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  UNFTR Weekly Roundup Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here!   Max Notes D on’t S top A gitating. You don’t have to belong to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). You don’t have to know anyone who is a part of it. You don’t even have to know anything about it for it to impact our politics. But we should all understand its role in this political moment.   DSA is the socialist organization of record today, but it has deep intellectual roots in socialist movements of the past. More importantly, it represents a path forward that incorporates modern challenges. Justice issues related to gender, race and climate are infused into the DSA platform, broadening its scope beyond labor and class. This multi-tendency approach is both a strength and a weakness, and it’s important to grapple with this tension lest we allow the opposition to define the movement.   Now for the hard part. Defining the opposition.   Republicans and right-wingers of all stripes...

  UNFTR Weekly Roundup Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up here!   Max Notes Corporate Colonialism The MoU with Iran quietly expired, so our Dear Leader took to Truth Social to announce that he was willing to bomb the shit out of Oman, and instructed Pete Hegseth to stop joint military exercises with South Korea. The latter request was made because of his personal friendship with the Dear Leader of North Korea. Confused? That’s the point.   With approval ratings lower than any president in history, Trump keeps on Trumpin’. Pundits warn that it will come back to bite him in the ass in the midterms, but he seems unbothered by that. Inflation continues to eat away at purchasing power, job losses are slowly mounting with only 61% of the population gainfully employed, and retail sales posted a staggering reversal in July. Gas prices are higher than they were at the start of Trump’s second term, and our strategic reserves are nearly drained.   Corporate debt is o...