Lots to critique about Jesse Jackson but for at least a generation he was about the only loud progressive voice in visible politics, and his 1988 DNC speech can still move me to tears. youtu.be/6RCARIpVDLU

This is so horrible. The criminality and cruelty of this ruling class has to be answered with more ruthless cruelty if we’re ever going to end stories like this

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

I get it, we can't get rid of capitalism or we'd lose its great innovations like the CSAM chat room, the suicide robot, the plagiarism machine, the doorbell snitch, the fake money generator, the self-immolating auto-car, the thing that puts ads in your ads, and the sex creep sunglasses. But still

Yesterday, after explaining how he rations his pancreas medication due to cost, my 80 y.o. dad proudly showed me the hi-vis vest he has for neighborhood patrol, and I became acutely aware of the rage I hold for all the actions/inaction that have led us here. So today I joined the @twincitiesdsa.org

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This book rules and the movie based on it pretty good too

Democratic Socialists of America — We are at 100,000 members! 🌹 dsausa.org/join

For real, QAnon dropping the ball on this when it was their whole purpose is like how Skype lost out to Zoom when the pandemic started

Yesterday, in a packed room of 200 supporters in Gage Park, 25th Ward Alderman & Chicago DSA member Byron Sigcho-Lopez announced his run for Congress in IL 4th Congressional District as an independent democratic socialist. Donate: tinyurl.com/donatebyron Volunteer: tinyurl.com/volunteerbyron

That podcaster saying he’s not a bootlicker because he voted for the boot is among the funniest cope I’ve ever seen, you know his fans were like cmon man don’t admit that in front of people, bc it admits the pathetic psychological projection they’re doing

The picture of the slob beta dork who tried to spray Rep Omar is too perfect he looks like a guy who people move seats on the bus to avoid sitting next to

Interested in learning more about DSA, democratic socialism, and our political vision? This event will provide a brief overview of DSA and a longer discussion of our political program, Workers Deserve More. Nonmembers interested in DSA are welcome! Info & RSVP: teamup.com/ksc3uaa38o41...

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Just woke up from an amazing but bittersweet dream that me and Raekwon had to console GZA because he was feeling guilty that his five percenter beliefs and cursing in songs caused his mom to die. Dream-me said, “GZA, guilt is just your grief looking for a place to go.” Good job, Dream-me.

Chicago Police Chief Snelling needs to be grilled by all elected officials and journalists about why the *Hell* this is happening. If he ordered it, if he allows it to go on, he must be replaced with someone who won't.

This was a good one imo midwestsocialist.com/2021/03/25/s...

Join Chicago DSA and Tanggol Migrante Chicago for a Press Conference at the Philippines Consulate Thursday, Dec 18th at 11am. We will demand that the Philippines Consulate take immediate action to advocate for Tita Rebecca’s safe return home for the holidays!

Vengeance

That was a disappointing thing about the Captain Marvel movie, the comic book version is likeable in part bc she’s a recovering alcoholic who was (in-universe) famously insecure, but nevertheless still traveled the universe doing cool shit and punching aliens

Huh imagine that

Chicagoans will pay $76 per person this year for police misconduct settlements.

Sinatra to Soviets: “Knock Off That Commie Bunk or it’s Ring a Ding Ding For You Bozos!”

Chicago DSA members were out 6AM in 6 degrees this morning to support Starbucks workers at the Armitage/Hoyne store who walked out this morning and are now ON STRIKE! Workers will be picketing until noon today and tentatively 6AM-1PM tomorrow and Saturday if you’re able to stop by and join them.

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A union contract is the only way we can stop these systemic problems that have been making Starbucks worse year-after-year. It would only cost the company less than a day's worth of sales to put fair pay, fair scheduling, and strong protections in writing through a contract.

Ashwin of @rivervalleydsa.bsky.social and Michaela @north.dsanj.org discuss Mexico City's UTOPIAs, a MORENA-backed, working class experiment in municipal socialism, on the latest episode of Class, NPEC's podcast! Like, subscribe, and ofc join DSA 🌹💚 education.dsausa.org/class-the-np...

Our strike kitchen feeds striking baristas and lets them know the community supports them in the struggle. Please donate to the CDSA Strike Solidarity fund linked in our bio to help us to buy food and supplies to keep the kitchen going!

Trick Daddy’s inclusion of “the family of the victim” on his list of undesirables is unreasonable

Ironic given I’m not in either and I think my 1M1V articles last summer probably got my face put up on some dartboards. Also since “NGO-style politics” is also associated with the “right.” Speaks to the pervasiveness of the politics, imo!

It’s true, the article was basically finished, argument-wise, 3+ months before that fight blew up, the earliest draft was from 18 months earlier. The draft sent to the editors was the 8th (!) draft. It took a month+ from the pitch for the editors to run it, which made the timing unfortunate

Despite Ras Kass’s insistence that Thanksgiving is a conspiracy by the Spanish crown to convince people to eat turkeys as a sneak diss on the Moors who he says were from “Baghdad, Turkey” I love Thanksgiving

“God’s Son” across the belly I prove you lost already

One of the things that shapes the difference in strategy between the right and the left is there is no scarcity on the right. There is so much money in so few hands they’ll throw it and anybody and everybody who sniffs their jock. The left is crabs in a barrel

CPD officers so far this year have shot 17 people, killing eight, more than in all of last year, records show. In 2024, CPD officers shot 12 people, killing six, records show. Approximately an hour before the hearing began, officers shot a man after a foot chase on the South Side.

Raekwon’s new album is called Emperor’s New Clothes and here he is explaining the origin of that title and the folktale behind it to Fat Joe and Jadakiss

Carol Marin John Hancock-ing it by signing twice

outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund

Last week, 65,000+ residents voted to elect a democratic socialist mayor. All Council races that had a DSA-endorsed candidate won by overwhelming margin. These results send a clear message: people want leaders who will fight for working-class communities, not corporate interests.

This—agents driving around in circles and provoking the community—has gone on for hours at this point with no discernible goal other than to inflict terror. They also just fired pepper balls at someone.

So… socialistcall.com/2025/06/22/s...

Dick Cheney is dead and DSA is alive

It was very disappointing when that picture dropped of Cheney’s huge hog

Hahahaha

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Yeah the “legal case” for a third term is nonexistent. It’s absurd to interpret the amendment to mean that someone can’t be “elected” more than twice but can *be* president more than twice. OTOH it shows the right knows Trump has hollowed out their political apparatus and wired it directly into him

The left’s personnel settling into nonprofits and academia with the collapse of mass organizations in the 70s, and the political logic of nonprofits, and academics’ instinct towards novelty, have just wrecked working peoples’ movements. It boils down to an instinct that universal demands are suspect

NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products