Steven Brust, pjf This one seems particularly relevant:

Many sweating and plowing and thrashing And then the chaff for payment receiving, A few idly owning, And they the wheat continually claiming. - Whitman, Song of Myself

I still, effectively, don't have health care, but now at least I know why it's taking so long: My old provider had to print out and box up 600 hard copy pages of my medical records to send to my new doctor's office to be scanned page by page. In 2024.

Republicans in Iowa and Utah are banning books that they deem to be prurient. In reality, the books (such as Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man") are notable for depicting discrimination, oppression, and revolt. #Censorship #LGBTQI #TeachersTwitter #Libraries wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Please note that police have killed more people every year since the explosion of body camera funding after the killing of George Floyd in 2020. The cameras didn’t stop this shooting. I studied 10 years of propaganda surrounding body cameras here: bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.ya…

My statement on Shawn Fain's remarks to the Democratic National Convention...

Social inequality is not driven by greedy subjective intentions but by the nature of the capitalist system - UK CEOs earn 120 times more than UK workers and gap is widening wsws.org/en/articles/20… #socialistfilmcritic

The amazing Telegram channel,Resistance News Network -- t.me/PalestineResist -- was just BANNED across the EU moments ago, part of the ongoing repression of Palestinian resistance throughout Europe.

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” ― Mark Twain

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain

Just a quick reminder that you can't trust what the government tells you. gizmodo.com/donald-trump-h…

Chicago police knock a pro-Palestine elderly woman to the ground and refuse to help her up or pick up her cane, in another incident of anti-Palestinian racism.

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ― Mark Twain

it is soul crushing that people think they need to debate/ argue about the textbook genocide and apartheid in Gaza and West Bank. It’s obscene . It’s obscene to call this genocide a war. The press coverage is mostly gaslighting of most sinister order -

The Paris Commune, 1871.

As per my agreement with Jenphalian, here is my periodic reminder that I have a Patreon. patreon.com/skzb

THE WAGES OF SIN is out now. It's an alternate history set in 1850s England in a universe where HIV got loose in the early 1500s and, errm, screwed worldwide social patterns. It was up for the Sidewise and the Dragon Award, but didn't win. amazon.com/Wages-Sin-Harr…

The danger posed by Trump and the Republican Party is very real. There is, however, no significant constituency within the ruling class for the preservation of democratic forms of rule. #2024Elections wsws.org/en/articles/20…