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1. There’s Nothing Democratic About These Socialists - The Atlantic
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2. I Was There For DSA’s Radicalization. The Democrats Are Next.
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This piece is part of MI x DW, a collaboration that brings Daily Wire readers exclusive commentary and research from the Manhattan Institute’s world-class team of scholars.***How worried should Democrats be about the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)? In the wake of a series of DSA victories in New York City, Jonathan Chait raised the alarm in The Atlantic, writing that as the group has risen in power, it has also grown “more hostile to the [Democratic] party, more illiberal, and more dogmatic.” Long-time DSA members, including former staff member and thought leader David Duhalde and socialist magazine publisher Nathan J. Robinson, pushed back, dismissing Chait as someone who doesn’t know or understand the DSA.Well, I know the DSA, and as someone who was a member and served in local leadership, I can say that Chait has it right: today’s DSA is not a harmless organization. It includes disciplined, radicalized networks that have methodically expanded their power over the last decade in pursuit of extremist goals.Click here for more Manhattan Institute content. As the Democratic Party grapples with the DSA’s growing influence and extremism, it would do well to recognize that the same dynamic underway now — first accommodation, then capture, then surrender to insurgent radicals — already played out on a smaller scale within the DSA itself. The only defense is to out-organize it.For decades, the DSA was mostly composed of a cohort of aging boomers left over from its founding in 1982. It prioritized open debate and political tolerance. Following in the tradition of founder Michael Harrington, members viewed the DSA not as a revolutionary vanguard but as a reformist bridge to mainstream labor-liberalism, and they prioritized parliamentary process and pluralism.But in the mid-2010s, the character of the organization began to change. I was in Boston at the time and witnessed the last days of the “old” DSA. New, younger members began to enter the organization, while Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and the socialist magazine Jacobin grew their followings.As the DSA’s cultural power expanded and it began to amass electoral victories, more leftists of varying extremist commitments were drawn in. This was an explicit strategy called “the big tent,” advanced by the then-DSA Jacobin Left. In August 2025, DSA delegates voted to remove a constitutional provision barring Leninists from entry. The provision was already a dead letter.The old DSA’s high-mindedness became its fatal weakness. Veteran members assumed the younger generation played by the same rules of persuasion, but the newcomers’ goal was not to win arguments — it was to transform the institution and its politics.As the organization grew, it began to profess more extreme ideas — and demand that its members do the same. First, there were the purity tests of Black Lives Matter and BDS, then apologia for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and support for Hamas and its atrocities.The new DSA — with the help of hype-man Hasan Piker — advanced these agendas with what American labor leader Walter Reuther called “the Communists’ highly developed technique of name-calling and character assassination.” The Harringtonites fought back, but their efforts came far too late, and many prominent members of the older generation eventually left.My final attempt to challenge Leninist-Third Worldist dominance within the DSA fell apart amid stiff resistance. In April 2025, I proposed that North Star, a caucus including many Harringtonite veterans, call on the DSA’s governing board to demand that Hamas release all hostages in Israel and surrender unconditionally.Even allies were dismissive of my proposal’s prospects. One member wrote, “Jake’s resolution could not pass. If it passed, we would close our doors the next day and deserve it. We would not deserve to be in DSA, which is perhaps his purpose.”Long-time DSA insiders like Duhalde, who has advocated for the “big tent” that brought in Communists, do not dispute that this radicalization process occurred. But Duhalde maintains that this was less about “entryism” than an “unplanned left-wing refoundation.” That formulation glosses over the systematic displacement of the organization’s foundational commitments and rejects the warnings of many in DSA’s founding generation.In fact, the organization continues to eat its own. The former radical vanguard clustered around Jacobin has been eclipsed by a coalition of Third Worldists, Trotskyists, and doctrinaire Leninists, some of whom openly endorse political violence. At the same time, condescension and outright hostility toward anti-Communism remain. One long-time DSA thought leader dismisses the anti-Communist tradition on the Left as “neoconservatism with a union label.”There are warning signs that the Democratic Party establishment is drifting toward a similar surrender. It is already teetering on the edge of accommodation — or worse, capture — rather than opposition.What happened to the DSA can and will happen to the Democratic Party if more moderate Democrats don’t organize against it. As Reuther, a man with experience fighting Leninists, wrote in 1948: “You have to show [Communism] up in the marketplace of ideas, expose it by honest dealing.”But the battle is not merely ideological. Reuther’s victory over the Communists in the United Auto Workers union was the result of a clear-eyed strategy of exposing, isolating, and driving out those who rejected democratic norms. He also built a broad anti-Communist coalition. Dissident Democrats would do well to take inspiration from him.***This is republished with permission from the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. The original can be found here.Jake Altman is a former union official and the author of “Socialism before Sanders: The 1930s Moment from Romance to Revisionism.”
3. life lessons on letting go: Japanese Mindset: 'Shikata ga Nai'-This timeless Japanese philosophy teaches the art of letting go and accepting what you can't control - The Economic Times
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4. A Giant Structure Is Towering Over The Milky Way. After 40 Years, Scientists Have Worked Out What It Is : ScienceAlert
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Scientists have just discovered the Milky Way's equivalent of a giant fake mustache.
5. THIS IS INSANE - YouTube
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6. Adam Milstein on X: “Marco Rubio reminds us that this comes down to one thing: Good vs. Evil https://t.co/cVMW5jGI0E” / X
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7. Adam Milstein on X: “This is what happens when you don’t understand economics but have a bloodlust for power and a bias against successful minorities https://t.co/vQmlMHCciw” / X
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8. Eli Lake on X: “New Yorkers: If you love your city, you need to run these grad students out of town.” / X
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9. Jake Altman on X: “As a former DSA member, I can tell you @jonathanchait is correct. https://t.co/BueSldTAKC” / X
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10. Tech Dev Notes on X: “Grok Build now has /timeline command to Toggle the timeline sidebar https://t.co/LrJn5Xzd88” / X
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11. James Clear on X: “Goals are for people who care about winning once. Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly.” / X
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12. Kevin Bass on X: “U.S. data centers require: 30x less water than U.S. golf courses. 100x less than California almonds. 200x less than U.S. home lawns. 2,500x less than U.S. crop irrigation. Who is protesting almonds? Golf courses? Lawns? Nobody. China does not feel threatened by your lawn. https://t.co/xY1G77BSip” / X
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13. Kyle Kuzma Highlights Data Centers’ Low Water Use Compared to Farms and Lawns / X
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14. From Atomic Habits: - James Clear
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You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
15. Quote of the day by Confucius: ‘The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions’ - The Times of India
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China News: Long before social media rewarded instant opinions and constant visibility, Confucius was making a distinction that still feels remarkably relevant.
16. Spencer Pratt on X: “Socialists aren’t hypocrites. They’re just liars. They are wealthy, privileged, downwardly-mobile losers who resent their father for being successful. So, they aim to destroy successful people and successful societies because that success reminds them of their loserdom.” / X
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17. J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨💻 on X: “Socialism is, and always has been, a fundamental delusion about human nature. This is how you end up with Democratic slogans like “Hope” & “Joy” & DSA’s “A politics of light.” https://t.co/xZefu6KLCg“ / X
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18. Spencer Pratt on X: ““If your mom and pop shop can’t compete with the wealthiest municipal government stealing 30% of your own revenue + tax $$ from 8.5 million people to undercut your prices, you shouldn’t be in business” Socialists are truly the dumbest people on earth. https://t.co/u3o6rwmOzN“ / X
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19. DSA Unveils ‘Workers Deserve More’ Program Calling to Abolish Senate and Presidency / X
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20. Indeed chief economist: Aging Baby Boomers are America's real labor problem, not AI | Fortune
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America's labor force will shrink by 6 million workers by 2032. If you're worried about AI taking your job, you're worrying about the wrong thing.
21. Thom Tillis - Wikipedia
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22. Sen. Thom Tillis slams OMB director over lack of DOGE accomplishments
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23. In 2020 NASA installed a new female-friendly toilet on the International Space Station at a cost of about $23 million. The redesign was the first space toilet built specifically to work well for female as well as male astronauts, and 65 percent smaller and 40 percent lighter than the existing station toilet
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$23 million is a big price tag for a toilet even if that figure covers two units, one for the International Space Station and one for a future Moon mission.
24. Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist on X: “Randi Weingarten having a normal one at her union’s convention in Washington DC. Homeschool your kids. https://t.co/abNwHDpPYl” / X
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25. Teachers' union prez Randi Weingarten is having a normal one | Not the Bee
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Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, has a long history of political nutbaggery in her background.
26. Owen Gregorian on X: “Teachers’ union prez Randi Weingarten is having a normal one | Harris Rigby, Not The Bee Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, has a long history of political nutbaggery in her background. This might top it all: This lady helped set” / X
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27. Randi Weingarten’s Energetic Speech Draws Online Mockery at AFT Convention / X
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28. Mal James on X: “@PeterTatchell As a 74 year old man you really ought to have more respect for mortality.” / X
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29. KOMI
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30. Jeremy Clarkson on X: “Twitter is a handy and constant reminder that socialists are disgusting people.” / X
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31. Mal James, Author at Space Daily
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32. Thought of the day by Stoic philosopher Seneca: "What is more foolish than refusing to learn, simply because one has not been learning for a long time?"
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I read a stat recently that stuck with me. In a December 2025 YouGov survey of over 2,000 US adults, roughly 40% said they did not read a single book in 2025.
33. Larry Kudlow: This is what JD Vance needs to do - YouTube
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FOX Business host Larry Kudlow discusses Vice President JD Vance's economic and foreign policy views on 'Kudlow.'#fox #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #ne…
34. Gen Jack Keane: This is a MIRAGE… - YouTube
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Fox News senior strategic analyst Ret. Gen. Jack Keane evaluates the Trump administration’s military escalation campaign against Iran on ‘Special Report.’ #f…
35. Democrat Told Mitch McConnell IS DEAD, Governor Says He Got The Call | Timcast IRL - YouTube
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36. HE’S HAD ENOUGH - YouTube
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37. Trump targets Iran's infrastructure in bid to squeeze regime
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38. Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on X: “If you can’t build datacenters, you can’t build anything. https://t.co/C0XOnobQtj” / X
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39. Edward B. on X: “@pmarca Our civilization is machine-based. Engineering is our core activity. We have two ideologies on offer, the leftists and the rightists. The leftists want redistribution. The rightists want financialisation. Left and right do not talk about wealth creation. They think they do but” / X
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40. wallflower on X: “Reposting this now that my mutuals might actually see it. A brief summary of my current working hypothesis of everything: https://t.co/ZlaintQdlR” / X
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41. wallflower on X: “@CarolynWRockey That’s cool and all, but it’s not about memory. The fact that the aversion to the scent persisted through offspring proves that the test they designed wasn’t necessarily testing memory. The kid wanted to know if his butterflies remembered him. The university professor handed him” / X
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42. Edward B. on X: “@CarolynWRockey Lamarckianism revived! Lamarck portrait, 1802: https://t.co/FSTQcyhpPg” / X
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43. Carolyn Rockey on X: “Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn’t. He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha https://t.co/pz6D391d83” / X
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44. Massimo on X: “Arthur C. Clarke on BBC’s Horizon in 1964, when he gave some astonishing predictions about the future. https://t.co/DJE4Q5srGM” / X
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45. Mamdani says he is discussing Netanyahu's potential arrest when he visits NYC | The Times of Israel
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46. DSA plan to abolish the Senate and presidency stuns House Democrats | Fox News
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47. Interactive map predicts climate-driven farm decline by end of century | Euronews
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A CSIC team in Barcelona has developed CADI, a platform that forecasts, on a 10‑kilometre grid, how much farmland will lose productivity to climate change by 2100; Spain’s interior fares worse than the Cantabrian coast.
48. Heineken Is Trying a Heat Battery to Generate Steam for Its Brewing - WSJ
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49. The brewery halfway between SF and LA that unites all of California
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✍️ **Author Reference:** Andrew Pridgen
Firestone Walker Brewing Company headquartered in Paso Robles, Calif. brews California's defining beer.