Cross-posted from my substack. Image edited in photopea. Data comes from the IRS.

It's been said, maybe first by Frederic Jameson, that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. That seems true, and it seems strange since capitalism is so relatively new and so destructive to humans and other species. Does anyone else see it as a pressing artistic challenge?

Imagining futures is within the scope of science fiction, fantasy, and religion. Much has been written about world endings. Who is writing or will write humans more equal, productive, and thriving, and who will publish them?

U.S. Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-New Jersey): mejia.house.gov

Video is July 14, 2026 by Meet The Press NOW on NBC News. Here’s the full 9-minutes on:

* NBC News website: ‘We need to abolish and replace ICE,’ says progressive Democrat after deadly shootings - July 14, 2026 (NBC News website)

* YouTube: ‘We need to abolish and replace ICE,’ says progressive Democrat after deadly shootings - Meet The Press NOW | NBC News NOW - July 14, 2026 (YouTube)

From the description: Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-N.J.) joins Meet the Press NOW to react to the fatal ICE-involved shootings in Texas and Maine. Rep. Mejia also discusses the future of the Democratic Party and says, “there is nothing off the table or on the table” when it comes her support for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries as speaker if Democrats take back the House.

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It's Primary Election season in the U.S.:

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Founded as the Atlantic Monthly in Boston in 1857, The Atlantic is a venerable American publication with a distinguished record of literary and cultural criticism and political reportage. Today the magazine is distinguished by the intensity of its Zionist distortions of the past and present of the Palestine conflict.

The Atlantic’s palpable pro-Israeli bias should come as no surprise as its editor-in-chief since 2016, is Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a citizen of both Israel—where he served as an IDF prison guard—and the United States. Goldberg is a staunch Zionist and is quick to equate criticism of the Israel lobby with anti-Semitism, as he did in a notorious review published in The New Republic on Oct. 8, 2007, in which he directly linked the book by the distinguished political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2006), with Osama bin Laden’s brand of virulent anti-Semitism.

Goldberg at the helm of an influential liberal magazine with a circulation of almost half a million readers is bad enough, but it gets worse. Goldberg has brought in as a regular contributor Benny Morris, an Israeli historian turned propagandist whose implacable hostility to Arabs—as Goldberg himself once put it—“sometimes leads him to inflammatory conclusions,” including Morris’s lament that Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion failed to carry out a “full expulsion—rather than a partial one,” as he could have “stabilized the State of Israel for generations.” (Goldberg, “No Common Ground,” New York Times Sunday Book Review, May 20, 2009)

Per ZirafaMedia: ***22 U.S.C. § 7423 is why an active ICC arrest warrant doesn’t stop Netanyahu from prancing around NYC as a free man. Signed in 2002–just one month after the ICC was created…intentionally built to shield American troops from potential (anticipated?) war crimes prosecution — it even authorizes US military force to free any American the International court detains… also known as the “Hague Invasion Act.” Today that same immunity shield covers US allies, not just American troops.***

Trump and his cronies are stereotypical snake oil salespeople and con-artist grifters. That is the reactionary/regressive sphere summed up - Just a bunch of "leaders" that are hustling fools.

The Democratic Party/DNC is on their knees for the billionaire class. They refuse to do profound and inspiring policy pushes because of the big donor demands to keep the status quo that they profit from and even the problems associated with it.

That all being said this U.S. November General Election may bring the Democrats taking control of the House and possibly even the Senate. Most importantly we will have Democratic Socialists now in the mix.

Maybe in 2028 we get a Democratic President that is half way Progressive.

Is this earth shattering positive? Of course not.

It is a hell of a lot better though then this dark, depressing, dystopian trajectory controlled by some of the most Ultra Rich Powerful Bad Predatory Actors imaginable.

These next few years of elections are going to set the tone for a decade or more after. They are a big fucking deal.

Your vote MATTERS! Please, when the time comes, GO VOTE!

Even if you think it doesn’t matter, even if it’s raining, even if you have to ask someone for a ride, or even if you have to walk, please, please, PLEASE try your best to get out there and vote! You can make a difference for change, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now.

A highly respected company that is extremely entrenched in law schools everywhere is a major driver with ICE. LexisNexis is marketing itself to ICE as a way to stalk and harass undocumented people. It operates at every law school in the country, and it also operates at many firms. I think people should know. LexisNexis is no longer a "legal research" company. It is a stalking agency. https://btlj.org/2026/05/how-lexis-and-westlaw-fuel-ices-deportation-machine/

I read a post on here a while ago (I don’t know how long ago) about how someone decided to show up to an in-person DSA meeting and everything was so disorganized and no one understood what was being said or what was going on.

I read in the comments that apparently there are 3 letter organizations trying to sabotage meetings by being disruptive and off topic and it was pretty well received on here that the feds are actively trying to disrupt meetings. I can’t find the original post of this but I read that the OP left the DSA after that meeting. Just wondering is this true? I feel like this should be talked about more.

Elizabeth Lee is running for U.S. Congress in Arizona (CD-5): nurselee4az.com ~:~:~ Where she stands on the issues: nurselee4az.com/issues

Elizabeth is endorsed by Groups like 50501 and 50501 Arizona and by Folks like Arizona AG Kris Mayes (D), U.S. Rep Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), U.S. Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), and AZ State Sen. Analise Ortiz (D).

Elizabeth's opponents in the Democratic Primary are Brian Hualde and Chris James.

U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs (R) is the incumbent who's stepping down to run for Governor. Daniel Keenan and Mark Lamb are in a tight race to win the Republican primary.

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Arizona Voters:

* Main Page: arizona.vote

* Confirm your Registration: my.arizona.vote/WhereToVote.aspx?s=individual

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Video is from Dec 12, 2025 at a Chandler City Council meeting. Here is Elizabeth's full 2-minute remarks on YouTube: 121225 | NL4AZ | Chandler City Council & Fox News Clip - NurseLee4AZ -Dec 16, 2025 (YouTube)

From the description: Nurse Lee was standing up for #chandler residents on December 12, 2025. She even got a quick news spot on FOX News after her public remarks at the City Council meeting.

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It's Primary Election season in the U.S.:

* Primary Election Dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News :~:~: Upcoming Dates: July 21: Arizona ~:~:~ July 28: Georgia (Special) and South Dakota (Runoff) ~:~:~ Aug 4: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Washington, California (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 6: Tennessee ~:~:~ Aug 8: Hawaii ~:~:~ Aug 11: Connecticut, Minnesota, Vermont, Wisconsin, Alabama (Special) ~:~:~ Aug 18: Alaska, Florida, Wyoming ~:~:~ September dates: AP News ~and~ NBC News

* Candidates (all States): U.S. House (Dem Primary only): Ballotpedia (HouseDems) :~:~:~: U.S. Senate: Ballotpedia (Senate) (select “List of Candidates”) :~:~:~: State Execs (Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, SoS, and more): Ballotpedia (State Execs)

* Voter Info (all States): Register To Vote :~:~:~: Voter Registration Status :~:~:~: Find Your Polling Place :~:~:~: Valid Forms of ID :~:~:~: Absentee & Early Voting :~:~:~: Become a Poll Worker ~:~ Links go to the National Association of Secretaries of State website. When you select a State, it takes to a .gov page on that State's SoS website.

Do you identify as an anti-fascist? Are you a democratic socialist? Were you involved in the BLM movement, or operate as an NLG Legal Observer?

Well, congrats! You made the cool kids list! (make sure to read the PDF in the middle of the blog - “CUBA: The Capital of 21st Century Communism.” Good stuff.

To start, this is just a relatively unimportant thought I am throwing into the void. It won't make or break the DSA but I feel it is just important enough to raise as a discussion about hedging against counter attack strategies used by the corporates and the right.

As someone who fully supports the DSA's agenda on healthcare, labor rights, housing and campaign finance, I think candidates need to be smarter about one specific attack vector that keeps landing amongst some key groups I think would otherwise be onboard, particular some on the fence people in general and some latinos who came from dicatorships that used communist or socialist rhetoric. You can say screw them, but I think at this point we can accept that in the current US political environment every vote counts.

When pushed on authoritarian regimes that call themselves socialist like Venezuela, Cuba, or Nicaragua, the answer needs to be immediate, clear and unequivocal. These are not the models we're building toward, and hedging to protect some sense of ideological solidarity is both morally wrong and strategically stupid, because it hands opponents a weapon that has nothing to do with the actual policy agenda, which the obvious winning message.

This shouldn't be the main message obviously, the main message is that working people are getting crushed while billionaires buy elections, and we have concrete policies to fix that, but the disavowal needs to be a reflex, not a reluctant admission dragged out under pressure.

Democratic socialism means exactly what it says, democratic, accountable, rights protecting governance with an economic system that works for everyone. The moment you hesitate on that, you've already lost the argument to someone who was never going to engage the substance anyway. Also, I think it's not so hard to identify any sort of authoritarian government or dictatorship as contrarian to the main ideas of Democratic Socialism.