#left-winger

#left-winger

"Looking back, I can see how my family as a unit was convinced that this was a Chicano dream, a safe and honorable space. Working for la causa, along with our then family's hero. The whole time [Chavez] was figuring out how to get in my shirt, in my pants, how to force his mouth on me, and had me locked in my head that it was a place I could not escape."

Israel's killing of over 75,000 Palestinians, as well as its role in the Iran War, has led to a steep drop in popularity among Democratic voters, and increasingly among lawmakers as well.

Mamdani has carried his highly disciplined, media-forward messaging style into office, combining practical city management with a focus on visible and public-facing execution.

Lori Shapiro expressed her concerns to her husband, stating, 'I don't think we are ready to do this. It's not the right time for our family. And it's not on our terms.'

Mahmood has become a less reliable vote for the board's moderate bloc, and more outspoken about issues like blocking immigration enforcement and taxing the rich.

Yes, killing tens of thousands of people makes you pretty damn evil. It's not how evil is this one versus that one: Hamas: Evil, Israeli government: Evil. We can say both.

Kasparian argued Ocasio-Cortez appears to have taken a page or two out of President Donald Trump's political playbook, based on the lawmaker's response to a shot on social media from Kasparian.

Within the workplace, the content and conditions of work are largely controlled by employers who often have an interest in degrading the quality of work, both to increase productivity and to increase their control over employees in the workplace. Outside the workplace, employers have both an incentive and the power to undermine measures that would improve the quality of work through the political process.

I just haven't waded into that territory. Obviously, if someone crosses some huge line, it's never something that I rule out. It would have to be kind of an egregious thing. I've said this both to my colleagues here and I say it across the board, you're never going to see me tell someone that they should never run.

There's a window of opportunity for a left-wing nominee that may not come again for a generation. Democratic-socialist and liberal victories in New York City and elsewhere - with potentially more this fall - have changed the political playing field.

AIPAC pivoted in the final week of the campaign to focusing its fire on the more pro-Palestinian Abughazaleh than Biss, who was backed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Another AIPAC affiliate, Chicago Progressive Partnership, ran ads painting Abughazaleh as a closet Republican and boosting a lower tier leftist in the race, Bushra Amiwala.

Democratic Representatives Mike Thompson (CA-04) and Richard E. Neal (MA-01) even introduced a bill called the American Affordability Act, which promises to reduce housing, educational, and childcare costs with a variety of tax credits. Congressional campaign professionals have been urging candidates from coast to coast to adopt an "affordability agenda." And-for good reason-recent polling shows that the cost of living tops the list of voters' concerns.

All I said to people who say, you have this tension, we didn't have any attention. All I said is, if you want to be a legislator and pass bills, it's important to have the votes to do it. It doesn't help to go online and criticize the people that you want to have because they're not as progressive as you are. She's been a star, eloquent, forceful, and the rest. And she gets along very well with Hakeem Jeffries. They have a New York connection, but I'm so glad she's here.

In January, Florida Rep. Randy Fine made a typically bigoted post on X about his colleague in the House of Representatives, Ilhan Omar. The post was in conversation with a specious right-wing conspiracy alleging that Omar's net worth had increased, nefariously, through a variety of unspecified means-perhaps cryptically linked back to her Somali heritage. Fine asserted that to "solve all this," Omar ought to be "denaturalized and deported."

Traditionally, critiques of bureaucracy take the perspective of the little man caught in the obtuse machinations of faceless corporations or an unyielding state. Kafka's Joseph K., for example, or Catch-22's Yossarian. Even The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy begins with protagonist Arthur Dent lying in front of a bulldozer to thwart an intransigent planning department. In recent years, we've seen the return of anti-bureaucratic mobilization,

She's fearless, rooted in working-class communities, and unafraid to take on both MAGA extremism and corporate power.