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Market Socialist and industrial policy enthusiast, former protein alchemist.

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · Jun 27

We have a chance to elect a great socialist candidate AND remake the Democratic party into a socialist one, do your part.

www.zohranfornyc.com

Zohran for NYC

Zohran Mamdani is running for Mayor to lower the cost of living for working class New Yorkers.

www.zohranfornyc.com

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 9h

The problem for Democratic leadership trying to stop Planter is that he actually has beliefs he can share with voters he treats as adults.

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AndrewNK @andrewnk.bsky.social · 11h

bsky.app/profile/eva....

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 10h

The only way to interact with the Whitehouse.

Jesus saying Blocked blocked blocked, based on dril tweet

Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 14h

Now where have I seen this before?

Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 16h

Moderate Democrats don't have a positive vision, that's why he can clear questions about why he changed his mind on cops vs Kamala failing to explain her 2025 vs 2019 positions that were based on poll chasing.

Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 16h

The lesson is that he actually has beliefs and vision of what he wants the system to be.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 21h

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 21h

Libertarianism works until you run out of other people's money, example#287482.
www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

US banks in talks to lend $20 billion to Argentina

JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup are among banks working with US Treasury officials to bolster Argentina’s collapsing currency and ease economic turmoil, people familiar with th...

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 23h

He'll cave the minute the flight attendant unions flex their muscle.

jacobin.com/2019/02/flig...

How Flight Attendants Grounded Trump’s Shutdown

Sara Nelson, the flight attendants union leader whose strike threat helped end the government shutdown, speaks to Jacobin. “There are no labor rights without the right to strike.”

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

When Mamdani wins he needs to keep Sliwa as a pet.

Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

CUOMO NAME DROPS HASAN TWICE.

Oh man this is a death spiral.

Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the NYC mayoral debate it's entirely clear that Mamdani actually has beliefs and Cuomo only response is the talking points from the kind of people Jaime Harrison would follow on Twitter.

Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the NYC mayoral debate it's entirely clear that Mamdani actually has beliefs and Cuomo only response is the talking points from the kind of people Jaime Harrison would follow on Twitter.

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

"I said I cared about MY life, not Cuomo staffer's lives".

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

Americans born after 1996 don't know what it's like to have a car that needs major repairs every two years and that's because of these rules.

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

My signs gonna say
"It's 'The Ass is the father of the legs' or Barbarism".

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 1d

🚨I’m proud to announce that our campaign has earned the support of:
✅ The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (@boldprogressives.org)
✅ The Michigan Democratic Party LGBT&A Caucus
✅ The Michigan Democratic Party Progressive Caucus
✅ The Michigan Democratic Party Grassroots Caucus

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

Pfp of the day

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 1d

One reason behind Western decline is that US capital gave up on investing in productive forces long ago.

The current system is all about looting / grifting through financial engineering, rent extraction, and speculative bubbles.

When the system rewards that, reversing it is near impossible.

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

Gavin Newsom, a land of contrasts.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/california-becomes-the-first-state-to-sell-insulin-00611163

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article290934124.html

Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

The bland 40 year old next door who only dresses in button ups and whose hobby is mowing the lawn? Yeah he's boring in private too.

Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social · 1d

The stereotype that married men demand porn star edgy kinky sex from their exhausted wives just isn’t true. Women generally are the ones with the elaborate kinks.

www.cartoonshateher.com/p/sex-with-y...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The likelihood that the DSCC was involved in this hit piece being published is not zero, which I say as someone who worked comms for a non-establishment Democratic congressional candidate and had to resign because the DCCC planted a similar hit piece on me in our local paper to hurt the candidate.

CNN
@cnn.com
A Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising
Democratic Senate candidate once called himself a
"communist," dismissed "all" police as bastards, and said rural White Americans "actually are" racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts seen by CNN. cnn.it/47sXon6
[photo of Graham Platner]

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Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social · 2d

Join me at our campaign office on Saturday at 12:30pm to make signs before we head out to the No Kings Day protest.

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Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in SF, @saikatforcongress.bsky.social has a sign making workshop at 12:30. Come on down!

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Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social · 2d

Join me at our campaign office on Saturday at 12:30pm to make signs before we head out to the No Kings Day protest.

Swoletariat @swoletariat.bsky.social · 1d

I was married but I’m not married any more. Women don’t like the vehicle.