Sean

My New Year's resolution was to be meaner, and to be nice to fewer undeserving people. Grace is to be earned, not given freely. The reactions to the events of the first few days of this year have given me great opportunity to put this resolution into practice.

@Iridescence1625 @blessedirl Or "I-10"! Smh transplants. 🤣

@juliabracadabra Holy shit, that's awful on several levels. I'm a dive bar kinda guy so this lore escaped me.

@BCTSean yes pink pony club is based off the abbey bar which is notorious for bartenders dr*gging drinks

chappell roan always chirping too much for someone who got famous off promoting a bar where thousands of young women including me were r**fied by the staff

@petersterne There's also a mandatory candidate forum included in an additional 3-4 weeks of setup necessary before a formal endorsement is given. Any endorsement would have come 5-6 weeks ahead of the primary. Support teams don't come outta nowhere. We wouldn't have even had 3 months.

NYC-DSA began seriously considering running Zohran for mayor in summer 2024 (a year before the June 2025 primary) and formally endorsed him when launched his campaign in October 2024 (8 months before the primary). The LA mayoral primary is in less than 3 months.

@reporterliz Oh dang, you were here?

DSA-LA is about to debate whether to endorse in the mayor’s race in the primary. There've been petitions for the socialist group to take up endorsemets for candidates Rae Huang and Nithya Raman, both challenging Mayor Karen Bass. Raman and Huang are here and both got cheers.

DSA-LA has six endorsed races that still have need for more hands, one of which is city-wide. Adding a seventh, which would be city-wide and for the executive seat, would require even more resources that simply aren't there. We don't do paper endorsements (unless you count the voter guide).

@Noah__Goldberg DSA-LA continues to be deeply unserious lol.

DSA LA decided NOT to reopen their endorsement window for mayor of Los Angeles following a debate. That means nether Nithya Raman nor Rae Huang will get the group’s backing for the June primary — which comes with canvassers and phone bankers. Vote needed 2/3 majority, got ~54%.

@Finnashleep @Noah__Goldberg It was overturning a previous resolution, so it required a 2/3 majority. If it was a standalone resolution not in conflict with existing bylaws, it'd have required simple majority for approval.

@Noah__Goldberg I never knew DSA has a filibuster, I thought 54% was enough for democracy.

@romancingAndrea @GWAMtweets Tbf, Ryan Grim is kind of a twitter influencer but your point still remains.

@GWAMtweets Jeremy Corbyn is not an influencer. Kneecap are not influencers. Code Pink are not influencer. Ryan Grim not an influencer. I could keep going. They are bring food and supplies to a country being starved by the US. Also, they all are able to show what is happening first hand.

Listen. I hope these influencers in Cuba do some good somehow. I’m not exactly sure what that will look like. But it really feels more like a clout-grab than anything meaningful.

I sounds like a broken record but we are losing the ability to consume information or speak online and the entire left is either not speaking about this at all or basically abdicating this issue.

@Tanya_Sabrinaaa @Noah__Goldberg @dsa_losangeles @nithyavraman @raeforla One from the 1920s, unfortunately. Rae does want fare free public transit and transit expansions tho.

@Noah__Goldberg @dsa_losangeles @nithyavraman @raeforla which mayoral candidate is promising mass transit, like an extensive trolley car system

The @dsa_losangeles was planning to sit out the mayoral election… today they are voting on whether to reopen their endorsement window to consider backing @nithyavraman or @raeforla latimes.com/california/sto…

@PCPRO23 @Ewphoriac You’re being willfully ignorant here at best and deliberately misleading at worst.

@Ewphoriac “We’ll mediate disputes between residents and venues” = We will ignore calls for loud noise after 10pm so you can party all night as loud as you want. Yeah she is gonna make the city awesome!

People saying she’s polling low act as if zohran wasn’t at 7% in March, people seeing the city council woman throwing her hat in the ring acted as if cuomo didn’t join the election, y’all please show up for her ground game, text banks, phone banks, put her in office

@OGBlackRedGuard As far as potential electeds go, I love her. She’d face immense gridlock from a majority of our city council tho. She’s also got an uphill battle against an (admittedly extremely unpopular) incumbent and a previously endorsed city council member with a problematic record.

what do LA comrades think of her? From what I’ve heard she’s based

Scrolling through the steam sale and I think I might have hit the jackpot

I don’t normally push my culture on ppl but this year I’m texting all my American friends to remind them that the Earth has just begun a new cycle around the sun and that Persians formalized this moment as Nowruz (beginning a new year at the spring equinox) over 2,500 years ago.

That's not why that resolution had so much opposition. Like I said, you never read the resolution beyond the title that went viral during the 2025 convention. The disagreement wasn't on whether or not DSA should adopt an anti-Zionist stance, it disagreement was over the punishments and censure processes for violating the new directive. It was bureaucratic disagreement, not ideological disagreement. But you saw a viral headline that confirmed your biases about DSA (most of which are well-founded, mind you, but you still did zero investigation--no investigation, no right to speak). And as to your last point, I'm making no excuses. I'm letting the people who care about electoral projects do them; that's not why I'm here. Find me another org in Los Angeles that has thousands of members doing work to educate people on socialism, provide community support, organize labor, support and coordinate labor actions, and defend our communities against ICE and I'll look into switching orgs. Cause I'll tell you, it's not PSL, RCP/RCI, CPUSA, or any others. PSL comes closest on the education side, but that's about it.

@BCTSean @NotPotBol Right so on two of the three points I brought up you basically said “it’s not as bad as it looks”. DSA had barely 50% of the vote agree to continue to be an explicitly anti-Zionist org. And you continue to make excuses for working with and directly supporting democrats

So as some people know I am in the DSA, and have been for a while. I am still an ML, and the DSA is not an ML party. So I want to explain my rationale for why I am in it. If you disagree then feel free to share. I would love some sort of conversation on strategy for US socialists

@stalinistberet @NukedVeterans @Anphoria And yet, at least in Los Angeles, it's far more than other orgs are doing. The org is also slowly (but steadily) shifting leftward. There will always be a contingent engaging in electoral projects, but more and more people are becoming eager to do work beyond that.

@BCTSean @NukedVeterans @Anphoria It's non electoral activity is surface level and easily replaceable by a charity.

It's always funny when MLs have to defend themselves for being in DSA to their online ML friends, instead of feeling proud to be in DSA. DSA is good; you don’t need to defend it to the terminally online who aren’t organizing because they've found a party they consider pure enough

@JohnHMcCallum1 Because "conservative" Christians work their faith in a way that stands in direct contravention to the teachings of Jesus. Jesus transcends political ideologies; his supposed followers do not.

@Dr_Marxist_27 Leftists will say that Jesus transcends political ideology. But yet do everything they can think of to label, vilify, harass and deride conservative Christians for the sin of not agreeing with the way they work out their faith in the public square.

Christian nationalist will say that Jesus transcends political ideology. But yet uphold nationalism to go to war to spread manifest Destiny through settler colonialism

get in comrade, we’re forming a cadre