DSA Prepares for May Day 2026 — and Beyond - Democratic Left The labor movement has marked May Day 2028 for strikes across the U.S. Now is the time to build the capabilities that will make that vision a reality.

UAW President Shawn Fain's call for mass labor action on May Day 2028 has attracted support from across the labor movement — and from DSA. The National Labor Commission sees May Day 2026 as a chance to begin building momentum.

Two at-large senators. Boom, done

The Democrats make perfect sense when you stop seeing them as a political party, and view them instead as a business venture that provides political entertainment, but with a clear profit motive

Just two African-born Muslim socialists hangin out

Great, accessible overview of how deskilling works generally and what it means for academic labor specifically

Ginsberg not retiring at age 80 after 20 years on the bench was one of the great disasters of modern liberalism, and it blows my mind that so many liberals still stitch her face onto tote bags.

Steyer took questions on topics as diverse as sickle cell anemia, runaway film production, K-12 curriculum, the status of state mental hospitals, appointees for the University of California Board of Regents, and data center installations, to name a few. It was a sometimes idiosyncratic but mostly faithful cross section of issues that Californians care about. Most of all, it wasn’t polished, just someone trying to represent citizens hearing from citizens. “We’re here to look people in the eye and find out what they need,” he said. The cynics are right in one respect: With 200 voters at a time, Steyer would have to do town halls like this in rolling fashion for a couple of years to reach enough to make a dent. The sheer size of the state frustrates retail politics. But it may pay dividends beyond that. The state’s dominant Democratic Party became cloistered from voters, and immune to the building blocks of politics that make it a force in people’s lives. Since achieving a two-thirds majority last decade, the party has been content to let politicians retreat to Sacramento in relative obscurity, helped along by the near-absence of local media coverage of state issues and politics. The only time voters are brought into the fold is when they must decipher a maddening array of ballot initiatives with little help from the outside, other than dueling TV commercials. The alien nature of politics in the state sets up anomalies like what could happen in the governor’s race, and while the idiotic top-two primary without a ranked-choice element is to blame, the bigger problem is how small politics has become so that something like this can happen in the first place.

Steyer is doing little Q&A sessions for a few hundred people. That's possible if you don't have to fundraise. But he adds: "If you don’t get out and talk to people...then you know what other people in Sacramento know, & you know what that means? You don’t know anything.” prospect.org/2026/03/24/t...

Do it Hugo. Return to your NOlympics roots

Probably Steyer but Becerra was READY for this lol

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

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We campaigned against the shocking abuses of child detention in Trump 1.0, which were ugly enough. The escalation of open fascism has made things so much more dire. Very difficult reading.

right, I think the pretty fundamental problem that is being felt is that the one thing which feels out of reach for lots of young americans - a house - happens to be an asset, while the things that people can buy ever more of happen to be commodities

The remaining pro-Israel rump of the democratic coalition believes in a version of both Israel and regional history that exists only in their minds.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Omg i loved taking the 147 😭 it was like a treat!

Anti-Zionism is rising as a response to what Israel is doing. It will simply not be possible to treat it as a marginal viewpoint that can be shamed or shunned into invisibility. Yes, antisemitism often cloaks itself in anti-Zionism. So don't do the antisemites' work for them. If you keep telling people that if they oppose the Jewish state then they must hate the Jewish people, eventually, they will believe you.

I don’t often find myself agreeing with Ezra Klein, but this is completely correct — and frankly, shows some guts for a mainstream liberal columnist to say. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

Wow it’s like as the ramifications of collapse have edged into Gen X and boomer cohorts’ lifestyles they are now adopting the positions of young people from ~a decade ago. Yet somehow only one of these groups is granted political agency by press. Wow you’re telling me this for the first time

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One of my greatest triumphs was when my coworker decided Yeongno was an appropriate nickname for me 😌

Whatever happens tonight, we are past a threshold. The injuries and usurpations have escalated to a point that we cannot just wait for the elections. It is the duty of all US citizens to do at least some small part in the civil resistance against tyranny. The Union is dead, long live the Union.

NEW @cplusc.bsky.social: A New Era of Manufacturing for Public Good: The Case for the CA Grid Manufacturing Initiative

In CA, labor-led green industrial policy is the way out of chronic delays and skyrocketing costs for electric grid components that burden ratepayers and slow the green transition.

It's a pain at times but I do genuinely believe this.

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office?

—60,000 new social housing units
—15 express bus routes
—Completion of city's full bike network
—Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard
—1000 new pedestrian streets
—300 new hectares of parks

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

Looking forward to reading

Forecast up to 95°

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Even SoCal is wild this year. Two nights ago it was too chilly for me to sit outside in shorts (I know) and yesterday we entered a record March heatwave