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powermapmag.comLeft Antisemitism is a Right-Wing ConstructFascists Fuel Antisemitism Because Antisemitism Fuels Fascism

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Really good look at several subjects that there not a lot of really good looks at. The organized left is uniformly opposed to antisemitism and the right's attempts to get us arguing about it on their terms are a huge distraction from how they are the ones using it to fuel fascism and genocide.

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There's a reason the right spends millions on the lie that antisemitism is a left wing phenomenon: antisemitism is the glue that hold's fascism's paradoxical combination of "populist" and elitist rhetoric together. We must attack it at its source. www.powermapmag.com/p/left-antis...

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powermapmag.comLeft Antisemitism is a Right-Wing ConstructFascists Fuel Antisemitism Because Antisemitism Fuels Fascism

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I spent a lot of time working on this one. Seeing rising antisemitism is putting a pit in my stomach, but I've grown exhausted by the fact that we aren't talking about its true source: the far right.

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There's a reason the right spends millions on the lie that antisemitism is a left wing phenomenon: antisemitism is the glue that hold's fascism's paradoxical combination of "populist" and elitist rhetoric together. We must attack it at its source. www.powermapmag.com/p/left-antis...

powermapmag.comLeft Antisemitism is a Right-Wing ConstructFascists Fuel Antisemitism Because Antisemitism Fuels Fascism

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There's a reason the right spends millions on the lie that antisemitism is a left wing phenomenon: antisemitism is the glue that hold's fascism's paradoxical combination of "populist" and elitist rhetoric together. We must attack it at its source. www.powermapmag.com/p/left-antis...

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powermapmag.comIf We Had Learned From The Iraq War Things Would Be Less Stupid Right NowHasan Panics, AI Threats, Financial Bubbles… We Already Did This!

AI Panic, Hasan Freakout, Financial Bubble: the world is deeply stupid right now. Luckily, we learned how to deal with it 20 years ago, we just didn't...yet. www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...

powermapmag.comIf We Had Learned From The Iraq War Things Would Be Less Stupid Right NowHasan Panics, AI Threats, Financial Bubbles… We Already Did This!

"From...Epstein to Elon, it’s all the manifestation of the informal legal and political principle enshrined by the Bush era and made permanent by the Obama administration: the bigger the crime you commit, the less you can be held liable for it." www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social

Since 2008, we've transitioned neatly from "too big to fail" to "too big to be influenced by the law" ... and I think that's bad, even if you love capitalism

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And we already learned this in 2008! www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...

Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps talking about bringing back shame. I think "criminal corporate behavior must not be something you can simply price in and keep doing" is one structural equivalent that we seriously need

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powermapmag.comIf We Had Learned From The Iraq War Things Would Be Less Stupid Right NowHasan Panics, AI Threats, Financial Bubbles… We Already Did This!

First as farce, then as farce

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AI Panic, Hasan Freakout, Financial Bubble: the world is deeply stupid right now. Luckily, we learned how to deal with it 20 years ago, we just didn't...yet. www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...

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powermapmag.comIf We Had Learned From The Iraq War Things Would Be Less Stupid Right NowHasan Panics, AI Threats, Financial Bubbles… We Already Did This!

I always love editing @blimpjuice.bsky.social, equal parts insightful and hilariouis. He was supposed to write a totally different essay, but instead came out with this banger. It's the start of a roadmap to getting us out of this stupid fucking situation we're all in.

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AI Panic, Hasan Freakout, Financial Bubble: the world is deeply stupid right now. Luckily, we learned how to deal with it 20 years ago, we just didn't...yet. www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...

powermapmag.comIf We Had Learned From The Iraq War Things Would Be Less Stupid Right NowHasan Panics, AI Threats, Financial Bubbles… We Already Did This!

AI Panic, Hasan Freakout, Financial Bubble: the world is deeply stupid right now. Luckily, we learned how to deal with it 20 years ago, we just didn't...yet. www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...

@mattweiner19.bsky.social

PSA: Power Map *will* do a glowing profile of Rahm Emaneul (or any professional ghoul) starting at $250,000.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

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Matt Weiner

powermapmag.comShitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.

great piece would add that one big dange is The Powers That Be putting a system that *isn't* capable of running things in charge of it, and trusting what it does because it is The Machine God the "the supercompetent AI will kill us all!" doomsaying makes that more likely, because Machine God

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

"This reminds me of a critical mistake made in previous generations of socialists; the idea that before any political action happens, before it’s worth contesting power, the people need to be educated." A point I pushed past on the first read but worth staring at www.powermapmag.com/p/shitty-sky...

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@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

powermapmag.comShitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.

"This reminds me of a critical mistake made in previous generations of socialists; the idea that before any political action happens, before it’s worth contesting power, the people need to be educated." A point I pushed past on the first read but worth staring at www.powermapmag.com/p/shitty-sky...

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powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

Update: this is even worse than you thought! powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

JW Mason@jwmason.bsky.social

Just noticed that their definition of the working class includes an income floor, of $30,0000. Below that? not working class. Funny to imagine Joan Williams scoffing at the person who cleans her house twice a week, "you're not a real worker, you're just poor. Now let's make those toilets shine!"

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JW Mason

@jwmason.bsky.social

I've had students who are busboys, doormen, car mechanics, janitors, taxi drivers, line cooks, warehouse workers, home health aides, and one honest to god steelworker in a steel mill. And according to Jacobin none are working class once they get their degree. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

powermapmag.substack.comShitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.

We've gotten some criticism of our image here as the Terminator it depicts is from T2 and was sent back in time by John Conners to protect his mother and so is not part of Skynet. We apologize for this error and have fired the unpaid interns responsible.

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As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...

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word bug

@wordbug.bsky.social

powermapmag.substack.comShitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.

really helpful essay, even tho i believe in a spectrum of variably shitty skynets we should be concerned about. when an untrustworthy industry is telling you it's destroying the world, don't let yourself become negatively polarized into assuming you're safe.

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As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...

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powermapmag.substack.comShitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.

I really enjoyed editing @neoromantic.bsky.social's essay on AI. I think she does a fantastic job bridging the gap between the two factions on AI Doom and offers a sobering analysis of how AI could fuck things up for us, even if it doesn't kill us all.

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As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...

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DSA Resident Demonologist

@neoromantic.bsky.social

powermapmag.substack.comShitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.

Read my latest in Power Map where I argue we need to cut through the noise of the AI Doomsday debate and build the largest coalition we can if we want to have any hope of regulating AI

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As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...

powermapmag.substack.comShitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.

As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...

@perrybaconjr.bsky.social

20 Sept

Monday's article will be delayed due to the diesel shortage. We can't afford to transport it from the take factory.

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Perry Bacon

19 Sept

"The very thesis of the report, that there are 'dials' a candidate can turn to win an election, is fundamentally flawed." powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

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powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

18 Sept

Exciting news, we fed all of our articles into a frontier AI intelligence and it told us something incredible: all of our opinions are 100% correct!

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Michael Sappir

@m.sappir.net

18 Sept

“the authors acknowledge the role of storytelling in politics, but in developing the report, they have already chosen a narrative—America is broken because of cosmopolitan and educated elites. They are telling a story about the educated versus the uneducated. The polling helps refine it.” 🎯

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Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

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👻Milo BOO!-aynes👻 and the Centrists Scared of Socialism

@milobaynes.bsky.social

18 Sept

tired: reductionism is a helluva drug wired: popularism is a helluva drug

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Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

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Remain In Hell Without Despair

@daphnelawless.com

powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

The reason the radical Left is hitting a dead end is that it is full of people with a tertiary education who insist that their political subject, "the working class", is people without a tertiary education. Which leads to attempts to redefine "socialism" as patronizing, conservative populism

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Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

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rose

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powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

Replying to @breadnrosie.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/powe... friend of mine wrote about this

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Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

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Dr. Holly Walters

@manigarm.bsky.social

powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

"...chose to define the working class as low and middle income voters without a college degree." I'm a college professor with a PhD. I'm working class. As are nurses, teachers, social workers... We have long passed the era of "physical, no skill, low income jobs" defining what is working class.

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Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

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powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

Yeah this is just ridiculous from anyone let alone something nominally "left"

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Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

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powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

I took a look at Jacobin's new report, which went viral on here for its strange definitions of working class, excluding anyone who went to college. In general, I think these kinds of polling-based reports miss the mark and obscure more than they enlighten. Read more below!

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Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

powermapmag.substack.comWhy Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?We can do better than this.

Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

powermapmag.substack.comThe Fascist Mind Virus Will Destroy YouFascism is ruining our culture and our brains.

11 Sept

We've gotten some pushback on the cover image for our latest article on the Fascist Mind Virus as Facehuggers don't infect the brain, but lay eggs in the GI tract. We hear those critiques and are listening and learning. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-fascis...

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Michael Seemann

@mspr0.de

powermapmag.substack.comThe Fascist Mind Virus will Destroy YouFascism is ruining our culture and our brains.

weil wir ja wissen, dass jede anschuldigung von rechts ein geständnis ist, kann man das rechte vokabular für linke einfach übernehmen, um ihre phantasma-topographie aufzufalten, wie dieser text hier zeigt.

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A right wing fever dream has consumed our culture. None of us can escape it grasp. In Power Map, we look at how fascism is spreading through all of our minds and how we can keep our sanity. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-fascis...

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powermapmag.substack.comThe Fascist Mind Virus will Destroy YouFascism is ruining our culture and our brains.

I've been feeling absolutely insane since sometime in late 2024. It feels like no one talks about things that matter and we are consumed by bullshit. So I tried to suss out why for Power Map.

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A right wing fever dream has consumed our culture. None of us can escape it grasp. In Power Map, we look at how fascism is spreading through all of our minds and how we can keep our sanity. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-fascis...

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powermapmag.substack.comThe Fascist Mind Virus will Destroy YouFascism is ruining our culture and our brains.

This piece is an excellent breakdown of how the right is basically obsessed with meaningless cultural ephemera, people's identities, and social media in the exact brain rotting way they accuse the left of. Goes great with @jamellebouie.net's idea of commentary class' decadence and emptiness.

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A right wing fever dream has consumed our culture. None of us can escape it grasp. In Power Map, we look at how fascism is spreading through all of our minds and how we can keep our sanity. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-fascis...

powermapmag.substack.comThe Fascist Mind Virus will Destroy YouFascism is ruining our culture and our brains.

A right wing fever dream has consumed our culture. None of us can escape it grasp. In Power Map, we look at how fascism is spreading through all of our minds and how we can keep our sanity. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-fascis...

powermapmag.substack.comPalestine is a litmus testby Daniel Goulden

8 Sept

Does Macklemore understand US politics better than Matt Yglesias? Yes. powermapmag.substack.com/p/palestine-...

Forbes@forbes.com

The rapper chanted "Free Palestine" and performed “Hind's Hall,” his pro-Palestine anthem, while opening for Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium.

forbes.comMacklemore Defends 'Free Palestine' Remarks At Ed Sheeran Concert Despite Growing BacklashThe rapper chanted "Free Palestine" and performed “Hind's Hall,” his pro-Palestine anthem, while opening for Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium.

powermapmag.substack.comThe Democratic Establishment Is Getting Really RacistFor Democratic leadership, spending millions in racist ads is fine if it’s against the left

3 Sept

House Leadership announced they have no plans to punish rogue Democrats who keep voting with Republicans. That checks out. They have no plans to punish Democrats who engage in open racism either. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-democr...

3 Sept

Here at Power Map we solemnly pledge to never post clickbait unless it gets us lots of clicks.

Who wants to write this for Power Map???

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social

so are we gonna get a bunch of political analysis thumbsucker pieces about the cautionary tale of a promising youngish politico who torpedoed his career by latching on to the biological gender extremists who are attempting to drag the Democratic Party into hugely unpopular political waters or nah

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KC Eric

@kceric.bsky.social

powermapmag.substack.comThe Democratic Establishment Is Getting Really RacistFor Democratic leadership, spending millions in racist ads is fine if it’s against the left

*Republicans that ran as Democrats

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Centrist Democrats are building a SuperPAC-funded flood of racist attacks, and making it their main tool against left candidates like Zohran Mamdani, Melat Kiros, and Abdul El-Sayed. @blimpjuice.bsky.social tracks this strategy's rise, and how to fight back. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-democr...

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rst.bsky.social

@rst.bsky.social

powermapmag.substack.comThe Democratic Establishment Is Getting Really RacistFor Democratic leadership, spending millions in racist ads is fine if it’s against the left

Vote Blue, no matter who. No, not like that.

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Centrist Democrats are building a SuperPAC-funded flood of racist attacks, and making it their main tool against left candidates like Zohran Mamdani, Melat Kiros, and Abdul El-Sayed. @blimpjuice.bsky.social tracks this strategy's rise, and how to fight back. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-democr...

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Gaia_BentosZX5

@bento-bongos.bsky.social

powermapmag.substack.comThe Democratic Establishment Is Getting Really RacistFor Democratic leadership, spending millions in racist ads is fine if it’s against the left

Time to vote them out, and ensure they never get back into politics ever again.

Power Map@powermapmag.com

Centrist Democrats are building a SuperPAC-funded flood of racist attacks, and making it their main tool against left candidates like Zohran Mamdani, Melat Kiros, and Abdul El-Sayed. @blimpjuice.bsky.social tracks this strategy's rise, and how to fight back. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-democr...

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🎈PennyDon’tPlayThat

@pennydontplaythat.bsky.social

powermapmag.substack.comThe Democratic Establishment Is Getting Really RacistFor Democratic leadership, spending millions in racist ads is fine if it’s against the left

One more reason to vote them out.

Power Map@powermapmag.com

Centrist Democrats are building a SuperPAC-funded flood of racist attacks, and making it their main tool against left candidates like Zohran Mamdani, Melat Kiros, and Abdul El-Sayed. @blimpjuice.bsky.social tracks this strategy's rise, and how to fight back. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-democr...

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Stoned Feminist 👻 Spooky Version

@ladylinds.bsky.social