Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow. She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.

New talk and signing @ Village Well Books in Culver City December 13!

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

So, Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior? If you didn't follow her, she's one of the best journalists on here. What the fuck. substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

The Onion has been knocking it out of the park all year. theonion.com/democrats-si...

Real talk, friends: Schumer won't resign, and Dems will remain impotent federally through 2026. So what can we do? Organize ever more people into the orgs waging primaries. In NYC, the tip of the Left electoral spear is now NYC-DSA. But just about everywhere else in NY, Left primaries win via WFP.

the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.

DSA and Working Families Party have meetings FYI

It’s not that the Republicans k pulling the football away from the Democrats. It’s that the Democrats keep pulling the football away from us.

i cannot stress enough that if you want to primary anybody then you have to join something instead of shitposting from your couch. zohran happened because nyc-dsa was running local races and often eating shit on election night for close to a decade.

This is about Labour in the UK, but it applies to another ostensibly liberal party as well.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Some important background reading on the Democrats: www.salon.com/2010/02/23/d... (Glenn Greenwald has since gone mad, but this is still good.)

Just a prediction: Schumer, after losing his next primary, will run as an independent, quite possibly giving New York a Republican senator. That's who he is.

"How could Dems cave like this after last Tuesday's victory?" But it wasn't a victory for Schumer. His candidate -- the Trump-supported one -- lost. The jubilation and hope folks feel about Mamdani? Chuck feels the opposite. To sum up: he sucks.

Was the shutdown inconveniencing Israel in some way?

Chuck Schumer’s decision making this week alone (between Mamdani and this CR debacle) should be absolutely disqualifying to leadership. I dare one rank-and-file Senate Democrat who believes this to say it out loud.

This right here.

Can't wait for tomorrow's fundraising email from the Democratic Party.

Can we at least now agree: Democrats were never "keeping their powder dry." Never "picking their battles." Never "working behind the scenes." Never "doing everything they could." All the times they looked passive? They were. All the times they looked weak? They were.

I will add that I'm not an official member of the @demsocialists.bsky.social or @socialists.nyc... but I can tell you that the @demsocialists.bsky.social would not be doing this to us.

You can have enormous frustration over the fact that air traffic controllers have to work with no pay, and already were understaffed, while at the same time being furious about Dens caving on healthcare costs. (I am.) & if you think reopening the govt fixes ATC, you haven’t been paying attention.

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

You can keep up this ridiculous game where you pretend that voters dont understand how great you are, or you can recognise that voters see exactly what you are doing and hate it.

Coming off a week of winning didn't sit right with a loser like Chuck.

Throwing away all your political capital after a historic off year election for a 1 year continuation of ACA funding is absolutely pathetic.

again find it bizarre that national dem leaders avoid the topic of ICE even on here but have time to congratulate an unpopular former speaker on their retirement from insider trading at 85

Sorry, but a lack of support for autonomous vehicles is not among Sec Pete's biggest missed opportunities at USDOT. For instance: 🔹 Failure to stop Tesla from lying about Autopilot, FSD, etc 🔹 Failure to curb car bloat 🔹 Continuing to spend fed $$ on highway expansions that won't fix congestion

I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf

Blue institutional investors all over the country need to divest from Tesla.

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It's important that everyone understand that Ross Douthat has never done anything *except* write slimy op-eds trying to smuggle far-right ideas into the mainstream. From college on. He's never had a real job. He has no skills, no expertise, nothing that would justify his position at the NYT.

Yep that’s what we’ve been telling you all, you shameless asshole.

I'm gonna keep quoting myself until this crime against civilization starts getting serious notice.

Nobody is asking for Dem politicians to issue fawning statements about Dick Cheney. Literally not one person is asking for that. Dems could just say nothing. The fact that top Dems are instead issuing those laudatory statements is a deliberate middle finger to everyone harmed by Cheney.

Mamdani: My message to I.C.E. Agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable.

The subreddit r/democrats keeping to their policy of excluding socialists no matter what: old.reddit.com/r/democrats/

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them

I will also say this regarding NYC: Andrew Cuomo's biggest mistake will have been trying his absolute hardest to make this a referendum on pro-Israel politics in the Democratic Party. He (in my opinion, mostly) failed, but what people will take away from this is that he succeeded and lost the fight.

Tyranny doesn’t steal power all at once. It starves it, vote by vote, truth by truth, until silence feels normal. Today, we still have a voice. Use it before legitimate elections become a memory whispered about in the dark. #Vote

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

One for the ages

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up