Reposted by DanaHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We 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 323759
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. 340250614786
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? 1447167
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. 566280948612
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. 8157261153
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 · 20/08/2026I support a 1M1V for co chairs, in fact, which I think would incentivize political leadership development over obsessive NPC majority scheming (which will still exist) 001
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Phase One: City of Los Angeles and LAUSD races; May - July 2025 Phase Two: County Municipal, State Legislature, & Federal races; August - November 2025 (Also Phase 1 candidates who filed after June 15) Phase Three: Post-primary; June - July 2026 000
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Usually binding chapterwide votes (as opposed to advisory) are open for a week. We had a 3 phase endorsement timeframe this cycle (decided by elected committee leaders)— two windows before primary and one after 110
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Votes are already online. It just takes time for 6k people to have a chance to deliberate and vote 🤷🏻♀️ Turning on a dime in response to external events means fewer people are making meaningful decisions imo. Assume you’re not a member so I’d encourage you to join and see for yourself! 200
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This comes up a lot but honestly I just don’t agree the tradeoffs are worth it. Winning more progressive seats is not the only or even (imo) most important part of DSA‘s electoral program. Without moving political agency from professionals to regular members we’re just Red Working Families Party 100
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 19/08/2026One of the forums is on zoom, but we have 9 or 10 candidates who qualified by petition. Members get to ask questions directly before a vote of our 6,000 members. We don’t just endorse with our logo, it’s a significant field commitment. Democracy is slower but better when you need real buy-in! 110
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Not possible. The full membership is the endorsement authority and we have candidate forums on Wednesday and Saturday. We don’t operate like an NGO or advocacy group 140
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 · 14/08/2026No idea. I successfully ignored national DSA for the first 6 years I was a member 000
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Whatever happened to the speakers bureau... Just never became a thing? 110
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Omg this account keeps being suggested to me and literally this week I finally clicked it and was like… is that Isaac Silver? lol 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 · 06/08/2026Not to mention, much of DSA has been seeking organizers to run (especially labor organizers) intentionally for years, and really gotten serious about it in the last year nationally 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 · 05/08/2026Horror novels I’ve enjoyed recently: - Model Home by Rivers Solomon, doing interesting things in the Afrofuturist/Black horror genres - This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno, didn’t love the ending but some seriously creepy moments and horrifying images. Bonus points for Chicago setting 110
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 · 01/08/2026Like I wish it was different but this kind of initiative is not on Nithya’s menu! And the organized blocs that could buy into it are already alienated by the ULA ”betrayal” because, again, Nithya is not good at politics. bsky.app/profile/mayo... 010
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 01/08/2026On this issue perhaps. But Zohran is good at politics too, and unfortunately Nithya is really not 220
Dana @thequeenbean.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Class consciousness emerging unprompted in the union whatsapp chat…. You simply love to see it 000
