Tootfinder

When the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …

WITNESS: Russian warcrimes in Ukraine as the worst attacks since the war began claim more civilian lives.
Trump supports the killing through his actions, regardless of his lies to cover the greed and cruelty.
Giorgio is a hero reporting from the trenches in Ukraine. He literally risks his life to provide a glimpse of the truth that is otherwise ignored by media and the world.
Support his work and support democracy by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall, and allow …

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (chief of staff to Colin Powell under George W Bush):
This administration has committed more war crimes in the last few days than I think any country since Adolf Hitler committed. And that is an incredible condemnation of this entire process.
He later says we can't win this war—and Israel might drop a nuke.
Full interview at 17:45:

I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.

➡️ Isn't it about time people start paying a little more attention to George Monbiot?
He is on the side of 🌱 survival, and if we don't start paying attention to his analysis of our time now, future historians (if our civilisation survives at all) will wonder why he was not listened to more.
As voters, we must hurry and elect as many people as possible who think like Monbiot, or
👋🏼 goodbye democracy, goodbye environment.

Mandelson’s Fifth Column
The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

Capitol agenda: The Democrats not opposed to another DHS punt (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/05/congress/dhs-funding-democrats-deal-stopgap-continuing-resolution-00766669
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p73#a260205p73

Texas Democrats taste victory,
then turn on each other
Texas Democrats rejoiced Saturday after they flipped a state Senate seat
in a district that Donald Trump carried in 2024 by 17 percentage points,
hailing it as a burst of momentum for the midterms in the historically red state.

But they received a stark reminder of their own divides days later
when former Democratic congressman #Colin

The democratic, liberal, dependable USA that I have known and respected for most of my adult life is dead and will not be revived even after the orange clown stops pretending to be king. It cannot, because the concept of the USA in the world outside its own borders very much depended on soft power, which requires trust. That trust is gone, completely, and probably irrevocably for at least a generation.
It saddens me deeply that all the value, all the good that this long-term stability …

Texas Democrats Colin Allred, Julie Johnson Head To Runoff Election (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/julie-johnson-colin-allred-texas-democratic-primary_n_69a5eca1e4b0d383f50497f6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p94#a260304p94

Ex-progressive Senator John Fetterman is bucking his party yet again,
but this time the fallout could drastically impact the results of future elections.
The Pennsylvania turncoat came out in favor of voter ID legislation, revealing that he would support a clean bill if it required voters to show identification before they cast their ballot.
The issue is currently gaining momentum in the Senate under the banner of the "Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility", or S…

John Fetterman Hits New Low in Quest for Donald Trump’s Approval
The Pennsylvania Democrat backed voter ID legislation to combat a nonexistent voter fraud problem.