gary s broderick (he/him)

Forcing me to pay union dues is my kink. Make me chip in my fair share Mami.

Any thing is possible. But I feel highly skeptical about the legitimacy of the “anti-ICE” writing on the bullet casing. We are to believe someone who was against ICE, of their own volition, shot solely immigrant detainees, and wrote, “anti-ICE” - a phrase I’ve never heard said? Who benefits?

Being good at critique or analysis and being good at building/ organizing/ problem solving are two distinct skill sets and it's rare someone has both and the idea that they're complimentary and one follows the other is probably the largest epistemological error of the left

The Boss Has Had It With All the Office Activists It isn’t just Microsoft—companies are adopting a new, harder-line playbook for dealing with political debate at work.

Yet more reason to unionize. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

In destroying Rafah, Israel's military is looking to erase millennia of history COLUMN. The Palestinian city, located on the border with Egypt and whose development dates back to the Pharaohs, is now a field of rubble, writes historian Jean-Pierre Filiu in his column.

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Commentary: Treat child care for what it is: economic infrastructure Just like roads, broadband and housing, child care is foundational to a functioning modern economy.

Absolutely. Childcare is infrastructure.
Quality childcare is more than daycare, rather preparing our children with the social and emotional skills to build resilience.

That's how children can better cope with adverse childhood experiences and trauma.

richmond.com/opinion/colu...

but he’s fighting for real. And arguing for it. That’s important for us to know. But, beyond national politics - that three dimensional assessment will serve us everywhere that we’re organizing.

play detective. Yes, it will serve us to not be fooled. Yes center forces will try to confuse us. But that’s not the main thing we need to pay attention to. Cory Booker fights for fake, we share interest in some short term outcomes, not long term ones. Newsom -same formulation in regard to outcomes…

Left Organizers will be served by distinguishing b/w a political force / politician willing to fight versus one who shares our long term outcome goals and distinguish further if they share our short term goals. Remove Trump is an example of short term. SPECIFICALLY to identify our interests. Not to

Rasoul is a god damn state hero & I'll die on that hill. Mealymouthed centrists pandering to genocide supporters will only get us further down the road to total fascist takeover.

Why So Few Politicians Are Speaking Up for Palestine A case study of the first Palestinian American elected to the Virginia State Legislature, Delegate Sam Rasoul, and the backlash he's receiving for speaking up

As Israel announces a full ground invasion of Gaza, only a handful of politicians have had the courage to speak up and condemn this genocide.

But as leaders like VA Delegate Sam Rasoul do speak up, they face attacks—not just from MAGAs—but from fellow Dems. Why?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-so-few...

I stand w/ @samrasoul.bsky.social! Not only because he has a track record of standing with us, not only because of his willingness to fight powerful moneyed interests, but also because Sam is right to call attention to genocide. The moral bankruptcy of focusing on semantics should be self evident.

Please don't ever bring up Booker running for President.

Let Zionists Speak A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

The response from many Dems imo ignores the reality of what ethnonationalist visions lead to when fulfilled. It’s one thing to say that Zionism does not necessarily mean ethnonationalism, and that even that if it does mean ethnonationalism, that’s understandable; open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...

being attacked by management to try to win market share for their leadership. AOC is an incredible leader. May we all find the courage and clarity she brings.

it means when they’re attacked. You understand democracy can be constructed to maintain unity in the face of opposing forces. You understand they discredit leaders because that’s easier than saying, “we don’t want you to have health care.” We would never let another member use a moment our leader is

When you’re in a workplace building a union, no matter how active you are in that moment. You come to understand the relationship between leaders and organization. You know you’ve selected leaders distinct from who management picked, you understand how leaders enable collective action. You know what

Scenes from the end of Zionism: Reflections on the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna The first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress, which drew 1,000 anti-Zionist Jews and their allies to Vienna, marked a significant moment in the rising tide against the settler-colonial state of Israel.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/scen...

This. It’s really disheartening to see the vitriol — we can disagree and critique without canceling (& making false equivalencies).

Fundamentally, the Left’s wrestling w/ @aoc.bsky.social is a proxy for wrestling with having power/ pursuing power/ governing while sharing power. Throwing away a leader when they do something you disagree with + moving at feverish speeds to discredit them explains some of why we are without power.

Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.

The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.

The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"

www.404media.co/the-astronom...

I think we need to talk more about how the liberal “Middle Class,” - better understood as ideological alignment with a fragile immediate material basis - has a shared (short term) interest, across race and gender differences, in “neoliberal identity politics,” as raised by @mauricewfp.bsky.social

If one doesn’t have the humility + patience to demonstrate that the organizing model they’re advocating for can be measurably successful, then it’s about ego, or sectarian beefs, or donors; not transforming power relations. Only the bourgeoisie can afford such vanity and manufactured confusion.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

Still of Last Week Tonight. John Oliver is talking about an Oct. 8, 2021 ProPublica/WPLN investigation titled "Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn't Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge."

The new @lastweektonight.com piece on juvenile incarceration featured several @ProPublica stories.

First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist:

www.propublica.org/article/blac...

No Kings must also mean No Billionaires because billionaires have more power than most kings, even if it is sometimes wielded differently.

Just to be clear: peaceful protest is as American as it gets.

But when insurrectionists were beating cops in his name, Trump never deployed the National Guard. That tells you everything.

Congrats to the Starbucks workers in Albuquerque, Moon Township and Richmond on voting to form a union with @sbworkersunited.org, who are now over 600 union stores strong!

Change is brewing for Starbucks workers nationwide ✊ #BetterInAUnion