Jared Hicks

#BecauseOfBernie I found my calling and my people. We will keep organizing to build the power we need to win the world we deserve. #ThankYouBernie for believing in us and showing me the way. Solidarity forever 🌹 #NotMeUs

As a Cuban American traveling with a recent aid convoy, I witnessed the daily hardship sanctions produce. Washington must lift its devastating blockade.jacobin.com/2026/04/cuba-b…

Remember when you used to get called a conspiracy theorist if you said the USA’s military budget is to blame for our lack of properly funded social programs?

An opposition party, if such a thing existed, could do a lot with this clip.

The greatest show in the world is ready. Are you? 🏆 #FIFAWorldCup

ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso. The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until it closes. About 3,000 people packed in per day. Loud, unsanitary quarters crawling with insects. Food so scarce that detainees steal from each other just to eat. Disease spreading through filthy rooms, showers, and restrooms that go uncleaned. People losing weight. People unable to see a doctor. People losing their minds. Staff made nearly one 911 call per day in the camp's first five months. One call captures a man sobbing after being assaulted by another detainee. Another has a doctor describing a man banging his head against a wall while expressing suicidal thoughts. A nurse calls about a pregnant woman in severe pain with coronavirus. Detainees suffering seizures, some resulting in serious head trauma. Ages ranged from a 19-year-old who fell from a bunk to a 79-year-old who couldn't breathe. And then there's the detail that should haunt this administration for the rest of its existence. Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager from Columbia, Missouri, who spent weeks in the camp before being deported to the Netherlands, told the AP he overheard a security guard talking about a betting pool among the staff. They were wagering on which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had put $500 in. The total pot rode on the outcome. Ramsingh said the talk was particularly devastating because he had contemplated suicide himself. Guards are gambling on the deaths of people in their custody. People who are hungry. People who are sick. People who are begging for help through 911 calls that come in every single day. And the staff turned it into a game. This is not some rogue facility. This is the system working exactly as this administration designed it. Overcrowded by policy. Underfed by neglect. Understaffed by choice. They built a place where human beings deteriorate and then the people paid to watch over them place bets on who breaks first. The AP has the data. The recordings. The interviews. The court filings. This is documented. This is real. This is happening right now in El Paso, Texas, in the United States of America. Share this. Do not let them bury it under another news cycle.

BREAKING: At tonight’s NYC-DSA electoral forum, @AOC committed to voting against “any spending on arms for Israel, including so-called defensive capabilities.”

Total arms embargo, then sanctions. No need to recreate the wheel

“The kids don’t know shit, Bill? Or is that you? Time for a debunking.” @mehdirhasan corrects Bill Maher’s lies about Israel’s long history of aggressive wars, with evidence of their imperialist intentions over decades.

💢 Regional death toll after 32 days of U.S.–Israeli war on Iran: 🔸 Iran: 3,492 killed, including at least 1,574 civilians and at least 236 children, according to HRANA, a U.S.-based and funded group. 🔸 Israel: 19 killed in rocket attacks, according to Magen David Adom; Israeli military says 10 soldiers also killed invading Lebanon. 🔸 Lebanon: 1,268 killed and 3,750 wounded, and 125 children and 52 healthcare workers killed, according to the Health Ministry. 🔸 Gulf states: At least 24 killed, including 11 in the UAE and 7 in Kuwait; Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain reported 2 deaths each. 🔸 United States: 13 U.S. service members killed.

.@hasanthehun is back from a humanitarian mission to Cuba amidst an oil blockade & power outages. "It was very sad...everything was pitch black...and then I was very angry." I ask about critics who say he's helping a repressive regime? "I just don't want babies to die. I don't want people to suffer...how Cubans govern themselves is up to the Cuban people." Via @CNNTheStoryIs

seeing a lot of "higher gas prices won't affect me because I don't drive very much" and unfortunately it is my sad duty to inform you that your food does not teleport to the grocery store

“I don’t like museums or libraries, so my presidential library will actually be a hotel in Miami” is the kind of thing that wouldn’t work in fiction. No one would believe a character this dumb and bad.

AOC's commitment to not arming Israel at all during the NYC-DSA forum will echo across the Democratic Party. She's considered a mainstream politician and serious contender for president. Expect no money for Israel military aid, including "defensive," to be a common litmus test.

Capitalism has no room for Black dignity; it reduces you to the sum total of your inputs on a spreadsheet, and transfers all profits upward to whomever signs your paycheck, whether it’s a boss or the investor or the shareholder. How you could love such a system is beyond me.

Matthew 7:18 “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit” Plantation slavery provided the primitive accumulation for the Industrial Revolution, which birthed capitalism. You are advocating love of a system that made cattle out of your ancestors.

The impulse to reject our electeds at the first sign of strategic disagreement is one @nycDSA's leadership has always refused – it leaves the left AND electeds weaker and more disorganized. Committing to joint organizing, by DSA & electeds like @AOC alike, is the answer.

I want to express my deepest solidarity with AOC for taking the morally principled stance, listening to her constituents & her base, and committing to vote against all military funding for Israel. NYC-DSA & @AOC have built a relationship of mutuality & solidarity. Not easy!

Republicans cut kids cancer research because they deemed it “wasteful spending.”

Spain closes airspace to US aircraft involved in Iran war bbc.in/4lZX3OF

Hasan isn’t driving a wedge into the party, the failed, repeatedly discredited yet unfortunately still entrenched corporate wing of the party is. They fear the left’s growing power and see Hasan as a way to make us argue amongst ourselves. We shouldn’t fall for it.