I want BIPOC to develop the mentality that the government *owes* you whatever you're requesting from them.

Schumer has been saying for years that Trump is a unique threat to the US. But then he can't endorse Mamdani, the guy running against Trump's candidate, because...Israel?

and if hearing that makes you uncomfortable, you probably should not be following me.

if Israel can only exist as a Jewish state via apartheid, then no, that's not acceptable. and criticizing apartheid should not be a problem for anyone.

Z won the election with a #mamdate for his agenda. Now let's hustle to get the money to deliver it. bit.ly/ttrjoin

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them. There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

There’s a disturbing lack of outrage over ICE’s aggressive tackling and arrest of a non verbal autistic man in Chicago. Just like the lack of outrage over Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held in solitary for months. Disabled lives matter too!

No offense to the souls who mined it. No offense to the family that generously plans to share it with the Canadian public. I just think gem economies are barbaric and it looks like a urine popsicle. people.com/florentine-d...

He's far too humble to say this, but I think people should know: The successful, historic effort to flip the Onondaga County Legislature for the first time in nearly five decades was led by @mobreezy213.bsky.social! We are so blessed to have him building progressive governing power in Central NY.

MAGA folks are claiming that Trump can’t fund SNAP even if he wants to because it’s against the law. First, no it’s not. Second, he’s a 34 time convicted felon. He was found liable for sexual assault. He’s been murdering people in the Caribbean. Don’t pretend he cares about the law.

Healthcare is a basic human right. Food is basic human right. Education, housing, clean air & water are human rights. Using healthcare and food as leverage should be grounds for removal from office. SNAP, Medicaid and the ACA are worth fighting for. People will die without them.

@nycdsaecosoc.bsky.social deserves so much of the credit for the Build Public Renewables Act—which, by several measures, is the biggest, most ambitious and promising climate law in the nation. If you're in NYC and climate is your thing, ecosocialists.nyc is probably the DSA working group for you.

I spent the past couple of weeks single-handedly putting up hundreds of posters, exposing Hakeem Jeffries betrayals to Brooklyn! I was out in the streets by myself making it happen! I had such a great time talking to everyone that I spoke with about the necessary need for THIS REAL CHANGE!

Dollar Van to go Expose Hakeem’s Betrayal to the people. 👌 Save NYCHA! 👊 #HakeemJeffries #CongressionalCandidate #ZeroToleranceLeft #NewYorkCity #VanceBosticforNY8

“Public investment, viewed as deficit spending from the standpoint of the cautious investor, was in fact surplus creation for the public as a whole. From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.” @greenbackbetter.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...

I appreciate this post (because I too started it this summer and then got derailed). Just scheduled a block of time during the winter holiday period to finish it—thanks for the functional reminder!

I had started reading this book Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (by @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and M. E. O’Brien) in the summer and then got interrupted, but I'm finishing it now!! it should be required reading for NY DSA chapters.

Breaking: Trump just tried to illegally “freeze” Obamacare. He said starting immediately there will be no more money for insurance companies. No more subsidies. No more Affordable Care Act. First they came for the immigrants, then food assistance, now healthcare.

Wait, women get written out of the official histories? There should be a word for this, and a movement against it... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_G...

Also at the Vermont Country Store: Love's Baby Soft! This webpage smells like me in 1984. (I wrote a book set in 1984, and it is *filled* with Love's Baby Soft references. Verisimilitude!) www.vermontcountrystore.com/loves-baby-s...

I love the Vermont Country Store. Where else can you still get Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific in this year of our lord 2025? www.vermontcountrystore.com/gee-your-hai...

You can tell the holidays are approaching, because I just got an email from the Vermont Country Store titled "Fa-la-la-lannel for everyone!"

I've been tempted to pick up Love's Baby Soft just for the nostalgia value, though I can't imagine actually wearing it now. But yes, it was my fragrance of choice as a pre-teen. 😀

Took out the trash and accidentally dropped my mailbox key in the dumpster. Went diving for it (gross), and today's mail brought me my notice of my 2026 health insurance premium, which will be, ahem, ELEVEN TIMES what I'm currently paying. I should've left that key in the dumpster.

Yes, and as someone deeply involved in the party, I'll be the first to admit that the party could do a lot more to make its structure clearer to the public. I've been working (here and there, in my spare time) on a proposal to try to address this—and hopefully it'll be considered sometime next year.

I have tried to understand the structure of WFP and cannot.

PS—It takes a lot of work to study the internal dynamics of an org, and I appreciate that most journalists don't have the time to do that sort of deep dive. I just want to give such effort its due. (Btw I'm still holding out hope for someone who'll accurately report the much more complex NY WFP.)

*has* (not have)

If I had to pick one NYC journalist who understands best how NYC-DSA works, it would be @petersterne.com. Peter is probably the only journalist whose coverage of NYC-DSA I've read that have been consistently accurate.

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Ugh I had forgotten this person exists after having left Twitter & it was so nice y’all.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... R.I.P.

“In the face of a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 it’s urgent for us to rethink the philosophical basis of our progressive politics…power needs to be distributed to the people…the model cannot be top-down, it has to be bottom-up, grounded in cooperation & solidarity among people.” #Coöperism

As a father, the weight is heavy — trying to provide for my family from nothing, rebuilding life piece by piece after losing everything.😓 Every support means warmth, food, and safety to our little ones.💔

i'm going to use this! instead of appreciation we often get more do more with less from higher ed leadership.

Yes, very well put, Will. 🙏

This is beautiful. And appreciation is how we reckon with the capacity we have in new ways and new combinations With Brad Lander now writing amazing essays for In These Times about co-governance, I’m appreciating the 2020 Warren camp in a new way.

I was taught that each campaign has 3 phases: preparation, execution, evaluation. Two decades in, I'm now convinced there's a 4th phase: appreciation. Appreciation is essential because hard work done, if left unappreciated, can poison its doer. That's why I make time to write personal thank-you's.

When you call out hate and bigotry, you're gonna lose some friends. But were they friends to begin with? Probably not.

When it comes to calling out racism, this is also true of people being worried about what their neighbors or coworkers might say. I've butted heads with plenty of coworkers and I know of at least a few neighbors who talk shit about me. Most of them love me though. cc: @allyfromnola.bsky.social.

THIS IS PURE TRUTH

Pt 2 of my conversation with Ben Case. To punch or not punch Richard Spencer. "Little" vs "big" violence. Fight training as metaphor for political life (from a retired pro Muay Thai guy). TFW you have to act without knowing the outcome. antifascist-dad-podcast.castos.com/episodes/unl...

Why I use the hashtag #MayorCardamom #EducatorsForZohran @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @stucknation.bsky.social @nhannahjones.bsky.social @claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social @wbai.org #ArturoOFarrill #AfroLatinJazzAlliance #CasaBelongo #MusicEducation #LEAPnyc youtu.be/A8-glm3PpCk?...

Yo, it's my birthday! 🥳 It'd mean the world if you checked out my clean energy newsletter, Green Juice. I work really hard on it. Clean energy—how it works, why it matters, and who's trying to stop it—is more important than ever. Here's a good one: www.greenjuice.wtf/electric-uti... #EnergySky

One of the rarest skills is explaining things in a way that's easy and fun to digest so that we actually make the time to learn it. That's exactly what Green Juice does for clean energy. From electricity grid 101 to the latest in geothermal energy, @jonofgreenjuice.bsky.social is a great teacher.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!

Haha thank you! I will tell him u said that 😊

Just his momma! And that picture is absolutely adorable

This kid pays way too much attention to politics... 😅

Found this in my 6 yo son's backpack this morning lol. He was very excited about the NYC mayoral race 😆 & was watching the results come in with us. Apologies for the misspelled name @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social but he is only 6! Solidarity from 🇨🇦