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Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee, @DSACommunists ☭ @HoustonTenants 🛠👷🏼‍♂️Union Electrician⚡️⚙️ - They/Them

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@Anthroptimism

Rainer

2 years

Just as every hour we toil for a boss represents a theft of our life's time & labor-power, so too every dollar expropriated from us in the form of rent, whether to large or small landlords, private or non-profit, represents in immediate and ultimate terms a theft of our humanity

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@Anthroptimism

Rainer

7 months

"Somebody's gonna die" is a special kind of threat when it comes from a guy working at the Somebody's Gonna Die Factory for Somebody's Gonna Die, Inc.

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7 months

Lockheed Martin employee pulls a knife out on protestors in Sunnyvale, California for blocking the entrances and making him late to work

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4 years

So we're at the feds murking antifascists point of counterrevolution. Got it.

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4 years

@allisongeroi The only thing better than feeling underqualified while rewriting my resume is kissing each of the downy curves of a prospective employers ass by pulling phrases out of their mission statement and smashing them together with action verbs

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6 months

Students screened The Battle of Algiers at the Stanford encampment last night. "You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you. The world belongs to you"

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2 months

As we were being kettled & beat w Billy clubs during the George Floyd uprising, a liberal on a hill w a voter registration clipboard said "None of this matters if you don't vote!" & a comrade said "We already fucking voted & this is what we got!" The class is always on the menu.

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jordan

2 months

Olivia Julianna at the DNC: We will only be heard if we vote. As the saying goes, if you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

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7 years

So my comrade left her bedroom windows open last night and look whomst she found under the pillow next to her this AM 😬

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10 months

From Gramsci's speech to the Italian parliament, 1925

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@PBerizzi

Paolo Berizzi

10 months

Roma, Italia, 2024. Vergogna di Stato. #AccaLarentia

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5 months

Any DSA member who maligned the Palestinian liberation movement like this would be found to be so in conflict w the democratically established goals & aims of our org that they'd need to face consequence or removal - I guess AOC gets a pass for being a part of the imperial State?

@AOC

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

5 months

The callousness, dehumanization, and targeting of Jews on display at last night’s protest outside the Nova Festival exhibit was atrocious antisemitism - plain and simple. Antisemitism has no place in our city nor any broader movement that centers human dignity and liberation.

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3 years

The union crew walked off & drafted resignation letters citing 3 weeks' non-payment, lack of gun & Covid safety protocols, producers pulling adequate hotel accommodations, among other issues. Alec Baldwin & the other producers hired scabs instead of addressing the crew's concerns

@IndieWire

IndieWire

3 years

Prop Gun Fired by Alec Baldwin Contained Live Bullet, Says IATSE Local 44 (Update) "IATSE Local 44 sent an email that said the gun used in the scene contained 'a live round' and the production's propmaster was not a member of Local 44."

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6 years

Great flyer doxx by comrades on E6th. Some more info on Jason Van Dyke, (Proud Boy featured in the top left photo). He’s still a barred lawyer in Texas somehow, even though he likes to send nooses and death threats to black folks and post white supremacist diatribes on Stormfront

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2 years

At a cousin's wedding rehearsal the elders of each family got up to bless the food & when the groom's family (pentecostal) all started speaking in tongues, my great grandma (85, Baptist) opened her eyes & looked around in utter disbelief. One of the funniest things I've ever seen

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11 months

"Burnout isn't real" is one hell of a thing to say to tens of thousands of comrades who aren't paid to do organizing work & who do everything they possibly can for the movement with the remaining limited labor power that hasn't been stolen by bosses & further stolen by landlords

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1 year

My foreman said " @UAW needs to get back to work" & I said "This a union job & thats some scab talk". My JW laughed his ass off & my foreman said "They're fuckin the stock market up". I said "What do you think is more real, the stock market, or their lives?" He didn't say shit lol

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3 years

The irony of the "antifa bus" trope is that we don't need to bus ourselves in from across the country or rent half a dozen penske trucks like fascists do, because we are defending the communities we live in. If we're taking a bus, its the metro

@SamTLevin

Sam Levin

3 years

NEW: Records reveal that California police sent an aircraft to search for a nonexistent "antifa bus" after reading rightwing conspiracy theories on Instagram and Facebook

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6 months

It's been said that a Trump re-election will empower these guys, but the hegemony of white reaction is already State-sanctioned & enforced by police terror - the only power that can defeat white reaction is the force of a poor & laboring class that has formed itself into a weapon

@StaceyJSpiehler

Stacey J. Spiehler

@StaceyJSpiehler

6 months

A counter-protester jumps up and down and hoots like a monkey toward a protester who was live-streaming on her phone at @OleMiss today. Chants of “lock her up” as the Dean of Students ( @marsh_brent ) and multiple law enforcement agencies regain order.

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1 year

We MUST unlearn the urge to thread the needle in moments of rupture, afraid to ruffle feathers. What we should unequivocally renounce are imperialist & apartheid apologetics of DSA electeds in office & declare unwavering support for revolutionaries taking the boot off their neck

@DemSocialists

DSA

1 year

DSA is steadfast in expressing our solidarity with Palestine. Today’s events are a direct result of Israel’s apartheid regime—a regime that receives billions in funding from the United States. End the violence. End the Occupation. Free Palestine. 1/5

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1 year

I hope comrades see laid bare so clearly in this moment that communists criticize opportunism & revisionism not simply on merely ideological / abstract grounds, but moreso because these lines mean life or death, victory or defeat, resilience or capitulation in moments of rupture

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3 years

@paynus3 @twitersbadboy Then there is a subset of guy whose personality is shaped around the four cursed Davids : Navarro, Grohl, Matthews & Fincher

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4 years

@bad_takes Imagine a news channel so devoid of news all they do is rehash culture war bits from IDW YouTube ca 2017

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4 years

@YaBoyDannyBlaze @MATHnBASKETBALL @DragonflyJonez When Michael Jordan does you so dirty that you age 20 years before his feet touch the ground

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2 years

We'd like to thank the admins at Northwestern for making @DemSocialists sound cool af

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6 months

For the record, here is what the previous NPC majority admitted about their own lines of communication with AOC

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aaron from queens 🇵🇸

6 months

for context: the NPC majority has failed to meet with AOC's office for 6 months. the last time they met with *any* of our federal electeds' offices was 5 months ago pretty rich to complain you have "no continuing relationship" when you can't even be bothered to ask for a meeting

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3 years

Every few years Bernie does his song & dance and so many good comrades (myself formerly included) get starry eyed again for a time, lose sight of what it will really take to win the day against capitalism for yet another electoral cycle, entertain the political logic of the State

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1 year

A union brother dm'ing earlier today : "Do you organize with any org outside of your local? I meet a shit load of DSA peeps doing IBEW stuff lol. They are everywhere haha" Me, today : "everywhere you say?" 🤭

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1 year

It was good for the movement that Bernie got so many to imagine a better world was possible, but it's an even greater good that we can now finally free ourselves of the albatross of his imperial & genocide apologia. A fallen "Israel" in his lifetime & a Free Palestine in ours! 🇵🇸

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Daniel Denvir

1 year

It’s so tragic that Bernie is vaporizing his reputation and legacy among so many young people who were first politicized and radicalized by his presidential campaigns.

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4 years

Hard to overstate bourgeois hegemony when one billionaire is using the Department of Education to try to force our children & teachers back to contagion filled schools while her billionaire brother is sending his private mercenaries to commit war crimes against Portlanders daily.

@shane_burley1

Shane Burley בד

4 years

This is one of e more shocking videos of what police have done at the #PortlandProtest . Holding someone down in CS gas.

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3 months

Maybe instead of the NPC controlling what the rest of DSA is able to say in our organizing committees, we should have a veto when they say dumb ass liberal bullshit like a genocidaire choosing a George Floyd uprising riot cop enforcer means we're building power or something

@DemSocialists

DSA

3 months

Harris choosing Walz as a running mate has shown the world that DSA and our allies on the left are a force that cannot be ignored. Through collective action, DSA and the US left more broadly have made it clear that change is needed. DSA members organized in our workplaces and

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3 years

@feraljokes Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is already on it

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11 months

Nauseating propaganda aside, the idea that we can end capitalism & imperialism in a way that keeps us all comfortable, safe, risk free is a denial of the revolutionary necessity so deep that it will someday point such cowards to list-making liquidationism against comrades in arms

@meagankday

Meagan Day

11 months

Organized democratic mass politics isn’t easy, but it’s got a great track record and doesn’t involve mowing down elderly women with machine guns. Many on the Palestinian left, which is not a monolith dominated by Hamas, actually prefer it to terrorist attacks on civilians

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4 months

DSA having principles isn't abt "chasing the hard-left" (many of whom are members of DSA), it's abt ensuring the socialism we're building isn't so run through w opportunism, imperialist & genocide apologia that the unactivated millions rightly judge DSA a force against liberation

@SeanOrrMKE

Sean Orr

4 months

The hard-left won’t join DSA for a simple reason - they’re not democratic socialists. And the good thing is that there aren’t that many of them. The sooner our org’s leaders stop chasing the dozens at the expense of the unactivated millions, the better off DSA will be.

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4 years

To all the op speculation : lets say you're right, the message conveyed is still "We'll fucking murder you w impunity even while the whole nation has eyes on you". If you're wrong, your speculation still has the net effect of propagating fear and isolation. Repression either way.

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5 months

We find out if my wife has cancer or not tmrw during surgery. All positive vibes & prayers are welcome rn 🙏

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4 years

@crookedroads770 Grade A Dad shit, congrats on your victory

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3 months

Can anyone walk me through the "taking good shit the IC says down" process? It really feels lame as fuck to have a generally awesome International Committee to inform & articulate DSA's politics and for anything good it does to be walked back. To both have sauce & to have none.

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Francesca

3 months

i was shocked that the IC statement on Haniyeh’s assassination was so good, an hour later it was taken down lmfao

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3 years

He perch

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7 years

1/ Eyewitness acct frm St Louis last night, where 250 protesters took refuge in a synagogue & 7 SWAT buses came &arrested many for no reason

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1 year

For everyone who tells you the IBEW ain't worth a shit, that it's a reactionary lost cause - we're out here, we're determined to change the nature of the organization for the better and we don't fuckin play

@TRAILSANDWAYS

keith bb

1 year

sparks of class struggle unionism in the IBEW ranks take down a venture capital "disruptor"💡⚡️

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1 year

Boy there sure are a lot of cowards flinching and traitors sneering lately

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4 months

If it's illegal for the landless class to have no shelter, then our only option now is to seize, reclaim, sabotage & liberate the shelter we need back from the landlord class

@MorePerfectUS

More Perfect Union

4 months

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has just ruled 6-3 that it is legal to criminalize homelessness. The Court sided with an Oregon town that made it illegal to camp in public, overturning a decades long precedent that says criminalizing homelessness is cruel and unusual punishment.

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3 months

We are talking about making sure that DSA affiliated politicians don't have wiggle room on genocide, zionism & apartheid, simple as. Not sure what kind of socialism it is that can countenance such things, but it's one that's sure to lose!

@_ericblanc

Eric Blanc

3 months

DSA is at a crossroads It can become another marginal far-left group with a narrow program, rigid formulas, & tight discipline — or it can remain a big tent, flexible, and welcoming organization oriented to mass working-class politics

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1 year

Imo variety tactics should be used in conjunction, but to say that a phonebank of 200 people wherever they are is less individualistic than 1000s of comrades in multiple cities shutting down ports long emough to give unions across the world time to refuse shipping is just - wrong

@AntiNateSilver

Anti Nate Silver

@AntiNateSilver

1 year

one of the first things i learned when moving from the disorganized left into DSA is that most of the flashier, individualistic ways of confronting power (eg, direct action) were always way less effective than mundane modes of action done in concert with others (eg, phonebanks)

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6 years

Here’s a look at the Texas Proud Boys’ “armory”, taken at Van Dyke’s house in Crossroads, TX, matched the paint and carpet to a featured video from earlier this year :

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2 months

Got to meet fellow IBEW union member and former Panther Gerald last night. He was like, "You need to get yourself out here, come sign the books in Local 595", I was like "Yeah someday, that would be great" & he said "No brother, I mean tomorrow!" 🤣

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6 months

In the labor movement, in the tenant movement, in the youth & student movement, in the abolitionist movement, in the antiracist movement, in the socialist movement & everywhere we struggle to be free - cops are the enemy of the People, down to the very last one

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Rainer

3 years

Here at Mom & Pop Landlords, LLC we help you reappropriate the majority of your wages, but in a farm to table, small business-y, Live, Laugh, Love kinda way. Read abt our very real plight in literally any news outlet: Help us pay for our 2nd mortgage & Telluride ski lodge today!

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7 months

Oct 7 was the first time in my life that I felt so overwhelmed by hope that "hope" can't possibly capture the feeling. A new world is possible, its promise made real again through struggle. The Palestinians are leading the way for world liberation, the rest is in all of our hands

@BlackRedGuard1

BlackRedGuard ☭ 🇵🇸 🔻

@BlackRedGuard1

7 months

Did you, on October 7th, publically support the armed actions of the Palestinian resistance? That’s the dividing line on Palestine. If you opposed when the people rose up you are a waverer, a coward, and a middle of the roader who cannot be trusted.

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4 years

@thetomzone

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2 years

I've been on the job 6 months & my Journeyman just asked me how to join DSA. 🥲 It's a small victory, but feels really good nonetheless. Trade union consciousness can absolutely be won to socialism & communism, it just takes patience, organic relationships, agitation & solidarity

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4 years

Just bc someone doesn't have a shelf full of theory, or hasn't been on the scene for yrs, doesnt mean we should call every new person on the streets an op when they make rash decisions. These are fucked up times. We'd be remiss to think we're promised a day in court at this point

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8 months

It is so unbelievably low and vile to fedjacket comrades in your organization who are organizing against genocide & apartheid. Just because you don't share the same commitment and principles as the comrades you are shit talking, doesn't mean you have to be so fucking unprincipled

@atgenevieve

Genevieve 👁

8 months

if i were in the fbi and my job was to sabotage left organizing i’d wait for crisis moments and manipulate people into abandoning each other and whatever small amount of power they’ve built by demanding they adopt more and more absolutist positions and disavow anyone who won’t

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1 year

Welcome to the lathe of hell

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2 years

Would totally vote for this, but we gotta make a draft of Bud w no sign so people don't make Bud say "Balls" or "I 💓 Zionism" or something

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3 months

Fuck labor zionism, it's revolutionary internationalism or it's barbarism. Zionism will fall and if we continue to kick the can of principled antizionism down the road, we will fall w it. I don't know how many beheaded children some need to see before they show some goddamn nerve

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1 year

Houston at its best 🇵🇸

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1 year

Can't help but think we'd be in a stronger position in this conjuncture if there'd not been such subordination & repression of the movement for Palestinian liberation in our own org the last 2 years. This includes the gap opened up in that time for electeds to dither on the issue

@francescamar6

Francesca

1 year

two things seem clear: (1) DSA & the US left were painfully unprepared to meet this moment adequately; and (2) all the organizing, line struggles, and ideological consolidation of the last few years have made us readier than we’ve been in decades, even if still insufficiently so.

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2 years

Attending the @MarxistUnityDSA Convention as an observer from @DSACommunists and we are hearing from Jack Conrad, August Nimtz & Gil Schaefer on which aspects of the strategy of Lenin and the Bolsheviks might apply directly (or not) to our situation today. Framing questions are :

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7 years

@cityofprogress @peg_mclaugh @ericgarland Hi Eric fellow DSA member. If you want to talk to me about this, please feel free. Asking for 24,000 friends.

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1 year

I know great betrayals like this may be difficult to accept for many still-radicalizing folks on the left, but it's a good thing the working class are our own protagonists and we don't have to depend upon cowards like Bernie for leadership anymore.

@SenSanders

Bernie Sanders

1 year

My statement on the continuing violence in Israel and Gaza.

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1 year

Sometimes I wonder if Bernie's cowardice on Palestinian liberation is bc he can't accept that the story he loves to tell about the "virtues" of communal life on kibbutz would have to be reframed as it is : that he was an active vanguard participant in zionist settler colonialism

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10 months

The comrades at @NotesFrom_Below interviewed @DSACommunists about our structure, principles, cadre development, organizing work & our efforts inside & outside DSA to overcome proletarian disorganization through class struggle. Check it out here :

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Building Cadre: An interview with the Communist Caucus

by Communist Caucus // Three comrades from the US (Ben M, Sarah M, and Rain S) discuss how they have built a caucus orientated towards worker and tenant organising within the Democratic Socialists of...

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11 months

Union caucus reading group let's fuckin gooooo

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1 year

The cause of communism is righteous & just. If we backpedal from the cause to cover for politicians or to "save face" under pressure, the politicians will betray us & our enemies will hate us all the more. Have some principles & stay the course. We're on the right side of history

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8 months

I learned so much from your example & grew so much as a communist while organizing with you in CC these last few years. When we storm the barricades in the struggle for the new world, we will carry you with us. Love you forever, comrade.

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8 months

Just got some awful news that brings my heart so low & the only thing I can think to do w this feeling is to let it drive every ounce of my will & being into becoming part of the fist that shakes loose the chains we wear in this life & to make the communist future real together

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3 years

@EMMAORYX Dungeon Keeper 2 hand best cursor

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2 years

This DSA endorsed State Senator *just* won his primary in September, and barely a month later he's already openly inviting YIMBYs to come testify against zoning restrictions in Providence. Seems bad!

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7 months

Finally, a non-marxist caucus in DSA

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5 months

Prioritizing domestic issues at the cost of unending apartheid, genocide & war on the world's oppressed classes is right opportunism & social chauvanism; socialists & communists must uphold the struggles of the whole world's oppressed classes or we aren't worth the air we breathe

@daniela127

daniela 📚

5 months

This, from a DSA organizer I follow. Top priority for DSA is changing the US's position on Israel. Not improving conditions for working people in the US, or student debt relief, or immigration reform, or any of the other domestic issues that face our country. Instead, Israel. 1/

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1 year

Nothing happens in a vacuum; the conjuncture we now find ourselves in wrt the primacy of Palestinian Liberation in this crucial moment lays at all of our feet, some certainly more than others. All who wish these comrades ill should search their hearts & take it as a great failing

@PalestineSWG

Palestine Solidarity Working Group🇵🇸

1 year

We, as an organization, are no longer affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America and, moving forward, will be known simply as the Palestine Solidarity Working Group.

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2 years

When they get to your commune and ask if you're communists

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4 years

@The_Law_Boy I give it three days till online calculates the actual impact force that was applied to that dudes forehead and the police union starts tweeting "this cop hero was poked with the blunt force of 3.23 irritable toddlers!"

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1 year

Everytime a mealy mouthed Harringtonite anticommunist rage quits DSA for standing strong on issues which socialists should fight for such as ending apartheid, their bad vibes depressurize enough to fit 10-20 new good vibes communists under the big tent

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Rainer

11 months

Tbh the only reasons DSA should discuss the 24 election is if Rashida Tlaib runs or if we commit to a campaign of fiery, socialist, oppositional messaging. Every single other candidate has so betrayed our movement, what utility could there be? A million more pressing issues rn

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4 years

@LonestarTallBoi @mcmansionhell She's Lucille with tobias' sense of propriety

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2 years

9 months in the trade so far & I'm still loving it! ✊️👷🏼‍♂️

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1 year

Today marks 4 years of marriage w my ride or die comrade 🥰

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8 years

"The bankers who destroyed our economy, stole your 401K, foreclosed on homes, go visit them in jail. Wait, they're not there" @JordanChariton

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2 years

I remember when Danny Fetonte came to Houston to try & whip support from us & I told him he was fucked & there wasn't a way to spin organizing cops, period. Maybe I thought those days were behind us, but socialists should feel the same about ICE, Border Patrol & Bureau of Prisons

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2 years

Work and organizing has been pretty intense lately, but we have some exciting news that has been keeping me going. Little Taurus should be joining us in early May👨🏼‍🍼

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6 months

Not sure how verified the supposed fracturing of SAlt is & want to respect comrades going through it right now, but I highly encourage anyone coming out of the org to take time to reset & then come join the largest socialist org in the country when you're ready to get back at it

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5 months

Mommy is cancer free, home safe, recovering & this little angel is happy as a lark. A dear comrade is coming in from Seattle tmrw to help my partner w recovery and other comrades are generously feeding us this week. Thanks for all the love & solidarity yall, time to get some rest

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Rainer

10 months

Not just on a personal level, but on a political discipline & solidarity level, it's incredibly unbecoming of NPC members to be petty mudslining at comrades who've been in the org so long. When your anticommunism has done as much for the cause as our organizing has, let us know!

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3 months

It's high time that DSA as a whole removes the stain of zionist apologia & opportunism from our electoral wing once & for all. The zionists will fall & we must make sure DSA is part of the fist that drives zionism & apartheid into the dustbin of history.

@palyouthmvmt

Palestinian Youth Movement

3 months

🚨 Following the initiation of the Palestine movement’s boycott of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in 2022, 26 DSA chapters have passed strong and enforceable commitments to defend Palestinian liberation and reject Zionism within their organization. 🚨

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2 years

Goddamn does this org need comprehensive political education for all members, especially electeds. Socialists in office should be able to describe the ills of capitalism w such clarity & scope that the unaffiliated class rises up in accord w the socialist vision & joins the cause

@JamaalBowmanNY

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.

@JamaalBowmanNY

2 years

It’s time for world leaders to come together and figure out what the hell is going on with humanity. We are sick. And this sickness is killing our children. It’s time to stop and rebuild humanity.

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Rainer

2 years

At some point we have to decide whether we stand for Socialism, or whether we accept the terms of Capital & our class enemies; will we suspend our movement within a simulacra of power, ruling from the sidelines? There is a line in the sand. I know on which side a red banner flies

@TheDuhalde

David S. Duhalde

2 years

All I know about this DSA YIMBY/NIMBY discourse is some people really assume there is a clear line on a subject that other people such as myself don’t really understand or the org has not set out any position on. Let’s be fair to each other and honest about actual stances.

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1 year

All yall "both sides" mf can kiss both sides of my ass

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2 years

"How to build a YIMBY/Tenant Activist Bridge" gotta be up there as a contender for one all time worst tenant/housing twitter ideas I've ever seen

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5 months

Gotta hand it to the DSA Fund, hosting not 1 but 2 events about housing without asking DSA's own Housing Commission to design, moderate or consult on the content would almost be a good bit if it wasn't so weird and straight up fuckin rude

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Rainer

11 months

📚 I've been putting together a multi-year political education series for the building trades that I plan to start next year at trade school & the apprentice committee. Here's what I've got so far :

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7 months

"I gotta get to my killin' people job, or else Somebody's Gonna Die!"

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1 year

The zionist entity has broken ceasefire agreements 180x in the last 75 years along w human rights law & the Geneva accords. They're committing genocide w such cruel, unceasing violence that they knowingly kill their own people to do so. Ceasefire will not hold, "Israel" must fall

@spectatorindex

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

1 year

JUST IN: Israeli official says there will be 'no ceasefire' in Gaza

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4 years

@andersleehere Easy, Brace Belden

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4 years

@jamie_elizabeth Turn Emma Vigeland communist

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4 years

@Boringstein He's also a total sweetheart. Used to come into my vegan food truck in Austin all the time to eat and shoot the shit.

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8 months

Really concerned by the implication that we need megadonors, opening DSA up to the type of smears we see other orgs face about millionaire proprietors, perceived or actual influence the money may purchase, or that fulltime political leadership should be so focused on fundraising

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Groundwork DSA

8 months

Our passive fundraising makes us helpless passengers, who can only throw each other overboard to stay afloat afloat. When we organize for a party-level economic foundation at the same level we organize for everything else, we'll rise to the next level.

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10 months

Would love for National @DemSocialists to join @dsa_intl_comm & sign onto South Africa's Genocide Convention Case against the zionist entity

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Progressive International

10 months

BREAKING: More than 900 popular movements, unions, political parties, and other organizations have signed an open letter calling on states to support South Africa's Genocide Convention case against Israel.

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6 months

@wrappingline I don't mean this as a bad faith dunk tbc, but I 100% agree & we should include the folks who spent the last few years repressing the BDS WG. Have heard a lot about how certain cuts will affect "real organizing", but no admission that we failed these comrades at critical moments

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Rainer

9 months

As socialists we're compelled to protest & polemicize electoral candidates that conflict with our democratically decided political program. What is more important, abolition & Palestinian liberation or letting the political establishment know for certain we're no threat to them?

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DSA-LA 🌹

@dsa_losangeles

9 months

DSA-LA Censures Councilmember Nithya Raman, Maintains Endorsement -

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Rainer

1 year

"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it & while there is a soul in prison, I am not free" aint just some slogan. Some of yall need to figure out where your loyalties lie; this goes doubly during times of active political repression

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4 years

All we ever have is our intuition, OSINT, what we know about *our own* communities, what we've experienced or witnessed in person, or at best, whatever shit gets leaked or declassified when we're old and gray. The State will always have a monopoly on this. So why speculate?

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