Socialism 2026 — Haymarket Books’ annual gathering of Marxists, abolitionists, and far-left activists — ran September 4-7.

As you might expect, content centered on abolition — not just of capitalism, but also of police, prisons, borders, the family, and “cisness.” Not to mention plenty of speeches on Marxist theory, Palestine solidarity, anti-ICE organizing, and labor strategy.

Glenn Beck was horrified and amused at the freak-show antics of the four-day conference. On this episode of “The Glenn Beck program,” he revisits the most viral lowlights of the event and warns of the looming 2028 strike plan hiding behind them.

While many of the session titles were predictable, some were truly unhinged. Glenn names a few: “Health Fascism,” “Body Politics,” “The Anti-State State,” “Feminism Against Cisness,” “Abolishing the Family Through Black Feminist Lens,” and “Tarot Cards for Socialists.”

The one about tarot cards, he laughs, was his “favorite.”

“Apparently the godless need some advice and a second opinion as well,” he quips.

Another noteworthy moment, Glenn says, is when Hassan Piker — the celebrity salesman of abolition socialism — gladly received a hat from a Stand with Abortion Now member with the inscription “Satan’s School of Gay Communism.”

He then plays a clip of self-described queer/trans Afropessimist and anarcho-communist Da’Shaun Harrison arguing that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are “fascistic” because they exist in “a world fixated on genociding fat people.”

While Harrison’s anti-GLP-1 argument makes Glenn roll his eyes, it’s the fact that he’s still wearing a mask that really ticks him off.

“For the love of Pete, COVID is way in the past. The mask didn’t work in the first place,” he scoffs, noting that “a lot of the people at this convention were still wearing masks.”

As for Harrison’s fat-genocide grievance, Glenn sees a glaring flaw.

“Why would Americans want to genocide fat people? We’d all be dead. We’d all be dead. Have you been to a mall lately? Have you seen the American public recently?” he asks, baffled.

Sitting next to Harrison on the “Health Fascism” panel was Beatrice Alder Bolton — a disability-justice writer and podcaster.

“The fantasy of being fitter than the fascists — it’s not just that it’s cringe or strategically bad, though it is. I think it’s also politically revealing. Fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism,” she argued.

“Our task is not to become less disposable, to become more useful to the ruling order. What we all need to be doing is rejecting disposability in all of its forms,” she added.

Again, Glenn sees the irony. Bolton, who is wearing a mask to protect herself against sickness, is arguing that being fit and healthy is a capitalist trap.

“We don’t have to worry about being healthy? Then take the mask off, sweetheart,” he snaps.

The problem with this group of radical abolitionists, he says, is not that they have bad ideas. “We all have bad ideas. … Bad ideas happen all the time. What you’re looking at here in Chicago is a room where a bad idea has no place to die,” he says, explaining how dissent is equivalent to treason in such movements.

But the most alarming thing about Socialism 2026, Glenn argues, isn’t found in the viral videos about fat-genocide and fitness-as-fascism. It’s what’s coming in 2028.

“Mayday 2028” is “not a slogan” but a planned and well-organized strike that, if successful, will shut down many workplaces simultaneously.

“The UAW has called for aligning major union contract expirations on May 1, 2028. Other unions have moved their dates to match. DSA passed its resolution at its convention committing to build a mass action,” says Glenn.

“One organizer called [Socialism 2026] a structured test — a rehearsal to count how many people will actually walk out when asked. They are patient. They are funded. They are well scheduled, two and a half years out,” he continues.

So while most people are busy buzzing about viral X clips, “the calendar is the part that matters,” he warns.

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Van Lathan is a popular social and political commentator who recently came out in favor of what he called the “gay agenda.” His reasoning was straightforward: Gay people exist and have relationships, so media companies should intentionally promote same-sex storylines to young viewers.

He is right that media is a powerful tool for shaping norms and values. But like many people who comment on modern family dynamics, Lathan focused on adults’ desires rather than children’s needs. Applied consistently, however, his case for using media to shape culture points toward promoting the relationships that bring more children into the world and bind mothers and fathers to them.

These efforts would help restore a culture of strong families in neighborhoods where some black boys grow up believing that ‘marriage is for white people.’

Nearly 40% of U.S. births in 2024 were to unmarried women. In 2019, almost one-quarter of U.S. children under 18 lived with a single parent and no other adult. The share of married adults has fallen since 1970, while the typical age at first marriage has risen. Marriage is increasingly treated as optional to forming a family. Given the association between family structure and child outcomes, that should concern policymakers, pastors, pundits, and parents alike.

Given his frequent commentary on racial inequality, Van Lathan and other progressives should be the loudest advocates of a “Black Wives Matter” campaign that promotes marriage and strong families.

In 2023, 69.3% of births to non-Hispanic black women occurred outside marriage, a share significantly higher than the 40% national figure. The numbers in some cities were even starker. New York City reported that an estimated 65% of births to non-Hispanic black women were to mothers who were not married. The comparable figures were 77% in Washington, D.C., and 83% in Baltimore.

State-level data was also stark: 71% in Georgia, 79% in Alabama, and about 82% in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Family structure is among the most consequential examples of racial disparity in American social life, yet civil rights organizations and racial justice advocates on the political left largely ignore it. Progressives apply an equity lens to every structure except family structure.

Changing this reality will require black leaders and influencers like Van Lathan to promote and prioritize an agenda that restores marriage as the foundation of family life. My book, “The Vanishing Black Family,” gives them a blueprint for turning words into action and building a social movement to increase the number of black children growing up in a loving home with a married mother and father.

That could mean churches in the Deep South offering marriage counseling to young co-habiting couples; historically black colleges and universities producing new research on attitudes about marriage and family life; and cities running ads about what researchers call the “success sequence”: finish high school, get a full-time job, and marry before having children. Adults who complete those steps have far lower poverty rates; an Institute for Family Studies analysis reports that 97% were not poor in their 30s.

This movement will also need a media environment that normalizes loving relationships between men and women, a drastic change from the gender-war content that dominates online discourse today.

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These efforts would help restore a culture of strong families in neighborhoods where some black boys grow up believing that “marriage is for white people.” That belief is not simply the product of cartoons and movies. It reflects a steadily declining marriage rate and leaders who have been too busy advancing movements that once openly called for disrupting the nuclear family and prioritizing what adults want over what children need.

The decline of stable, married-parent homes is concerning because family structure has a clear and consistent association with positive child outcomes. On average, children raised by their married biological parents have lower poverty and incarceration rates and higher college completion rates. Family structure is not the only cause of those differences, but it is not incidental either.

Those outcomes in the schoolhouse and courthouse receive most of the attention, but the importance of married parents goes beyond measurable indicators. Family also bears on the deeper questions of identity everyone asks at some point: “Who am I?” and “Whose am I?”

The answers reflect the reality that every child is the living embodiment of the relationship between his or her mother and father. The greatest gift parents can give their children is the safety and security of a loving home where Mom and Dad are committed to each other in marriage. That is the only agenda I am interested in promoting.

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner vehemently objected to a federal judge referring him for criminal investigation over his efforts to overturn a conviction.

U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond Jr. said Krasner might have committed obstruction of justice and other crimes in his handling of a post-conviction.

‘I refer the DAO, Mr. Krasner, and [his deputy Matthew] Stiegler to this District’s United States Attorney’s Office for investigation and other appropriate action.’

Krasner has backed a man seeking to overturn his second-degree murder conviction through the DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit. Prosecutors say the case was badly botched.

Diamond said that Krasner may have forced prosecutors to accept a false narrative

“I have thus reluctantly concluded that Philadelphia’s highest law enforcement official and one of his top assistants may have violated the law,” said Judge Diamond in the memo. “In these circumstances, with the issuance of this Memorandum, I refer the DAO, Mr. Krasner, and [his deputy Matthew] Stiegler to this District’s United States Attorney’s Office for investigation and other appropriate action.”

Krasner fired back and said he would appeal the decision.

“I respectfully and vigorously disagree with the court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law,” read a statement from the DA.

“I look forward to appealing to the higher court as soon as the law allows,” he added. “This remains a pending matter, which limits for now my and my office’s ability to respond in the media.”

Krasner was first elected through a massive campaign donation by left-wing millionaire George Soros. He has been heavily criticized for his lax law enforcement policies.

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Krasner and Stiegler were ordered off of the case.

NBC reported that a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania did not return a request for comment.

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The president once against lambasted the U.S. Supreme Court after a split ruling against his order on mail-in voting.

President Donald Trump had ordered the U.S. Postal Service in April to help federal authorities prevent election fraud through voting by mail.

‘The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does – It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm!’

The order involved the creation of a comprehensive list of U.S. citizens who are legally allowed to vote. The USPS would only be allowed to mail ballots to voters on the list.

Two conservative justice dissented in the ruling Monday that upheld a lower court blocking the USPS from implementing certain parts of the president’s order for the midterm elections.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence explaining that although he believed the USPS had the authority to implement the order, the agency did not “have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule” before the elections.

The president zeroed in on that decision in his polemic on Truth Social.

“Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give,” he wrote, “and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting ‘disaster,’ which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM.”

He went on to accuse the court of giving Democrats an “open field” to cheat through mail-in voting.

“Justices [Samuel] Alito and [Clarence] Thomas, legends both, strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political, ruling,” he added. “The Supreme Court has really let our Country down!”

He also blasted the court for other decisions he disagreed with, including the birthright citizenship ruling and the court’s rejection of some of his tariffs.

Critics of the president’s order accused him of trying to unconstitutionally federalize elections.

“This is another desperate, illegal power grab that shows a total lack of respect for the American people and our Constitution,” responded Oregon State Secretary Tobias Read in April.

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“The Constitution is clear: states run elections,” Read added. “We don’t need decrees from Washington, D.C. My message to the president: We’ll see you in court.”

The president asserted that the conservative justices had caved in to pressure and threats from left-wing activists.

“The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does – It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm!” he added. “The Court’s inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History.”

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