Yakob

Left is Best. I’m your niche internet micro-celebrity’s favorite niche internet micro-celebrity.

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

Claudia Sheinbaum was also seen as a dubious successor lacking in charisma, and people questioned whether Mexicans would vote for a woman and a Jew. But she offered a very specific set of left-populist policy programs that people liked and won in a landslide.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Despair thrives in isolation, but dies in organization.

DSA is a political home for me and thousands of New Yorkers, many of whom were on the streets today.

Build the left, fight the right, and join DSA: https://t.co/SLL3q3BIk5

[Ben Burgis @BenBurgis]

Back in the real world, the difference is that Morena, whatever its flaws and limitations, has delivered the goods with significant gains for the Mexican working class.

A useful summary from @rojasrjuand:

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

One takeaway from the last 4 years is we should do good things because they’re good, not because we can expect reliable electoral payoff from them.

[Olivia Katbi 🌹 @oliviakatbi]

I was the co chair of my DSA chapter for almost the entire Trump presidency. Some advice - don’t waste time and energy on internal squabbles. Of course it’s important to debate and disagree as we articulate our socialist vision. But remember to keep your eyes on the prize

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This is the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing.

[Yakob @yakobabbot]

@EricLevitz I think the best argument is to think a little bigger, past maybe just one election cycle. Something like Greg Grandin said he would be arguing in his next book. That class-driven campaigning for social democracy is what’s necessary to combat Trump’s brand of politics.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

So apparently the Kamala campaign entrusted final say on their $700 million ad budget to a man who gave himself brain damage hosting ketamine parties in his Manhattan loft and somehow this is the fault of the .4% of the country who voted for jill stein

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Guy gets his platonic campaign: messaging is shaped by his ‘popularism’ confederate David Shor, Harris almost never mentions her identity, he gets yimby rhetoric, police and border demagoguery, microtargeted consultant speak—his ideal campaign!—and he’s still blaming the wokes!

[rose @roramdin]

Democrats running polling simulations

[Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray]

A perfect message for the moment

[foxes in fiction 🥀 @foxesinfiction]

we should never be allowed to forget or live down the fact that we have completely failed the Palestinian people

[Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu12]

Bernie Sanders in statement issued as Harris is about to give her concession speech:
"It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them."

[Jeff Stein @jstein_sun]

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

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

2016: tacked right, appealed to “reasonable” Republicans, lost.

2020: tacked left, brought progressive populists in, won.

2024: tacked right, appealed to “reasonable” Republicans, lost.

2028: ?

[crisp mattman @cushbomb]

This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If they lose, I would pay to be a fly on the wall in the room as they get the results.

If they win, God help us all.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Buenos días ☕️ this is the energy