You know what I hear over and over again - that NYC is not enforcing rules against unlicensed street vendors. I’m for increasing licenses but we should do more for the retailers who are paying rent and trying to survive.
The left won this election on the strength of its message and the sharpness of its organizing. Listen to winners AOC Ilhan the awesome PA state reps like Nikil Saval and Summer Lee & not folks like John Kasich who on top of having awful politics are just bad at winning elections!
John Kasich, who did not deliver Ohio to Dems, is saying folks like
@IlhanMN
, who did deliver Minnesota, are the problem.
Please don’t take these people seriously and go back to celebrating and building power 🎉
We used to tax the economic elites higher than this back in the 1950s when the rate was 90%. We see
@AOC
doing the right thing, and we expect
@SpeakerPelosi
and
@HouseDemocrats
to advocate for the people!
We just want to remind you when everyone from the Manhattan bourgeois to the oligarchs to the media to our City Council completely lost their shit because like an abandoned Sweetgreen window got broken this summer during the Uprisings for Black Lives.
We have endless work ahead of us to
#StopAsianHate
but flatly rejecting endless villainization and zero sum fear mongering of both political parties, the media and foreign policy establishment is a core one of those pieces
Some NY elected officials get arrested for intimidating students with guns, and some get arrested protesting genocide.
That’s the DSA difference.
Thank you
@ZohranKMamdani
for your unwavering solidarity with Palestine.
86%! That’s a Mandate! A mandate for socialism, a mandate for abolition, a mandate for social housing, a mandate for secure jobs, a mandate for immigrant rights, a mandate for care NOT cuts!
Astoria, the unstoppable People’s Republic! ✊🏽🌹
@tiffany_caban
@NYCMayor
The only reason you are running for President is to pad your resume because you know your political career is over. Going to live off those consulting and speaking fees you plan on charging.
I believe the Republican members of Congress who have incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election must face consequences. They have broken their sacred Oath of Office.
I will be introducing a resolution calling for their expulsion.
American housing is in crisis. Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist newly elected to the New York assembly, joins us to explain how Austrian socialists solved their own housing crisis – and how we can learn from them to build a better world. Watch now on YouTube!
Apropos of nothing, in the final days of the 2018 New York primaries Cardi B endorsed Cynthia Nixon and Jumaane Williams while Nicki Minaj endorsed Andrew Cuomo
Thank you!!! That can’t be said enough. So many people gave their labor to make this happen. AOC, Amazon, Cabán that’s a resume we can be proud of. Our volunteers are amazing!!! Team work makes the dream work. Love all of our coalition partners.
Every New Yorker deserves heat in the dead of winter and not excuses from the mayor evading the fact that a slumlord responsible for 19 deaths is on his transition committee
We are still antiwar because its the kids from Queens who get sent to fight in them not the oped writers & tv producers telling you war is good.
We condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine *and* refuse to consider US involvement in any armed conflict - a position we hold every day
From the National Political Committee: DSA condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demands immediate diplomacy and de-escalation to resolve this crisis. 1/3
2019: Queens Electoral Working Group Organizing Committee
2020: DSA Candidate for AD36
2021: DSA Assemblyperson in Office fighting for Public Power, Cancel Rent and a New York Health Act
2021, 2022 and beyond: This could be you comrades, this could be us🌹
Today is my first day as the Assemblymember for NY's 36th AD.
To hold this position is the honor of my life & I hold it because of you. You believed in a future where dignity is for the many, not just the few.
Together, that's the future we're going to win.🌹
I am the only Palestinian American serving in Congress, and my perspective is needed here now more than ever. I will not be silenced and I will not let anyone distort my words.
I’m from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes.
What a day for Queens, if you know someone who did amazing work for
@tiffany_caban
and
@jaslinforqueens
go ahead and give them some love in the replies:
An undercover officer "offered to drive her to the pharmacy to get asthma medication for her daughter. He took her to a hotel parking lot instead, near the shelter where she was staying & offered her $100 for oral sex. She said she declined but was arrested anyway." (6/10)
Andrew Cuomo is down to 38% approval rating but is still 53% in New York City. Reach out to someone you love today & tell them about how he's a monster.
There’s no such thing as “far right populist.”
That’s fascism.
When the worst form of greedy capitalists use race and economic insecurity to gain votes for the 1%.
Fascism.
Fascism.
Fascism.
Say it.
.
@AndrewYang
is confronted in Astoria by passersby upset over his pro-Israel tweet. He calls conflict in the Middle East “heartbreaking,” but doesn’t condemn Israeli airstrikes.
Deliveries in the deluge, forced to work in indoor dining at the height(s) of the pandemic, initially denied vaccines, rampant wage theft - if you're sick and tired of service workers being treated as less than human get involved with
@DemSocialists
'
@restaurantproj
There are no sides to genocide. From Queens to D.C. to Palestine, we fight because we know our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of Palestinians.
Ceasefire Now!
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
#March4Palestine
#FreePalestine
#CeasefireNOW
Eric Adams is a Republican. He’s defunding our schools, cutting our city’s programs, raising our rents, and boosting Republicans.
His MO is to cut deals for his buddies behind the scenes with working New Yorkers being forced to foot the bill.
This is important for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that
@NYCMayor
has positioned himself with
@JoeBorelliNYC
in furthering a set of maps that would assist Republicans:
’s%20shaping%20battle%20lines%20for%20years%20to%20come.
Joe Crowley calls himself pro-choice, but he didn’t always. He spent his first 5 years in Congress voting with Republicans to restrict abortion access. Most importantly, he voted for laws that permanently pushed abortion legislation to the right.
Going back to brunch:
B read and Roses (worker gets both)
R evolution
U tilities under public control
N o ICE, no cops
C onstituent Assembly
H ousing for All
Join DSA today:
We need to fight to ensure that any resolutions, acts, executive orders or speeches coming out of this adopt the language of "fascism" & "white supremacy" - not "terrorism".
We can not let right wing spontaneous violence become an excuse for state violence. We know our enemies.
Austin getting a rousing welcome back this morning. He was fired after organizing
@DitmarsSBWU
, and with just cause laws he won reinstatement + back pay.
This was a 7 month long fight with a big win for workers. When workers come together and fight we win!
True: Andrew Cuomo is directly responsible for 15000 nursing home deaths.
Also True: Cuomo cut healthcare spending, excluded workers, forced reopenings, put donors in charge of public health & in total 48,537 New Yorkers have died as of yesterday.
#ImpeachCuomo
Happy birthday to Thomas Sankara a beautiful revolutionary socialist who launched effective mass vaccination campaigns to eradicate polio, meningitis, and measles on a scale our awful leaders could not imagine.
Yo! We've been wracking up Ws in Astoria for years and that's something to be proud of!
Grab a T, whether your a proud Astorian socialist or just a fan of the neighborhood with the most socialist reps in the country! Lot more Ws in Queens to come! 🌹
Queens workers like street vendors and construction workers need good quality sunscreen to protect them
while working outdoors. Thank you,
@AOC
@RepAOC
for your attention to an issue that impacts working people, specially immigrant workers.
US sunscreens are far behind the rest of the world and our regulations aren’t necessarily making our sunscreens better or safer — but it doesn’t have to be this way!
Our chapter is temporarily putting our canvassing for
@VoteJoelBrooks
on hold to encourage our members to go canvass for
@nycDSA
and their
@DSAForTheCity
candidates 🤝
Let's show our NYC comrades some Jersey love and support ✊
Defund this nightmare dog that everyone in the world thinks is terrifying and weird & pay for literally anything else.
Please folks, work to elect
@DSAForTheCity
if you think social services are more important than our bad cops having this horrifying robot dog.
Tired: if you raise taxes on billionaires they'll leave New York
Wired: lol no they won't
Inspired: lol no they won't but it'd be awesome if they did - they pay nothing in taxes while they wreck our homes and neighborhoods, what are we losing in this hypothetical?
NYC high school students walking out from across the city in the hundreds today to demand a
#CeasefireNow
in Gaza!
These students will not be silent while Biden funds genocide!
As a housing counselor helping immigrant families facing eviction, Zohran saw firsthand the unjust system created by decades of pro-corporate, pro-landlord policy.
As a state assembly member, he'll fight to change that system for the better.
Congratulations to
@ZohranKMamdani
!
Our beautiful march for Palestine was disrupted by 100s of NYPD SRG cops (you know, the ones that cost the city $ millions for abusing protestors).
This is what
@NYCMayor
wastes our $ on while our people face hate crimes and libraries and schools get budget cuts. Shame!
As thousands march in Astoria, Queens' "Little Egypt" demanding a Gaza ceasefire, the NYPD separates onlookers from demonstrators. This overbearing approach to policing protest is a big part of why the NYPD's exceeds its overtime budget by hundreds of millions of $$ every year.
When immigrants are under attack, what do we do? STAND UP. FIGHT BACK ✊🏽
When racists and fascists are on your side, your anti tent-city rally is NOT about safety. We ask our neighbors: Don’t give in to right-wing fear. Welcome immigrants with the compassion they deserve!🧵
Retweet if you were too young to matter to pollsters when the war in Afghanistan started but still opposed it and you're 18-38 now and the MSM coverage of withdrawal acts like we're not a majority now
Wow! Big Trump Hater Congressman Joe Crowley, who many expected was going to take Nancy Pelosi’s place, just LOST his primary election. In other words, he’s out! That is a big one that nobody saw happening. Perhaps he should have been nicer, and more respectful, to his President!
BREAKING: Workers at a Bronx Chipotle store walked off the job in the middle of their shift this evening because they felt unsafe when Chipotle kept the store open despite a positive COVID test among staff.
#servingupjustice
Out here, tabling against Eric Adams austerity budget talking to parents, teachers and countless other New Yorkers who want no cuts!
Shoutout to
@Gonzalez4NY
and Sunny for swinging by!!
One of our comrades from queens has gone missing, he was last seen wearing blue-black jacket, may have a white mask. If you have any information, the contact info is on the flier. Please share and keep a lookout.
Garfield not only supports Medicare For All but has also been one of the most consistent voices advocating for a four day work week for the past 50 years. Incredible message discipline.
Happy birthday to our first endorsed candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!
We've come a long way since 2018 and look forward to continuing this fight together because a better world is possible, in fact, its never been closer.
Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes!
I am so deeply grateful for the support, love, friendships, and communities we’ve made together.
Here’s to another year of making a better world. 🎂
& Let’s keep masking up so we can go back to hugs & smooshing faces- love you all!
Queens DSA +
@nycDSA
SHOWS UP for the Teamsters!
And we’ll show up as long as it takes to end part-time poverty and win a fair contract!
Solidarity Forever 📦
Unlike
@repjoecrowley
,
@Ocasio2018
plans to use Congressional office to actually help the people of Puerto Rico, by cancelling wall street debt and funding a Marshall Plan for the island.
Read more here:
The most offensive part about this take is that the left didn't just not put Biden/Harris in danger it literally dragged them across the finish line. Every district that delivered the W were the the ones Dems said "let DSA Sunrise Justice Dems Unite handle". These are just facts.
Lot of libs & centrists out talking about "defund the police is unpopular" because most of them are spectators or grifters.
Most ppl support less funding for police/more for social services. Most ppl lose their shit when they learn nypd costs 6B. Its called persuasion, we do it.
I'm standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists. The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere.