Tenet is Christopher Nolan's best film: aftermath.site/tenet-christop...

Yesterday, 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson was shot and killed by two members of the National Guard in Memphis.

Financial distress in multifamily housing is also an opportunity to revive the political conversation around a National Investment Authority. In 2021, this was framed around post-COVID recovery and a Green New Deal. Today, it could be about green social housing.

To level-up on public finance, New York's governing-power Left would be wise to build a base to create a "public loop" like the one advocated by @publicporpoise.bsky.social + @videotroph.bsky.social of @moneyontheleft.bsky.social for the City of Seattle. bsky.app/profile/mone...

Task 1️⃣ will cost little financially to the state; it requires only passing more pro-tenant laws. Task 2️⃣, however, *will* require a lot of money. In order to complete 2️⃣, the Left will likely need to level-up on matters of public finance and organize more effectively for state + local public banks.

The people who have any degree of success have that success because they're really good at spreadsheets and retail politics.

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

All this while Starbucks is the biggest violator of US labor law in modern history, btw

Ex Pearl Jam drummer David Abbruzzese on Elon Musk and the gutting of USAID. "Fascism survives by turning corpses into math. It sells death as tradeoffs, budget lines, acceptable loss. People who would never step over a dying child on a sidewalk will vote for that spreadsheet every two years."

People should be following the MLB labor negotiations is all I will say to this

AOC has changed the trajectory of American politics and inspired a generation to believe that government really can work for working people. I am deeply honored to earn her endorsement for US Senate. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

if she hadn't run from the org and had gotten Bernie and AOC endorsements Colorado might have elected the first DSA senator. Lessons to learn!

Block The Bombs will have 100 cosponsors minimum in January 2027

Going down the list more methodically now. Hickenlooper has won, and based on what's left to report, the size of late mail will determine if this race winds up in single digits. You have to wonder what would have happened if any national group had spent here bsky.app/profile/asin...

I would not be surprised if the right keeps pushing. They almost got it on the first try. Without serious court reform, what happens if they have decades of prep?

I'm a big fan of media analysis but sometimes the best form of media analysis is letting a piece of art sit with you, making you feel weird in a way you can't understand or explain, until one day you have a life experience and you remember the piece of art and you realize that you understand it now

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

at this point unless you call it a genocide and sign onto Block the Bombs as a bare minimum, you will not get the benefit of the doubt, and it may cost you your primary. and we should be working towards making that minimum more exacting, not less, until we cut them off.

My main takeaway from Tuesday, being outside NY: we need to identify the opportunities, short and long term, for a left ecosystem and run at them with all we've got. If big money is coming to eat our lunch, we have to solidify gains now and start preparing for the terrain to shift.

PS—One reason I see a time limit on the efficacy of this electoral strategy is that big money will eventually adapt and learn to fund good field too. At that point, the people doing the Left's electoral work must become more fully multi-racial, multi-generational, and bottom 90%, class-wise, to win.

I literally just read this article about the impacts/risks of Mamdani’s rent freeze twice in a row. Highly recommend. It’s a little bit handwavy about solutions but has a TON of interesting info about the NYC rental market and the problems that might accompany efforts to slow rent growth

If you want to be a revolutionary you need to learn how to knock on a stranger’s door, sit through a tedious meeting, monitor an ICE raid, moved a resolution through a hostile room, how to manage an influx of members etc. DSA can give you that experience. That is the beginning and the end of it.

easily the most censorial time of my life right now, no one in charge really seems to give a shit though

The way that the Supreme Court drops opinions that change how we live our lives while a few of them pack for billionaire-funded summer vacations & how they don't take questions from the public or televise proceedings— all that feels antithetical to the very essence of American democracy

I love this centrist line that’s like “yeah DSA can win cities, but that’s only where the least important 80% of Americans live”

Mamdani as the kingmaker is great but the more fundamental point is that NYC is organized. When the people are organized they can crown a kingmaker.

If you think tonight felt good, @senadorajulie.bsky.social is up against a do-nothing Senate Dem incumbent next week. If there's one race in the country I'd focus on for the next 7 days, it's that one. Throw her some support: www.julieforcolorado.com

one hour, 19 minutes until we learn whether New Yorkers have a) resoundingly rejected socialism or b) narrowly acquiesced to a controversial mayor in primaries beset by low turnout* *compared to 2025 and absolutely no other year

every single candidate must be asked if they will free the Prarieland Prisoners

Brooklyn Can't Wait candidates are now uncontested or leading in 22 seats, out of 42 that is a majority, enough to elect a new chair I think we did it

Block The Bombs, minimum 100 cosponsors by January 2027

1. She changed her ID to comply with Kansas’ new anti-trans law. Now, the state wants to put her in jail for having an inaccurate license. Kris Ripper is being charged with driving with an invalid license—a class B misdemeanor—after a cop refused to believe the ID the state forced on her was valid.

“When a 28-year-old loses the ability to eat, speak clearly, smile, and work because of a climate crisis created primarily by high-emission countries on the other side of the world, that’s not just a dental issue, it’s a manifestation of environmental racism and climate apartheid.“

Note: The US has no safety regs that limit vehicle blind zones. Federal car rules only protect those inside a vehicle. Others are ignored.

this is so insane

You wanna build a winning statewide coalition in Texas? You gotta get East Houston off its ass and to the polls. Cause, yeah, you need to win Harris by 20. -OS

"Spanberger and Sherrill decided to provide material help for Trump’s fascist movement because opposing seemed hard. That doesn’t make them tough and pragmatic. It doesn’t make them normies. It makes them betrayers," writes @nberlat.bsky.social. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/centrism-m...

call it baudrillardian governance because the objective is not to produce things that work but masquerade events so that they can briefly appear spectacular

Given that we’re now desperately trying to undo the mistake of ceding our streets to cars because we realized 100 years too late the environmental and social damage of that choice, this is actually a great metaphor, just not the one he thinks.

NEWS: Debbie Hiott has been fired as general manager of KUT and KUTX in Austin. This follows a public dispute with the University of Texas at Austin over the KUT Festival held last month.

Gets to many of my concerns with this proposal. We don’t need a public stake in a multi-trillion dollar toxic asset. Public investment/ownership has to come with serious conditions — and that’s not the version of this paradigm that Trump and the tech companies are warming up to.

🐔 Senator cHickenlooper knows he can’t defend his record, which includes voting for more of Trump’s nominees than any Democrat other than Fetterman, so he’s hiding from his progressive challenger. Colorado deserves a real Democratic fighter like Julie Gonzales.

This story has been consistently reported, but seems not to have really broken though - it’s ASTONISHING. An asylum policy that caters specifically and essentially exclusively to white people from a country in which they’re safe.

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

We started the day with mass at The Basilica of St. Mary to remember our friend Melissa Hortman. I was grateful to be in the space where we said goodbye to her a year ago.