neither capitalist party will fight for democracy. @demsocialists.bsky.social will

Something sad about how comedians have become the american public intellectual

Great statement from Portland dsa on the possibility of trump sending troops to Portland Oregon. And what the chapter will do if that happens

On the first Tuesday of each month @ 6:30pm, ROC DSA meets to resolve chapter business and promote participatory democracy. This month, on Oct. 7 @ 6:30pm, we'll be hearing reportbacks from our chapter working groups. Register: bit.ly/oct-dsagm.

Building community feel urgent. I’m starting with local orgs (heading to a Portland DSA meeting), deeper ties with neighbors, and checking in with distant friends. Resilience is something we build together. crimethinc.com/2025/09/18/m...

After Sunstein answers a Chotiner question about Kissinger & human rights by saying Kissinger liked Sunstein’s Star Wars book: “Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides.”

We probably should internalize that for the vast majority of Americans, even most hyper-online leftists, Vegeta will always be seen as the face of DSA to some degree no matter what our actual relationship is with him.

E304: DSA with Bruv Characteristics @maxshanly calls in from the UK to give his thoughts on the formation of the new party modeled on the American DSA, with an eye towards renewing the Republican tradition in the UK patreon.com/posts/138513...

Its weird how opening up the big tent always means throwing some group under the bus for issues that real voters havent supported, while issues like supporting a ceasefire or supporting socialist economic policies requires we lecture real voters. Seems like this isnt about voters at all

kamala sucks but the mask on this has been off for a while. this was biden-harris admin policy since april 2023

As all of us know, "first they came for the communists" ends with, "and thank god I wasnt a part of any of those groups, because it turned out to be dangerous in retrospect"

I wanna remind everyone that "opsec" means operational security. That is, it kind of assumes youre already working together with people towards an end. Its not really applicable to Operation Stay On The Couch

There is simply no way to do large-scale organizing without a way to track the contact info of people interested in organizing with you. You can play spies all you want but you're not helping yourself and you're definitely not helping any group that might actually pose a challenge to fascist power

it is astonishing how many people on this website apparently think there is some model of political organization that actually does something and does not eventually boil down to "have a list of people on your side that could conceivably be weaponized by an authoritarian government"

It is pretty funny that Uncommitted was pretty much exactly what establishmentarian-inclined liberals purport to prefer (intra-partisan organizing undergirded by the explicit premise of party loyalty) and they hated it anyway

Yeah im apolitical. A political hottie

SORRY, YOU'LL FORGIVE ME FOR ASKING, BUT HAVE WE ALL OF A SUDDEN DECIDED THAT IT IS WRONG TO COLLECTIVELY PUNISH A CIVILIAN POPULATION FOR THE ACTIONS OF A BODY THAT CLAIMS TO SPEAK AND ACT ON THEIR BEHALF?

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Evil empire ampersand 🤌🤌

“lying” is maybe too harsh—i think a lot of people simply don’t know this history—but this myth of the founders’ love of individual liberties underpins the bipartisan reverence for the founders and the constitution and prevents us from imagining a better, more democratic society

if anyone ever told you the founders wrote individual liberties into the bill of rights, they’re lying to you. the bill of rights was written to be entirely about *states’ rights* i wrote about where political freedom really comes from: powerful and organized class interests

This is what David Brooks meant when he said a conservative had texted him that Kirk was their George Floyd. They didn't mean that Kirk was a victim of a profound injustice. In the conservative mind, Floyd was used as a symbolic pretext to reorient society. They want to use Kirk that way.

It's really pathetic the ways the people talk themselves into treating reality like something they're watching. People tell themselves that the activists they see in the street are cringe, that if they were to do something they'd be far more radical than what they see, and then sit on their ass. Sad

extremely funny if you have been to any DSA meeting ever

please discourage me from going to sleep at 8pm and instead ENcourage me to see the rochester homies in georgie band rock it in ithaca tonight

“This is something that Lenin discovered a while back,” [Sidney Carlson White of the Marxist Unity Group caucus] said. “The idea of trying to dissolve your parliamentary faction by expulsion would do very little to heighten the contradictions around the issues that you disagreed upon.”

#ICYMI on x the everything app, Andrew Cuomo's account did the classic reactionary tactic of just posting our platform of a vision of a future workers want

can barely process the sheer terror of this, but what i'm feeling more is unbridled rage at reporting like this i know its an old song abt reporting on trump at this point, but the moral bankruptcy of neutrality in the face of mass social murder is enraging www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

"How many layers of alienation are you on" -about 3 or 5 my dude "You are like a little baby. Watch this"

"doubling down on law enforcement" is such a cool, meaningless phrase to use in your headline

If you look up DSA on this app you get, largely, liberals who are mad at an idea they have of DSA (congratulations, your party agrees with you and cares more about crushing us than fighting Trump!), but this is just BS. DSA chapter leaders are more responsible actors than any major politician rn

Were gonna keep being called sectarians, unserious, extreme every step until we win

You can see pins and buttons from DSA convention :)

98 Years Ago Today: Sacco, Vanzetti Executed For Murder, Italian Descent

The largest, loudest, most joyful DSA convention ever! We brought our rowdiest voices to Chicago and sent our comrades home singing.

Kaneda from 2016

MUG Applications Are Open! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Love seeing MUG open up applications for potential new members to join that Dsa caucus

MUG applications will be open soon! If you were inspired by any of our resolutions, by any of our candidates, by any of our members, consider signing up docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

www.marxistunity.com/mugdsa-conve... Really happy dsa convention passed this!

This was a pretty good article about DSA convention. The author focuses a bit too much on NYC but does a good job of explaining how the internal democratic debate and deliberation structure works as well as articulating the points of disagreement on strategy and process. prospect.org/politics/202...

"They would rather send bombs and money to a rogue, violent apartheid state than fund free healthcare here at home...There are too many warmongers in Congress" -Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the keynote speaker at the 2025 DSA National Convention today. bsky.app/profile/repr...

if you are ever tempted to use chatgpt just text me and I will tell you the wrong answer instead. it will not harm the planet and it will have much more razzmatazz

Sometimes, you gotta hand it to the trots. Good piece.

New post on the substack! Tl;dr - people in DSA mean fundamentally different things when we say "democracy" or "more democratic" open.substack.com/pub/jantesla...

New in Light & Air, comrades Connell H and Amy W go in depth for the motivation of R-07, Principles of Party Building, and argue for a strategy of "party surrogate in form, clean break in content"

DSA’s electoral program is part of a nationwide struggle to build a mass party and win political power. Listen to National Electoral Commission Steering (and MUG!) member Megan on Socialist Cash Takes Out Capitalist Trash, DSA’s fundraising program for socialist candidates.

I worked on the effort to keep Amazon from destroying Queens. the HQ2 monstrosity was massively unpopular among Queens residents and only backed by the usual ghouls plus some local small business tyrants who started posting public death threats against DSA members about it. not a winning issue bud!

Remember when a faction of aging Zionists published multiple articles announcing that they were leaving DSA to start a new organization? Carl Beijer looked into it, and you'll never guess what happened! www.peoplesline.org/p/dsas-break...