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Donald Trump’s budget bill is set to make ICE the single largest federal law enforcement agency in US history.
The mass deportations the far right fantasizes about will remain unrealistic,
-- but not for lack of funds.
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/ice-trump-

ICE Is About to Get More Money Than It Can Spend
Donald Trump’s budget bill is set to make ICE the single largest federal law enforcement agency in US history. The mass deportations the far right fantasizes about will remain unrealistic, but not for lack of funds.

Who Gets a “Right of Return”? https://jacobin.com/2025/08/right-of-return-arkansas-zionism/

Who Gets a “Right of Return”?
The parallels between a northern Arkansas group that is seeking to forbid Jews and people of color from buying on their adjacent tracts of land and Zionism are more significant than you might think.

🇵🇦 In Panama, Authorities Are Cracking Down on Mass Strikes
#panama

In Panama, Authorities Are Cracking Down on Mass Strikes
In a country with little left-wing politics, Panama’s nearly two-month-long strike movement has shown the power of organized labor. The government has responded with repression, acting as a rearguard for multinationals like Chiquita.

We Need a Strategy to Win Zohran’s Agenda. Call It Plan Z. https://jacobin.com/2025/08/zohran-bernie-party-power-strategy/

We Need a Strategy to Win Zohran’s Agenda. Call It Plan Z.
Electing Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning. To actually win his agenda against billionaire opposition, we need to build popular power — permanent grassroots organizations that can mobilize tens of thousands to have his back when the fight gets real.

"US children are 80 percent more likely to die before adulthood than children in peer nations. Causes range from lax gun laws to privatized health care. What connects them is a corrosive culture of individualism that makes child safety parents’ private business."
The American Child Death Toll Is Mortifying
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/us-child-deaths-health-safety/

„In Rüstungsunternehmen zu investieren lohne sich nicht nur, sondern sei sogar nachhaltig. Schließlich könne Europa nur auf diese Weise die Demokratie verteidigen, was Nachhaltigkeit überhaupt erst ermöglicht – so das Argument.“
„So hat sich etwa der Vermögensverwalter Allianz Global Investors im April dazu entschieden, Rüstungsunternehmen in Fonds aufzunehmen, die unter dem Label »Environmental, Social und Governance« (ESG) verkauft werden.“

#Jacobin is really the king of commissioning older western white #leftists to write about the global south. This piece does no original reporting, has no Indonesian voices, and makes blanket statements.
It's not bad, but I can think of dozens of Indonesians who could have written a far better pi…

Indonesia’s Rulers Are Whitewashing the Crimes of Suharto
In the 1960s, the Indonesian dictator Suharto was responsible for one of the twentieth century’s bloodiest political massacres. Under the rule of Prabowo, the country’s government is suppressing the memory of Suharto’s crimes while vilifying the Left.

A Society Governed by Whiny Rich People Throwing Tantrums https://jacobin.com/2025/07/ultrarich-oligarchy-capital-flight-mamdani/
💯🔥: “Capital flight is an important political and economic question for anyone thinking about legislating as a lefti…

A Society Governed by Whiny Rich People Throwing Tantrums
Every time we want to change society to benefit average people, we have to deal with ultrawealthy crybabies. We’re held hostage by those who already have it all. It doesn’t have to be like this.

To Get Abundance, We Need to Discipline Capital (Brian Callaci/Jacobin)
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/abundance-profits-capital-public-sector/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p184#a250617p184

🤑 San Francisco’s Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
#california

San Francisco’s Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
For years, democratic socialists in San Francisco have been passing Zohran Mamdani–style policies in the city legislature and through ballot measures, only to see them blocked by Silicon Valley billionaires and powerful real estate interests.

#health #hypocracy

MAHA Is Going to Make America Sicker
Donald Trump has spent the last seven months flooding our food, water, and air with all kinds of very real, very horrible pollutants, including numerous cancer-causing chemicals — the exact opposite of “making America healthy again.”

good piece. be warned there's a Garry Tan jump scare. #sfPol
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/san-francisco-zohran-democratic-socialism

San Francisco’s Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
For years, democratic socialists in San Francisco have been passing Zohran Mamdani–style policies in the city legislature and through ballot measures, only to see them blocked by Silicon Valley billionaires and powerful real estate interests.

Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/money-for-nothing/

Money for Nothing
Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.

The Center Left Is in Denial About NATO’s New Normal https://jacobin.com/2025/08/center-left-nato-military-welfare/

The Center Left Is in Denial About NATO’s New Normal
NATO members across Europe have embraced Donald Trump’s call to spend 5 percent of GDP on defense. Many social democrats argue that this shouldn’t come at the cost of welfare cuts, but they refuse to challenge the military spending plan itself.

✊🏼 Can Zohran Mamdani Expand the Left’s Base?
#politics

Can Zohran Mamdani Expand the Left’s Base?
As Zohran Mamdani mounts a surging campaign for NYC mayor, his bid is becoming a model to replicate for the next wave of the US left. Can he expand his appeal to working-class demographics the Left has so far struggled to reach?

The new party The Left by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, despite not even having an official name yet, is currently polling at 15%, and hence even with Labour.
This is an incredible feat and I wish best of luck to the party and its success!

The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles.
In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself,
deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/la-immigr…

Donald Trump Manufactured the Crisis in Los Angeles
The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles. In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself, deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.

⚡ Want to End the EV Culture Wars? Make EVs Affordable.
#ev

Want to End the EV Culture Wars? Make EVs Affordable.
Culture warriors and industry lobbyists have turned electric vehicles into a proxy battle for deeper anxieties about class, control, and who might be left behind in a green economy. But most people just want a car they can afford.

Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man https://jacobin.com/2025/07/hulk-hogan-wrestling-trump-mcmahon/

Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man
Hulk Hogan, who died this week at age 71, was the most important professional wrestler who ever lived. He was also a terrible human being.

Conservatives Are Losing It Over Superman’s Basic Morality
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/superman-reactionary-morality-film-review/

Americans, take note:
Zohran Mamdani’s Historic Win: 16 Takeaways https://jacobin.com/2025/06/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-cuomo/

Zohran Mamdani’s Historic Win: 16 Takeaways
Leftists and progressives throughout the country have much to learn from how democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani pulled off an unprecedented upset last night.

😓 The Problem With Israel Is So Much Bigger Than Netanyahu
#israel

The Problem With Israel Is So Much Bigger Than Netanyahu
Increasingly, mainstream Democrats have sought to carve out a space for “acceptable” Zionism by saying that they support Israel but oppose Bibi Netanyahu. But the horrors of Gaza are a result of processes far more vast than one right-wing leader.

Clinton’s Endorsement of Cuomo Is Grotesque but Predictable https://jacobin.com/2025/06/cuomo-clinton-endorsement-mayoral-election/

Clinton’s Endorsement of Cuomo Is Grotesque but Predictable
Bill Clinton’s last-minute endorsement of Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral race is all too fitting: both men represent the corporate Democratic establishment, opposed by socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, that has abandoned the working class.

writing a piece for Jacobin magazine about how political violence is never okay

The Crime of Treating Housing as a Commodity
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/housing-commodity-nyc-real-estate/

🎛️ To Get Abundance, We Need to Discipline Capital
#economics

To Get Abundance, We Need to Discipline Capital
Concerned to increase the supply of housing and improve infrastructure, some on the Left have come to embrace the “abundance agenda.” But what capital needs is discipline, not deregulation.

Zohran Mamdani Is Right: We Shouldn’t Have Billionaires https://jacobin.com/2025/07/billionaires-wealth-inequality-zohran-mamdani/
This is true in every country in the world. There is simply no justification for any individual to be «worth» a …

Zohran Mamdani Is Right: We Shouldn’t Have Billionaires
The myths that billionaires earn, invent, or give their way to virtue don’t survive scrutiny. Billionaire wealth isn’t built on genius — it rests on public investment and ends with the power to shape law, labor, and markets.

🚛 To Unionize Amazon, Disrupt the Flow
#union

To Unionize Amazon, Disrupt the Flow
Organizing logistics behemoths like Amazon and Walmart will require the labor movement to figure out how to disrupt the flow of goods across the supply chain rather than simply organizing individual workplaces — and that requires a major rethinking of organizing strategy.

When Genocide Denial Is the Norm https://jacobin.com/2025/08/genocide-israel-west-us-ties/

When Genocide Denial Is the Norm
Genocide scholar Martin Shaw argues that ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza and isolating Israel on the international stage must become the cause of every country that claims to represent human values.

Using Protected Identity to Suppress History https://jacobin.com/2025/08/israel-anti-zionism-antisemitism-education-palestine/

Using Protected Identity to Suppress History
Legislation on protected identities is supposed to foster good intercommunal relations. When it’s used to protect Zionism, it means shielding a 19th-century nationalist ideology from criticism as if it were an innate characteristic of all Jews.

All the Worst People Are Losing It Over Zohran Mamdani’s Win https://jacobin.com/2025/07/mamdani-nyc-billionaires-israel-defenders/

All the Worst People Are Losing It Over Zohran Mamdani’s Win
Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s mayoral primary last month has resulted in absolute meltdowns from billionaires, genocide supporters, and other assorted defenders of the status quo. Let’s pause for a moment to enjoy them.

📈 Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
#politics

Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
The New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani is focused on lowering the cost of living. It can serve as a blueprint for progressives seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for working peoples’ everyday lives.

What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means https://jacobin.com/2025/08/trump-decertification-federal-employee-unions/
If there is a god, Trump will be struck dead by lightning then next time he’s on a golf course.

What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means
The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.

Conservatives Are Losing It Over Superman’s Basic Morality
(... funny my autoposter posted this to 𝐻𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 when I was at the theater with my family to see it)
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/superman-reactionary-morality-film-review/

Conservatives Are Losing It Over Superman’s Basic Morality
Reactionary hysterics over James Gunn’s Superman reboot bring some delight to America’s otherwise plainest superhero.

The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity https://jacobin.com/2025/06/history-left-jewish-identity-politics/

The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity
The kind of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace is part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.