New and Noteworthy 2023

Current Posts Jan. 29 to Feb. 4, 2023

1. “We were close to a political tipping point” – Interview with George Monbiot
2. Glenn Greenwald EXAMINES Third Parties & Direct Action (Interview Clip) w/Gleen Greenwald (video)
3. CNBC Is Far-Right Propaganda (video)

Current Posts Jan. 22 to Jan. 28, 2023

1. The Belmarsh Tribunal D.C. — The Case of Julian Assange (video)
2. MLK’s economic radicalism & the strange birth of the Fed’s dual mandate (text)
3. In bombshell report, FBI admits using the CIA, (NSA) to essentially spy on American citizens without a warrant (text)
4. Treasury Department Study: White People Get 90 Percent of the Benefits of Many Tax Breaks (text)
5. 5 Officers Charged With Murder in Memphis Police Killing (text)
6. Police Urge Calm In Light Of Unspeakable Evil They Committed (text)
7. What is ‘Weathering’? A phenomenon that is killing Black people slowly (text)
8. ‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’ (text)
9. Meet the Major Corporations and Cultural Institutions Helping Build Cop City in Atlanta
10. Building Resilient Organizations (text)
11. Reposting because we are looking for bases for future discussions:
    • A return of class struggle without class? Moral economy and popular resistance in Brasil, south Africa and Portugal (text)
    • The Precariat: Today’s Transformative Class? (Text)

Jan. 15 to Jan. 21, 2023

Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore Focus for a series of discussions.
Posts related to the criminal legal system posted here

1. Criminal Legal System
   • No way out: Why a mentally disabled man was jailed nine years awaiting a murder trial that never happened (text)
   • NYPD’s bizarre international presence (video)
     • Posting NYPD Detectives Overseas Has Been a Waste, Federal Officials Say (text)
   • Within a month of leaving prison, I was accepted into @UCBerkeley and received my bachelors with a 4.0. My felony record prevented me from finding work, even at my alma mater. A thread. (Twitter thread)
   • Caged people in Texas go on hunger strike to protest use of solitary confinement
     • Texas prisoners stage hunger strike to protest use of solitary confinement (video)
     • More than 70 Texas prisoners are 3 days into a hunger strike protesting harsh solitary confinement practices (text)
2. Organizations working to change the system
   • Mothers ROC: Mothers Reclaing Our Children
   • Alliance of Families for Justice: Our Approach (web site)
   • RAPP: Release Aging People in Prison (web site)
   • Communities, Not Cages (web site)
3. MLK:
   • Nick Cruse: Why MLK Holiday Pisses Off Black Men (video)
   • MLK’s economic radicalism & the strange birth of the Fed’s dual mandate (text)
4. ADAMS “DISINVESTMENT” BUDGET PLAN “JEOPARDIZES” NEW YORKERS SAY OPPONENTS (text)
5. NYC eviction rate continues to rise since ban was lifted, as homelessness surges (text)
6. NATO Leader ADMITS We’re Sacrificing Ukraine To Bleed Russia! (video)
7. Ralph Nader: Shocking Reason HARVARD LAW Is CORRUPT… (video)
8. Puerto Rico to Privatize Power Generation (text)
9. Republicans Mandate Stricter Dress Code For Women | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
10. BOMBSHELL: Kushner Gave CIA Intel To Saudi For $2 Billion | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
11. Union membership rate fell in 2022
12. “Feel-Good” Story About Elderly Worker’s GoFundMe Retirement is Late Stage Capitalist Propaganda (video)
13. No, Greta Thunberg’s Arrest was NOT Staged (video)
14. I’ll NEVER Cross The Democratic Party! – Says AOC (video)
15. Work Until You Bleed: Amazon’s Workplace Safety Problem | The Class Room (video)
16. New TERRIFYING Income Inequality Facts | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
17. Republican Says Grandma WANTS To Be Forced Back To Work | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)

Current Posts Jan. 7 to Jan. 14, 2023

1. Cop Linked To Proud Boys Should Be Fired Chicago Cop lies to investigators about links to Proud Boys, keeps his job (text)
2. WATCH: Dramatic Cop Throw Tantrum While Directing Traffic (video)
3. Representative Summer Lee Will Make Sure She’s Not the Last Like Her (text)
4. Where might the GOP go from here? Look to Israel. (text)
   • Member of Israel’s governing coalition proposes making judiciary subservient to parliament (audio)
     • Where might Israel go from here? Look to Hungary
5. California Interim Reparations Report (text)
6. IRS Audits Working Poor Families at Five Times the Rate for Everyone Else (text)
7. ‘Big Brother is protecting you’: Eric Adams pledges stronger policing, more technology in 2023 (text)
8. Chris Hedges EXPOSES The Problem With Biden & The Media (Interview clip) (video)
9. GOP Leader gloats about successfully suppresing Black vote (text)
10. NBC Host Hates Democracy & Loves War! (video)
11. Fox Host BEGS For More Vicious Capitalism | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
    • Revealed: #ForceTheVote Critics Were ORDERED To Oppose It! w/Brianna Joy Gray (video)
12. Left & Right AGREE On Cuts To Military Spending! (video)
13. Qatar’s vuvuzela Morocco’s World Cup success (podcast)
14. Democrat Ro Khanna Talks In Circles Explaining Why Dems Don’t Use Leverage Like Republicans (video)
15. “QUIET HIRING” – THE “NEXT” DUMB JOB TREND | #quietquitting #quiethiring #gartner (video)
16. Millionaire Clinton Advisor Says It’s Time To Punish Workers! (video)
17. Worst Speech EVER! Delivered By New Dem House Leader (video)
    • Considering that there were many pro-slavery Dem House Leaders, I’m curious to see how he topped that. Not expecting to find out from Jimmy Dore, though.
18. The Kidnapping Of Hawaii’s Last Queen (video)
19. Dennis Prager says people won’t spend the holidays with their conservative parents. Too bad. (video)
20. Longish pieces that could be basis for future discussions:
    • A return of class struggle without class? Moral economy and popular resistance in Brasil, south Africa and Portugal (text)
    • The Precariat: Today’s Transformative Class? (Text)

Happy New Year! Jan. 1, 2023 to Jan. 7, 2023

1. GOP Rebels REFUSE To Crown Kevin McCarthy Speaker! (video)
2. McCarthy Speaker Fight Proves Jimmy Dore RIGHT About #ForceTheVote! (video)
3. AOC BRAGS About Falling In Line Behind Corporate Democrat (video)
4. Where might the GOP go from here? Look to Israel. (essaay)
5. Ukrainian Soldiers Execute Prisoners Of War – Admits U.S. Mercenary (video)
6. CAUGHT! Dem Congressman DEMANDED Twitter Ban Journalists! w/Matt Taibbi (video)
7. Dems DEMANDED Twitter Find Phony Russiagate Evidence! (video)
8. Six Charged in Atlanta with Domestic Terrorism for Protesting “Cop City” Training Facility (interview)
9. Stop Cop City: No Police Military Base in Weelaunee Forest https:/
10. Possibly for Jan. 22 discussion
    • Monster in the Mirror: Ep 5: The Sheepdog, The Wolf, And The Warlock (podcast)
    • Hope Is a Discipline: Mariame Kaba on Dismantling the Carceral State (audio interview)
    • Abolition Is a Collective Vision: An Interview With Mariame Kaba (text of interview)

December 25 to Dec. 31, 2022 (Happy Holidays!)

1. How the LAPD and Palantir Use Data to Justify Racist Policing (text)
2. Targeted: intelligence operation that monitors, intimidates and harasses families across the county. (text)
   • Civil Rights Groups Sue for Public Records Linked to Pasco County’s Predictive Policing Program (text)
3. EFF Joins Effort to Restrict Automated License Plate Readers in California (text)
4. A Gig Surveillance Economy (paper)
5. Hand off Uhuru! Hands of Africa! (web site)
6. Elijah McLain’s death has come to occupy a central place in Colorado’s debate over police reform (text)
7. Technology & Civil Liberties (Northern California ACLU)
8. Activists Occupying The Woods to Block ‘Cop City’ Face Terrorism Charges (text)
9. A workers’ guide to wage theft: What to do if your boss steals your wages in Pa. (text)
10. ‘Corporate vultures’: how Americans fearing higher water bills are fighting takeovers (text)
11. A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate (text)
12. Record turnout in Georgia?? MY A**! (text) Greg Palast considers “ass” to be profane, how quaint
13. NY tried involuntary hospitalization, it didn’t work (podcast)
    “The best way to help New York’s mentally ill homeless population is just by providing them a place to live.”
14. People Complaining About Twitter But Not Facebook Have No Ethics (text)
15. How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate (text)
16. NATO Leader Warns Ukraine War Could Escalate Into WW3 (video)
17. Example of how they’re already pre-programming children to accept microchips and digital identification.(tweet/video clip))
18. Canada’s First Nations Are Conserving Land on an Unprecedented Scale (text)
19. ‘Amazing!’ Lula Applauded for Naming Amazon Defenders as Brazilian Ministers (text)

Past Years’ Posts:

Jan. – Dec. 2022

Jan. – Dec. 2021

Jan. – Dec. 2020

July – Dec. 2019
Jan. – June 2019

July – Dec. 2018
Jan. – June 2018

July – Dec. 2017
Jan. – June 2017

July – Dec. 2016
Jan. – June 2016