this was probably when i peaked. the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

It's over

Senator Ella Emhoff (NY-DSA)

BREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.

buying feed for my bird feeder is like gacha game where i spend real money to unlock new characters

I love this "Yes: critical" option for endorsing AOC. The crux of the issue for some is that they want an ability to vote in a way that says "Yes (but in a cool and not tryhard way)"

Amazing! ICE kills a man ~7:30 am. 1st news report is an hour later. ~1:30 pm, a group of 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 marches in Main Street and "storms into the Biddeford office of [U.S.] Sen. Susan Collins." Would be hard to do in NYC. Biddeford pop. = 22,000! www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

we are so fucking back

The ultras in DSA won yesterday on the question of 2028 electoral orientation but they still seem so mad on X dot com the Hitler App. Can't even win properly

I've always had a perspective on a number of past communist governments as "damn they tried but failed and made a lot of errors and faced a lot of headwinds but respected where due" but I truly find modern communists so damn annoying sometimes lol like stop worshipping these failures

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Politics is a dirty business, and international politics is even dirtier. Every decision comes with tradeoffs, that's an inescapable truth anywhere, but it's especially true in questions of International politics. All James is saying is "I don't have the stomach to face these questions".

I also do not concede that by engaging in anti-electoralism you are therefore morally inculpable for the actions of your government

We can't simultaneously be responsible for everything an elected does and not responsible at all for what happens if we stay out of the race. People who said Zohran should not have run or should not have won gotta admit they were carrying water for Cuomo

In my politics I've always held this attitude of simultaneously holding what my political utopia is (we're all hierarchyless communist wizards flying in space), and what is most possible in the current horizon. And somehow I'm the enemy to James for always supporting the best current option

The most attractive thing a guy can do is talk about credit card points "oh let me get that I get 3x points" "did you already get the signup points bonus?" " I'm going to cancel the hotel reservation and then book it with my points"

With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet

instagram reel trending audio in surf videos is moving in a good direction. last couple months it was Pink Floyd now it's Moby's Porcelain.

ICYMI over the weekend, I wrote up the most ridiculous Super PAC play of the cycle: a $532,000 ad buy calling an $11,000 401k plan "investing with Wall Street." The ad cost 48 times more than the fund it's criticizing. prospect.org/2026/07/11/s...

"the party brand" - one thing I really enjoy that both moderates and radical communists get tripped up about does essentially come down to branding

This is my personal "we drank from the hose and didn't have a curfew"

truth nuke

I use Claude on a regular enough basis that reading this is basically like encountering my friend Claude out of context outside a labor union convention selling Trotskyist newspapers

People who recognize that we’re gonna get to an endorsement of AOC almost regardless but want it to be a highly elaborate exercise where she can get struggle sessioned and they can feel important for being able to do it, and where there’s no clear membership mandate to indicate how popular she is

The R&R amendment was a perfectly reasonable compromise and the DSA 'left' once again demonstrated that it is their way or the highway while accusing SMC/GW of the same. This is exhausting.

Haley Stevens voted to:

It's funny to me because the Mamdani wing and the AOC wing are the same one

we're talking about people who, to quote, believe AOC is (again, I must emphasize my literalness here) "politically powerless and soon to be completely politically irrelevant"

incredible that the NPC majority thinks that taking away the 2028 poll will hurt AOC rather than force more of the membership to wake up to the fact that our ostensible leadership is a bunch of idiot sectarian clowns who are a decided minority within the organization they run

B&R NPCers voted to strip a member poll from the 2028 endorsement process after B&R 1) voted for creation of a multitendency 2028 committee at convention 2) OKd using the Bernie process as a baseline 3) never opposed the poll during the committee process 4) voted in committee for the final proposal

A real problem on the left is that there’s a certain level of education that makes you stupid

The MUG viewpoint on 1 member 1 vote in DSA:

unfortunately a lot of holdover undemocratic institutions of DSA basically serve as an electoral college / Senate that preserves the power of weird white people

"it is what it is" is undoubtedly the GOAT thought terminating cliché. nothing else even comes close. it just is what it is

Erling Haaland and the rest of the Norwegian men's team are paid the same as the women's team. In 2017, they took a voluntary pay cut to allow the women's pay to be increased. The move came from the players' union, not management.

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Once I joked to a DSA member that it was good that Sauce didn't make it onto the NPC and she reminded me that she had and I had apparently so thoroughly memoryholed that fact out of embarrassment

DSA members like "we cant endorse AOC for pres until we have a forum w/ the other socialist candidates like Weird Rob from Woodhaven & some lady from Wyoming who name is like just "Crops" we can spend whole time pretending some labor leader with 0 interest running may run too"

I have to say, even if not surprising, it’s just so god damn disheartening to see the NPC sectarians trying to silence the voice of the 120,000 DSA members throughout this meeting. Just DNC/admin caucus mindset being reinvented from first principles here.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Its time to listen to Moby's Porcelain

I think certain people are afraid of an all-member poll because it reveals the actual reality of DSA sentiment (despite all the online hate the last time members were polled on AOC supermajority expressed approval)

this just made me think that in terms of activity it's far more meaningful to me when a member shows up to canvass than it is that they go to a chapter meeting, in terms of practical experience

Yes I want a society where participating in political decisions can be done by reading what the thing is about and clicking a button instead of spending 25 hours a week arguing with a fucking mime.

Fellow DSA member who likes what you see in NYC? If yes, then you may also agree with @socialistmajority.com + @groundworkdsa.com (which lead NYC-DSA's electoral work) that the NPC should vote today to keep the mass-member poll on the 2028 presidential race. 👉 Sign here: socialistmajority.com/2028

Dream life is to live in the Australian bush on a perfect surf point break with a dingo friend