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May 28, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Police gave the Wayne State University Encampment until 6:30 PM to dismantle the encampment. However, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib is there at the encampment and wants the Wayne State Board of Regents to meet with the students. Is she willing to get arrested with the students to make a point?
It does look like the university backed down, and a crowd came out to see the congresswoman. Esa and Lexi were also asking for students and community members to show up.
Esa also had some choice words for the police if they think they can take down the Wayne State University Encampment.

"If they think they're coming and taking this encampment, they're smoking crack. These kids are not playing. The barricade is real. This ain't U of M."
UPDATE: Esa confirms that the raid was pushed back, but suspects it will happen early tomorrow morning.

"So if anyone can come at 2 to 3 o'clock, between 2 to 3 in the morning that would be ideal. Especially to all my fellow Muslims, I know a lot of people struggle with waking up for Fajr, now you have a reason to get up. Get up, pull up to Wayne State, we will pray together."

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Jul 2
🚨 Media figures rushed to fact-check Trump by insisting Democratic Socialism is not Communism.

But a majority of DSA’s national leadership is shaped by Communists, Marxist-Leninists, and members who see the org as fertile ground for radicalization.

My latest for @CityJournal!
@CityJournal The real issue is that much of the media still seems unwilling to seriously engage with DSA, read what its caucuses publish, or understand the organization on its own terms, even as it continues to punch far above its weight. city-journal.org/article/democr…
Here is DSA national co-chair Megan Romer acknowledging the revolutionary current inside DSA.

“We’re also not the only revolutionary socialists in DSA,” Romer says, pointing to MUG and “some of the Trotskyist caucuses.”

Then she goes further, saying it is “definitely a strong plurality opinion” that “you can’t reform your way to socialism” and that “at some point there has to be a hard break.”

That is the key point. A major current inside DSA rejects the idea that America can simply be reformed into socialism through normal democratic politics. In their view, socialism requires a revolutionary break.

And this is not a marginal faction. Representatives from these caucuses now make up a majority of DSA’s National Political Committee.

Have Democratic leaders really come to grips with that reality?
Read 6 tweets
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Jun 24
🚨 DSA’s Democratic Party Host Body

When DSA uses the Democratic ballot line to primary actual Democrats, that’s the party surrogate model in full effect.

DSA is using the Democratic Party’s ballot line and party name while building what it hopes will become a separate socialist party inside it, whether that ends in a breakaway, a takeover, or DSA being forced out.

DSA’s euphemism for this is the “party surrogate model.” A more honest term is political parasitism, with the Democratic Party serving as the host body.

That’s why I always think of the xenomorph chestburster from Alien when describing this. DSA can dress it up however it wants, but the model is still built around using the host until it is strong enough to burst out.Image
Don’t take my word for it. Listen to DSA co-chair Siddique explain DSA’s party surrogate model himself, including the risk that Democrats may eventually try to push DSA out.

“We are trying to build the party, and in many ways we’re already doing it.”
DSA knows Democratic Party leadership hates the surrogate model. The fact that DSA can keep using the Democratic ballot line largely unopposed says a lot about who is actually being outmaneuvered here.
Read 4 tweets
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Jun 17
🚨 DSA’s top leadership just adopted a platform calling to abolish the Senate, replace the president and Supreme Court, abolish the “carceral forces” of the state, grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

My latest for @CityJournal! Image
This is one of those articles where the platform is so wild it is almost impossible to give every detail the attention it deserves.

DSA wants to defund the Department of War, and somehow that does not even make the top five craziest parts.
city-journal.org/article/democr…
For transparency, I did use AI to make the first graphic, and for what I wanted, it knocked it out of the park.

That said, I absolutely encourage everyone to read the document for themselves. You know I like using media and graphics to rope you in, but the material speaks for itself.

DSA’s new platform opens with fan fiction about a socialist “day off” where the ordinary stressors of life have basically disappeared. No bills. No debt. No rent anxiety. No health insurance worries. No capitalism.

Then it pivots to Beirut, Gaza, Tehran, detention camps, data centers, AI, billionaires, and attacks on immigrants, people of color, and trans people.

The structure is obvious. First, they sell you the utopia. Then they show you the dystopia. And the only way out, conveniently, is DSA.Image
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Jun 9
🧵 DSA says its Red Rabbits initiative is about “security.” But according to its own authorizing resolution, the project is preparing for a “national uprising against federal agents and police brutality.”

A recent panel showed what that means in practice.

“Takedowns on intersections,” training where participants practiced being pepper-sprayed, firearm-safety training, protest marshalling, umbrellas and signs to block “fascists,” and direct-action support for Palestine and immigrant-justice groups.

The legal-risk issue was obvious enough that even the panelists kept circling it. They talked about compliance, liability, tax purposes, and how far DSA could push this without putting the organization at risk.

One organizer even described keeping a project DSA-sponsored but not fully DSA-run, so the fallout would not “come back to the DSA.”

My latest for @CityJournal!
This is my second look at the Red Rabbits as the project continues to evolve.

I genuinely think this is one of the most important aspects of the DSA to understand, especially as it keeps racking up wins nationwide and pushing more candidates into office.
city-journal.org/article/democr…
The first time I looked at Red Rabbits was after the DSA’s National Political Committee voted against removing a self-described “Maoist” from the commission despite his history of praising revolutionary violence.
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Jun 8
I would love to be a fly on the wall for this event happening today in Seattle, hosted by Seattle Revolutionary Youth.

What makes this group especially wild is that they openly try to recruit kids as young as middle schoolers.

As you can see from the framing, “Why is revolution inevitable?,” this is not exactly subtle. It looks like a gateway into much crazier politics and a pretty obvious attempt to groom young kids into radicals.Image
I would also wager this is being held at a public library, which gives younger attendees the easiest possible cover story: “I’m just going to the library after school.”

These youth activist groups in Seattle routinely use libraries and other public spaces for events like this, which makes the whole thing look much more normal and accessible to kids than it really should be.Image
And for anyone who wants a better sense of this organization, here are some of their past protests.
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Jun 7
🚨 Why Is Sanctioned Iranian State Media Filming in Washington, D.C.?

Not to be a stickler for the rules, but Press TV has been sanctioned since September 2023, so I find it pretty remarkable to see a PressTV branded microphone operating in Washington, D.C. while interviewing American far-left activists.

Mind you, this does not automatically prove a sanctions violation. Protected speech is still protected. But things get much murkier if any U.S. person is providing services that help Press TV create content after its designation.

And one of the people being interviewed here is Ermiya Fanaeian, a National Network on Cuba co-chair who has also been involved with Freedom Road Socialist Organization and Armed Queers SLC. Armed Queers SLC later drew scrutiny in connection with the investigation into Tyler Robinson, the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin.

At minimum, this raises some serious questions worth asking. Who is operating Press TV-branded interviews inside Washington, D.C., and is anyone in the United States helping a sanctioned Iranian state media outlet create content?
Everything you need to know about Fanaeian is in this clip, bragging about how these Cuba delegations leveled up “her” organizing game.

Actually, scratch that. I’ve got an even spicier clip for you.
Here is Fanaeian teaching Arm The Dollz how to say “Death to America” in Farsi. The video is partially censored, but Fanaeian posted enough photos on Instagram that matching the outfit was not exactly difficult.
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