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Divest Cuyahoga County from Genocide!
As we approach a year of unimaginable destruction of the people of Gaza and their lives, it is imperative that socialists demand relief and liberation for the people of Palestine. Democratic Socialist...
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Hey y'all, hadn't made a post On Here yet, but just your reminder that @cuyahogacounty.bsky.social needs to divest from fueling and funding genocide!
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🧵What the Secretary is saying here is kind of true. NHTSA is proposing to reclassify some light-duty trucks as passenger cars, and it’s a legitimately good part of this proposal.
However, they’re using this good proposal as a Trojan horse to achieve bad ends. Let’s read the fine print.
However, they’re using this good proposal as a Trojan horse to achieve bad ends. Let’s read the fine print.
Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
🧵What the Secretary is saying here is kind of true. NHTSA is proposing to reclassify some light-duty trucks as passenger cars, and it’s a legitimately good part of this proposal.
However, they’re using this good proposal as a Trojan horse to achieve bad ends. Let’s read the fine print.
However, they’re using this good proposal as a Trojan horse to achieve bad ends. Let’s read the fine print.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
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A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
November 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx.
It was a little different last week.
It was a little different last week.
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Mohsen Mahdawi, who has been a green-card holder for 10 years, was detained at an ICE field center in Vermont while appearing for a naturalization test — a key step on the path to U.S. citizenship. wapo.st/3Y36270
April 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Mohsen Mahdawi, who has been a green-card holder for 10 years, was detained at an ICE field center in Vermont while appearing for a naturalization test — a key step on the path to U.S. citizenship. wapo.st/3Y36270
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CONGRATS to even more partners winning unions! 570 Starbucks stores are now unionized!! 🥳
We're organizing bc we know Starbucks can be so much better. It’s time for the company to start investing in US, the baristas who make this company run.
We're organizing bc we know Starbucks can be so much better. It’s time for the company to start investing in US, the baristas who make this company run.
April 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
CONGRATS to even more partners winning unions! 570 Starbucks stores are now unionized!! 🥳
We're organizing bc we know Starbucks can be so much better. It’s time for the company to start investing in US, the baristas who make this company run.
We're organizing bc we know Starbucks can be so much better. It’s time for the company to start investing in US, the baristas who make this company run.
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STATE POWER
STRIKE POWER
STREET POWER
STRIKE POWER
STREET POWER
March 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
STATE POWER
STRIKE POWER
STREET POWER
STRIKE POWER
STREET POWER
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Not enough Americans understand just how *young* the remaining New Deal programs and pieces of legislation are in the scope of our history. Still very much within living memory. Doubly so for the Great Society programs.
At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. @indivisible.org
March 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Not enough Americans understand just how *young* the remaining New Deal programs and pieces of legislation are in the scope of our history. Still very much within living memory. Doubly so for the Great Society programs.
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The only way to do so is to become a genuine, mass political party.
An organization in the millions, that anyone whose values align with ours can easily hear about, understand, support, join, and learn to organize in.
The kind that can transform and run nations.
An organization in the millions, that anyone whose values align with ours can easily hear about, understand, support, join, and learn to organize in.
The kind that can transform and run nations.
March 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The only way to do so is to become a genuine, mass political party.
An organization in the millions, that anyone whose values align with ours can easily hear about, understand, support, join, and learn to organize in.
The kind that can transform and run nations.
An organization in the millions, that anyone whose values align with ours can easily hear about, understand, support, join, and learn to organize in.
The kind that can transform and run nations.
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🧵With convention season coming up, Groundwork is proud to publish our newly-approved Points of Unity, which lay out our core principles for DSA and the left.
Read our Points of Unity ⤵️
groundworkdsa.com
Read our Points of Unity ⤵️
groundworkdsa.com
Groundwork: Towards a Socialist Future
As Democratic Socialists we share a belief: that it is our duty to organize the working class to fight for socialism, and win it. DSA is the only organization that can do that. This is what DSA…
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March 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🧵With convention season coming up, Groundwork is proud to publish our newly-approved Points of Unity, which lay out our core principles for DSA and the left.
Read our Points of Unity ⤵️
groundworkdsa.com
Read our Points of Unity ⤵️
groundworkdsa.com
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Here in Ohio, the massive Intel tech campus being built in Columbus' far exurbs is in trouble, as is the company itself, which may be broken up after its stock plunged 60%.
No one knows if it will EVER be completed now. A bunch of half-finished buildings and roads that go nowhere.
Another win!
No one knows if it will EVER be completed now. A bunch of half-finished buildings and roads that go nowhere.
Another win!
Delays and uncertainty dog Intel’s dream of Rust belt manufacturing hub
The company is hanging on by a thread amid rumors it may be broken up and sold – an instability keenly felt in Ohio
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Here in Ohio, the massive Intel tech campus being built in Columbus' far exurbs is in trouble, as is the company itself, which may be broken up after its stock plunged 60%.
No one knows if it will EVER be completed now. A bunch of half-finished buildings and roads that go nowhere.
Another win!
No one knows if it will EVER be completed now. A bunch of half-finished buildings and roads that go nowhere.
Another win!
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*EPA ban on dumping mercury is lifted*
Me: (dragging giant barrel full of mercury I’ve been forced to keep in my bedroom down to the river) Finally
Me: (dragging giant barrel full of mercury I’ve been forced to keep in my bedroom down to the river) Finally
March 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
*EPA ban on dumping mercury is lifted*
Me: (dragging giant barrel full of mercury I’ve been forced to keep in my bedroom down to the river) Finally
Me: (dragging giant barrel full of mercury I’ve been forced to keep in my bedroom down to the river) Finally
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BREAKING: DOGE is considering no longer letting senior citizens file Social Security claims over the phone, and requiring them to do it online or in person.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service
Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
BREAKING: DOGE is considering no longer letting senior citizens file Social Security claims over the phone, and requiring them to do it online or in person.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Researchers found urban heat in Toledo, Ohio, overlapped with areas lacking commercial investment and heavily polluted
Trump has scrubbed the research from government websites
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Trump has scrubbed the research from government websites
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March 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Researchers found urban heat in Toledo, Ohio, overlapped with areas lacking commercial investment and heavily polluted
Trump has scrubbed the research from government websites
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
Trump has scrubbed the research from government websites
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
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BREAKING: Workers at multiple Starbucks locations are now on strike over the company's refusal to negotiate a fair union contract with @sbworkersunited.org.
March 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
BREAKING: Workers at multiple Starbucks locations are now on strike over the company's refusal to negotiate a fair union contract with @sbworkersunited.org.
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ICYMI - Starbucks baristas have gone on strike, and along with allies + former workers, are occupying the lobbies of multiple stores.
We didn't want it to come to this. But if participating in civil disobedience is the only way Starbucks will listen, so be it. CONTRACTS NOW! ✊🔥
#ToBeAPartner
We didn't want it to come to this. But if participating in civil disobedience is the only way Starbucks will listen, so be it. CONTRACTS NOW! ✊🔥
#ToBeAPartner
March 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
ICYMI - Starbucks baristas have gone on strike, and along with allies + former workers, are occupying the lobbies of multiple stores.
We didn't want it to come to this. But if participating in civil disobedience is the only way Starbucks will listen, so be it. CONTRACTS NOW! ✊🔥
#ToBeAPartner
We didn't want it to come to this. But if participating in civil disobedience is the only way Starbucks will listen, so be it. CONTRACTS NOW! ✊🔥
#ToBeAPartner
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This is the second environmental case that has split the court 5–4 with all four women dissenting. We saw the same lineup last term in Ohio v. EPA. In both, Barrett sounds frustrated by the majority's contortion of a statute to hobble the EPA and help polluters. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
March 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is the second environmental case that has split the court 5–4 with all four women dissenting. We saw the same lineup last term in Ohio v. EPA. In both, Barrett sounds frustrated by the majority's contortion of a statute to hobble the EPA and help polluters. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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SCOTUS holds that the EPA *cannot* order cities to maintain acceptable water quality standards by limiting the discharge—usually sewage—that they dump into nearby bodies of water (like oceans and bays). The four women justices, dissenting, say that's ridiculous. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
SCOTUS holds that the EPA *cannot* order cities to maintain acceptable water quality standards by limiting the discharge—usually sewage—that they dump into nearby bodies of water (like oceans and bays). The four women justices, dissenting, say that's ridiculous. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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It’s fascinating how, whenever far-right parties enjoy a surge, everyone is meant to be in awe of their ascent, but how - the moment a vaguely progressive alternative emerges - we are supposed to mock it. So many of us are so terrified of even a moment of optimism.
February 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It’s fascinating how, whenever far-right parties enjoy a surge, everyone is meant to be in awe of their ascent, but how - the moment a vaguely progressive alternative emerges - we are supposed to mock it. So many of us are so terrified of even a moment of optimism.
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Today, February 19, 2025, is the Save Our Services day of action for federal employees and their unions.
We are coming together to say ‘NO’ to Elon Musk's push to gut federal services and impose unlawful mass layoffs of hard-working civil servants across the federal government.
We are coming together to say ‘NO’ to Elon Musk's push to gut federal services and impose unlawful mass layoffs of hard-working civil servants across the federal government.
February 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Today, February 19, 2025, is the Save Our Services day of action for federal employees and their unions.
We are coming together to say ‘NO’ to Elon Musk's push to gut federal services and impose unlawful mass layoffs of hard-working civil servants across the federal government.
We are coming together to say ‘NO’ to Elon Musk's push to gut federal services and impose unlawful mass layoffs of hard-working civil servants across the federal government.
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As I noted to Bloomberg: This decision is a disaster for New York City; it will increase pollution and traffic, it will reduce quality of life, and it will make improving the subways all the more difficult. I guess the US royal family doesn't care.
February 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
As I noted to Bloomberg: This decision is a disaster for New York City; it will increase pollution and traffic, it will reduce quality of life, and it will make improving the subways all the more difficult. I guess the US royal family doesn't care.
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MTA to Feds: Drop dead
February 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
MTA to Feds: Drop dead
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New campaign Q&A! We talk to Sam Z and Correna T from @dsa.la's Mass Transit for All campaign.
"We are making sure that organized labor is at the center. Both in terms of the policy goals we have and in terms of the strategy."
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"We are making sure that organized labor is at the center. Both in terms of the policy goals we have and in terms of the strategy."
Read it➡️ ecosocialists.dsausa.org/campaign-qa-...
CAMPAIGN Q&A: DSA-LA’s Mass Transit for All – Building for Power
We taklk to Sam Z and Correna T from DSA Los Angeles about their Mass Transit for All campaign.
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January 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New campaign Q&A! We talk to Sam Z and Correna T from @dsa.la's Mass Transit for All campaign.
"We are making sure that organized labor is at the center. Both in terms of the policy goals we have and in terms of the strategy."
Read it➡️ ecosocialists.dsausa.org/campaign-qa-...
"We are making sure that organized labor is at the center. Both in terms of the policy goals we have and in terms of the strategy."
Read it➡️ ecosocialists.dsausa.org/campaign-qa-...