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@ianhippo.bsky.social

Chair of North Central Valley DSA. Member of DSA Red Star Caucus. Union steward. All reposts equal endorsements, all views expressed represent my employer and yours.

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Interested in joining Red Star after DSA convention? Apply for our πŸ›°οΈSATELLITEπŸ›°οΈ program! In order to be considered for the Satellite Program you must be a member-in-good-standing within DSA.

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19.08.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Red Star recommends delegates support a motion to divide the question on the DemComm Omnibus to separate NPC Expansion and DemComm rechartering from other planks, and vote those two items down while passing the rest of the omnibus together.

05.08.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This 2025 DSA convention, delegates will be faced with the same choices for national co-chair they had in 2023. What makes this different? Because now you know Megan Romer. We're here to tell you why this working class mom deserves your vote for DSA co-chair.

04.08.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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2/ As a direct result of these reforms the GDC saw the highest rate of new member admissions in recent history - more growth than in five of the prior six quarters combined. It also saw a massive uptick in applications, more than in any quarter since the last convention!

28.07.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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1/ Red Star is proud that our NPC candidates led the charge to transform DSA's Growth & Development Committee into a more open, dynamic organizing space. Huge thanks to them & comrades across tendencies who helped make it happen. We’ve already seen HUGE results πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

28.07.2025 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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anyways please watch this edit that sent me into hysterics and now I need to redo my makeup

05.06.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2739    πŸ” 765    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 65
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02.06.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 272    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 14

CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that

18.12.2024 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6337    πŸ” 970    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 16

that's me!

21.05.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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With At-Large elections open now, Red Star would like to put forward our candidates for the At-Large delegate elections. Help Red Star get to convention by ranking these candidates at the top of your list!

21.05.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Studying Fascism in the Second Trump Term: Reading R. Palme Dutt’s β€˜Fascism and Social Revolution’ R.P. Dutt’s 1934 book Fascism and Social Revolution analyzes the rise of fascism in Europe with a class-based lens that many post-WWI histories lack. His analysis of fascism as an expansion of the dic...

Matt M. and Matt N. also reflect on Red Star’s experience with R.P. Dutt’s β€œFascism and Social Revolution” and what it can teach us about the current moment of fascist advance: redstarcaucus.org/zenith4-stud...

12.05.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Race, Class, and Empire: Reading J. Sakai’s β€˜Settlers’ The primarily white character of DSA is shaped by the contradictions within the class position of its base, being both wage-earning proletarians and beneficiaries of imperialist superprofits. We must ...

In "Race, Class, and Empire", Red Star members Christina and Evelyn use J. Sakai’s β€œSettlers” to understand how DSA members’ position as both wage-earners and beneficiaries of empire complicates the organization’s orientation towards reformism: redstarcaucus.org/zenith4-race...

12.05.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Unions Won’t Make Themselves Red Christian CW discusses how, of the two dominant labor strategies in DSA – tailism and reformism – neither build a socialist pole in the labor movement nor amount to a strategy that considers the revol...

In response to a number of developments in the labor movement, Red Star is proud to give you a sneak peek into our upcoming issue of Zenith a little early. Christian CW writes about how socialist labor work must put politics first: redstarcaucus.org/zenith4-unio...

09.05.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

This is about John Fetterman, and true, but it's funny that seeing it out of context on the timeline I first assumed it was about Draymond Green and then was like "Draymond Green is not that tall."

08.05.2025 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1727    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 2

Sportsurge.net usually has them, but doesn’t really work on mobile

01.05.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

i'm gonna recruit Bart Oates before the DSA Natl Convention in August, and that's a promise

28.04.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Join us tonight!!

24.04.2025 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

every day without a Pope is another knife shoved directly into my skull . this is kony 2012 all over again

24.04.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8853    πŸ” 1127    πŸ’¬ 105    πŸ“Œ 19

there has never been a better time to join the "Hit the Guardrail at 80 mph and flip your Tesla on Purpose" movement

23.04.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 14377    πŸ” 2249    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 28
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Building a Socialist Movement Amidst A Dynamic Working Class ft. Sudip Bhattacharya YouTube video by THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast

Our very own @resistrun.bsky.social was on also our very own This Is Revolution. Check out the interview! www.youtube.com/live/38Y_EVW...

16.04.2025 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Cosmonautics DayπŸ§‘β€πŸš€πŸš€! If you're interested in Red Star come join us (and Yuri Gagarin) in orbit by applying to our Satellite Program πŸ›°οΈπŸ›°οΈ redstarcaucus.org/satellite/

12.04.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Please help an NCVDSA comrade if you can!

07.03.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

reporter: donald trump has announced that americans must evolve into a race of hardy metal men via mandated injections of liquid mercury. your response?

klobuchar: *visibly straining to remember line consultants came up with* donkey kong donald’s economic policies are β€œbananas” for small business

04.04.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4146    πŸ” 731    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 10
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Trump: When you ran out the healthy arms, you ran out of really healthyβ€” they had great arms but they ran out. It’s called sports. It’s called baseball in particular and pitchers I guess you could say, really particular

07.04.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3463    πŸ” 690    πŸ’¬ 1085    πŸ“Œ 983
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No, β€˜playing dead’ is the last thing Democrats should be doing | Megan Romer Party insiders are trying to make the case for doing nothing against Trump. That’s a colossal mistake

β€œSo what does this mean for the working class? We have to build that credible opposition ourselves. There is no one coming to save us – we are the cavalry.”

Wrote a little something for the Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

07.03.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 6

The DSA Fund, envisioned as a sister organization to the Democratic Socialists of America, has increasingly diverged from DSA’s core democratic principles. What was once conceived as a complement to DSA’s work has now become a source of significant tension within the movement.

18.03.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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