Bhaskar Sunkara

@sunraysunray

President @thenation, founding editor @jacobin, member @demsocialists

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  1. Bhaskar Sunkara@sunraysunray
    Finally a sensible voice among centrist Democrats
    Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_
    Hillary Clinton: “His surrogates and a lot of the independent expenditure media is really fear-mongering against El-Sayed as a Muslim, trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood, Trump is doing that. I’m just tired of that and I hope people are tired of that. Judge somebody on who they are, what they stand for, what they produce. This is not about woke, this is about broke. If you can’t win on affordability, if you are bankrupting the country and enriching yourself personally, try to divert attention”
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  2. Marco Foster✓@MarcoFoster_
    Hillary Clinton: “His surrogates and a lot of the independent expenditure media is really fear-mongering against El-Sayed as a Muslim, trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood, Trump is doing that. I’m just tired of that and I hope people are tired of that. Judge somebody on who they are, what they stand for, what they produce. This is not about woke, this is about broke. If you can’t win on affordability, if you are bankrupting the country and enriching yourself personally, try to divert attention”
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    RT @osbornforne: Harlan, 1973. Virginia, 1989. Omaha, 2021. Working people have always had to pick a side. Pete Ricketts picked his a long time ago. Which side are you on?
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    RT @antonioantonUAM: La democracia económica es el núcleo del socialismo. Mike Beggs, Ben Burgis y Bhaskar Sunkara (17/10/2026) La penetración de la democracia en el interior de las empresas, incluido el cooperativismo, y en la gestión económica global.
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    RT @TheStalwart: WILL AI MAKE CAPITALISM OBSOLETE? In today's newsletter, I wrote about a brief moment at the end of our chat with @sunraysunray (actually it was kind of after the end of the episode, but our producers left it in, which is good) about AI and central planning.
    Jules @analytichegel
    "not only do I think it's possible, I think there's a good chance that AI leads to essentially a form of communism by which we no longer need the firm as a hypothesis of what will work" -Joe Weisenthal
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    Posts @analytichegel
    "not only do I think it's possible, I think there's a good chance that AI leads to essentially a form of communism by which we no longer need the firm as a hypothesis of what will work" -Joe Weisenthal
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    RT @JabariBrisport: Zohran is not trying to "oust" anyone. According to New York City Charter, Chapter 81, Section 3404, her 3 year term started in August 2023 and therefore expired in August 2026. Christopher Alexander is a fantastic new choice. Worked for the NY State Senate and now the NAACP.
    Sally Goldenberg @SallyGold
    NEW: @NYCMayor seeks to oust head of Commission on Racial Equity, over objections from City Council’s BLAC and some faith leaders, @JeffCMays reports: via @NYTimes
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    NEW: @NYCMayor seeks to oust head of Commission on Racial Equity, over objections from City Council’s BLAC and some faith leaders, @JeffCMays reports: via @NYTimes
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  9. Bhaskar Sunkara@sunraysunray
    "My values, my identity and my community." Dan Goldman might have stood a better chance in his district if he spoke to universal values and against communalism in all its forms, including Israeli aggression.
    Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman
    My values, my identity and my community are far more important to me than any individual election result. Regardless, it’s widely understood that I lost in my particular district for the same reasons this ad is repugnant, blatantly false, and incites even more violence against Jews. And sadly, you consistently add fuel to this slanderous and anti-Jewish fire.
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  10. Daniel Goldman✓@danielsgoldman
    Posts @brhodes
    My values, my identity and my community are far more important to me than any individual election result. Regardless, it’s widely understood that I lost in my particular district for the same reasons this ad is repugnant, blatantly false, and incites even more violence against Jews. And sadly, you consistently add fuel to this slanderous and anti-Jewish fire.
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    1) this isn't a campaign ad 2) the ad discusses Israel/Israelis, not Jews 3) US taxpayers are indeed funding Israeli crimes abroad while a cost of living crisis grows at home
    Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka
    New low for normalized Jew-hate in the American Democratic Party. Very sad: Painting your political opponents as puppets of Jews, as this El-Sayed ad does, and as crazed baby-killers and money-grubbing villains who are the root cause of every bad thing not just in the world, but in your life—from wars to the price of eggs to the reason you can’t have free healthcare—is not just low-grade Jew-hate. It’s pure Third Reich stuff, translated directly from the original German. Do you remember when Jewish Democrats in Michigan explained that they would vote for El-Sayed despite his open disdain for Jews, since there are many other important issues they need him to fight for? That anything was worth it to “defeat MAGA”? Well, here’s El-Sayed’s answer to them: Don’t worry, all those issues we agree on, like healthcare, inflation, and climate change, I’m going to make them about Jews too! I will tell the public that the Jews are the reason they can’t have those things.
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  12. Saul Sadka✓@Saul_Sadka
    New low for normalized Jew-hate in the American Democratic Party. Very sad: Painting your political opponents as puppets of Jews, as this El-Sayed ad does, and as crazed baby-killers and money-grubbing villains who are the root cause of every bad thing not just in the world, but in your life—from wars to the price of eggs to the reason you can’t have free healthcare—is not just low-grade Jew-hate. It’s pure Third Reich stuff, translated directly from the original German. Do you remember when Jewish Democrats in Michigan explained that they would vote for El-Sayed despite his open disdain for Jews, since there are many other important issues they need him to fight for? That anything was worth it to “defeat MAGA”? Well, here’s El-Sayed’s answer to them: Don’t worry, all those issues we agree on, like healthcare, inflation, and climate change, I’m going to make them about Jews too! I will tell the public that the Jews are the reason they can’t have those things.
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    Excellent review from @davidimarcus of an excellent book.
    Shawn Gude @shawngude
    Happy to get a positive review from the NY Times: American Socialist "capture[s] Debs’s remarkable appeal while also resisting the temptations of beatification."
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    Happy to get a positive review from the NY Times: American Socialist "capture[s] Debs’s remarkable appeal while also resisting the temptations of beatification."
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    This is just misinformation. And too bad because "Popstonox" was at one time the most trusted name in news.
    Popstonox @Popstonox
    The DSA National Political Committee has voted to unendorse and expel Nithya Raman She has until October 31 to express clear direct support for BDS to retain endorsement, and until January 1 to condemn weapon shipments for Israel out of LAX to remain a member of DSA Both resolutions are linked below
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    The DSA National Political Committee has voted to unendorse and expel Nithya Raman She has until October 31 to express clear direct support for BDS to retain endorsement, and until January 1 to condemn weapon shipments for Israel out of LAX to remain a member of DSA Both resolutions are linked below
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    RT @hasanthehun: if you call this fascist, the media and politicians who support israel will spend months slandering you and countries will restrict your travel. ask me how i know.
    Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye
    "Carpet bomb them all". Speaking to The Guardian at an event ahead of Israel’s elections, a young Israeli woman called for Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from the Gaza Strip, saying they should be killed if they cannot be removed.
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    "Carpet bomb them all". Speaking to The Guardian at an event ahead of Israel’s elections, a young Israeli woman called for Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from the Gaza Strip, saying they should be killed if they cannot be removed.
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  19. Bhaskar Sunkara@sunraysunray
    Zohran is doing such a good job as mayor that the controversies are getting progressively more ridiculous. First it was installing a bidet, then greeting AOC at a memorial, now playing pickup basketball after hours.
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    Zohran needs to stay healthy and ball on these fools. What's the controversy?
    Chris Sommerfeldt @C_Sommerfeldt
    New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @GrahamRayman & @joeanuta
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    A future member of Congress still being invested and active in the internal life of DSA is exciting.
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  22. Chris Sommerfeldt@C_Sommerfeldt
    New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @GrahamRayman & @joeanuta
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  23. Bhaskar Sunkara@sunraysunray
    The comparisons to post-UDI Rhodesia & Apartheid-era South Africa are too generous to Israel.
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    Posts @sunraysunray
    I do wonder how Zohran hoops though. I play basketball often. I'm very bad but very good at shooting uncontested threes. A friend said that "If basketball was golf he'd be goat."
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    RT @ultras_antifaa: Lula was only 33 when he led the strike alongside the metalworkers’ union that challenged Brazil’s military dictatorship. He secured wage increases and was imprisoned. His rival, the far-right Flávio Bolsonaro, on the other hand, has had only one occupation since the age of 21: spending his wealthy family’s money and engaging in far-right thuggery.
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    A perfect top comment on the 43rd anniversary of the US invasion of Grenada
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    RT @arachno_commie: If nothing else, these debates have reassured me (and hopefully undecided Brazilians) that Lula has not Bidened. Wow.
    El Necio @ElNecio_Cuba
    💔 Lula se emociona en cadena nacional: "Yo era menor de edad y trabajaba de noche [cuando perdió el dedo], por culpa de la irresponsabilidad de los patrones. Yo no voy a aceptar que un MILICIANO me llame de 9 dedos."
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    💔 Lula se emociona en cadena nacional: "Yo era menor de edad y trabajaba de noche [cuando perdió el dedo], por culpa de la irresponsabilidad de los patrones. Yo no voy a aceptar que un MILICIANO me llame de 9 dedos."
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    RT @BenjaminFogel: Multiple cities in Brazil including São Paulo and Salvador which both went for Lula in the first round are reporting having significant parts of their public transport system taken offline as part of vote suppression tactics by pro Bolsonaro politicians
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    What's the progressive case for dual citizenship, of any country? (I qualify for Trinidadian citizenship, but wouldn't vote in multiple polities.)
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    Are you not familiar with the calculation debate? Who do you think Mises and Hayek were debating with? Lange said a statue of Mises should be erected in the hall of the Ministry of Socialization or the Central Planning Board since he was the great advocatus diaboli of the cause.
    Brett @BrooklynBrett
    @iamjourjean I’m a liberal and I’ve read Marx, Engels, Mises, Hayek, Schumpeter etc. I’ve never met a socialist who has read the last three.
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  32. Brett✓@BrooklynBrett
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    @iamjourjean I’m a liberal and I’ve read Marx, Engels, Mises, Hayek, Schumpeter etc. I’ve never met a socialist who has read the last three.
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  33. Bhaskar Sunkara@sunraysunray
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    I actually am a market socialist because I don't think the price socialism of Lange et al. is viable but these are well-read and studied figures among socialists.
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