Caleb is Understanding Elections
@understandingelex.bsky.social
Howdy! I write about elections from a socialist perspective. https://understandingelections.substack.com/
An insidious memo to drop before COP30, just pages and pages of capitalist techno-utopianism. Of course, this is the same Bill Gates who prioritized the IP rights of vaccine manufacturers at the height of Covid www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...
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If VP Harris had given a shit 9 months ago, maybe she'd have won.
Bowiegrrl@bowiegrrl.bsky.social · last yr.People who refused to support VP Harris stop acting like you give a shit about what’s happening now challenge.
Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered
Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered
WASHINGTON—After being confronted about social media posts that blamed the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers on the far left, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) stressed Tuesday that he would have said the same ...
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Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...
Building strong, militant unions where we work and where we live is what socialists should be doing above all else. inthesetimes.com/article/rent...
Striking Tenants Withhold Rent for 247 Days and Win
A victory in Kansas City suggests that the tactics of organized labor can work for tenants.
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This isn't all of the story, but a surprisingly big part of the "fear" of Mamdani isn't actually that he'll institute full communism, it's that people's friends-and-influence groups will be demoted from their positions of authority
Like with Jeremy Corbyn in 2017, the ruling class' lackeys waited way too long to derail Zohran Mamdani and are now panicking.
If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.
GUY WHO, IF PRESSED, TURNS OUT IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO YOUR CAUSE: are you sure *those* tactics help your cause
That it's happened so consistently across the EU and anglosphere reinforces that this is a structural problem, and therefore not something that can be fixed by getting the "correct" politicians or party into office.
merritt@merrittk.com · last yr.center-left parties around the world rn are like well... drifting right and providing a watered down version of the politics people are voting for hasn't worked for the last fifty years... but it might work for us
And had Bernie somehow won, it would have been steeper and sooner.
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · last yr.thered be calls for impeachment if a dem did this
For Dems, a solely anti-Trump platform is their only move. In the modern era, conservative parties in the industrialized west have a much easier time running on a strong vision. Liberal/social democratic parties win not based on vision, but on the political exhaustion of the conservatives in power.
lol holy shit i'm reading the wiki for Bedtime for Bonzo (1951) starring Ronald Reagan and look how close a chimp came to altering the history of the entire goddamn planet
Me explaining the Sykes–Picot Agreement to my 9-year-old nephew:
I know its penny ante at this point but doesn't the president own vineyards? anyway feels right that 250 years after thomas jefferson first tried and failed to make cab franc take stateside a new stamp act plus war on terroir means you'll drink that swill and fucking like it
Time to bring back a timeless sign:
Sitting Andrew and Tristan Tate as guests of honor at a public event after they flew out of the country they were facing human trafficking charges in is rape culture in action
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
Lots of socialists critique @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social for not being left enough. But as long as the critics adhere to electoralism, they inevitably slide back into the very object of their critique: understandingelections.substack.com/p/another-so...
Another Socialist Almost Leaves the Electoral Trap
In Current Affairs, Managing Editor Lily Sánchez makes the case to “Move Beyond Bernie Sanders” in her article of the same name.
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getting my skull split open at the farmer's market by a penzeys-branded stanley mug because a fifty-year old resist lib decoded secret messages from an account claiming to be a "rogue faa employee" that said anyone in a bernie sanders sweater is a kgb spy
Truly a banner day for the Women's Equality Party
German election exit polls are largely as expected: the conservative CDU will win a plurality (100+ seats short of a majority), and the fascist AfD will be the primary opposition party. The neoliberal FDP likely won't win any seats at all, only the second time since its founding that happened.
Prediction: the Nаzi salute will become common within 2 years. RWers will half-аss it for plausible deniability, memeify the backlash, then start fully doing it "as a joke" "to troll the libs" "for being hysterical enough to think we were doing it in the first place"
