Angry Union Rep

Workers deserve the world. | Views are my own, RT ≠ endorsement. He/Him #1u

[Maurice Moe Mitchell 🐺 @MauriceWFP]

If you’re in a room and you know and agree with everyone, you’re not in a big enough room.

If you can only organize with people who agree with all your ideas, then you don’t have the stomach for the fight ahead.

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

We don't need more podcasts and video game streamers, we need places to hang out

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

Neoliberal evisceration of associational culture, particularly but not exclusively labor unions, undermines social capacity for transformational politics. Obviously various forms of associationalism play a major role on the right but prevailing anomie clearly hurts the left more.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

Staggering class realignment/shift in working class

Harris lost DESPITE major shift of affluent voters her way

2020: Trump wins voters over $100K, 54-52
2024: *Harris* wins voters over $100K, 54-45

2020: Biden wins voters $50K-$100K, 57-42
2024: *Trump* w/ voters $50K-$100K, 49-47

2020: Biden wins voters under $50K, 55-45
2024: Trump massive improvement w/ voters under $50K, 49-48

[Sean Orr @SeanOrrMKE]

Brother Jimmy speaks from a lot of experience here. Labor has a lot of potential to make the Democrats into the party we need. The pieces are there and I think our perspective will prevail in the struggle to sum up what went wrong.

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

[Luke Goldstein @lukewgoldstein]

One of the only groups Harris seems to have improved with compared to Biden in 2020 are union members...there’s just still not as many of them as there used to in the workforce https://t.co/EMldtBjHST

[Jimmy Williams @Jimmy_iupat]

Here’s my take on the election… I spent the last several months traveling around speaking to my members across the Rust Belt. We spoke with thousands of IUPAT members and stressed the importance of this election.

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

People are disorganized and isolated in workplaces and neighborhoods while undergoing repeated economic & social crises. MAGA weaves these frayed threads into a far right plurality by posing a dramatic alternative to a status quo that the Dem establishment insists on defending 1/

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I’ve been all over the country in the last month.

And I get asked the same question, over and over again:

“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”

Here is my answer:

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

Comrades are turning on each other because we’re losing. Our task is to build enough power to win. We’ve had victories over past decade. But since nothing anyone’s done has fully “worked” yet we owe each other some humility and grace instead of making our movements small and mean

[Cori Bush @CoriBush]

Democrats lose credibility with voters when running against fascist influences like Trump in our own government, while enabling fascist influences like Netanyahu abroad.

[Angry Union Rep @theuniondude]

@RottenInDenmark People saying he wrote a book about Palestine and it’s literally one chapter. These folks keep proving his introduction correct where he discusses myth making and stories used to justify oppression. These folks are so dug in on their own myth making they can see nothing else.

[Angry Union Rep @theuniondude]

“What is the acceptable number of dead children?” is a question with a very easy answer and yet basically the entirety of our political class seem incapable of correctly answering it.

[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

The “command center” excuse. Rinse & repeat.

At this point, why would Hamas even waste time setting up “command centers” in schools & hospitals if Israel just bombs them regardless?
The “human shields” logic doesn’t work if the humans in question don’t function as shields.

[Angry Union Rep @theuniondude]

Thank G*d I have labor organizing in my life or I would truly be hopeless and rudderless in this time.

[Angry Union Rep @theuniondude]

I don’t know if I can keep watching people burned alive or bombed to smithereens on my timeline and then turn on the radio or tv and listen to talking heads dissemble about it and tell people to shut up about it.

[Angry Union Rep @theuniondude]

And then I have to watch the only two viable presidential candidates fail at a basic test of humanity. One fully embraces the ethnic cleansing and one fearfully offers milquetoast critiques while refusing to materially challenge it. This is the system you want me excited about?!

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Make it stop