Remember Mamdani isn't proof you should move to NYC, he's proof you can demand more from your mayor & they absolutely are capable of what you're asking & more, the castle majority are just lazy or don't have people asking so they don't take initiative. Demand more from your mayor
Angie Nixon was 1 of 2 members of the FL House to call for a ceasefire in Palestine in 2023. Her colleagues chastised her.
Now, she’s the Democratic nominee for US Senate, overcoming tens of millions of dollars and the party establishment as a DSA member.
“I don’t know about you but I was taught to love my neighbors… They call me extreme but these things are not radical. They are not extreme… So Ashley Moody can call us whatever she wants. But in November she will call me Senator.”
— Progressive Angie Nixon, after pulling off a major upset over Alex Vindman in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary. She will face GOP’s Ashley Moody, the sitting Senator from Florida, in November.
@AngieNixon is everything establishment democrats said does not exist: Black woman, labor leader, from the south, and fierce advocate for Palestine.
and she beat the establishments pick.
THE SOUTH GOT SOMETHING TO SAY.
Those who claim, for instance, that “this is not the America I know,” are inadvertently admitting that they didn’t consider the injustices inflicted upon Black people and racial minorities as disqualifying
great Grace Helbig video criticizing Whitney Cummings, who complained on Threads the other day that Miss Rachel talks to kids "like they're deaf morons"
many people in “progressive” non-profit ecosystem leadership are unprepared for this moment. millions of dollars circulating through organizations with leadership that doesn’t have a clear assessment of what this political moment calls for.
nauseating shit.
socialists are winning across the country because we actually know what is hurting working class people: capitalism.
the democratic party has a commitment and allegiance to capitalism, therefore, it can never be the party for working people.
that’s it.
He made a LIVING off of inciting ACTUAL violence, often against the people licking his boots as we speak.
We're expected to go about our day as normal when atrocities are livestreamed on our phone daily, and you're surprised people are desensitized to the murder of a nazi?
The people who are outraged about the (supposed) dehumanization of one of the most hateful individuals (with one of the biggest platforms) are the same people whose entire identity is built on the constant dehumanization of....basically everyone...
But no, the *real* outrage is at people who aren't sad for more than 10 seconds about the murder of a person that was instrumental in legitimizing right wing ideology by exploiting young people and working class people's desire to belong...all under the guise of religion.