Hard Pass

Checkmate! :P

Voters are feeling the pinch of Trump’s anti-climate agenda as energy costs rise, but a shakeup in Congress could shift things

Give that woman a damehood.

Endorsement not always full-throated but party backing marks major turn after bitter split over nomination Facing a barrage of extreme attacks from Donald Trump and his allies, the Democratic establishment is finally rallying around progressive Abdul El-Sayed, the party’s candidate in the closely-watched US Senate election in Michigan. But the endorsement is not always full-throated, and often even omits his name. At a rally in Port Huron on Sunday, the US president launched the latest in a wave of Islamoph...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53732519

When politicians and economic actors stoke fear and scapegoat marginalized communities to protect the status quo, we are forced to play into harmful narratives that continue to divide us. Racial division becomes a tool that keeps neighbors blaming each other instead of holding decision makers and profiteers accountable for continual wage stagnation, disinvestment, exclusionary housing policy, and the systemic criminalization of poverty. If we refuse that bait and organize together across race and class, we can demand solutions that do more than manage harm: deeply affordable and social housing, strong tenant protections, community-based mental health and healthcare, investments in Indigenous and Black-led land and housing initiatives, and an end to punitive encampment removals that destroy what little stability people have.