position to defend yourself. Often both.

I just wish more people understood the lived realities of poor ppl under capitalism instead of seeing it merely as an abstract theoretical issue. Theory is good and all, but we need praxis and we need solidarity and we need to not let the biases that capitalists have indoctrinated us with to stand in the way of that!

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#AntiCapitalism #Mayday #poverty #anarchy #communism #WorkingClass

Israel’s escalating campaign of demolishing Palestinian homes in the West Bank is the other side of the coin of seizing Palestinian land for settlement expansion. The objective is to force Palestinians to silently leave.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/05/israel-is-on-a-home-demolition-rampage-in-the-west-bank-its-aim-is-to-force-palestinians-to-leave/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

Terminated January 6th case #prosecutor: At the end of the night, 15 Assistant U.S. Attorneys had been fired.

My termination letter said it was for prosecuting January 6th cases.

“U.S. Attorneys represent the United States of America, not the #President.”