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Chris Kutalik

@kutalik.bsky.social

Comdad, Director of Communications, organizer, game designer and writer of books both serious and seriously weird.

519 Followers  |  350 Following  |  341 Posts  |  Joined: 03.07.2023
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Why Was There a Long Bernie Moment but not a Long Jackson Moment? Why was 2016 "Our Time" and Not 1988? And What Are the Lessons?

A sprawling article in which I only get part way through the question.

Why Was There a Long Bernie Moment but not a Long Jackson Moment? Why was 2016 "Our Time" and Not 1988? open.substack.com/pub/chriskut...

22.02.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hopefully surpass! We have so much possibility.

17.02.2026 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keep Hope Alive I Was a Teenage Jesse Jackson Delegate

RIP Jesse. Some personal reflections from my teen age experience of 1988.

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17.02.2026 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just How High is the Sky? Does the US Left Have a Supporter Ceiling? Does DSA? Last week Democratic Socialists of America hit 100,000 members.

Just How High is the Sky? Does the US Left Have a Supporter Ceiling? Does DSA?
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16.02.2026 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

With my unused masters degrees I generally think that wise.

16.02.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for the kind words. Curious about your partners piece.

15.02.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Does Nothing Ever Happen? - Power Map Magazine Punctuated Equilibrium and the Politics of Sudden Change

Nothing ever happens....or does it? @kutalik.bsky.social discusses "punctuated equilibrium" in our latest:

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12.02.2026 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

That the Trump administration--a unique combo of deep incompetence and right wing authoritarianism--can "run Venezuela" is just Iraq and Afghanistan all over again. Imperial hubris that leads to mass suffering and more decline.

03.01.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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"I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist."

01.01.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Watching our comrade Zohran be inaugurated with the whole family glued to the TV like it was the moon landing, is a hell of a beat for the long Bernie moment and DSA. We did this, friends.

01.01.2026 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wrote a Novel (Literally) A Short Novel about Hard Scrabble Life in the Texas Hill Country and Port of Galveston. The rise of the Populists, Bi-Racial Unionism, Sewer Socialists Form the Backdrop

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24.12.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I done wrote my a novel, literally. I grew with family rooted in a very different, entirely β€œanalog” era of Texas than the one I was living at the end of the 20th century. My grandpa reveled in these stories of hard scrabble farm life in a bend of Rocky Creek outside Shiner 1

24.12.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

All I want for Christmas is to spend quality time with my boys--playtesting my new battalion level WW2 wargaming rules in 1/72 scale with giant backyard battles.

Is that too much to ask?

18.12.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So drink your gin and tonic-ah
And smoke your marijuani-khah
If you really, really wanna-kah
Have a happy, happy, happy, happy Chanukah.

14.12.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Miniature wargame fans are refighting WW1 using 15,000 toy soldiers and their yards as the battlefield A Chicago-based gang of tabletop wargamers are digging actual earthworks to accommodate their colossally ambitious custom campaigns.

It's a shame that I read this on my birthday instead of the week or so I needed to do this ON MY BIRTHDAY. Also #RetirementPlans

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27.11.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zohran Mamdani Is Bringing Bernie’s β€œNevada Moment” Home In 2020, Bernie Sanders decisively won the Nevada primary, in part because many younger immigrant voters persuaded parents and grandparents to vote for him. Zohran Mamdani’s victory, powered by simila...

As a former Nevada Bernie 2020 field staffer this really hit. More Nevada moments.

jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...

07.11.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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34 minutes into the count Zohran wins a majority in the largest mayoral turnout in 30 years. What a time to be a DSA member.

05.11.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have never wanted a spin off movie more then I do want one completely focused on Benicio Del Toro 's Sensei in One Battle After Another.

04.11.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bathtub Review: What Ho, Frog Demons Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…

Back to things nerdy (escape is good actually). A review of my fourth book What Ho Frog Demons. (The Wodehousian characters in the intro make a return in my novella as protagonists). idlecartulary.com/2025/10/13/b...

20.10.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Groundwork labubu lives to organize another day.

18.10.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Democracy or Dominion: Why Socialists Must Marginalize the Authoritarian Right β€” Groundwork Socialism depends on the full flowering of mass democracy β€” not just elections, but the ability of ordinary people to govern their workplaces, communities, and lives. The authoritarian Right’s project...

My latest article. This one on the movement to defend and expand democracy and Reconstruction:
www.groundworkdsa.com/building-up/...

18.10.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you know what's a good feeling? Voting to screw rigthtwingers and trolling my home state of Texas on No Kings Day 2.

18.10.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Counter-Campaign for Democracy from Below | Common Dreams ​How the left can fight Trump’s authoritarian crackdown.

Two bright comrades give us our marching orders πŸ’•
@kutalik.bsky.social @surj.org

11.10.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Things to Support With Your #$%* Disney Money - Dungeons & Possums You recently told Disney to thaw the cryogenically-frozen cranium of Walt hisself so you could look him in his dead eyes and tell him to fuck off face to face. Congratulations! You've reclaimed $20som...

It is Wednesday, my dudes. Which means it's a great day to support an artist or author making stuff you like!

Instead of giving Disney+ money every month, maybe give some to @kutalik.bsky.social and the Hill Cantons project - a new book is brewing at last! 🀩

dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/09/thin...

08.10.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I think you should get excited when I actually finish something lol.

09.10.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And you can start now: dsausa.org/join

There is no organization, no network called "Antifa". But it's that vagueness of use by the Right that has sinister authoritarian implications. If no one is Antifa than any one against fascism is Antifa to them.

09.10.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Several books in fact and very kind words. The novella is written (18k words). The Great Aviary rough draft is complete. Rough drafts for three other things exist and are getting feedback.

08.10.2025 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We never lost a battle.

08.10.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I had a dream last night that I was an officer in the Czech navy.

07.10.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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When the sun goes down today I will celebrate Yom Kipper.

02.10.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0