Chris Kutalik

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...

Hopefully surpass! We have so much possibility.

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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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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With my unused masters degrees I generally think that wise.

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

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

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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.

"I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist."

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.

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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I done wrote my a novel, literally. I grew with family rooted in a very different, entirely “analog” 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

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?

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.

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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Zohran Mamdani Is Bringing Bernie’s “Nevada 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.

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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.

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.

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...

Groundwork labubu lives to organize another day.

Democracy or Dominion: Why Socialists Must Marginalize the Authoritarian Right — Groundwork Socialism depends on the full flowering of mass democracy — 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:
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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.

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 💕
@kutalik.bsky.social @surj.org

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! 🤩

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

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.

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.

We never lost a battle.

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

When the sun goes down today I will celebrate Yom Kipper.