Is Florida ready for a democratic socialist? Oliver Larkin, a 34-year-old DSA candidate, is running for Congress in a newly drawn district in Florida. On Tuesday, voters will decide between him and a ‘DeSantis Democrat’ ...

Is Florida ready for a democratic socialist?

Oliver Larkin, a 34-year-old DSA candidate, is running for Congress in a newly drawn district in Florida. On Tuesday, voters will decide between him and a ‘DeSantis Democrat’

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Wondering how many of the "Hong loss shows it's over for DSA" takes are coming from anyone who'd have believed, if you'd asked them a year ago, that a DSA candidate for governor could get this close to winning a primary 🤔

Farrah Bostic@farrahbostic.bsky.social · 6d ago

Boy I’m going to really dislike all the takes in every direction today aren’t I? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...

Its a rhetorical racket - if DSA isnt 1:1 a demographic repro, it is outside and alien to America. If its too white its a volkist front. If its not white enough then its a cosmopolitan decadence. On and on and on about why it isnt true to anything, unlike, ya know, The GOP or Democrats. Who claim so

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉@kavi.bsky.social · last wk.

It's genuinely very funny that half the critiques of DSA is it's an invasion by a bunch of Asian and Hispanic foreigners and half the critiques of the DSA are that it's too white, and like, while these are coming from different places for the most part, this isn't always the case

The next DSA Congressional Democratic primary race happens next week in South Florida. I spoke to the socialist candidate Oliver Larkin @oliveralarkin.bsky.social about why he thinks the Florida Democratic Party is misreading the moment. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/oliver-lar...

Oliver Larkin Wants to End the "Reflexive Moderation" of Florida Democrats

The DSA's Congressional candidate in South Florida says his state is ready for the revolution.

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I hate that the Sex Purge discourse has been derailed into the nudity/erotica in film debate because that movie’s core conceit is so fundamentally ignorant that hating on it for that really should be the headline.

“What if the government tried to regulate how we sex with laws!? Wouldn’t that be fucked up!?” is the thought of the most sheltered, blinders-on straight people possible. And the thought that society would all largely obey those laws is similar categorically ahistorical.

For much of the last 18 years establishment democrats have leaned harder and harder on personal stories and personal attributes. When a centrist runs theyre a hard working person who plays by the rules and gets Stuff done (the stuff has become less & less focused on).

New in Light and Air! Greg C. argues that DSA needs deeper and more robust roots in the working class to build a lasting socialist constituency.

READ THEORY

Its weird! This week had several major donors deciding to go from pouring money into Michigan's democratic primary against an antizionist to spending on his Republican opponent. And then all over this website im hearing that its the left getting money from maga. Just so weird

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

The conventional wisdom that you had to be ironclad in support of Israel and even genuflect to a series of absurd, exceptional demands like "right to exist as a Jewish state" and "right to [offensively] defend itself" is dead. A lot of people are just mad that it's dead. Sorry.

In the second part of our two-part series on the history of the Marxist Unity Group, Matthew Campbell-Strupp describes MUG's practical interventions towards transforming the DSA into a Marxist party from the 2023 DSA convention to the present. prometheus-mag.com/2026/07/30/a...

okay, Bill, you don't have to credit me.

The recent success of DSA and other insurgent-type dems has completely gotten inside the OODA loops of both mainstream dems and right wing media.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 3w ago

the right wing washington examiner is trying to smear democrat francesca hong from both the left and the right and its kind of fun to watch a progressive scramble their brains

I welcome Bill mahers hatred and hope one day that he can commit to the long term struggle of having a fully funny show

On democracy reform, DSA moved to the left, calling for the Senate to be abolished, as they see it as undemocratic because each state is given equal representation regardless of population. The 2024 platform called only to end the filibuster. Read more from David Weigel:

Democratic socialists rework platform as they step into spotlight

Democratic Socialists of America is in a brighter spotlight than ever.

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El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"

“Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”

‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis

In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?

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obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo

Good morning all. Happy Friday! Keep building the future

gonna read it later but what a shock--I was sure that winning the democratic-revolutionary demands to Workers Deserve More would lead to a group on the right opposing any kind of constitutional change and the left going on the council-form. It'd be a pleasant surprise if this sticks

Groundwork DSA@groundworkdsa.com · 3w ago

In a new piece, Groundwork Co-Chair Joe W. argues that socialists of all tendencies should embrace the sections of DSA's new platform that advocate for constitutional reform and the expansion of direct democracy - despite the performative shock of the establishment media class. LINK BELOW ⬇️

99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa

New, in Light & Air! New in Light & Air! The working class can remake itself as a historical actor around the struggle for democracy, a society in which we are free to rule ourselves as equals. We need to finish Reconstruction and a Democratic Socialist Republic.

One thing that kind of bums me out spending more time on Instagram for ~professional reasons~ is that how many times you'll see some brilliant little video and you like it and then you find that the creator has turned their life into making 5000 variations of it

be shot a thousand times. brush burial: bruiseland.

DSA hasn't gotten into a single room we didn't have to organize our way into

Bowiegrrl@bowiegrrl.bsky.social · 3w ago

DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) destructive platform includes eliminating the Presidency, Senate, police and prisons. @democrats.org need to stand up against the destructive DSA platform immediately, but most leaders are either too weak or complicit. Instead they are welcoming them in.

Almost 1600 people joined Dsa in the last week. Depending on how the primaries go in August. I could so see the number spike up again with people joining Dsa.

One of the A/B tested headlines for this piece is "Some Jordanians Dare To Speak Out Against U.S Troops Presence.". The vast majority of Jordanians are against the presence of American troops. If the kingdom was an actual democracy, the US would lose the ability to base in this country tomorrow.

Some Jordanians Dare to Speak Out Against U.S. Troop Presence

Hundreds of political, legal and other figures signed a public letter warning that Jordan’s close alliance with the United States poses a risk.

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