Annnnd we’re back with Season 2! 🎉
Join me, in momentarily pausing your Ukraine/Russia doomscrolling to listen in to this week’s interview with everyone’s favorite Fairy Gothmother and (Communist) party girl, !
Pinned Tweet
Show this thread
Follow
whatslefttodo
@whatslefttodo
Life stories from people on the left & how that has influenced their arrival at a leftist politic. And now that they're here, what's (the) left to do? 
whatslefttodo.com/links/Joined December 2020
whatslefttodo’s Tweets
Quote Tweet
Seymour Hersh, one of the most decorated and impactful journalists of all time, is now on Substack.
And he's out with a scoop: the inside story of how the US government blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-
Might the be having a ‘Pancakes 4 The Proletariat’ fundraiser at some point this year?
Yes.
Is this the result of my love for alliteration and breakfast?
Also yes.
1
6
Watch for "cops save baby ducks" stories in the next few months. Media collaborates with police to produce these puff pieces after every police brutality incident.
Literally every dept does these after police killings, it's amazing. Thread
251
8,270
26K
Show this thread
I will be cackling for the next 24 hours at my very reserved, white therapist trying to grapple with “Captain Save-A-Hoe” in session.
Bless this man (who will bankrupt me)
1
A reminder: District Attorney Brooke Jenkins fired the lawyers charged with police accountability.
14
73
318
The intensity of racism directed at Chinese people from America shows you that you do not lift your people up in order to win respect and overcome bias.
You lift your people up to lift your people up, such that disrespect and bias lose all meaning and significance.
5
79
334
Show this thread
Thanks to the
for shining a light on the #StopCopCity movement! With Community Movement Builders Organizing Director Jasmine Burnett. Full video here youtube.com/watch?v=ibLb-L
17
411
1,037
Was just looking: In the 177 days since Chesa Boudin was recalled (through the end of last month): Property crime in San Francisco is UP about 14% compared to the 912 days that Chesa was in office.
80
1,024
4,716
Show this thread
I had permanently memory holed any awareness of ATL’s Cop City when I learned about it from an interview with 2 years ago, b/c it seemed so absurd. But here we are…
1
3
Show this thread
The audacity is high, as the kids say.
Quote Tweet
The Democrats are gutsy. They killed the $15 wage & the Child Tax Credit, immediately reneged on the $2k checks once elected, & allowed prices of things like gas, eggs, & other products necessary for survival to skyrocket, & they still claim that they’ve helped average Americans.
As someone who paid $12 for a dozen eggs 48 hours ago, this tweet is LOUD
Quote Tweet
A senile president is escalating a proxy war against Russia, there's still a baby formula shortage, and eggs cost more than the minimum wage. What are millions of Americans people worried about? Gas stoves and drag shows.
“I have a connect”
-one of the homies talking about trappin….eggs
Are we deadass right now????
1
PHENOMENAL
Quote Tweet
Mother Country Radicals won Best Writing and Best Documentary in the Signal Listener's Choice Awards!
Thanks to all who listened and voted. And thanks especially to the brilliant teams at @CrookedMedia and @dustlight_co
signalaward.com/the-1st-annual
Show this thread
1
national "security" is climate justice, housing, healthcare, live-able wages, good food & clean water.
it shouldn't be left to us in the audience to interject to say this..it should be elected officials who vote for nearly trillion$$/year Pentagon budgets to act on it instead.
9
68
202
This horrible awful person is so many people in SF, including the Mayor . twitter.com/ClownWorld_/st
This Tweet is unavailable.
35
75
701
Show this thread
Like us real lefties have been telling liberal Democrats, it's not the Russians, it's your poor candidate choice of pro-war, pro-Wall Street Hillary Clinton and her anti-abortion running mate Tim Kaine that did you in back in 2016. By .
1
1
3
You might want to see this interview, and hear this crystal clear explanation of why nurses made the hard decision to go on strike.
Quote Tweet
Over 7,000 nurses are on strike in New York today. Here, a nurse at Mount Sinai explains why.
From our reporter @jordanzakarin
4:06
77.2K views
2
96
275
Show this thread
And this will keep happening across the country as long as capital continues to ignore COVID in a bid for “normalcy,” ie uninterrupted profit accumulation.
Quote Tweet
cnn.com/2023/01/09/bus
1
If one more red rose emoji asks "but what is the advantage of using leverage to get things" lol.
These people can't understand because they over-identify with "Democrats" as a party rather than the populist progressive policies Democrats decline to fight for.
Quote Tweet
What would the strategic advantage of this take be? There is none- this exact strategy is happening with the GOP and it’s a waste of everyone’s time as we can all plainly 
twitter.com/briebriejoy/st…
twitter.com/briebriejoy/st…67
96
730
Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for people under 18 years old. To view this media, you’ll need to log in to Twitter. Learn more
Why this isn’t glaringly obvious to most people is completely beyond me. I’d like a skosh more early aughts anti-war fervor for Christmas, please.
Quote Tweet
Ukraine is losing. That’s why Z man is in Washington asking for more money and Patriot missiles.
BTW, Putin and his senior officials were in Belarus meeting their counterparts. Looks like a big offensive coming.
Biden instigated this war and is now escalating. Harm reduction? Ha!
Show this thread
2
13
32
👏🏾
Quote Tweet
Deeming those who question sending billions of dollars to a foreign ground war against a nuclear power “unpatriotic” is eerily similar to the rhetoric leveled against those who were against our extended forays into Afghanistan and Iraq.
War and $ for war is always worth debate.
Joining in solidarity with voices for peace around the world, Rev Barber & Repairers of the Breach will host a moral call for a ceasefire to make space for a negotiated peace in Ukraine.
9
19
56
Not Macron being the Consoler In Chief 😆
Genuinely the most vexing account on this app.
And of course he lives in The Bay Area 🙄
Classic “well actually” guy energy 😑
Quote Tweet
The @nytimes that recommends we all mask
Says there is strong evidence masking helps
Click on the word 'evidence' and it leads to a cluster RCT that was.... wait for it...
Negative.
It Failed to show a benefit of masking
The strongest evidence they can find is negative! 
1
Alas, doing the show does help him relieve some of that artistic frustration.
Though, we will still wait on that novel 👀
1
Show this thread
Yadda yadda yadda - he makes it back alive, organizes a union, becomes a sailor for a hot second, then starts .
This part has it’s obvious pros (he has fun doing the show, is able to make a living), but maybe some not so obvious cons 👇🏾
Show this thread
Now, in Pt ✌🏾 with Dear Brace, we cover a lot of ground.
1) whyyyyy go to Syria?!
Well, he became entranced by the story of Ivana Hoffman. A Togolese German woman who fought and died in the conflict.
1
Show this thread
After a bit of a tumultuous time as an adolescent Brace came to a moment of frustration at 18. He *knew* he had a book in him to write, but was frustrated by how to start pursuing his artistic calling. This lead to a heartbreaking few years of addiction 😞
1
Show this thread
After getting pinched for setting a hill on fire (???) with some friends, though he told those knuckleheads not to, Brace was sent away from his home in SF to Montana. Until he made a break for it and became a runaway. Finding himself in some, er, interesting positions 😆
Show this thread
Such a hoot, this guy 😆
This week we get to hear from the man, the myth, the LEGEND: Brace Belden, of
1
1
Show this thread
So it begins…
They’re about to nationalize the playbook they ran against Chesa, to hire more cops.
Step 1: talk about how “black and brown communities” are frequently the victims of crime, and that these communities deserve to “feel safe”.
Quote Tweet
THREAD. An editorial writer for the Washington Post just wrote an article about how the U.S. needs to add far more than 100,000 more cops, especially to help Black people.
Show this thread
1
2