they won't all be endorsed—and i doubt all of them will win—but there are already at least 16 New York state legislative districts in which a DSA member is running or incumbent this year (Assembly Districts 34, 36, 37, 50, 51, 54, 56, 57, 74, 101, 109, and 149; Senate Districts 13, 18, 25, and 59)

you cannot be fucking serious that this is leadership's takeaway from the elections lmao. if the Republicans take this (which they should, it is a steal of a deal for them) there should be at minimum *immediate* primary challenges against every Democrat who supports this braindead compromise

it's been a pretty good week over at the Website League! launch week has seen something like a 30% increase in users and probably about a 50% increase in "active users;" we also have at least one new node in the works and one new steward :)

FOLKS: the Website League is officially (re)open for business with our new and improved website! websiteleague.org

i have no consistent income but the $4/mo i pay in dues easily has the largest return on investment of anything that i spend money on

Be a part of the movement! dsausa.org/join

i would guesstimate that 95% of landback discourse is people incorrectly presuming that everyone shares their prior of what this word with no consistent definition, consistent theory of change, or practical application associated with it means

being maximally generous to all left-wing third parties in the US, you still arrive at a number of elected officials between them (~210) that will be 50 short of the number of DSA members in office next year (261+). needless to say, if you're a left-electoralist the choice of priority is obvious

the fight to expand the New York State Socialist Caucus is on folks!! the socialist campaigns of Christian Celeste Tate (AD-54) and Eon Huntley (AD-56) have just been announced secure.actblue.com/donate/slate...

american jurors are so fucking cool

gonna be real it seems like we are rapidly approaching a point where "being a journalist inside an institution you don't have democratic control over" is a status which renders you completely incapable of doing journalism, because your bosses will just fire you for that when it becomes inconvenient

starting to think that the solution for journalists is to just violently expropriate their means of production

doing some research and it seems like, despite everything, the Your Party factional system is very underdeveloped so far—there are only a few formal factions and all of them i could find have signed onto a minimum unity platform. could have big first mover advantage in a genuinely democratic party

even if we lose this seat (which is a big open question with the wave that seems to be brewing), this guy sucked on basically every vote that mattered and i'm not going to miss him. a majority can be built without him

next year would be a good year to run for office as a socialist, fighting for the radical economic platform of "do good things that advance the material interests of the working class." talk to your local DSA chapter about doing this!

River Valley DSA is proud to announce that our candidates for local office in Agawam and Amherst, Tom Hendrickson and Jill Brevik, have won their elections! To the dozens of volunteers who knocked doors for these campaigns, we give you our deep thanks. This movement belongs to you!

🎉Congrats to the Metro DC DSA Endorsed Candidate, Frankie Santos Fritz, on being elected to Greenbelt City Council!🎉 Come celebrate electing a socialist to office at our Electoral Working Group happy hour on 11/22, starting at 4PM at City State Brewery! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/elect...

Congratulations David on a hard fought campaign and a well-deserved victory. David has been a chapter member for several years, helping lead our Labor Solidarity Group. We look forward to David's term in office!

Last night, our 3 endorsed candidates for our 3 major cities in the Mid-Hudson Valley were elected to city council. Our work doesn't stop. Join us to keep organizing and winning real gains for working people. mhvdsa.org/join

We are proud to congratulate Councilman-Elect Denzel McCampbell on winning in Detroit District 7! From NYC to Detroit, democratic socialism delivers for the working class. Join us today: act.dsausa.org/donate/membe...

believe it or not, Dayton, OH will also have a socialist mayor starting next year: Shenise Turner-Sloss (a DSA member as of this year; recommended but not endorsed by her local chapter for what i believe are capacity reasons) has been elected in what appears to be an upset

current dashboard. we're still waiting on 11 races to be called, or which have gone to runoffs and won't be decided until December--so there's actually a narrow chance that this could eventually become a >50% win rate docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

so far across 90 endorsements, DSA has 40 wins (44.44% win rate), which is our best ever in an off-year cycle. currently at +11 net gains too

fun fact: this feature of our ballot design is the result of a ballot measure from 2022 that passed overwhelmingly. it goes on every initiated ballot measure that would change taxation rates (we did this because zealots keep trying to lower our flat income tax, which is extremely income regressive)

looking like Election Night was a great night for socialism, a great night for pro-transit and pro-housing policies, and a great night for continued democracy in the US generally—pretty cool all around!

instead of abusing IRS people for handling your taxes, you should abuse them for killing IRS Direct File at the behest of lobbyists who love the Trump administration because it'll let them gouge you for tax prep again

feeling a light to strong 51% Zohran Mamdani mandate tonight

as a Colorado resident who voted painlessly almost 3 weeks ago: every state should just mail your ballot to you, along with a list of stuff you're voting on this year—and once your state begins doing this you will understand how blatantly disenfranchising it is that most states *do not* do this

as best i can figure, there are 60 DSA members on the ballot tomorrow (51 endorsed, 9 non-endorsed), and another 10 non-members endorsed by DSA chapters docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

if Andrew Cuomo were to somehow win tomorrow (literally all available evidence is this will not happen) i think that would be a pretty strong signal to—however fruitless this might be—finally desert the Democratic Party in order to build a left-wing third party

as best i can figure, there are 60 DSA members on the ballot tomorrow (51 endorsed, 9 non-endorsed), and another 10 non-members endorsed by DSA chapters docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

the execution of Teen Vogue once again demonstrates that we need real journalists to start forming cooperatives for their work, and for sympathetic governments to start subsidizing any losses they take, or we're just not going to have a real and combative media ecosystem anymore

absolutely hate how predictable the outcome was once they failed to score a run off of this situation

if i were a Blue Jays fan i'd be so depressed if they lost this game at this point lmao. the Dodgers tie it late, and then you can't drive in a single run to walk it off with the bases loaded and 1 out in the bottom of the 9th so now you have to play extra innings again

WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT #NewMusicFriday youtu.be/en5rSB1fXUc

in my head i put Lizzo in the "Meghan Trainor box" which, while sharing many of the features of Hillary-core music, is a space of music that's just a little too subversive in an unedited form to actually *be* Hillary-core. you need clean versions to throw it on in the car with your mom, basically

"Is No Nut November culturally conservative" - the greatest discourse in the history of furry, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

addendum to this theorem: i thought of a second post-2016 song which meets this criteria, and which is also a song that sucks and feels out of place as such. i think we have something here honestly www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWtf...

on the broader purpose and hopes of the Website League

theorizing the existence of a microgenre of pop music that could only exist when Hillary Clinton was a viable presidential candidate. quintessential hits of this variety: Fight Song Roar Brave Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) Can’t Stop the Feeling! Happy Shake it Off

on the broader purpose and hopes of the Website League

This is a really nice little corner of the Internet that I'm proud to be a part of.

day one of the post-launch Website League has gone pretty good :)

my single WGMI is coming out TOMORROW!!!!! the title track of the album! and i had to release it before the election because otherwise it'd be out of date lmao whoooops

you can't just let a coyote on the computer, they'll get up to coyote crimes

I made a #WebsiteLeague account! I don't know how to use it, but if you are on there, please add me and we can be friends ahaha lilypad.frogge.cafe/@renkotsuban

if anyone's wondered where I went for the past year, this is the answer! I've been helping shape it from inception, and operate a node at akkoma.mellivora.social which is currently(!) invite-only (thus the bare landing page) but, if we know each other at all, feel free to ping me for an invite!

Also, if you're looking for me on there: posting.isincredibly.gay/kda

begging LA Dodgers enjoyers to use the accent on Kiké Hernandez’s name (even though it’s officially accent-less because he’s from Puerto Rico) because lmao when they don't

goods and services can be exchanged for coyotes