Taryn Hallweaver
@tarynhallweaver.bsky.social
Troy, NY 🐦⬛ | movement-builder and mushroom enthusiast | Director of SURJ's Natl Organizing Dept @surj.bsky.social | just here to get daily news/hellscape roundup without opening 15 sites
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Wrong.
Campaigning in 2016, Trump would go off-script rambling about how much harder it would be to run against Bernie Sanders than HRC.
Real economic populism that picks fights with powerful culprits at the top was Trump's kryptonite then and still is now.
Trump knows it. Many Dems still don't.
Campaigning in 2016, Trump would go off-script rambling about how much harder it would be to run against Bernie Sanders than HRC.
Real economic populism that picks fights with powerful culprits at the top was Trump's kryptonite then and still is now.
Trump knows it. Many Dems still don't.
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Wrong.
Campaigning in 2016, Trump would go off-script rambling about how much harder it would be to run against Bernie Sanders than HRC.
Real economic populism that picks fights with powerful culprits at the top was Trump's kryptonite then and still is now.
Trump knows it. Many Dems still don't.
Campaigning in 2016, Trump would go off-script rambling about how much harder it would be to run against Bernie Sanders than HRC.
Real economic populism that picks fights with powerful culprits at the top was Trump's kryptonite then and still is now.
Trump knows it. Many Dems still don't.
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Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'
September 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'
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Boston isn’t for sale
September 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Boston isn’t for sale
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The worst thing about post-modern irony and internet culture is how nobody takes shit like this seriously any more, because nobody wants to be the person successful provoked by the troll
September 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The worst thing about post-modern irony and internet culture is how nobody takes shit like this seriously any more, because nobody wants to be the person successful provoked by the troll
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The tech oligarchs at this event are the weak men in the “weak men create hard times…” meme
Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
September 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The tech oligarchs at this event are the weak men in the “weak men create hard times…” meme
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Struggling for a collective future liberated from fascism, colonialism, and oppression requires us to accept what is happening, dig our heels in, learn from the rich history of resistance to fascism in the US, and act. Read the full piece at: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/02/surv...
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow – Scalawag
The Black South has developed battle-tested strategies for fighting fascism. Here are a few lessons from the time void known as Jim Crow.
scalawagmagazine.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Struggling for a collective future liberated from fascism, colonialism, and oppression requires us to accept what is happening, dig our heels in, learn from the rich history of resistance to fascism in the US, and act. Read the full piece at: scalawagmagazine.org/2025/02/surv...
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Joel Cook writes, “There are still elders among us who witnessed the America of the Jim Crow era. We've had far more time as a nation with white supremacist-focused government than without it. But that also means we've been given a plethora of battle-tested strategies for how to beat it.”
July 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Joel Cook writes, “There are still elders among us who witnessed the America of the Jim Crow era. We've had far more time as a nation with white supremacist-focused government than without it. But that also means we've been given a plethora of battle-tested strategies for how to beat it.”
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Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...
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Nothing--absolutely nothing--stops these Dems from looking at the anchor, saying "what on earth is wrong with you?" and going back to talking about 17 million people losing their healthcare.
If you make them look stupid for doing this, they will stop doing it.
If you make them look stupid for doing this, they will stop doing it.
decided to turn cable news on to see if it’s true and it is: tv anchors really are just interrupting conversations with dems about this bill to ask about zohran mamdani
June 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Nothing--absolutely nothing--stops these Dems from looking at the anchor, saying "what on earth is wrong with you?" and going back to talking about 17 million people losing their healthcare.
If you make them look stupid for doing this, they will stop doing it.
If you make them look stupid for doing this, they will stop doing it.
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me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.
June 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.
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Any comment on SCOTUS hacking away at the Constitution or are we just moving on from that
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Any comment on SCOTUS hacking away at the Constitution or are we just moving on from that
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
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I’ve seen enough, abolition is the centrist position
Net approval of ICE:
All: -17%
DEM: -80%
IND: -32%
GOP: +60%
Quinnipiac / June 24, 2025
All: -17%
DEM: -80%
IND: -32%
GOP: +60%
Quinnipiac / June 24, 2025
June 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I’ve seen enough, abolition is the centrist position
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Elites aren't even using their existing mechanisms set up to allow deniable messaging. Go look at PhRMA, the big bad lobbying group; they've got nothing to say about their NIH R&D pipeline being destroyed, nor about the worst regression in public health and vaccine acceptance in U.S. history.
“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...
The Public Is Resisting Trump. The Elites Aren’t.
The president is encountering little resistance as he remakes our society. And yet polling is clear that voters aren’t with him.
www.thebulwark.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Elites aren't even using their existing mechanisms set up to allow deniable messaging. Go look at PhRMA, the big bad lobbying group; they've got nothing to say about their NIH R&D pipeline being destroyed, nor about the worst regression in public health and vaccine acceptance in U.S. history.
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the whole campaign—stops at halal carts and Black churches and bodegas, meeting people where they were on the stoop and on the train platform, ads and lit in every language under the sun—was a love letter to the America I believe in
June 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
the whole campaign—stops at halal carts and Black churches and bodegas, meeting people where they were on the stoop and on the train platform, ads and lit in every language under the sun—was a love letter to the America I believe in
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Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.
June 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Each time a remotely progressive candidate wins office in the US, the rich declare they're going to leave town. What do they actually do? Nothing. A 2016 study found only 0.04% of millionaires move in a given year due to tax increases. Rich people talk to feel important. Please properly tax them.
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the reaction to Mamdani's campaign is clear proof that centrism is a reactionary ideology, and has nothing to do with a pragmatic desire to win.
A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible
June 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
the reaction to Mamdani's campaign is clear proof that centrism is a reactionary ideology, and has nothing to do with a pragmatic desire to win.
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Holy shit
In Bell, CA an entire community stood up against ICE, including the local police and the fire dept. The fire truck appears to not allow ICE vehicles to move forward nor remain and pushes forward to escort them out. A police car also helped with escorting. /
June 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Holy shit
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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
Correct framing
June 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Correct framing
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The president does not have Congressional authorization to start a war with Iran. This is a brazenly illegal and illegitimate action that the President does not have the authority to make.
Congressional Democrats must act accordingly.
Congressional Democrats must act accordingly.
June 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The president does not have Congressional authorization to start a war with Iran. This is a brazenly illegal and illegitimate action that the President does not have the authority to make.
Congressional Democrats must act accordingly.
Congressional Democrats must act accordingly.
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
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Senator Van Hollen got a rock star’s intro and, Holy Shit, did he get a rock star’s welcome here in #Baltimore. Maybe actually standing up and fighting back is popular or something. #NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Senator Van Hollen got a rock star’s intro and, Holy Shit, did he get a rock star’s welcome here in #Baltimore. Maybe actually standing up and fighting back is popular or something. #NoKings
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Jeffries doesn’t even mention Trump or MAGA in his statement about a fascist assassination of his fellow Democratic lawmaker. It’s deeply pathetic.
The least Democrats in Congress can do is say that Trump and his movement are responsible for this horrible violence.
The least Democrats in Congress can do is say that Trump and his movement are responsible for this horrible violence.
The culture of violence that has been created by political extremists in this country must end.
June 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Jeffries doesn’t even mention Trump or MAGA in his statement about a fascist assassination of his fellow Democratic lawmaker. It’s deeply pathetic.
The least Democrats in Congress can do is say that Trump and his movement are responsible for this horrible violence.
The least Democrats in Congress can do is say that Trump and his movement are responsible for this horrible violence.