/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

‘Cop City’ legal case could cast spotlight on US police foundations’ activities
In the Atlanta case, a judge is considering 12 hours of testimony, related case law and evidence in a lawsuit that concerns whether records such as board meeting minutes from the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF) are subject to the state’s open records law. If they are, they must be released to plaintiffs: a local digital non-profit news outlet and a Chicago-based research organization.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/copy-city-legal-case-police-foundations

Jewish students at Georgetown protest detention of professor Badar Khan Suri
Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown and an Indian national, was arrested by masked federal agents following a Ramadan iftar in March. He is being accused by Department of Homeland Security officials of spreading Hamas propaganda.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/g-s1-59580/jewish-students-at-georgetown-protest-detention-of-professor-badar-khan-suri

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
“We are no longer planning to issue press releases or those dear colleague letters to inform the media and public about programmatic and service changes,” said SSA regional commissioner Linda Kerr-Davis in a meeting with managers earlier this week. “Instead, the agency will be using X to communicate to the press and the public … so this will become our communication mechanism.”
https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/
https://archive.ph/sr8pu

CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has rejected a request from health officials in Milwaukee for help with a lead poisoning investigation, after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the agency's response team.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milwaukee-schools-lead-poisoning-cdc-denies-help/

A rich L.A. neighborhood donated surveillance technology to the LAPD — then drama ensued
When the community donated the cameras to the Los Angeles Police Foundation — one of several nonprofits that support the Los Angeles Police Department — they sent them with strings attached: The police were only allowed to use them in Cheviot Hills. In the months since, the act of charity has ignited discussions about who gets to decide how technology donated to the LAPD is deployed — and whether the data collected by the plate readers could be used for purposes far beyond the intended scope.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-10/cheviot-hills-license-plate-readers-lapd
https://archive.ph/foP9e

Rev Left Radio: m[BEST OF] What Is To Be Done? - V.I. Lenin
ORIGINALLY RELEASED Apr 20, 2019
What is to be Done? is a classic work on the role and organisation of the revolutionary party in the communist movement. Lenin criticises economism, revisionism and spontaneity, and argues persuasively for a centralised and professional vanguard of the proletariat. On this episode of Red Menace Alyson and Breht explain and reflect on the text, and then extract the core lessons for revolutionaries today.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/best-of-what-is-to-be-done-vi-lenin-1

(HOUDINI) Update on Malhoud Khalil: They Bet We'll Choose Fear. Let’s Prove Them Wrong.
This man is a permanent resident. Green card holder. His wife's a US citizen. By every measure, he's American. Doesn't matter if he wasn't born here—he's as American as I am, as American as anyone whose family's been here five generations. And they're deporting him. Not for crime, not for violence—for protesting. The US government's excuse? That letting him stay would "weaken efforts to combat antisemitism worldwide." Translation: The regime's ability to do imperialism depends on silencing criticism of Israel. They’re using "antisemitism" as a shield for genocide, for propping up a colonial outpost. And if saying that out loud puts me in legal danger, if it means I could get black-vanned next—then we’ve already lost. Let's be crystal fucking clear: Criticizing Israel isn't antisemitism. Jewish Voices for Peace—actual Jewish anti-Zionists—are defending Khalil. If they’re "antisemitic," then the word means nothing. (Side note: HOUDINI Magazine is named after a Jewish person, so miss me with that shit from the jump.) This is about ideas. Khalil's being deported for his beliefs, same as Italian anarchists during the 1st Red Scare. They’re making up excuses to disappear him because he spoke out. And if they can do it to him, they can do it to you. To me. To anyone.
https://erikhoudini.com/#post?id=776101&title=update-on-malhoud-khalil-they-bet-we-ll-choose-fear-let-s-prove-them-wrong

Young Men Are Not Lazily Opting Out of Work
The message has apparently gone out among conservatives to start focusing on out-of-work young men in order to make cuts to Medicaid (Allysia Finley, Mike Johnson), with the idea being that if we make it so that these men cannot see the doctor when they get sick, this will cause them to become employed. On its face, this seems implausible. After all, man cannot live on doctor visits alone. But also, in most advanced nations, everyone can see the doctor when they get sick, and yet their employment rates do not seem to suffer as a result. Of course, to even make these points is to indulge something that is not sincere in the least. The unbroken conservative desire to cut the welfare state is not really motivated by concern for welfare recipients but rather by concern for others who they think are more deserving of the share of the national income and consumption that welfare beneficiaries currently receive. Makers and takers. Producers and parasites. And so on. But the discourse did make me curious about what the current employment situation of young men actually is. I was especially interested to know how much the monthly data about the number of young men who are not in the labor force obscures month-to-month movements of individuals between different labor force statuses. Just because each month might show that 30 percent of young men are not in the labor force, that does not mean it is the same men each month. And if it is not, then that suggests that these individuals are not lazily opting out of work.
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/employment-young-men-medicaid-welfare

>>488739
>UN says 36 Israeli attacks killed only Palestinian women, children in Gaza
Wait what ?

Everybody got mad they killed women and children, and they decided lets do only that ?
How did they even manage it ?

>>488746
>How did they even manage it ?
They didn't that shit is statistically impossible.