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In rebuke to Trump’s fascism, Mamdani elected mayor of New York City, Democrats sweep governor races

In New York City—the global center of financial parasitism—a self-described democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani, has won the mayoral election.

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Dick Cheney dead at 84: A war criminal who paved the way for Trump

As the power behind the throne in the Bush-Cheney administration, the vice president was responsible for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, CIA kidnappings and torture and illegal mass surveillance of the ...

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

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Writers Against the War on Gaza proposes a boycott of the New York Times

The exposure and discrediting of the <em>Times</em> is an important task of political and intellectual hygiene, indispensable to the development of socialist consciousness.

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With mass hunger approaching as food stamps expire Saturday, huge price increases revealed for Obamacare healthcare plans

The massive social crisis that could be unleashed in two days shows that the social content of Trump’s dictatorship is a war on the working class, imposing the costs of the mounting crisis of US capit...

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

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UN accuses US of violating human rights laws in Caribbean and Pacific airstrikes

In a statement Friday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said there was “no justification in international law” for the missile strikes that have killed over 60 people.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

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Andrew stripped of his royal titles: A toxic representative of a toxic institution

The royal family has moved to cut all Andrew’s titles in hopes of preserving the monarchy as a whole.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Only through a socialist program, guided by a scientific understanding of society and nature and directed toward human need rather than private profit, can the gains of civilization be preserved and extended.

Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

The defense of science, of health, and of life itself requires the independent political mobilization of the working class.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

The assault on science and public health is a fascistic attack on the democratic and social conquests of the working class. Neither of the capitalist parties—the Republicans nor the Democrats—offers any opposition to this onslaught.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

the administration is systematically dismantling the foundations of public health while pursuing an austerity program that threatens the elderly, the sick, and the poor.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

This crisis is not accidental but deliberately manufactured through political action. With Kennedy integrating the MAHA agenda into the state apparatus,

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

The convergence of the MAHA movement’s anti-science campaign, the financialization of health care, and the Trump administration’s policies constitutes a grave menace to the working class and the social gains won in public health over the past century.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly one-third of all U.S. health expenditures now go to administration—marketing, billing, denial management—twice the share in Canada’s single-payer system. The result is a health infrastructure organized not around human need but around profit accumulation.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

The fallout from these policies is visible in the accelerating breakdown of the U.S. health system. A recent Lancet analysis concluded that “money, not health, has become the mission,” the inevitable result of decades of market-driven reforms.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

They accompany the dismantling of federal health agencies and the imposition of sweeping austerity measures, including nearly $990 billion in proposed Medicaid and other public health reductions contained in the reactionary “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

form one component of a systematic attack on the democratic and social rights of the working class. The more than 420 anti-science bills introduced into state legislatures demonstrate the ideological thrust of this purge.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

but part of a broader reactionary offensive against the Enlightenment foundations of modern society....These developments—the proliferation of anti-science bills and the broader assault on public health—

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

to dismantle collective protections while defending the prerogatives of private enterprise, “entrepreneurialism,” and the market. This anti-science crusade has provoked warnings from leading scientists who see in it not an isolated aberration,

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

What began as a fringe current has rapidly evolved into a highly organized and politically sophisticated movement. In essence, the assault on public health serves a dual purpose—

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Their deeply ingrained anti-communism finds direct expression in their hostility to universal health programs such as mass vaccination, which has provided humanity with levels of well-being previously unknown in history.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

MAHA’s program is not a popular revolt against “bureaucracy,” as it claims, but a reactionary project that weaponizes anti-science rhetoric to subordinate social needs to private profit.

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Kevin McGuire @kevmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

The movement’s ideological core is an exaggerated individualism and hostility toward any conception of collective responsibility for public health or the social right to medical care.

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