Ari Bloomekatz 🔥
@bloomekatz
executive editor @inthesetimesmag
"Community has to take care of community right now, because we cannot rely on what the federal government will do." @CoriBush speaking with @bloomekatz at the @jvplive National Member Meeting in Baltimore about how to fight the billionaires. inthesetimes.com/article/be-bri…
Zohran mania is so real that my Mom, who is absolutely not a socialist but is a lifelong normie Democrat, submitted a pro-zohran letter to the editor to In These Times recently because she liked an article from them I sent her.
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.
Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education. This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing to torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.
You don't want to miss this roundtable with student leaders organizing against the genocide. They're facing intense repression and they're taking hits, but they're not slowing down. inthesetimes.com/article/palest…
A teacher from Gaza told me: “This is the worst stage of the genocide in Gaza. We have run out of energy, food & basic necessities. The massacres are relentless & nonstop. Emotionally & materially, we are unable to go on.”—@YousefAljamal @inthesetimesmag inthesetimes.com/article/worst-…
These 2 hunger strikers w/@JVPChicago have been released from custody after sitting in at Duckworth's office & demanding the Senator take action on Gaza. Several JVPers have been on hunger strike for 18 days. This is some of the courage our movements need. 📷 @shane_burley1
Hunger strikers and others with @JVPChicago who are calling for substantive food and aid be allowed into Gaza, are sitting in at Sen. Duckworth’s office to demand she meet with them and take action on the issue. Photo by @shane_burley1
I wrote about the bad faith media and Democratic Party elite pile-on of Zohran Mamdani, the ADL's DO YOU CONDEMN extortion racket, and the broader "antisemitism scandal" script being employed against anyone critical of Israel. inthesetimes.com/article/zohran…
Answers to these questions and more coming soon on @thedigradio! If you're in Chicago, join us this Wednesday for a live Dig on city politics assessing Mayor Brandon Johnson's first two years in office. If you don't live in Chicago, look for the episode on the feed. Tix below!
Has there been any good Left analysis of Brandon Johnson in Chicago? Some have tried to chalk up his unpopularity to right-wing propaganda; but sorry, you don't get to 15% approval ratings purely from propaganda
"This, I think, is not going to be a fluke. The stuck wheel of the Democratic Party is beginning to turn." @hamiltonnolan on one of the main takeaways of @ZohranKMamdani's stunning defeat of Cuomo in Tuesday's mayoral primary. @inthesetimesmag inthesetimes.com/article/zohran…
“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’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.
BREAKING: Cuomo concedes ("tonight is not our night") as @ZohranKMamdani's support continued to surge through today's mayoral primary.
“So we don’t want Cuomo, we do want Mamdani, and we want a rent freeze?” If @ZohranKMamdani wins, tenants may be a big reason why. inthesetimes.com/article/zohran…
If @ZohranKMamdani wins next week, a big part of the equation is b/c long-suffering NYC tenants & formations like @TenantBloc have emerged as a serious political force and are getting behind Mamdani's pledge for a rent freeze. —— New piece by @thomasbirm inthesetimes.com/article/zohran…
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil "to be released from ICE detention on bail." @zeteo_news w/story here: zeteo.com/p/breaking-mah…