jan Rob
@janpoblano.bsky.social
"But at the head of the gulch, on one of the largest pine-trees, they found the deuce of clubs pinned to the bark with a bowie-knife. It bore the following, written in pencil, in a firm hand: Join the DSA"
He/Him, Trotskyist, DSA, Bi
He/Him, Trotskyist, DSA, Bi
Having considered it a bit more, I do think demands like "abolish the senate" can function as a workable demand, seperated from the mechanism needed to obtain it. It identifies the reality—we don't live in a true democracy—and the necessity of struggle—there are no usable legal tools to change it.
Feel like democratic socialists need to get back to that constitutional agitation thing that they were doing from 2017 to 2019 which demands to abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, and so on. Aziz Rana's scholarship on this country's legal mechanisms should be required reading.
November 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Having considered it a bit more, I do think demands like "abolish the senate" can function as a workable demand, seperated from the mechanism needed to obtain it. It identifies the reality—we don't live in a true democracy—and the necessity of struggle—there are no usable legal tools to change it.
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I guess Portland doesn't exist
yes, that's MUG, Red Star, and SOR with more members than the two caucuses which actually do things
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I guess Portland doesn't exist
For a first attempt, good work from BxB, although still disappointing. Give it a year and this experience might be translated to a win.
NYC-DSA results
Steering overall:
SMC 10
GW 8
BxB 1
Ind 1
CLC overall:
SMC 32
GW 21
BxB 12
B&R 2
MUG 2
Ind 2
Co-chair:
Grace (SMC) 40%
Gustavo (GW) 36%
Alex (BxB) 24%
Labor coordinator:
Olivia (Ind) 52%
Sebastian (GW) 48%
Electoral coordinator:
Alvaro (SMC) 68%
Nicola (B&R) 32%
Steering overall:
SMC 10
GW 8
BxB 1
Ind 1
CLC overall:
SMC 32
GW 21
BxB 12
B&R 2
MUG 2
Ind 2
Co-chair:
Grace (SMC) 40%
Gustavo (GW) 36%
Alex (BxB) 24%
Labor coordinator:
Olivia (Ind) 52%
Sebastian (GW) 48%
Electoral coordinator:
Alvaro (SMC) 68%
Nicola (B&R) 32%
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
For a first attempt, good work from BxB, although still disappointing. Give it a year and this experience might be translated to a win.
Many people are saying this: www.marxists.org/archive/trot...
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Many people are saying this: www.marxists.org/archive/trot...
People will just say anything on this website
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
People will just say anything on this website
Progressives should probably not support someone who spent millions on defeating a progressive challenger in a different race in his city
This is why progressives should support @saikatforcongress.bsky.social. He's got actually good housing politics and also isn't an insane fascist on Israel-Palestine.
This is rich. Connie Chan says she “built real affordable housing, not the Sacramento version that destroys our neighborhoods.”
She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing that she didn’t build but that *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds. 🧵
She points to new affordable housing on Geary: housing that she didn’t build but that *was* built using “Sacramento version” housing laws & $52M in state funds. 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Progressives should probably not support someone who spent millions on defeating a progressive challenger in a different race in his city
It's so funny that people are trying to criticize the DSA from the left for not endorsing... an opportunist who has been a DSA member for a month
Bright’s TLDR summarizes it well.
It’s Silicon Valley speak about innovation and ignores that DSA is just another petit bourgeois lobbying group.
It’s Silicon Valley speak about innovation and ignores that DSA is just another petit bourgeois lobbying group.
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's so funny that people are trying to criticize the DSA from the left for not endorsing... an opportunist who has been a DSA member for a month
Both the original post here and the quote poster here are engaged in naturalizing that is, in short, dumb.
these posts--from the same poster--a leftist!--speak to how the lure of the imagined natural grips even people on the left. but actually what is "natural" to humanity fucking sucks. most of human history is a story of violence, scarcity, and rape from which we have only recently escaped
November 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Both the original post here and the quote poster here are engaged in naturalizing that is, in short, dumb.
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Alex for @socialists.nyc co-chair!
We’re helping to build up NYC-DSA, Brick by Brick! 🧱🌹
www.brick-by-brick.nyc
We’re helping to build up NYC-DSA, Brick by Brick! 🧱🌹
www.brick-by-brick.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Alex for @socialists.nyc co-chair!
We’re helping to build up NYC-DSA, Brick by Brick! 🧱🌹
www.brick-by-brick.nyc
We’re helping to build up NYC-DSA, Brick by Brick! 🧱🌹
www.brick-by-brick.nyc
Imagine going through the trouble of radically changing American society after these fascists took power and then just giving power back to "responsible corpos."
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Imagine going through the trouble of radically changing American society after these fascists took power and then just giving power back to "responsible corpos."
A classless society is possible.
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A classless society is possible.
Talking about abolitionism has the tendency to bring out the fascism in ostensible allies
you are basically saying some people are born evil. do you really think that?
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Talking about abolitionism has the tendency to bring out the fascism in ostensible allies
Wow its sooo cool how the NYC DSA's nonsense around local and national dues is actively confusing people who want to join DSA
anyway apparently if you join nycdsa they have stuff they will send you and if you join national you can choose a low income or free dues tier. i don’t understand the split or which one you should do or if joining national joins you to local or if they’re separate but
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Wow its sooo cool how the NYC DSA's nonsense around local and national dues is actively confusing people who want to join DSA
Reminder to join the DSA
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Reminder to join the DSA
People will talk about "sectarianism" or "purity politics" as a reason the non-endorsement was bad. Really what they're saying is "why can't you throw homeless people under the bus for political gain?" They misunderstand the socialist project.
Katie Wilson being a socialist will come up a lot, particularly from the right. It’s true she identifies that way, as she told Danny Westneat. But I found it interesting that Seattle’s DSA chapter voted against endorsing her. Unlike Mamdani, she’s not affiliated with any socialist organizations.
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
People will talk about "sectarianism" or "purity politics" as a reason the non-endorsement was bad. Really what they're saying is "why can't you throw homeless people under the bus for political gain?" They misunderstand the socialist project.
This is a correct diagnosis of the reality of building a socialist party. However, it is also fundamentally the task of the socialist movement. A proletarian movement by necessity must oppose the two capitalist parties and create a new infrastructure from scratch.
There’s a two party duopoly in this nation.
Is it great? No! Is it reality? Yes.
Creating a third party means building up an entirely new infrastructure from scratch and then fighting both R & D.
Taking over the Dem Party is an easier and more effective route. It’ll take time, but it’s worth it.
Is it great? No! Is it reality? Yes.
Creating a third party means building up an entirely new infrastructure from scratch and then fighting both R & D.
Taking over the Dem Party is an easier and more effective route. It’ll take time, but it’s worth it.
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This is a correct diagnosis of the reality of building a socialist party. However, it is also fundamentally the task of the socialist movement. A proletarian movement by necessity must oppose the two capitalist parties and create a new infrastructure from scratch.
it's a good thing she is winning, but she is not a socialist.
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
it's a good thing she is winning, but she is not a socialist.
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Zohran’s win in the face of immense red-baiting and racist hysteria has electrified the country. The capitalist media and political class have tried to attack him on precisely the issues that shape his mass appeal, from his open identity as a socialist to his opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Zohran’s win in the face of immense red-baiting and racist hysteria has electrified the country. The capitalist media and political class have tried to attack him on precisely the issues that shape his mass appeal, from his open identity as a socialist to his opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
Ian Haworth is a conservative british man who has written for the daily wire and the Washington examiner. Feels like someone concerned with antisemitism might want to target the source instead of using it to push a narrative.
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Ian Haworth is a conservative british man who has written for the daily wire and the Washington examiner. Feels like someone concerned with antisemitism might want to target the source instead of using it to push a narrative.
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Far from their caricature as coup plotters who hated elections and democracy, the Bolsheviks used electoralism frequently, but towards revolutionary ends. Michael L explores what their work in the 4th Duma looked like and what we can learn from it today.
reformandrevolution.org/2025/10/19/b...
reformandrevolution.org/2025/10/19/b...
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Far from their caricature as coup plotters who hated elections and democracy, the Bolsheviks used electoralism frequently, but towards revolutionary ends. Michael L explores what their work in the 4th Duma looked like and what we can learn from it today.
reformandrevolution.org/2025/10/19/b...
reformandrevolution.org/2025/10/19/b...
POV: you have no theory of change
if people had actual political education in this country they’d understand that a true socialist party with actual political power has never existed here, and never will be allowed to.
October 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
POV: you have no theory of change
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Reposted by jan Rob
The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.
September 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.