Miles Kampf-Lassin
@MilesKLassin
@inthesetimesmag senior editor. Words at @guardian @jacobinmag @thenation. Email: [email protected]. Opinions my own. Try to name a bad potato dish.
President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill amounts to the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in American history. No matter how Republicans try to sell or spin it, this is class war, pure and simple.
Holy crap. According to CBO, by the end of the 10 years, fully 81% of the total benefit of the GOP's budget bill goes to the richest 1/10th, while the bottom 40% will pay more.
Excited to see physical copies of the new @inthesetimesmag theme issue on socialism in the US. Helped plan, assign & edit the issue, plus wrote intro to an excerpt from @MalaikaJabali’s new book It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism. Now’s a good time to subscribe w1.buysub.com/pubs/IF/ITT/IT…
The largest socialist organization in the U.S. is growing dramatically just as a popular democratic socialist politician mounts a large-scale grassroots electoral campaign in NYC that has generated mass interest and involvement from volunteers hungry to upend the establishment.
DSA member data is out for June - confirms that NYC-DSA has grown a *staggering* amount. Highlights: - NYC has the highest % growth of ANY chapter over 300 members - DSA has grown by 20% in 2025, NYC is 20% of this. - DSA saw a huge growth spike nationally due to Zohran
The right wing is not sending its best
Chaffetz: He’s just like let’s put root beer in all the drinking fountains. Everything will be free. Look at how I eat my burrito with my fingers
When running for president, Trump said his healthcare plan would provide "insurance for everybody." It turns out he's going to strip millions of coverage in order to provide massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans and the most powerful corporations in the world.
🚨🚨🚨17 million projected to lose health insurance, @yabutaleb7 reports
A democratic socialist running on an explicitly economic populist message and platform—centered on materially improving the lives of the working class—won a blowout victory in the race for mayor of the largest city in the US. Democrats avoid taking lessons at their own peril.
“It always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, we’ve done it.” —Zohran Mamdani claiming victory in the Democratic primary in the NYC mayoral race, defeating Andrew Cuomo on a platform explicitly for the working class.
Zohran Mamdani is set to win the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, toppling corporate-funded Andrew Cuomo and Fort Greene is in full celebration mode
Still time to vote for a working class champion in @ZohranKMamdani over the corporate Democrat and sex pest Andrew Cuomo in NYC. It’s hot as hell out but polls are open until 9pm
"In the race for New York City mayor, an outspoken, self-described socialist has a real shot at victory." —From @MilesKLassin & Aaron Welt inthesetimes.com/article/zohran…
Tomorrow, New Yorkers have the chance to vote for an unapologetic champion of the working class and to reject corporate centrism by making Zohran Mamdani the Democratic nominee. He'd also be the first socialist mayor to bring redistributive politics to the largest city in the US.
Zohran Mamdani is continuing a proud tradition of bringing socialist politics to New York to uplift the working class. Over a century ago, Morris Hillquit mounted a similar campaign. inthesetimes.com/article/zohran…
The Iran war hawks are out in force defending an onslaught for which working people will pay the price. As @PhyllisBennis writes "Israel and the United States are the key obstacles to diplomacy and ultimately to peace." Congress must act now to stop Trump inthesetimes.com/article/trump-…
This will be a war on the global working class, who will bear the brunt and face the worst of the consequences. End it now.
Rahm Emanuel spent his career advancing corporate-friendly policies that devastated the working class while pushing a stale centrist political doctrine that shut out progressives and elevated a rich donor class to set the Democratic agenda. This idea should be thrown in the trash
President Rahm? @RahmEmanuel talks about what hes up to as he confirms he's pondering a race for the White House. Read it here. tinyurl.com/3rxmnn3m
Pretty incredible that Zohran Mamdani's campaign reached & continues to surpass its goal of knocking on over 1,000,000 doors, and has made over 500,000 phone class with a volunteer base of over 40,000 people. That is a formidable ground game for a socialist running for NYC mayor.