Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 19h“Capitalism has embarked on a last-ditch effort to rescue itself through war, targeting the emerging centres of economic and political sovereignty that threaten it.” 5/5 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 19h“The EU is rearming not because of a weakening trans-Atlantic alliance, but because the contradictions within the US-led system have reached a point whose only terminus is war.” 4/5 101
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 22h"The pillars of the fascist counterrevolution are being erected, and Europe — the same Europe that gave us the slave trade, colonial genocides, and two world wars — is building its arsenal." 3/3 101
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 22h"...which have revealed that the European ruling classes are willing to tolerate obscene levels of destruction and violence to preserve their hegemony...as opponents of war and genocide are met with increasing state repression." 2/3 www.transform.review/welfare-to-w...transform.reviewWelfare To WarfareRearm Europe/ Country Studies 101
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 22h"Rearmament [is] a justification for dismantling the social democratic compact, while laying the groundwork for renewed belligerence abroad as Europe shoulders a greater burden in the US-led imperial system. That assault is already taking shape in Ukraine and Palestine…”🧵1/3 102
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 22h"Rearmament [is] a justification for dismantling the social democratic compact, while laying the groundwork for renewed belligerence abroad as Europe shoulders a greater burden in the US-led imperial system. That assault is already taking shape in Ukraine and Palestine…”🧵1/3 102
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026France has been a powder keg for several years now, but it now appears that it's facing a perfect storm. A government subservient to the US, complicit in genocide, and totally out of touch. A media establishment that regularly coordinates naked lies. And a very very stupid, corrupt elite. 000
Reposted by Kelly RossW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026In an even moderately just world, Jake Sullivan would be tried and convicted in the Hague. Instead, he is likely going to have a major say in the next generation of Dem foreign policy advisers. Genuinely disgusting shit. 1405
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The reason why Obama said government has never been less corrupt and criticized Dems for emphasizing material goals over telling a “moral and ethical story” was to lower expectations that Dems will prosecute corruption or have material goals and signal that they will pretend genocide never happened. 012
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The reason why Obama said government has never been less corrupt and criticized Dems for emphasizing material goals over telling a “moral and ethical story” was to lower expectations that Dems will prosecute corruption or have material goals and signal that they will pretend genocide never happened. 012
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 19/09/2026One reason why the US and its European poodles refuse to admit they’ve lost their proxy war against Russia is bc the astronomical number of Ukrainian dead will become known, leading people to question why they did not accept much better terms in 2022 or before the war to avoid all those deaths. 000
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In a hair-on-fire emergency of climate breakdown, out-of-control warmongering, techno fascism, ongoing genocide, and class warfare, Establishment Dems are focused on ensuring that nobody who would lift a finger to tackle these crises gets elected and a Dem Congress has no obligation to do anything. 001
Reposted by Kelly RossMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO 241789535
Reposted by Kelly RossAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We need to normalize union organizing in every sector of American life. 17278872089
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 01/09/2026So it looks like the genocidal racists who run both parties have given up trying to make people like the genocide of Palestinians and have settled for weaponizing anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigotry to prevent the election of anybody who would lift a finger to stop the ongoing genocide. 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Here's a brief history of the CIA's sponsorship of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine during the Cold War. The many books on this subject have been memory-holed by official media. At the end is an incomplete list of US provocations that led to Russia's unprovoked invasion. mronline.org/2022/09/14/u...mronline.orgUkraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy - MR OnlineIt takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to educate American mainstream media (MSM) about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the roleof the United States in instigating that confli... 001
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Here's a brief history of the CIA's sponsorship of Nazi collaborators in Ukraine during the Cold War. The many books on this subject have been memory-holed by official media. At the end is an incomplete list of US provocations that led to Russia's unprovoked invasion. mronline.org/2022/09/14/u...mronline.orgUkraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy - MR OnlineIt takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to educate American mainstream media (MSM) about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the roleof the United States in instigating that confli... 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The truth is Steinem got her start by founding a CIA front organization. When the magazine Ramparts reported this, she fessed up and said she would do it again. 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 16/08/2026For several months there, I thought France had pulled ahead of the US in terms of Islamophobic bigotry and anti-Black and anti-Arab racism. But this month, the US has rallied to retake the lead (and the UK has made a strong bid of its own with the lynching of Jason Arday). 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The Democratic Party leadership is focused like a laser beam on having no obligation to do anything whatsoever other than "roll over and play dead" if they win the midterms. And if that means they lose the midterms, then so be it. Rolling over and playing dead is the platform. 011
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026TL;DR: We're slouching towards collapse bc of our own dysfunction and depravity, but we can't bear to live in a world where white colonial powers don't rule the roost, so we're just going to kill all the rest of you and take you down with us. spectator.com/article/ther...spectator.comThere’s still time to save the WestIn the West, being successful was once better than being unsuccessful. Wealth was better than poverty. Beauty was better than ugliness 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Neera Loomer works for the Oligarchy. 001
Reposted by Kelly RossHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Full video of my interview with FL Senate candidate Angie Nixon, who says she joined DSA because “someone organized me.” Lots of good talk on the organizing mindset applied to politics, and how shocking that is to the establishment . www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/angie-nixo...hamiltonnolan.comAngie Nixon Wants to Expand the Court, End the Filibuster, and Put ICE in JailThe Florida Democratic Senate candidate is very relaxed about being called a socialist. 213028
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 01/09/2026So it looks like the genocidal racists who run both parties have given up trying to make people like the genocide of Palestinians and have settled for weaponizing anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigotry to prevent the election of anybody who would lift a finger to stop the ongoing genocide. 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I think we need to understand the Trump regime as the takeover of the state by the Mafia. And I don’t mean that in the figurative sense. I mean the actual Mafia. 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"It remains highly controversial, even disqualifying, to analyze why this war happened...After four and a half years? After so many dead, and so much destruction? The lack of intellectual inquiry is not just astonishing, but morally bankrupt." 2/2 www.donotpanic.news/p/the-elabor...donotpanic.newsThe Elaborate Fairy-Tales Justifying The War In UkraineMy last article about the Russia-Ukraine war was the second-most popular I’ve ever written, but by far the one which provoked the most attacks, both against the argument and against me personally. 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Western arrogance and hubris...believes only its red lines on geostrategic issues are valid. Would the US have allowed a military alliance led by China [in] Mexico without a response? Of course not! The media would have demanded war and sold us war."🧵1/2 www.donotpanic.news/p/the-ukrain...donotpanic.newsThe Ukraine DelusionI’ve held back on writing about the Russia-Ukraine war, and this article probably won’t win me many fans. 101
Reposted by Kelly RossLuca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hospitals must be sanctuaries for healing, not surveillance hubs. Healthcare workers are taking a stand to demand an end to corporate contracts with Palantir, whose data technology powers ICE deportations. Patients deserve privacy, safety, and ethical care! 🎥 NationalNurses 18728349
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Happy International Smedley Butler Day, to all those who celebrate. 000
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Western arrogance and hubris...believes only its red lines on geostrategic issues are valid. Would the US have allowed a military alliance led by China [in] Mexico without a response? Of course not! The media would have demanded war and sold us war."🧵1/2 www.donotpanic.news/p/the-ukrain...donotpanic.newsThe Ukraine DelusionI’ve held back on writing about the Russia-Ukraine war, and this article probably won’t win me many fans. 101
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Nolan’s Odysseus is not merely the West in general. He is the US after three decades of unrestrained power: victorious, disoriented, pursued by the consequences of his own violence, and unable to imagine a world that he does not organize..." 🧵1/2 www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/03/t...counterpunch.orgThe Odyssey of the WestIn the London Review of Books, Emily Wilson, the renowned translator of Homer’s Odyssey from Greek to English in 2017, made her views plain about Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey. Nolan, who won a... 100
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I think it's not generally appreciated how much world Empire has deformed US politics, economics, and society. The unprecedented US bid for world domination after 1990 was an unsustainable drain on resources, corrosive of democracy, and an engine of yawning social and economic inequality. 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I see it’s now becoming common to refer to the war against Iran as a “war of choice.” I suppose it’s too much to ask for enough self-awareness to say a “war of aggression.” It’s indisputably an illegal and unconstitutional war of aggression. 001
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The IPCC estimates a "catastrophic" rise of 2 degrees by 2050, possibly 2039, on the current trajectory. They list the associated impacts: death of at least 2 billion people; catastrophic mortality events from conflict, malnutrition, and disease; ...🧵1/2 medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-...medialens.substack.com4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050... 100
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I see it’s now becoming common to refer to the war against Iran as a “war of choice.” I suppose it’s too much to ask for enough self-awareness to say a “war of aggression.” It’s indisputably an illegal and unconstitutional war of aggression. 001
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Also, his term expired in May 2024; he would likely not win reelection; and for a couple years now a majority of Ukrainians have told pollsters they no longer support continuing the war. 000
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026TL;DR: We're slouching towards collapse bc of our own dysfunction and depravity, but we can't bear to live in a world where white colonial powers don't rule the roost, so we're just going to kill all the rest of you and take you down with us. spectator.com/article/ther...spectator.comThere’s still time to save the WestIn the West, being successful was once better than being unsuccessful. Wealth was better than poverty. Beauty was better than ugliness 001
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026James Hansen: The abnormal strength of El Nino, increasing global climate anomalies, poleward shifting of climate zones, increased rainfall extremes, more rapid flash droughts and fires, and marine heat waves are the result of accelerating human-made global warming. mailchi.mp/caa/super-du...mailchi.mpSuper-Duper El Nino and the Bigger Problem 000
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I think it's not generally appreciated how much world Empire has deformed US politics, economics, and society. The unprecedented US bid for world domination after 1990 was an unsustainable drain on resources, corrosive of democracy, and an engine of yawning social and economic inequality. 001
Reposted by Kelly RossKelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 17/08/2026When Democratic leadership harp on “electability,” what they’re really doing is centering the role of big donors in screening candidates. Problem is, the gap between big donors and what voters want has never been wider. But leadership’s premise is that voters can be manipulated with big donor money. 001
Reposted by Kelly RossEqual Justice Initiative @eji.org · 20/08/2026On this day in 1619, traffickers brought the first enslaved Africans to a Virginia colony on the James River. They sold some enslaved people for food and sold others to white enslavers in Jamestown.calendar.eji.orgAug. 20, 1619 | Traffickers Bring First Enslaved Africans to Jamestown, VirginiaLearn more about our history of racial injustice. 06049
Reposted by Kelly RossMalevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Imagine watching your country descending into full in fascism and deciding as a centrist your duty bound to go to war with anyone that wants Healthcare 933070721
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 17/08/2026When Democratic leadership harp on “electability,” what they’re really doing is centering the role of big donors in screening candidates. Problem is, the gap between big donors and what voters want has never been wider. But leadership’s premise is that voters can be manipulated with big donor money. 001
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 16/08/2026For several months there, I thought France had pulled ahead of the US in terms of Islamophobic bigotry and anti-Black and anti-Arab racism. But this month, the US has rallied to retake the lead (and the UK has made a strong bid of its own with the lynching of Jason Arday). 001
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I think we need to understand the Trump regime as the takeover of the state by the Mafia. And I don’t mean that in the figurative sense. I mean the actual Mafia. 001
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The Democratic Party leadership is focused like a laser beam on having no obligation to do anything whatsoever other than "roll over and play dead" if they win the midterms. And if that means they lose the midterms, then so be it. Rolling over and playing dead is the platform. 011
Kelly Ross @kellybruys.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The truth is Steinem got her start by founding a CIA front organization. When the magazine Ramparts reported this, she fessed up and said she would do it again. 001