SJP, Indivisible, Gay Nerd Association, your local YIMBY sex club, environmentalist cult, the NIMBY sex club, your labor union's reform caucus, your un-unionized workplace's group chat; EWOC, Ewok gang, whatever. Fuck you. Get up.

In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations. www.wired.com/story/welcom...

Ms. Rachel (Rachel Griffin Accurso), the extremely popular children’s educator, said she unsubscribed from the The New York Times, “because of its biased and dehumanizing coverage of Palestinians and Palestine, and its failure to uphold journalistic integrity.” Over 300 writers, scholars, public...

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

Senate reaches deal to reopen government after moderate Democrats cave

NEW: Inside the Biden administration debates in late 2024 that could have changed the course of the Gaza war -top intel official sought to cut support for Israel but Brett McGurk pushed back -talk of "very likely" US liability -Blinken spoke of "ethnic cleansing" www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.

an injury to one is an injury to all // Donate to support unionists in the West Bank—the latest payment of $643 went to the Palestinian Electricians Union in southern Hebron to pay for food baskets for members who lost their jobs after 10/7 chuffed.org/project/soli...

Rich people are not entitled to a private audience with politicians just because they happen to be rich.

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"If you are going to pursue an uncertain outcome, you might as well pursue the uncertain outcome that you want, rather than one that will not give you what you want even if it succeeds."

"Mamdani’s agenda treats affordability of essentials as democratic obligation, not market efficiency." @isabellamweber.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

mad cuz she’s a sliwa supporter

🐪🎧 @advaitarun.bsky.social ‘s most provocative work yet

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. But an antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

It's beyond exciting to see a narrative shift happening in real time around childcare as a public good. People are sick and tired of being told that what is commonplace in all of our peer nations is "impossible" here: providing universal care for kids too young to be in school. (3)

my fave Nepali spot!

“Socialist is not a dirty word anymore – that’s why they jumped to ‘communist,’” Jamaal Bowman said to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. “Democrats, listen up. Take some lessons – don’t get on your Ezra Klein nonsense. Don’t let Ezra Klein 'analyze' what happened here,” he added. With Hasan Piker, Prem...

platforming key figures in the gaza genocide

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

socialism beats fascism

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

good time to respectfully tap the "please support worker-led, billionaire-free, independent news" sign

This is why they are doing things like shutting down Teen Vogue

I'm told by Cuomo and others that this is "not" possible.

Today, New Mexico launched its universal childcare initiative. Last month I wrote about it for Roosevelt Institute -- historic state endeavors like this should show lawmakers at all levels of government that Americans are sick and tired of waiting for bold action on childcare. shorturl.at/Sm2tZ

💯 it’s not just about the harms of AI specifically. It’s about: who decides what our economy is? The people, or a handful of overpowered, ultra-rich weirdos? www.axios.com/2025/10/31/m...

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

"Isn’t empathy for that pain, and honesty about its scale, the bare minimum we should expect from our leaders? That’s the spirit that should guide how progressive institutions and leaders approach policy: starting from what is necessary, not what polls as popular."

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it. Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

"It seems fair to say that many Americans can more readily imagine a future in which contractors capture the state than one in which either party musters the resources and will to deliver economic and social transformation without them."

"A half-century of right-wing attacks on government, [Lina Khan] said, has led to 'insufficient attention to all the things that can go wrong when you’re not doing enough.'" newrepublic.com/article/2023...

i was all in on mamdani until i found out that he called his dad's cousin his "aunt" instead of using the term we all know and love, "cousin once removed"

SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2023...

Really important analysis from @rooseveltinstitute.org about the structures and decisions that held back a more ambitious Biden Administration agenda that might have resonated more with the public and what should change in a future administration. 1/ rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

progressive aesthetics at the detroit institute of art ↘️ diego rivera’s labor-powered murals of the might and menace of industry

I signed on to this letter.

It's hard to encapsulate just how destructive the biased @nytimes.com coverage of the genocide in Gaza has been. I am joining 300+ scholars, public figures, and writers in boycotting the Times and demanding accountability. Learn more here: www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

A blaring red warning signal for the rule of law; a President declaring “we’re just gonna kill people” without a trial or even a shred of due process.

"This suffering is widespread across the entire Gaza Strip and spares no age or social group." euromedmonitor.org/uploads/two-... euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...

This absolutely is Jeff Bezos’s fault. I feel sorry for the excellent journalists and other staff caught up in his mismanagement, but this is his doing. And it will only lead to the Post doing even worse, which will then — almost inevitably — lead to more layoffs.

I’m a DC native so I think my city sometimes gets a bad rap. That said, sometimes we gotta get out of here. We’ve got leaders everywhere who listen to their neighbors—their problems, their dreams—and deliver bold results, and Washington needs to take their cue. SO…

“What should we stop trying to make people afford at all?”

Caravanserai Volume 1 Issue 3 is all about progressive aesthetics. What counts? Each of our contributors discussed how progressive art can productively relate to political nostalgia. Their pieces are surprising, creative, and so smart. Read here! caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/progressiv...

“The decisive factor isn’t his ads or charisma. It is the public financing of election campaigns, and it should be replicated across the United States.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...