Stephanie Emiko Nakajima

My piece on the faulty power analysis behind #forcethevote and - more importantly - where we go from here to win Medicare For All:

its not just abolish ice, we must punish ice. justice must be served.

It was fucked up in Fallujah too.

If Trump seizes Greenland from Denmark, does that mean that all Americans will be entitled to: Free healthcare with no deductibles? A free college education? 52 weeks of paid parental leave? 5 weeks of paid vacation? Because that’s what everyone in Denmark and Greenland has.

@MattBruenig @Piguy_3point14 @mattxyzed @JillFilipovic @LeahLibresco live in CPH and have recently realized this. Ppl here go on 4 vacations a year, eat out, and have the money to travel all over Europe. Meanwhile our pharma friends in MA bought a rundown house for $1 mil, go on maybe 1 trip a year. Americans have $$, but what do they get for it..

@Piguy_3point14 @mattxyzed @JillFilipovic @LeahLibresco Ok great. Now suppose your employer goes to you and says, actually I am going to give you an option. I will either give you a $10k annual raise or you can get 1 month of paid vacation. You choose paid vacation. How is this different form you spending $10k on a vacation?

It's also not what most parents want, which is why universal paid leave is such a key component of this. Most parents work. Pre-k is great. But for the first 9-12 months, infants really are so fragile and so in need of a primary caregiver. Let both parents stay home.

A pointless resolution on the House floor today. Clearly they feel threatened by dem socialists like myself who are unbought & willing to take on the billionaire class. To @DemSocialists members across the country organizing every day to build more just communities: Thank you!

kourtney, not now

"When you’re so accustomed to privilege, the most minimally humane policies for others can seem like oppression." levernews.com/whos-afraid-of…

Mamdani won. The establishment is in panic. Billionaires are raising money against him; Trump is ranting; Islamophobes are on the loose. They know what we know: Candidates who stand boldly with the working class can win not only in NYC, but anywhere. Let's stand with Zohran.

It’s wild that it took the Biden disaster, the Harris cataclysm, and the Cuomo collapse for Very Savvy Democratic Consultants & Pundits to realize that maybe the party shouldn’t run zombies for office.

Watch to the very end when they tell the senator’s staffer there’s no recording allowed, as they drive him to the ground after physically removing him from a press conference. Yes, their position is that there is no recording allowed at a press event

@JamieEldridgeMA @AntiWuCoalition @ClownParty0000 blue is really your color Jamie

But @AntiWuCoalition, I’m not sure how productive these various distorted or changed images by people like @ClownParty0000 keep tweeting out - and I know my replying to this will generate even more of these juvenile images 😄🤷‍♂️

the hiroshima bombing was a horrific crime against humanity with no justification

Alternatively, Clinton and Obama's refusal to challenge corporate power laid the groundwork for the collapse of the Democratic Party brand. "Dems sold us out to NAFTA, they refused to prosecute the big banks, why should I think they'll ever fight for us?"

Ezra Klein is the millennials’ Thomas Friedman. I don’t know how the ruling classes scout these human vacuum tubes to unleash on us, but they do. We’re stuck with EK for the next 4 decades- well, you youngins are anyway.

You spent the Obama years defending Dems against those demanding they fulfill their promises to challenge power. You’re now spending your NYT years in this Gilded Age insisting the focus must not be on oligarchs or corruption. Look in the mirror: You are the caricature here.

I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will. I think there's an idea out there that millions of violent criminals are pouring across the border, carrying machetes and drugs, looking to harm Americans. Certainly, while some people fall into that category, the vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't. My family escaped Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and went through an arduous journey that eventually landed them in the Canada. My father worked there for a time as a janitor; my mother, a secretary. When work fell through, my dad was offered to work with his sister in the United States, so he went, as our family needed money. He ended up staying in the US longer than he was supposed to — not knowing immigration laws — and asked my mom to come be with him. Of course, she went and carried me over the border while I was still a baby. I'm still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I've been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else. The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud. There are millions of people in my situation — people who were brought here as children, some babies, and were unable to raise their hand during this process and say "maybe we should hire a lawyer." Parents may have crossed the border not knowing about the law, as the law can be pretty confusing and lawyers are expensive. Perhaps, in the end, they should have hired a lawyer; but sometimes life is messy. In the end, they crossed for the same reason many people rise every day: to support their families. I think it's unreasonable to deport millions of people who have contributed positively to society. It's simply not true that the majority of these people are violent criminals carrying drugs. Many own small businesses; many work as skilled laborers (including garment workers!). The vast majority are good, honest people. For those of us who grew up in the United States, sending us "back" to our "home" country would mean sending someone to a foreign land, as they grew up in the United States. Tearing families apart based on immigration status seems inhumane. About twenty years ago, I watched with some small measure of hope that the Dream ACT would pass and help a portion of undocumented immigrants. I saw people march angrily in the streets (something I supported). But I was dismayed to see nothing really come about. In fact, when Obama passed DACA, I was skeptical that it would be sensible to give your information to the federal government without a guaranteed path to citizenship. It seems that the Trump administration may use those lists to hunt down immigrants. I think the ICE sweeps are inhumane. I support and admire the protestors who are putting their bodies on the line for non-violent resistance. Ultimately, I think we need to solve this issue on a systemic level. It's unreasonable to me to expect that the government will deport some 10-20 million people. Even deporting 1 million will cause an insane amount of chaos, not to mention an incredible amount of wasteful government spending. The militarization of law enforcement is over the top and only escalate the situation. I have seen people march on this issue, only for it to be dropped later and dissolve into quiet grumbles. In the end, nothing is done for immigrants. Time passes until decades later, we have another political crisis like the one we have today. This cycle seems unsustainable. I hope people sustain this energy to solve the immigration issue and put undocumented immigrants — most who are peaceful, skilled, and hard-working citizens — on a path to citizenship. As time continues to go by, many undocumented immigrants are seeing their lives wasted away. If you care about this issue, I hope you get involved on the long haul: volunteer for pro-immigrant groups, donate to mutual aid, and perhaps pursue career paths that help people in this situation. I was moved to read someone on here say that, when they found their employee was undocumented, they helped them get a green card. The path was difficult, as our immigration system is broken (it took them 11 years). But I can tell you that this is like pulling someone drowning in raging waters. Ultimately, I hope me sharing this story helps push back against the idea that all undocumented immigrants are MS-13 members. I know many people in my position and they are all like your neighbors.

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with @gatonievas [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

imagine lamenting a lack of “abundance” while also being the people who insisted we can’t have government-guaranteed universal health care and instead we should have ObamaRomneycare that fortifies insurance corporations as middlemen rationing care via claim denials

Mass Congressman Jake Auchincloss, leader in neoliberal, corporate #Democratic #Abundance movement, suggests the Left protects social media corporations - many of which are sponsors of Abundance conference 🤷‍♂️. And I’m not aware of us protecting Facebook, X or other media titans!

lol