"In 2023, the “Minnesota Miracle” secured one of the strongest social safety nets in the country...None of it would have been possible without years of organizing that built a multiracial constituency prepared to stand together" - @hahrie.bsky.social for @hammerandhope.bsky.social, 2024

ICE's official recruitment ads are suffused with allusions to white nationalist memes and books. The government is openly trying to give guns and badges to supporters of ethnic cleansing. www.vox.com/politics/475...

I joked to a friend that the only way we could get the “anti-antisemitism industry” to pay attention to a synagogue burning would be to claim the arsonist supported Palestine. The arsonist was ofc a right-wing Christian supremacist. Lipstadt and her ilk are craven demagogues

The Nazi phrase for this was Lebensunwertes Leben (life unworthy of life) bsky.app/profile/soci...

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

It's not a caricature of imperialism - it's just imperialism, for once described accurately by the imperialist rather than obscured by lies. bsky.app/profile/smot...

Everything is progressing rationally

The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...

After 243 days in ICE detention, activist and whistleblower Alma Bowman is home. Alma was finally released from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, two days before Thanksgiving, and reunited with her family after spending eight months detained by ICE.

Last week, Mahmoud Khalil brought a lawsuit seeking to compel the Trump administration to release its communications with anti-Palestinian organizations and individuals in the run-up to his arrest and detention last March.

Contrary to this post below, Berger & the sewer socialists fought hard vs racism, the KKK, & lynching once significant numbers of Black workers arrived in Milwaukee after WWI—& Black workers reciprocated by supporting the Socialists🧵 Antiracism was plank #1 in Berger's 1922 congressional campaign!

Manufacturing consent

NYT continues its long history of publishing op-eds pushing criminal wars of aggression

The right wing approach now is to put me in a box with an incredibly successful politician who just won a stunning victory. This is Pure Cope Exhibit A Join.greenparty.org.uk

Zohran showed that a socialist can take City Hall—but the ruling class still forced him to keep Jessica Tisch at the NYPD. For Zohran to fight the police unions and win, the Left has to build power beyond the ballot box. New from me for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Some things this national pundit (who summers in Blue Hill) misses: Golden was most hurt by inaccessibility and arrogance, not his positions. Matt Dunlap is not in a "statewide elected position." The ME SoS is chosen by the state leg. And he's a strong candidate for the district. #mepolitics

Writing the part of my book explaining how, under Clinton, Larry Summers made crushing the possibility of regulating derivatives his reason for being; derivatives crashed the global economy; Obama made him his top economic advisor; THE END. Much more depressing than writing about the Tea Party.

Zohran ran up crazy numbers with non-white young people (18-29 year olds): Black youth: Mamdani 84% Latino youth: Mamdani 86% White youth: Mamdani 66%

remember all those hot takes during the primary about how Mamdani was the candidate for rich white liberals? a "champagne socialist" ? yeah, about that

Everybody opposed to authoritarianism and oligarchy should needs to stand in solidarity with the Starbucks workers who are likely going on strike starting November 13 This is a winnable fight — but it'll take all of our support to help workers get past the finish line

Note to all the Democratic politicians with aspirations who are coming out with statements, emails congratulating Democrats across the country for their well deserved victories but leaving out a big name from NYC - we see what you are doing. It's petty, pathetic and we will remember.

The idea that people are primarily upset about the genocide that both the Democratic and Republican parties are supporting - financially, militarily and politically - because the Chinese have warped their fragile minds with Commie beams, is apeshit stuff. Obviously insane crackpot shit.

🚨 BIG 🚨Satmar Ahronim sect is endorsing Mamdani for mayor, two sources familiar confirmed. Mamdani is expected to meet with Satmar leaders in Williamsburg this afternoon. Here is more background ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...

I responded to the film differently, and a good deal more positively, but this is a fantastic essay. defector.com/one-battle-a...

Mamdani: "The bigger question is whether we are willing to say goodbye to ... anti-Muslim sentiment that has grown so endemic in our city that when we hear it, we know not whether the words were spoken by a Republican or a Democrat."

I have never, ever EVER had a canvasser show up in my neighborhood until some Zohran folks stopped by last week.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it. But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues. Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Mamdani: The ADL doesn’t speak for New York Jews in interview with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, Mamdani panned ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt, who said the Democratic nominee for mayor has failed to meet with or address concerns of most Jewish New Yorkers. forward.com/fast-forward...

oh boy

About halfway through Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” and I think he convincingly spells out the conditions under which fascism finds an audience. People are over indexed on a “postmaterialist” explanations for politics. America’s status as a high income country for sure complicates things but….

It is not possible to find the words for this.

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism. @labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Nationally - Net Support For Mamdani's Policies: Raises Taxes On Corporations/Millionaires: +43% Free Child Care For Children Under 5 Years: +38% Freezing Rent For Lower-Income Tenants: +38% Government-Owned Grocery Stores: +20% Eliminating Fares On Public Buses: +10% YouGov / June 30, 2025

Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.

In his final year as Mayor, Eric Adams and his hand-picked Rent Guidelines Board delivered one last blow to struggling rent-stabilized tenants. New Yorkers are desperate for city government that lowers costs instead of raising rents. Change is coming.

Excellent piece.

Today's endorsement by the hundreds of unions and more than a million workers of @nyclabor.bsky.social is a profound honor and a responsibility to deliver for working people. I will strive to live up to it each and every day as your Mayor.

Big news: The NYC Central Labor Council - AFL-CIO just announced that it is endorsing Zohran

"you taught the world about freedom and it's time for us to return the favor" hot damn