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A new interview with IWW member and musician @tmorello on his new photo memoir “Whatever It Takes.”https://t.co/0WuuiUo0OE

— Industrial Workers of the World (@iww) November 10, 2020

Rep. Jim Clyburn railing against "socialism" while often having a bust of one of America's most prominent democratic socialists — W.E.B. Du Bois — behind him on TV is a mood. pic.twitter.com/sjaVsHAVWW

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) November 8, 2020

I don’t think Keith Sweat will mind this couple taking his lyrics for his

link:https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-b4b4-dc7f-a3fd-bdf660490000
Fr: New Deal Strategies, Justice Democrats, Sunrise Movement, Data for Progress Re: ​What went wrong for Congressional Democrats in 2020Dt:​ November 10, 2020

…Support Black Lives Matter Two months ago, progressive strategists Ian Haney López, ​law professor at the University of California,Berkeley,​ and Tory Gavito, President of Way to Win, publicly and privately ​warned​ Democrats that Trump’s racist appeals against immigrants and Black Lives Matter polled effectively with a fair number of both African American and Latino voters — but they also demonstrated that a progressive message framing racism as a divide-and-conquer class weapon polled even more effectively.

According to their research, “a majority across the groups we surveyed did not repudiate Trump-style rhetoric as obviously racist and divisive, but instead agreed with it,” they wrote in the ​New York Times.​ But, they continued,“There’s a winning message Mr. Biden and his party can deliver that resonates with most Hispanics nomatter how they conceptualize the group’s racial identity… The key is to link racism and class conflict.”Over the last half-century, Republicans have harnessed strategic racism to divide the electorate.

Too often Democrats shy away from conversations about race and keep issues of economic justice and racial justice in separate siloes. ​Data​ has consistently shown that an explicit multiracial, populist message mobilizes and persuades voters.

Republican attacks levied at Democrats this cycle based on terms like “defund the police” or “socialism”have become scapegoats for Representatives like Abigail Spanberger, Conor Lamb, and other senior Democrats. Not a single Democrat — progressive or otherwise — argued that Democrats should run primarily on these themes. Moreover, these attacks will never go away, nor will demands for reform from social movements. The attacks are designed to stoke racial resentment, which is core to the GOP’s election strategy. Our party should not feed into it.We remember how controversial the simple statement “Black Lives Matter” was in 2014. In 2016 and2018, Democrats were nervous about being too closely associated with Colin Kaepernick and Black athletes kneeling during the national anthem. The latest choice for Democrats to locate our fear and blame is the slogan from many Black and young activists who marched the streets this summer: “Defund The Police.” Conservative Democrats may change the terms and people we blame and fear year-by-year, but Democrats must take on the Republican Party’s divide-and-conquer racism head-on and not demobilize our own base.This election, the Black youth leading….see link

In the Wechat group setup by US consulate for Native American week lectures, Chinese netizens asked how did US massacre the Native Americans and what did they do w the scalps. US consulate reportedly shut down the Wechat group after https://t.co/8vCuw9dniQ

— Carl Zha (@CarlZha) November 11, 2020

Yeah, Twitter is definitely part of the system. They equate ‘far left’ and ‘Nazis’. They do that false equivalency thing, the system does so well.

I dunno if twitter can be a tool for moving the country to the left or radicalizing more mainstreamers. Kinda looks like its just another echo-chamber.

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US Politics Isn’t ‘Polarized’; It’s In Almost Universal Agreement

"They do not allow for any mainstream discussion of *IF* the oligarchic empire should continue to exist; all their issues, arguments and histrionics revolve around *HOW* it should exist."https://t.co/20vG2EnoMo

— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) October 7, 2020

112 co-sponsors of Medicare for All were on the ballot in November. All 112 won.

98 co-sponsors of the Green New Deal were on the ballot. Only one lost.

Our proposals are not just good policy. They are good politics. pic.twitter.com/nkX0dpNH4Z

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) November 12, 2020

I wrote an article you can send to your parents! For their own good, Democrats should start seeing leftists as a key part of a coalition to hold onto, rather than as an object of scolding. Otherwise, the party can't win. https://t.co/5DVmu8RGZQ

— Mari Cohen (@maricohen95) November 13, 2020

At #MillionMAGAMarch and first person on bullhorn is a nazi. Talking about opposing homosexual and Jews pic.twitter.com/xg64YBKxpV

— John #PortlandProtest (@Johnnthelefty) November 14, 2020

Absolute bombshell of a report from The Courier Journal: LMPD hid almost 750,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of minors by Louisville police officers, and then lied to keep the files from the public https://t.co/6NrQu5rwgN

— Roberto Aram Ferdman (@robferdman) November 11, 2020