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Firefly7 [any]

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  • Activist in Grand Rapids MI arrested mid-interview about their opposition to war in Venezuela

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  • Thankfully, due to community pressure (likely hundreds of calls within hours, rally at the sheriff’s office), she was released later the same day.

    Source: heard this from a comrade of hers

  • does someone have any practical organizing resources?

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  • You have to let go of all of your fear of directly messaging ten different people with “I’m excited to see you at the meeting this evening!” or similar

  • EU Blocked China’s Jet — U.S. Mocked It Until China’s Response Stuns Everyone.

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  • Summary: China’s C919 aircraft constructed by COMAC follows Western safety guidelines and even uses a lot of Western parts, but the European agency responsible for certification has delayed it by 3-6 years. This isn’t a major problem for the C919, though, since China’s domestic aircraft demand is large and increasing, and since other nations can set up their own aircraft certification processes instead of relying on the Europeans.

  • How to organize a book club?

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  • In case you want to chat more in-depth, feel free to DM for my Signal! I’m still very inexperienced of course but it still may be helpful

  • How to organize a book club?

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  • I initially got people interested in helping me run/advertise a reading group by directly pitching them on forming a transfeminist organization together, inside a casual trans hangout club at a local university, that I was already a repeat attendee of. In our organization’s first meeting we united on forming a reading group.

    In this hangout club we also announced the existence of the reading group and a time/location, once we’d figured that out.

    Beyond that and the posters, word-of-mouth was a big thing. Just directly inviting friends we had in the city to come attend.

    Your process may be different because there’s less casual hangout space infrastructure for socialists compared to trans people. I’ve also recently had success pitching people on the reading group at DSA events, so your local left-wing party might have some people you can get interested if you can find ways to hang out with them.

  • How to organize a book club?

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  • I’m someone who has only started 1 book club, and did so about a month ago. So far it’s had about 8-11 people at each meeting. What worked for me:

    • Have it be a book people want to read!
    • We started with a group of about 4 people, and we advertised via word-of-mouth, posters around key spots in the city, and announcements within a relevant casual hangout space. Putting up 60 posters got us 3 attendees, who were enthusiastic to be there, compared to other methods which still got people but less talkative/enthusiastic ones. I’ll note that postering is much faster with a friend/comrade and a packing tape dispenser.
    • The location was in a reservable library room with a big TV for displaying questions and comfy chairs. I also made sure to bring snacks and masks. Make it easy for people to use them- unopened snack boxes might go untouched, and people might need to be prodded into wearing masks.
    • We have a weekly consistent schedule right after our organization’s regular meeting. Makes it super easy for org members to attend and also makes the reading club work as a way of introducing people to the organization.
    • I come up with reading questions before the book club with another org member, it takes about 30 minutes for us to talk about the reading and generate a good set of questions.
    • After it’s over many of us will head to a restaurant together. This makes for great socializing time and also lets us discuss book concepts in some more detail.
    • facilitating the book club itself, once everyone has gathered, is a fairly low-lift task that can gain someone’s confidence in running meetings.
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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from October 27th to November 2nd, 2025 - The War on Health + Further Latin America Escalations

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  • Hm, yeah, I can see my error. I’ve edited the comment.

    I originally had ‘flawed’ because I’d remembered hearing criticisms of it from a Venezuelan communist that I respect, and because I’m aware it’s not a fully Marxist-Leninist state and it has many internal contradictions that are still being wrestled with. I understand though that it still has a socialist character and that is what should be emphasized at the moment.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from October 27th to November 2nd, 2025 - The War on Health + Further Latin America Escalations

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  • 5 million people joining in two months! It’s really cool to see the possibilities for mass mobilization in defense of the nation when it comes to socialist states like Venezuela

  • CNN is salty that DPRK doesn't give a fuck about the Burger Reich 😆

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  • Surprisingly sober article on the DPRK coming from CNN. Talks about a burgeoning middle class in the DPRK, how Pyongyang is much more developed now than 10 years ago, and says that their lack of meeting Trump is because of geopolitics instead of saying it’s because of Kim’s inherent evilness. Though it still says he has “near-absolute power” in the country.

  • You ever have a friend who's media tastes didn't mesh at all with their politics at all?

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  • looks at you pointedly. I know what tumblr post you took this from

  • $50,000 AI-Led Private School in Plano Has Just 2 Hours of Class Time

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  • Honestly this seems less like “AI is teaching in 2 hours what standard schools teach in 8!” and more “Small class sizes and personalized learning help a lot.” the article mentions a class size of 12 people

  • DSA 2025 Convention Recap

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  • Thank you for the recap!!

    On the topic of the 2028 presidential election, I agree that it would be very hard to win, but if PSL is anything to go off of then running a candidate is a great way to have people listen to your ideas when you go door-to-door, and to get your message out there.

  • Did anyone follow the DSA convention?

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  • Not a DSA member but afaik: the NPC moved a bit further left, there’s now a slim majority of ML/trot/maoist/anarchist, with a few members in between the left and right wings as well. Beforehand the right and center held an outright majority on the NPC and the left passing anything required someone from the Bread and Roses center caucus to chip in. As other comments mentioned, an antizionist resolution made it through. AOC censure resolution didn’t get to be voted on in time, but I think it’s fairly likely given the new NPC composition.

  • Uber Drivers Have Unionized For The First Time In Canada

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  • super interested in how they pulled this off. Uber drivers sound like they’d be very difficult to organize for a variety of reasons

  • First results in New York City Primary

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  • Bernie was a much larger threat, and it was internal to the Democratic Party. Stopping Mamdani here would require obvious inter-party collusion against him, which would hurt both national parties in the long run, over an admittedly large threat but not a Bernie-level one

  • First results in New York City Primary

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  • I’m excitedly awaiting nyt or the atlantic or whoever to publish an article about how, if only there had been a united moderate front, Mamdani could have been stopped. Just imagine the title: “How Ranked Choice Voting propelled Mamdani’s success— and how it could have foiled his campaign.”

  • First results in New York City Primary

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  • I don’t think the repubs would want to make a show out of helping Cuomo/Adams to defeat Mamdani. Especially when they’re trying to attack every democrat by tying them to him. As far as they’re concerned, every democrat is a socialist, and Mamdani only proves it. I’m sure the nyc bourgeoisie would prefer a united front against him but I think the democrat and republican parties both know it’d make them look bad.

  • First results in New York City Primary

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  • This is the Democratic primary race. It’s ranked-choice, final results for this vote will be out on July 1st, but Mamdani is expected to gain over Cuomo from 2nd-ranks if anything, and Cuomo already conceded the primary to him. This is considered the Big Thing because most NYC residents are dems and so the dem primary is basically the mayoral race. That might be different this year as the (widely disliked) incumbent and Cuomo will be running as independents in the general mayoral election in November, and we might see a centrist bloc coalesce, but I wouldn’t underestimate the power of the (D) appearing by Mamdani’s name.

    Edit: the general in November is not ranked-choice, so the centrist/conservative vote will be split 3-way. I’d be very surprised if Mamdani lost

  • First results in New York City Primary

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  • It could happen in the general, but in the primary the 3rd ranked candidate (Brad Lander) has cross-endorsed with Mamdani

    edit: also Cuomo conceded the primary