I feel like people on Bluesky who have convinced themselves that the institutional Left in the United States is pro Trump and falling over backwards to credit Trump should have to reckon with the fact that the only Palestinian in Congress, and a DSA member, says (rightly) that the ceasefire is fake.

My mom liked the Mamdani victory speech so much she signed up to DSA and started paying dues before it was even over. So I guess I’m probably gonna get at least a little bit involved with them again because she wants someone to go to the meetings with.

what I will say to folks is that if you want a DSA chapter to do something the best way to make that happen is by joining DSA and starting it: act.dsausa.org/s/2784.PebCRO

I particularly hate the suggestion there's some sort of grand bargain in which trans rights are given up in exchange for _______. No one is offering such a thing. No one would change their vote to Dems after that. The argument exists solely to justify throwing trans people under the bus.

omg

You see that? How “far right” views are routinely re-packaged as “populist”?

The Trump admin yesterday began the final push to have Kilmar Abrego Garcia deported to Liberia, in yet another effort to punish him for making them look bad after they illegally and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-adm...

The deal is that he wants people to get cheap junk insurance that won't do anything for people when they need it. This is a RETVRN to pre-2010 insurance markets. Make America Great Again.

One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcement’s lack of discipline.

We're low on sugar so I checked Amazon. It was $30 for 500 packets. I almost bought it but decided to check Costco. I was AMAZED at the price difference. The same thing was $11 at Costco. Even w/ shipping fee it was more than 50% cheaper. This is why Lina Khan brought the FTC lawsuit against Amazon

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

County Executive of Montgomery County who doesn't own a car when?

New: Pablo Moreno González and Felipe Agustin Zamacona, two men formerly held at the Broadview, IL ICE facility, and now the named plaintiffs in a federal class action alleging inhumane treatment at the facility, are being released from federal custody per a successful habeas petition.

An Illinois Department of Transportation employee was stopped by ICE agents while working on a Park Ridge construction project Friday morning — and questioned about incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani before being released. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

Zohran and many others proved this week that we don't need to sell out any member of our community -- immigrant, trans, queer, working class, young, old -- in order to rise together. This is the end of the past and the beginning of the future.

this ancient text is important to me. we have always known that all men are brothers and we all bear the joys and sufferings of fate until we meet the same end. we must make it easier to live and thrive, no matter what family or place you were born into.

making a conscious effort to avoid causing more “transsexual” discourse but like. jesus bro seeing the phrase “biological pronouns” used in an actual consequential legal context that directly and intentionally harms trans children is really fucking testing me

Lawless goons. Racial profiling isn’t just something they do, it’s all they do. www.instagram.com/p/DQu5q2pkc_...

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

in honor of sandwich guy's acquittal

The only way out is through political struggle. Become a union organizer!

Defense comes out blazing in closing argument, attacks agent Lairmore's credibility. "This case is about a sandwich. A sandwich that, according to agent Lairmore, somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of onions and mustard, but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapping."

I don't say this lightly but I think this is one of the better things ever written about Covid

Thinking of this one again today. Puranaanooru 192, 6th c. BCE

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

proud to have some relatives who organized with this group

Re Jersey, real.

You can’t gleefully cheer on the demonization and firing of civil servants in the place they all live then be upset that your neighbors don’t care if you live or die. Vogt said he wanted government employees scared to go to work, this is the political environment they built.

🚨 WaPo SCOOP: Inside the crisis at the Heritage Foundation The group behind Project 2025 is facing a rebellion — and has been for months. The Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes/antisemitism saga is just what caused it to break into the open. 🎁 Gift link:

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

because he is

Kinda impressive how OpenAI has managed to occupy a seemingly quantum state between "imperial project", "non-profit research foundation", and "criminal enterprise".

The messages were bad but honestly what do these folks expect? "I can't imagine why you are upset with me, all I did was support sending masked, armed men into your communities to abduct your neighbors and brutalize your children." Yeah, people are going to be really angry.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Mamdani’s win is a warning for media: Better get some leftist contributors or you simply won’t be able to cover/understand what is happening around America.

Just going to save this to use as a reaction image whenever someone comes out as trans

chat is it good for your far-right personalist regime when the right-leaning local security forces openly delight in cuffing your sloppiest stormtroopers

Congratulations to Kelsea Bond for becoming Atlanta's first socialist city councilmember! 🎊 Last night, they won overwhelmingly with 64% of the vote. We are so excited for them and know they will do great things for Atlanta! 🪴 Join Groundwork to build a strong DSA with us! groundworkdsa.com/join

I thought he was just a guy from LI who didn't want to have to live in NYC under Mamdani. I was wrong, he's from NYC. He has financial ties to Israel and no firefighting experience (he was appointed last summer and uhm a lot was going on). From wikipedia.

who would have guessed that the dumbass who won the popular vote by a sliver because median voters just thought of him as President Low Prices Who Will Make Low Prices Comes Back in January would be eating shit like this, after not solving any problems and kidnapping many defenseless people for fun

*sips tea* virginiamercury.com/2025/11/05/d...

lol

They love trying to sneak in ways of devaluing the votes of queer people, unmarried people, and especially childless women, who occupy free real estate in their minds

The trans panic among DC reactionary centrists, & Democratic Party consultants was always ridiculous. Few (if any) people changed their votes b/c they were uncomfortable with the idea of trans rights. It was always about issues of affordability, & Biden's terrible foreign policy approach

This was a sentence in a NEWS piece, not an opinion piece, btw. NYT is very bad at keeping news and opinion separate, much of their politics reporting reads like opinion.

"The debate over whether Democrats need to cut trans people loose in order to win elections should be over."