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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're in Chicago DSA, I want to see you there. If you're socialist-curious, I want to invite you. If you're a new member, I want you to get involved. If you're just looking for something to do, I want you to come. And if you only know me from social media, I want to meet you! Please come out!

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Finally, Monday, Oct. 5, at 6:30PM, we'll kick off our 17th (!) semester of Socialist Night School at Wicker Park Lutheran Church. I'm so proud of the work we do with SNS and in our political education section. We're starting with a session on the lessons of Reconstruction. Free and open to all!

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Chicago DSA Events | Teamup

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Then, Sunday, Oct. 4, at 6PM, please please PLEASE come out to @beermiscuous.bsky.social and join the Bread & Roses caucus for great beer and an open discussion of our strategies around independent political action! All are welcome, we're taking questions, and it's a great spot with great comrades!

BREAD & ROSES, a caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America, presents SHOP TALK: Independent Political Action. How should socialists approach electoral politics? What is a "dirty break" and why should DSA plan for one to happen with the Democrats? Join Chicago B&R for an open discussion on these questions and more. Open to all - we want to hear your thoughts! Sunday, October 4th, 6PM-8PM @ Beermiscuous (2812 N. Lincoln Avenue). RSVP to attend - tinyurl.com/shoptalkoct26

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First of all, tomorrow, Oct. 3, at noon, join us at Ping Tom Park for a DSA field day! It'll be a BATTLE OF THE BRANCHES with races, kickball, food, drinks, great comrades, and a round of Socialist Jeopardy! Hosted by me, a big commie nerd who likes games! New member and DSA-curious friendly!

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey, everybody! I want to again alert you that @chicagodsa.bsky.social has THREE amazing events coming up in the next few days, and implore you to come to at least one of them! They're all open to the public (no need to be a DSA member), they're all new-member-friendly, and they're gonna be great!

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You're the head of the US military, bitch, grab a rifle and get goin'

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

/a powerful person faces mild consequences for their misbehavior exactly one time in the history of the country over a half-century ago THE "PARTY OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY": Absolutely fucking not

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘Antisemitism isn’t systemic’ is the Left’s version of ‘the world’s oldest hatred’. An easy slogan that is in fact a sign of impoverished thought, a stubborn unwillingness to think critically & rigorously. One hyperbolizes, the other minimizes;

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Btw the ADL’s ethno-fascism and the bizarre instance that anyone who says antisemitism exists has been zog-pilled, I am starting to come around to the idea that a Zohran Mamdani cool-as-a-cucumber-mint-martini antisemitism task force mightn’t be such a bad idea

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Stadio @stadio.football · 29/09/2026

New podcast up, discussing the Manchester City verdict, the problem it raises for the Premier League and more. Available on the main feed, or ad-free to members on Patreon. www.patreon.com/stadio/posts...

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anniempeterson.bsky.social @anniempeterson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Transphobes will embrace and ally themselves with every pedophile, rapist, and domestic abuser because they fundamentally agree completely with them about bodily autonomy and consent Transphobes are unable to *not* see a huge obviously abusive piece of shit and immediately support them.

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Both camps succumb to negative polarization & hyper-online brain rot. Of course, the issue of antisemitism is overdetermined today by Israel/Palestine. But at root this is a municipal hate crimes prevention strategy. Nobody benefits by obsessively reading it through the I/P prism

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's funny that one loud camp is (predictably) saying that Mamdani’s antisemitism plan is not Zionist enough, while another is claiming it's (somehow) too Zionist. What both overlook, because neither really care, is the project of fighting antisemitism in NYC on its own terms

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As socialists, we stand in solidarity with those who fight the boss, and we’re proud to stand with @sbworkersunited.org!

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol and other executives make millions each year while denying pay raises, just cause protections, and safe work scheduling to employees whose labor makes Starbucks.

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history, including repeated union-busting and retaliation efforts at stores across the country.

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Chicago DSA proudly supports #BoycottStarbucks until baristas win a fair union contract!

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Workers have rights under federal labor laws to organize a union and talk to co-workers about it. The law also bars mgmt from surveilling such organizing activities, and from threatening to discipline or fire workers for it. (Supervisors do not have those protections) 3/3

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

During the campaign, DuCongé found his social media and organizing activities under scrutiny by mgmt, who were trying to argue that he was a supervisor and couldn't be part of the effort 2/4 labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

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AutoZone Workers Are Trying to Form the Company’s First-Ever Union

UPDATE, September 26: AutoZone workers won their union election on Friday—the first ever union election win at the company. When workers file for a union election, it’s like a Bat-Signal goes off: a c...

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AutoZone workers in White Plains, NY, on Saturday became the first in their company to win a union election. Since then, the company has fired Nathan DuCongé, one of its key worker-organizers 1/4

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Closing out September with a week chock full of opportunities to meet comrades and get involved with Chicago DSA, right in your neighborhood! For more information, visit our full calendar at chicagodsa.org/events

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s time to play ball—and other games! Join Chicago DSA for our Field Day on October 3rd, featuring games, trivia, food on the grill, and opportunities to learn more about our work from chapter leaders and Socialist Slate member Raheem Uqdah! To learn more and RSVP, visit tinyurl.com/cdsafield

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The weather is crisp, the fall jackets are coming out, and there’s no shortage of opportunities to get involved with our chapter’s organizing and social events this weekend! For more info on these events and more, check out our full calendar at chicagodsa.org/events

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For more information on Karen’s and Debby’s campaigns, visit www.neighborsforkarenzaccor.org and www.debbyfordistrict2b.org. And visit chicagodsa.org/events or canvass.chicagodsa.org for a list of opportunities to support Karen, Debby, and our 2027 aldermanic candidates!

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Karen and Debby are proud socialists and retired teachers with decades of experience advocating for working class students and their families. They will fight to find our schools by taxing the rich, so every child in Chicago can access a quality education and comprehensive services.

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chicago DSA is proud to endorse Karen Zaccor and Debby Pope for Chicago Board of Education in districts 4A and 2B!

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...

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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism

Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 23/09/2026

At the beginning of the pandemic, more than 400 Amazon workers in Eastvale petitioned for safer conditions. In 2022, workers in San Bernardino walked out over pay and extreme heat. Now, @alexnpress.bsky.social reports that workers in nearby Riverside have staged three walkouts since December 2025.

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Amazon Workers Keep Walking Out

At a Riverside delivery station, workers have walked out three times since December as they organize without a recognized union.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But they are real and they will either get bored and leave after causing a lot of damage or they will absolutely wreck the shit you're trying to build. It is not an act of care to accommodate that behavior, it is an act of self-sabotage

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This can be very difficult because a lot of people are genuinely passionate around specific issues that choke out their ability to make room for any other realities. And since our whole thing is very fragile, we get very shy - especially here in hyper-individualist America - around confrontation

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have learned a lot from being on the left a long time, and the hardest lesson - and the one well-intentioned people have the hardest time recognizing, internalizing, and acting on - is that wreckers (intentional or otherwise) are real and you have to figure out how to deal with them

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🇧🇷🇵🇸 #BREAKING | Lula At The United Nations: “Generations of Palestinians Will Carry the Pain and Trauma Left by the Genocide in Gaza.” (Subtitles: Pamphlets)

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BOYCOTT STARBUCKS 🚫☕️ DSA supports baristas fighting for fair wages and conditions against one of the biggest union busters around!

Poster with images of Starbucks baristas and a spilled cup of coffee with text advocating for the boycott of Starbucks.

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Say, do you remember all of this week’s opportunities to get involved with Chicago DSA’s organizing projects? Luckily you don’t have to—we’ve got the full list for you to check out at chicagodsa.org/events. Come meet comrades and help us get our Socialist Slate candidates on the ballot!

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't usually like to post pictures of myself on account of the self-loathing but I liked this one of me at this weekend's @chicagodsa.bsky.social general meeting

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🕷️Spectre of Communism🕷️, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The administrators who agreed to this either need to face immediate legal consequences for aiding and abetting genocide or they need to live in fear every single day. Pick your pick.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...

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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets

The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here’s our upcoming week in opportunities to canvass for Chicago DSA’s Socialist Slate candidates! To find the canvass closest to you, check out our brand new interactive canvassing map at canvass.chicagodsa.org!

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Join the electoral working group tonight for a social at Beermiscuous, where you can learn more about our electoral projects and upcoming opportunities to get involved in chapter work! Learn more at chicagodsa.org/events

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

But this time it's different! Now the cars driver themselves and will report you to the authorities!

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Charter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1970s: there's an oil crisis and we are defunding public transportation 2000s: there's an oil crisis and we're defunding public transportation 2020s: there's an oil crisis and we're defunding public transportation Greatest country in the world 🧠

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join us for our General Chapter Meeting, where we’ll reflect on the last few months of organizing and set the course for the months ahead! Registration will begin at 10:30am. The meeting will come to order at 11am, and end no later than 4:30pm. More information at chicagodsa.org/events

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Chicago DSA @chicagodsa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And check out chicagodsa.org/events for upcoming opportunities to get involved with our Democracy Working Group—including a general meeting TODAY at 6pm!

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