
DavidBenson
@BensonWSWS
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Supporter of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Oakland, California.
Joined January 2022
"Moreover, to present the issue as if it were a conflict over healthcare is absurd. They know that the shutdown is being used to carry out mass firings and prepare the framework for dictatorship." https://t.co/Moqy4Eyg4X
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The central issue behind the government shutdown is the need for the working class to intervene to force the Trump administration from office and put an end to its criminal conspiracies for militar...
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#Teachers union president preaches calm as #educators back call for mass strike against Trump dictatorship. #AFT #NEA #schools #parents #students #UFT #CTU #UTLA #PFT #DFT
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She claimed “the courts, Congress and the Court of Public Opinion” were the battleground against Trump, and rejected suggestions that a political strike was needed to stop Trump.
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The Global Sumud Flotilla, a convoy of over 50 civilian boats carrying more than 500 activists, aid workers, and lawmakers from around 45 countries, is sailing through the eastern Mediterranean towards Gaza.
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TYLENOL—“Why hasn’t the CDC refuted it? Well, RFK Jr. fired CDC director Monarez....and the acting director has no medical background is a speechwriter for Bush. So if a you’re a writer, you too can become CDC director someday if you believe in yourself” https://t.co/KdYdx4VMbk
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Three medical experts with decades of experience in autism and epidemiology on Tuesday slammed Trump administration federal officials for spreading disinformation and distrust with new guidance...
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Despite the media cheerleading, the “peace” proposal was quickly exposed as a ridiculous fraud by the Israeli government
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State Department asset and AFT president Randi #Weingarten stated a few days ago “it never gets to the point where fascism gets here.” Teachers' biggest obstacle to defending their jobs, freedoms and living standards is Weingarten. https://t.co/RCG9cKJxDf
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She claimed “the courts, Congress and the Court of Public Opinion” were the battleground against Trump, and rejected suggestions that a political strike was needed to stop Trump.
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California Governor Gavin #Newsom pretends that federal law doesn't override any conflicting state law so he can fake opposition to #Trump
https://t.co/ide4g8F12h
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California Governor Gavin Newsom’s new immigration bills, combined with massive budget cuts that impact undocumented workers, expose the fraud of the state’s “sanctuary” status and the Democrats’...
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In one of six mass shootings in the United States over the weekend, five people, including the shooter, are dead following a targeted attack on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan.
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As the US government barreled toward a Tuesday midnight partial shutdown, Democrats pleaded for negotiations, while President Donald Trump issued fascistic attacks on Democratic leaders and threatened to use a shutdown to carry out mass permanent layoffs of federal workers.
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@marinabanana6 The is the most important question of all. The short answer is that the well paid bureaucrats are deeply hostile to the interests of their members. They cut wages and sell our strike when they are forced into stoke to begin with. They *are* the Democrats, a party of the oligarchy
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Oklahoma schools superintendent resigns to lead campaign to destroy “radical leftists in #teachers union”
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The announcement marks a further escalation in the nationwide campaign of the Republican Party and the Trump administration to dismantle public education, criminalize teachers, and mobilize a...
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“All Eyes On Gaza”: Biggest ever demonstration in Germany against Israeli genocide
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The mass mobilisation showed the enormous opposition among the population to Israel's war crimes and Germany's participation in them.
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@dropoutnation "race/ancestry isn't class in the United States" I don't have clue what this means. Did you read the article? Do you care to respond to his misquotations and lacunae -- aside form his thoroughly reactionary concept that the American Revolution was a slaveholders' revolt?
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#Israel hates humanitarians because their propaganda labels #Palestinians “sub-human.” They are inspired by #Hitler. https://t.co/Ettf5wNCMp
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The deployment of warships aims to deflect popular anger and provide governments that have facilitated genocide for two years with an alibi while the slaughter continues.
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Behind the anti-science cabal of #Trump's administration stands #America's greedy #oligarchy, determined to eliminate public health and kill and sicken millions in order to gain even more wealth. https://t.co/6gSCOc7iLe
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Monday’s press conference represents not merely a return to Trump’s prior medical quackery, but a deepening of what can only be characterized as a policy of deliberate social murder that has develo...
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This is a drive to establish a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs. #Democrats fear the working class far more than the violence #Trump will carry out against them. https://t.co/sOLYYsGWOS
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The event in Glendale, Arizona was staged for the purpose of preparing a fascist assault on the working class.
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The Trump administration is establishing a presidential dictatorship, based on the military, police, paramilitary forces and fascist gangs. The Socialist Equality Party advances this revolutionary program to struggle against Trump and the degenerate oligarchy which he represents.
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“They are expanding the police state and using my case as a blueprint. But we will not back down. The fight for Palestine and for democracy in the US are the same struggle.” -- #MahmoudKhalil
https://t.co/1naorQ8iVN
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Mahmoud Khalil has been ordered deported as part of the transparent political vendetta against his steadfast opposition to the Gaza genocide and attempts by the Trump administration to silence him.
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