Al Simon

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[Al Simon @AlSimonSays]

@NathanJRobinson The social aspect of Socialism is so important. It's necessary to living a "left life"

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

It’s become impossible to ignore the way that people online make fun of my opponent for things that have nothing to do with her policies or politics. It’s unkind and unhelpful. If you support me, please stop.

Focus on the issues: Congresswoman Stevens has welcomed corporations and special interests to support her. She votes to send our money abroad while Michiganders struggle. She’s bought by DTE, Blue Cross, Big Tech, and Big Pharma who pick our pockets. AIPAC, Trump-aligned billionaires, and corporate PACs are spending $50,000,000+ to support her.

THOSE are the issues. We don’t need to be unkind to be honest.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

The Kansas land bridge wow

[Al Simon @AlSimonSays]

@RonBrownstein @urbaninstitute What does the current system cost over that period?

[Al Simon @AlSimonSays]

@ZaidJilani He speaks American. Mamdani does to. The Left has always needed to learn this.

[Al Simon @AlSimonSays]

@daveweigel I mean, you have to expect her to be loud about it.

[Al Simon @AlSimonSays]

@PumpCapitalLLC The issue is really about WHICH ids should be required/allowed. ID laws tend toward tight restrictions and specify ids that certain people have access to and that others don't.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Wow: After voting to cut U.S. aid to Israel, New York Rep. Pat Ryan — who serves in a competitive district — says he does not want AIPAC's endorsement and is returning their funds

[Al Simon @AlSimonSays]

@joewrote I was a Bernie delegate to DNC in 2016. On the bus to the convention hall were also TX delegates. Some were DSA and they went thru the bus signing people up. I joined.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇨🇺 US Sanctions a Cuban Ministry for the First Time, Visiting Democrats Compare the Blockade to a “Silent Gaza”

Four Democratic members of Congress who visited Cuba this weekend described the U.S. energy blockade as turning the island into a “silent Gaza,” on the same day the Trump administration rolled out a fresh round of sanctions targeting Cuba’s tourism, energy, and trade sectors.

Reps. Mark Pocan, Teresa Leger Fernández, Maxine Dexter, and Delia Ramírez met President Miguel Díaz-Canel during the four-day trip, the AP reported. Pocan said a Cuban he spoke with called the situation a “silent Gaza,” which he found “apt.”

“There may not be bombings, but there are certainly conditions that prevent people from going about their daily lives. They can’t go to work, they can’t preserve their food, they can’t access medical supplies,” he said. He accused Secretary of State Marco Rubio, raised among anti-Castro exile groups in Miami, of making the policy “personal and not professional.”

Washington imposed the energy embargo in January, and the result on the streets, the AP noted, is blackouts of more than 20 hours a day, gutted transport, and a collapse in tourism.

Hours earlier, the State Department designated 10 more Cuban entities, including, for the first time, an entire ministry, the Ministry of Tourism, along with energy importers, the foreign-trade group GECOMEX, and three armed bodies tied to state security.

Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has branded the escalating measures “acts of genocide” and “collective punishment.” At a UN session on July 7, 136 countries voted to condemn the decades-long embargo and new fuel sanctions, with only nine opposed, including the United States and Israel.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

In other words: An ex-Trump campaign manager is allegedly running a US elections influence campaign on behalf of Israel, helping shield an AIPAC-backed Democrat from a Democratic socialist challenger.

[Kasey Helton @KaseyHelton05]

I might get in trouble with my dad for saying this, but I think I just found two of the cutest most wholesome boomers in Livingston Co.

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

"Decentralized Western capitalists have been able to squeeze domestic labor for forty years and run outsized profits. But now they are faced by a centralized capitalist (which is in effect the Chinese state) who is even more efficient in squeezing wages and increasing productivity. That centralized capitalist is now running out of business Western decentralized capitalists. This is why the latter have to move the heaven and the earth in order to stop the centralized capitalist from winning. But they have to do all of that while never mentioning the role their own profits play in it."

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A year ago, CDC made Cyclospora surveillance optional. It had been tracked for 28 years.

Today: ~3,000 cases across 31 states, no confirmed source, and CDC’s own count (843) is trailing what states are reporting by thousands.

[Chris Alvino @ChrisAlvino]

The worst part about this outbreak is that, bc every news agency is owned by corporate billionaires, not a SINGLE ONE has the courage to link this outbreak to Trump and his dismantling of our food safety protections. So the general public just assumes this is business as usual.

[moe tkacik @moetkacik]

I think "MeToo turned men MAGA" is an unfortunate way of articulating something that offended me, a 3 time rape victim, about MeToo, which is how unbelievably easy it made it to destroy every dude except, somehow, the truly diabolical ones.

Moira Donegan's list contained many alcoholic men I knew well & had never heard rapey things about (and I was in a position where I took in an inordinate amount of gossip). The list affected all of them badly but in different ways & I never heard anything more to substantiate the vague claims. None of those people turned MAGA to my knowledge because they were pretty serious leftists but I think it made them very cynical. Now, there were two or three guys on there I hated, did not like or trust, found to be basically repugnant -- but I should also say I had never heard allegations of SA, just inappropriate relationships with subordinates and snake behavior, and the list damaged their careers as well, and I don't feel sorry for them, but maybe that isnt justice. Similarly, peak woke took out a professor in my family who paradoxically is one of the wokest people I know. A lot of good people have been seriously damaged by false opportunistic accusations or misunderstandings escalated into hate crimes by mass hysteria...and what we learned from the Epstein files, and what we have learned from Israel, is that ...MeToo did not cause any of our *federal* law enforcement authorities to take SA survivors any more seriously, but it may have helped establish a blueprint for marginalizing and demonizing dissidents. I don't know how many Palestinians needed to die the most excruciating and sadistically wrought deaths to prove to normies that allegations of antisemitism were quite frequently lobbed in bad faith if not completely unfounded, but I do know it was orders of magnitude too many, and I do refuse to allow their deaths to have been in vain.

Regarding platner I genuinely do not know what category he falls into. I just know that by the time he came along I was not asking for much anymore: a commitment to drastic change to our relationship with Israel, to ending all the wars and to not rhetorically flinching on those commitments. Knowing how difficult it is to espouse those positions in Washington I instinctively defended him. And knowing how difficult it is to espouse those positions I assumed his campaign had its shit together, and I still think it clearly did a lot of things well. But serious recent un recovered alcohol abuse must be a dealbreaker. I mean duh.

One last thing: a large swath of maga women have had the quiet realization over the past year and a half that, as a good friends sister told her a few months ago, "the libs were right all along" about Trump. I do NOT understand how they uh missed this, I truly don't. At the same time, Trump 2 has been so exponentially more destructive and sadistic than Trump 1, and the establishment libs' reaction has been so .... Underwhelming and often bizarre, that I understand more acutely than ever before why so many people don't trust their narrative. I think that if nothing else part of MAGA is starting to grasp how much "the libs" truly despise "the left" and that would be a good thing if the left itself weren't so obviously divided on how to treat credible seeming but unfounded and unsubstantiated accusations leveled at an ideological ally with a massive PR and legal assist from the unlimited resources provided by a cabal of Americas very worst billionaires.

[Al Simon @AlSimonSays]

@moshik_temkin The remake is Month with Mitch.

[CODEPINK @codepink]

The U.S. has imposed a fuel blockade on Cuba for more than 6 months.

They are trying to cause Cubans to suffer into submission.

This is genocidal.

[Al Simon @AlSimonSays]

@DemocraticWins Was? When?

[Al Simon @AlSimonSays]

@mattyglesias Dude, winning does discredit electability concerns.