📝 🇮🇪 🗳 Are successful leftist politicians tapping into something that the right is missing?

📎 Keith Woods

🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡️ — A Chinese state-owned company supplied a sanctioned Russian firm with materials sufficient to produce carbon fiber for as many as 1,300 long-range kamikaze drones, according to internal shipping documents obtained by POLITICO.

The records show that Jilin Chemical Fiber Group shipped up to 46 tons of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor to Alabuga-Volokno, a subsidiary of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom. Alabuga-Volokno supplies high-grade carbon fiber used in Russian Geran attack drones produced at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan.

The shipment was declared under a customs code associated with civilian synthetic fibers rather than the code normally used for the dual-use PAN material. Former U.S. sanctions officials said the apparent mislabeling could indicate an effort to conceal the sensitive nature of the shipment.

The Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre says it has identified at least eight tenders involving shipments of PAN precursors from Jilin to Alabuga-Volokno since 2022.

The documents have been reviewed by the U.S., UK, and Ukrainian governments, with the U.S. House Select Committee on China determining them to be legitimate. The evidence could provide grounds for sanctions against Jilin, which is not currently under Western sanctions.

📢 🇺🇸 🔼Trump: “I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself.”

I do this for our Country, not myself. I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do! President DONALD J. TRUMP

📎 Donald J. Trump

📝 🇺🇸 🌹 “The More Dysgenic, the Better”: Beatrice Adler-Bolton Says the Left Must Give Up the “Fantasy of Being Fitter Than the Fascists”

At Socialism 2026, Adler-Bolton argues that “fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism” and says the goal should not be to become “more useful to the ruling order.”

She says the left should not try to beat fascists “at their own game” by becoming “fitter, more eugenic.”

“In fact, the more dysgenic, the better, I think.”

She closes by arguing that revolution is not “a contest between optimized and properly prepared bodies” and that the very idea is itself fascist.

📎 Stu Smith

📝 🇺🇸 🌹 Da’Shaun L. Harrison at Socialism 2026 argues that the political deployment of GLP-1 drugs is “fascistic” because they exist in “a world fixated on genociding fat people.”

“The political deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic, not because individuals take them, but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people.”

And to explain why that is supposedly fascistic, Harrison turns to Frantz Fanon and “Black flesh under colonial surveillance.”

If GLP-1s are already “body fascism,” the dual and triple agonists are going to require an entirely new theoretical vocabulary.

📎 Stu Smith

📢 🇺🇸 🌹 At Socialism 2026, University of Illinois Chicago professor Barbara Ransby lays out how she thinks the left should operate in the current political moment.

Discussing ruling-class repression, Ransby says that when “the old con game is not working anymore,” the response is: “We have to move. We have to escalate.”

She immediately catches herself: “I’m using the ‘we’… not referring to myself.”

Ransby then turns to what she calls the “performance of politics” and offers some strategic advice for activists:

“Everything you do doesn’t actually have to be on social media. Maybe there’s some things you do in difficult times that is not advertised.”

She says organizers have to “operate on many different levels,” argues that “racial capitalism is in crisis,” and says the left needs to “sharpen what the left is offering” and get on “the same page or at least in the same chapter.”

📝 CitizenVMachine: "Barbara Ransby makes over $300,000/yr."

📝 tesicram: "There are a lot of college professors in attendance. It’s a tragedy what’s happened to Americas universities"

📎 Stu Smith

📝 🇺🇸 🌹 Fox News stated that Hasan Piker aligns with the Democratic Party's voter base more than establishment Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.

📎 adri

📢 🇺🇸 🌹 Hasan Piker discusses how the Democratic Party did not deliver on being truly oppositional to the Republican Party. They upheld the militarism of the police force and they weaponized their militarism to silence those who spoke out against Israel: "You taught the important lesson to every single person that if they organize and they made these just demands when untold amounts of violence was unfolding with our tax dollars, with our weapons, with our social and political cover, your attitude as the Democrats wasn't to say, 'we're going to listen to these demands and we're going to actually rein Israel in. We're going to demand accountability.' Your attitude was to punish the people who were yelling. Your attitude was to punish the people who were protesting. So what did we teach people who were participating in politics in a meaningful way for the first time in their lives? We taught that them that everything that you learn in school; exercising your 1st Amendment rights and then doing your civic duty and voting for the left-flank of American politics is going to yield these changes, but it didn't. We taught everyone that your voices don't matter and I think in some respects, the reason why people are very frustrated right now with what's going on with these left insurgencies is that we are becoming undeniable."

📎 adri

📢 🇺🇸 🌹 Hasan wants the Democrats to openly state how they want to punish Trump: "I think Democrats should be more open about how they want to punish Trump, too. Just talk about the crimes and then say, 'we are a nation of law and order and we have to restore confidence in our institutions; specifically our courts, specifically in the idea of law and order. Law and order means nothing if those in positions of power get to violate as egregiously as Donald Trump. We have to hold him accountable. This is not even revenge; this is accountability. This is restoring the faith that people have in American democracy, in the American institutions, in the American systems that was the envy of those all around for decades.' That's it. It's super simple to say."

📎 adri

🌹 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Hasan Piker tells his followers suicide bombing is dead, buy Shahed drones instead.

"Just make f**king drones. You can purchase them from online marketplaces. China literally sells explosive ordnance delivery mechanisms that you can put on a DJI drone. You can buy them at virtually no significant cost..."

📝 Keith Woods: "People can't even post reuploads of my podcast to YouTube without getting banned, but a leftist streamer like Hasan can openly encourage terrorism to 2 million followers."

📎 Canary Mission

🌹 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 Hasan Piker on the tideshift that's taken place post-October 7 and the importance of educating those who are still on the fence about ending aid to Israel: "I think it's important for all of us to explain to people that first and foremost, the cruelty that we subject others to in the periphery is the number one crime and we have to put an end to it. But for those who do not take that into consideration, we have to remind them that there is a finite amount of space and energy that we have and if all of our productive output and our tax dollars is going to endless and ceaseless militarism overseas for profit and plunder, that those are resources that are stolen from them, that are stolen from every American. Every dollar that is spent blowing up a school overseas is a dollar that's stolen from you. That's a dollar that could have gone to building a school in your neighborhood. That's a dollar that could have gone to paying our teachers. That's a dollar that could have gone to our roads, to our infrastructure, better broadband, to better public utilities, to opening up rural hospitals."

📎 adri