New and Noteworthy 2023

We will be discussing The End of Policing by Alex Vitale
We will discuss Chapters 9 & 10 and the conclusion on 6/11 .

Current Topics

1. AI: Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history
   • Is this the end of “The End of History”? (text)
   • The call for an AI halt disguises the real problems with tech (text)
   • UNLOCKED: /306/ AI Capitalism: Inhuman Power (podcast)
   • Excerpt: /335/ AI & the End of the End of History (preview — podcast)
     • full episode on Patreon
2. Police: N.Y.P.D. Anti-Crime Units Returning to Illegal Tactics, Report Shows (text)
   • What happened when a neighborhood policed itself (text)
     • If you hit a paywall, may be accessible here. (text)
   • Atlanta approves funding to build ‘Cop City’ despite fierce opposition (text)
     • “leaked transcripts show fascist right-wing [Atlanta] cops discussing their ongoing intentional constitutional violations” (tweet)
   • Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters (text)
3. Lawsuit Claims Health Department let NYCHA cover up lead paint hazards even after child was hospitalized
4. If Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s life is worth hiding, it’s worth knowing (text)
   • Glad to see the plaque lives on on the internet (text)

May 28 to June 3, 2023

1. Policing Can’t Be Reformed And Must Be Abolished (podcast)
2. Equality Alec: The Big Deception (Part 1) (text)
   • Which led me down the Equality Alec rabbit hole to: Modern news has become so effective at masking the primary function of the punishment bureaucracy:
     • The primary function of the punishment bureaucracy: to protect the wealth and power of people who own things.
3. In Blow To LA County’s Cash Bail System, Judge Issues Injunction Limiting Bail Prior To Arraignment (text)
4. A Statement from The Defender on the Fascist Political Repression of Stop Cop City Organizers (text)
5. Liberation Through Housing: A Feature With Revolutionary Leader of KC Tenants (podcast)
6. Why We Are Called Hammer & Hope (text)
7. Algorithmic Justice League: Technology should serve all of us. Not just the privileged few. (web site/org)
   • Artificial Intelligence “Godfathers” Call for Regulation as Rights Groups Warn AI Encodes Oppression (Democracy Now!)
8. Exclusive: Progressives press Biden to issue an AI executive order (text)
9. “We Need A Dictator”: Conservative Pundit Goes MASK OFF | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
10. How to Humiliate an Economist (text)
11. Revolutionary Summer School: Pan Africanism (6-week course)
    

May 21 to May 27, 2023

1. NYPD arrests, runs scooters into protesters calling for Care Not Criminalization (text)
2. ‘It was utterly surreal’: police accused of farcical error after 14 arrested at seminar on day of coronation (text) (Tony B comments: “When false or political arrests happen in China, it is called oppression. In the West, when the police round up non violent protesters, or arrest large numbers of people without cause, it is called an honest mistake.”)
3. Pro-Life Reality Star Accidentally Admits She Got An Abortion (video)
4. Media IGNORES Marianne Williamson Reviving FDR’s 2nd Bill Of Rights | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
5. Abbott’s Plan to Pardon Sgt. Who Killed BLM Protester May Already Be Backfiring (text)
6. Clarence Thomas Reversed Position After Gifts and Family Payments (text)

May 14, 2023 to May 20, 2023

1. Neil Gorsuch is Preparing His Revenge: Gutting America’s Protective Agencies (text)
2. White Christian nationalism emerges from shadows of GOP politics (video)
3. Black Identity Extremism (podcast)
4. Indian Boarding Schools Are Not Ancient History (podcast)
5. Turkish Election:
   • Turkey’s Statequake (text)
   • Goodbye Erdoğan? (text)
   • The 2023 Turkish Presidential Election w/ Djene Bajalan (podcast)
   • Takeaways from Turkey’s election as it heads toward a runoff (audio)
6. Age of Easy Money (full documentary) | FRONTLINE (video)
7. Why This Zoomer Conservative Isn’t Woke (she had to read) (video)
8. ‘Israel Has Destroyed Its Own Soul’ – Palestinian Writer (video)
9. Video shows candy kids pulling off newest scam (video)
10. China is calling in loans to dozens of countries from Pakistan to Kenya (video)

May 7, 2023 to May 13, 2023

1. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s resignation letter (text)
2. The Katie Halper Show: Jordan Neely’s Killing & WGA Strike (with Milton Perez of VOCAL and Eugene Puryear) (video)
3. Texas student shot, killed through wall while sleeping; shooter sentenced to 90 days | FOX 7 Austin (video)
4. What is Happening to The Internet Archive? (video)
5. Citing Argentina and Brazil, Bolivia says open to use China’s yuan​ (text)
6. The Great Wealth Illusion (text)
7. 31 Palestinians killed in Israeli bombardment of Gaza (text; must pass CAPTCHA)
8. Amazon to Uber: digital monopolies and the new anti-trust movement (@ 30:58mins)
9. Ohio Citizens Revolt After Republicans Attempt To Change The Rules To Overturn Election Result (video)

April 30, 2023 to May 6, 2023

1. Economist Michael Hudson explains inflation crisis and Fed’s secretive $4.5 trillion bank bailout
2. Bed, Bath and Beyond Bankruptcy: (read forwarded email or the scan references below):
   • Bed, Bath and Beyond filed for bankruptcy: could mean 14,000 layoffs
   • Bed Bath & Beyond stiffed thousands of workers on severance pay
   • $11.8 million stock buybacks led to Bed Bath & Beyond’s demise
   • How the Retail Industry Is Perpetuating Racial Inequality in the 21st Century
3. Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build
4. Tell Trader Joe’s: Stop union-busting!
   

April 23, 2023 to April 29, 2023

1. Today, We Celebrate the Carnation Revolution (text)
2. Fifteen NY city council members leave the Progressive Caucus (text)
3. Burning Ashes: Puerto Rican Voices (video)
4. Gunshots in Khartoum (text)
5. Gaza Fights for Freedom (video)
6. Hope Is a Discipline: Mariame Kaba on Dismantling the Carceral State (audio)
7. Report from Haiti (tweet)
   • Haiti crisis: how did it get so bad, what is the role of gangs, and is there a way out? (text)
8. Rupert. Logan. Clarence. (podcast)
9. ‘The crowd were saying, “Kill him, kick him to death”’: what happened to the people who protested against King Charles? (text)

April 16, 2023 to April 22, 2023

1. Zelensky Skimmed $400 Million In U.S. War Funds! Reveals Seymour Hersh (video)
2. Journalists CONFRONTED Over Opposing Assange & Pushing Russiagate (video)
3. Top Republican Tells His Owner Donors That Poor People Will Have To Work For Food Aid (video)
4. Some of England’s trainee doctors are paid less than fast-food workers. They’ve had enough (text)
5. Why Hollywood Writers Are Going on Strike (video)
6. Econ 101 is failing college students (podcast)
   • ‘How Efficiency Replaced Equality in US Policy” (podcast)
7. We Can Defeat Zero-Sum Politics (podcast)
8. (Reposting) Angela Saini, “The Patriarchs – The Origins of Inequality” (podcast)
9. Black running groups call for change after police were called to their Boston Marathon cheer section (text with video)
10. The largest-ever decrease in the US prison population mostly benefited white people, study shows (audio/transcript)
    • Academic study: COVID-19 amplified racial disparities in the U.S. criminal legal system
11. New York’s Imprisoned Women Brave Risks to Sue Sexual Abusers Under New Law (text)
12. “A Weapon by the State to Silence Our Voices” (text)

April 9, 2023 to April 15, 2023

1. School Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (video)
2. Kansas Republicans Approve Child Genital Inspections | Krystal Kyle & Friends Podcast (video)
3. U.S. Fascism Is Spreading Under the Guise of “Patriotic Education” (text)
4. #FreeBlackMamas (web site)
5. Oxfam Slams Rich Nations for Using ‘Financial Wizardry’ to Skimp on Global Climate Funding (text)
6. Obituaries for Nuremberg Prosecutor Erase His Beliefs About the U.S. (text)
7. ‘They want to protect White power’ (video)
8. Expelled Memphis lawmaker credits student activists as he wins reappointment to Tennessee House (text)
9. Texas Senate Passes Bill To Seize Control of Elections from Local Authorities (text)
10. Texas man sentenced to 70 years in prison for spitting on police officers (text)
11. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott seeks pardon for man convicted in murder of Black Lives Matter protester (video)
    • Tucker Carlson called for a Texas killer’s pardon. The next day, Gov. Greg Abbott stepped in. (text)

April 2 to April 8, 2023

1. “Plantation Politics”: How White Mississippi Lawmakers Want to Seize Power in Majority-Black Jackson (audio)
2. These Republicans are Trying to LITERALLY Send Your Kids Back To The Mines (audio)
3. Extraordinarily stressed and vigilant? How racism makes people physically ill (text)
   • This Racism Is Killing Me Inside (audio)
4. A powerful anti-colonial exhibit by Puerto Rican artists (text)
5. Opinion: It’s Not ‘Deaths of Despair.’ It’s Deaths of Children (text)
   • How the White Working Class Is Being Destroyed (Text)
6. Rep. Cori Bush: From Ferguson to the Halls of Congress (text)
7. Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire (text)
8. An Immigration Plan for the Climate Change Era (with Deepak Bhargava)
9. Life Without Police: The grand unintentional experiment (text)
10. ‘Police don’t produce safety’: the Black feminist scholars fighting for abolition (text)

March 26 to April 1, 2023

1. Angela Saini, “The Patriarchs – The Origins of Inequality” (audio)
2. Editorial | If you build more public transit, they will come back (text)
3. Job Listings Abound, but Many Are Fake (text)
4. Katrina vanden Heuvel: What if the People Owned the Banks? The case for public banking. (text)
5. Sabrina Salvati: Bronx Green Party DEMANDS An Apology From AOC (clip)–AOC smears Greens, Veterans for Peace and We Are Not Your Soliders (video)
6. Ukraine Soldiers Kidnapping New “Recruits” In Broad Daylight! (video)
7. Book Talk: Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World (video)
8. Mule Creek Post (Prison newspaper)
9. Ear Hustle (prison podcast)
10. Iraqis trying to put their lives back together (text)
11. Long prison sentences are cruel and ineffective: here’s the proof (text)
12. The Madness of King Powell (text)
13. How Vallas Helped Wall Street Loot Chicago’s Schools (text/audio)
14. Even ChatGPT Knows The U.S. Provoked Russia To Invade Ukraine (video)

March 19 to March 25, 2023

1. The corporate girlies are not okay (text)
2. Congress reconsiders past and present wars:
   • Iraq
     • Congress revisits approval for Iraq invasion, recalling change of heart on Vietnam
     • Response to Biden’s statement on Iraq AUMF repeal and reform (text)
     • The Onion: What I got right about the Iraq War, by Dick Cheney parody (text)
     • Twentieth Anniversary Of The Invasion Of Iraq: Witness To The Horrors Of War
   • Global war on “terror”
     • Senate Votes Overwhelmingly to Keep 2001 Authorization for War on Terror
3. Best of the Left: Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity (podcast, multiple audio clips)
4. Africa: A Liveable Future for All is Possible, if We Take Urgent Climate Action: UN Report (text)
5. COMMENT NOW: Biden policy on immigration:
   • Biden proposes “Asylum Ban” and public is urged to comment (appeal)
   • U.S. Is Said to Consider Reinstating Detention of Migrant Families (article)
   • Form to submit comment or submit directly (forms)
6. The Evolution of Alexey Navalny’s Nationalism (text)
   • Alexei Navalny: Russia’s jailed vociferous Putin critic (text)
7. Chad says it has nationalised all assets owned by Exxon Mobil (text)
8. How The United States Is Preparing For Imminent War With China (podcast)
9. UK Lawyers Sign ‘Declaration of Conscience’ Not to Prosecute Peaceful Climate Protesters (text)
10. India’s ‘Open Prisons’ Are a Marvel of Trust-Based Incarceration (text)

March 12 to March 18, 2023

1. Interviews on Sellng of Capitalism, Reading of Communist Manifesto (audio)
2. Bill Maher Goes Quiet As Bernie Checkmates Him On Student Debt | The Kyle Kulinski (video)
3. Nikki Haley Rips Poor People: ‘Paid To Sit On The Couch’ | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
4. Republicans Pushing to Make SNAP Even Harder to Get (video)
5. Frankfurt Undermines Human Rights by Canceling a Concert by Roger Waters (text)
   • Roger Waters Concert CANCELLED Over Israel Criticism | Breaking Points (video)
6. The House That Mr. Mayer Built: Inside the Union-Busting Birth of the Academy Awards (text)
7. After the Oscars’ Controversial ‘Naatu Naatu’ Performance, South Asian Dancers Are Fighting for Representation (article)
8. Who Pays for Inflation? Economics and the Fed Policy (podcast)
9. Banking crisis
   • After SVB, is the government bailing out the banks again? Yes (text)
   • Why Silicon Valley Bank Crashed (text)
   • US regulators are setting a dangerous precedent on Silicon Valley Bank (text)
10. Multi-Millionaire Ben Shapiro Opposes Free School Lunches, Claims Parents Can Afford It Themselves (video)
    • Right-wing host slammed for suggesting it’s better to send kids to child services than give them free school lunches (text)
11. ‘Extreme’ and ‘abnormal’: 5 Black children taken into state custody after traffic stop over tinted windows (text)
12. A potent white supremacist tool — propaganda (text)
13. Biden administration quietly resumes deportations to Russia (text)
14. NY State Budget
    • Here’s What’s at Stake in the 2023 State Budget (text)
    • Labor makes another push for Clean Slate (text)
15. “Navalny,” documentary nominated for March 12th Oscar, is disinformation (text)
16. San Francisco Considers $5 Million Reparations Payouts to Eligible Black Adults (text)

Posts: March 5 to March 11, 2023

1. UNMASKED: This Woman is the Leader of A Neo Nazi Terrorist Group (video)
2. New York’s Black leaders to convene on crime following midterm losses for Democrats (text)
3. Banks For The People (text)
4. A cleaning company illegally hired a 13-year-old. Her family is paying the price. (text)
5. Zelensky Thanks Corporate Elites, Says More Weapons For Ukraine Is Big Business Opportunity (text)
6. Homeless Services corruption is just a taste of NYC’s nonprofit scams (text; submitter asks us to consider the source)
   • The Villainous Reign of Eric Adams (text, submitter is not familiar with the source, judge on content)
7. John Oliver on Ron DeSantis (video)
8. Kshama Sawant: How Obama – Not Russia Or Racism – Gave Us Trump! (video)
9. ‘INVADE MEXICO’: More Republicans Call For WAR | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
10. Texas Bill Gives MASSIVE Tax Cut to Straight People with Families (video)
11. Do We Really Live Under Capitalism? (Yes) (video)
12. Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance” (text)
13. We Got Us: A Case Study and Reflections on Supporting an Arrestee from the 2020 Uprisings (text)
    • On the Ground at Stop Cop City, Part 1: The Shooting (podcast)
14. Surviving a Pogrom: Palestinian in Huwara Decries Israeli Settler Attack as “Ethnic Cleansing” (video)
15. Spy Balloons: The Ultimate Distraction (podcast)
16. Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work (text)
    

February 26, 2003 to March 4, 2003

1. Zelensky Threatened w/ DEATH If He Negotiated With Russia! (video)
2. Here’s how dangerous the Ohio chemical train derailment really was (text)
3. U.S. Air Force Tests X-62 VISTA Aircraft Testing The Use Of AI In Airspace & Defense (text)
4. Ron DeSantis is weaponizing partisan media — and weakening independent sources (text)
5. AI “reporters” spread disinformation about Ohio train derailment (text)
6. Ron DeSantis accused of illegal acts of torture against Guantanamo detainees when he was a Navy JAG officer (text)
7. Holy Uproar After Adams Decries Separation Of Church And State (text)
8. City Struggling to Connect Housing Benefits App to New Yorkers Who Need It Most (text)
9. EXPOSED: Blackstone’s Evil Scheme to Profit Off Every American Crisis | The Class Room (video)
10. How an Israeli Raid on a Safe House Ended With Civilians Killed (video)
11. Israelis Launch “Pogrom” On Palestinians (video)
12. Media Already SMEARING Marianne Williamson | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
13. Mediaite SMEARS Jimmy Dore For Telling Truth About Ukraine N@zis (video)
14. MSNBC Buried This HONEST Anti-War Rally Report Exposing Rachel Maddow’s Lies (video)
15. Video: Dead Deer & Toxic Chemicals in East Palestine River (video)
    • Your “Carbon Footprint” Is A Scam (video)
16. “Socialism always fails” is a stupid argument (video)
17. Real Estate TikTokers: You Should Tip Your Landlords (video)
18. Who Benefits When Jews Are Afraid? (text)
    • Has the Fight Against Antisemitism Lost Its Way? (text)
    • Praeger U: — “If They[We] Can Scare You, They[We] Can Control You” (links intentionally omitted)
      • “Every tyrannical regime used fear to control its subjects—because that’s the only way people will willingly give up their rights.”
19. “There are a lot of sick people” says Charlie Kirk as he advocates lynching trans people (tweet/video clip)
20. Meet the Bronx Activists Who Won a Historic Settlement for NYPD’s Violent Attack at 2020 BLM Protest (video)
21. Biden proposes “Asylum Ban” and public is urged to comment (text / easy action)

Feb 19 to Feb 25, 2023

1. NFL Lies About Pat Tillman’s Death To Promote War (video)
2. Corporate Media Smears Reporter Who Revealed U.S. Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline! (video) (proof Bellingcat is CIA pro-war propaganda!)
3. Cori Bush’s Public Transportation Win (text)
4. Footage of Cop Fatally Shooting Unarmed Man in Louisiana Released (video)
   • Death of unarmed North Carolina man under police restraint ruled a homicide; police would not release body camera footage to assist with autopsy (text)
5. The Ohio Derailment Catastrophe Is a Case Study in Disaster Capitalism (text)
6. These Supreme Court Cases Could Destroy YouTube, Expert Warns (video)
   • Supreme Court Seems Wary of Limiting Protections for Social Media Platforms (text)
7. Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. (text)
8. Emptier Jails Could Stay That Way (text)
9. U.S. Official LOVES Ukraine Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion (video)
10. Biden Visits Kiev Ukraine But Not Palestine Ohio! (video)
    • Biden’s “Surprise” Visit To Kiev, Ukraine Is All Lies (video)
11. Blood-Soaked USAID Chief Samantha Power Targeting Hungary! (video)
12. Liberals Working Overtime To Undermine Anti-War Rally (video)
13. War-Pig Rachel Maddow SMEARS Peace Rallygoers (video)
14. Bernie ADMITS Medicare For All WON’T Happen (clip) (video)
15. George Orwell was a terrible human being (video)
16. The Iraq War: The Bill We’re Still Paying (video)
17. How Capitalism Destroys Feminism (video)
18. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Black People are “Lazy and Sorry” (video)
19. How HR Cheats Employees (video)
20. Trump Calls For Authoritarian Takeover Of ‘Marxist’ Cities | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
21. Dems Turn On Biden For Blowing Up Nord Stream Pipeline! (video)
22. Biden FIRES Top Human Rights Lawyer For Calling Israel Apartheid State | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
23. Will a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit finally stop Fox News from spreading lies? (text)
24. NSA’s “state secrets” defense kills lawsuit challenging Internet surveillance (text)
25. About 90% of drivers searched or arrested by the NYPD in 2022 were Black or Latino (text)
26. HIV & Cancer CURED With Stem Cells | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
27. Meet The Billionaires Sabotaging Your Student Debt Relief (video)
28. 17 And Homeless, Starbucks Worker Fired For Unionizing Seeks Justice (video)
29. If Words Were Violence: Glenn Greenwald vs AOC (video)

February 12 to February 18

1. ‘They forgot to wear their hoods.’ Mississippi mayor says new law would create ‘colonized’ court system in district (text)
2. Trump’s Death Penalty Expansion Plan Includes Hanging, Guillotines and Public Executions (video)
3. The Fight to End Qualified Immunity Is Just Beginning in States Across the Country (text)
4. U.S. Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline – Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Seymour Hersh Confirms! (video)
   • How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline (text)
   • Reporter Seymour Hersh on “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”: Democracy Now Interview
5. Fox hosts didn’t believe 2020 election fraud claims (text)
6. Amid Ohio Nightmare, Rail Worker Alliance Urges All of Labor to Back Railroad Nationalization (text)
7. Barcelona Cuts Ties With ‘Apartheid’ Israel, Spanish Jews Condemn ‘Antisemitic’ Decision (text)
8. Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’ (text)
9. Woman fighting for restitution of Santa Monica land seized from family on grounds of eminent domain (text)

Feb. 5 to Feb. 11, 2023

1. Congress Votes to Condemn Socialism While 1 in 8 Children Go Hungry (video)
   • 109 Dems Vote For ‘Anti-Socialism’ Virtue Signal Bill | The Kyle Kulinski Show (video)
2. The World Turned Upside Down (video)
3. The Invention of Personal Responsibility (video)
4. Trump Accuses DeSantis of GROOMING High School Girls (video)
5. AOC uses question time to confront Twitter about violations of their policy to allow Trump racism, incitement of violence against “Libs” (video)
6. NYC Had 88,830 Vacant Rent-Stabilized Apartments Last Year, City Housing Agency Estimates (text)
7. NYCHA has 6,000 vacant units as it struggles to quickly make repairs (text)
8. Homeless Youth With Housing Vouchers Illegally Rejected by Bronx Landlord, Suit Alleges (text)
9. ‘Stop Union-Busting’: After 1,000+ Days Without Contract, NBC News Workers Walk Out (text)
10. Lula Rallies US Left to an Alternative Foreign Policy (text)
11. Mapping Black California (web site)
12. Memphis officer took and shared photos of bloodied Tyre Nichols, documents show (article)
13. Roger Waters Smeared By Pink Floyd Bandmate Over Ukraine (video)
14. How Credit Card Fees Are A $12 Billion Scam (video)

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)
4. Zelensky Admits: “Ukraine War Is Good For Business!” (video)
5. Pfizer Exec ADMITS Company’s Evil Intentions For COVID Vaxx (video)
6. Pfizer Exec TURNS VIOLENT After Being Exposed In Undercover Video (video)
7. Shitlib Films presents The Prince of Darkness starring Matt Taibbi (video)
8. Shitlib Films presents Right Wing Talking Points (video)
9. Capitalism v Socialism: Glenn Loury, Lajuan Loury and Richard Wolff (video)
10. From Jan. 6 to Tyre Nichols, American Life Is Still Defined by Caste (text)
11. The Obvious Answer to Homelessness: And why everyone’s ignoring it (text)
12. Finance and the polycrisis (6): Africa’s debt crisis (text)
13. Situation 7: Claudia Rankine (video)
14. ‘Cannibal Capitalism’s’ Antidote w/ Nancy Fraser (video)
15. The Anti-Democratic Origins of the ADL and AJC (text)
16. Meritocracy: the great delusion that ingrains inequality (text)
17. Captives of Industry: How Wall Street is Cashing in on Your Insurance (text)

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)

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