gary s broderick (he/him)
@garybroderick.bsky.social
Organizer at UCWVA/ CWA. #1u✊📢 #RichmondVA.
Leftist. Practitioner of #strategy + #discipline.
#Defend & #Transform public infrastructure + services!
Mediamaker, Anti-racist pro wrestling fan, Aspiring meal prepper. Eagles Fan.🦅
Leftist. Practitioner of #strategy + #discipline.
#Defend & #Transform public infrastructure + services!
Mediamaker, Anti-racist pro wrestling fan, Aspiring meal prepper. Eagles Fan.🦅
Ideology without politics is intellectual masturbation. Politics without ideology makes you accept material concessions that undermine your power to get more. Ideology becomes reactionary at the point in which it denies scientific evaluation, or suppresses the impetus for it.
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Ideology without politics is intellectual masturbation. Politics without ideology makes you accept material concessions that undermine your power to get more. Ideology becomes reactionary at the point in which it denies scientific evaluation, or suppresses the impetus for it.
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"In New York City, Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring victory and massive turnout underscored that standing up for tenants, workers, and the quality of life isn’t just good policy—it’s good politics" - @rweingarten.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"In New York City, Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring victory and massive turnout underscored that standing up for tenants, workers, and the quality of life isn’t just good policy—it’s good politics" - @rweingarten.bsky.social
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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
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AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."
Forcing me to pay union dues is my kink. Make me chip in my fair share Mami.
October 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Forcing me to pay union dues is my kink. Make me chip in my fair share Mami.
Any thing is possible. But I feel highly skeptical about the legitimacy of the “anti-ICE” writing on the bullet casing. We are to believe someone who was against ICE, of their own volition, shot solely immigrant detainees, and wrote, “anti-ICE” - a phrase I’ve never heard said? Who benefits?
September 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Any thing is possible. But I feel highly skeptical about the legitimacy of the “anti-ICE” writing on the bullet casing. We are to believe someone who was against ICE, of their own volition, shot solely immigrant detainees, and wrote, “anti-ICE” - a phrase I’ve never heard said? Who benefits?
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Being good at critique or analysis and being good at building/ organizing/ problem solving are two distinct skill sets and it's rare someone has both and the idea that they're complimentary and one follows the other is probably the largest epistemological error of the left
September 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Being good at critique or analysis and being good at building/ organizing/ problem solving are two distinct skill sets and it's rare someone has both and the idea that they're complimentary and one follows the other is probably the largest epistemological error of the left
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Yet more reason to unionize. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
The Boss Has Had It With All the Office Activists
It isn’t just Microsoft—companies are adopting a new, harder-line playbook for dealing with political debate at work.
www.wsj.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Yet more reason to unionize. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
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Absolutely. Childcare is infrastructure.
Quality childcare is more than daycare, rather preparing our children with the social and emotional skills to build resilience.
That's how children can better cope with adverse childhood experiences and trauma.
richmond.com/opinion/colu...
Quality childcare is more than daycare, rather preparing our children with the social and emotional skills to build resilience.
That's how children can better cope with adverse childhood experiences and trauma.
richmond.com/opinion/colu...
Commentary: Treat child care for what it is: economic infrastructure
Just like roads, broadband and housing, child care is foundational to a functioning modern economy.
richmond.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Absolutely. Childcare is infrastructure.
Quality childcare is more than daycare, rather preparing our children with the social and emotional skills to build resilience.
That's how children can better cope with adverse childhood experiences and trauma.
richmond.com/opinion/colu...
Quality childcare is more than daycare, rather preparing our children with the social and emotional skills to build resilience.
That's how children can better cope with adverse childhood experiences and trauma.
richmond.com/opinion/colu...
Left Organizers will be served by distinguishing b/w a political force / politician willing to fight versus one who shares our long term outcome goals and distinguish further if they share our short term goals. Remove Trump is an example of short term. SPECIFICALLY to identify our interests. Not to
August 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Left Organizers will be served by distinguishing b/w a political force / politician willing to fight versus one who shares our long term outcome goals and distinguish further if they share our short term goals. Remove Trump is an example of short term. SPECIFICALLY to identify our interests. Not to
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Rasoul is a god damn state hero & I'll die on that hill. Mealymouthed centrists pandering to genocide supporters will only get us further down the road to total fascist takeover.
I stand w/ @samrasoul.bsky.social! Not only because he has a track record of standing with us, not only because of his willingness to fight powerful moneyed interests, but also because Sam is right to call attention to genocide. The moral bankruptcy of focusing on semantics should be self evident.
August 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Rasoul is a god damn state hero & I'll die on that hill. Mealymouthed centrists pandering to genocide supporters will only get us further down the road to total fascist takeover.
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As Israel announces a full ground invasion of Gaza, only a handful of politicians have had the courage to speak up and condemn this genocide.
But as leaders like VA Delegate Sam Rasoul do speak up, they face attacks—not just from MAGAs—but from fellow Dems. Why?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-so-few...
But as leaders like VA Delegate Sam Rasoul do speak up, they face attacks—not just from MAGAs—but from fellow Dems. Why?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-so-few...
Why So Few Politicians Are Speaking Up for Palestine
A case study of the first Palestinian American elected to the Virginia State Legislature, Delegate Sam Rasoul, and the backlash he's receiving for speaking up
www.qasimrashid.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
As Israel announces a full ground invasion of Gaza, only a handful of politicians have had the courage to speak up and condemn this genocide.
But as leaders like VA Delegate Sam Rasoul do speak up, they face attacks—not just from MAGAs—but from fellow Dems. Why?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-so-few...
But as leaders like VA Delegate Sam Rasoul do speak up, they face attacks—not just from MAGAs—but from fellow Dems. Why?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-so-few...
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I stand w/ @samrasoul.bsky.social! Not only because he has a track record of standing with us, not only because of his willingness to fight powerful moneyed interests, but also because Sam is right to call attention to genocide. The moral bankruptcy of focusing on semantics should be self evident.
August 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I stand w/ @samrasoul.bsky.social! Not only because he has a track record of standing with us, not only because of his willingness to fight powerful moneyed interests, but also because Sam is right to call attention to genocide. The moral bankruptcy of focusing on semantics should be self evident.
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Please don't ever bring up Booker running for President.
Cory Booker (D-NJ) voted against Bernie’s resolution to block sales of assault rifles to Israel.
This year, Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old from New Jersey.
This year, Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old from New Jersey.
July 31, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Please don't ever bring up Booker running for President.
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The response from many Dems imo ignores the reality of what ethnonationalist visions lead to when fulfilled. It’s one thing to say that Zionism does not necessarily mean ethnonationalism, and that even that if it does mean ethnonationalism, that’s understandable; open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...
Let Zionists Speak
A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.
open.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The response from many Dems imo ignores the reality of what ethnonationalist visions lead to when fulfilled. It’s one thing to say that Zionism does not necessarily mean ethnonationalism, and that even that if it does mean ethnonationalism, that’s understandable; open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...
When you’re in a workplace building a union, no matter how active you are in that moment. You come to understand the relationship between leaders and organization. You know you’ve selected leaders distinct from who management picked, you understand how leaders enable collective action. You know what
July 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
When you’re in a workplace building a union, no matter how active you are in that moment. You come to understand the relationship between leaders and organization. You know you’ve selected leaders distinct from who management picked, you understand how leaders enable collective action. You know what
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This. It’s really disheartening to see the vitriol — we can disagree and critique without canceling (& making false equivalencies).
Fundamentally, the Left’s wrestling w/ @aoc.bsky.social is a proxy for wrestling with having power/ pursuing power/ governing while sharing power. Throwing away a leader when they do something you disagree with + moving at feverish speeds to discredit them explains some of why we are without power.
July 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This. It’s really disheartening to see the vitriol — we can disagree and critique without canceling (& making false equivalencies).
Fundamentally, the Left’s wrestling w/ @aoc.bsky.social is a proxy for wrestling with having power/ pursuing power/ governing while sharing power. Throwing away a leader when they do something you disagree with + moving at feverish speeds to discredit them explains some of why we are without power.
July 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Fundamentally, the Left’s wrestling w/ @aoc.bsky.social is a proxy for wrestling with having power/ pursuing power/ governing while sharing power. Throwing away a leader when they do something you disagree with + moving at feverish speeds to discredit them explains some of why we are without power.
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Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.
July 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.
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The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
www.404media.co
July 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
I think we need to talk more about how the liberal “Middle Class,” - better understood as ideological alignment with a fragile immediate material basis - has a shared (short term) interest, across race and gender differences, in “neoliberal identity politics,” as raised by @mauricewfp.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I think we need to talk more about how the liberal “Middle Class,” - better understood as ideological alignment with a fragile immediate material basis - has a shared (short term) interest, across race and gender differences, in “neoliberal identity politics,” as raised by @mauricewfp.bsky.social
If one doesn’t have the humility + patience to demonstrate that the organizing model they’re advocating for can be measurably successful, then it’s about ego, or sectarian beefs, or donors; not transforming power relations. Only the bourgeoisie can afford such vanity and manufactured confusion.
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If one doesn’t have the humility + patience to demonstrate that the organizing model they’re advocating for can be measurably successful, then it’s about ego, or sectarian beefs, or donors; not transforming power relations. Only the bourgeoisie can afford such vanity and manufactured confusion.