Reynoso losing the WFP chapter vote, treading water with unions, and only getting over the finish line to beat DSA for the WFP endorsement thanks to The Groups is just breathtaking. pre-Zohran this guy was a lot of lefties' realistic dream mayor!
its so cool that on the other site a MUG person posted a thread defending their caucus for using an antisemitic term and in the thread used a transphobic slur.
Nuremberg 2.0 is the moderate option.
NEW: After a tense standoff with armed agents, Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison were blocked from entering the ICE HQ in Minnesota.
This is explicitly against a court ruling that officials must follow the law and let lawmakers conduct such oversight visits.
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ICE must leave Minneapolis immediately and ICE must be abolished. The agent responsible must be arrested.
My prayers are with the family and loved ones of our neighbor who was murdered by ICE this morning while protecting our community.
okay so I'm doing my best to extract DSA from vichy twitter - if you are DSA-kin and I don't follow you, reply to this, we gotta get the numbers up.
Well, I hope it doesn't fuck up the rest of our plans 🤷I don't think it will
Vickie Paladino is a vile fascist, racist, Islamophobe, and a disgrace to Queens.
She rains hatred down upon our neighbors, calls for the murder of her political opponents, and is now demanding the denaturalization & deportation of Muslim Americans.
@council.nyc.gov must expel her.
i mean i’m not in DDSA so can’t really speak to details here but Gonzales was in communication with members of the chapter prior to launch and this comms pretzel seems more of a result of misunderstanding how to appeal to the chapter than an attempt to sideline it. it’d be easy to do the latter
tbh i think it’s less that bc her follow up post is functionally lobbying for endorsement and she seemed more skittish about the label than about the chapter in the interview
Stephanie’s win flips control of the city council from Republicans, and solidifies a solid progressive block that will have wide leverage to affect city politics over the next few years. Incredibly proud of the work my chapter put into this campaign.
i think you were right to probe this line of questioning and i’m similarly vexed by her answer but i think the snappy headline does paper over some complexity
i think “Gonzales’ membership lapsed” or “Gonzales says many of her policies would be considered socialist but she dislikes labels” would not imply that she just quit her membership when lapses happen both intentionally and unintentionally
headline isn’t really accurate bc Gonzales seems more averse to the label than to DSA itself, but still unfortunate to see an unforced error like this on day 1. Zohran/Bernie/AOC’s success cannot be decoupled from their honesty about being democratic socialists
all i can say is that the difference comes across interpersonally
she was one of the few Dems in the state house that called for a ceasefire in Gaza in 2023. i don’t think she has spoken on an arms embargo directly but her mentioning “we have money for bombs not not healthcare” in her ad is a good sign www.cpr.org/2023/12/21/c...
Hickenlooper’s team is transparently very worried bsky.app/profile/anti...
Gonzales is likely to be the most credible Senate primary challenger that the US will see in 2026. Hickenlooper is a fossil with one of the worst legislative records amongst Senate dems. Gonzales has been behind nearly every progressive reform passed in Colorado in the last 8 years
FINALLY bsky.app/profile/sena...
he’s narcissistic and incomprehensibly wealthy enough that i still suspect him to give a 2028 run a go, and i expect several more moments exactly like this before and during that campaign
i keep hearing “beginning of December.” 😭 it has to be this week, right?
yeah i think them linking gonzales’s name to an ad for his re-election suggests they might not be as confident as they’re projecting
pretty widely confirmed to be happening but still no launch yet. but his allies put this out a few weeks back www.coloradopols.com/diary/218469...
oh bro is mortified
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I think it's shameful that during a second Trump administration, and after NYC voters rejected a return to moderate, conciliatory governance, that a Democrat would tout the entirety of the Council's Republican caucus as her supporters.