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"At a 2021 conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), Zohran Mamdani discussed various short-term reforms favored by the organization. But alongside offering his thoughts on the groups’ immediate aims, he also had something to say about “end goal” of socialist politics: “seizing the means of production.”

In the last week, the clip resurfaced on right-wing social media, where it’s been treated as a damning discovery about Mamdani, who just won a primary to become the Democratic nominee for mayor in New York City.

National Review ran a brief item on the clip under the headline “Uh, That’s Literal Communism!” On CNN, Scott Jennings concurred, saying that Mamdani was “using the language of the Bolsheviks.” Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) said that this was “the scariest thing Mamdani has said” and that it was “straight out of Karl Marx’s Communist playbook.”

It’s unclear why these remarks about the end goal of socialist politics are supposed to be shocking. Days before this supposedly scandalous clip surfaced, when a CNN reporter asked Mamdani whether he “like[d] capitalism,” his response was a forthright “No, I have many critiques.”

And of course, Mamdani constantly called himself a “socialist” during the primary election in which he delivered a knockout blow against former governor Andrew Cuomo, defeating the former governor by 12 points in the final round.

A socialist advocating the socialization of the means of production should be exactly as surprising as a libertarian advocating “liberty” from economic redistribution or a conservative calling to conserve the status quo. This is socialism’s core defining proposition, and it is a mark of how alien many of the ideas of the Left are to the media class that Mamdani’s comments have come as a surprise."

jacobin.com/2025/07/zohran-mam…

#USA #NYC #Mamdani #Socialism #DemocraticSocialism #DSA

Red-Baiting Zohran Mamdani Won’t Work

No one should be surprised that Zohran Mamdani supports democratic control over the economy, the end goal of socialism. But he won because he combined socialist politics with practical solutions to the cost-of-living crisis facing working people.

^jacobin.com

So, Robert Chote, head of the Office for National Statistics is 'stepping down' because of the obvious failures at the ONS in the last few years..... or is he?

Well, he's certainly leaving, but stepping straight into the Presidency of Trinity College, albeit at around half the salary, but with considerable 'benefits' including housing & living costs....

So, as so often with our managerial class, not so much paying the price of failure, but leaving the wreckage behind....

#politics
h/t FT

Uruguay Central Bank Surprises With Quarter-Point Rate Cut
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/uruguay-central-bank-surprises-with-quarter-point-rate-cut?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Economics @economics-bloomberg

Trump Tariff ‘Blank Check’ Must Be Curbed, Appeals Court Told
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/trump-tariff-blank-check-must-be-curbed-appeals-court-told?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Economics @economics-bloomberg

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i'm assuming it's something to do with the middle and you don't just take the lid off

What the fuck is it with #overlay companies and their apologists commenting on my blog?

I got two today (on the same post):
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/ftc-…

They are promoting their water-carrying shill-piece over on LinkedIn.

#accessibility #a11y

FTC Catches up to #accessiBe

From the FTC on Friday: The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider accessiBe to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it misrepresented the ability of its AI-powered web accessibility tool to make any website compliant with the W…

^{Adrian Roselli}

Alluvioni in Texas, i morti sono 109 e 161 i dispersi - Nord America - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/nordamerica/2025/07/08/alluvioni-in-texas-i-morti-sono-109-e-161-i-dispersi_cb3f8843-866d-4926-a51a-5e1800a307bc.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ESTERI @esteri-AgenziaAnsa

Alluvioni in Texas, i morti sono 109 e 161 i dispersi - Nord America - Ansa.it

Il bilancio delle alluvioni in Texas si aggrava: i morti sono 109 e i dispersi almeno 161. Lo riferiscono le autorità. (ANSA). (ANSA)

^{Agenzia ANSA}

The Getty Villa Reopens Six Months After the Devastating Palisades Fire
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-getty-villa-reopens-six-months-after-the-devastating-palisades-fire-180986905/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Smartnews @smartnews-Smithsonianmag

We're only just beginning to see how fucked up things will get.

Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Firings at Federal Agencies
nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/poli…

#Scotus #SupremeCorruption #JohnRoberts #MassLayoffs #FederalWorkforce #Inflation #EconomicCrash #USPol

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Jeremy Cuenca, a photojournalist for the Collegian Wired, was hit by impact projectiles while covering an immigration protest in LA on June 8 — one struck him on the leg, another nearly severed the tip of his pinkie.

He later underwent surgery.

pressfreedomtracker.us/all-inc…

Reporter’s fingertip nearly severed by projectiles at LA protest

Reporter Jeremy Cuenca was struck by impact projectiles — first in the leg, then in the hand, nearly severing the …

^{U.S. Press Freedom Tracker}

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All my life I've assumed the perennial complaints about men who couldn't find her clit were valid, but basically due to male ignorance, sexual shame, or not liking women enough to care about their pleasure.

Yesterday on ErosBlog, a bisexual woman who says well actually, some clits are actually super hard to find!

erosblog.com/2025/07/07/someti…

#clit #Clitoris #Bisexual #Bi #Sex #SexEd #Men #Pleasure #Anatomy #SexEducation #Misogyny #ClitoralHood #pussy #pussies #labia

Sometimes The Little Man Is Hiding - ErosBlog

For my whole-ass adult life I've heard women complain about bad-in-bed men who couldn't find their clits. Nor do I have any reason do disbelieve that that...

^{Bacchus (ErosBlog)}

Una storia sbagliata · Fabrizio De André

#music #pop #fabriziodeandre #mastoradio #unoradio

youtube.com/watch?v=hvUOSDbVUU…

"The urban terrain, the resilience of Hamas and the people of Gaza, the balance of forces in the region and new warfare technologies posed distinct challenges for the Israeli Defence Forces, who were now fighting on multiple fronts with more ambitious goals than just recovering the hostages: destroying Hamas and then Hezbollah, controlling Southern Lebanon—in addition to making life unbearable for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. It was the continuation of the Nakba—an uncivil war of land expropriation.

In those early days, watching with mounting anxiety the indiscriminate bombing of a defenceless population, I wondered why such an eruption of violence had not occurred in apartheid South Africa. Many had anticipated a similar Armageddon. The States of Emergency between 1984 and 1994 saw the militarization of townships, death squads, chemical warfare, assassinations, torture and detention without trial. During this period, an estimated 20,000 were killed in South Africa, the vast majority black; another 1.5 million died in South Africa’s ‘destabilization’ of neighbouring countries. How, after ten years of civil war, did this culminate in a negotiated settlement, the dismantling of the major planks of the apartheid order, and the first elections based on majority rule? Why does such an outcome—with all its problems—seem so remote when we turn to the plight of the Palestinians and the spiralling violence, internal and external, of the Israeli state? How was it that the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995 intensified confrontations rather than making progress towards a two-state solution? Why did Israel abandon the Abraham Accords, which outlined collaboration with Arab states, preferring the disproportionate massacre of Palestinians after Hamas’s incursion?"

newleftreview.org/issues/ii153…

#SouthAfrica #Apartheid #Israel #Colonialism #LandTheft #Palestine #Gaza #SettlerColonialism #Afrikaner #Zionism

Michael Burawoy, Palestine through a South African Lens, NLR 153, May–June 2025

In a draft text sent to NLR before his tragically early death, the sociologist reflects on the reasons for the starkly different outcomes of Afrikaner and Zionist settler colonialisms: in South Africa, a unified democratic republic, with all its prob…

^{New Left Review}

Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F. immigration court

Immigration agents clashed protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest at the courthouse, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

missionlocal.org/2025/07/video…

Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F. immigration court

Immigration agents clashed with protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

^{Frankie Solinsky Duryea (Mission Local)}

🚜 Loi Duplomb : Une « trumpisation en marche » du Parlement

En validant la loi Duplomb quelques jours après le Sénat, l'Assemblée nationale prête allégeance à l'aristocratie de l'agriculture mondialisée, en sacrifiant la santé humaine, la biodiversité et la paysannerie.

Pour Agir pour l’environnement, en renonçant à écouter les alertes de la communauté scientifique, une majorité parlementaire de circonstance verse dans un « trumpisme en marche ».

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