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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

Chicago Sun-Times

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

The purpose of the #DemocraticParty is to paralyze lots of people who otherwise would be more actively involved in resisting #fascism. That's why it's gotten this far over decades.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #Sanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #Progressives

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 6 days ago

The purpose of the #DemocraticParty is to paralyze lots of people who otherwise would be more actively involved in resisting #fascism. That's why it's gotten this far over decades.

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

So do all those #journalists & #professors get their jobs back too or is it just the millionaire comedian whose cancellation ate into #Disney 's #profits?

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #GOP #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #Sanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #Progressives

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

So do all those #journalists & #professors get their jobs back too or is it just the millionaire comedian whose cancellation ate into #Disney 's #profits?

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

Overcoming #capitalism - in other words, transitioning to a #democratic #socialist #economy - is ultimately necessary to end structural #racism & #imperialist #violence.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social replied · last month

The struggle against #racism must be #anticapitalist, & the struggle against #capitalism must be #antiracist.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

#Racism, like #imperialism itself, is not a side-show to #capitalism but a structurally necessary feature of it. It is not a standalone problem that can be addressed with a few #liberal #reforms here & there. It has always been central to capitalism & it remains that way today.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social replied · last month

Overcoming #capitalism - in other words, transitioning to a #democratic #socialist #economy - is ultimately necessary to end structural #racism & #imperialist #violence.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

And of course these very same discourses were deployed within the core itself, to justify paying lower #wages to radicalized people, & to deny them equal access to #resources.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

... to provide the ideological scaffolding necessary to justify #apocalyptic levels of #exploitation & bloodshed in the periphery.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

This was an extraordinarily #violent process, involving #colonization, #dispossession, mass #enslavement, & #genocide.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

And for #capital, the purpose of #production is not to meet #human needs, or to achieve #social progress, but to maximize & accumulate #profit. That is the overriding objective.

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

This bears repeating: despite the massive #productivity of the world #economy, nearly one-third of the #human population does not have secure access to #food.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

This bears repeating: despite the massive #productivity of the world #economy, nearly one-third of the #human population does not have secure access to #food.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

Given that secure access to #food is central to the BNPL method, this suggests that post-2011 #poverty trends have probably not improved much.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

Third, while we don't yet have robust BNPL data after 2011, we know that #food insecurity has increased steadily in more recent years, going from 21% in 2014 to 30% in 2022.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · last month

Too many Americans think " #socialist" & " #communist" are just synonyms for "bad person I don't like". Those words have meanings, you know.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

You know in authoritarian #China & #Cuba you can get an #abortion with free #healthcare & live as a #Trans person, unlike the #UnitedStates of #America here.

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Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

I think there is no better summation of the Democratic Party than saying you want to minimize #cruelty instead of completely eliminate it.

Nathaniel Gregory

@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

I think there is no better summation of the Democratic Party than saying you want to minimize #cruelty instead of completely eliminate it.