El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

The Uncommitted Mvt will be seen in hindsight as prescient as Fannie Lou Hamer’s MS Freedom Democratic Party

A huge thank you to the Uncommitted Mvt above all - it was truly a force for democratic change in the US

It is indeed, to an imperial way of seeing, so strange when a country resists being bombed and blockaded.

What makes NYC NYC politically is not a static demographic constituency or an essential nature of a big city: it was the vehicle for Giuliani & Bloomberg afterall. It was years of organizing by DSA & other left groups to create what seemed first a fluke & then an inevitability

I admit, I love it when public transit administrators troll a traffic jam, does my heart good

A lot of people on here remain bitter about the version of Uncommitted they made up in their heads while high profile members of the actual Uncommitted are becoming mayors, state senators, members of Congress and maybe even part of the US Senate. In some cases, with establishment support.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 24h ago

Under-discussed Michigan politics story is that a co-founder of Uncommitted is about to become the Democratic nominee for a seat to the State Senate with the backing of Governor Whitmer

This will get a fraction of the attention that Zohran Mamdani got for calling Netanyahu a war criminal.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

“Fund the police” was very cute, very clever, until your popularity with Black male voters dropped and the police unions endorsed the guy who launched January 6 anyway

Abdul El Sayed's open-mindedness on the question of how to actually resolve the question of Palestine is one of the best indicators of his overall intelligence and sincerity. Policymakers in DC should adopt a rights-based approach which prioritizes ending the occupation and apartheid systems.

Ron Skolnik@ronskolnik.bsky.social · 22h ago

El-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

While I am programmatically pro electing socialists on a DP line as a matter of practical necessity (3rd parties are legally hampered in our 2-party system), it’s good to also keep in mind why the DSA will likely have to fight DP leadership (and a hostile media) in ways the Tea Party never did: 1/2

Thanks to our authors from July: @promiseli.bsky.social , Shireen N. Akram-Boshar , Charlie Post , Federico Fuentes, @blbalthaser.bsky.social , and Nick Nesbitt . Links to all these pieces in the thread 👇🏽 🧵

It is amazing to think, still, five years later, how much the bourgeois mismanagement of covid broke the last remnants of the neoliberal social contract:

Arch conservative author & editor Norm Podhoretz famously sd 7 decades ago “American Jews live like Episcopalians & vote like Puerto Ricans,” fully expecting this outrageous situation wld soon change. Every election pundits salivate over the prospect of Jewish defections to the GOP &…bupkis 🤷‍♀️

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d ago

spoiler: it's because they're Americans and most American voters fucking hate the Republican Party

The most Chicago thing ever in the Studs Lonigan Trilogy: a potbelly on a man is referred to as “having an alderman.”

Love to have a rando on here basically demanding to see my medical bloodwork results because they can’t believe that long covid is real. This is a proported leftist. There really is a problem and right wing people arent the only ones who are in denial. Have those conversations with people.

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

A writer just claimed on social media that using AI to write is no different than “using glasses to see,” and critiques of AI are “ableist.” Disability is a concept invented by capitalism to discipline & standardize the labor force thru the uniformity of industrial work. AI is a technology 1/2

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

Hey, friends! I put my big face in a video like the kids do! Time to join the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and tell @mayor.nyc.gov to enact a moratorium on "A.i." in the schools! Please share - and please tell the mayor you want a moratorium! www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

To put in another way: public higher education is burning down like the towers of Troy, but it is rarely mean scholars, it is admin w spreadsheets, right wing activists w troll farms & the ears of legislators, tax cuts for the rich & tuition increases for students, whole fields of study vanishing…

Benjamin Balthaser@blbalthaser.bsky.social · 4d ago

Idk I’m an associate editor at an American Studies journal & while the journal is known for exacting peer review (articles almost never get accepted on 1st or even 2nd round) the review process is serious, generous, labor intensive and designed to be helpful. It usually makes for better essays

Idk I’m an associate editor at an American Studies journal & while the journal is known for exacting peer review (articles almost never get accepted on 1st or even 2nd round) the review process is serious, generous, labor intensive and designed to be helpful. It usually makes for better essays

Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's incredible is how little folks understand about academe. Peer review is brutal. Academic Q+A is Troy level slaughter. Bros attacking a lady academic for a fair review would shit themselves on stage after a paper and break down into toddler tears after their first conference paper w a mean Q+A.

Plus — Lorna Finlayson on critical theory after Habermas — @yarimarita.bsky.social on Puerto Rico’s water crisis — @blbalthaser.bsky.social on the Obama Center — @aaronregunberg.bsky.social on climate hushing — @ramoran.bsky.social on the Boghossian report — Michael Harris on understanding after AI

A thesis I’ve long held about American imperialism is that it distinguishes itself from European and esp British imperialism by priding itself on knowing nothing and leaning nothing about the ppl and cultures it destroys: Like everything however, the Trump admin takes it to an entirely new level

this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.

According to AIPAC, the greatest seismic shift in US politics regarding Zionism was the election of “the squad,” meaning, the rise of DSA & its 2017 support of BDS. I’m inclined to agree 1/2

Nope nope nope. What we’re not going to do is pretend the abandonment of the vulnerable to Covid was a given fact or an inevitability. The US government could have continued to prioritize safety measures to protect the vulnerable until better treatments were found. You do You was a policy choice.

Batdog@jeffreyschmeffrey.bsky.social · 6d ago

He's simply stating a fact

ICYMI: @blbalthaser.bsky.social 's review essay on @leninology.bsky.social 's Disaster Nationalism ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) is still live on our website.

@journalspectre.bsky.social · 2w ago

From "Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion," Benjamin Balthaser's review of Seymour's Disaster Nationalism: the left’s answer to the crisis of capitalism cannot be mere economism; it will need to offer a vision of real freedom and desire... spectrejournal.com/spectacles-o...

“There is no denying the counterrevolution; as former Fox News host–turned-podcaster Megyn Kelly put it last September, ‘We haven’t felt like ourselves since Barack Obama,’ and Trump ‘was the antidote.’ But Obama’s presidency was hardly revolutionary in the first place.” @blbalthaser.bsky.social

In the Lobby of Hope and Change

The Obama Presidential Center monumentalizes a liberalism still incapable of seeing its flaws.

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