Chicago! What are you doing this weekend? Why not come to the best beer bar in the city and meet me and my comrades for a lively discussion of the role of state power and the ‘democratic road’ to socialism, followed by drinks and fun? A great event for everyone, especially the socialist-curious:

Federation Supreme Court legal drama. Case of the week style. Lots of commercial litigation about how to interpret standard weights and times of delivery for goods given relativity and different solar systems. All just oral arguments

Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀@reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?" Lwaxana Troi sitcom

The smell in the DNC’s big tent is terrible. These right wing super pacs are stinking up the joint.

TOMORROW!

Chicago DSA@chicagodsa.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join Chicago DSA’s Labor Branch on April 3rd for Jobapalooza!! RSVP tinyurl.com/jobapalooza Jobapalooza will include several workplaces organizing a union, or organizing to boost and support existing union organizing. You will talk with people who want to get a job at the workplace to help organize

Well yes but the Supreme Court deciding that talk conversion therapy programs are viewpoints so strict scrutiny applies when banning them amounts to instruction to every circuit to carve out those programs from bans. What’s the survival rate under strict scrutiny, like 5-10% in speech cases?

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

NEW CLASS: David D and Ramsin @ramsincanon.bsky.social comradely discuss The Party and all (well, a lot) that it entails 🌹🎉 No way this debate is over, but we made a dent and hope to continue into coming weeks and months! Listen, like, subscribe ⤵️ www.buzzsprout.com/2021076/epis...

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David (Socialist Majority, NYC-DSA) and Ramsin (Bread and Roses, Chicago DSA) discuss their perspectives on party-building, political independence, and the democratic road to socialism.  Read Dav...

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Today! DSA 102 at Haymarket House! Build your socialism skills! Come by:

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I’d argue it’s even a little worse, which is that they often believe the US working class isn’t constitutionally able to end capitalism and that global south breaking imperialism is a precondition to change—which is a recipe for organizational tailing and immobility domestically

Blossoming GBabeufing@gbabeufing.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My friend and I were talking the other day about some Marxist theorists use theory to justify their passivity (as in “eventually, the inevitable forces of history will achieve communism”) and also identified this type of third worldist thinking of an inert US working class as being similar to that

Let's remember what happened the last time Sara Nelson and the flight attendants decided to flex their muscles

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This interview is notable because it contains the same hinting about flight attendants refusing to work if they think the system is not safe that we heard before the 2018 govt shutdown ended. No union workers are obligated to work in an unsafe environment.

Yeah, like in a vacuum the logic of citizens united isn’t really wrong (the type of organization you are shouldn’t so heavily factor into your speech rights) but we don’t live in a vacuum we live in a plutocracy. So long as that is true, every “rule of law” bends to benefit the rich.

dr. rich traditions, JD@helldude.bsky.social · 6mo ago

virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

Timeline cleanse: blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/17/a...

As Chuy García Retires, Independents See Opportunity For New Era Of Latino Leadership

The race to replace García is one of the most unique races in the country. The seat, long held by a Latino Democrat, could be taken by an independent — and three contenders hope to fill a void in Lati...

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Join Chicago DSA’s Labor Branch on April 3rd for Jobapalooza!! RSVP tinyurl.com/jobapalooza Jobapalooza will include several workplaces organizing a union, or organizing to boost and support existing union organizing. You will talk with people who want to get a job at the workplace to help organize

The Solidarity Mural is an invaluable piece of our union’s history. When we sold the building in Chicago, we knew we had to rescue the mural. There were technical difficulties including some pieces that crumbled. Can we count on you to help us finish preserving this vital piece of UE’s history?

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On Sunday, March 15th 2:15pm, join us at Uprising Theater & Cafe for our Chicago DSA Townhall on ICE. RSVP tinyurl.com/uprisingtownhall ICE will return, be ready! Join Chicago DSA & our allies to discuss community organizing in Chicago & other cities affected by ICE terror

That means their other polling is ominous. There is a reckoning barely outside the view of the public that the political class is aware of, and I think it is going to explode into view soon, and the question is, will socialists be ready to capitalize on it, or will we be caught navel gazing?

US Out Of Chicago@raucousdukakis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Took a survey tonight that I'm pretty sure was for Chris Welch that seems to indicate that IL Democrats are at least starting to incorporate DSA-style policy demands into their strategy. Three questions mentioned the org specifically.

Deep cut but there was briefly a place called Fan Si Pan that made burrito sized spring rolls. It was replaced by Hoosier Mama. That or Zorba’s Diner

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What restaurant that you once loved has closed and broken your heart? For me, it's Taste of Saigon, in Rockville, MD.

Lots to critique about Jesse Jackson but for at least a generation he was about the only loud progressive voice in visible politics, and his 1988 DNC speech can still move me to tears. youtu.be/6RCARIpVDLU

Jesse Jackson 1988 Democratic National Convention Speech

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This is so horrible. The criminality and cruelty of this ruling class has to be answered with more ruthless cruelty if we’re ever going to end stories like this

Gregory Pratt@royalpratt.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

I get it, we can't get rid of capitalism or we'd lose its great innovations like the CSAM chat room, the suicide robot, the plagiarism machine, the doorbell snitch, the fake money generator, the self-immolating auto-car, the thing that puts ads in your ads, and the sex creep sunglasses. But still

Yesterday, after explaining how he rations his pancreas medication due to cost, my 80 y.o. dad proudly showed me the hi-vis vest he has for neighborhood patrol, and I became acutely aware of the rage I hold for all the actions/inaction that have led us here. So today I joined the @twincitiesdsa.org

You can have this for free

This book rules and the movie based on it pretty good too

Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

If you’re into books written by people instead of assembled by AI slop, I just finished this one, which is about a Black guy who quits the CIA to train Black freedom fighters in Chicago, and I can’t stop thinking about it.

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For real, QAnon dropping the ball on this when it was their whole purpose is like how Skype lost out to Zoom when the pandemic started

Joel D. Anderson@joelanderson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What the hell was Qanon doing? There really was/is an international child sex trafficking ring and they got almost none of the leaders of it right. Just a whole group of world-class stupid motherfuckers, man

Yesterday, in a packed room of 200 supporters in Gage Park, 25th Ward Alderman & Chicago DSA member Byron Sigcho-Lopez announced his run for Congress in IL 4th Congressional District as an independent democratic socialist. Donate: tinyurl.com/donatebyron Volunteer: tinyurl.com/volunteerbyron

That podcaster saying he’s not a bootlicker because he voted for the boot is among the funniest cope I’ve ever seen, you know his fans were like cmon man don’t admit that in front of people, bc it admits the pathetic psychological projection they’re doing

The picture of the slob beta dork who tried to spray Rep Omar is too perfect he looks like a guy who people move seats on the bus to avoid sitting next to

Interested in learning more about DSA, democratic socialism, and our political vision? This event will provide a brief overview of DSA and a longer discussion of our political program, Workers Deserve More. Nonmembers interested in DSA are welcome! Info & RSVP: teamup.com/ksc3uaa38o41...