Whiteness freed Kyle Ritterhouse, but it didn’t protect Anthony Huber or Joseph Rosenbaum. Both were shot dead by Ritterhouse.

What a mockery of justice. The jury’s verdict can only be understood by white racists as a license to kill.

This is an important analysis that has important policy and political implications.

House Democrats passes BBB (human infrastructure) today. It’s a big deal for many reasons. Should be celebrated and talked up. The next – bigger – hurdle is the Senate.

As significant and encouraging as the recent strike resurgence (actually it continues a trend that began in 2018) is, I would still argue that the best measure of the maturity and level of consciousness of the working class and labor movement at this particular moment remains the degree to which it engages in and gives leadership in the streets and voting booth to the diverse, cross class coalition (in the middle of which is the Biden administration and Democratic Party) arrayed against and in an existential battle against Trumpists and Trumpism.

This isn’t to counterpose one form of struggle or understanding against the other. Ideally, they reinforce one another. But only to remind ourselves that the prospects of the labor movement beyond this or that strike will depend on the ability of labor and its allies to politically and decisively defeat Trump and Trumpism