Max Gelula

Bridgeport, Chicago

[Max Gelula @MaxGelula]

We did it! Starting today, Myself, Tom, Sherry, Brian, Sam & Ambria are co-owners of Skylark

Come celebrate our Grand O̶p̶e̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ Staying The Same on Fri Feb 2nd!

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

Skylark employees have bought the popular Pilsen dive bar, and they’re keeping it the same. https://t.co/N50HDtJ2aM

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Pretty revealing that what galvanized “centrist” Dems was losing to a couple DSA candidates not for example, losing to a bunch of corrupt fascists who want to end Democracy.

[Greg @GregGrandin]

Providing cover for the justice departments assault on DSA.

[Jabari Brisport @JabariBrisport]

Hi! This is not me. But join DSA.

[kareem 🪴 🦧 @kareemisposting]

Excited to be back in The Nation this morning. It is my sincere belief that AOC is the only viable presidential candidate from the left. In order to channel all of that energy, she needs to reconcile completely with the Palestine solidarity movement https://t.co/q7m9ZrElcK

[Adrian @blagojevism]

Every single faction in the Democratic “Party” (and it is barely a party) uses the party in this exact same way. The Democratic Party is not a loving family, it is a provisional and evolving coalition of currents and interests. That is all it will ever be.

[Michael Lange @MichaelLangeNYC]

Additional data from the New York Times and VoteHub confirms my Election Night analysis:

Darializa Avila Chevalier won Black voters versus Adriano Espaillat.

But you wouldn't know this by the way the establishment has reacted to her victory.

[carl beijer @_carlbeijer]

EDIT: Shitposting won't ruin your political career if you have good politics.

[chairmanmeowing @chairmanmeowing]

Your magazine publishes listicles about which consultants New Yorkers should care about, that’s what’s annoying

[Max Gelula @MaxGelula]

@nicodafreakshow @pkgandakin @kyclasswarrior If you're gonna invoke the notion of "mass politics" you have to accept that the org needs be large enough to be a counterweight to the power of capital. We're not there rn obviously, but that should be the goal!

[Max Gelula @MaxGelula]

DSA being a home for different factions is what has propelled its growth and made it resilient in the exact type of fork-in-the-road moments you're writing about here. The idea that things would be so much easier if we just "got rid of all the annoying people" is immature

[Max Gelula @MaxGelula]

@nicodafreakshow @pkgandakin @kyclasswarrior I'm familiar with the idea. The premise of DSA though is that our structure allows those political/historical developments to be expressed by the organization itself. as opposed to continuously starting from scratch to meet the moment

[Sarah @Sarah_pdx]

A split at this point in our development would be catastrophic. It would lead both sides to emphasize our worst instincts. It would disorient our members and our wider project. It would also be bad for a hypothetical president AOC

[random Philly guy who loves futbol @PhillyFink]

Spurs are a Paul George away from a championship

[carl beijer @_carlbeijer]

Yes I get that this is the standard Aimee Terese / Jackson Hinkle play:

* Start off as a normie Dem backing Hillary
* When that doesn't get traction, pivot to Berniecrat
* Finally, declare all the people who won't pay attention to you are Democrats.

Sorry, that well's gone dry.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a radical change to immigration policy, forcing anyone applying for a green card to leave the country indefinitely, forget whether they have American kids, spouse, etc.

The talking point that we do want legal immigration, we just want people to get in line and follow the rules, is BS. This is an attempt to blow up the line, blow up the rules, and make it insanely difficult to immigrate legally.

[Aidan Powers @aidan_34_powers]

Sixers owner brought him to a Sixers Celtics game btw

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

We’re gonna turn Cuba into a failed narcostate and then complain about it for years. Instead of an island producing a disproportionate share of doctors and medical breakthroughs, it’ll produce waves of migration and drugs and violence as the mafia that was thrown out by the revolution return

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

Should probably be doing more publicity for the blowback Israel/us mini-series coming on 5/29

[Max Gelula @MaxGelula]

lol "right before Shabbat", shut the fuck up

[ADL New York / New Jersey @ADL_NYNJ]

A mayor represents every New Yorker. Using City Hall resources to post a one-sided video about Israel’s founding — omitting the UN partition plan, the Arab rejection, the reasons that many Palestinians left, the many who stayed and the 850,000 Jewish refugeesforced to leave Arab lands  — isn’t commemoration. It’s propaganda. Releasing it right before Shabbat isn’t leadership. It’s provocation. Especially when Nakba Day “commemorations” in this city featured open support for US-designated terror organizations, veneration of their leaders, and calls for Israel’s destruction. New Yorkers deserve a mayor with the moral clarity to call that out.

[Matt Carey @RealMattCarey]

one thing I've always thought works well in major sports organizations is confusion about who's actually in charge and after a brief run of having a semi-normal power structure, good news everyone, we're back