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Loving that the photo I'm in from primary night has now become the NYT's go-to photo for any article on DSA (I'm in the right corner with the Don't Rank Cuomo t-shirt).
In all seriousness, I've been a big fan of Táíwò and Hammer and Hope for years, and it was a pleasure to be able to just chat with my favorite collaborators and talk about our theory of mass communications and how we can inspire people through great creative and smart strategy to win.
Please read our amazing interview with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in @hammerandhope.bsky.social where I share brilliant, earth-shattering, once-in-a-generation comms insights like the following:
After this pic I bit into the wrap and squirted meat juice all over my suede Birkenstocks and now I'm looking up how to remove meat juice stains from suede
Saw this quote from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985) posted by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on the other site and I think it's the primary challenge to organizing against the oligarchy in the 21st century.
The secret to gaining the respect of gym bros is to wear a Zohran tee.
At long last, I was finally canvassed in my building, and of course it was by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social volunteers! This is happening at doors in every borough in the city, and it's why we're going to win 🌹
Fighting a cold and marking the year of the snake with homemade egg drop soup in bone broth 🥚🐍
Sometimes I wonder why I have trouble writing or staying on task and then I look at my feed and it all makes sense.
A democratic socialist candidate for Mayor gets a glowing feature in the NYT promoting a pro-working class policy. Oh how we dreamed of times like these.
There are many 'radicals' who think that we can skip the levels of engagement because history 'shows' us that these don't work. But you have to work through legitimate means to prove their illegitimacy. Or as Lenin said:
You can celebrate propaganda of the deed without denigrating the "peaceful organizing" that radicalized tens of millions of the working class in the first place. Source: @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social
Other people are enjoying Thanksgiving with their families. Meanwhile I'm at the hotel gym, locked in, having hypothetical arguments with random strangers from the Internet in my head. We are not the same.