Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

On Friday, November 7th, join students, educators, and defenders of higher ed at Rowan's NYC office to tell him loud and clear: we won't let his loyalty oath turn our education system into Trump’s brainwashing factory. Hands Off Higher Ed! ✊ actionnetwork.org/events/nyc-n...

Worth $10.2 billion, Rowan donated $1 million to the Trump campaign before drafting this loyalty oath. Before that, he gave $50 million to create the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a key weapon against student loan cancellation. Ruining student lives is his passion. classsolidarity.org/audits/marc-...

Billionaire Marc Rowan wrote Trump's "Academic Compact" loyalty oath in order to, in his words, destroy universities the way seen in Europe in the 30's and 40's. His private equity firm Apollo also owns the University of Phoenix, the country's biggest creator of student debt.

Congratulations to Kelsea Bond for becoming Atlanta's first socialist city councilmember! 🎊 Last night, they won overwhelmingly with 64% of the vote. We are so excited for them and know they will do great things for Atlanta! 🪴 Join Groundwork to build a strong DSA with us! groundworkdsa.com/join

If you are someone who covers such things, it's a great time to write about Zohran Mamdani's biggest legislative victory. In fact a whole book about it was released last month! nyupress.org/978147983780...

Statement from Atlanta DSA on @kelseabondatl.bsky.social's electoral victory in the Atlanta City Council District 2 race: (text/accessible version at 🔗 atldsa.org/kelseavictory) (1/2)

This is what building working class power looks like! Join the movement TODAY by getting involved with @demsocialists.bsky.social 🌹 act.dsausa.org/donate/membe...

62 billionaires spent over $18.7 million to try and buy an election. Their millions should help pay for Zohran's affordability agenda instead.

Tax the rich.

You're gonna see a lot of pundits saying stupid shit about Zohran. Instead of diving in, remember this applies to them too: powermapmag.com/the-argument...

New Yorkers won a mandate for a New York we can afford. Now it’s time for the rich to pay their due. Tax the rich, @governor.ny.gov.

Tax the rich.

We’re out here! 🪧

Hey @schumer.senate.gov a little message for you:

Truth

Whether you’re religious/spiritual or not, you can tell Cuomo doesn’t have a soul—there’s nothing he believes in besides power & corruption.

Andrew Cuomo won’t stop ICE.

mask off

Locked in with @arimelber.bsky.social.

Everyone is watching New York, but here in Atlanta, we have a chance to put (to my knowledge) the first socialist on the city council!

Cuomo's *own supporters* can't get through a sentence without telling you how bad he is.

The amount of hustle @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @socialists.nyc have shown in the last week is beyond belief. Legendary stuff worthy of the history books. The DSA difference🌹

It fits perfectly.

He also got debt forgiven for cab drivers! In terms of tangible accomplishments, he's probably gotten more done than most non-leadership assemblymembers!

Example of this why this is wrong: Zohran was key in stopping a billion dollar fracked gas plant Asthma Alley. One tactic was introducing the Clean Futures Act, which would banned it. The bill helped create pressure that got the plant rejected. It didn't pass, but didn't need to, because we had won!

I think it's also due to the media's bias towards "the status quo is basically fine." that's impossible to square with what Trump was clearly going to do, *unless* they cast his win as so decisive it justifies that it's all justified. it's similar to why they often sanitize his own quotes for him

All political ads should feature the candidate petting a cat

BREAKING: An extremely NSFW endorsement from BILLIONAIRE PERVERTS FOR CUOMO. 🤮 Just days left. Help us fight back with your grassroots, non-pervert donations! actblue.com/donate/dream...

I don't feel that strongly, but coming from a similar background I voted Yes on 6 because ime doing elections multiple years in a row is much more depleting to the left, which runs on volunteer energy, than to the right. It also makes it harder to find space for non election fights like passing laws

the idea that we should just trust this guy no one had heard of til 3 months ago, was drafted in part by the Fetterman guy, had a Nazi tattoo for 20 years including during the election, and has expressed a very wide variety of beliefs before his current ones comes from where, exactly?

The eighth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. OUR NATIONAL NIGHTMARE. The reins of government power, technology, and the press tighten and tangle in a few white billionaires’ hands. Where is this American cabal going next, and how deep will it drag us with it? hammerandhope.org/article/nati...

Instead of Arguing about the latest Right Wing Excuser poll's bizarre methodology, just tell them they are Right Wing Excusers and move on

nature is healing

Climate has not come up very much in the span of this mayoral election. Yet we had record-breaking heat at the end of the primary and now at the end of the general a flash flood that killed two New Yorkers. We should be talking a lot more about climate change.

New Yorkers need a mayor who will fight against ICE, not one who begs for help from ICE boss Donald Trump. We went to the site of last week's horrific Canal Street raid to remind voters what’s at stake. On November 4th, Don't Vote Cuomo.

Great quick summary on Janet Mills record. #mepolitics #maine

Have you been following the Maine Senate race and been deeply confused. @breadnrosie.bsky.social has the breakdown you've been looking for.

This is the concrete breakdown of what's going on with an extremely misunderstood Maine Senate candidate you need:

i wrote about governor mills and why she is in no way a progressive as so many people seem to think

Contrary to her national reputation, Janet Mills is more often a roadblock to progress than a champion of it. Read more about her and her time as governor in our new piece by @breadnrosie.bsky.social powermapmag.com/maine-voters...

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

Which party had a majority in the house? Has Donald Trump increased taxes on imports, decreased them or left them the same? What percentage of voters know the US Atty for ED was pushed out by Trump because he wouldn’t indict Tish James and Comey? Etc

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

oh just straight up gutter racism!

Having no positive message of his own, Andrew Cuomo's closing message is the same as his puppet master Donald Trump: bigotry. youtube.com/shorts/b8-iB...

pop quiz: is this a centrist pundit, or Jacobin Magazine?