Rest in peace Erykah Caldwell Another trans sister of ours who was fatally stabbed and taken before she was supposed to leave this world The tragedies keep happening and it’s really hard to witness nothing changing www.them.us/story/trans-...

i first learned how to canvass as a member of philly dsa. its cool to see the philly left get such a huge w

Decision Desk HQ projects Christopher Rabb wins the PA US House 3 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 10:20 PM EDT

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

its only may

every single person who touches this needs to go to jail.

Tlaib is introducing a War Powers Resolution to prohibit US military activities or support for Israeli military activities in Lebanon (where Israel has displaced over 1,000,000 civilians and systematically ethnically cleansed entire villages in the south) and Gottheimer decides to lie and say this:

fucked up they left out les misérables

that's my fucking New Reconstruction President

Inea’s story is one of home, tradition, and memory over generations.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

BREAKING: We just temporarily blocked enforcement of a Kansas law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under 18. A state court found the law likely violates the Kansas state constitution.

this should end his career

there's a now-constant low grade conflict on this site between people fundamentally still divided on their feelings about democratic primaries in 2016 and 2020 and frankly i think the whole thing is stupid

For nearly 80 years, public workers in Virginia have been denied full union rights. This week, legislation that would have finally changed that, was vetoed. Workers deserve more than praise for their service, they deserve the freedom to have a real voice on the job.

no movie has captured the vibe of living through this era of american history better imo. the crush of pessimism, the uncertain future. maybe children of men.

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

Absolutely devastating read. www.them.us/story/slain-...

I know I’m a broken record on this but I cannot get over how our political classes came to the quiet consensus that climate change was woke frivolity right out the time entire municipalities started getting swallowed by fire and peak oil actually became real.

dying that im scrolling through criterion looking for something to watch and K-On! The Movie appears.

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards www.economist.com/britain/2026...

why is it that all of the polling for the me gubernatorial is pretty consistent (shah at ~30%, shenna/pingree/troy at ~15%), except for the fact that king's results seem to basically be random. they either have him at 2nd in the mid 20s, or in dead last with single digits.

An audit from the Portland Tenants Union found that more than half of Portland rental listings reviewed this year appeared to violate or conflict with the city’s rent control rules, including listings advertised above the maximum allowable rent and units missing from the city’s registration system.

i had a dream trump forced google to delete youtube, and it led to the fall of the government and some sort of gen z led cultural revolution

I'm not hardcore against data centers but I think threatening a national moratorium isn't a terrible idea. The sector is receiving way too much capital investment and driving up electricity prices.

The signature gathering practices of the campaign behind the anti-transgender sports initiative are being cast into doubt, potentially derailing a referendum set to appear on the November ballot. mainemorningstar.com/2026/05/12/v...

JDPON Don

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Trvth explosion sword from Atlasintel today www.atlasintel.org/poll/usa-nat...

New - 2028 president poll 🔵 AOC 26% 🔵 Buttigieg 22% 🔵 Newsom 21% 🔵 Harris 13% 🔵 Beshear 4% 🔵 Booker 4% Atlasintel #A - 5/7

expanding on this: i do think there's a real risk a lot of the "left" / anti-establishment types are probably feeding more into the future status quo that the next generation revolts against (in the way we revolted against clintonism) far more than many ostensibly to their "right" are

Yeah ok she's running and I think she's gonna win it all

thinking today about how when my mom was my age at the end of her 20s she already had three kids. i can't really imagine that

Gerald Talbot, civil rights leader and Maine’s first Black legislator, dies at 94 

One of the future timeline options that I think people have been ignoring is "succession of personalist populist movements taking and losing power in a boom-and-bust cycle as traditional politics hollows out and the state becomes dysfunctional".

i guess im not surprised that it didn't get as much attention as the brutalist given the subject matter, but the testament of ann lee was so good. im gonna be listening to the soundtrack a lot in the coming weeks i think

This is similar to the advantage enjoyed by Fidesz in Hungary via their corruption of the electoral system which was large enough to make it not a democracy by every expert evaluation

Anyway, I'm with @adotsad.bsky.social that open contempt for the mainstream press is a requirement for any future Democratic president.

We must break American democracy in our favor faster than the GOP can break it in theirs

Very plainly what's going on here is that they don't like the decision by the People of Virginia and have therefore found an excuse to say that it didn't really count This is ultra vires, beyond their authority. It is a usurpation of the sovereignty of the People. It is void.

it didnt get as much attention, but Maines supreme court ruled a few weeks ago against RCV again which has set us up for another possible 3 way that could help a republican get elected governor (and the dem AG filed a brief opposing rcv)

pack SCOVA too I don't give a fuck

you kid but a version of the odyssey where someone gets lost as shit trying to drive back home through boston while having various adventures could be great

incredibly funny how the outbreak happened after the two main countries involved, the united states and argentina, completely obliterated their public health and regulatory agencies for insane kulturkampf reasons

ok, as someone who has been in the trenches of working on and helping shape DSA's electoral strategy, these posts (and the many other dunks) have literally no idea what they're talking about. the framing that DSA hasn't been building from the ground up is deeply ignorant. a thread:

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if you let the white south go too many generations without federal occupation, this is what they get up to

Atatütk's Citizen: Speak Turkish! campaign except it's focused on helping rural New Englanders and upper Midwesterners rediscover their ancestral forms of redneckery