@sunraysunray@redstarcaucus@MarxistUnityDSA@meganromer MUG doesn’t agree with running candidates in Democratic primaries the last time I checked. Your disagreements are enough to seek their expungement democratically.
Really great essay. What NYC DSA has achieved is incredibly impressive, but there are tougher questions on whether DSA politics can scale beyond deep blue urban areas.
“A Star Is Bored” is a 1956 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on September 15, 1956, and stars Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. The cartoon expands upon the rivalry depicted between Bugs and Daffy, in such films as Chuck Jones' 1951 short “Rabbit Fire”, this time placing the action in a show-biz setting. In this 5-minute short, Daffy must double for Bugs in any slapstick that Warner Bros. deems too dangerous for its top star. After each disaster, Daffy shouts “MAKEUP!”. The director directing the scenes has an Erich Von Stroheim accent.
This is one of the only four Warner Bros. shorts (the others being “This Is a Life?”, “Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers”, and “[Blooper] Bunny)” in which Bugs is paired with each of his three main antagonists (Daffy, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam).
The title is a play on the film A Star Is Born.
Cast
• Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Director (voice)
• Arthur Q. Bryan as Elmer Fudd (voice) (uncredited)
• June Foray as Lolly (voice) (uncredited)
In a moment, we'll look at the courageous Korean gymnast Kim Huyang... who made a perfect dismount on what was later revealed to be a broken leg.
#TheSimpsons
Rock band KISS made their chaotic prime-time television debut on The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, which aired on ABC on October 29, 1976.
TV was not ready for this.
Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?
AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.
So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.
“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.
“You are not numbers or case files.
“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV