Happy 10 year anniversary to @rocdsa.bsky.social

perfect representation of the vicious asininity of our persecution and the banal mechanisms of its implementation: these regular-ass people, the staff at the dmv, dutifully inflicting whatever absurd degradation they're told, no matter how blatantly, cruelly pointless. would you do that? will you?

@rocdsa.bsky.social reprinted Go Left Young Writer! With an introduction from yours truly

Hymm of the July 26 movement

Back in 2023, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, I did a "where are they now?" article about the pundits who cheered on the U.S. invasion www.readtpa.com/p/where-are-...

Theres a kind of lefty in this country in the hundreds of thousands whos aware of the socialist movement but thinks themselves above all of it and cynically postures that theyre waiting for someone else to build something thats serious enough for them. You gotta get over your ego now

Literally teaming up with Israel to attack Iran makes people treating the pretext with anything but searing contempt all the more ludicrous.

Based on what I’m seeing at work and with colleagues, it sure seems like USian society really fucked up in creating a culture where people will put in Herculean amounts of effort to avoid admitting someone else knows more than them about any topic.

i'm mogminning. im maxmogging. ive fallen down the stairs and can't get upisol spiking

It's depressing how quickly the Trump regime's cold-blooded murders in the Caribbean Sea have become background noise in the US. At least 150 people killed.

This empire thats falling apart has so many ways to do "politics" that are just as stressful as real life organizing and shit only youre giving your life's purpose to arguing about a TV show

Disunited, the workers are nothing. United, they are everything.

The passive voice here--oh I just want nice public spaces which requires that homeless people be put out of sight somehow--is a part of why this country keeps getting worse and police budgets keep getting higher.

"The President Must Be Removed From Office" Zeteo is calling today for Donald Trump to be democratically removed from office, via impeachment or the 25th Amendment. The evidence, as laid out by Zeteo's @andrewperez.bsky.social in today's First Draft, suggests he is unfit. zeteo.com/p/time-for-t...

Im no longer interim editor in chief of mug because ive been made editor in chief of mug

I believe in body positivity for moggers. All who mog are beautiful

I see the word mog far too often

it's so funny to try to legitimize a moronic argument by claiming that it is supported by a growing movement of diverse thinkers and then you list the people who belong to that movement and every single one is stupid and/or racist

I feel like we stopped making civil war movies in the mid 2000s, partially because you had less reenactors, which begs the question--why were reenactors such a 90s thing

CLASS THIS WEEK: we talk to Colin from @tech.dsausa.org about becoming a socialist on the internet in the lead up to our training this Thursday, the Digital Deep Dive! Listen here ⤵️ like and subscribe: www.buzzsprout.com/2021076/epis...

Citrus salad sandwich & tangerine cream puff

this is for you melinda

me in any conversation about anything lately:

ROC DSA is looking for office space. If you have any leads on a space that matches our needs please contact the steering committee at: [email protected]

The warehouses ICE have been buying up around the country in recent weeks don't feel like any kind of signal towards a stepdown.

tell it to the hague, buddy

Ive now seen both Gettysburg and God's & Generals and my review is that both are clumsy movies made stupid by their both sides soft-lost causer narratives

The Democratic Socialists of America just hit 100K members. David Duhalde explains why it functions like a “movement party” rather than just an electoral brand. Meaning cadre organizing + campaigns + disruptive pressure that can actually win policy.

I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.

The latest Class pod with @meganromer.bsky.social DSA's national cochair about her journey out of liberalism, and the political education that inspires her. Check it out here ⤵️ and like and subscribe to Class, the NPEC podcast! www.buzzsprout.com/2021076/epis...

Just saw a guy park by the basketball court by my building, get out with a ball, try to dribble it but it wouldnt bounce bc of the layer of snow and ice, then try to run up to shoot a 2 pointer only he slid and fell on his butt. Then he went back to his car and drove away

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#OnThisDay 2 February 1957: Forcible reopening of shops in the Casbah of Algiers by French military police, part of efforts to break a week-long general strike organized by the FLN. These actions were reenacted and immortalized in the film "The Battle of Algiers." #Algeria #France #MilitaryHistory

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

From Go Left Young Writers!, written in 1929, months before the stock market crash

I vote for my leadership. Who gets to vote for the DNC's leadership?

So to be clear, a situation where im an equal member to everyone else, where I can elect people to convention, who elect our leadership, thats tammany hall. Those leaders are unaccountable. The DNC, which is a network largely run by money, thats good?

The new McCarthyite campaign against Mamdani and the DSA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/new-mccart...

Opposition to dues is one of those things that seems to make sense if you dont think about organization too much. But the reality is if your members dont fund the organization, they dont control the organization.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Someone should republish this article

something we don’t say much because I don’t know how to verify it - although I’m pretty sure it’s true - is I believe we are the largest organization of trans people in the US, too. Join us!

People are knocking the number but dont realize that this is tens of thousands of organizers. In most cities DSA is one of the largest democratic membership organizations. Ive seen people go from recluses to leaders and new tendencies bloom all inside of DSAs spaces.

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

Guy whos really bad at come ons: are you an angle

You know there are cis men named rowan? Its true!

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

Putting on my old DSA Abolish ICE shirt for a political event feels like Eddie Valiant opening up the cartoon bullet case

Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

The struggle we will face this year is that ice can be defended against through hyper local decentralized organization but the political crisis wont be resolved at the neighborhood level