Great thread, and after Trump thid should lead to a legal-accounting reckoning with how many social capacities are counted only as costs and hollowed out on the reasoning that it will secure financial reproduction. When doing so endangers reproduction writ large.

There are hugely important critiques of AI, but the capitalist critique that it doesn’t generate enough revenue is a dead end. Because what then do we expect from Socialism?

This is like saying the Confederacy could not be expected to participate in its own dissolution, so therefore the Union’s political horizon had to preserve the Confederacy’s constitutional order.

Anyone happen to have a PDF copy of Martha Easton's "The Wound of Christ, the Mouth of Hell: Appropriations and Inversions of Female Anatomy in the Later Middle Ages"?

The main condition for a democratic socialist takeover of the Democratic Party is preventing the formation of a single anti-left bloc at the decisive moment. It won’t be centrists vs. socialists in a vacuum. It will be that either centrists or socialists will be boxed out of the coalition.

Her instincts on timing and caution aside (and these obviously matter), AOC wouldn’t be doing this if she didn’t want to empower politicians to her left.

Harris is chasing after Mamdani, AOC and Mamdani are endorsing more democratic socialists. Everyone is moving to the left.

It’s wild that rebranding colonial partition as a “two-state solution” has worked for so long in America

I think we should maybe think about the fact that insisting that a state grant citizenship to everyone under its rule, regardless of their race or ethnicity, would be considered destroying it.

imho it's very very good that the utility of "seniority" as a protective amulet is diminishing rollcall.com/2026/07/01/d...

BREAKING: thread in progress

It happening in front the green reflecting pool would be amazing

For a country that needs to change everything to move forward we sure do treat the Constitution like God’s Commandments instead of a living document

Says the guy who thinks everyone to his left is a Stalinist, and then uses this to muse that fascism would be more appealing than this imaginary Stalinism

To be clear DSA has nothing to do with Stalinism. But Tom is concerned that if the left keeps provoking Americans they’ll become fascist. And by concern I mean fantasizes.

Vivek Chibber is Marxism's Jonathan Chait

Jacobin Magazine is a model for how you move from reified scarcity to nativism and fascism while calling yourself a socialist the whole time. TRASH

Infrastructure and political culture are PROVISIONED CAPACITIES. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PUBLIC CAPACITIES.

Ultimately we need a constitutional amendment allowing subnational governments to create money like the federal government does.

Though this country's mythology is all about the genius of our Constitution and Amendements, it is taboo to talk about e.g. amending the constitution further as a political goal, even in a national crisis. Institutional design is invoked as patriotic in order to take it off table for everyone.

Start with a diverse working class, cook it down to just the reactionary parts, and you’ve got yourself a delicious class reduction.

The thing about Jacobin is they’ve always been kinda fashy

Fascism: The Political Logic of Late Centrism

go go go cultural work is work

Wrong take. Pack. the. Court.

The Colorado-New York axis of socialism must be contained in the Colorado-New York area and not be allowed to spread outside that small bubble

Another Democratic Socialist is going to Congress! Congratulations to DSA member @melatkirosco.bsky.social! Congresswoman Kiros will take the fight for a better world to D.C: to Abolish ICE, free Palestine, and win Universal Childcare and Medicare for All.

so does gavin newsom it's the same dynamic. they amplify white supremacists because they think white supremacy is uniquely important, interesting, and validating.

and they said it couldn’t be replicated outside new york 😎

@videotroph.bsky.social @greenbackbetter.bsky.social and I think we’re doing something cool.

Listen below ⬇️ Or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.

Another preview of Ep.1 for the “In the Loop” podcast from @moneyontheleft.bsky.social. Want the loop as a sound bite? Here it is, but you should probably give a listen to the entire episode. We expect to release episode 2 this week. In which we dive into the Seattle Loop and its initiatives.

another radical DSA candidate easily winning

Not to be cringe and mawkish but it really is so cool to see women of color leftists and progressives winning local elections all over the country

A downballot result: In the highest-profile Democratic primary for Colorado's state Senate, the progressive side has easily prevailed. Chela Garcia Irlando, an environmental advocate, has won over Andrés Carrera, a former staffer for Governor Jared Polis.

Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros extends her lead to 4.5% over Democratic Rep Diana DeGette. Goodnight, folks.

Mamdani promised 0.5% of the total city expense budget would be allocated to our public libraries and he promised 1% would go to our public parks. The Adopted budget dropped today and libraries only got 0.43% ($91 million short of his promise). Parks only got 0.56% ($549.5 million short).

Kiros won. It's over. Dem freakout all over again LFG

HOLY SHIT

Kiros is winning 🤞

What I respect most is courage but it is in short supply and only a handful had it in 2023 and 2024. Sucks but it is what it is. Second thing I respect is people just doing what I want regardless of the underlying motive.

Contrary to what some people still insist on saying, this is in fact meaningfully different from what her position was just one year ago where she tried to split the baby on the idea of "offensive" v "defensive". I happen to think this is a great evolution and this amendment adds credibility to it.

That's why universities need Loops of their own.

What would it mean to redesign asset recognition/categorization itself around the reproduction of social capacities?

I know "reactionary centrism" is the phrase, but I like "late centrism"

The endgame of Third Way politics is “I oppose fascism, but fascism will become inevitable unless the left stops provoking ordinary people.” And then just fascism

Imagine a government whose duty to meet all of its residents' needs legally overrides its obligations to creditors. It would be a society in which austerity for the many has been abolished. To achieve this, we must reconstruct public finance. @greenbackbetter.bsky.social helps us imagine how.

it really is fascinating how immigration increasingly seems like what the 21st century church splinters over

I’m already door-knocking for not them

Imagine ONE member of your family, more likely than not a breadwinner, just disappears. A child just disappears. The parent resurfaces as a corpse. The child resurfaces pregnant. This is your nation. These are your institutions. Every day, the past is demolished, a family is broken and a future dies