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Cosmonaut Star 🚩🏴

@comradestar.bsky.social

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Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Fascist, Anti-TERF, Nonsectarian Leftist. Global #Solidarity with all comrades.🌹☭🚩φ🏴Ⓐ🥭

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Cosmonaut Star 🚩🏴 @comradestar.bsky.social · Oct 15

Of all my work so far, I am probably most proud of bsky.app/profile/redl... a nonsectarian, kickass space for Leftists to learn and grow. If you are following me I strongly suggest following the club account too. Send a DM if you would like to join!

Revolutionary Literature Club @redlitclub.bsky.social · Oct 15

Would you like a place to discuss your favorite radical works with comrades weekly? Would you like to be exposed to more revolutionary theory? Would you like a place to share your own writings, poems or journalism? Then join the Literature Club! All leftists are welcome!

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Bartleby Crumbford @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 7d

Cool app, definitely worth 500 billion dollars!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d

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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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 4d

As soon as the dollar crashes, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg etc. all become just some other unlikable guys who need food, water and shelter—guys with a lot of enemies at that! The god-king existences these people think they can buy for themselves is pure delusion.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4d

They're just downright awful people. That's what it comes down to.

Will you move to your home in Bedford?":

Eva Heyman, a former executive for Bloomberg LP and the co-founder of Leventhal's podcast, said
Mamdani supporters are so rare in her circle that she only recently met one face-to-face for the first time at her child's school.

It was early October, and she and another mother were discussing Israel's responsibility for the war
in Gaza, about which they disagreed.

"Then at one point, I said, 'Wait, are you voting for Mamdani? How far apart are We?' Heyman recalled. "She was like, The last two administrations have done nothing good, so why not try this?' The woman had ruled out Cuomo partly because of #MeToo accusations, which Heyman considers "silly."

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4d

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

New York's Richest Ask 'how Dare He?' as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall
The city's 1% realize their influence is waning: It's hard to be chill and relaxed'

It was just after finishing a set of pelvic floor exercises that a Pilates instructor on the Upper East Side recently brought up one of the least popular men in the neighborhood: New York City
mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani,.

All of a sudden the class, which costs $50 a pop, became something of a political confab. In between sets, some women strategized about helping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
who they see as more palatable, pull off an upset. Others gushed about a recent New York Post cover depicting Gov. Kathy Hochul, who had recently endorsed Mamdani, as a devotee of Mao Zedong.

New York's richest residents can't stop talking about Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. To many of the city's uber-wealthy, his sustained
popularity has been a shock. The 33-year-old, self. described Democratic Socialist is the overwhelming favorite to win City Hall next month, on a platform that includes free buses and free child care--programs that, the moneyed
are well aware, somebody needs to shell out for.

"I hope Mamdani is going to give out free Xanax," said Caroline Leventhal, a lifelong Upper East sider who co-founded 'Mic'd and Medicated," a podcast that dissects the lifestyle of cosmetic surgeries and private ski instructors. "It's hard to
be chill and relaxed."

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5d

Uh, being compared to Marjorie Taylor Greene of all people on CNN? Not on my bingo card.

Real talk tho: Keeping our tax dollars here to feed kids, build schools, and provide healthcare instead of sending it abroad to subsidize genocide…should be standard DEMOCRATIC platform.

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Cosmonaut Star 🚩🏴 @comradestar.bsky.social · 6d

He literally willingly aided and abetted the genocide of the Palestinian people. A genocide he could have stopped at any point.

I hope he feels a fraction of the pain he’s caused this world.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8d

The protests in a week are likely to be some of the largest in history. This time, instead of ignoring them, maybe Democrats could try something new: pointing out that a president who is facing some of the largest protests in history is definitionally deeply unpopular, and has no hint of a mandate

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9d

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10d

discovering insane edits recently

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10d

If I were actively trying to destroy the United States from within, going after and dismantling its public health would be like the first thing I’d do.

Just pointing that out.

This is beyond dangerous. It’s leaving us vulnerable in a way we can’t really fathom until it’s too late.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13d

The uncensored version of this book revealed Jeffrey Epstein's long relationship with Melania, his introduction of Melania to Trump, and Trump (and then Epstein) having intercourse with Melania in the back of a limo. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13d

The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

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Cosmonaut Star 🚩🏴 @comradestar.bsky.social · 14d

Ew what the hell is he doing

Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 14d

Another Mamdani position I can’t abide. They’re starting to stack up

Clarification from the current New York candidate on his stance on le regimes in Cuba and Venezuela
le episode highlighted that just days after the interview, Mamdani's campaign arified its position by stating that both Nicolás Maduro and Miguel Díaz-Canel were "dictators."
"I want to be clear about my position. I believe both Nicolás Maduro and Miguel Díaz-Canel are dictators. Their administrations have stifled free and fair elections, imprisoned political opponents, and suppressed a free and fair press," Mamdani emphasized.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 14d

Another Mamdani position I can’t abide. They’re starting to stack up

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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @[email protected] @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 14d

This is a disgusting thing to say while US aggression again Venezuala is ramping up. Prepare to be told that this is actually some sort of 11d chess move and that we're allergic to power

Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 14d

Another Mamdani position I can’t abide. They’re starting to stack up

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 14d

Stupid and Stupider are on the board

lindsey graham is questioning pam bondi today about the chicagoland siege by ICE

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15d

Things are accelerating. The end of our democracy and start of the Trump dictatorship isn't happening at a consistent pace—nor is it intended to.

The way they end America is to move so quickly that neither institutions nor the masses can react in time.

I'm not sure democracy makes it to Christmas.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 18d

she is an incurious bigot whose only talent is syncophancy, and i can only hope her fall is as meteoric as her rise, with an attendant crater at impact

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 18d

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

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Cosmonaut Star 🚩🏴 @comradestar.bsky.social · 20d

The New York Times needs to be shut down.

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady @nytdiff.bsky.social · 20d

Change in Headline

Before: These Six Charts Tell You Exactly What’s at Stake in This Shutdown
After: These 6 Charts Explain Why Democrats May Shut Down the Government

Cosmonaut Star 🚩🏴 @comradestar.bsky.social · 21d

Mehdi I normally love your stuff but please open your mind and understand what the Cuban foreign minister is saying here. Cuba is an authentic radical grassroots democracy. Individuals are elected as individuals not party members in *competitive* elections!

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 21d

Any reason you’re not posting this fucking insane clip everywhere?

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Revolutionary Literature Club @redlitclub.bsky.social · Oct 15

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Cosmonaut Star 🚩🏴 @comradestar.bsky.social · 28d