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PFLP (Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine) Poster, 2026

A party star and party balloons with the text DIFFICULT SECURITY INCIDENT

this is making me laugh so hard

well ok fuck does anyone know a good pizza place in tel aviv

America will establish Kurdistan any day now I'm sure

Turns out spending decades obsessed with justifying your field of (non-)knowledge to bourgeois academia and bourgeois politicians just makes you an arm of bourgeois state power. Shocking, I know.

Most of my colleagues in this field are unfortunately either too reactionary or woefully too spineless to handle this situation as it should be handled.

It bugs me when I hear people saying this is to distract from the Epstein files, or because we're just serving Israel. This is capitalist imperialism. It has always done this, regardless of who helms the ship, and will always do this, until you and I dig a grave big enough for it.

Israel, Epstein, corporate oil industry

Remember who you are fighting for

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

the comprador bourgeoisie hate to see my goat coming

I've been lucky enough to spend some time in Cuba, as well as many other places in the world, and there really is way less pro-American sentiment on the ground there than anywhere else on earth. The empire can definitely release a lot of violence, but stable regime change? I'm skeptical

This is the guy who made up that shit about Stalin being a pedophile too.

Truly awful day ending with reading Huey Newton sing the praises of behaviorism and logical positivism

Heart and spirit goes out to the Indian Maoists during this tough time. Fascism may kill a lot of people but it will also create the conditions for the growth of the revolutionaries who will dig its final grave.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

*looks directly into the camera Marxistly*

Ever since being berated by liberals for saying there's no functional difference between Reps & Dems years ago the Dems have spent every second openly assuring everyone that they're actually to the right of Trump

American efforts to promote military enlistment as one of the only reliable paths out of poverty also an old strategy

Looks like Los Angeles high school students are scraping with Feds downtown today 👀👀 hundreds of students surrounded a group of fed pigs an forcefully made them retreat back into the detention center garage.

Solidarity with the youth! 🖤

Would you look at that.

bsky.app/profile/jona...

Very striking how often you see proto-strategies of the modern bourgeoisie reflected when reading about the class conflict of this time period. Thinking about the scale of the OnlyFans phenomenon at this particular crisis moment in capitalism's history.

Institutional prostitution used as a tool of social control by the ruling classes in late European feudalism, in response to a time period where the exploited masses experienced a massive rise in power due to the social upheaval of the Black Death.

-Caliban and the Witch by Federici

-Hugo Meynell in Freud, Marx and Morals

I'll take it but need to work on building the Maoism cluster

a pdf screenshot of an excerpt from T. Derbent's essay, "Categories of Revolutionary Military Politics", which reads as follows: "Dear Comrades, Louis XIV famously had his cannons engraved with the words “ultima ratio regum”: the kings’ last argument. Any project for social revolution must anticipate the question of armed confrontation with the forces in power and those of reaction. Postponing such an analysis on the grounds that the question of armed confrontation “is not yet relevant” exposes us to making choices (political, strategic, organizational) which, when the question of armed confrontation “becomes relevant,” risk putting revolutionary forces in a position of powerlessness and vulnerability, giving them a totally inadequate character, and ultimately exposing them to defeat. Organizations with revolutionary ambitions that refuse to develop a military policy as soon as the question of confrontation arises practically, disqualify themselves as revolutionary forces; they behave in advance as gravediggers of the revolution, as fodder for stadiums and cemeteries."

from T. Derbent, "Categories of Revolutionary Military Politics"