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May 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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🚨 Hasan Names Singham, PSL, ANSWER, and Code Pink in One Breath

On stream today, Hasan Piker discussed the reported Treasury scrutiny and said the broader target is “probably Singham” and “his operation,” naming PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation), ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, and “anything that he has ever financed.”

He then acknowledged that Roy Singham lives in China and has been “a funding vehicle” for political movements and activism in the United States.

That is exactly why this matters.

This was never just about one influencer’s Cuba trip. It is about the Singham-linked ecosystem, the groups it funds, the delegations it supports, and the political operations built around them.

Hasan didn’t refute the network. He mapped it.
Singham usually stays far from the public-facing side of the operation. His influence runs through subordinates, funding channels, and the groups orbiting his network.

That’s why it stands out when people inside that ecosystem mention him directly.
Fergie Chambers, another far-left financier funding similar projects, offers a pretty revealing critique of the Singham network and how little transparency there is around Singham’s role. Image
And of course, it’s always worth hearing Singham in his own words.

I’ve made a few clips from the rare occasions where he has actually spoken publicly.
And lastly, enjoy this supercut of Singham reflecting on his life. It gives you a crystal-clear look at his beliefs, worldview, and animating ideology.

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Jul 23
🚨 DSA’s Future Leaders Say the Organization Is White Supremacist, Paternalistic, and Protecting Abusers

This Young Democratic Socialists of America meeting was really something.

These candidates are running for seats on YDSA’s national leadership body and could become some of DSA’s future leaders. Yet much of the discussion focused on what they described as the organization’s entrenched problems with white supremacy, patriarchy, anti-Blackness, racism, harassment, abusers, and its reputation as “five white guys sitting around and reading theory.”

The candidates did not confine these criticisms to a few isolated chapters. They described whiteness, racism, and “white-centered organizational practices” as problems extending across local YDSA chapters, YDSA’s national structures, and the broader DSA organization.

I do not generally think it is fair to reduce DSA to simply a “white organization.” Its membership and culture can vary considerably by chapter and region. I would describe the organization more broadly as overeducated, downwardly mobile, and arguably elitist.

That said, DSA’s national leadership does play some remarkably vicious internal games, conduct that Cliff Connolly has described as “bureaucratic freakery.” Perhaps that is the deeper dysfunction these aspiring leaders are picking up on, even if they interpret it primarily through the language of whiteness and white supremacy.

But it is still remarkable to hear so many aspiring DSA leaders portray both YDSA and the national organization as fundamentally shaped by white supremacy.

Stick around until the end to hear yours truly mentioned.
Although this call did not include the YDSA co-chair candidates, it is important to remember that YDSA’s governing body and co-chairs help shape campus organizing nationwide. The co-chairs also serve on DSA’s National Political Committee.
Sara, for example, was an influential campus organizer at Cornell and was even suspended over her pro-Palestinian activism. Those credentials helped propel her to the YDSA co-chair position.
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Jul 17
🚨 Meet the “Abolish Rent” Ideologue Teaching DSA Tenant Organizers How to Wage War on Landlords

Tracy Rosenthal co-founded the Los Angeles Tenants Union, helps politically educate DSA tenant organizers, and is currently on rent strike in New York City.

In this supercut, Rosenthal says tenants pay rent “at the barrel of a gun,” describes withholding rent as a “liberatory vision of home,” and explains how movement lawyers can use the legal system to buy tenants time.

She also endorses tactics including camping outside a landlord’s home, leaving bad Yelp reviews of their other businesses, and crashing family weddings.

As you will see, Rosenthal radically frames the relationship between property owners and tenants as inherently exploitative.

I am certainly sympathetic to anyone dealing with a bad landlord. But this goes far beyond protecting tenants from abuse. It treats the landlord-tenant relationship itself as illegitimate and pushes organizing tactics to an extreme.

Rosenthal’s ideology and organizing model increasingly permeate DSA’s tenant movement. Stick around for even more clips!
Tracy Rosenthal sees the landlord-tenant relationship itself as inherently based on “exploitation and domination.”

Over four minutes, Rosenthal describes rent as a “fine,” a “trap,” a “tribute,” and ultimately a “ransom” paid “at the barrel of a gun.”

She argues that landlords “hoard” the places where people can live and generally acquired that property only because they, their parents, or their grandparents had more money than their tenants.

Her framing assumes that a tenant’s need for housing gives them a superior claim to the property, while largely erasing the owner’s rights and the tenant’s freedom to rent elsewhere or move.

Paying rent, therefore, is not presented as a contractual exchange between a property owner and tenant. It is portrayed as exploitation enforced by the threat of state violence.

This is the ideological foundation of Rosenthal’s worldview and the logic she uses to justify the tactics that follow.
Even Tracy Rosenthal seems stunned that this worked.

In this clip, she explains that a movement lawyer used California’s bird-flu state of emergency to help stall a landlord-tenant case by invoking restrictions on rent increases during an emergency.

Rosenthal cautions that movement lawyers cannot do everything, but says they can still play a useful role.

“They’re actually not necessarily always able to win your case and meet your demands, right? Your organizing strategy is what does that, but you oftentimes do need them, otherwise, yeah, the cops will come.”

In other words, the lawyers stall while the organizers apply the pressure.
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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?
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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.
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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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