Rashida Tlaib speaking at the DSA Convention 2025, receiving huge applause
Convention of @demsocialists.bsky.social 2025: Will the New NPC Turn Toward Socialist Mass Work? - Read my report either discussion.dsausa.org/t/convention... or tinyurl.com/dsa-conventi... . We've also sold our new book there, A User's Guide to DSA - check it out at labor-power.org !
Cool FIFA World Cup Seattle idea: Elect Katie.
I enjoyed this political critique of culture, looking at Superman over the last 80 years in the Cosmonaut Podcast:
Superman Through the Ages: Hero of the Zeitgeist - traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cosmo...
NEW: The sit-in rages on. They'll leave when they schedule a meeting with the Governor! www.theburnerseattle.com/post/sociali...
"The tech sector is particularly eager to suck up to Trump now, as they seek policies favorable to artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Cartoon criticizing billionaires and media chief executives who have, in the words of the cartoonist, "been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump", including Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.
Too much for Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post!
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
I don´t think so, but it needs to be changed.
A majority of migrants is pushed into low-wage labor markets and the housing crisis. These conditions harm both domestic and migrant families alike. Is it an accident, that the left is more open to discuss the immigration crisis when it's about better paid, academic layers of the working class?
H1B highlights how migrants face discrimination, are used to lower wages and weaken (domestic and migrant) workers' rights among better-paid workers. The left must also address this issue when it impacts the poorest workers.
reformandrevolution.org/2024/10/26/i...
“The system is not primarily about taking care of the patient,” said Dr. Emilie Scott, who worked for a UnitedHealth-owned practice in California before leaving in 2016. “It’s, how do you get the money to flow?” - quote from WSJ article on Medicare Advantage provided by UnitedHealth
Chart illustrates the average sickness scores of Medicare recipients. It highlights the differences between UnitedHealth doctors and other doctors. UnitedHealth Plans: The gap between UnitedHealth doctors and other doctors is worth an estimated $4.6 billion. Other Medicare Advantage Plans: The gap is worth an estimated $2.7 billion. Traditional Medicare: the gap is minimal as additional diagnoses in this category do not result in higher payments to insurers.
Privatization of Medicare ("Medicare Advantage") example:
UnitedHealth increased Medicare payments by billions
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Capitalism 101: the "efficiency of the markets" to make the super-wealthy even richer
Annual homelessness report: 39% increase for families, 150,000 children, record number of unaccompanied youths in shelters
Homelessness in the US increased over 2 years by 33%, numbers from Jan 2024. Capitalism 101: Your home? Their real estate.
youtu.be/dOhJUxVtjVs?...
At the same time, in the US, "over 60% live paycheck to paycheck ..., 85 million are uninsured or underinsured, more than 20 million households spend over half of their limited incomes on rent or a mortgage and over 60,000 die each year because they can’t afford to go to a doctor on time."
The 3 wealthiest men (Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg) "own more wealth than the bottom half of our society – over 165 million people", $955 billion combined. "The top 1% now own more wealth than the bottom 90%", the gap growing every day.
www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...
The left needs to deal with immigration:
"The immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in U.S. history, surpassing the great immigration boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s," www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/b...
A bold approach is needed:
reformandrevolution.org/2024/10/26/i...
We're in full solidarity with Amazon Teamsters on their biggest strike in US history.
Bezos gave $1M to Trump's inauguration & NYPD are protecting Bezos' profits by arresting his workers this morning.
Whose side are you on? Join us on the picket line: actionnetwork.org/forms/gettin...
tldr? → Democrats are "continuing to be a party of geriatric multimillionaires", while AOC "seems to have abandoned everything she once stood for [...] she’d even promised to end her support for primary challengers to fellow House Democrats."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Six SBWU members raise their fists outside of the Starbucks HQ building, where the SoDo Reserve store is.
Y’all…we now have a union store INSIDE Starbucks Headquarters in Seattle!
Partners at the SoDo Reserve store voted UNION YES - just HOURS after we announced that 98% of SBWU baristas authorized to strike if necessary.
Our union is strong - and ready for whatever it takes 🔥
When 85% of New Yorkers say the cost of food is rising faster than their incomes, it's time for a real alternative.
Introducing a public option...for produce.
Graphic with bold text announcing: 'AMAZON TEAMSTERS vote to authorize STRIKE at two MAJOR NYC WAREHOUSES.' The design features yellow and black text on a beige background, with the Teamsters logo at the bottom.
NYC-DSA stands with Amazon Teamsters at JFK8 & DBK4. If Amazon doesn't come to the table & workers walk out, we'll be on the picket line letting them know NYers have their back.
Join our AMAZON ON STRIKE: Solidarity Mass Call, Tues 12/17 @ 7p to plug in: actionnetwork.org/events/amazo...
BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time.
The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout.
Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...
In the age of Trump 2.0, movement organizing is needed to defend trans rights and keep the pressure up
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
"Raghad al-Tatary, a pilot who refused to bomb the city of Hama during the uprising against Hafez al-Assad in the 1980s, was freed after 43 years; Tal al-Mallouhi, 19 when she was arrested in 2009 for a blogpost criticising state corruption, was found alive."
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
"... a US Senate committee released a report cataloging how ... companies deny patients care ..., even when doctors say they are necessary for a full recovery. The report said that the denials were principally made to drive up profits."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
"We need climate action that is just, that improves people's lives, that makes people's lives easier."
Angry after the election? Get active. www.pbp.ie/join
#KickOutFFFG #ge24 #PeopleBeforeProfit #ClimateCatastrophe
youtube.com/watch?v=qXcT...
Democrats in action: “It is absurd for the Biden administration to argue ... that countries do not have clear legal obligations to reduce carbon pollution, ... as it prepares to turn over the executive office to a proven climate denier like ... Trump” - climate justice director Oxfam US
"Anti-labor coup", how @alexcallinicos.bsky.social called it on x.com/alex_callini..., meet resistance: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
Last night, 19 Senators voted to end illegal arms sales to Israel.
We stood up to AIPAC, the Democratic Senate leadership, and the Biden administration.
We must continue going forward to end illegal arms sales and hold Netanyahu accountable for his war crimes.
