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This backpedal comes right after meeting with AOC and Bernie Sanders. The two have rubbed their shitlib off on him. Previously he seemed to not be totally for or against (could have generously been seen as "hiding his power level") but now clearly against the phrase.

I still hope Zohran wins though. Him losing would be a big win for the pieces of shit in the media and in power looking to prove that even suggesting Israel might be doing something wrong is forbidden.

https://www.kshamasawant.org/

Both Democrats & Republicans serve warmongering billionaires.

I'm running for Congress against Democrat Adam Smith, who has fully backed the genocide in Gaza & has blood all over his hands.

Just as I used my City Council election campaigns to build momentum to win the first major-city $15 minimum wage (which is now the nation's highest at $20.76/hour), the Amazon Tax, and unprecedented renters' rights, I will use my Congressional election campaign to help build the antiwar, anti-genocide movement and to launch a historic fight for Medicare for All.

Just as I did in my decade as a representative of working people in Seattle, if I’m elected to Congress, I will accept only the average worker’s wage and donate the rest of my six-figure salary to workers’ and social justice movements.

https://www.kshamasawant.org/why-im-running/

Also she is running against a zionist

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A crowd gathered around mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on Saturday as he lay on his back struggling to bench-press 135 pounds at the annual Men’s Day in Brooklyn. He couldn’t do it.

Mayor Eric Adams derided him as “Mamscrawny” — but Mamdani’s fans didn’t care.

Weightlifting isn’t a requirement to serve as mayor.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/38293

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The Zohran campaign also has canvassed nearly 100K homes in the past 6 days

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/35019

During its summer meeting next week in Minneapolis, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) will vote on two competing resolutions connected to Israel and Gaza. Resolution 18 calls for recognition of a Palestinian state, a ceasefire, an arms embargo, and a suspension of military aid to Israel. Resolution 3, which was introduced in response to Resolution 18, simply calls for a ceasefire…

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Text from the article because it is paywalled:

Fateh campaign says, ‘We’re going to win’

3:30 p.m. - Omar Fateh’s co-campaign manager, Graham Faulkner, said in a statement Thursday that “28 mostly out-state, establishment Democrats, including many Frey donors and supporters, met privately and voted to overturn the will of Minneapolis residents.”

“Our campaign sees this for what it is: disenfranchisement of thousands of Minneapolis caucus-goers and the delegates who represented all of us on convention day. The establishment is threatened by our message. They are scared of a politics that really stands up to corporate interests and with our working class neighbors,” he said.

Faulkner said the revoked endorsement will not slow Fateh’s campaign down: “We’re going to win.”

• Ryan Faircloth Appeal could be coming

3:18 p.m. - The Minneapolis DFL could appeal the decision to the state executive committee, according to a party official.

The Minneapolis DFL had no comment Thursday. Chair John Maraist said he hadn’t seen a copy of the report and would have nothing to say.

Minneapolis DFL has stood by process amid questions

3:09 p.m. - Former state DFL chair Mike Erlandson said he heard from several people that the state party would revoke Fateh’s endorsement.

Erlandson was among those filing challenges to the convention.

On Thursday, he said it was an “effort by a few to step on democracy.”

Erlandson said he doesn’t know if the committee’s decision will lead to an investigation of the Minneapolis DFL, which was among his requests, or if anyone associated with the Minneapolis DFL convention will face consequences.

Minneapolis DFL Chair John Maraist, who has defended the convention against the numerous challenges, had no comment Thursday.

The Minneapolis DFL leadership has stood by its endorsement of Fateh, writing in response that the delegates were in charge and acted in accordance with the rules they adopted.

There was an error with duplicate votes, but it was corrected, Maraist has said.

The party also acknowledged that a mayoral candidate, DeWayne Davis, was mistakenly bumped from contention after the first ballot due to a miscount of votes. The discrepancy wouldn’t have changed the overall outcome, they argued.

• Matt McKinney

July convention fell into disarray

2:51 p.m. - Fateh won the Minneapolis DFL’s support in the convention’s final minutes when a raise-your-hands style of vote was called after it appeared many of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s supporters had left the convention floor.

Earlier in the evening, Fateh beat Frey 328 to 227 in the first round of balloting, coming short of the 60% threshold necessary to secure the endorsement.

The convention fell into disarray after the first ballot because an electronic voting system overseen by head teller Amy Livingston bogged down, according to witnesses and the Minneapolis DFL.

A secretary to the Minneapolis DFL’s executive committee emailed others after the convention to report that data generated by Livingston’s spreadsheet was “obviously faulty.”

Former DFL chair Mike Erlandson said the process “failed any sense of democracy” and filed a challenge over the convention’s results.

• Matt McKinney Fateh ally calls decision ‘a kind of betrayal’

2:43 p.m. - Losing the endorsement means Fateh will no longer be identified as the DFL-backed candidate in the race and he won’t have access to party lists of voters and other resources.

State Sen. Jennifer McEwen, DFL-Duluth, said she thinks the party’s decision to revoke the endorsement from Fateh will hurt the party more than it will hurt him. She endorsed Fateh’s campaign for mayor.

“It really is a kind of betrayal,” said McEwen. “I worry about people just leaving the party, or I worry about a fissure within the party.”

• Ryan Faircloth Minnesota DFL declined to comment

2:38 p.m. - The move is expected to deepen the schism between the party’s progressive left flank and its more moderate members, who have been battling over the direction of the Democratic Party.

In Minneapolis, more liberal members have been reshaping the City Council but have been unable to oust the more moderate Frey, who is seeking a third term in the mayor’s office.

The Minnesota DFL declined to comment on Thursday.

• Ryan Faircloth

I ask because in the US, the media has been obfuscating the Democrats unpopularity and loss in 2024 to things like manosphere influencers to being too “woke” to lack of enthusiasm among voters for ephemeral and unknowable reasons. These are all BS of course, but there’s enough lack of clarity on these issues to confuse people.

But the incredible levels of unpopularity that Labour and Starmer are experiencing seem much more stark. I mean, they just won an election and their popularity has nosedived. The only things the government seems to be doing is loudly proclaiming support for Israel, proscribing PA, destroying everyone’s privacy online, and imposing austerity. I don’t think anyone could possibly accuse Labour of being too far left since the election.

How is the media covering this? Is everyone just trying not to bring it up or ask why Labour has become so unpopular? Are they pinning it on Starmer being an unlikeable twat? I’m assuming the media won’t dare suggest Labour is doing very unpopular things, especially in relation to Gaza… but it feels like at least from my POV the elephant in the room is now just too big to ignore.

Appalachian Zohran.

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Not that this is a surprise to anyone, but it's very funny.

https://x.com/dsa_intl_comm/status/1951729710821712221

The DSA doesnt deserve the comrades that work in the international committee

July 30, 2025

Garrett Camfferman argues that troubling signs have emerged in the weeks following Zohran Mamdani's primary victory.

On July 15th, Zohran Mamdani met with leading financiers and executives at a closed-door forum organized by the Partnership for New York City (PNYC)—a business group that represents “more than 300 preeminent corporate, investment, and entrepreneurial firms.” PNYC’s board includes the corporate heads of JPMorganChase, BlackRock, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, and Blackstone, to name just a few. On the very next day, Mamdani continued his efforts to woo the city’s elite by addressing a large crowd of tech executives and venture capitalists at a meeting hosted by Tech:NYC.

The Financial Times reported that some of the attendees of the PNYC forum were “won over” after hearing from the Democratic nominee. Executives were “impressed with his willingness to appear before a business class he had long criticized.” Indeed, on the heels of his primary victory, Mamdani’s campaign quickly reached out not only to PNYC, but to leading Democratic party figures in an apparent effort to tamp down the hysterical response from the business class and their political representatives. Kathy Wilde, president of PNYC and self-proclaimed “defender of billionaires” admitted that Mamdani has been “proactive in reaching out to chief executives and financiers and agreeing to speak privately with the business community.” During the forum itself, Mamdani reiterated his discomfort with the phrase “globalize the intifada” and said that he will actively “discourage” those around him from using it. Although Mamdani stuck to his proposal to freeze the rent on subsidized apartments, he reportedly left the door open on whether the policy would remain in place after a couple of years. More importantly, the very act of meeting with the city’s financial elite in private would seem to negate Mamdani’s previous statement that “billionaires should not exist.”

In the past few weeks, reports have also emerged that Mamdani has expressed openness to retaining the Adams-appointed police commissioner, Jessica Tisch. Tisch is the billionaire heiress of the Loews Corporation—her brother, Ben Tisch, is currently the company’s chief executive and president and her father, James Tisch, sits on the board of PNYC. Tisch has made a name for herself in part by pushing to prosecute low-level crimes through the deployment of a ‘quality of life’ police unit. Although Mamdani’s campaign has not made any ultimate commitment to retaining Tisch, both the candidate himself and his campaign manager have publicly praised her.

Mamdani’s campaign team has also undergone significant changes since last month’s primary. Maya Handa, Zellnor Myrie’s former campaign manager, will now oversee Mamdani’s staff. Afua Atta-Mensah, a leadership figure at two progressive non-profits, will now act as the campaign’s new senior political director. Perhaps most disconcerting is the hire of Jeffrey Lerner. Lerner is a veteran Democratic Party operative—holding key roles over the past two decades in the Obama administration, the Democratic National Committee, and as a senior Senate aide. Most recently, Lerner was on the payroll of Actum, a “global consulting firm” which boasts of having staff members that “come from the highest levels of media, government, and politics.”

Lerner will serve as Mamdani’s communications director, having gained experience after working in an analogous role for Andrew Cuomo in 2007. The New York Times has also reported that Patrick Gaspard, a “senior [Democratic] party official” has begun to play a “growing role” advising Mamdani.

Is any of this the least bit concerning? Not according to Grace Mausser, member of the Socialist Majority Caucus and co-chairwoman of NYC-DSA. When asked to comment on Mamdani’s recent moves, Mausser said that “the fate of DSA and… the progressive movement is tied to Zohran’s administration. The No. 1 goal for DSA and I hope a coherent left as we move forward, is to make the administration successful.” In other words, every other organizing project throughout DSA—whether that be workplace or tenant organizing—is to be subordinated to the goal of “[making] the administration successful.”

I will not address the difference between electoral efforts, as they occur under the auspices of the Democratic Party, and the longer, arduous project of building the infrastructure (through organizing in workplaces, neighborhoods, etc.) necessary for DSA, and the socialist Left as a whole, to begin to exercise real power. A facile reading of Mamdani’s actions over the past two weeks would result in charges of opportunism. That is decidedly not my position. Mamdani’s primary victory did constitute a victory for the socialist Left, in the way that the campaign galvanized many young people and drew them into the orbit of DSA. However, as has been noted by Austin B. of Marxist Unity Caucus, there is a profound difference between having the organizational ability to elect a candidate, and having the ability to back up that candidate after they take office. Without a durable infrastructure rooted in working-class institutions, socialists who assume executive office have no option but to engage in cynical, Democratic-party politicking. The act of changing the balance of class forces can not be accomplished solely, or even primarily, through state offices. The historical experience of the working-class movement verifies this belief. On the other hand, we should not be slow to criticize socialist nominees or electeds, for in the minds of many, they stand in for DSA writ large.

-Garrett Camfferman

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An NYC-DSA member explains their electoral strategy and campaign history after the success of Mamdani. Its a very long and detailed read.

One thing to note: Mamadani wasn't someone who joined DSA to get an endorsement like Bowman. He was an active member campaigning for other DSA candidate for years before hand.

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Comrade DeBlasio states that he would bravely act as a human shield to protect Chairman Mamdani from the fascistic forces that wish to crush our people’s revolution.

All jokes aside, pretty cool to see DeBlasio stepping up to support Zohran the way he has, even if it’s mostly due to the DeBlasio-Cuomo blood feud. Most based thing DeBlasio has done since supporting the Sandinistas