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🇨🇺🇨🇳 As the US starves Cuba of food and fuel, China is helping to build 100 solar farms for clean, renewable, sovereign energy. The blockade makes blackouts. But the solar plans are "light in the darkness." #MejorSinBloqueo thenation.com/article/world/…

Thrilled to be joining scholars, diplomats, and policymakers from around the world in Brasilia to help chart the course for Brazil's vital BRICS+ presidency. Sign up here to follow along (I promise my mustache is more tame than in this old photo) act.progressive.international/brics/

Killer lineup for a killer podcast!

One time in Cuba I accidentally ate at a state-run center for feeding senior citizens that I thought was just a hole-in-the-wall locals-only restaurant. 🫠

Watched the documentary Chão (Landless) about the MST last night. Couldn't recommend more. No narration, little editorialization, just the members of Latin America's largest social movement, in their own words. youtu.be/2yAfqhKcOoo?t=4

Not a single sign that the killing was motivated by “antisemitism”

I understand a politician condemning killings, but ceding the baseless claim that they were motivated by "antisemitism" is totally unnecessary and only helps justify the inevitably coming repression

In order to pass his bill stealing money from working Americans to put in Elon Musk's pocket, he had to casually condemn a few thousand more Venezuelans to die. axios.com/2025/05/23/tru…

47% of Israeli Jews polled support KILLING ALL PALESTINIANS in Gaza! Israeli society has gone full genocidal

Great piece on the Kennedy Center unionization effort from Michelle Z Chen in In These Times Solidarity with the Kennedy Center United Arts Workers ✊ inthesetimes.com/article/kenned…

Counterpoint: No it’s not

The Trump administration has issued GL 25, effectively lifting sanctions on Syria in a single executive action. This is an extraordinary move. USG has historically approached sanctions relief with complicated, incremental methods. This one big step could make a big difference.

Just walked by an absolutely cursed “X & Y & Z &” t-shirt: Mises & Hayek & Friedman & Rothbard

PRESENTING 🇧🇷 BRICS Ascendent Join the Progressive International, Plataforma CIPÓ, BRICS Policy Center, UnB, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Inesc, Rede Brasileira de Renda Básica and Rebrip in Brasília for a two-day symposium that will help chart the course for the BRICS+ during Brazil’s pivotal presidency.

Vibes are quite good at the MST’s (Landless Workers Movement’s) cultural center in São Paulo

Scenes from São Paulo’s Ocupação 9 de Julho — a building occupied by the homeless movement Movimento dos Sem Teto do Centro (MSTC), now home to 100+ families. Open for community meals on the weekend.

Palestinian restaurant/venue in São Paulo plastered in pics of Leila Khaled and Ghassan Kanafani 🇧🇷🇵🇸

There is no other Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. RIP to a giant.

Not to be missed: a fantastic collection of short pieces gathered by Farwa Sial commemorating the 70th anniversary of the #Bandung conference and the related joint IDEAs, Yukthi and #BCIS event to be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2-3 June 2025 networkideas.org/announcements/…