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Breaking up utility monopolies: “Our proposal outlines how the next President should break these monopolies open, letting competition drive down bills, speed up delivery, and unleash a new wave of cleaner, cheaper energy for families and businesses.”
In a roundabout way, the country's affluence might be contributing to its pessimism. Seventy years ago, voters were overwhelmingly concerned with life-and-death issues: war, hunger, disease, violence. Today voters are more worried about social concerns: the environment (TEXT ADDED: (whether humanity goes extinct)), minority rights (TEXT ADDED: (whether ICE puts you in a concentration camp)) immigration (TEXT ADDED: (whether ICE puts you in a concentration camp)), health policy (TEXT ADDED: whether you die from treatable illness), casitas (TEXT ADDED: (attempt at humor by the author that makes me want to die)), I guess. They have shifted from materialism to postmaterialism, in the framing of the political scientist Ronald Inglehart. And postmaterialism has driven the rise of identity politics, which revolve more around who a person is and what they want rather than what they truly
DSA has already begun preparing for 2028. At our national convention last year, we passed a resolution affirming our intention to run a presidential candidate in the Democratic primary. We’ve now elected a committee of national leaders who are tasked with laying the groundwork for this project, reaching out to allied organizations and identifying potential candidates.
screencap of Morris Pearl wearing a shirt that says "tax me I'm rich" in thank you takeout bag style font, with title: Morris Pearl, Millionaire and caption "I'm a millionaire"
At the same time working families are asked to tighten their belts, the wealthiest Americans are receiving enormous federal tax breaks. In New York alone, millionaires are getting an estimated $12 billion in federal tax cuts (roughly $129,600 per millionaire) while everyday New Yorkers face rising rent, rising grocery prices, and childcare costs that can exceed $25,000 a year. It is concerning that despite publicly promising to address the affordability crisis, (highlighted sentence) you are more concerned with hiding your meetings with the Epstein class than working with Mayor Mamdani and the legislature to help working New Yorkers (end higlight)-including through truly universal, statewide childcare that pays childcare workers a living wage. It is unacceptable to ask working families to absorb service cuts while billionaires receive windfalls. And we, the people, agree. Recent polling shows 54% of voters statewide and 62% of New York City voters (including 72% of Democrats) support raising taxes on millionaires.
Tweet from @bern_hogan, Bernadette Hogan @bern_hogan · 2h Reisman asks if the budget deal will include any tax increase? Hochul dodges: "let’s focus on getting the budget done.. I’m going to be smart about this budget and care about affordability."
Poorly photshopped picture of the band 311 on a jet ski with Sarahana Headline: Help raise 311 dolalrs for 311 day Email body in comic sans; Sup Charlie!!! I’m Peter – one of the highly underqualified fundraising experts for Sarahana for Assembly, her lucky husband, and a non-closeted 311 fan. And today's date? 3️⃣／1️⃣1️⃣. 😎 Sure, this campaign is about fighting for a future filled with meaning and beauty for all; changing the complacent and self-satisfied nature of Albany; and inspiring a new crop of passionate citizens. But it’s also about recognizing the fat, funky bass riffs of P-Nut, and the lyrical mastery of Nick Hexum and Douglas "SA" Martinez! It’s 311 Day! A day to celebrate one of the pillars of the worst (?) period of modern rock, and raise $311 to help us get our new office set up.
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NEW: China is testing a megawatt-scale airborne wind system that captures stronger high-altitude winds, potentially producing up to 10× more energy with 40% less material and 30% lower costs. It could also be quickly deployed to supply emergency power after disasters.
Radical Centrists (Crossed out and replaced with:) Right Wing Excusers This extremely tired phenomenon is regularly eviscerated by the podcast If Books Could Kill, while the electoral wrongness has been chronicled by Anat Shenker-Osorio, so we don’t have to dive into why it’s wrong. While this phenomena has become known as “radical centrism” or “reactionary centrism”, these terms are now sanitizing the project, especially at this stage of fascism. Instead, the project is better understood as one of Right Wing Excusers. The Arguers at The Argument, and other writers in their milieu, distort facts and displace agency to sanitize the evils of the right. This is the primary effect that the entire centrist edifice from the Atlantic to NY Times Op Ed board to The Argument achieves. What defines Right Wing Excusers? It’s that whatever the facts, they must be cherry picked, distorted, or outright made up to fit the same story: 1. When the right does something bad, it’s the left’s fault—not the right. 2. Anyone who wants to oppose the right should stop supporting left wing policies and support more right wing policies. 3. And if you don’t, you are the cause of the right winning. When You Blame The Left, You Excuse The Right
Radical Centrists (Crossed out and replaced with:) Right Wing Excusers This extremely tired phenomenon is regularly eviscerated by the podcast If Books Could Kill, while the electoral wrongness has been chronicled by Anat Shenker-Osorio, so we don’t have to dive into why it’s wrong. While this phenomena has become known as “radical centrism” or “reactionary centrism”, these terms are now sanitizing the project, especially at this stage of fascism. Instead, the project is better understood as one of Right Wing Excusers. The Arguers at The Argument, and other writers in their milieu, distort facts and displace agency to sanitize the evils of the right. This is the primary effect that the entire centrist edifice from the Atlantic to NY Times Op Ed board to The Argument achieves. What defines Right Wing Excusers? It’s that whatever the facts, they must be cherry picked, distorted, or outright made up to fit the same story: 1. When the right does something bad, it’s the left’s fault—not the right. 2. Anyone who wants to oppose the right should stop supporting left wing policies and support more right wing policies. 3. And if you don’t, you are the cause of the right winning. When You Blame The Left, You Excuse The Right
Putting Up Guardrails It’s impossible to say whether either side of the consolidation or expansion debate is correct or not. Even if you find yourself stridently in one camp, it is easy to see that the other is operating in completely good faith. And to complicate things even further, there are very few pure Expansionists and Consolidators. Instead these two poles represent political outlooks that can be applied to any political decision, not identities. They are approaches to understanding the contradictions of power. There were some organizers who supported endorsing Alexa, but opposed endorsing Chi and vice versa! Political questions are never abstract and the conditions that inform upon them are crucial. But there are some things we can do to narrow the framework of the debate so that the political questions become starker and easier to dissect. Think of them as political guardrails that keep us from veering off the strategic path to victory.
Tweet from Jubilee @jubileemedia James Talarico faces 20 undecided Texas Voters, thsi Sunday on #surrounded @jamestalarico Screenshot of James Talarico with text "Claim #4: The biggest divide in our politics is not left vs. right, it's top vs. bottom"
Radical Centrists (crossed out and replaced with) Right Wing Excusers This extremely tired phenomenon is regularly eviscerated by the podcast If Books Could Kill, while the electoral wrongness has been chronicled by Anat Shenker-Osorio, so we don’t have to dive into why it’s wrong. While this phenomena has become known as “radical centrism” or “reactionary centrism”, these terms are now sanitizing the project, especially at this stage of fascism. Instead, the project is better understood as one of Right Wing Excusers. The Arguers at The Argument, and other writers in their milieu, distort facts and displace agency to sanitize the evils of the right. This is the primary effect that the entire centrist edifice from the Atlantic to NY Times Op Ed board to The Argument achieves. What defines Right Wing Excusers? It’s that whatever the facts, they must be cherry picked, distorted, or outright made up to fit the same story: 1. When the right does something bad, it’s the left’s fault—not the right. 2. Anyone who wants to oppose the right should stop supporting left wing policies and support more right wing policies. 3. And if you don’t, you are the cause of the right winning.
The Affordability Party (38% of adults) Americans in this bucket are not looking for a grand ideological project, they simply want a party that makes day-to-day life less stressful. When these voters imagine an “ideal” party, they describe something that keeps basic necessities affordable, protects people’s rights in a broad sense, and looks out for the middle and working classes. Unsurprisingly, the core of this vision is economic. Respondents talk a lot about the economy, prices, wages, jobs, taxes, rent and housing costs. They use words like “affordable” and “cost of living” and mention rising prices as their number one issue. Healthcare sits right alongside those pocketbook concerns: people repeatedly mention health care and Medicare, and they tend to frame access to affordable care as something close to a basic right. There is also a lot of language on fairness. Words like “equality,” “rights,” “freedom,” and “treating everyone the same” are common, but they are generally not tied to “liberal,” “conservative,” “Democrat,” or “Republican” labels.
Article in The Nation titled The Left Must Build Its Infrastructure: We need to look not at what it will take to win the next election, but what it’ll take to win the next 10 elections. Ctrl + F reveals 0 mentions of DSA
Radical Centrists (Crossed out and replaced with:) Right Wing Excusers This extremely tired phenomenon is regularly eviscerated by the podcast If Books Could Kill, while the electoral wrongness has been chronicled by Anat Shenker-Osorio, so we don’t have to dive into why it’s wrong. While this phenomena has become known as “radical centrism” or “reactionary centrism”, these terms are now sanitizing the project, especially at this stage of fascism. Instead, the project is better understood as one of Right Wing Excusers. The Arguers at The Argument, and other writers in their milieu, distort facts and displace agency to sanitize the evils of the right. This is the primary effect that the entire centrist edifice from the Atlantic to NY Times Op Ed board to The Argument achieves. What defines Right Wing Excusers? It’s that whatever the facts, they must be cherry picked, distorted, or outright made up to fit the same story: 1. When the right does something bad, it’s the left’s fault—not the right. 2. Anyone who wants to oppose the right should stop supporting left wing policies and support more right wing policies. 3. And if you don’t, you are the cause of the right winning. When You Blame The Left, You Excuse The Right
Radical Centrists (Crossed out and replaced with:) Right Wing Excusers This extremely tired phenomenon is regularly eviscerated by the podcast If Books Could Kill, while the electoral wrongness has been chronicled by Anat Shenker-Osorio, so we don’t have to dive into why it’s wrong. While this phenomena has become known as “radical centrism” or “reactionary centrism”, these terms are now sanitizing the project, especially at this stage of fascism. Instead, the project is better understood as one of Right Wing Excusers. The Arguers at The Argument, and other writers in their milieu, distort facts and displace agency to sanitize the evils of the right. This is the primary effect that the entire centrist edifice from the Atlantic to NY Times Op Ed board to The Argument achieves. What defines Right Wing Excusers? It’s that whatever the facts, they must be cherry picked, distorted, or outright made up to fit the same story: 1. When the right does something bad, it’s the left’s fault—not the right. 2. Anyone who wants to oppose the right should stop supporting left wing policies and support more right wing policies. 3. And if you don’t, you are the cause of the right winning. When You Blame The Left, You Excuse The Right
Radical Centrists (Crossed out and replaced with:) Right Wing Excusers This extremely tired phenomenon is regularly eviscerated by the podcast If Books Could Kill, while the electoral wrongness has been chronicled by Anat Shenker-Osorio, so we don’t have to dive into why it’s wrong. While this phenomena has become known as “radical centrism” or “reactionary centrism”, these terms are now sanitizing the project, especially at this stage of fascism. Instead, the project is better understood as one of Right Wing Excusers. The Arguers at The Argument, and other writers in their milieu, distort facts and displace agency to sanitize the evils of the right. This is the primary effect that the entire centrist edifice from the Atlantic to NY Times Op Ed board to The Argument achieves. What defines Right Wing Excusers? It’s that whatever the facts, they must be cherry picked, distorted, or outright made up to fit the same story: 1. When the right does something bad, it’s the left’s fault—not the right. 2. Anyone who wants to oppose the right should stop supporting left wing policies and support more right wing policies. 3. And if you don’t, you are the cause of the right winning.
What defines Right Wing Excusers? It’s that whatever the facts, they must be cherry picked, distorted, or outright made up to fit the same story: 1. When the right does something bad, it’s the left’s fault—not the right. 2. Anyone who wants to oppose the right should stop supporting left wing policies and support more right wing policies. 3. And if you don’t, you are the cause of the right winning.
Instead of ‘No Kings,’ how about ‘A Fair Shot’ for all Americans?
strikethrough text: Radical Centrists. normal text: Right Wing Excusers This extremely tired phenomenon is regularly eviscerated by the podcast If Books Could Kill, while the electoral wrongness has been chronicled by Anat Shenker-Osorio, so we don’t have to dive into why it’s wrong. While this phenomena has become known as “radical centrism” or “reactionary centrism”, these terms are now sanitizing the project, especially at this stage of fascism. Instead, the project is better understood as one of Right Wing Excusers. The Arguers at The Argument, and other writers in their milieu, distort facts and displace agency to sanitize the evils of the right. This is the primary effect that the entire centrist edifice from the Atlantic to NY Times Op Ed board to The Argument achieves. What defines Right Wing Excusers? It’s that whatever the facts, they must be cherry picked, distorted, or outright made up to fit the same story: 1. When the right does something bad, it’s the left’s fault—not the right. 2. Anyone who wants to oppose the right should stop supporting left wing policies and support more right wing policies. 3. And if you don’t, you are the cause of the right winning.
What defines Right Wing Excusers? It’s that whatever the facts, they must be cherry picked, distorted, or outright made up to fit the same story: 1. When the right does something bad, it’s the left’s fault—not the right. 2. Anyone who wants to oppose the right should stop supporting left wing policies and support more right wing policies. 3. And if you don’t, you are the cause of the right winning.
five Yu Gi Oh cards assembling Exodia but each is labeled with a part of multi-part article "LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A CLASS ALIGNMENT STRATEGY"
shaq meme: I sleep: another publication saying democrats should be more racist real shit: POWER MAP
Screenshot of Power Map homepage with featured articles: Jamaal Bowman: Black Voters & Progressives by Michael Lange With Black voters, it isn’t class or race—it’s both. “Is Cuba a Dictatorship?” Is The Wrong Question by Danny Valdes Zohran Mamdani got caught in a rhetorical trap about Cuba. How do we respond as a movement? What About The Men? by Allison Keats The point of finding the reasons misogyny exists is not to assign moral blame, it’s to understand how to change it.
homepage of Power Map publication website, with six articles featured: Jamaal Bowman: Black Voters & Progressives by Michael Lange With Black voters, it isn’t class or race—it’s both. “Is Cuba a Dictatorship?” Is The Wrong Question by Danny Valdes Zohran Mamdani got caught in a rhetorical trap about Cuba. How do we respond as a movement? What About The Men? by Allison Keats The point of finding the reasons misogyny exists is not to assign moral blame, it’s to understand how to change it. The Battle for Reality: Disinformation and How to Fight It by Harrison Carpenter-Neuhaus⁩ The right doesn’t win with facts — it wins with stories. The left needs better ones. The Democratic Tea Party by Rose DuBois The real divide in the Democratic Party isn’t left vs. moderate, but who’s willing to fight Trump and who isn’t. Shuran Huang for The New York Times No Kings: Liberals are becoming Socialists by Daniel Goulden Liberals were fine voting for a Democratic Socialist. They voted for him in droves.
The impact of this is that criticism of the president, on non-partisan grounds, is now coded as a partisan action. If David Muir says that the president is doing something that experts say is unconstitutional, this comes off as Democratic-leaning speech solely because the company brand has become more Democratic-leaning. And this means that, so long as news remains committed to the values that Edward Murrow and Walter Cronkite embodied, it is simply not possible for a company covering Trump to remain — as viewed by the political right — effectively non-partisan. This set up a standoff between the journalists, and the values of a news operation, and the PR executives of a mega-corporation. You can guess who won. My anecdotal experience suggests executives decided (explicitly or otherwise) to preserve their news hegemony by constantly attempting to minimize backlash among Republicans, often by marginalizing Democrats. Many times in my tenure at ABC, I was told we couldn’t work with certain data vendors or had to change language in our stories to avoid giving Republicans something they could use to criticize the company. (Many of us were unhappy and tried to quit over this, but it’s not like we had other places to go.) Higher-ups blacklisted data suppliers with histories of working for Democrats, after signing off on projects using those suppliers, and they stripped our copy of nuance and empirical caveats that “could be taken out of context” (at the suggestion of the PR team and Disney’s lawyers). In my opinion, the big problem at network news boils down to this: Executives don’t actually see news as journalism.
Charlie The main takeaway — it’s hard to explain because it’s so simple — it’s that the thing should be good. When you make a thing, it has to be good, or people will not like it or engage with it.
Our POints Of UNITY We are in DSA to build DSA into a world-historic political force. Here is what we believe: DSA Will Be The Party: DSA built the only mass socialist organization in the US because of things only DSA can do, not in spite of them. Our public reach, formal political power, and ability to turn ordinary people into organizers now give us the unique potential to build the mass party. We Are Fighting The Clock: All decisions and analysis must start from our fundamental reality: the existential threat of the climate crisis, and the rise of fascist power. Urgency is not optional. Build To Win, Win To Build: Our victories today are only as good as the battlefields they open tomorrow. We must prioritize organizing to unite divided sections of the working class, enable mass participation and recruitment into the party, and build the power for even bigger wins.
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Along with the mañanera came a slew of political reforms aimed at reviving Mexico’s democratic culture. Popular consultations invited citizens to vote on polarizing government priorities, such as the cancellation of the planned international Mexico City Texcoco Airport, accused of excessive environmental damage; following the vote, the airport was relocated to a disused military base, and the build site was replaced by the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park. A new federal law instituted presidential recall elections to allow citizens to decide whether the leader should continue in office halfway through their term (while only a fifth of registered voters turned out for AMLO’s mid-term mandate referendum, he won with 91.9 percent of the vote). Meanwhile, the government popularized the idea of “republican austerity” as an orientation to government spending—including the largely symbolic reduction of high-ranking public officials’ salaries alongside the elevation of those of low-earning bureaucrats, and the $92 million sale of the luxury presidential plane—with the goal of projecting a sense of responsibility from discredited state authorities. The communication around the project was accordingly sharp: “It’s important that everyone knows how people thought before, how the authorities acted, like little pharaohs,” AMLO said. “Not any more.”
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Schumer says that he is accompanied everywhere he goes by two imaginary middle-class friends, who advise him on all manner of middle-class concerns. Their names, until recently, were Joe and Eileen O’Reilly. “For the book’s sake, we wanted them to be more national,” Schumer said, “so they became the Baileys.” The Baileys live in Massapequa, in Nassau County, a town that is invariably known on Long Island as “Matzoh-Pizza.” The Baileys are both forty-five years old: Joe works for an insurance company, Eileen is a part-time employee at a doctor’s office. They worry about terrorism, and about values, and they are patriots—“Joe takes off his cap and sings along with the national anthem before the occasional Islanders game,” Schumer wrote. He elaborated, “They’re not ideologues. They’re worried about property taxes. It’s the tax they hate. And that’s what Democrats don’t get.” He has also drafted the Baileys in defending the C.I.A.’s human-intelligence program: “Had Joe and Eileen been in the room after the hum-int screwup, they would not have indulged in the blame game, gutted the human-intelligence program, or weakened America.” The Baileys, Schumer said, sometimes dine out—not often, because of the cost—and they like Chinese. Which raised the question: What would the Baileys eat, if they were here at Hunan Dynasty? “The more conventional stuff,” Schumer said, “but they’re with it.”
ALBANY, New York - Deep blue states like New York tried to stymie Donald Trump's first presidency, but Democrats who hold power here plan to avoid fighting with him as they kick off their legislative session on Wednesday. There's more appetite among Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers for seizing on his winning issues rather than confronting him, according to interviews with six legislators, political advisers and Democratic officials and a review of Hochul's recent moves to embrace cost-of-living
David Roberts This is so funny because I know, I mean, I know from having listened to some of your talks and stuff now that you personally are a big markets guy, love markets, probably in the Hayekian brigades yourself, but it's kind of funny, electricity makes socialists out of all of us.
West Virginia coal An elephant made of coal from West Virginia sits on Schumer's desk. It was a gift from Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., whom Schumer recruited to run for the Senate in 2010.
DEEP IN THE MAILBAG: Push for more renewables? Straight to spam. The New York Power Authority continues to get pressured to more than quintuple its early-stage renewables portfolio. NYPA officials on Tuesday located some of the more than 5,000 comments supporting a 15-gigawatt target that had initially been caught in the spam folder. The authority has proposed a more modest initial tranche of 3.6 gigawatts of renewables and battery storage as it navigates a new business line in partnership with private developers. NYPA president and CEO Justin Driscoll has said only initial projects have been identified and a final plan is expected by the end of January. The Public Power NY campaign tracked the deluge of comments submitted via email through a third-party form, which is commonly used by advocacy groups to simplify commenting campaigns. The group, backed by the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, has been a major force behind the campaign to have NYPA build new renewables and an antagonist of Driscoll. NYPA does not typically run large-scale public comment processes. NYPA officials initially indicated they did not receive that volume of input, reporting about 300 emails and written comments during a board meeting earlier on Tuesday. That led to criticism from Public Power backers and offers to print out all 5,000 form comments and deliver them to NYPA. NYPA now estimates it has received 1,100 email comments, spokesperson Lindsay Kryzak said. The authority is working to clear additional comments that were quarantined due to email security controls, Kryzak said. NYPA plans to reach out to the Public Power campaign to resolve the issue. — Marie J. French
screenshot of the cover of the book The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
The Assembly is a more conservative body and therefore a tougher nut to crack. But there, too, DSA’s primary challenges reverberated. Hudson Valley state assemblyman Kevin Cahill was overheard begging Carl Heastie, Assembly speaker, “I need you to pass this bill or I’m going to lose this seat.” Karolidis reports with amusement: “And we can confirm that he was correct! He didn’t pass that bill and he lost his seat.” Sarahana Shrestha, a Mid-Hudson Valley DSA activist and Cahill’s primary opponent, opposed him with climate as her main issue, and it worked.
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