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A weekly labor news podcast covering workers' struggles around the world from a revolutionary left perspective. https://t.co/Dd3dC0coop

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Middle East Observer
Middle East Observer@ME_Observer_·
🔴Israeli-American aggression on residential neighborhoods on Palestine Street in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad
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Eitan Fischberger
Eitan Fischberger@EFischberger·
It's long past past time for congressional and DOJ investigations into the foreign ties of Drop Site News. Here's what we know: 🔸️It has at least two "reporters" on the ground in Iran who feed the site regime-approved disinformation and propaganda. 🔸️As I previously uncovered, It has employed at least three Gazan "journalists" with ties to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. 🔸️It recieved at least a $250,000 grant from Soros' Open Society to launch a middle east desk. 🔸️It's published by billionaire communist nepo baby Nika Soon-Shiong. 🔸️Drop Site frequently flies (or is flown?) to the middle east to interview the leaders of U.S.-designated terrorist organizations. And by "interview," i mean massage them for 2.5 hours at a time. In fact, co-founder Jeremy Scahill's first act at Drop Site was a multi-part series of sit-down interviews with senior leaders of both terror groups. 🔸️ Drop Site's MENA editor, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, filed a sympathetic dispatch from the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah after he was killed by Israel. 🔸️ Drop Site is fiscally sponsored by the Social Security Works Education Fund while it pursues its own 501(c)(3) status — an arrangement that reduces transparency and allows the outlet to obscure who its other funders are. Bonus: 🔸️Drop Site’s co-founder, Ryan Grim, has tweeted that "The U.S. is a rogue terror state and a cancer on the world" and called president Trump a terrorist.
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Drop Site@DropSiteNews

Drop Site News reports on breaking events with clear sourcing and careful attribution, distinguishing between verified information and claims made by governments or state-linked outlets. In the post at issue (linked below), the information was explicitly identified as coming from Iranian state-linked media and framed as a claim, consistent with our standard editorial practice. Our coverage applies the same approach across all actors, including the United States, Israel, and Iran. In fast-moving conflicts, competing narratives are part of the story, and documenting what each side is saying is essential to understanding how events are being framed and interpreted in real time. As Drop Site reporter Ryan Grim wrote, “anybody who reads our Twitter feed knows that we regularly report official and semi-official statements… Our readers have enough sense not to believe everything every government says, but they do want to know what they’re saying in real time. Other readers, those not interested in knowing what governments adversarial to the U.S. are saying, have endless options to choose from, but we’re not one of them.” We do not limit our reporting to Western or allied sources. Providing visibility into claims made by all sides, with proper attribution, is a core part of our editorial approach. Regarding the reporting at issue, some have accused Drop Site of “promoting” Iranian propaganda for noting that U.S. forces were reportedly bombing areas where a missing airman was believed to be located. That element of the reporting, which we were among the first to surface, was later borne out by subsequent disclosures. Prior to that, we also reported information from journalist Jack Murphy—a U.S. military veteran—who said the recovery had been successful, with clear attribution. Our role is to provide audiences with the information needed to assess developments as they unfold. We do not withhold information from our audience merely because it comes from a source adversarial to the U.S. government, nor do we tell readers what to think. If this is the kind of journalism you think the world needs, link to subscribe is in our bio.

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Sana Saeed
Sana Saeed@SanaSaeed·
So incomprehensibly stupid and evil. President Biden called Palestinians liars, approved bomb and bullet after bomb and bullet to maim and kills babies and oversaw the Israeli extermination of the Palestinian nation. He and the Democrats oversaw and supported the bombing of every school, hospital, water plant and destroying their access to every life sustaining infrastructure. He, leading a democratic administration with Harris as his number two, oversaw the wiping off of thousands of families from the Gazan civil registry. None of this would be possible without the blank check given to Israel under the Biden-Harris administration that set off the complete psychotic spiral that is killing *our people* and destroying *our countries*.
danisha carter@danishacarterr

if you didn’t vote for the democrats in the last election because “both sides were the same”, why are you now on twitter wailing for the democrats to save you from the current administration lol

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Propaganda & co
Propaganda & co@propandco·
Since the US & Israel bombed Irans railway today, I thought I’d share a video of from my 18 hour train ride over 700 miles from Bandar Abbas in the South to Tehran in the north. The train ride cost $8. You get a bed, limitless coffee and tea, and lamb kobideh for lunch.
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Work Stoppage
Work Stoppage@WorkStoppagePod·
People surprised that former Presidents aren't speaking out right now, did you get kicked in the head by a horse? Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia were all destroyed by these men but apparently that was fine? There's never been a "lesser" evil.
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Bikrum Gill
Bikrum Gill@bikrumsinghgill·
The problem with seeing anarchist-abolitionists despair about the absence of an anti-war movement for Iran is that they still refuse to reckon with how they have vociferously participated in the delegitimization of the Islamic Republic, and cannot still bring themselves today to recognize that it has paid a price for refusing to abandon Palestine. If you have been arguing for the dismantlement of the IRGC, and therefore the Islamic Republic, for years, how could you expect anything but a defanged anti-war movement today, especially if you still cannot bring yourself to accord any legitimacy to the state formation whose collapse is the strategic aim of this genocidal violence.
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BreakThrough News
BreakThrough News@BTnewsroom·
Israel bombed and completely destroyed the Rafi-Nia Synagogue in Tehran early Tuesday morning. Iran is home to the second-largest Jewish population in the Middle East. "The Iranian Jewish community always and forever condemns the inhumane acts of the Zionist regime, and there is no difference between the Jewish community of Iran and the wider Muslim community," stated Homayoun Sameh Najafabadi, head of Tehran’s Jewish Association.
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Soureh 🟩☫🟥
Soureh 🟩☫🟥@Soureh_design2·
This is the oldest usable bridge in the world. The Old Bridge of Dezful was built in 255 AD by order of Shapur I of Sassanid. Human chain on the Old Bridge of Dezful against Trump's threats There are several human chains in Iran's infrastructure
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Ali Abunimah
Ali Abunimah@AliAbunimah·
It’s the hell you helped drag us into, @SenSchumer, by putting “Israel” first for decades, including by relentlessly demonizing Iran, voting against JCPOA and arming and supporting the Zionist genocide in Palestine. This is on you.
Chuck Schumer@SenSchumer

This is an extremely sick person. Each Republican who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice owns every consequence of whatever the hell this is.

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Alex JER-dun
Alex JER-dun@alexjordanATL·
a MAJORITY of Democrats in the House & Senate voted to give Trump nearly a trillion dollars for war in 2026 …now we’re supposed to act like this party isn’t a willing partner in ruinous US foreign policy, but rather a bulwark against war? Gonna take more than some angry tweets!
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias

One problem for Democrats is that left-wing people pretend they aren’t doing stuff that they are in fact doing in order to further fuel the flames of anti-establishment sentiment.

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Mark Ames
Mark Ames@MarkAmesExiled·
Copy-paste how Bush sold the Iraq war- "the dictator... leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind, or disfigured...the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin..." Scratch a MAGA, get a neocon x.com/ClayTravis/sta…
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Clay Travis@ClayTravis

Glenn, Iran killed 45,000 of its own people for protesting. You are angrier about a Trump Tweet than Iran mass murdering its own people.

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Mark Ames
Mark Ames@MarkAmesExiled·
Grandstanding is at least better than playing possum, but the only way this 25th amend guff has any real chance is if the GOP donor class wants it. But so far a) Trump has made the US oligarchy multiples richer; b) even Jamie Dimon is publicly supporting Trump's Iran war.
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Paweł Wargan
Paweł Wargan@pawelwargan·
The claim — long advanced by communists — that the United States is the Fourth Reich was never metaphorical. The US is the nucleus of world fascism.
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Helyeh Doutaghi
Helyeh Doutaghi@Helyeh_Doutaghi·
As Western labour unions continue to fail us/ remain complicit in exporting death and destruction, Iranian workers stand on the front lines of defending and advancing ingenious development and industry. I’ve recently written about the largest labour strike in Iran @ProgIntl, led by South Pars workers, who remain unbreakable despite US bombing, sanctions, and coup attempts. Representing over 15,000 workers, they position themselves as custodians of national sovereignty, emphasizing that solidarity requires first recognizing that state sovereignty is not an obstacle to liberation but its precondition—especially for nations under imperial assault: progressive.international/blueprint/e575… @A_R_Mirghaffari
VPol@VocalPolitics1

Iranian South Pars gas field workers recently on strike vowed loyalty to Iran’s armed forces and rejected the imperialist, opportunistic US co-optation of labor unions in Iran. ■ “You who showed support for us at that time, support that we the workers of South Pars explicitly rejected even then, because your true nature and intentions were already clear to us, how is it that today you are bombing the refineries of South Pars?” asked Alireza Mirghaffari @A_R_Mirghaffari President of the South Pars Union ■ “We declare that the workers of South Pars stand alongside the country's armed forces and support them. The damage you have inflicted will undoubtedly be repaired and we will rebuild, just as we continued to build even during the most difficult years of sanctions. And this shame will remain with you. With God's help the system of global arrogance led by the US will be destroyed along with its illegitimate offspring in the region, Israel.”

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Work Stoppage@WorkStoppagePod·
@DanielDenvir It's really not incredible. What's incredible is that anyone who has heard all the people in charge of the Democrats gleefully talk about attacking Iran for *decades* and then DID A GENOCIDE in Palestine could possibly be surprised. They are open imperialists and always have been
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Daniel Denvir
Daniel Denvir@DanielDenvir·
It’s incredible how absent Democratic Party leadership is in the face of Trump blowing up the entire fucking world.
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Ione Belarra
Ione Belarra@ionebelarra·
Trump acaba de lanzar una amenaza nuclear en toda regla. Trump y Netanyahu son la mayor amenaza a la seguridad de la humanidad. España debe abandonar inmediatamente la OTAN y cerrar las bases militares de Rota y Morón. No podemos ser cómplices de esto ni un minuto más.
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Don’t Boo…Revolt!
Don’t Boo…Revolt!@BreeNewsome·
Anytime you feel bad for not fitting in here, just remember you live in one of the most evil societies to ever exist in human history
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