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Platner in Maine is interesting, isn't he? Will the "of course I'm not a socialist" after saying a lot of very socialist things work on the left as the usual "I'm not a Nazi" works on the right?
We'll see.

Putting up Halloween lights when socialist neighbor walks by:
Neighbor: "Halloween decorations?"
Me: "Yep!"
"We're not handing out anything."
"Why?"
"It's capitalist propaganda. And sugar is unhealthy."
"...alrighty then."
So I pull out my phone & order 120 more chocolate bars to hand out. 😜

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🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
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😿 The Crisis of the Portuguese Left
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The Crisis of the Portuguese Left
The Portuguese Socialist Party once seemed to be a model for Europe’s center left, gaining support while its sister parties were in decline. But this year’s election was a crushing defeat that saw the Socialists fall behind the far-right group Chega.

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Absolute Objectivity:
🎵 Socialist Christmas
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The Year America Went (Kinda) Socialist (Scott Lincicome/The Dispatch)
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/capitolism/the-year-america-went-kinda-socialist/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p137#a251217p137

Didn't realize Katie Wilson identified as a socialist! Cool. https://komonews.c…

Mayor-elect Katie Wilson urges unity, community, collective responsibility in Seattle
Seattle's new Mayor-elect Katie Wilson is set to address the public regarding her election and upcoming role as mayor on Thursday afternoon.

Every now and then I visit Nextdoor, drop a bunch of socialist comments then disappear.
In the most recent episode I learned (once again) that some people in Milwaukee would like to see a lot more cops and would gladly take the funding from public schools to make it happen. Sigh...
#mke #milwaukee

They're calling it for Wilson; here's Fox's look-down-their-nose:
Seattle socialist Katie Wilson leads mayor race in new polling data | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/leftward-lurch-second-socialist-leader-ready-rule-another-iconic-american-city

It's Interesting today that the popularization of @…'s concept of "enshittification" is leading us to really think hard about how various methods of vendor lock-in enable corporations to abuse users. We see how first there's lock-in then quickly abuse follows, and recognize that the only way out of this trap is to build systems where users can leave at will.
But it's interesting that in this time of rising fascism no one is making the connection to fascism, as both increased lock in and enshittification of government. And no one is making the connection between the need to make systems optional to avoid enshittification, and libertarian socialist arguments against the systemic lock-in (and following abuse) of capitalism and the state.

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC mayor by fellow socialist Bernie Sanders, AG Tish James (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/22/us-news/zohran-mamdani-will-be-sworn-in-as-nyc-mayor-by-bernie-sanders-tish-james/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p65#a251222p65

It’s definitely a long shot.
But Rae Huang, a 43-year-old community organizer, minister and dues-paying member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,
is making her move, throwing her hat into the ring for mayor of Los Angeles.
The virtually unknown candidate is the deputy director of Housing Now California,
a coalition that fights displacement of tenants at the state and local levels.
Huang, who announced a campaign launch on Sunday, i…

She's challenging Bass from the left. Could she become L.A.'s Mamdani?
Rae Huang, a 43-year-old community organizer and democratic socialist, is waging a long-shot campaign for L.A. mayor, focusing on free buses, public housing and police abuse.

✊🏽 Socialist Politics Can Break Through to Asian Immigrants
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Great thread. https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/115388249276371636

⚖️ Catalonia’s Socialist president: tackling inequality can blunt separatist and far-right voices
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/16/catalonia-socialist-president-salvador-illa-ta…

Catalonia’s Socialist president: tackling inequality can blunt separatist and far-right voices
In an interview, Salvador Illa tells of ‘pragmatic approach’ as he seeks to persuade voters about benefits of coexistence with Madrid

Äntligen händer något kul #Mamdani

whats ur favorite historical communist propaganda

I grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You can hate me all you want, but when it comes to Zohran Mamdani, the reality is clear. He is a democratic socialist running as a candidate within the Democratic Party. Ultimately, by participating in the Democratic Party’s electoral system, he is operating within and effectively supporting the framework of American capitalism and imperialism.
The two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, are fundamentally aligned in preserving the capitalist system that m…

Nancy Pelosi's legacy is the socialist takeover of her party (David Marcus/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-nancy-pelosis-legacy-socialist-takeover-her-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p30#a251109p30

It is always disturbing when MAGA politicians go off halfcocked about socialism.
Here are some of the “radical left” socialist programs that Warner must be complaining about:
Medicare
Medicaid
The Affordable Care Act
Social Security
SNAP (food stamps)
Meals on Wheels and Office of Aging services
Every single one of these programs was once characterized by right-wing politicians as a
“socialist program.”

This MAGA politician's disturbing rant shows a party hellbent on hurting its own
“It is hard to watch other states and cities across our nation leap toward socialism… Let’s keep our state moving forward by always rejecting the falsehoods sold by the radical left.” — Secretary of State Kris Warner, Facebook post, November 5, 2025. Although I should be accustomed to it, it is alw...

Outspoken Democrat Zohran Mamdani beat Trump-endorsed serial sexual harasser Cuomo to become New York City Mayor.Outspoken Democrat Zohran Mamdani beat Trump-endorsed serial sexual harasser Cuomo to become New York City Mayor.
https://abcnews.go.com/Po…

Mamdani makes history with improbable, meteoric rise to become New York's next mayor, ABC News projects
The democratic socialist is set to become the city's first Muslim mayor.

The Democratic Socialist running for Governor of Wisconsin shared this... All I have to say is... FUCK YEAH. Cannot wait to vote for her.

Your reminder that Trump openly threatened the citizenship of Zohran Mamdani.
✅ Trump ramps up attacks against Zohran Mamdani | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-zohran-mamdani-new-york-communism-attacks-nyc-ma…

Trump ramps up attacks against Zohran Mamdani
President Donald Trump has a new political foil: New York’s Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani. In recent days, the president has escalated his attacks against the 33-year-old self-described Democratic socialist, threatening to arrest Mamdani, to deport him and even take over the country’s largest city if he wins the general election in November. Mamdani’s stunning, surprise victory over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given Republicans a new target as they seek to paint t…

> Or as Mamdani put it in his soaring speech last night: “I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this.”
Hell yes. We need more of this. So, so, *so* much more of this.
https://zeteo.com/p/first…

🌊 It’s a Blue Wave, Baby!
Peter Rothpletz on Zohran Mamdani’s historic win, the Democrats’ electoral sweep, and Graham Platner’s viral response to the passing of Dick Cheney.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/nov/05/ella-baron-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayoral-victory-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/nov/05/ella-baron-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayoral-victory-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

'Commie' Trump’s 'national socialism' will make 'America wind up like China': analysis - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-socialist-china/

"Their inaction, their neutrality, their “pragmatic” accommodation—every golden plaque presented to Trump, every settlement paid to avoid retaliation, every silent acquiescence to constitutional destruction—all of this is discrediting capitalism in the eyes of ordinary Americans in ways that no socialist organizer could achieve. They are acting like the cartoon villains Marxists make them out to be"

How America’s Business Elite Became Their Own Marxist Caricature
There is a moment in every authoritarian takeover when the business elite must choose between principle and profit, between defending the system that made their wealth possible and accommodating th…

In the 90s, I lived in a town with a Democratic socialist mayor and trust me when I say it was no better or worse than any other mayor. He was in bed with a developers, just like every other mayor, and the town struggled on as it does today.

I wonder how well the low-curiosity people incompetently running our mostly-idle government have understood the nature of who government helps the most.
HINT: If government help was mostly for the poor, we would not have both billionaires and homelessness.
Air traffic control is a state-socialist subsidy service. It exists to make commercial passenger and cargo airlines feasible, an unevenly-distributed benefit. Reducing capacity by 10% won't affect 90% of Americans.
…

"Whether through the People’s Assembly, “Your Party,” the Greens or union organisations like trades councils, we need mobilising vehicles that will take the fight to both Labour and Reform. How to do that should be the focus of every socialist organisation and activist."
The Morning Star take on Labour conference 2025 | Morning Star

Yes, Zohran Mamdani can govern as a sensible socialist (Freddie deBoer/The Times)
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/zohran-mamdani-party-socialist-nyc-mayor-khjf92jvx
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p34#a251105p34

The Party Line Podcast
This is a podcast by members of the Socialist Party in Naarm (Melbourne)...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-party-line/

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, what we might call minima-maxima or degrowth as under-labourer in a democratic socialist transformation.  ‘Minima’ because it realistically notes that degrowth (whether it is a movement or not) "does not have the capacity to…

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, w…

Omar Fateh,
the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist,
is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis
and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey.
Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate.
Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization,
raising the minimum wage
and reforming how the city handles public safety.
“…

“Mamdani of the Midwest”: Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis?
Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey. Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate. Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization, raising the minimum wage and reforming how the city handles public safety. “Minneapolis can have a different kind of politics,…

The local DSA chapter is doing a D&D style thing but with some changes...
"We'll be having a one off campaign with a Socialist twist — we're using Roberts Rules of Order. Instead of individually declaring actions, each player proposes motions that are discussed, amended, and approved by the whole group following the Robert's Rules of Order process. You can battle monsters, unionize your local tavern, redistribute your spoils to the masses, start a working class rev…

A Socialist Mayoral Candidate Is Throwing Her Hat Into the Ring in D.C. (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/campaigns/janeese-lewis-george-socialist-mayoral-candidate-washington-dc
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p124#a251201p124

Reports of Socialism’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-socialism-democrats-sanders-establishment/

Reports of Socialism’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Centrists have been declaring the socialist movement dead for years in spite of the victories it has racked up. But Zohran Mamdani’s win makes its rise undeniable.

Much as white southerners acted like the election of a black man as mayor would be the death of the city as they had long known it,
white New Yorkers are now acting like the election of Mamdani will be the death of NYC.
Some of it is religious bigotry,
some of it is class panic,
but all of it is as unfounded as the reaction to the first black mayors a half century ago.

"Too Young to Die"
As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the election of a (gasp) Democratic Socialist will mean the absolute destruction of the city. Cops will quit! Billionaires will flee!

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🌹 New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
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New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
A national poll from Jacobin, DSA Fund, and Data for Progress finds broad support for democratic socialist leaders and left-wing policies.

White House deputy chief of staff and Homeland Security adviser
Stephen Miller posted an ominous, captionless threat after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday night. 
“Almost 50 percent of New Yorkers live in households with at least one immigrant,”
read the screenshot he posted from NYC.gov titled “Family Household Types by Immigration Status”
“Over one million children, equaling 62 percent of the children in New York …

Stephen Miller Posts Cryptic Threat After Zohran Mamdani’s Win
The Trump administration is already vowing to go after New York following Zohran’s election win.

If the November 2025 election was a referendum on President Trump, the Democrats have a lot to celebrate tonight.
Democratic candidates swept key races:
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic socialist, beat Trump-endorsed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a historic election for New York City mayor.

Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a 46-year-old Democrat who previously worked as a CIA officer, beat a Republican candidate to become Virginia governor.

Rep…

Voters approve Prop. 50, California redistricting, in a win for Democrats
Prop. 50, California’s congressional redistricting measure, was on the ballot on a high-profile election day that saw Democratic wins in New York, New Jersey and elsewhere.

“In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.”
Careful... this guy might give you hope. This Democratic Socialist might have ideas you like and want. This might be what progressive politics and politicians should be.
#Mamdani #NewYorkCity #NYC #Hope #EndHate #HousingCrisis #DemocraticSocialist
https://youtu.be/kOQT_4A1eb8?si=jDFkQrabW6I6nx0p&t=840

With the Washington DC mayoral field now wide open,
who will step into the race?
Recently, two names have been bandied about:
D.C. Council members Janeese Lewis George (D-Ward 4)
and Kenyan R. McDuffie (I-At Large).
Lewis George reportedly is on the cusp of launching a bid in the style of fellow democratic socialist and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

The D.C. mayoral race might include its own Mamdani-style candidacy
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser’s announcement was quiet. The campaign to replace her won’t be.

The new UK leftwing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will be called "Your Party" after a vote by members, but its weekend conference laid bare bitter divisions
Sultana, who has been at loggerheads with Corbyn,
reignited tensions on Sunday with a blistering attack on those “at the top” of the party
after boycotting the conference’s first day in protest at the expulsion of several members belonging to the Socialist Workers party.
Members meetin…