brenna thompson

SoCo DSA Book Club: October 19th, 6PM. 306 Mendocino Ave, Santa Rosa. Chapters 6 + 7 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey. Open to everyone!

Our Book Club will meet next on October 19th!
We'll see you then to discuss Chapters 6 and 7 of No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. 📕🌹

Here’s hoping we double in size again by the this time next year!

It’s a great time join the real movement against Trumpism

Photo of a group of canvassers holding various organizational signs and pickets canvassing for Yes on Prop 50.

This weekend, we held our inaugural canvass with @conservationaction.bsky.social and @northbaywfp.bsky.social for Yes on Prop 50! 🗳️
We were joined by Santa Rosa City Councilmembers Caroline Bañuelos and Victoria Fleming and Rohnert Park City Councilmember Jackie Elward.
This is only the beginning! 🌱

the usual useful list:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

TODAY! ⤵️

TODAY! ⤵️

Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

TODAY! ⤵️

Tomorrow! ⤵️

Tomorrow! ⤵️

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Tomorrow! ⤵️

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Join us, WFP, and SCCA for a canvassing event in support of Prop 50 THIS SATURDAY! 🗳️✅
Scan the QR code below for more info. 🤳

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

The Washington Post Accused Me of “Gross Misconduct.” Here's My Response. This fight isn’t just about my job — it’s about who gets punished for telling the truth, and who gets protected for spreading hate and violence.

My latest in my fight against the Washington Post.

I’ve filed a grievance against the Post through the WaPo Guild— and have sent a letter to Washington Post challenging my firing.

Proud to have @normeisen.bsky.social + @katiephang.bsky.social in my corner.

karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Last month the California state legislature passed a bill to put Prop 50 on the ballot this November, a proposal that would temporarily redraw our state’s congressional districts to counterbalance the Republican led partisan gerrymandering that states like Texas, Florida and Missouri have implemented at the direction of Donald Trump to rig elections in their favor. Without Prop 50 allowing California to fight back, these changes would lock in an artificial far right majority to continue the assault on working people that we’ve seen this past year, from illegal ICE raids in our communities, to the gutting of what little protections regular people have left to fill the pockets of the 1%, to cracking down on free speech and the right to organize.

We stand with organized labor in supporting Prop 50, because it is a necessary measure to prevent permanent fascist control of our government. We oppose gerrymandering, and at the same time recognize that California cannot unilaterally disarm and hand control of congress to a nonrepresentative right wing majority. If Prop 50 passes, it will have real, tangible impacts on the lives of immigrants, trans people, and the working class as a whole. Even so, it is not a long term solution to the problems we are facing. We are committed to continue the fight against fascism and for democratic socialism past November, including by supporting the California Fair Elections Act to lift the ban on public financing for California elections.

DSA Sonoma County endorses Prop 50. (1/2)

The right wants to lock us into a permanent fascist oligarchy, and corporate Democrats like Gavin Newsom hope that we’ll be satisfied with short term tweaks around the edges that don’t fundamentally address the problems that got us here in the first place. We have a different vision. We will continue to show up for our communities to win the immediate fights, including the fight to pass Prop 50, while also pushing for a better world that represents our values; building working class power to achieve real democracy in our politics, our economy, and our daily lives. In love and solidarity from SoCo DSA. (Pictured: our mascot Rosa the chicken)

Take action! Join us, WFP, and SCCA for a canvassing event in support of Prop 50! Sign up through the QR code below, or the link in our bio, and we will see you there! Saturday, October 4th, 10AM-1PM PDT, SCCA Office, 540 Pacific Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95401. (Pictured: QR code to scan for signup)

DSA Sonoma County endorses Prop 50. (2/2)

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

We Who Believe in Democracy Must Fight to Make It Real We wake daily to new spectacles of violence and humiliation: kidnappings in broad daylight, attacks on unions, LGBTQ people, women, and immigrants, the erosion of long-cherished rights. It’s no longer...

"But that’s why we must commit to a fuller vision of democracy: to reclaim power in the workplace and daily life, and set an economic agenda that will actually make...lives better. The most effective counterforce to resist authoritarianism is our class solidarity."

labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

beautiful tylenol, come to me

What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.

i implore you all to read this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

Assata Shakur chronicled her arrest & injustices facing Black Americans in her memoir “Assata: An Autobiography.”
In it, she wrote:
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Photo of a blank postcard reading “Your vote, your voice!” on a table next to a clipboard, pen, and beverage

postcarded for prop 50 today w/ @indysoco.bsky.social 📝🩵

Raise Socialist Cash with Rashida Tlaib! Sun, Sept 28th 2 PM PT, 5 PM ET. RSVP at bit.ly/socialistcashrashida. DSA members only. Rashida Tlaib pictures on the left hand side, wearing a keffiyeh speaking at a podium. DSA candidates pictured from left to right: Joel Brooks, Willie Burnley Jr, Denzel McCampbell, Adam Schneider, Michael Wilson, Robin Wonsley, Soren Stevenson

Join us this Sunday at 5 PM ET for a special edition of Socialist Cash Takes Out Capitalist Trash, featuring @RashidaTlaib!

RSVP before registration closes on Saturday at 1 PM ET: bit.ly/socialistcas... ☎️

This event is for members only, join today! bit.ly/joindsanec 🌹