BuildingRixRoad

abolitionist, library socialist, organizer, wrestling coach (He/They Pronouns)

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

Battleground districts flipped blue by the founders of Abundance, Third Way, Majority Democrats, No Labels, the Niskanen Center, and the Center for American Progress combined: 0

Battleground districts flipped blue by the founders of the Sunrise Movement: 1

[Roe 🏳️‍⚧️ they/them @GraceRoe5142]

I don’t really go here but I think figure skating should have less leg destroying jumps and more ppl who are absolutely fucking each other.

[aetherism🌧️ @aetherjsm]

the main problem with lefttwt is that a lot of y’all became radical because of strategy games and not out of a sense of love and desire to end oppression

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

How’d that work out for ya?

[Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @RepPressley]

Earlier this week, Mother Randle turned 112 years old.

Mother Randle is a mother, grandmother, a civil rights movement pioneer, & the last known living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

She has dedicated her whole life to calling for reparations for the atrocity that happened in Greenwood—and we must fulfill this essential need for repair.

Reparations is racial justice, economic justice, & a moral imperative. It is deeply necessary to confront America’s damning history of systemic racism—and that includes the Tulsa Race Massacre.

That’s why in Congress I’m pushing to enact reparations and pass H.R. 40, establishing a pathway towards truth & repair for survivors like Mother Randle.

Under this new Democratic majority, I’ll keep pushing for reparations because we’re not backing down in our pursuit of healing & reparative justice.

[SCHIZO BAELEY #SaveMassEffect 💥 @schizobaeleyfbi]

Go anti-woke, go broke

[himani gupta @himaniguptaa]

the sluttiest thing a guy can do is say your name mid conversation

[elle 🤍 @byyndit]

we shouldnt support teen pregnancies, but we definitely should support pregnant teens🫶🏼

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Don Leonard outflanks AOC & every fauxgressive by making 2 big demands of Hakeem Jeffries:

1) End Citizens United
2) End Aid to Israel

Jeffries said he’ll “study the issues,” which is corporate politician-speak for nothing will fundamentally change and corruption will continue.

[꧁༒☬ 𝔾𝕒𝕓𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕝 ☬༒꧂ @Gabbrielxzn]

Hey Democrats, BUILD TRANSIT. Don't study it for 15 years. Pretend it's a datacenter and just build it immediately.

[BuildingRixRoad @W_RosesThorns]

While I am very critical of AOC in general, the way she runs once the primary is what’s most important.

Abdul was much more cautious and less confident, like AOC, at the beggining of his primary.

But the contest sharpened him into winner. The primary can do that for her too.

[Cosmonaut Star💫🏴🔻 @Solidarity_Star]

Not only do I want AOC to run this way. This is literally the only way AOC has a chance of winning in the primary and the general. An AOC seen as loyal to Dem Party leadership has a zero, *ZERO* percent shot at winning.

Everyone knows this, except seemingly AOC herself.

[SRU @SRUnfiltered]

I have often been frustrated by AOC's moves in regards to fighting the Democratic Establishment, and I am not thrilled that AOC is choosing to vote for Hakeem Jeffries to be speaker. I am not going to make excuses for AOC's decision to vote for Jeffries, but I am going to bluntly tell you why she is doing so.

AOC's decision to not challenge Jeffries is not an act of cowardice; it is a calculated strategy. You cannot go all gung ho against the Democratic Establishment like you can against the Republican Establishment. As much as I detest the democratic establishment's cynical weaponization of identity politics, this is where AOC actually has to play it somewhat safe.

Bernie Sanders' biggest weakness in both of his presidential runs was his inability to appeal older black democrats, particularly in the south. Bernie did very little in regards to black outreach in 2016, and then put a demagogue in Nina Turner—someone whose act I fell for—in charge of his black outreach in 2020. It blew up in his face both times. This year, AOC has worked vigorously in the south, and has tremendous inroads with older black democrats. She has made connections to many black leaders in the south, and has won their respect and admiration.

Hakeem Jeffries is set to be the first black speaker of the house, and that is a big deal to black political leaders, who are kingmakers in the south. If AOC bucks Jeffries, she will torch the relationships she has made with them. The difference between good relationships with southern political leaders, and being outright despised by them—which Bernie very much was, and AOC will be if she bucks Jeffries—will be MASSIVE in the southern primaries. To those of you who think AOC is a "coward" and a "sellout" for voting for Jeffries, you need to realize that if AOC votes against the first black speaker, she will be DEAD in the south, and she will not be the democratic nominee in 2028. PERIOD.

AOC and Zohran Mamdani coordinate on strategy. Zohran has also been loathe to take on Jeffries. Seeing how Zohran has governed in New York, and with the fact that AOC has said that the next democratic president cannot act powerless, it is pretty apparent what their strategy is. It is to play it safe with people above them until they get power, and then strongly wield their power once they have it. Zohran made a lot of concessions I didn't like during his campaign and transition. He even put some business executives in some of his transition committees. Then once he was sworn in, it was a completely different story. AOC and Zohran are both highly-intelligent people, and they know what they are doing. As frustrating as their strategies have been at times, they have worked.

Considering how close AOC and Zohran are, and how they literally concoct these strategies together, it is very likely that AOC will govern the exact same way as Zohran. AOC will have an agenda that she will want to see passed by an overwhelmingly-democratic congress. It helps that AOC has amassed a lot of political capital over the years, and you better believe she will call in a lot favors once she is the big cheese in the Democratic Party. If she has any trouble in terms of legislation, she will use the bully pulpit, which she is masterful at commanding to get it through. She will also utilize the real executive authority that she will have—and Barack Obama and Joe Biden flat out refused to use—without question.

And here's the best part. Jeffries is going to shit the bed as speaker. After he becomes toxic to democratic voters like Chuck Schumer, and when AOC takes over the Democratic Party, it will be much easier to throw Jeffries out on his ass.

[Will Fritz @fritzed_you]

not to be all earnestly woke 1 but as an indigenous person it is very satisfying to see an indigenous woman with power telling an evil rich apartheid prince to get fucked

[Streeterville Socialist @pasta_nachos]

Not for this cycle, but the solution is genuinely taking the primaries seriously, identifying progressive candidates, building up campaign infrastructure in the off years, and kicking corporate dems in safe blue seats out

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Van Hollen confirms what many suspected which is that Team Schumer is inflating their commits to project inevitability and scare others in line.

[BuildingRixRoad @W_RosesThorns]

This type of rhetoric is so detached from reality in the age of Mamdani

[ShitlibSupreme 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @ShitlibSupreme]

Imagine if leftists opposed Republicans nearly as much as they oppose Jeffries or Schumer.

[charles r. davis @charizardavis]

van hollen calling chuck schumer a lying coward live on cnn to dana fash. inject it straight into my veins 😩

[Kyle Haigler for Congress @KyleHaigler]

I haven’t publicly endorsed anyone for Speaker of the House, and that’s intentional.

Until someone steps forward and challenges the current leadership, as Sen. Chris Van Hollen has done in the Senate, I will remain publicly neutral.

I have my favorites, but I don’t believe it’s fair to put unnecessary pressure on anyone to come forward before they’re ready to make that decision for themselves.

[mel is here now 🏳️‍🌈 #savebioware @melisuerart]

“if you wanna support a character who-“ im gonna stop you there. this is your problem, these are fictional characters, not political ideologies. why would liking a character mean endorsing their actions? you need to give this fanaticism up. this is fiction.