"Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories." ~Amilcar Cabral
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...The starting point is to recognize that since Trump’s return to the White House, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba have been in a de facto state of war, which is an escalation of the multiple forms of hostility and aggression of past years. This is key to how all three nations should be judged. While the Left’s commitment to democracy needs to remain unquestionable and unwavering, in these cases primary responsibility for democracy’s somewhat uncertain prospects lies with the siege imposed by imperialist powers. No one other than James Madison said “Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded.”...
Grab a bag of popcorn for this one. 🍿
"If you’re running production workloads on Azure or relying on it for mission-critical systems, this story matters more than you think."
https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
A good read, if you're into geopolitics and history and the like.
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/my-temporary-enemys-temporary-enemy
Something for the transit nerds out there:
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-invention-of-buses/
#buses
Sound familiar?
"Red Liberalism emerges not primarily from ideological confusion but from material conditions specific to the imperial core. In a context of fragmented labor organization, high levels of ideological incorporation, and extensive state capacity, the costs of revolutionary rupture appear prohibitive, while the incentives for institutional participation are significant.
"The result is a left formation that speaks the language of Marxism while operating within the boundaries of liberal political economy."
https://futuredude.substack.com/p/electoralism-as-containment-the-reproduction
Here's the COVID Vaccine Paper the CDC Censored
"...The censored paper presents data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines during the 2025-2026 season. The results suggest that, in the first few months after vaccination (September-December 2025), this year's vaccines were 53-55% effective against hospitalizations among the study's population of adults without immune compromise."
https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faustfiles/121016?
The paper in question:
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/api/v1/file/ab3d90bd-5bb8-4b2a-bf5e-0eccb93e0230.pdf
"In a social media response to The Lever editor-in-chief David Sirota on April 17, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) posted that a five-year extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — a War on Terror-era measure that has allowed federal law enforcement to unofficially spy on Americans’ communications — was “not acceptable.”
"But emails reviewed by The Lever show Himes, the top Democratic lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, urged his colleagues just hours before he posted the response to support a Trump administration-backed bill that would have extended the spying powers for another five years."
https://www.levernews.com/top-democrat-opposed-surveillance-bill-then-whipped-votes-for-it/
Looks like Anna's Archive no longer has free downloads (every link goes to their donation page) and they are specifically pitching themselves to LLM companies now. jfc
[EDIT: it has been pointed out that this is a fake site that is masquerading as AA - the real one still exists at .gl]
Important stuff here for understanding the world, imo:
https://www.mathofpolitics.com/2026/04/01/all-measurements-are-local/
Researchers: Hey Google, we asked your chatbot a bunch of questions and it gave a lot of wrong answers. Anything to say about that?
Google: You're asking it the wrong questions.*
🤦♂️
*i.e. if you can't control the outputs, control the inputs.
House Democrats Have Moved to the Right Since 2018:
"For the first time, Democrats’ center-right caucus holds a majority in Congress. But their growing strength is out of step with where the base is headed — a huge opportunity for labor and the left."
https://www.left-notes.com/p/house-democrats-have-moved-to-the
"New UNSW research shows social media platforms do not need to addict users to keep them – they just need to make leaving worse than staying."
🎶 Just found footage from one of my favorite jazz albums: Mingus Live at Antibes (1960). Featuring Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin, Bud Powell, Ted Curson, and Dannie Richmond.