“Starting Five” 😅 🏀 💙 Let’s go @nyknicks!

Are there any leftists that didn't go through a republican phase? I'm noticing a pattern

I am supporting @grahamformaine today because of his passion for opposing war. An honest conversation about the human toll and his journey.

I am supporting @grahamformaine today because of his passion for opposing war. An honest conversation about the human toll and his journey.

‼️Debunking the Rape Hoax Redux (w/ @AliAbunimah)‼️ "[S]hould we embrace people like Tucker Carlson, MTG, Candace Owens when they're very critical of Israel, calling it out for genocide?...I'm not going to criticize anyone who calls out Israeli genocide. Doesn't mean I agree with them on every single issue. But what am I going to say to them? Don't talk about the genocide?"

Lizzy Savetdky, the social media influencer at center of Tribeca scandal over jokes about sexual abuse of Palestinians, makes clear she's not going to back down or apologize

Chris Smalls shot to prominence for playing a key role in the shock union win at a New York Amazon warehouse. He was charismatic and energetic at a time labor needed both. But in the years since, his own ego has overwhelmed his political contributions. jacobin.com/2026/06/smalls-a…

Jacobin magazine, the principal mouthpiece of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, today released a hit piece on Amazon labor leader Chris Smalls, @Shut_downAmazon. It could be legit if Jacobin had had an honest critique of Smalls to clarify what class struggle unionist leaders should be doing. But the article is not that at all. It’s a hatchet job against a leading labor activist who has refused to toe the line of the DSA and the business unionist labor leaders who give cover to the so-called progressive Democrats and to the Democratic Party as a whole, despite shocking betrayals by them against working people. The crux of the real reason why Jacobin went after Smalls is contained in this sentence: “[Smalls] blames the two-party system for the state of the American labor movement…” Smalls is spot on about this and the need to break from the Democratic and Republican parties. We need a new party of the working class. The DSA leadership, on the other hand, sees giving cover to the Democratic Party as job number one. The Democratic Party is the party under whom the genocide in Gaza began and which engineered the breaking of the railroad workers’ strike — both under President Joe Biden. ALL Democrats in the House, including DSA star AOC voted to break the strike. The Democratic Party is one of the two most powerful capitalist parties in the world, and in no way represents working people or the oppressed. Business unionist labor leaders are those who have made peace with the capitalist system and are driven by protecting their careers, which means placating the bosses, not organizing the rank and file against the bosses to win substantive working-class victories. Refusing to fight the bosses also means aligning with the parties of the bosses, like the Democratic Party. The overwhelming majority of the labor leadership today is business unionist, with some crucial exceptions like Smalls. We need a reckoning in the labor movement. Brother Smalls has put his life on the line for the antiwar movement in solidarity with the Palestinia people against the Israeli state’s genocide bankrolled by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Smalls went on a Gaza aid flotilla carrying food, baby formula, diapers and medicine in the context of catastrophic levels of mass starvation in Gaza. The flotilla was attacked by the Israeli military, who physically assaulted Smalls, and kicked and choked him. In contrast, AOC has voted for the Iron Dome which is part of the Israeli state’s genocidal apparatus. For having the temerity to expose AOC and other self-described “progressive” politicians, Smalls is called “narcissistic” by Jacobin, a term the magazine’s editors were apparently forced to retract after they got huge amounts of flak on all social media. Personal attacks and character assassination like in this case are often used by the political establishment’s spokespeople as proxy for their real objections — in this case, the threat they feel from Smalls openly calling out the Democratic Party’s actual role. The only way of rebuilding a militant labor movement is to pose a concrete threat to both the Democratic and Republican parties, which in turn requires a challenge to the business unionist labor leadership. That is the basis on which I won the nation’s highest minimum wage and the Amazon Tax during the decade I was the sole socialist on the Seattle City Council. I am now running as an independent revolutionary socialist against genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. I am calling for an end to all military aid to Israel and an end to all weapons and tech for genocide and imperialist war. kshamasawant.org

Everyone should disclose who is paying for their voice or tweets in the actual tweets. Platner and Steyer campaigns should be transparent And to be clear - no one pays for my tweets.

The permanent vibecession is here to stay

The permanent vibecession is here to stay

It’s funny. In real life I find most people have a pretty nuanced view of Gaza. People generally are somewhere in the area of Israel government bad. Hamas bad. Settlers bad. War bad. 10/7 bad. But that isn’t reflected in most discourse.

Allyship is a two way street. When we needed help from leftists to help stop fascism, to protect the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized, they denied us that allyship, and they enjoyed it; they enjoyed telling us NO. They laughed and mocked us, and they think we forgot.

.@hasanthehun thinks that AOC endorsing Maureen Galindo's opponent was a really bad move ‼️🚨

Why Are CIA-Linked Leftist Podcasters Pushing Marjorie Taylor Green Over AOC? joewrote.com/p/why-are-cia-l…

Scoop: Democratic think tank @SearchlightInst is pushing the party to embrace a new idea: Free primary care for all Americans. The group wants Dems to rethink their approach to health care and break out of the M4A vs ACA rut. They’re unimpressed with CAP’s proposal and warn that Dems need to have a vision beyond opposing Trump and restoring expired subsidies. “This is still our best issue, but we have not been on offense in a way that’s capturing people’s imaginations and getting them excited,” says @AJentleson. “We don’t need to be on defense or just advocating for incremental reforms.” Story w/ @BerkeleyJr: nbcnews.com/politics/politic…