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Atlanta, we did it! 🎉

Last night, our grassroots campaign won in a landslide, with 64% of the vote in a crowded field. I’m so proud to become the first Democratic Socialist elected to Atlanta City Council, and to win with the backing of such a broad progressive coalition of (1/6)

Congratulations to Kelsea Bond for becoming Atlanta's first socialist city councilmember! 🎊

Last night, they won overwhelmingly with 64% of the vote. We are so excited for them and know they will do great things for Atlanta!

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The Argument Is Wrong On Purpose - Power Map Magazine Right Wing Excusers aren’t misguided allies—they’re your enemies There is infinite money in telling oligarchs what they want to hear, and what they want to hear is that the left is bad, moving the lef...

Like all radical centrists, The Argument's real project is to excuse the evils of the right. @blimpjuice.bsky.social on why we should stop taking Right Wing Excusers in good faith, and start treating them like the fascism enablers they are.

powermapmag.com/the-argument...

Vote Groundwork in the upcoming National Labor Commission steering committee elections! We are running to put the fight in the labor movement, align the class, and build the party! 🪴 ✊

Learn more about our candidates and platform at groundworkdsa.com/NLC

Prosecute ICE - Power Map Magazine ICE agents are not and should not be above the law: the time has come to prosecute ICE.

ICE is a lawless agency, an agent of authoritarianism, that must be resisted at all costs. The time has come: Prosecute ICE.

powermapmag.com/prosecute-ice/

Whatever this poll means, its clear: Democratic voters don't want the same corporate candidates, they want something new.

Check out @breadnrosie.bsky.social on the phenomenon of the "Democratic Tea Party" moment: powermapmag.com/the-democrat...

Laying the Groundwork for a Class Alignment Labor Strategy, part 3: Vectors and Through-Lines — Groundwork In this third part of our series on the Class Alignment Strategy, the authors make an inventory of DSA’s vectors of influence in the labor movement as well as a description of the current political…

In this third part of our four-part series on the Class Alignment Strategy, the authors make an inventory of DSA’s vectors of influence in the labor movement and describe the current political conjuncture.
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INTRODUCING…Power Map, a socialist journal for people who want to organize! We aim to publish the very best in political thinking and cultural analysis that charts what’s wrong in the world and how to fix it.

Check us out: Powermapmag.com

Laying the Groundwork for a Class Alignment Labor Strategy, part 2: Tasks and Reflection — Groundwork In this second part of our series on the Class Alignment Strategy, the authors describe the task facing DSA in the labor movement and review both the triumphs and the shortcomings of the DSA’s labor…

Read the second part in our series on the Class alignment Strategy!

www.groundworkdsa.com/building-up/...

Laying the Groundwork for a Class Alignment Labor Strategy, part 1: Theory and Terrain — Groundwork As an introduction the the Class Alignment Strategy, the authors of this four-part series lay out a theoretical framework with which to understand labor unions and how they relate to DSA.

Read the first part of this four-part series about an exciting proposal for a new path forward for DSA's labor strategy. More to come tomorrow and next week!

“The presence of class struggle unions can shift the balance in the war against the capitalist class.”
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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…

"Before the Left can democratize the economy, we must expand the meaning of democracy."

Read this new blog post from Groundwork member Chris K!

"We can show up on the streets and declare that to fight fascism, we must build socialism."

Groundwork member Marianne from Maine DSA wrote about the importance of DSA members showing up to No Kings rallies on the 18th. Read the article on our website: www.groundworkdsa.com/building-up

YouTube video by Kelsea Bond Kelsea Bond for Atlanta City Council (Subtitles)

Atlanta has become unaffordable. Rent is too high, we’re decades behind on mass transit, and the wealth gap grows larger each year. 

We deserve affordable housing, a green future, and an economy for the 99%.

That’s why I’m running for Atlanta City Council District 2.

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Oh well, it's not like y'all's government is actively aiding a genocide and a racist far-right political party is waiting in the wings or anything. Just keep at it, Jeremy and Zarah. No pressure.

my politics are whatever gets us this

in the interest of being totally fair and balanced about charlie kirk, sally has opted to using her platform as a staff writer for the atlantic and its attendant assumption of good faith (waning though it might be) to pretend this clip never happened

we're up all night!🎵
slapping ponds so the lord can sleep
it's just not ri-ight!
We should smuggle frogs all into his keep

we appear to have settled into an uneasy detente by implementing the “beach” setting, which includes both the sounds of crashing waves and the distant screech of seagulls. this is politics

A 16 square (4 by 4) image, from left to right, top to bottom, Dystopian to Utopian & then Anthropic to Exoanthropic: the possibilities are "Prole Anarchist Anomie Collapse", "Kowloonian Lassiez-Faire Interplaneetary Neon Megapolis", "Alternate Timeline Cyber-Maoist Technotopia", "Intergalactic Betel Nut Utopian Social Democracy", next row; "Han Kuo-Yu Psychedelic Mind Control Cabal", "Jack Marian 997 Cyberogian Beehive Neo-Slavery", "Heavenly Kingdom 2.0 Techno-feudalism", "Xi Jinping Mandate of Heaven Actualisation Exit", next row; "Global Orwellian AI Police State", "Androfascist Diaosicore Post-Female Hikikomority", "Taobao VR Mall Sesame Credit Hypercapitalistic Candy Hell", "Fully automated Gay Space Luxury Socialism with Chinese characteristics", next row; "0 Child Policy Mass Extinction", "Post-Singularity Mass AUtomated Falun Gong Organ Farms", "Government Mandated Mass Consciousness Upload", and finally "Post-Buddhist Cyberdhammic Tech-Transcendence." That was a lot to type.

i've been microdosing expired chinese benzos and silica gel packs and have discovered all 16 major future possibilities across trillions of timelines

Democratic Socialists of America seek to democratically transform our society and reject vigilante violence. We condemn the murder of Israeli embassy workers. Any statement otherwise is not the stance of DSA.

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.

Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

Screenshot of a tweet by a user named “FarmerRigz” with the handle “@FarmerRigzDTS.” The tweet reads: “Years of transgenders harassing me and abortion being essentially a sacrament in my state. I have to stand my ground and fight for my religion here. Christ is Lord I am sorry.” Below, there is a Readers’ Context box that says the user posted this during a police standoff where he held his four-week-old daughter hostage; he was later killed by police after wounding a deputy and killing a K‑9. The child was unharmed. Three news links (wagmtv.com, necn.com, and newscentermaine.com) appear. The screenshot also shows the tweet’s date, “12:34 PM · Feb 3, 2025,” and view count, “4.1M Views.”

He what now?!

It’s impossible to know what to say in response to Trump’s latest slew of executive orders. They want it to be hard for us to keep up. They want us to feel helpless, defeated, and overwhelmed to the point that we check out indefinitely. We cannot let them do that.

Expel Vickie Paladino NYC Council Member Vickie Paladino posted a meme about murdering DSA members. Tell Speaker Adams and the council ethics committee this is unacceptable and she must be expelled.

NYC Councilmember Vickie Paladino posted about murdering her political opponents. Tell Speaker Adams & the Council Ethics Committee this is unacceptable–she must be expelled. actionnetwork.org/letters/expe...

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different.

In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.

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are any of the Popularists up

saying trump is a russian asset is old hat, trump is a degrowth sleeper agent whose goal is to destroy the american economy in order to reduce emissions