Aging hipster ex-punk socialist. @mhvdsa versobooks.com/books/1847-fo……
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Jun 13
This is encouraging to see, bodes well for our ability to navigate the contradictions of the Mamdani era
Read our statement on the proposed increase to the NYPD headcount.
To get involved, join the Racial Justice Working Group at an upcoming meeting: actionnetwork.org/events/dep…
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Jun 11
Solidarity with Target Field concessions workers in their efforts to get above-minimum wages and health insurance.
Delaware North using charity as a shield and accusing them of "greed" is dirty stuff.
Informative overview of the situation by @MNReformer: minnesotareformer.com/briefs…
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Jun 7
Some people are surprised by Boots Riley's relentless personal promotional campaign for I Love Boosters, but he's just applying a core lesson from political organizing: you have to be comfortable being kinda annoying and embarrassing if you want to succeed
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Jun 7
On 9/11 one of my first thoughts was "oh God, what is the US going to do now." Some of my DSA comrades back then thought they had to support the empire, just as their successors thought we had to after 10/7. I respect people who had an analysis and got it right in the moment.
Jun 6
Asked why she attended the October 8, 2023 pro-Palestine Times Square rally, New York congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier said because she believed Israel’s response would be “disproportionate and create a greater loss of life.”
“That is what I was there to stand against.”
By the end of October 8, 2023, Israel had already murdered 413 Palestinians and wounded between 2,200 and 2,300 others in indiscriminate retaliatory airstrikes across the Gaza Strip.
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Jun 6
I fear that people debating the definition of early 2000s hipster culture are not engaging with the contemporaneous scholarship on the question archive.org/details/bwb_KR-6…
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Jun 5
Feel like my social media feeds are tending inexorably toward a world where Hunter Biden campaigns with Graham Platner
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May 31
My ex doesn't live in the US and she doesn't need me to tell her to see I Love Boosters. So I just texted her "October", she'll understand.
May 31
We have to take things to the next level to raise awareness for I Love Boosters. Social media confines posts 2a small circle, so
If u like I Love Boosters- actually TEXT the trailer to all ur friends.
If u LOVE I Love Boosters, text it to ur EX.
Its ok to ghost after the text.
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May 28
The perpetual dilemma of the corporate Democrat: trying to please the voters and the donors, who want very different things
May 28
Detroit News: "Stevens doesn’t want to talk about getting support from AIPAC because it’s become “very toxic” in Democratic primaries in other states, said Democratic strategist Chris DeWitt, who isn’t involved in the Senate primary contest.
“Stevens is in a bit of a conundrum. She doesn’t have fundraising grassroots support, so she needs the money to be able to run her campaign. And AIPAC is a problem, but it’s the only source of money she has. In the end, it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t,” DeWitt said.
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May 23
Just saw I Love Boosters, the movie that finally nails the absurd madcap humor of the science of dialectical materialism in the way only @BootsRiley can
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May 23
You could say Boots kind of has a formula, but if the formula is "working class person from Oakland is being ground down by capitalism until they stumble upon a magical plot macguffin and learn a very important lesson about solidarity and class struggle" then keep it coming
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May 22
This weekend on this website will be so much better than usual, because no matter what you get up to my timeline will be flooded with @BootsRiley retweeting people talking about I Love Boosters
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May 15
This guy's voters are all past draft age and hate their kids, so this is a very savvy position to take
May 15
Thomas Massie’s opponent, Ed Gallrein, says he wants to bring back the military draft for “national security” reasons.
He complains that the current system is too slow when it comes to sending large numbers of young Americans off to a potential world war.
"That is a significant issue for national security."
"I'm not sure we have that kind of time anymore."
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May 13
There's a trope in bourgeois ideology I call "the magic of the marketplace": markets can make anything real if there's a strong enough economic incentive for it. Usually deployed to imagine tech solutions to social problems, but you can also use it for geopolitical clusterfucks!
May 12
JP Morgan on oil prices/Strait of Hormuz:
"A core assumption of our framework is that the accelerating pace of oil inventory depletion will ultimately force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, one way or another. Our base case envisions the Strait reopens in June—anchored on June 1 for simplicity—following a clear and credible announcement ratified and confirmed by both sides, such as a statement from the UN Security Council."
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May 5
Bro, your magazine is named after an obscure factional dispute in the 1920s CPUSA, how are you out here accusing people of cringe LARPing just because we carry on some of our movement's best known and beloved traditions
The first time I found myself in a group of communists singing the international I cringed, hoped it’d be over soon, and wished we had mass politics instead of a niche subculture that sings 100 year old LARP songs. This isn’t about what makes us feel good, it’s about revolution.
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May 4
The management at the Times may think they can delegitimize anti-Zionism by making Tucker the face of it, but all they're actually going to do is legitimize antisemitism
May 2
Am I crazy or is the New York Times podcast lady actually trying to argue that insulting Jewish people is worse than the mass murder of children?
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Apr 27
I swear that when I wrote this, I did not realize I was giving it a headline that's structured like the title of a Harry Potter novel
Running New York means managing capitalism.
Building socialism means confronting it.
Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty has brought that contradiction into the state: jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-…
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Apr 27
I wrote about Zohran, in the perhaps vain hope that I could add something beyond the tired DSA "left vs. right" debates about how we relate to our elected officials.
What happens when a DSA politician takes charge of the largest city in the United States?
Zohran Mamdani’s early record is filled with successes, but also evidence of the contradictions between socialist politics and governing the capitalist state. jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-…
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Apr 25
I would like to commend everyone participating in shoplifting discourse right now, for their timely promotional work on behalf of @iloveboostersmv from the great @BootsRiley
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Apr 21
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NEW: Trump administration is considering financial bailout for the United Arab Emirates over economic losses sustained from US war with Iran. -WSJ
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