ICE shot a young man in the Bronx. ICE is murderous. ICE is terrorizing communities. Abolish ICE, now!

The Trump administration is persecuting people and organizations for promoting critical thought, raising questions, and exposing the criminal nature of this administration and the billionaires it serves. History shows us that when authoritarian governments come for one, they come for all- no one is safe! Now is not the time to retreat from struggle. It is the time to stand in solidarity. Our movement is growing- that’s what they fear and why they are attacking us. Follow and support @peoplesforumnyc @btnewsroom @thetricontinental Donate towards their legal defense. Remember we are stronger when we stand together.

Cuba, has once again, received the solidarity of the international community at the UN. The world voted decisively to include the urgent need to end the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial embargo against Cuba on the UN agenda. Despite intense pressure and threats from Trump and Rubio camp, the vote was clear: Cuba is not alone! 136 votes in favor, 9 against, and 30 abstentions, UN member states rejected U.S. efforts to block discussion of one of the longest running and most universally condemned unilateral sanction regimes in history. As the General Assembly takes up this debate, the international community must continue to show its solidarity in ways that allow Cuba to live. End the blockade, now!

To live and experience the US with eyes wide open and historical accuracy, is to know the tale of two nations. One which will celebrate 250 years of “freedom” to expand, extract, exploit and empire building. The Other, who has experienced invasion, genocide, enslavement. One that has insisted on erasing the Other. The Other that has stubbornly refused to be erased. The tension of these two nations, whose interests are so deeply opposed, lives in underfunded schools while there is unending funding to put trillions into war; in the expansion of mass incarceration targeting black and brown people while making people’s misery profitable; in the expansion of surveillance, detention centers and the criminalization of dissent, all while speaking about freedom. It lives in the cages holding hundreds of thousands of children while speaking about “family values.” In the bombs destroying generations. In the sanctions that starve and kill people while claiming “in God we trust.” There is the tale of two nations: of the slave owners and the enslaved. The haves, and that of the have nots. Two very different experiences. One salutes and honors empire. The Other is still building people’s history daily through survival and struggle. The Other strives to make true the claims of freedom, democracy and moral values that one has been incapable of upholding.

End the sanctions. That is THE relief needed. Venezuela has the right to sovereignty and developing w/o being subjected to US intervention of any sort. Thinking of all those impacted by the earthquake. And the many suffering the results of living under sanctions.

Internationally, nations and people have recognized the U.S.'s chronic addiction to war. The blockade is a symptom of the deep sickness that germinates in the very being of the morally bankrupt and warmongering U.S. billionaire class. They salivate at the idea of world dominance and exploitation for profit. What the US has been doing to Cuba for over six decades, and what the Trump administration is doing, with Rubio at the helm, is not about "democracy" or "freedom." Those words are used as covers for a long-standing campaign toward recolonization the only way colonial powers know how: through violence! Sanctions are an act of war! Sanctions kill! Let Cuba Live!

[focus on what the people have done!]The sweeping victory of DSA from DC to NY isn't just a signal. It is a verdict. People want change. As I said after the success of Mamdani’s campaign in NYC, it's people’s moods, aspirations, refusal to settle that's driving this sea change. People are not buying the fear mongering, not caving to the smears, not bowing to the open hatred and racism. People are starting to bet on themselves. Specially young people. They are proving: socialism isn't the boogeyman. It is the only path forward. So what comes next? That's on us. On the organizers, the people committed to building a movement, people committed to building socialism. We are the ones who deepen this sentiment and expand it towards building people power and a socialist future. We must know that voting alone won't save us. Organized struggle, an independent socialist movement- it’s not just possible. It's urgently necessary. And it's the only road to the real transformation of society.

Trump should have stayed his ass away from NY… Knicks were doing just fine w/o all that warmongering energy.