What are the top 10 objections Americans have to socialism? I'm starting to write an airport book (Socialism for Skeptics) rebutting the main myths about/arguments against socialism, and I want to make sure to tackle the main ones believed by conservatives and liberals

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Cops have been called on the striking @sbworkersunited.org workers blocking the company's distribution centers today in Pennsylvania and Nevada Solidarity with these fighters against American oligarchy

Cultural-social events are crucial for building a mass socialist left. One lost example of this: Milwaukee's sewer socialists in 1925 organized a children's orchestra competition on a Friday evening at Lake Park, attended by 5,000 parents and community members

The radicalization of liberals is one of the past year's most overlooked stories Talked about this—& what it means for defeating Trump—w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social, @waleedshahid.bsky.social, & @danieldenvir.bsky.social on the new @thedigradio.bsky.social episode thedigradio.com/podcast/welc...

The way to help Zohran overcome establishment, billionaire, and NYPD opposition is mostly “organize bigger and deeper” rather than “criticize harder” www.laborpolitics.com/p/should-the...

The proof of concept for @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social wasn't just that over 700 people joined the last organizing call, but that many were asking questions like "What's the DSA?"

Instead of asking for more donations, would love to see Zohran start asking supporters to join mass organizing fightbacks Even the savviest governance and comms strategy can't get far without more people power on the ground

Critics of Zohran's decision to keep Tisch haven't yet provided compelling counters to the points made in this piece 🧵

Like Zohran, Bobby Seale campaigned in a suit when he ran for mayor in 1973. He ran to win — and did his best to counteract smears from the establishment that he and the Black Panthers were impractical radicals

Love to see it: Lina Khan on tonight's @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social mass call with over 650 organizers to win Zohran's affordability agenda

It's good to pressure Zohran (& all electeds), the question is over what & how Is our main approach to speak truth to power? Or to organize around strategic mass-based fights? Lots to learn from Jane McAlevey on this 🧵

It's an honor to be on this list! Thank you @grahamformaine.bsky.social ♥️

It IS crucial for Zohran to deliver his agenda, but delivering policy on its own rarely does as much as we'd hope in boosting support for a politician or party Social science suggests that party-building and on-the-ground organization is just as crucial

Way too much leftist discourse is polarized into denunciations vs defenses of Zohran A more useful & important debate is how to organize enough New Yorkers to win Zohran's agenda — and to counteract the inevitable pressures on him from capital and the political establishment

One key thing Zohran can learn from Milwaukee's sewer socialists is that to deliver transformative reforms you need to lean on mass movement pressure

Wonderful piece from @ericblanc.bsky.social on Milwaukee’s strong socialist history.

"Young people motivated by climate concerns should take rank-and-file jobs in strategic sectors that can push industries towards transition & revamp recalcitrant unions into powerful agents of change. Youth climate activists should salt the climate transition" 👏👏👏 jacobin.com/2025/11/orga...

Socialists in the US today have a lot more to learn from Victor Berger than Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, or Chairman Mao

It's good that James Carville is now calling for economic populism — but our side also needs credible, authentic messengers for this stance Nobody will buy it if Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom suddenly start talking like Bernie

Yesterday's Trump meeting tanked Elise Stefanik's case vs Governor Hochul That's great for NY because Stefanik is horrible, and also because—without a serious threat to her right—Hochul will now have a harder time rejecting Zohran's agenda in the name of electability

Unlike subsequent historians, the NAACP praised sewer socialist leader Victor Berger Its condolence letter lauded "the very broad and sympathetic views Mr. Berger always had regarding us as a race, the unbiased attitude of his paper, & his interest in the welfare of all."

30,000 students striking in Charlotte against ICE Need this every time Trump sends in his thugs

Contrary to this post below, Berger & the sewer socialists fought hard vs racism, the KKK, & lynching once significant numbers of Black workers arrived in Milwaukee after WWI—& Black workers reciprocated by supporting the Socialists🧵 Antiracism was plank #1 in Berger's 1922 congressional campaign!

Workers from @sbworkersunited.org put their bodies on the line today, shutting down Starbucks' distribution center in York, PA, the largest in the US Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE

Will taxing the rich spur them to flee New York? No. "There was no notable increase in out-migration among high earners following the State’s 2021 increases to the top Personal Income Tax rates. These higher tax rates raise approximately $3.6 billion annually"— @nyfiscalpolicy.bsky.social

Wisconsin's sewer socialists provide a great template for Zohran & democratic socialism today—here are the top 10 things they achieved by running Milwaukee for almost 50 years🧵 Milwaukee built America's 1st public housing coop & pioneered city planning via comprehensive zoning

This is what happens when Democrats actually start fighting for working people

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

The Trump administration threatened the health of millions by cutting off SNAP benefits — and now it's trying to fire a USDA federal worker, Ellen Mei, who spoke out publicly on behalf of the Americans she serves What ever happened to free speech in America?

Students and teachers across the US should take a lead from the hundreds of brave high school students in Chicago who walked out against ICE 🧵

Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract *** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY*** Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy

Blame Schumer. But also blame the union leaders that capitulated two weeks ago and that refused to put up a real fight to save Americans' health care We urgently need new leaders — not just in the Democratic Party, but also in organized labor

Crazy that labor didn't put up a fight to stop these Senators from capitulating, the main federal union capitulated two weeks ago and other unions issued press releases that everyone ignored Part of the reason Democrats don't fight is that most union leaders don't fight either

People shouldn't forget that the first domino setting off tonight's capitulation came from the American Federation of Government Employees two weeks ago Millions of American workers are now going to lose their health care What ever happened to solidarity?

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Federal workers should immediately call and write to Tim Kaine to demand he not capitulate to the Republicans in their name (202) 224-3121 www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/share-your-opinion

Zohran is right Everybody should donate right now to @organizeworkers.bsky.social, so it can hire a NYC organizer to help our city's workers win

Zohran ran up crazy numbers with non-white young people (18-29 year olds): Black youth: Mamdani 84% Latino youth: Mamdani 86% White youth: Mamdani 66%

Liberal operatives say the secret to electoral success is always pivoting to the "moderate center" But this vastly overstates voters' ideological coherence and it can't explain how Zohran won 35% of "moderates" and 9% of "conservatives"

It's amazing that @socialists.nyc has surged to over 11,000 members 🌹 And that's just the floor Wisconsin's "sewer socialists" had 1 member for every 100 people in Milwaukee—to reach that today we'll need about 84,780 members in NYC

Mass campaigns are crucial for exerting pressure on politicians — and they're also great pathways to get large numbers to join membership organizations like @socialists.nyc From the new @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social website 👇

Silly that rightwingers and centrists keep arguing Zohran's win was less decisive than Spanberger and co Had this had been a normal two way race, Dem vs Republican, Zohran would have won by 75% minimum

Zohran's movement upended the electoral playbook in the mayoral race — now it's continuing to break new ground by building an organized mass campaign to make New York affordable again Sign up here to get involved 👇 ourtime.nyc

Everybody opposed to authoritarianism and oligarchy should needs to stand in solidarity with the Starbucks workers who are likely going on strike starting November 13 This is a winnable fight — but it'll take all of our support to help workers get past the finish line

We were extremely happy last night

Scoop: Starbucks baristas plan to strike on Red Cup Day next week if demands aren’t met, and to mount what the union says would grow to be their biggest and longest work stoppage yet www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Here's why @mattyglesias.bsky.social is wrong about the national significance of Zohran's big win 1/ NYC's race was, among other things, a referendum on the future of the Democratic Party. And the establishment lost badly 🧵

May be cheesy, but I do think it's beautiful that so many young people got involved in politics for the first time through Zohran's campaign, just an extremely hopeful dynamic

People outside of NYC haven't understood just how much our airwaves for the last month have been filled by scaremongering and Islamophobia. It didn't work! Billionaires literally tried to buy this election and they lost