Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agenda.

New York City's leadership needs to unite for the good of the city -- but oligarch Speaker Julie Menin is standing in the way: jacobin.com/2026/03/meni...

Speaker Julie Menin, I wrote @jacobinmag.bsky.social, is a class warrior for her own class: the ultra-wealthy: jacobin.com/2026/03/meni...

It seems fitting that Trump, a creature of the 80s, is bringing back the most hellish features of that decade: newrepublic.com/article/2077...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Radical History of International Women’s Day and the Feminist Movement, with @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social. #IWD #InternationalWomensDay

re: jobs, among everything that needs coverage, for people starting their work lives, it feels like an impossible labor market to break into. Impossible for everyone, but with less work experience or start of work shaped by the start of the pandemic, there's a LOT impacting young workers right now.

just look at this grotesque warmonger! for @jacobinmag.bsky.social I wrote this week on why Chuck Schumer is even worse than you think -- and why it's time for him to exit the stage: jacobin.com/2026/03/schu...

GOOD RIDDANCE, Kristi Noem. 👋

Seems like more people in Epstein's orbit have been held accountable for writing emails to Epstein than for actually assaulting women

Last week, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency—when will they rename it?—rolled back Biden-era limits on the amount of mercury pollution that coal plants can emit. It will disproportionately harm his own voters. trib.al/oRLbkmI

Merchant’s piece on the politics of AI goes perfectly with @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social’s recent piece on the politics of data centers. newrepublic.com/article/2066...

Labor's electoral realignment with the Left is an essential condition for transforming government into a force of, by, and for the many. This realignment is emerging via @claireforny.bsky.social's campaign—and she's not even an incumbent. I'm telling you: this is a big opportunity. Let us seize it.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

This administration felt a need to interrupt its virtually nonstop death drive to reassure Americans it would "force” companies to absorb the cost of data centers. That means the mass revolt against AI data centers is working. trib.al/mBIaQda

What if people aren't apathetic? What if they just want something to DO? Insightful stuff from @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social about the data center backlash and the mechanisms of political change.

@lizafeatherstone.bsky.social: Climate movement in retreat? The growing community pushback against data centers shows that "when it comes to energy and climate issues, people will act when there are immediate local effects."

Many thanks to @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social for a thoughtful, critical review of my new book, “Who’s Got the Power?: The Resurgence of American Unions.” Please read it! (I really thought I’d avoided any major howlers in the book, but she catches a doozy.) democracyjournal.org/magazine/79/...

Violence against protesters is a sign of a regime's crumbling legitimacy, a couple experts told me last week. here's the piece @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2059...

congrats to these tenants!!

great piece, thank you!

“I want tenants 2 know that if they come together& if they get organized& if they form a union…the @mayor.nyc.gov has their back, & that we will be partners w you in enforcing your rights 2 safe, inhabitable housing & to collective community control over your homes.” @ceaweaver.bsky.social @wbai.org

I spoke with @ceaweaver.bsky.social! jacobin.com/2026/01/weav...

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.

Literally all of this is a lie. We are about to find out who is state media, because they will be the ones to parrot a justification for state-sanctioned murder.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

In some countries the outbreak of bloodshed inspires the opposition party to call for the leader to resign

The spiteful, vindictive nonsense that this regime engages in knows no limits. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/01...

Along with everything else, it's clear that Trump has mixed up asylum seekers with people in mental asylums. As @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social says: it's like we're ruled by Amelia Badelia.

It's "Drill Baby Drill," only without the spirited porno subtext. Crude violent resource grabs will not address the economic woes of Americans. newrepublic.com/article/2051...

ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”

Great article on the details and the politics by @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/01/mamd...

He can't stay focussed on it without changing the subject to something that interests him, whether that's racist fear-mongering...or himself, I wrote @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2048...

this president does not give a shit about your problems newrepublic.com/article/2048...

A new study shows that socialist plans to take over the privately owned power utility in New York’s Hudson Valley would lower rates for users and improve its long-term health. Public ownership of power companies is better for everyone but the rich.

Issue 60 of Jacobin, “Municipal Socialism,” is here! As Zohran Mamdani takes office, we examine the history of socialism at the local level, from Red Vienna to sewer socialism and more. 📪 Annual subscription just $20: jacobin.com/subscribe/?code=MUNICIPALSOCIALISM

Below, a great piece from @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social on public takeover of private utilities for the greater good. And here's a deep dive on Massena, NY, the town mentioned in Liza's piece: "More than forty years on, Massena...still has some of the cheapest, cleanest electricity in the state."

Why should the public take over a local utility? Because if the public is engaged, it will work much better than the for-profit model, according to a new study. Everyone is talking about energy affordability but no one else has any solutions, says @sarahana.bsky.social: jacobin.com/2025/12/huds...

Great article by @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social on Sarahana Shreshtha's extremely effective campaign to take power utility public in mid-Hudson Valley. And how straightforward & great it would be, there & everywhere else. jacobin.com/2025/12/huds...

Disliking cancer is an easy sell for most people. Sort of like being against Hitler. And yet, during his first administration, Trump reportedly said that “Hitler did some good things.” Now, his second administration seems to be extending this attitude to cancer. trib.al/LSkDiIF

"The Trumpist assumption seems to be that diseases like cancer, much like climate disasters, will weed out the weak and sick, leaving the chosen few unscathed.... ...Cancer can strike an otherwise healthy person. But facts and logic aren’t their forte." @newrepublic.com

Trump Seems to Be Trying His Best to Give Us All Cancer ☠️ The administration's commitment to spreading the fatal disease is impressive. @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2045...

At an unusual event in Queens on Sunday, everyday New Yorkers lined up to offer their expertise and experience to democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

enjoyed reporting on this experiment in co-governance as @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social gets ready to take office!

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Almost half of American homes face dire climate risk, and Zillow has just decided not to tell us about it, I wrote @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2039...

Home buyers are perilously short on information when it comes to climate risk. Insurers are not. That spells trouble, I wrote @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2039...

My favorite NYC Xmas event of the year! Come on out Sunday: www.eventbrite.com/e/what-the-d...

haha this is a great blind item. I wonder who it is??