Open AI has hired Chuck Schumer's daughter to help them with government relations. I don’t like it one bit, and this kind of thing is a big part of the reason top Democrats have done such a poor job of turning the Trump family’s far more extreme corruption into an election issue.

In our new essay for the @FT (you read that right), @astradisastra and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders.

If there is one message I’d like folks to take from my wide-ranging conversation with @davidrkadler from Progressive International it is this: the Trump Administration is not incompetent and buffoonish about everything. When it comes to flipping Latin America to the Mafioso hard…Mostrar mais

Here's @davidrkadler with a terrifying story about how tech oligarchs are trying to create their own start-up city-states, including in Latin America, and how far they are willing to go to protect these private fiefdoms. Honduras is Exhibit A.

Key takeaway from my wide-ranging interview w/ @davidrkadler from Progressive International: Because Trump has been so inept and buffoonish about so much, we risk missing the fact that when it comes to flipping Latin America to the Mafioso hard right, Marco Rubio's State Depart…Mostrar mais

I'm live with @davidrkadler from @ProgIntl, discussing the rise of the far right in the Americas and the international left. We'll cover strongmen in Latin America, anti-left McCarthyism in the US, and the surge of Democratic Socialism.

So NYT reports that Third Way is spending $15-million to discredit democratic socialism ahead of the presidential elections. “Their fear: Dr. El-Sayed was paving a path for a progressive to seize the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 — and then go on to lose the general ele…Mostrar mais

From strong men in Latin America to anti-left McCarthyism in the US, and now the Democratic Socialist surge in the country, I’m going to unpack it all live with @davidrkadler from @ProgIntl on Substack tomorrow at 2 pm PST/5 pm EST. Join us: open.substack.com/live-stream/308235Mostrar mais

From strong men in Latin America to anti-left McCarthyism in the US, and now the Democratic Socialist surge in the country, I’m going to unpack it all live with @davidrkadler from @ProgIntl on Substack tomorrow at 11 am EST/2 pm PST. 🎙️Save the link: open.substack.com/live-stream/308235Mostrar mais

My first post on Substack reveals some (uncomfortable) information about the meme of Sam Altman and me that thousands of you have been sharing. As I have been saying, we live in a house of mirrors, and nothing is as it seems. Read: naomiklein.substack.com/p/welcome-to-my-su...…Mostrar mais

I truly fucked up not doing my due diligence on Platner before offering high praise for his communication skills (on another platform). Enough was out there at the time that I should have been more cautious. Especially because I met adventurer dudes like him while reporting in Ir…Mostrar mais

“What she did…was to make me think why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral” - Alan Greenspan, speaking about his guru Ayn Rand in 1974. It's worth understanding the role that this partnership played in unleashing the savageries of the modern market.…Mostrar mais

I wrote this piece 8 years ago to explain another Trump victory. It's now common sense, but I think we need to dig deeper to figure out what to do next. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov...

Feelings don't care about your facts. This is going to be a deep dive into the role of conspiracy culture in building the Trump coalition. When needed structural change isn't on offer, conspiracies are doppelgangers/substitutes of the real thing.

Dems have spent the past 8 years destroying the one movement that could have saved them. Bernie's class first populism won over exactly the type of voters (Latinos, working class, bros, Joe Rogan!) that Dems now repel. www.dropsitenews.com/p/bernie-would-have-won

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.

So...how exactly did the Liz Cheney Strategy to court GOP voters work out? 2020, GOP Voters: Trump 94%, Biden 6% 2024, GOP Voters: Trump 94%, Harris 5% Great work everyone!

My group chat with these brilliant folks is the only thing keeping me going tonight. Join us as we draw out lessons from this cluster f-k! Nothing to lose so we're not going to hold anything back. We have to learn... registration below.

Farms destroyed. Bakeries bombed. Virtually no food aid. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza to death, and destroying their ability to feed themselves.

We never vote for them. We always vote for us. This election and every election, #VoteLikeARadical   Feat: @_ashdashlee_ @nicktilsen @billfletcherjr @SarahSunshineM @homeandfreedom @LevinsMorales @rinkuwrites #Election2024

Mexican journalists hold a Day of the Dead march to honor Palestinian and Lebanese journalists killed by Israel Nearly 150 media workers have been slain in Israel’s wars since last year Solidarity from Mexico City to the Middle East Photos by @ElizabethSauno

Congress has not authorized the US military to engage in the Israeli government’s expanding regional war, as required by the Constitution. We’re sending a letter to @POTUS requiring a detailed account of US involvement with Israeli forces in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Syria.

RT @avilewis: This is absolutely urgent. The Israel lobby has won a huge victory. The government of Canada has endorsed its weapon of mas…

Here is my opening statement at the House of Commons committee hearing today on “protection of freedom of expression”. Anti-Palestinian racism is a freedom of expression issue. Shame on @uOttawaMed and @CMA_Docs.

"As shocked and stunned as I was, there was no way I was going to let him say that to me, unchallenged." My response to the racism & incitement on Monday, to a CNN pro-Trump panelist telling me: “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off," because I said I supported Palestinian righ…Mostrar mais

The cryosphere and the absense thereof, tells a real story

A UK judge sentenced 5 climate activists to 21 years in jail for *planning* to block a London road to demand climate action. What should Big Oil CEOs get for this?

Issue No. 5 is out! Please read, comment, share, and help us amplify these brilliant writers and organizers. Always free to read on hammerandhope.org

Israel just banned @UNRWA, the UN Palestinian refugee agency, from operating in the West Bank and Gaza. In the midst of a debilitating famine. This is a broader attack on the UN and multilateral legal institutions. 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp2ejzpxeo #Gaza #Genocide…Mostrar mais

.@Sunny Hostin: "This Puerto Rican has something to say about the island that I love, where my family is from. Puerto Rico is trash? We are Americans, Donald Trump." "My fellow Puerto Ricans, trash collection day is November 5, 2024. Don't forget it."

Donald Trump literally said "Islam hates us," promises to ban Muslims again from entering the U.S., incited racist hate against the only two Muslim women in Congress, and told Netanyahu to "finish the job" in Gaza... and these guys are endorsing him *as Muslims*. Madness.

The entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying.

We had @NaomiAKlein on Bad Hasbara @mostmoralpod talking about how framing antisemitism as the worst bigotry allows Israel to justify its atrocities. 1/3

17 Brown University students will reportedly face conduct violations for sleeping in their Gaza Solidarity Sukkah. “Every year on this campus Jewish students sleep in sukkahs without incident. We believe we are being treated differently because we…are standing with Palestine.”

Powerful truth from Laila Soueif about her son's illegal and unjust imprisonment in Egypt: if the UK government used its leverage, Alaa, a dual UK-Egyptian citizen, would be free. This mother's life is in their hands, and so is her son's. #FreeAlaa

This edit does not convey my full point so here's the whole segment. I am not a fan of the Harris campaign but we absolutely must take Trump's threats to "the enemy within" seriously. It can always get worse. Much worse. www.democracynow.org/2024/10/22/naomi_klei...Mostrar mais

Beyond the Ballot If you missed our conversation with @NaomiAKlein, @catchatweetdown, @astradisastra, & @KeeangaYamahtta about our intersecting economic, political, and ecological crises, hosted with @HammerandHope, you can watch the video here: www.youtube.com/watchMostrar mais

"We will be doing absolutely everything we can to secure his release as quickly as we can" Thank you @CalumMillerLD for pressing @HFalconerMP and the government to act to secure Alaa's release. His unjust 5 year sentence is over, the UK government must intervene now. #FreeAlaa

Beautiful piece on Arundhati Roy by the great Naomi Klein. archive.is/4rVxV

still carrying this with me. An incredible group of organizers at Brown University.

They’re setting fire to the hospitals in northern Gaza so that civilians cannot return. This is the definition of a scorched earth campaign aimed solely at erasing civilian life.

By all reasonable definitions, this is ethnic cleansing.

IDF: Either you stay in the north, and we kill you, or you go to the south, and we kill you there too.

It has become exhausting to write , exhausting to report exhaustion to survive , we are tired beyond words.

The pandemic turbocharged far-right conspiracist politics, a strange new world made by old contradictions: the need to deny long history/awful present of violence/oppression that makes Western capitalist society possible. It's @NaomiAKlein on @thedigradio thedigradio.com/podcast/down-the-rabbit-ho...Mostrar mais

NYC! Tickets are going fast for tomorrow night's event with three of the sharpest people I know: @KeeangaYamahtta @astradisastra @catchatweetdown It's been ages since we all got together for an in-person discussion and wow do we need it! Grab your ticket!

RT @leximcmenamin: campus news: ✴️ Cornell banned 4 students from campus for 3 years, essentially pausing their degrees, over a Sep. prote…

NYC! Beyond the Ballot Join @NaomiAKlein, @catchatweetdown, @astradisastra, & @KeeangaYamahtta for a conversation about our intersecting economic, political, and ecological crises, w/ @HammerandHope Saturday, October 19th at 7:00 pm Free with RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/haymarketbooks...Mostrar mais

Monday, October 21st, in NYC and streaming online: Naomi Klein and Hala Alyan in conversation with Arielle Angel. Get your tickets now at jewishcurrents.org/event/volatile-emotions...

Michael DeGraff, Professor of Linguistics at MIT, has received letters of reprimand and had a pay raise for withheld for PROPOSING to teach a course about the language used to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. www.chronicle.com/article/a-curricular-cla...