Reposted by DanaHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 23hWe should stop indulging the weird god complex at the heart of the "broken culture" at the AI companies, and start treating them like the mundane criminally negligent narcissists they are 317245
Reposted by DanaNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison. 29625175
Reposted by Danaaaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 22/09/2026May 2025: DoorDash spends $1 million to stop a democratic socialist from winning the mayoralty September 2026: DoorDash reaches a $131.5 million settlement with NYC's democratic socialist administration and admits to massive wage theft This is what's possible when you vote DSA 14216
Reposted by DanaMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you. 341250564782
Reposted by DanaDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Until California has a NY-style insurgent win this will continue, and between the top-two system and the sheer money needed to break the establishment that's very unlikely. Disheartening, ain't it? 1447267
Reposted by DanaEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway 1623671114
Reposted by DanaAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS. 566280928613
Reposted by DanaDana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Reactionaries will be working hard to ensure this is indeed the response to socialist governance in blue cities and states, and I don’t think socialists really have a counter strategy 🤷🏻♀️ www.wsj.com/opinion/what...wsj.comOpinion | What if California Becomes a ‘Failed State’?‘Political risk,’ usually the precinct of Third World despotisms, could soon be a concern for U.S. locales. 001
Reposted by DanaAlissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Don't worry we're just a broke city shelling out $13 million in cop cars for our no-cost, car-free Olympics 55815
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Reactionaries will be working hard to ensure this is indeed the response to socialist governance in blue cities and states, and I don’t think socialists really have a counter strategy 🤷🏻♀️ www.wsj.com/opinion/what...wsj.comOpinion | What if California Becomes a ‘Failed State’?‘Political risk,’ usually the precinct of Third World despotisms, could soon be a concern for U.S. locales. 001
Reposted by Danajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth. 8157211152
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It is very funny to suggest DSA uses “Democratic Party infrastructure“ 110
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 02/09/2026To me this says, in part, that we in DSA have largely failed to differentiate socialist politics from progressive politics. 000
Reposted by Danathe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/08/2026yeah that thread shows a basic lack of awareness of how an org like DSA works common among liberals who view them as spicy WFP 4458
Reposted by Danahammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I hope democrats realize republicans have almost perfectly teed up the Great Depression 2 to hit in 2028 just in time for a new democratic president to eat shit 1524161
Reposted by DanaJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Just a reminder that the fascist reversing the progress of the 20th century includes the eradication of the idea of childhood for everyone outside the wealth class, which is relatively new, and the reintroduction of child labor. The signs were there for a while but it’s impossible to deny it now. 381074428
Reposted by Danaashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026this is why I feel so strongly that supreme court expansion will happen. this party is nothing without Black folks and if Democratic leaders do not right this wrong I’m not sure they can count on continued Black support 3446
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I wonder whether it’s because when Mike Johnson read Workers Deserve More to a right-wing crowd, he was like “abolish the senate… well you guys might like that.” And Jeffries wants “left wing extremism” and “MAGA extremism” linked. But probably a more stupid & inscrutable reason tbh 100
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Whatever happened to the speakers bureau... Just never became a thing? 110
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 07/08/2026This plus El Niño and LA’s water mains are the things that scare me most about 2027. Things will be bad, for a lot of people! And we’ll have a fresh crop of progressive/demsoc mayors to shoulder the blame in every city in America 🥴 030
Reposted by Danadr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 06/08/2026you're going to have to go back to offering an affirmative vision and it cannot be the one where a wealthy donor class rules over us like feudal warlords. we cannot allow this to happen any more. we are past the breaking point. they broke it 554847
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Personal rule getting entrenched in American govt for generations is a genuine huge fear 010
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 06/08/2026True enough! I guess the way I see it is I, personally, used to be squarely in the Democratic Party base and have been moved to build a viable left flank alternative for the past 8 years. This has happened v unevenly across place and demographic, but there are 10s of thousands just like me! 100
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 06/08/2026She’s right but it’s just because of our lazy media and the attention economy. DSA *is* however the only durable left grassroots organization actually organizing regular people with the intention of permanent, non-election-cycle political infrastructure. And that is unique and it does matter. 0101
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The Groundwork strategy- i wonder where else this pops up 010
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Also put profound fear of industrial policy into the democrats 010
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Truth bomb: DSA has achieved a Sanders-Harrington synthesis 010
Reposted by DanaProgressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"From Jakarta to Guatemala City, Washington has long waged a genocidal war on communism and liberation outside its borders." The 22nd Progressive International Briefing of 2026 is online now.buff.lyPI Briefing | No. 22 | Red ScareWashington is reviving an old doctrine to defeat the forces of liberation — within its borders and beyond them. 083
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Class consciousness emerging unprompted in the union whatsapp chat…. You simply love to see it 000
Reposted by Danarax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/07/2026lord let this bitch do this on any plane i’m on. it’ll almost be worth me never being allowed on a commercial flight again 4070942
Reposted by DanaNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026fascists use anti leftism to build power and co opt centrists and liberals. they are doing this right now! this is what all the gibberish anti communist rhetoric is about! 3493103
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I don't think anything about DSA‘s politics has hit as hard with my boomer relatives as “Establishment democrats are campaigning against Donald Trump. We’re campaigning against the conditions that gave us Trump.” 000
Reposted by DanaRep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Proud to lead a statement with 10 of my colleagues to condemn the State Department’s attack on Americans’ free speech rights and collective punishment of Cubans: 🧵 9640105
Reposted by DanaKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Imagine living in this moment of America speed-running the road to fascism with the White House leading the way and saying, wait, isn't there a potential possible chance of a danger that a few DSA candidates might maybe somehow drive the nation to communism? 732069356
Reposted by DanaHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Why is AI a "machine for shifting income and power from labor to capital"? It's all about the distinction between productivity increases and deskilling. When productivity rises, it increases output per unit labor. Deskilling, in contrast, 1/ 1267
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 23/07/2026🥹🥲 www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...niskanencenter.orgInside the Democratic Socialist uprising - Niskanen CenterCandidates affiliated with (or sympathetic to) the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) have recently won several Democratic primaries. 000
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I do wonder if this is another attack on UAW specifically, to split the white collar and blue collar workers, or if that’s just a convenient side effect 010
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 13/07/2026True enough. The reverse is also true: nyc is regularly torn to shreds by national actors in the org and treated with insane levels of bad faith. IMO the dynamic is one outcome of intense factional competition that incentivizes every leadership majority to continuously tweak rules to their advantage 120
Reposted by DanaLeonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10/07/2026These things don’t happen because capitalism goes too far, but because it *requires* them. A system built to maximize private profit will not be finicky about where that profit comes from or how it is got. This isn’t a unique moment of capitalist degradation; it’s just the one we’re living in. 1196
Reposted by Danaescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND 312149924237
Reposted by Danamarxuckerberg @marxuckerberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026🎯These people do not want to build a big left-wing ecosystem, DSA or not DSA. They want to capture the activist left to accomplish their own goals. Which, fine, but the idea that we're all just going to go along with it no questions asked now that we see what it's like in practice is insulting! 061
