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midwestsocialist.com/2025/10/13/c...
Cadre In Office, Socialists In Power
The democratic road to socialism needs state power, so democratic socialists need to engage in and win elections. Why? Once the office is won, it can be used to win strategic reforms,...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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notandrewcuomo.bsky.social
One of the things I've been most encouraged by in the past couple weeks since Zohran's primary victory is that both NYC DSA and NY WFP have expressed an intent to pivot towards policy-based campaigns -- primarily taxing the rich.
petersterne.com Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · Jul 12
"I think (Gov. Kathy Hochul) should be primaried and defeated if she does not agree to tax increases. It is such an irresponsible use of power to sit in the role of governor and constantly coddle billionaires rather than give New Yorkers what they need." - State Sen. @jabaribrisport.bsky.social
Mamdani promised to tax the rich. DSA is already mobilizing to make that happen.
In the People’s Republic of New York City, an empowered DSA is strategizing about how to convert electoral clout into state policy.
www.cityandstateny.com
July 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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waleedshahid.bsky.social
The Rise of Zohran Mamdani. -->

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The Rise of Zohran Mamdani
From Bernie to bodegas to Borough Hall: a ten-year organizing arc comes full circle.
waleedshahid.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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deanpreston.bsky.social
Check out BayAreaCurrent.com, a new site covering working class perspectives. It launched today!
@bayareacurrent.bsky.social
Bay Area Current
Bay Area Current covers the news unabashedly from the left and highlights working-class issues too often ignored by the media.
BayAreaCurrent.com
June 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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sesmith.lol
Really interesting feature on the growing market for Mediterranean bluefin tuna, most of which is eaten half a world away, with a variety of harmful downstream effects.
Big Fish — The Dial
The luxury tuna industry is killing the Mediterranean.
www.thedial.world
April 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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malsaafin.bsky.social
Read the very last story Hossam Shabat filed, hours before Israel murdered him. I can't believe I'm talking about Hossam in the past tense.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
March 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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brandyjensen.bsky.social
for some time now I’ve been wondering “what’s up with all the alien/fairy/monster fucking” and I am so happy @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social agreed to answer
Alien Pleasures | Defector
Readers of young adult fiction, who have long been drawn to stories that combine relatable characters and fantastical elements (think Twilight or The Hunger Games), have been aging into new reading le...
defector.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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danielagabor.bsky.social
I've written about the method in the DOGE USAID madness.
It's not bullying as power, it's good Wall Street Consensus on steroids, by and for private equity

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/how...
How to DOGE USAID | Daniela Gabor
The Wall Street Consensus and development financing under Trump
www.phenomenalworld.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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this week's newsletter: 4,700 words on "the Zizians" and the cult lore of the Rationalist Movement maxread.substack.com/p/the-zizian...
Our alleged shooters--it has become clear over the past week--weren’t the thuggish murderers and rapists of fevered reactionary imagination, but Rationalists: Members of a large and loose community of autodidact and amateur philosophers and activists focused on self-described rationalist inquiry and self-improvement that’s become influential in A.I. research and philanthropy. “Rationalism,” in and of itself, doesn’t necessarily lead its adherents into violent confrontations with the state. But it’s also been a breeding ground for a number of--at best--cult-like social formations. For their part, Youngblut and Ophelia, as well as suspects and persons of interest in at least three other murders around the country, seem to have fallen in with the infamous Rationalist blogger “Ziz,” who espouses a hardline philosophy of justice and an eccentric theory of cognition, and whose charisma and rhetorical technique is notable enough among Rationalists to have inspired a number of websites and posts “warning” about her influence. This kind of radical veganism isn’t, in the grand scheme of things, all that strange, especially not among the utilitarians of LessWrong and its associated evirons.3 Nor, for that matter, is Ziz’s well-documented identification with all kinds of fictional characters and dynamics--in particular the evil Sith order of the Star Wars universe.4 (Hence the frequent headline description of Zizians as “Vegan Sith.”) More distinctive is what Slimepriestess calls Ziz’s “hemisphere theory”: Ziz states… that most of humanity is neutral or evil, a combined category she calls nongood. They have let evil social norms siphon off their agency and turn them into puppets of an evil system. They have no free will and are okay being puppets of that evil system because they themselves are either actively evil or just don’t care. […] Ziz believes that good is a property of a person’s core. In her earlier posts… this is defined as a sort of nebulous thing that exists at the bottom of a stack of mental structures. Later posts go on to describe this as the specific property of a hemisphere, as in the kind you have two of sitting in your head. You have a left brain and a right brain, and Ziz claims these hemispheres are each a separate person. The Zizians, believe it or not, are not the only cult-like groupuscule to have emerged from the heady stew of the Rationalist community. In 2021, Zoe Curzi wrote a long Medium post about her time at the Rationalism-adjacent nonprofit Leverage Research, which held “2–6hr long group debugging sessions in which we as a sub-faction (Alignment Group) would attempt to articulate a ‘demon’ which had infiltrated our psyches from one of the rival groups, its nature and effects, and get it out of our systems using debugging tools,” and whose employees “genuinely thought we were going to take over the US government.” That essay inspired a LessWrong post from Jessica Taylor about her experiences at M.I.R.I. and C.F.A.R., where “there were also psychotic breaks involving demonic subprocess narratives,” and where people in positions of power would “debug” underlings. “I experienced myself and others being distanced from old family and friends, who didn't understand how high-impact the work we were doing was,” she writes. In the comments at the time, Scott Alexander, maybe the most prominent Rationalist besides Yudkowsky, suggested that the problem was not really M.I.R.I. or C.F.A.R. so much as that Taylor was in a cult-like group centered around a former M.I.R.I. head named Michael Vassar6:
January 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
My latest www.hauntologies.net/p/this-moment
This Moment
Or, Why I Cannot Mourn Gaza
www.hauntologies.net
January 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
avocado48.bsky.social
@gabrielwinant.bsky.social got any reading recs on TUEL or other EWOC-predecessors that our EWOC local can read to guide our work?
January 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
avocado48.bsky.social
lux-magazine.com/article/flow...
Flowers For Rosa - Lux Magazine
Rosa Luxemburg found freedom pressing flowers in prison
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January 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
Great article by the @texastribune.org on the politics of border wall construction. Turns out it's a pretty haphazard project!

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Landowner resistance forces Texas to build wall in remote areas
At least a third of landowners approached by state officials have refused to let wall be built on their properties. That’s forced the state to largely build on ranchland in remote areas, or erect sect...
apps.texastribune.org
December 20, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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sarahemilyduff.bsky.social
This is really great writing by William Shoki and Niall Reddy: a familiar story in some respects (NUMSA’s epic corruption, the decline of private sector unions etc) but a sharp and thoughtful analysis of current South African (labour and working-class) politics.
December 18, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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kylietcheung.bsky.social
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December 16, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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jasminekgani.bsky.social
"Syria after Assad" - On the coexistence of relief, uncertainty & fear, and Israel's (re)invasion of Syria.

jasminekgani.wordpress.com/2024/12/10/s...
Syria after Assad
The Assad regime, which ruled over Syria for more than fifty years, has ended. The scenes of people being freed from some of the world’s most brutal and notorious torture prisons were deeply m…
jasminekgani.wordpress.com
December 11, 2024 at 11:15 AM
avocado48.bsky.social
@prisonculture.bsky.social I’d love to buy holiday gift recommendations like you’ve shared in previous years!
December 9, 2024 at 1:05 AM