Chris Kutalik
@kutalik.bsky.social
Comdad, Director of Communications, organizer, game designer and writer of books both serious and seriously weird.
rote some more speculative fiction, part 2. Because I do love ambiguous utopia. What If? Part 2 open.substack.com/pub/chriskut...
What If? Part 2
Second in my series of speculative fiction about what Southern California could look like walking the democratic road to socialism.
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DSA LA delegates at the massive chapter convention just voted by super-majority (76%) to support @aoc.bsky.social for president in 2026! A better world is ahead.
It's nice to have a *post* apocalypse to look forward to.
I just wanted to make sure that yall know that I'm feeling ok after my recent fall and mild pneumonia.
The Republican Party has concentrated enormous power in the hands of the executive branch. It would be a shame if somebody...
Geese Magazine@geesemag.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn this groundbreaking manifesto, we outline a radical alternative: a Socialist Project 2029. READ: geesemag.com/article...
In this groundbreaking manifesto, we outline a radical alternative: a Socialist Project 2029. READ: geesemag.com/article...
We Must Fight For a Socialist Project 2029: The Manifesto — geese magazine.
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As someone who has been on the US Left for 30+ years now, we've been lectured and cajoled about not being spoilers and if you want to change politics you have to go to where the voters etc etc. But funnily enough now when we do that: that's badwrong double-plus bad!
Due to the continuing state of the works I've been writing nerdy fantasy stuff again. hillcantons.blogspot.com/2026/06/krat...
Krátká Lidová Republika: A Brief Account of the Republic of the Short Peoples
For centuries the Wee Peoples of Zěm have occupied a peculiar place within the Overking's domains. Too useful to exterminate, too numerous...
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Nithya is going to place in the runoff. You heard it from Comrade Tal.
t a l@talevy.soccer · 3mo agoDashboard updated again. Today's drop: Raman 40.2%, Bass 33%, Pratt 17.7%. Well above the needed threshold, projection now says Raman will beat Pratt by 2.5 points and be 6.4 points behind Bass in the end.
Some really fascinating analysis from comrade Tal.
t a l@talevy.soccer · 3mo agoAhead of election day tomorrow*, I built an analysis of Los Angeles' political demography based on past voting patterns and projected neighborhood-by-neighborhood across the five main mayoral candidates three-las.talevy.soccer *(of course, results won't be clear until several days after)
A speculative fiction piece I wrote published in the new California DSA monthly. I do love myself some utopian lit. californiadsa.org/news/workerc...
"Every growing political organization eventually confronts a serious question: just how large should we ideally become? Not how big we wish we were, but how large a dues-paying, member-led socialist organization could plausibly exist..." democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/04/27/h...
How High is the Sky? - Democratic Left
Does DSA have a supporter ceiling? A discussion of how large DSA could grow in the United States.
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Wrote a piece about renewable energy and Cuba. Namely a study that shows that it would be eminently practical to (with of course the right friends) to end fossil fuel imports for roughly $8 billion. Link down in those comment like usual.
Having to hardcore resist the urge to pull out my usual array of April Fools hoaxes after last year's po-faced flipout by the AI TTRPG Art Police. The flesh is weak yall.
The Hill Cantons by Chris @kutalik.bsky.social with @wizardthieffighter.bsky.social and additional art and teamwork by the @hydracoop.bsky.social crew (Jason, Robert, and Humza) is the first one that comes to mind!
I done got published today in the official DSA paper of record with my (shortened) musings on why the Jesse Jackson campaign didn't lead to the same kind of long political moment of Bernie's. I was forbidden from over-using "conjuncture". democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/03/29/w...
Why Wasn’t There a Long Jackson Moment? - Democratic Left
In 1988 and 2016, DSA backed insurgent primary campaigns by gifted outsiders — but the aftermath of Jesse Jackson and Bernie Sanders’s campaigns were very different.
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At the end of the day if the only thing you can conjure up is a list of ad hominems and can't actually grapple with the substantive politics of a thing (and this is broader than Platner "secret nazi" derangement) then you are incapable of seeing beyond self-indulgent liberal moralism.
A sprawling article in which I only get part way through the question. Why Was There a Long Bernie Moment but not a Long Jackson Moment? Why was 2016 "Our Time" and Not 1988? open.substack.com/pub/chriskut...
Why Was There a Long Bernie Moment but not a Long Jackson Moment? Why was 2016 "Our Time" and Not 1988?
And What Are the Lessons?
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RIP Jesse. Some personal reflections from my teen age experience of 1988. open.substack.com/pub/chriskut...
Keep Hope Alive
I Was a Teenage Jesse Jackson Delegate
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Just How High is the Sky? Does the US Left Have a Supporter Ceiling? Does DSA? open.substack.com/pub/chriskut...
Just How High is the Sky? Does the US Left Have a Supporter Ceiling? Does DSA?
Last week Democratic Socialists of America hit 100,000 members.
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Nothing ever happens....or does it? @kutalik.bsky.social discusses "punctuated equilibrium" in our latest: powermapmag.com/punctuated-e...
Does Nothing Ever Happen? - Power Map Magazine
Punctuated Equilibrium and the Politics of Sudden Change
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That the Trump administration--a unique combo of deep incompetence and right wing authoritarianism--can "run Venezuela" is just Iraq and Afghanistan all over again. Imperial hubris that leads to mass suffering and more decline.
"I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist."
Watching our comrade Zohran be inaugurated with the whole family glued to the TV like it was the moon landing, is a hell of a beat for the long Bernie moment and DSA. We did this, friends.
