Ashik Siddique
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@ahSHEEK
🌊🌹⛈ | @demsocialists co-chair | invented doomscrolling
Beating Donald Trump isn’t enough, argue the Democratic Socialists of America’s cochairs. A united left-labor campaign in 2028 could mobilize millions, challenge Democratic Party failure, and put a working-class program on the national stage. jacobin.com/2026/05/left-l…
Jennifer Welch, wearing DREAM's "Tax Me I’m Rich" sweatshirt, has a message for @GovKathyHochul: "Kathy Hochul needs to raise the taxes on the billionaire bedwetters. [...] So I'm gonna fight hard for that."
Zohran on CBS: " I think what we can see is that a democratic socialist politics is one that should be judged on its delivery, like any ideology ... I think that this is a politics that can flourish anywhere because, frankly, there is only one majority in this country — that's the working class and it's time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what it is that we're pursuing and not as part of the appendix."
The 7 Senate Democrats who voted against blocking a proposed weapons sale to Israel: Richard Blumenthal (CT) Chris Coons (DE) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) Jacky Rosen (NV) Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) Chuck Schumer (NY) John Fetterman (PA)
“As long as you're an ally of ours, I'm not for conditioning weapons to Israel.” Rep. Jared Moskowitz emphasizes he does not support conditioning weapons to Israel, even if they break international law in an exchange with Zeteo’s @prem_thakker.
don’t forget: this happened because the sitting SOCIALIST mayor directed a massive canvassing operation with hochul as its target and tax bumps as its goal. DSA is overseeing actual mass governance on a scale not even attempted in the US in living memory—and it fucking works.
Cuban Americans support U.S. military attack on Cuba, reject economic deal, poll shows miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…
UPDATE: 36 Senators vote to block $150M of 1000-lb bombs to Israel. Another record high, after 40 voted to block bulldozers. Blumenthal, Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gillibrand, Peters, Reed, Rosen, Schumer, Warner, and Whitehouse voted with Republicans.
Historic.
