Just Break Already Caucus

Gov. Kathy Hochul reveals the deal made with NYC Mayor Mamdani prior to taking office, privately meeting with him to let the then mayor-elect know that her endorsement was contingent on keeping Jessica Tisch as police commissioner: HOCHUL: “It was important to me before I supported him. He knew that” POLITICO: “That was something you talked about privately with him…” HOCHUL: “Before the endorsement… It’s important that she stays, and before I would support, it was important to have a commitment or understanding that this is very important” POLITICO: “But now there’s a questions of how long that commitment lasts though” HOCHUL: “It’s going to work” POLITICO: “It will? Like months, years? What do you think?” HOCHUL: “As long as the commissioner wants”

New in DemLeft: The @brittanyforri campaign is a unique effort in DSA to build power outside the Democratic Party. Read about why RI DSA is going independent, and help us GOTV! democraticleft.dsausa.org/20…

"Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones and can be mounted on police cars and drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported. Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup, Reuters previously reported. Meta banned the firm the same year, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians in Kenya, Mexico and Indonesia. The firm is part of an Israeli surveillance industry that grew big as a result of the military's monitoring of Palestinians, whose phone calls Israel's Unit 8200 has intercepted and stored by the millions, including to carry out genocide in Gaza and enforce a brutal illegal occupation in Jerusalem and the West Bank." From @DropSiteNews yesterday

Communists who avoid DSA because of its rightist posture should know that I was *two* votes away from losing my delegate election. All over the city, there are dozens of Left candidates that would’ve made the cut if just one or two more comrades voted for them. Join DSA today!

GW and SMC members are about to write think-pieces and paragraphs about how capitalism is part of the DSA socialism big tent, and and that anyone who thinks otherwise is a hating purity tester

The question before DSA is now how we will carry out such a campaign. We can wage a strong, independent campaign with our own message, or we can subordinate ourselves to someone else’s politics. R&R stands unwaveringly for an independent campaign.

It's extremely funny that words have no meaning to people on this site when poor people living in a dense public housing estate that looks like this, with 2,056 units, are called NIMBYs.

My latest in Light & Air, celebrating Eugene Debs' legacy as a tribune of the Socialist Party on the 100th anniversary of his death: marxistunity.com/long-live-t…

Just last fall, one of the leaders of this slate was rallying with Zohran’s Republican challenger and Vickie Paladino, who has called for Zohran to be deported, the “expulsion of Muslims" and posts about throwing leftists out of helicopters. Disappointing!

Today marks 100 years since socialist luminary and union agitator Eugene V. Debs died. Debs’s life and work was inspired by an unwavering belief that a more just and free world was possible, and that it would be created through class struggle.

DSA's national leadership had been expected to vote tonight on whether to unendorse or expel Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, who's been endorsed by DSA-LA. Instead, the vote has been delayed for another week.