layla law-gisiko is now claiming she just "found herself standing on the same sidewalk as vickie paladino" at a press conference. a photo from that event shows layla smiling and embracing vickie.
i don't want to mince words: this is conservative entryism into dsa.
NYC-DSA members in Lower Manhattan: Vote for the STOP THE DEMOLITION SLATE!
World to Win is thrilled to share that our delegate candidates include 3 Fulton & Elliott-Chelsea tenant leaders and 5 community organizers who have spent years fighting displacement in Chelsea.
The documentary we’re releasing tomorrow on our YouTube channel, The Closetocracy, is about a gay, closeted US Senator. The issue isn’t someone’s sexuality, but there is a serious national security issue. One of the incidents was highly illegal - and on tape!
@KraushTakes they think this is bad because they don’t support dsa candidates (like how they spent the entire primary this year vocally supporting reynoso and calling claire a gentrifier)
recently i’ve been spending a lot of time outside penn station at 6 pm due to the location of the new DSA office and i have to say, harry styles concert attendees love to wear the worst/most insane outfits i’ve ever seen in my life
@wellstonism@KraushTakes you *think* you can get someone you're publicly endorsing in an election to stop allying with someone who openly wants to kill dsa members?
As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"
- Donations dried up
- Volunteers were devastated and pleading for guidance on what to do
- Reporters hounded me with calls to drop out
Sure, a point was proven. Polling is broken. But tens of thousands of people poured their hearts, time, energy, hard-earned money into something they believed in - for a year-and-a-half, and it was treated like a game. Our volunteers gave their all. And then some. I felt like I had let so many of them down.
To be extremely clear, Michigan Democrats are locked in to beat Mike Rogers. We WILL send @AbdulElSayed to the US Senate.
But between crap like this, endless fundraising texts that drive supporters away with spammy fake deadlines and trash "match" claims, scam PACs run rampant for firms to grift without actually supporting candidates, undisclosed content creators pushing content out either misrepresenting themselves as residents of states they don't live in or hiding whether they were paid and by who so they could make a buck, and the tidal wave of dark money ads -- I hope Democrats are ready to blow up the system with campaign finance and transparency reforms.
Trust is already at an all-time low. We don't get out of this mess without rebuilding trust.
And media - who loves to ride the drama of a pollercoaster - needs to take a hard look at what's legitimate and what's not.
If this teaches us anything - DON'T GET COMPLACENT AND DON'T TRUST THE POLLS.
LOCK IN. SIGN UP FOR A CANVASSING SHIFT. LEAVE NOTHING TO CHANCE OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
Earlier this year, one of @w2wdsa's slate members donated to defeat 2 of NYC-DSA's endorsed candidates, Illapa Sairitupac and Conrad Blackburn. They're both running for convention delegate as well.
Law-Gisiko also stood with white supremacist Vickie Paladino at a rally last fall
If you think Wedgewood’s Nebraska poll was real oh god do I have a bridge to sell you
They’re just worried about legal action after they pocketed the money from the fundraiser and were about to be outed by GEM
@davidslosttt there is 0 evidence that this poll is real. given everything, it's very likely that they're just claiming it's real because they know they'd have more legal exposure from faking a poll they took money for
Mélenchon realizing he’s the compromise as he watches under 35s go to war with the French state is a bit hilarious
Like he’s in the street & you can see it in his eyes, realizing this is a revolutionary moment that can change history forever, & even *he* didn’t expect this.