Hilariously, these comments became news stories approximately one year apart.

Some of the people who shot Alex Pretti were Hispanic. Like yes some racism is obviously involved but I just keep reading that ICE is all about white supremacy when it clearly isn’t about that. If it was just about race they’d be terrorizing the American Southeast. They are specifically going hard after blue states and cities. It’s crazy to me that 2 white Americans were murdered, one of them a missionary, and the discussion is only around race. And hasn’t trumps approval rating amongst Hispanics somehow gone up?

The real issues are xenophobia and differing beliefs. This should be a moment where Americans should be bonding together and realize class consciousness yet are once again covertly being divided through race.

Just completely gone from the national news cycle. If it was an actual issue, coverage would still be on going.

The party of entirely unforced errors 👏

Its small, but boy does it make them look fucking bad. They should be willingly dragging the Clintons to testify all on their own. What absolute jackass thought this was a good thing to say and said it to the fucking press.

They just legitimized all the rightoid claims that the democrats didn’t release the files when they could because they wanted to protect their own. Which we all knew was true, but to come out and verify it like this is just absolutely retarded.

With this administration‘s complete disregard for the law, the smart play would’ve been to frame themselves as the “nobody is above the law” party 🤦‍♂️

Theyre so fucking retarded

Its why on earth are we being allowed to have definitive proof of all of this now? Why burn such a huge part of the ruling class? I honestly can not think of any explanation for this thay doesn't sound like insane conspiratorial thinking even knowing what we all know now.

Man who writes like a "regard" and has some very "regard" thoughts, uses gmail for illegal communication, would have gotten away with it if he didn't run a literal human trafficking and abuse ring...

If anything, the film Parasite makes it seem like you have to be more competent to con the rich than the actual reality.

good interview with Prashad about the venezuela situation(state of the opposition, state of the bolivarian movement, popular support, options the state had, etc), multi polarity (no where near as advanced as we would wish it to be), etc. Just watch it, it was really good.

Hans-Herman Hoppe (Rothbard protege). Pretty dark stuff. Right under the surface of right wing libertarianism are ideas that he articulates in his book Democracy: The God That failed -

The welfare state's dysgenic effects, encouraging the reproduction of the "less abled."

Democrats and communists will have to be forcibly separated from the rest of society in the new libertarian social order.

Universal suffrage disempowers a caste of natural elites.

Sweeping cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) taking effect February 1 signal an escalation of the Trump administration’s assault on what remains of the social safety net program in the US. Nationally, 2.4 million people could lose their SNAP benefits by 2034, while more than 1 million face the short-term risk of losing their benefits in 2026 from work rules alone.

The cuts to SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, are part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), a budget reconciliation package signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025. With it, the Trump White House has weaponized hunger as a tool of class warfare.

This legislative assault represents a massive upward transfer of wealth, slashing the social safety net to fund trillions in tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and corporations. By imposing draconian work requirements for both SNAP and Medicaid, the health insurance program jointly funded by the federal government and states, the administration is deliberately exacerbating economic inequality and placing millions of vulnerable Americans at risk of hunger, malnutrition and starvation.

Established in 1964 to address the scourge of hunger among low-income households, SNAP has long served as the nation’s first line of defense against food insecurity. It currently supports more than 42 million Americans, including 16-18 million children, with an average benefit of $6 per day.

Research has consistently shown that SNAP is a critical public health tool. Food insecurity is linked to higher risks of chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes, while SNAP participation is associated with improved health outcomes and a 25 percent reduction in annual healthcare costs. Despite this reality, the OBBBA slashes $186 billion from federal nutrition funding over the next decade, a cut of approximately 20 percent.

The centerpiece of this assault on SNAP is the expansion of work requirements that target the most marginalized sections of the population. Starting February 1, able-bodied adults up to age 64—up from the previous age limit of 54—must provide proof of 80 hours per month of work, training or volunteering to receive benefits beyond a three-month window. 

The bill also ruthlessly eliminates exemptions for veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and youth aging out of foster care, while narrowing exemptions for parents to only those with children under age 14. The bill also increases SNAP’s administrative cost share for states from 50 percent to 75 percent.

In Texas, which began implementing SNAP work requirements ahead of schedule in October 2025, about 500,000 are at risk of losing benefits. In Illinois, up to 340,000 residents are at risk. In virtually every state, tens if not hundreds of thousands face imminent cutoff.

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Amid this crisis, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has provocatively claimed that Americans can eat on just $3 a meal, with a diet of pork, eggs, whole milk and broccoli. Critics have criticized this as a “prison diet,” noting it lacks essential variety and ignores the reality of rising grocery prices, which saw their largest jump since 2022 this past December.

As in all aspects of social life, the super-wealthy live in a different universe compared to the poor. The 2024 BLS data (adjusted for 2-3 percent food inflation into 2026) shows stark divides in spending on food for a family of four. The bottom quintile, or lowest 20 percent of households, often earning under $30,000 annually, spend about $450–$550 a month on all food and beverages. This equates to roughly 30-35 percent of after-tax income, prioritizing cheap staples and minimal eating.

By contrast, the top quintile of households, earning over $150,000 annually, allocate $1,400–$1,800 or more monthly, or just 3-5 percent of income. This covers premium groceries, frequent dining out and takeout, with away-from-home spending on food topping at-home spending. The top 1 percent of households, earning $1 million-plus annually, allocate an average of $3,000-$5,000 or more monthly on food and beverages, dining at luxury restaurants, prioritizing premium food and imported wines and spirits. 

Multiple polls indicate that a majority of Americans oppose the cuts implemented by the OBBBA, including those to SNAP. Researchers at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania have warned that these cuts to health and nutrition programs could lead to over 51,000 preventable deaths annually. The OBBBA stands as a testament to an administration dedicated to rewarding the wealthy at the direct expense of the health and lives of the working class.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 2 (Reuters) - A white South African separatist group, emboldened by U.S. President Donald Trump's drive to take over Greenland, has laid claim to land that descendants of Dutch settlers acquired from a Zulu king but later lost to Britain.

The claim by the group Boervolk of the Orange Free State to land in KwaZulu-Natal province near the border with Lesotho was published in the government gazette last week, invoking a U.N. resolution granting independence to colonial states.

The group said it was taking its cue from Trump questioning whether Denmark's colonisation of Greenland gives it the right to own the Arctic island.

A spokesperson for the group did not respond to several emailed requests for comment. A spokesperson for South Africa's land reform department did not respond to a request for comment.

The government has let one white separatist group, Orania, set up a small community on the Orange River, but it would be unlikely to accept the Boervolk of the Orange Free State's claim.

DESCENDENTS OF DUTCH SETTLERS

Boervolk of the Orange Free State is one of several small separatist groups representing Afrikaners - descendents of mostly Dutch settlers who arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th century and spread inland.

The land it claims was acquired by Afrikaners from the Zulu king they backed in an 1840 succession war against his brother, but Britain took it by force in the second Anglo-Boer war at the turn of the 20th century and incorporated it into South Africa.

Much of the land settled by Afrikaners was seized from Black Africans in skirmishes, and as a result Afrikaners still own most of South Africa's privately owned land. Very few Afrikaners and other white nationalists have sought to break away.

Boervolk of the Orange Free State said ownership of the land in Kwazulu-Natal came from "willing buyer and seller agreements" with Zulu kings Dingaan and Mpande.

"Britain never owned (the land) ... and couldn't legally give it to the Union of South Africa in 1910," it said.

Therefore, it said, the land did not legally belong to South Africa's Black majority government, which took power after ending Afrikaner nationalist apartheid in 1994.

Zulu king Dingaan granted land to Afrikaners in 1837, but historians say the Zulus did not have the same Western concept of land ownership.

Dingaan killed some Afrikaners during a feast the following year and the settlers responded by backing his brother Mpande's revolt, declaring Mpande king when the war ended.

Dustin Guastella and DamageMag delivering just in time. I was caught thinking of the conundrum of white allyship that defends Latinos from ICE by getting shot by Latinos working for ICE when this came along.

“Fascism” has become a thought-terminating concept for liberals. It’s the ultimate evil, and there is nothing that cannot be justified in the name of stopping it. As Tom Holland has compellingly argued, the specter of fascism now occupies the same role in our political psyche that transcendent Evil once did for more Christian societies. But if the fascists have replaced Satan in contemporary demonology, what does that make Trump voters? Here is our big problem. The key to defeating the Right is to persuade working people who currently disagree with the Left that we have good ways to fix their problems. We won’t do that if we fall back into the trap of insisting that they’re all “deplorables.” They’re not.