Suralini
@surasays.bsky.social
“Radical simply means grasping things at the root.” - Angela Davis
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You never have to wait to do politics. There are many things that need doing right now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
You never have to wait to do politics. There are many things that need doing right now.
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The different between the right and centrists is that the right gleefully kills millions of people and centrists present mass murder as a technical solution, like they added up all the numbers and carried a zero and oops, sorry, millions have to die.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The different between the right and centrists is that the right gleefully kills millions of people and centrists present mass murder as a technical solution, like they added up all the numbers and carried a zero and oops, sorry, millions have to die.
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I will not be watching or reading any "analyses" about the Democratic party in D.C. I know all about them & their complicity. I'm not interested and I choose to reclaim my time and attention.
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I will not be watching or reading any "analyses" about the Democratic party in D.C. I know all about them & their complicity. I'm not interested and I choose to reclaim my time and attention.
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
There're other kinds of politics to engage & most importantly to do (including in our local communities).
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The prediction was always that when boomers aged, they would force massive improvements to health care and elder services. Instead, the rich ones access private care, and the rest seem resigned to humiliating decline at the hands of rapacious capitalism.
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The prediction was always that when boomers aged, they would force massive improvements to health care and elder services. Instead, the rich ones access private care, and the rest seem resigned to humiliating decline at the hands of rapacious capitalism.
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People think elected MPs serve them—they're wrong
Despite holding 94 seats, Labor MPs
😟Fear gambling lobby groups
😟Fear causing dissent within @australianlabor.bsky.social
😟Fear consequences of speaking up
Lotta FEAR
Same problem seems to afflict @leanaustralia.bsky.social Environment Champions
Despite holding 94 seats, Labor MPs
😟Fear gambling lobby groups
😟Fear causing dissent within @australianlabor.bsky.social
😟Fear consequences of speaking up
Lotta FEAR
Same problem seems to afflict @leanaustralia.bsky.social Environment Champions
“After winning a thumping majority, the prime minister is more dominant in his party room than ever and his backbenchers fear speaking out on an issue he's shown little passion for.”
What a depressing shitshow.
What a depressing shitshow.
'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
People think elected MPs serve them—they're wrong
Despite holding 94 seats, Labor MPs
😟Fear gambling lobby groups
😟Fear causing dissent within @australianlabor.bsky.social
😟Fear consequences of speaking up
Lotta FEAR
Same problem seems to afflict @leanaustralia.bsky.social Environment Champions
Despite holding 94 seats, Labor MPs
😟Fear gambling lobby groups
😟Fear causing dissent within @australianlabor.bsky.social
😟Fear consequences of speaking up
Lotta FEAR
Same problem seems to afflict @leanaustralia.bsky.social Environment Champions
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It's incredible that we let billionaires bloviate about their policy views without throwing tomatoes at them. We know what they want, they want policies that work for a few dozen people and immiserate the other 300 million. Not interested!
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It's incredible that we let billionaires bloviate about their policy views without throwing tomatoes at them. We know what they want, they want policies that work for a few dozen people and immiserate the other 300 million. Not interested!
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@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been saying the same since 2017.
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been saying the same since 2017.
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criminalisation of obstructing or hindering front line emergency workers (maximum penalty 12 months imprisonment); harassing or intimidating front line emergency workers (maximum penalty five years imprisonment): Crimes Act 1900 s 60AD (as amended in Oct 2022).
www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw...
www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw...
CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 60AD
Assault and other action against frontline emergency workers
www5.austlii.edu.au
September 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
criminalisation of obstructing or hindering front line emergency workers (maximum penalty 12 months imprisonment); harassing or intimidating front line emergency workers (maximum penalty five years imprisonment): Crimes Act 1900 s 60AD (as amended in Oct 2022).
www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw...
www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw...
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James Watson has died. The last direct living link to Rosalind Franklin, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA and a brilliant crystallographer whose work was critical to this discovery. Her data was stolen by Watson, who was a racist, misogynist eugenicist.
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
James Watson has died. The last direct living link to Rosalind Franklin, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA and a brilliant crystallographer whose work was critical to this discovery. Her data was stolen by Watson, who was a racist, misogynist eugenicist.
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open.substack.com/pub/faewolfe... - this might be helpful to some of you.
How do you know you're in perimenopause?
20 signs the change has begun.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
open.substack.com/pub/faewolfe... - this might be helpful to some of you.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
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In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful.
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Roti and roses
Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.
africasacountry.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful.
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall.
Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...
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The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.
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real sense in which last night was fairly predictable. real question is why our pundits and the elites who listen to them couldn’t see it. (gift link)
Opinion | Trump Is an Albatross
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
real sense in which last night was fairly predictable. real question is why our pundits and the elites who listen to them couldn’t see it. (gift link)
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This is what I wrote at the time and I still believe it even though it made a lot of people mad.
inthesetimes.com/article/publ...
inthesetimes.com/article/publ...
The Library Is a Commons
A socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism.
inthesetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is what I wrote at the time and I still believe it even though it made a lot of people mad.
inthesetimes.com/article/publ...
inthesetimes.com/article/publ...
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Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
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In the intro issue of New Left Review, Stuart Hall noted, “The humanist strengths of socialism—which are the foundations for a genuinely popular socialist movement—must be developed in cultural and social terms, as well as in economic and political.“
Zohran Kwame Mamdani‘s campaign got the point!
Zohran Kwame Mamdani‘s campaign got the point!
November 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
In the intro issue of New Left Review, Stuart Hall noted, “The humanist strengths of socialism—which are the foundations for a genuinely popular socialist movement—must be developed in cultural and social terms, as well as in economic and political.“
Zohran Kwame Mamdani‘s campaign got the point!
Zohran Kwame Mamdani‘s campaign got the point!
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Read the responses and you will understand why the campaign is successful.
What are three policy proposals that you heard from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social during his campaign & where do you currently live? [I want to see something/ I allowed QP on this]
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Read the responses and you will understand why the campaign is successful.
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They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.
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Aus is supposed to be a country where the rule of law & natural justice applies. The Gov’s sneaky attempt to strip welfare from people before they’ve been convicted of any crime is a fundamental breach of these principles. We may as well dissolve the court system. #auspol #politas
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Ongoing white frontlash.
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Ongoing white frontlash.
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Release the directors cut we need more slides
Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa
docs.google.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Release the directors cut we need more slides