Of course Biden kicked progressives in the back in his first town hall, but the question on policing was a pivotal moment for why we need to understand the contribution of Huey P. Newton and what he and Bobby Seale gave us with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in how to fight this continuing battle of racist police terrorism.

Where did QAnon come from? Pizzagate, a lie about a pedo ring in Washington that some Progressives fell for too.

We told you the Democrats could not be pushed to the "left." Letting Neera Tanden anywhere near a cushy job in the Biden administration lets you know just where their loyalties lie. And it's not with the people. And that includes Uncle Bernie.

Yes, the way members of Congress have made excuses for the worst of the Trump coalition today is indeed a reflection of how it was possible that so many people accepted lynching, slavery, Jim Crow, and other racial violence. Even as they proclaim that they didn't participate, they were still very much complicit. Congress is showing you how right now.

We recognize and celebrate the one year anniversary of the publishing of a very important book written by our comrade and friend, Margaret Kimberley - Prejudential, Black America and The Presidents! We did this interview with Margaret a year ago as a video, but technical issues dogged us and we thought we'd lost it! But here we were able to salvage the audio and we're glad to have been able to preserve it to commemorate a truly prescient publication a year ago today!!

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Of COURSE Amazon has been stealing off its employees' wages & tips! And how the alleged Constitution-loving hypocrites threw a hissy fit about an election that wasn't stolen from their Dear White Supremacist Leader, while ignoring the voting rights denied others for centuries, and that still are.

While GameStopGate has people rallying for regular people to be allowed the same access to the market as the capitalists who control it, history tells us that what they REALLY fear is if we unite and fight against the entire system. Why not let's do that instead?

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Sadly I only had 10 minutes to talk about this and couldn't even address the fact that paying off student loans and being able to afford surgery is only possible in this country through a fluke of investing luck, but the basic principles behind the "free market" and the way the game of investing is absolutely rigged against everyone but the rich was made crystal clear in this issue with GameStop. More lessons in this than I had time to get into, but I hope you get the idea, that capitalism must die.

Amanda Gorman's poem "The Hill We Must Climb" is typical empty American Exceptionalism rhetoric presented as hope without substantive structural change by a young Black poet laureate in a spiffy yellow Prada coat.

The opulence and empty rhetoric of Joe Biden's & Kamala Harris's inauguration and the massive fireworks display to cap the event cast a cold shadow over the continued poverty, homelessness, and struggle of the people mere blocks and a very few miles away from the seat of US and global power.