I pray to the pragmatist wing of the deep state, please I beg of you, let Ukraine go already! The proxy war is exhausted! There's no need to escalate this further!
I'm sure the worst possible outcome will happen though. Actions with Israel have made it clear they're going to go down with the ship, in the stupidest and most violent path possible.
I'm more wondering about the first bit. It's very possible it's made up. But I could also see the kind of guy who organizes a coup doing something like that.
What are we feeling on this. Real or bullshit?
The fucking animals in 
cheering this on are making me fucking furious. Even if you accept he base idea that Hezbollah is a terrorist org, and that Israel is justified in attacking them (Which I don't), it's fucking absurd to think that all of these explosions only harmed "terrorists". So many people were harmed here, and likely many more will die. Thousands were harmed by this, people just guilty of holding on to a communication device. This is such a disgusting action.
This lady led a secret coup to depose the bourgeois government of the United States, installing a council republic with minimal bloodshed. Now, the next phase comes, to secure revolutionary power, and quell the counter revolution.
Girls rock.
This is such a giant leap in criminalizing homelessness. Like, this has been in the works for a while, and in a lot of ways municipalities have been making homelessness de-facto illegal, but now they can just ticket or arrest people for a basic part of living, a fundamental need of continuing existence.
So, UC strike update. The university admin has been working overtime to shut down the strike via legal means, in addition to all their normal intimidation stuff. They filed not one, but two, complaints to PERB, the union regulatory body, and both were struck down. PERB even filed a complaint against the UC after the second one, due to their gross breach of union protections and norms.
So, what did they do? Decide to just strike break like a normal company? No.
They shopped around California to get a judge to rule the strike illegal, outside of the entire legal chain of how this is supposed to go, after the actual regulatory body has declared it legal, twice. And they just succeeded! A restraining order got signed, of some weird legal justification or another. Of course the crank judge signed off on this, and now our collaborator union executive board just signed off an email to pause striking. The order is to pause it until June 27th, which is coincidentally 3 days before the strike is constrained to end at, June 30th, so it's effectively a full destruction of the strike.
Fucking amazing. There's a strong wildcat strike supporting contingent already, and I can only imagine it's going to get bigger in the face of this obviously farcical judicial order. Now we're going to pressure people to try to stop being pieces of shit at the top end. Because honestly, if they let this slide, what is even the point of a union existing anymore? Like seriously!
There was a midnight raid on the UCSC Palestine encampment. A lot of arrests. From what I’ve heard though, there’s still people in the encampment holding on. Unsure of the details at moment.
Three more UC campuses are going on strike next week. The Palestinian activists are inspiring. Some of the encampments elsewhere have settled for promises of meetings in the future, which has been noticed and refuted by people on the ground. There’s already been meetings between reps and admin staff where those kinds of offers have been refused. While the Union has had made a colossal fuck up that I can’t mention here for opsec reasons, there’s so much good stuff happening. I’m proud to do my part, however small.
Got an email from my union president a few minutes ago. UAW 4811, the union of academic workers in the UC system, "voted to hold a strike authorization vote as early as next week to give the Executive Board authority to call a strike."
This is obviously in regards to the attack at the UCLA encampments. My opinion of the highest level of my union leadership is kinda bad, there's still a decent bit of corruption that hasn't been stamped out, but I think this might have been egregious enough for the other organs of the union below to push for this. This could be pretty huge if it goes through, there's 48000 people in the union altogether. This would be a massive amount of economic pressure, so I can only hope.
The strike authorization vote will be across the entire union membership, which is good. The membership is consistently better about things than the highest leadership levels.
The amount of people concern trolling about incitement to violence in the replies. Holy fuck. Look at that US senator’s post about killing protesters. I’m honestly furious.
Cuba is a beacon of progress and humanity in the Americas. Fidel Castro was a hero. Also a pro at dodging the CIA's kill squads.
Even if that shock happens, China will still be in a better situation. Like, they actually manufacture stuff there, and the government builds infrastructure aggressively. That’s two massive benefits to economic security and health.
yeah, there's plenty of ways they could retaliate that would be meaningful, but are less flashy in the WWIII.
...like arming Ansarallah.