Alec H
@sandersculottes.bsky.social
🪕KY to Chicago, Dad, SEIU 73 member in Chicago Parks, Chicago DSA member 🥖🌹. Fan of Louisville City FC, Chicago Fire FC & Racing Louisville FC.
Did you miss our first session of Socialist Night School last week? Never fear—we have more upcoming sessions over the next few weeks, in several locations throughout the city! Check out our event calendar at chicagodsa.org/events for a full list of opportunities to learn and discuss with comrades.
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
If I accidentally read another piece on how everything is the Left’s fault, which doesn’t address the fact that the Left is fighting a highly unequal conflict where its opponents have control of major tech platforms, my head is going to 🤯🤯🤯🤯.
With the undemocratic constitution off our backs and a new political playing field, a better world will be possible.
DSA Is Right: We Need a New Constitution - Democratic Left
With the undemocratic constitution off our backs and a new political playing field, a better world will be possible.
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We’re in the homestretch for petition canvassing season! If you haven’t come out to canvass for Chicago DSA’s Socialist Slate candidates yet, now’s the perfect time to help us get these folks on the ballot. Visit canvass.chicagodsa.org for our interactive map of canvasses near you!
Hey Chicago! @chicagodsa.bsky.social's Socialist Night School has started its 17th semester, and you are invited! We're even having sessions near you, wherever you are in Chicago. Take a look; we've got some really great programming. Free entry, free food, free socialist knowledge! Please come!
Spooky season is here! 🎃👻🦇🕷️ Come haunt us during this full week of canvassing, poli-ed, and socials with comrades. For a full list of our upcoming opportunities, visit chicagodsa.org/events
I know I talk a lot about how rampant individualism is our primal sin, but we also have to contend with smugness, an unwillingness to ever learn anything or admit error, and the tendency to treat everything like one consumer choice among many
We need more than anything the practice of community, the display of solidarity, and the idea of commitment, and that's pretty hard to achieve in a nation that has reduced literally everything to a customer service interaction
Having some grim thoughts today about the future of socialism in a country that is intensely antisocial
If you're in Chicago DSA, I want to see you there. If you're socialist-curious, I want to invite you. If you're a new member, I want you to get involved. If you're just looking for something to do, I want you to come. And if you only know me from social media, I want to meet you! Please come out!
Finally, Monday, Oct. 5, at 6:30PM, we'll kick off our 17th (!) semester of Socialist Night School at Wicker Park Lutheran Church. I'm so proud of the work we do with SNS and in our political education section. We're starting with a session on the lessons of Reconstruction. Free and open to all!
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Then, Sunday, Oct. 4, at 6PM, please please PLEASE come out to @beermiscuous.bsky.social and join the Bread & Roses caucus for great beer and an open discussion of our strategies around independent political action! All are welcome, we're taking questions, and it's a great spot with great comrades!
First of all, tomorrow, Oct. 3, at noon, join us at Ping Tom Park for a DSA field day! It'll be a BATTLE OF THE BRANCHES with races, kickball, food, drinks, great comrades, and a round of Socialist Jeopardy! Hosted by me, a big commie nerd who likes games! New member and DSA-curious friendly!
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Hey, everybody! I want to again alert you that @chicagodsa.bsky.social has THREE amazing events coming up in the next few days, and implore you to come to at least one of them! They're all open to the public (no need to be a DSA member), they're all new-member-friendly, and they're gonna be great!
You're the head of the US military, bitch, grab a rifle and get goin'
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHegseth: "Send me to right the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me."
/a powerful person faces mild consequences for their misbehavior exactly one time in the history of the country over a half-century ago THE "PARTY OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY": Absolutely fucking not
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.“.. The department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
‘Antisemitism isn’t systemic’ is the Left’s version of ‘the world’s oldest hatred’. An easy slogan that is in fact a sign of impoverished thought, a stubborn unwillingness to think critically & rigorously. One hyperbolizes, the other minimizes;
Btw the ADL’s ethno-fascism and the bizarre instance that anyone who says antisemitism exists has been zog-pilled, I am starting to come around to the idea that a Zohran Mamdani cool-as-a-cucumber-mint-martini antisemitism task force mightn’t be such a bad idea
it's high key crazy that an international cabal of pedophile billionaires are why SSD, RAM, GPU, and energy prices are so bad right now. genuinely bewildering. like what am I supposed to do with this information.
New podcast up, discussing the Manchester City verdict, the problem it raises for the Premier League and more. Available on the main feed, or ad-free to members on Patreon. www.patreon.com/stadio/posts...
A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.
Transphobes will embrace and ally themselves with every pedophile, rapist, and domestic abuser because they fundamentally agree completely with them about bodily autonomy and consent Transphobes are unable to *not* see a huge obviously abusive piece of shit and immediately support them.
anniempeterson.bsky.social@anniempeterson.bsky.social · 2mo agoA note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.
Both camps succumb to negative polarization & hyper-online brain rot. Of course, the issue of antisemitism is overdetermined today by Israel/Palestine. But at root this is a municipal hate crimes prevention strategy. Nobody benefits by obsessively reading it through the I/P prism
It's funny that one loud camp is (predictably) saying that Mamdani’s antisemitism plan is not Zionist enough, while another is claiming it's (somehow) too Zionist. What both overlook, because neither really care, is the project of fighting antisemitism in NYC on its own terms
As socialists, we stand in solidarity with those who fight the boss, and we’re proud to stand with @sbworkersunited.org!
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol and other executives make millions each year while denying pay raises, just cause protections, and safe work scheduling to employees whose labor makes Starbucks.
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history, including repeated union-busting and retaliation efforts at stores across the country.
