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doing art history phd, an organized socialist, @nycDSA, UAW. art writing sometimes.

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me once the left achieves hegemony
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I did the exact same thing in middle school with Missing by Everything But the Girl and the poem hung on the classroom bulletin board all year
in 7th grade my friend wrote a poem so moving that they had her read it at a school assembly in front of everyone then like a week later we found out the poem was Airplanes by B.o.B and she had just heard the song on MySpace like a week before it started playing on radio
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honestly? Soulja boy tell em
What’s happening in France is a wake-up call to the entire world. 🌍 The cost of living keeps rising while everyday people struggle to survive. People are tired of working hard just to barely get by. Governments need to start listening to the people before frustration turns into chaos. 💯🙏🏽
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If you’re still in line to cosponsor a resolution for nyc dsa convention, stay in line!
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curious to know what the mayor was supposed to do about intro 1B when the council passed it with a veto proof majority. He didn’t sign it into law. Does WOL think he should have sued the council?
THREE YEARS OF GENOCIDE. THREE YEARS OF RESISTANCE. 📍 New York City Hall 🗓️ October 7, 2026 ⏰ 4:00pm October 7th marks three years of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, one of the deadliest ongoing and globally broadcasted massacres in modern history. October 7th marks three years since resistance against imperialism changed the fate of our world forever. In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned on promises to the Palestine movement. He has betrayed his own alleged values, failing to make those promises a reality. Instead, he has repeatedly capitulated to zionist pressure: Criminalizing protests against the sale of stolen Palestinian land in New York City through the passage of the NYC Council Bill Intro 1-B; allowing the NYPD to surveil, arrest, and violently suppress protests against these illegal land sales; and most recently, pledging $26 million tax dollars to the “Strategy to Combat Anti-Semitism“ which will provide funding for zionist propagandist groups such as JCRC-NY; and security infrastructure for zionist synagogues which host illegal real estate sales of stolen Palestinian land to expand settlements. The Mayor’s claim of solidarity with the Palestinian people is meaningless when it is followed by no action and capitulation to zionist pressure. 🇵🇸 Join us on October 7th at 4pm outside City Hall to hear the student movement's demands to the Mayor of New York City, one of two institutional authorities over the CUNY Board of Trustees. 🇵🇸 Join us to honor our martyrs, prisoners, and liberators, and to remind New York City that we will not rest until the complete liberation of the Palestinian people.
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$26 million is also not being allocated to the antisemitism task force. That is the entire amount allocated to the office to prevent hate crimes. The task force budget is $6.4 million
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I respect the premise of the protest but the entire framework as expressed here is basically misinformation
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I don’t know if I got this right but you can’t think about these things too much
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the freakish and disgusting antisemitic responses to the task force are lowkey an ideological victory for Israel
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obviously it’s not the most important part of the fight against Zionism Christ almighty. It is a PART of the fight
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a lot of supposed leftists REALLY bought into the Zionist conflation of antizionism and antisemitism and now think that addressing antisemitism (a real thing) is identical to running cover for Zionism. deeply sad.
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fighting back against antisemitism literally has to be part of an antizionist politics
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some critiques of the plan are principled but this post is actually not about that, so feel free to stop posting them as gotchas
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Sauron tracking the Ring
what the hell has happened to my parcel
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im like addicted to doing spoonerisms in my mind, the second I see a word or phrase I spoonerize it. Last night at the Paris Theatre I was just immediately thinking “Larry Byndon”
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i don’t understand how you can believe both that the police are a racist, rogue paramilitary force that exists to protect capital and is beyond reform (true), and also that zohran as mayor is able to personally direct and control the NYPD’s actions
DSA member Zohran M. (NYC) must be censured. Using state power against comrades is indefensible.
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diff actors in the movement play diff roles. the entire objective of a civil disobedience is to get arrested. electeds performatively getting got is good. the green march hours after the speech is good. birddogging him everywhere he goes is good. these are not in contradiction.
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if that had happened then maybe we could have a conversation about whether or not its repression under Zohran is revealing in some way!
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everyone who thinks taking an arrest is no longer a viable direct action tactic because Zohran is the mayor is baby brained I’m sorry
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it accomplishes the same thing it accomplished before (which isn’t a whole lot unfortunately but we should still do it) and it hasn’t suddenly become some grand contradiction
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