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Sam Ghitelman
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being smart, funny, and cool, NYC-DSA
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Presumably musk is too stupid to know this but there of course once was an “American Party,” it was our first party whose only platform was hating immigrants and the Catholic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_No...
July 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Zohran field director and founding SMC member Tascha Van Auken talked to @petersterne.com about how NYC-DSA built a mass movement of organizers and volunteers that won a commanding victory last Tuesday.

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Here’s how Zohran Mamdani’s 50K-strong volunteer army pulled it off
An interview with Tascha Van Auken, field director for Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign.
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July 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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“Just 18 years old but already a canvassing veteran”—and a member of DSA and Socialist Majority!

Here's how Dylan and a first-time canvasser won over a rent-stabilized tenant for Zohran Mamdani:
June 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The sectarian idea that majorities of the working class are eager to follow their leadership if they say the correct radical phrases is a perfect echo of Schumer’s insistence that in a true crisis the masses would spontaneously take to the streets. Both are liberal fantasies, not mass politics
antinatesilver.bsky.social Anti Nate Silver @antinatesilver.bsky.social · May 29
a refrain you’ll hear from sectarians before convention is that you should feel shame for being in DSA, that more “advanced” “revolutionary” socialists look down on us

but those folks don’t exist. DSA is the largest, most advanced socialist org in generations. you can’t make me ashamed of it
May 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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March 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Nothing like getting laid off right before the holidays when your wife is 38 weeks pregnant to remind you how antisocial and disgusting capitalism is.
voxmediaunion.bsky.social Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · Dec 5
Hello Bluesky. Sucks that this is our first post. A statement from the Vox Media Union and @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs. Please stay tuned for more details on how you can support our colleagues who were impacted today.
Today, we were blindsided by news from Vox Media management that many of our colleagues at Thrillist and Eater would lose their jobs. We are devastated to lose writers and editors who produce invaluable work each and every day, and disgusted by Vox Media’s short-sighted decision making. As always, it is the workers who bear the brunt of management’s poor choices, and this close to the holidays, their callousness is especially galling. We are incredibly disappointed by management’s decision to decimate Thrillist, a vertical that it has invested almost nothing in since acquiring it from Group Nine. As we have made clear to management with our demand for One Union, One Contract, the WGAE-Vox Media Union views our colleagues at Thrillist as members of our union, and we will make sure that they are made whole in light of management’s decision to essentially shutter this beloved publication. Many of those impacted by today’s layoffs work on Eater’s Cities team, a group of powerhouse journalists who produce some of the most impactful local journalism in the country. Their work has always differentiated Eater and built it into the country’s most prominent food website, and management’s treatment of these workers is both irresponsible and reflects a complete lack of understanding of the journalism that is needed in this moment. We need more boots on the ground doing this essential work, not fewer. As always, the Guild will continue to demand that members are treated fairly in the aftermath of layoffs. As we approach the upcoming negotiations for our third collective bargaining agreement, we want to make abundantly clear to management that the status quo of constant, cyclical layoffs will not continue. We will fight like hell to ensure that our industry has a future, no matter how many times those in charge attempt to run it into the ground. Details on how you can support laid off workers at Vox Media will be forthcoming. Solidarity forever.
December 6, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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Wow! Big, if true!
November 26, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Cool BMW
Cool bmw with sovereign citizen license plate You have now been put on notice Supreme Court saying sovereign citizens are cool as hell
January 10, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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Looking forward to seeing you on Sunday in Prospect Park! 🎃
NYC DSA Halloween Play date. Sunday, October 29 2023 3-6pm. Lincoln Road Playground, Prospect Park Brooklyn. RSVP at bit.ly/cwkHalloween
October 24, 2023 at 8:12 PM
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NYC DSA Comrades with Kids Halloween Play date Sunday October 29, 2023 3-6pm Lincoln Road Playground, Prospect Park Brooklyn
October 7, 2023 at 3:14 PM
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you (bad attitude, stupid): this is an environmental disaster
me (wise, beacon of positivity): this is an educational opportunity
As of 12:15 p.m., about 150 school buildings had reported flooding, the chancellor said, while at least one Brooklyn school was required to evacuate to another nearby school because of a “smoking boiler.” Still, Mr. Banks said, “nothing has impacted the ability for us to safely educate our students in any of those schools.”
September 29, 2023 at 7:17 PM