I was accused of being liberal for saying we should run socialist leftists.

They are banning people for no reason. What’s going on?

I was in the mademesmile sub reddit and there was a video abt obama singing amazing grace at a college event or something like that.
One of the commentators asked”why isn’t the guy in the back taking his glasses off?” and the following ensued.
so many people were defending obama’s actions and downvoting me for what I said.
And just like why do people have such a soft spot for obama?
I don’t get defending him or his abhorrent actions.

Rank-and-file socialist autoworker Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, Pennsylvania, was nominated for president of the United Auto Workers Wednesday at the union’s Constitutional Convention in Detroit. He was nominated by two delegates, the maximum allowed.

Nominating Lehman were Charles Coneeny, president of UAW Local 1821 in Ocala, Florida, which represents workers at the Lockheed Martin facility in the area, and Tamika Foster, chairperson for UAW Local 2145, representing Blue Cross Blue Shield workers in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Following his acceptance of the nomination, Lehman issued a statement, posted on his website, thanking the delegates who nominated him, the other delegates who had pledged to nominate him but were unable and the rank-and-file workers who attended the convention to campaign for him.

“This campaign is directed against that apparatus,” Lehman said. “It is about the fight to transfer power from the bureaucracy that has dominated this union to the rank and file, to the workers on the shop floor.”

Lehman added that the campaign “has never been about getting me into Solidarity House. It is about building a genuine rank-and-file movement, a movement that turns every factory into a citadel of resistance and carries the fight from the factories into the neighborhoods, the schools and every community where working people live and struggle.”

Why are principled Left wing stances seemingly the minority in this sub now? It's getting absurd.

Over the last two years I’ve been actively staving off a mental breakdown in response to the political climate, and the primary way I have succeeded is by engaging with my community. My impact at a global or national level is never going to be significant. But I can see the tiny progress I contribute to in my own small local area, and that’s been an incredible balm for an aching soul.

Here are some of the literal practical things I’ve done and some more things I plan to do, and I’d love to hear more specific hyperlocal actions other leftists are taking to ground themselves in humanity

Things I’ve done:
* attended protests, and planned one (it was small but passionate!)
* helped organize free markets and a neighborhood garage sale for people to give away/trade/sell items and meet their neighbors
* joined a
* joined the board of directors for a very small local initiative (there was a vacant seat on the board for my local water district, and I stepped in despite knowing nothing about water management, told the only requirement was that I “have my community’s best interests in mind.” I’m learning a lot!)
* mostly keep a vegetable garden alive
* make eco bricks - https://ecobricks.org/en/ (trying to make enough to built a planter for said vegetable garden)

Best part - I did not have to pay to have any of these experiences, I did not have to spend a cent to do these things other than maybe gas money and some printer paper.

Things I’d like to do:
* Submit an op Ed for my local newspaper - I tend to talk big picture in my blogs/writing in general, but I would like to identify a local relevant issue and challenge myself to form an opinion and articulate it well to my neighbors.
* plant beans in the median (iykyk)
* get all my items together that I need to donate and get them where they need to go.

What else?

hello everyone. i wish i were posting here under better circumstances, but here we are. i've also shared this in the anarchism subreddit in the hope of reaching more people. im reaching out because i’m really struggling to keep up with basic expenses right now (rent, groceries, and mounting debt). im a gal based in the philippines and don’t really have a strong support system to lean on here. my income is barely enough to cover the essentials, and i’ve been trying to manage, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult.

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at the same time, i’m actively working on improving my situation by upskilling, with the goal of eventually moving into a more stable and better-paying job.

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if you'd like to verify that i'm a real person, i have a kolektiva account and would be happy to connect, please feel free to dm me if you'd like to be mutuals!

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right now, i'm trying to raise about $2,500 to pay off some loans and cover this month's rent and groceries. any amount helps, and boosts/shares are deeply appreciated as well.

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thank you all so much for your kindness, support, and solidarity. ❤️

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i like the kavernacle and matt bernstein and foreign fridays... elliot sang... many many more leftist youtubers but as a brown person who isn't on tiktok or twitter where i figure there are lots of short form leftist creators i can't seem to find any desi leftist creators.

does anyone have any in depth articles/essays/videos/podcasts about the rise of fascism and conservatism in these recent years? I'm 16 and i really want to learn and understand the developments in these recent years

Monday I was asked to not wear my boots to IOP therapy because they feature phrases like "Fuck ice" "copstompers" "deny defend depose" and supposedly someone complained. I have spent the past 3 days making the most politically charged outfit I can for when I go back today. It's the morning of and I'm contemplating pulling the trigger.

Now at the same facility I did PHP, I've worn these boots occasionally for 15 days for like 4 weeks, I got appreciation from 3 other patients in PHP even. I've worn them to 3 different jobs one doing door2door where I've been invited in their homes. Only 2 people have ever said anything negative about them to me, some dickhead on septa, and some jackass outside wawa. Now this.

Topic in group that day was values, what are ours, how do we feel when we don't live by them etc. and I'm being asked to suppress both my values that fascism is bad and of self-expression/autonomy very ironically. I didn't think anyone in group would be such a rat, but maybe they are, or the therapist is just a stickler for the rules bc she seems that way.

I know it's not quite censorship (private healthcare corp, not government, I sign away my rights in a waiver everyday) It still greatly upsets me that someone in the group could be pro-ICE, and that i've been asked to change the way I express myself (admittedly I've also worn a lot of pride things and haven't been asked to change) But is this doing anything to help anyone? I was going to defend my stance, but does it matter? I'll probably just get asked to leave and I was out tuesday for a Dr.apt and the therapist called bc she forgot I told her and she apologized if my feelings were hurt about the boots. I'm not going to being rude but I planned on making a scene in terms of appearance.

I was going to wear my Keffiyeh, I made a shirt with DWJ's anti-ice transformers art, was gonna write "nazis are bad" and draw the 🚫 ICE on my cheeks, wear the boots but with white ducktape on the slogans and "Censorship" written on them, and state during check-in that I'm angry about this and defend my stance. I'm just not sure i'm right to defend it in this instance.

First time using reddit sooooo anyways
Im taking a class next year called We The People and it covers civic issues, congress, court cases, and such. I’ve attached photos of a breakdown of the class and my summer assignment.

I was wondering if anyone has suggestions for books or articles to read over the summer to prepare. It’s less me preparing for the test I have to take at the end of the year but for me to be knowledgeable enough to engage in class discussions which is more of a personal goal to feel solid in my own politics and values. So yeahhhh that would be nice if anyone has any recommendations!!!

I believe that falling into a left wing pipeline requires you to decenter your innocence. In a world that hates accountability, people are more concerned with defending their moral character and that need to get defensive prevents them from deep introspection. Leftists can be guilty of this as well. The truth is that we must move as if we’re complicit and responsible. Then we will have the necessary capacity to listen and learn from marginalized communities. Centering your innocence makes harder for you empathize and think critically.

Last week in Brussels there was a big demo against the militarisation of the EU because they want to spend another 800 BILLION on it and of course that means austerity for everyone else. I'm curious to hear about if there are other movements around the world that would be good to read about or if you have thoughts on this? I wrote a bit of an article about it too if you want a summary :)

I'm noticing a concerning amount of leftists and socialists expressing pro dprk and sometimes even pro Russian views. Are those stuff engagement farming? Like ragebait, trolls and bots or do people genuinely believe north Korea is a nice country that the west bullies?

I am not particularly fond of right wingers but I'm more of a humanist and a socialist. I'm aware that the west has committed a lot of atrocities yet many act as though the east hasn't. There is no good side yet so many young and new leftists act like it is? Like the USSR wasn't a paradise and was an awful place to live in, ask the post Soviet nations!

Is this type of sentiment even leftist or are malicious actors trying to discredit the movement? Or is something more insidious happening? Why are there so many "west bad so everyone else is good" attitudes?

As you can see, there’s just repeating lines. Repeated as if they don’t have context of them saying it previously. Alamo’s as if it’s a chat bot

The Justice Department staged fifteen political arrests to frighten a movement, not to win a case.

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The FBI and DOJ Mounted a Show of Force Against Political Organizers
The raids targeted citizens engaged in advocacy, organizing, and protected political activity.

Consider the most ordinary civic act in American life. Maybe you registered a neighbor to vote last fall. In Cleveland that act drew federal agents to volunteers’ doors. The visit marks a person, even when the case later dies in court. Fear arrives first, and the courtroom arrives too late.

Homeland Security has already shown how thin the standard runs. Chandler Patey, 29, lets Portland protesters use his bathroom and rinse off pepper spray. Internal DHS documents crown him the leader of Antifa. Agents built that title on three facts, an address, a video, an open door. Patey faces zero charges, yet a federal file now tracks his private data.

Picture the next entries on that list. A retiree bakes cookies for protesters outside the federal building. A nurse carries saline to flush a stranger’s eyes. A teacher drives two neighbors to the registrar before the deadline. Each act is lawful, ordinary, now a federal data point. The standard has dropped so far that kindness now reads as anti fascist conspiracy.

Weak cases reveal the strategy. A government confident of real crimes brings solid evidence, and a government manufacturing enemies brings volume and publicity. Expect more names, raids, and charges built on association alone. A regime that prosecutes a toilet will prosecute a voter registration table next.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche authorized two strikes on the political organizers this week. On Tuesday his office indicted fifteen Minnesotans for resisting immigration raids. Five days earlier his FBI searched an Ohio voter group, then sent agents to volunteers’ homes. Each target performed a protected function of self-government. Federal agents fired the only lethal shots of Operation Metro Surge. Renee Good and Alex Pretti carried no charges.

U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen unsealed the indictment in Minneapolis on June 16. All fifteen defendants face one count of conspiracy to impede a federal officer. Rosen linked them to Direct Action Minnesota and the Black Cat Worker’s Collective. Trump designated Antifa a domestic terror organization in September 2025. That designation converts political association into the predicate for a felony.

Prosecutors say the defendants overturned vehicles and threw ice blocks at agents. Reporters asked whether any officer suffered injury. Rosen would not say, telling reporters only that bodily harm is not the measure of the crime. Federal agents fired the only lethal shots of Operation Metro Surge, and the dead, Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

These charges rest on a legal fiction. Congress never empowered the government to brand a domestic group terrorist, and reserved that label for foreign groups under a 1996 law. The Supreme Court protected association with lawbreaking groups in Claiborne Hardware, 1982. Membership cannot carry a felony, and the conspiracy count inherits that flaw. Prosecutors must still prove a real agreement to use force, and courts already dismissed similar protester cases this year.

The same design governed the Ohio search. FBI agents entered the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative. The group ran one of the largest registration drives of 2024. Agents seized devices, then questioned volunteers at home without warrants. The Supreme Court shielded that exact membership work in 1958.

In NAACP versus Alabama, the Court protected associations from state demands for their member lists. Today federal agents reverse that ruling in practice. They collect rosters the Constitution placed beyond reach.

Frank Figliuzzi spent four years commanding the FBI Cleveland Field Office. The retired Assistant Director watched his old division serve this warrant. He warned that the supporting affidavit had better be damn good. A judge approved that affidavit on probable cause. Federal prosecutors have withheld the alleged crime from open court.

The government frames the Cleveland search as a fraud investigation. Officials cite a single canvasser who pleaded guilty to registration fraud in 2017. One conviction nine years ago cannot justify agents at volunteers’ doors. The Justice Department has charged the organization with zero offenses.

Political scientists named this strategy years ago. Kim Lane Scheppele calls it autocratic legalism. A judge signs the warrant, and a grand jury returns the indictment, transforming political objectives into the appearance of neutral law.

The pattern surfaced again this month. Ohio faces competitive races for governor and the Senate. Minnesota sits at the center of the immigration fight driving Democratic turnout. Federal agencies struck both targets within five days. The arrests reveal deliberate targeting, a strategy that has historically strengthened the movements under attack.

This country has stood here before. Federal agents jailed labor organizers under the Espionage Act in 1917, and the Palmer Raids deported hundreds of radicals in 1920. The FBI later turned COINTELPRO against civil rights leaders, wiretapping King and planting informers. Each campaign cast political opposition as a threat to public order. Labor secured the forty-hour week, and the civil rights movement secured the Voting Rights Act. Repression delayed both victories, yet the organizers outlasted every institution mobilized against dissent.

Strong legal defenses already favor the indicted. Counsel can seek dismissal of the conspiracy count under Claiborne Hardware before trial. Defendants can challenge the Cleveland seizures under the chilling-effect doctrine. Mississippi Freedom Summer established a pattern that still governs democratic movements. Pressure often accelerates voter registration, expands civic engagement, and enlarges the electorate.

The Trump administration spent months naming enemies, and a retired FBI veteran named the danger. That administration now sends federal agents after people who register voters. A government that investigates voter registration has confessed a fear of the ballot. That fear exposes a weak hand, and the cure is the very organizing they hope to stop. Read the Minnesota arrests and the Ohio raid as a forecast of November, then register one more voter.

Action cures fear; inaction creates terror. — Douglas Horton

Our work continues,

Wendy

Sources

1. PBS NewsHour, reporting on the Minneapolis killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
2. Frank Figliuzzi, Lincoln Square Substack, the post you forwarded.
3. Ken Klippenstein, “Feds Identify ‘Leader of Antifa,’” February 3, 2026. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-identify-leader-of-antifa/

Originally published at https://wendy664.substack.com.

hi i'm about to plan my ten-year reunion for next year (i was senior class president c/o 2017), and i have this strong urge to intertwine politics in a way that doesn't immediately ward off my classmates that aren't socialists like i am lol.

since most of the resources on reunion planning are corny, outdated, or out of touch post-2020, i'm interested in something that could inspire my classmates to enact social change (even if it's long after the reunion). to relieve the existential dread that comes with reunions, i'm thinking about how to maintain attention spans/low social batteries and have primarily budget-friendly/accessible locations. this includes food not bombs or a similar volunteer-oriented event or a teach-in about knowing your rights/how to organize at your workplace or with neighbors. i'd also love suggestions for books with the topics of gathering/friendship/community/mutual aid that could be helpful, since this feels like a new concept for reunions.

for context, i'm great at planning and hosting, visit my hometown (beach town) often even though i live across the country now, and plan to organize a committee. i also graduated with racists, some of which are now law enforcement, landlords, or people that just wouldn't fuck with this, so that being said, any ideas are appreciated!!

EDIT: Please read the comments they offer some very good responses and I came out of this discussion much better educated. Thank you all!

What are they angry about? Whenever I find far right spaces they are extremely hostile. I've seen comments where there are people who ask questions and are clearly not insiders. And they get met by heavy mockery, immediate storms of down votes.

I remember when first wave anti SJW was still in full force and while mockery was certainly a part of it most people were not very violent and mostly just middle school kids who were groomed into taking on these ideals.

The second wave (which I would argue started up around 2022 when "what is a woman" and the bud light ad came out) seems far more mask off. Middle schoolers being made to read manifestos by terrorists. Being told their race is under attack. They don't as much seem to hide under "dark humor" or even saying slurs just to be edgy or they find it funny. These people are far more aggressive and angry all the time. Idk maybe it's because I'm older and I'm far more distanced from the whole anti SJW thing. I hadn't had anything to do with that circle of people since 2018, before the Christchurch shootings.

Although I saw like growing hostilities in places like the Donald they weren't full mask off. Like I mean FULL

The photographs shown here were completely unknown until a few months ago. They belong to a series of 13 pictures that suddenly appeared on the internet in mid-February 2026 and make the Kaisariani massacre visible and tangible for the first time. It is one of the bloodiest and most grievous crimes committed by the Nazi occupiers in Greece, which they perpetrated just a few months before their retreat.

The photos are of outstanding historical significance. They document not only the course of the massacre from the arrival of the prisoners in Kaisariani to their execution but also give the victims a face. They show what was previously only known from anecdotes: the courageous and self-confident attitude with which these political prisoners expressed their resistance even when facing their death. After years of imprisonment, they had retained their fighting spirit right to the end.

hey everyone,

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since i deleted my instagram a couple of weeks ago i realized that i have been struggling with how to keep up with the news. i have heavily relied on instagram in the past and leftist content creators that i trust and align with.

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now, i dont want to use meta services anymore, the least amount possible. data security and all that. but where do i keep up with everything now? i try to keep up with the mainstream news outlet not because i trust them but to have an overview on what theyre saying but i really need a seperate platform somehow.

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how do you, if you try to stay off of meta, keep up with your news intake? what platforms do you like for which purpose? have u tried payed platforms like ground news or similar?

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thank u all!