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Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University & author of Black Scare Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States, Charisse Burden-Stelly, returns to Bad Faith to discuss the new 100 page State Department report accusing American leftist groups of being part of a "sustained campaign of subversion" against the United States. This new Red-Scare blacklist names Code Pink, the DSA, Hasan Piker, Ben Cohen, Zohran Mamdani, and even Maxine Waters. What does this mean for left movements, & does the liberal response to these accusations, which is largely to distance "Communism" from Scandinavian-style social democracy, help or hurt the cause of the socialist left? We examine a series of Red-Scare articles, including a viral Atlantic Piece titled "The DSA Is a Parasite," along with clips from Jon Stewart, Abdul El-Sayed, & more.

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The Dead Ringers team train their vocal firepower on the week’s news. This week: England are out of the World Cup, Starmer is out of office, and Katherine Jenkins has a potty mouth.

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Codeberg recently changed its terms to exclude projects that are largely written with generative AI. Since I want GitHub to face competition I have thoughts.

Codeberg is entirely within its rights to do this. It is an association with members and a democratic process, and that process produced a result. But democracy is a way of making a decision, not a guarantee that the decision is inclusive, wise, or even good for the people already depending on it. A majority can still decide that certain projects and people no longer belong.

GitHub’s governance has never been democratic and there is plenty about the platform that I dislike. Yet democracy is not the main property I need from infrastructure. I need it to be predictable, dependable, and reasonably neutral towards the legal Open Source software hosted on it. A democratic provider without a clear constitution can be worse at those things than a corporation.

The actual wording makes this more difficult. The terms prohibit projects that mostly consist of code written by generative AI tools. In an actively developed codebase, what does “mostly” mean, and who can still tell? I could not reliably assign authorship percentages to many of my own recent projects. The line is open to interpretation precisely where it needs to be enforceable. In practice the center will probably lose out, as it has a bias.

A harsher line would probably be preferable. If Codeberg wants no LLM involvement, it should say so. If it wants to prevent autonomous repository spam and abusive resource consumption, it should write rules for those instead. The current middle ground delegates too much of the policy to moderators and community norms. I’m currently assuming the community around it draws a much harsher social boundary, making projects and maintainers unwelcome even when they technically comply.

It is a real shame that the Open Source and Free Software communities are splitting this deeply over LLMs and agents. There are serious questions about copyright, labor, energy use, slop, and maintainers drowning in generated contributions. But these tools are also becoming part of how software is made. The Open Source world needs to figure out how to engage with that future, not just divide into camps. More importantly, LLMs if done and used well, should be welcome to all of us. They could be used to reclaim control and power, away from large corporations and institutions.

As I mentioned before, I want GitHub to face true competition in the Open Source space. I would particularly like some of it to come from associations rather than another large corporation. As a European project, Codeberg naturally matters to me even more. It can choose to be a smaller community with a stronger political identity, but that is a different ambition from being a broad and dependable European alternative to GitHub.

I wish Codeberg were more forward-looking here: willing to host the Open Source software of tomorrow, not only software made in the ways its community approves of today. It has every right to make the choice it made, but I just do not think it is a good one.

The media wants you to think “Greater Israel” is a fringe fantasy belonging to Ben Gvir and the settler far right. It's not. It's a project for dominating the entire Middle East, and it goes far beyond land grabs.

Daniel Levy, former Israeli peace negotiator and president of the US/Middle East Project, joins Rania Khalek to explain what “Greater Israel” actually is: annexation in Palestine, military occupation zones in Lebanon and Syria, and beyond that, a region where every state is subservient, dependent, or collapsed. Levy breaks down why Israel has no recognized borders by design, how the Lebanon "framework agreement" serves the Israelis and was signed by a Lebanese government that got nothing in return, why Israeli leaders now openly declare that Turkey is next, and the contradiction at the heart of it all: Netanyahu calls Israel a superpower while insisting it was on the brink of annihilation. Is this project achievable or is it imperial overreach?

Plus, Levy reflects on his own evolution from an Orthodox Zionist upbringing in London, with a seat at the negotiating table, to becoming a sharp critic of Israel and Zionism.

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Democratic Socialists of America candidates won several Democratic primaries for Congress and the state legislature in New York. Seven months into his term, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s favorability has increased to 58% of New Yorkers, with only 26% disapproving—which, as the Guardian (7/12/26) pointed out, is “better than the Democratic Party as a whole.”

For establishment Democrats—and the corporate centrist press who love them—this is a crisis moment.

The New York Times (e.g., 6/16/25) has been vocal about its desire to keep DSA-backed candidates out of office, especially Mamdani. The recent momentum for DSA inspired the paper to publish a news story (7/19/26) that painted DSA’s pro-tenant, pro-worker, tax-the-rich platform not as a threat to the monied class, but as the project of white gentrifiers suppressing Black and Latino electoral power.

The article stated that, “after the wins by democratic socialists in gentrifying neighborhoods across the city,” there was worry that “work to empower Black and Latino voters to pick who represents them was being erased.”

One-third white-collar

This seems entirely laughable at the first read. In New York City, most of DSA’s congressional nominees and backed candidates are people of color; of the nine DSA state lawmakers currently serving in New York, eight of them are either Black, Latino or Asian. The co-chair of New York City DSA, Gustavo Gordillo, is Peruvian American, and Susan Kang, who often comments from the DSA perspective on Spectrum News NY1, is Korean American.

Oh, but the Times has a theory: 

The tension is not centered on the ethnicity or race of the candidates supported by the DSA—many are Black and Latino. It is more about the group itself: A 2021 national survey of DSA members found that the group was 85 percent white, a decrease from 2013 when 96 percent of members were white. About a third of the group identified as teachers, academics, white-collar workers or tech workers.

The average voter doesn’t step into a primary wondering about the demographic background of the foot soldiers of a candidate’s affiliated political machine, but whether the candidate is going to serve the interests of the voter and their city/state/nation. This kind of statistic might say something about the DSA’s trouble recruiting a diverse pool of dues-paying members who remain active outside of local elections, an issue worthy of discussion. That doesn’t negate the fact that DSA-backed candidates can win in diverse districts with pro-tenant and pro-worker platforms. 

“It’s racist to say a Black leader like myself is secretly operating on the whims of white people,” state Sen. Jabari Brisport of DSA told FAIR. “It implies Black socialist politicians don’t have agency.” 

‘High-water mark’

By the Times’ own reporting, Mamdani—the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor—won resoundingly citywide, notably losing ground to disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the suburban outskirts and the ultra-rich Upper East Side. Mamdani beat Cuomo—and Republican Curtis Sliwa—with Black, Latino and Asian voters. Cuomo crushed it with the white vote, however. 

A March poll found that Mamdani’s net approval rating, which is +10 points among white New Yorkers, is +23 among Latino voters and +42  among Black voters. Compare that to former Mayor Eric Adams, whose 2021 nomination “seemed to signal a high-water mark for Black political power” in New York City, according to the Times piece: In his last year in office, his net approval rating among Black voters was -36 (Quinnipiac, 3/5/25).

What the Times wants readers to believe is that insurgent DSA challengers are ousting incumbents who represent the poor and the marginalized, while DSA wins votes among gentrifiers. Take this nugget here: 

In Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, Representative Adriano Espaillat, a five-term incumbent who became the first formerly undocumented person elected to Congress and then the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, lost to Darializa Avila Chevalier, a democratic socialist almost 40 years his junior.

Exit polls show that while Espaillat led with the district’s Latino voters, Avila Chevalier won among Black voters, meaning the candidates split the POC voting base.

The Times also forgot to tell readers that it was Avila Chevalier, not Espaillat, who had to fend off racist character attacks. A “former senior adviser for Rep. Adriano Espaillat…made racist comments about his primary challenger Darializa Avila Chevalier in Spanish-language media,” City & State (6/22/26) reported, and “cast suspicions on Avila Chevalier’s Dominican identity.”

‘Targeting communities’

But perhaps the most telling passage came at the end: 

L. Joy Williams, the head of the New York State NAACP, said the signaling of DSA’s ambition was unmistakable. “The undercurrent is that they’re targeting communities that have historically and primarily been Black and Latino,” she said.

It’s logical that DSA would be “targeting” Black and Latino communities because they’re more likely than white voters to vote for a socialist candidate (Cato, 7/2/26). The Times piece failed to mention the long history of Black leaders and communities in socialist movements over the past century, including A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black Panthers.

But DSA’s Brisport also noted that Williams’ read on the situation wasn’t accurate, telling FAIR:

We’ve run candidates in white Bay Ridge and white Park Slope, we ran a candidate way out in eastern Queens; none of these are traditionally Black or brown seats, but people ignore those to build a narrative.

Brisport contrasted Williams’ comments to the fact that a Black DSA congressmember, Jamaal Bowman, was ousted in a primary by a white challenger with the help of $14.5 million in Israel lobby funding in 2024 (FAIR.org, 6/28/24). “They took out a Black principal and replaced him with a white guy who was loyal to Israel,” Brisport said. “These so-called Black leaders had nothing to say.” 

In addition, Williams’ comment ignores the fact that DSA’s first major congressional victory was the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Puerto Rican woman who defeated a powerful and long-serving white incumbent (Time, 6/26/18). But the Times never offers this correction in its reporting.

Worse, passages like this normalize the idea that establishment incumbents are entitled to keep their positions, especially if they represent districts with Black and Latino politicians. The Times’ inclusion of this sentiment, punctuating the piece, insinuates that Black and Latino activists entering primaries, canvassing voters, promoting an affordability platform and turning out supporters in low-turnout elections is some kind of dirty trick. In other words, the Times is afraid of too much democracy. 

It’s interesting to note that while the right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial board (6/21/26) is also horrified at DSA’s electoral rise, it is more clear-headed about why the group is surging than this swipe at the group in the Times’ news section. “These races—and others across the country—reflect the potent organizing of the DSA and the leftwing march of young progressive voters,” it said. “The DSA agenda is gaining among Democrats,” the paper acknowledged.

Comedian Sunil Patel is trying to make a documentary that young people will like. It’s sexy, it’s vice, it’s Hunter S. Thompson, but he’s already completely blowing it. Listen to Sunil embarrass himself on national radio and be forced to change tack immediately.

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Aaron and Bryce discuss the strange demise of Lindsey Graham, the Epstein Regime's resumption of hot war on Iran, Roger Waters on 911, and Graham Platner.  

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All my notes live in Denote, the fantastic Emacs package by Protesilaos Stavrou. The system is perfect while I am at the computer... but I wanted to read and edit my notes from my phone. I did not find anything that respected the Denote convention, so I built it myself: Dotdenote, an iOS app that reads, edits and creates notes following the Denote naming scheme over WebDAV. It is open source, you can browse the code at git.andros.dev/andros/dotdenote.

The app does not lock your notes anywhere: it talks to any WebDAV server, so they remain plain text files under your control. In this mini tutorial we will set up a WebDAV server with Docker, put an Nginx in front of it, and connect the app to your existing Denote notes. In less than 10 minutes you will be browsing your Zettelkasten from your phone.

What you need

• A machine to host the server: a home server, a Raspberry Pi, a VPS, or even your laptop.
• Docker with the Compose plugin installed. You don't need to use Docker, you can run the WebDAV server and Nginx directly on your machine, but Docker makes it easier to set up and maintain.
• Your Denote notes folder (.org, .md or .txt files).
• An iPhone with Dotdenote installed.

Step 1: Create the project structure

We will use hacdias/webdav, a small and solid WebDAV server, behind an Nginx reverse proxy. Both run as containers.

Create a folder for the stack and copy your notes inside data/notes/:

mkdir -p denote-server/data/notes
cd denote-server
cp -r ~/Documents/notes/* data/notes/

The notes subfolder is important: the app uses /notes/ as its default notes path, so this layout works out of the box.

Step 2: Configure the WebDAV server

Create config.yaml with the server settings and your credentials:

address: 0.0.0.0
port: 6065
directory: /data
permissions: CRUD
users:
  - username: denote
    password: change-me-please

A couple of notes:

• directory is the key used since v5 of hacdias/webdav (older tutorials mention scope, which no longer works).
• permissions: CRUD gives the user full read and write access, which is what the app needs to create and edit notes.

Step 3: Configure Nginx

Create nginx.conf. WebDAV uses HTTP methods and headers that a default proxy config does not forward, so we pass them explicitly:

server {
    listen 80;
    client_max_body_size 1g;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://webdav:6065;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

        # WebDAV specific headers. Destination arrives as an absolute URL,
        # rewrite it to a path so the backend accepts it.
        set $destination $http_destination;
        if ($destination ~ ^https?://[^/]+(/.*)$) {
            set $destination $1;
        }
        proxy_set_header Destination $destination;
        proxy_set_header Depth $http_depth;
        proxy_set_header Overwrite $http_overwrite;
    }
}

Step 4: The Compose file

Create compose.yaml gluing everything together:

services:
  webdav:
    image: hacdias/webdav:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./config.yaml:/config.yaml:ro
      - ./data:/data

  nginx:
    image: nginx:alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
    volumes:
      - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro
    depends_on:
      - webdav

Your folder should now look like this:

denote-server/
├── compose.yaml
├── config.yaml
├── nginx.conf
└── data/
    └── notes/
        ├── 20240322T131856--my-note-title__emacs_notes.org
        └── ...

Start it:

docker compose up -d

Step 5: Test the server

The app checks the connection with a PROPFIND request, so let's do exactly the same with curl (replace the IP with the address of your server):

curl -u denote:change-me-please -X PROPFIND -H 'Depth: 1' http://192.168.1.50:8080/notes/

If you get an XML response listing your notes, the server is ready. If you get a 401, check the credentials in config.yaml; if you get a 404, check that your notes live inside data/notes/.

Step 6: Connect the app

Download Dotdenote from the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotdenote/id6773266542

Open the app and fill in the setup form:

Tap [ test connection ]. When you see the check mark, save, and your Denote notes will appear in the list: you can search them, open them, edit them, and create new ones. Every note the app creates follows the Denote convention (IDENTIFIER--title__keywords.ext) with the proper front matter for Org, Markdown or plain text, so everything stays perfectly compatible with Emacs.

The password is stored in the iOS Keychain, and the notes never touch any third-party service: the app only talks to your server.

Optional: expose it to the internet

The setup above is fine inside your home network or over a VPN like WireGuard or Tailscale. If you want to reach your notes from anywhere, do not expose plain HTTP: put a domain in front of the server and add TLS. The quickest path is to run Nginx on the host (or use a proxy like Caddy or Traefik) with a Let's Encrypt certificate from Certbot, pointing to 127.0.0.1:8080. Then use https://notes.example.com as the URL in the app, everything else stays the same.

Enjoy it!

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The Dead Ringers team train their vocal firepower on the week’s news. This week: Trump turns tricks, Tuchel talks tactics, and Count Binface is unmasked.

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Like 'em or not, Angel Studios have emerged as the only explicitly right-of-centre movie company that knows what movies look like. But does their new historical drama YOUNG WASHINGTON (2026) meet that minimum standard of quality? We marked America's 250th birthday by heading to our local multiplex and hanging out with a Founding Father. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://patreon.com/michaelandus Check out the official Michael & Us website/episode guide - https://michael-and-us.com/

Tabitha Beckworth is the founder and CEO of globally successful wellness brand, The Whisper. But, like any super driven hyper successful business person she does many different things, all of them to great success - over 3 million subscribers to her YouTube channel is a testament to this. But for this interview, Tabitha found time in her packed schedule to sit down with Alistair to explain more about what The Whisper is and the global community it has created.

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NATO Summit Descends Into Total Farce. Trump Mocks Europe, Rutte Panic

Like Andy Burnham’s No.10, Dead Ringers is in the North, at the Crossed Wires Podcast Festival in Sheffield. This week: Chris Mason is giddy, Zia Yusuf is everywhere, and The Rest is Politics has gone mad for it. Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey and Kieran Hodgson. Produced by Jon Holmes Executive Producer: Richard Morris Production Co-ordinator: Giulia Lopes Mazzu A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.

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Emacs, LibreOffice Writer and Vivaldi are the productivity tools I use most often. So I like to incorporate a feature from one into the others. One example is the ability to initiate a search from selected text. I added this feature to LibreOffice as described here. Another nice feature is the ability to switch between the current buffer and the next (or previous) buffer with C-<TAB> and C-S-<TAB> that I added to Emacs¹.

But I've also configured Vivaldi with a useful Emacs feature. Now it responds to C-S-k by invoking "Close tabs to the Right." Emacs devotees know that C-k is bound to kill-line, which "Kill[s] the rest of the current line...."² If you imagine that the row of tabs is a line of text, it's natural to expect C-k (or C-S-k) would remove all the tabs to the right of the current tab.

Why did I choose the key combination C-S-k instead of C-k? I think at the time C-k performed another function. Or perhaps I felt that it was more appropriate to use two modifier keys for such a significant operation. I rarely need to delete tabs to the left; if I did, I'd bind C-M-S-k to "Close tabs to the Left."

You might utter the following complaint, "But C-S-k doesn't work for Gmail; it brings up a virtual keyboard instead!" Correct. So while we're on the topic of Vivaldi key configurations, I'd like to point out that it's possible to tell Vivaldi to ignore a website's key assignment, allowing the key to pass to Vivaldi. Just search for the setting "Browser Priority Shortcuts," click on one of the existing key combinations and press C-S-k to add it to the others.

I rely on the web browser's tab history a great deal, too. I'm working on implementing something vaguely similar for Emacs."

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¹ To get the C-<TAB> and C-S-<TAB> to switch buffers, just add this to your init file:

  (keymap-global-set "C-<tab>" 'next-buffer)
  (keymap-global-set "C-S-<tab>" 'previous-buffer)

² https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Killing-by-Lines.html

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the USA, drafted the words 'all men are created equal', in the US Declaration of Independence. He wanted slavery to end, but mainly because he was deeply worried about slaves revolting against the white population.  He also thought the new nation would not be taken seriously if it was mixed race. He wanted to banish all black people from the US. 

• Guest: Nicholas Guyatt, Professor of North American History at Cambridge University. Co-author, with Christa Dierksheide, of ‘Jefferson’s Wolf: a founding father’s troubling answer to the problem of slavery’  (Harvard University Press, May 2026)
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What should we do when the "AI" bubble pops? Emily and Alex are joined by researcher Matt Scherer, who recently published a report called "No Bailout for Big Tech Billionaires: Policies for when the AI bubble bursts." They unpack what the boosters are saying about their finances, and how we can all push back against arguments for a government bailout.

Matt Scherer is a fellow at the anti-monopoly think tank Open Markets Institute. He previously led the workers' rights project at the Center for Democracy & Technology.

References:

• Forbes: "AI Can Change The World And Still Be A Bubble"
  • Also referenced: Is AI Profitable Yet?
• CNBC: "Altman says some investors will be left 'very burnt'"
• CNBC: "Bezos brushes off concerns of an AI bubble: 'You shouldn’t worry about it'

Fresh AI Hell:

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• "Chatbots at the drive-thru"
• YouGov polling on automated juries
• Chaser: Erin Brockovich is on the case!
• AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2,000 a Month to Masturbate
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This week on Chapo, we finally beat the news curse to talk about Graham Platner’s latest and likely career-ending scandal…only to fall victim to it by talking about the Trump-FIFA red card reversal that absolutely did not matter at all. Our friend Tim (@garliccorgi) of the ALAB podcast is here to talk about this all, plus a roundup of the Supreme Court’s recent stripping of the copper wire out of everything, the narrow survival of the 14th amendment, and any potential options a future administration might have to reverse this. Find all things ALAB Series here, and get the show wherever you get podcasts: https://www.alabseries.com/ Just ONE WEEK left to get CHUNKS at the early bird price here: https://www.patreon.com/chunkstv 🚨🚨 LIVE SHOW ALERT 🚨🚨 NYC - NOV 6. - 10 YEARS IN THE ZONE Chapo & friends will be live at New York’s Society for Ethical Culture on Friday November 6th. Pre-Sale for Patreon subscribers on Wednesday, July 8 General sale begins Friday, July 9.

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Danny and Derek are joined by historian Andrew Shankman to talk about the road to U.S. independence from Great Britain. They discuss differences between Spanish and British colonization strategies, the intellectual and philosophical origins of the American Revolution, the Stamp Act crisis, distinctions in racial conceptions between the American colonies and the West Indies, key revolutionary figures, the early American republic, the unique economic situation of Boston and Massachusetts, and post-revolution relations with Britain and indigenous peoples.  

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If you want to know if we're alone in the universe, who ya gonna call? We welcome back longtime friend of the show Chris Berube to discuss DAN AYKROYD UNPLUGGED ON UFOS (2005), a documentary that is, incredibly, not a bit. Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://patreon.com/michaelandus Check out the official Michael & Us website and episode guide - https://michael-and-us.com/ Mike Bullard's beer promo fail - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iXgbWVcXFs Dan Aykroyd's insane Crystal Skull vodka commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwJmNaR_4hk

Both France and Germany are switching from US tech surveillance company, Palantir to French firm ChapsVision, citing a need for digital sovereignty amid security concerns over sensitive data being easily accessed by the US govt. France is also moving away from all Microsoft platforms, preferring to use software they have developed and can control. The push to divest from Microsoft was accelerated after the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor lost access to his Microsoft email account after the Trump administration sanctioned him for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant on charges of war crimes.

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