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Liberal Secession and Liberal Fantasy

• https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/secession-constitution-elections-senate/

Ben Burgis (@BenBurgis) of Give Them An Argument joins LR for his first appearance.

• https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/01/censorship-big-tech-facebook-twitter
• ND junior (including mentally) Senator against student loan cancelation, clipping it himself

https://twitter.com/SenKevinCramer/status/1359597205208842243?s=19

Ecuador

https://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/news/shrill-tinamou-bird-becomes-inadvertent-whistleblower-on-fake-propaganda-video-shared-during-ecuador-elections

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/09/ecuador-bird-fake-video-colombian-guerrillas

• https://twitter.com/Ecuador_On_Q/status/1359255778272673795?s=20 against privatizing the central bank

Haiti

• https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1358913502543368193?s=20

Justice in Bolivia and Brazil?

Bolivia General to be tried for the anti-morales massacre

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Gen.-Valverde-To-Be-Tried-for-the-Senkata-Massacre-20210211-0005.html

Marielle Franco’s killers to be tried as well

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Brazilian-Court-To-Try-Marielle-Francos-Murderers-20210210-0008.html

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Opening

Class rootedness vs. class focused
MAS vs. Syriza
Bernie on political education
Edward Ongweso Jr (@Bigblackjacobin) of the This Machine Kills podcast and a writer for Vice's Motherboard gives us a primer on Section 230: 

Last summer, Trump hit us with the all-caps “REPEAL SECTION 230!!!” tweet. Biden also said it should also be revoked but not the dumb way Trump wanted to do it. What is it/ why is it so important re: internet governance? Who has benefitted? What to make of claims of "anti-conservative bias." What should actually be done about tech monopolies and social networks controlled by them?

Activist/teacher Kenzo Shibata (@KenzoShibata) Chicago teacher’s stand up against chicago mayor.

This is amazing https://twitter.com/KenzoShibata/status/1356966344462336001?s=20

Bloomberg on teachers https://twitter.com/dwdavison/status/1357354797620490242?s=20
Another insane chapter in the checks debacle

https://www.dailyposter.com/p/dems-threaten-to-exclude-families
2k Checks compilation video

https://twitter.com/demswatchdog/status/1356282041889861632?s=20

Jeff Bezos

https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1090698292835639296?s=20
Housing people works!

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/i-won-austinite-exiting-homelessness-after-8-month-stay-at-city-owned-hotel/

https://theappeal.org/austin-second-hotel-permanent-supportive-housing/

Breaking down the question of the party + q&a 

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Hey reckoners, tonight David and Matt discuss crying hedge funds and why this targeted speculation, while funny, doesn't necessarily portend the collapse of capitalism. Then, Jen Pan of the Jacobin Show joins us to discuss Janet Yellen being a Girlboss and how to escape the culture war. Also, David updates us on Austin's strides to defund the police.

In this Griscom stream, David breaks down the legacy of the Young Patriots plus takes questions from the chat. Catch the next Griscom stream live on Youtube. 


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Goobers react to Biden

https://twitter.com/Hezbolsonaro/status/1352102942346674179?s=20

How should we think about this incoming administration?

Farmers new landlord:” Bill Gates

Amazon strike - https://twitter.com/DavidGriscom/status/1350810198928199680?s=20

Response to it https://twitter.com/techworkersco/status/1351590466261823489?s=20

Milton Allimadi (@allimadi), founder of BlackstarNews.com joins us to talk about Museveni’s rigging of Ugandan elections and arrest of opponent Bobi Wine. Milton also comments on the Capitol riots and the coming Biden administration.

Shoutout to the teamsters on strike -
Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx - provides fresh produce to NYC

About 1,400 warehouse workers, drivers, and other members of Teamsters Local 202 went on strike Saturday after negotiations over the $1 raise fell apart.

Hunts Point Market got a $15 million PPP loan, but is refusing to increase the wages of the workers risking themselves by $1 an hour

The market services fresh produce to NYC

• Teamsters arrested https://twitter.com/TeamstersJC16/status/1351411444802351108?s=20
• AOC shows up https://twitter.com/CWEBCRUZER/status/1352056380925112320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1352056380925112320%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.teenvogue.com%2Fstory%2Faoc-skipped-inauguration-teamsters-union-strike-bronx
• https://twitter.com/clauirizarry/status/1352041521026134016?s=20

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Daniel Bessner (@dbessner) makes his first appearance on Left Reckoning to look ahead to Biden's foreign policy and the national security state's hunger for an age of domestic counterterrorism.

Check out Daniel's contributions to Derek Davison's excellent Foreign Exchanges substack:

https://fx.substack.com/

Other Stories:
Snyder faces charges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXwXtXsqLP8&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=67thDistrictCourtGeneseecounty

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/01/13/former-governor-rick-snyder-criminal-charges-flint-water-crisis/4153445001/

Lead pipes elsewhere

Toledo: “The Ohio Department of Health estimates that as many 19,000 children in the state have elevated levels of lead; children in Toledo tested positive for lead poisoning at nearly double the statewide rate, according to a 2016 report from the Toledo Lead Poisoning Prevention Coalition.”

https://www.wired.com/story/algorithm-helping-community-detect-lead-pipes/

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2020/12/15/ui-research-iowa-drinking-water-lead-levels-exposure-children/3903318001/

https://www.salisburypost.com/2021/01/14/once-again-dukeville-faces-water-quality-questions/

Biden’s Neoliberal Revival

https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1347357700573650951?s=20

• https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/joe-biden-plan-midterms-shellacking-458316
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-12/biden-aims-for-deal-with-republicans-on-covid-19-relief-package
• https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/12/biden-coronavirus-stimulus-package-458445
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/08/jobs-report-unemployment-december-2020/

Stories

• COVID in Indian Country, deaths of elders and the Indian Health Services Failures
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/us/tribal-elders-native-americans-coronavirus.html
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/politics/indian-health-service-hospital.html

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/judge-rules-indian-health-service-disclose-sex-abuse-report/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share_button

Left Reckoning Ep. 1

• Reacting to the storming of the capitol
• https://twitter.com/peterjgowan/status/1346988584050556934?s=20
• Pareene Inevitable Bipartisan Pro Cop consensus https://twitter.com/pareene/status/1346924241405415426
• Matty Defund trolling https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1347272232901476353?s=20
• Evo shows solidarity https://twitter.com/LeftReckoning/status/1346985315760656387?s=20
• Guy with his feet up got PPP loan https://twitter.com/ramsincanon/status/1347235735116656645?s=20
• Big window Trump https://twitter.com/shrimpJAJ/status/1346935756128804868?s=20

Malaika Jabali (@MalaikaJabali) joins as our inaugural guest:

• Fighting back against the limited vision of the democratic party - and their work to coopt all of these serious organizing and grassroots movements fighting for something different.
• What’s the most important fight we have in front of us going into 2021.