BLIMP! JUICE!

Democratic establishment types will rant and rave about the left "distracting" from the fight against republicans and then spend millions of dollars in primaries attempting to squash charismatic candidates running on popular platforms.

What if
they spent that money against Republicans

fuck!!!

"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

raising $40,433 entirely through small-dollar donations (averaging just $35!) in less than two months is absolutely NUTS 😭😭😭 people are ready to elect a real fighter and working class champion in ward 1!! 🩷🧡✊🏽

join us to make it happen ➡️ airtable.com/appTUXuvFKYK...

Graphic that reads "campaign update: $40,433 raised, 1,149 total donors, 787 DC donors"

Our first financial report is in!

This campaign is about all of us. The single mother struggling to make rent. The child scared for their immigrant father. The couple scraping together money for childcare.

We’re fighting for a better DC. And we can’t do it without you. ✊🏽🔥

yeah I'm thinkin it's time to do politics the left way

yeah anyone who cannot admit the basic fact that "more fossil fuels = more fossil fuels" should not be listened to

"Centering the Climate-Economy Intersection Is Our Only Way Forward" An interview with Thea Riofrancos on climate left strategy, asymmetric polarization, and "critical" minerals

"I say this more to our liberal or centrist counterparts—that when you don’t think critically about extraction, you can find yourself having promoted all this mining supposedly for the energy transition, but now it’s not even being used for that."

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight “Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

Confronted with the "The left must move right to help Dems electorally" argument, Ta-Nehisi Coates distinguished between politicians and everyone else. But @anatosaurus.bsky.social
articulates the electoral flaws of moving right and offers alternatives. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

buying it for 150 mil for an extremely efficient $100 per reader

primary anybody who doesn't talk like this

Photo of the three vampires from “sinners” trying to get invited into the juke joint where a party is happening

“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

we need a mass understanding that these people are trying to destroy the world. in the over the top way we're supposed to think only movie supervillains want to do, that's what they are actually trying to do

fun fact: Hochul has helped Con Ed raise bills so much in the last few years, it will effectively cancel out this check for most people

who among us could forget The Untroubles

it cannot be said enough: the political return on having concrete moral beliefs with the courage to defend them against your opponents is currently somewhere in the ballpark of infinity.

Mamdani’s innovation is showing how to emphasize cost-of-living *without* retreating from the defense of immigrants and *without* shirking the mission of centralizing Trump’s authoritarian lawlessness.

He attacks all forms of power, economic *and* authoritarian.

newrepublic.com/article/2011...

There's a strange tendency in center-left discourse to treat Zohran's focus on cost-of-living as the *only* reason he's succeeding. Yes, it's critical. But that overlooks the other big thing he's doing: Relentlessly highlighting Trump's authoritarian abuses.

newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Chip in to support Kelsea Bond! Let's win an Atlanta for the 99%

Tonight is our BIGGEST fundraising deadline yet, and we’re $10k from our goal. Contribute to our grassroots campaign TODAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT! Every dollar counts!

Contribute now at kelseabond.com/donate! 🌱🚊🧱

Folks, today’s the day! ⏰

Tired of status quo politics? Want to elect Atlanta’s first democratic socialist to office? Ready to win Beltline Rail, a green, walkable city, and an Atlanta for the 99%?

hard to live with someone who is attempting to render you dead!

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

Billionaires in a bribery arms race to keep NYC unaffordable:

the ostensible leaders of the opposition party to fascism should not be completely silent on whether their own city, the largest in the country, should be run by Donald Trump's personal pick for mayor. if they can't clear this very low bar, they are probably not up to leading an opposition.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million Alphabet settles with Trump instead of fighting lawsuit over January 6 suspension.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...