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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 4d

10/29 5 PT/8 ET, join NPEC for our Socialist Archiving 101 workshop! All comrades welcome📜🌹🤓
RSVP here⤵️
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10/29 DSA Archives Project: Socialist Archives 101

We are excited to offer our "101" archiving course once again before year's end! Whether you're a chapter chair or secretary wondering how best to approach records, a comrade with a lot of socialist s...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 7d

Super fun CRG kickoff last night, and now we're coming back...for Commodities.
10/13, we start Chapter One 🧵🧥
It's not too late to join this year's Capital Reading Group, comrades--RSVP below. See you soon!
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CAPITAL READING GROUP: FALL SEMESTER 2025

Dear comrades, Welcome to Capital Reading Group 2025! Our group will meet every Monday from 10/13 until mid-December, with a break for Thanksgiving, and then resume in the new year. When you RSVP fo...

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Tonight!

DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Sep 5

It's happening...AGAIN.

NPEC is running a national Capital Vol. 1 reading group! Sign up for our kickoff on Monday October 6 HERE ⤵️

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NPEC Capital RG 2025 KICKOFF

NPEC is excited to restart our Capital Reading Group for another year--Volume 1 'til we're done, comrades! We're planning a few changes from 2024-25, including more frequent meetups with shorter exc...

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · 15d

They let my dumbass on here again to talk about one of our other NPEC trainings

DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 15d

NPEC's own Guy (Charlotte DSA) and Michaela (North NJ DSA) talk about Talking to Most People, aka "non-socialists" on this week's episode of Class!

Listen here or on a handy platform ⤵️
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Talking to Non-Socialists - Class

Since at least 2015 in the US, American Socialism has been growing again, and DSA is currently the largest organized socialist formation in the country, by far. But what about the vast majority of… we...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · 23d

Last week, Class interviewed NPC leader Ella T on socialist librarianship, public knowledge, and the contradictions of libraries as the last common goods we have left. Enjoy! And don't forget to subscribe to Class 📚🌹

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Socialist Librarianship - Class

Libraries are quintessentially public goods and common spaces in the US, and are generally appreciated, if not beloved, by the vast majority. As a store of human knowledge and a free site of learning ...

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Sep 6

That felt so fucking good

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Sep 5

It's happening...AGAIN.

NPEC is running a national Capital Vol. 1 reading group! Sign up for our kickoff on Monday October 6 HERE ⤵️

actionnetwork.org/events/npec-...

NPEC Capital RG 2025 KICKOFF

NPEC is excited to restart our Capital Reading Group for another year--Volume 1 'til we're done, comrades! We're planning a few changes from 2024-25, including more frequent meetups with shorter exc...

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Aug 30

Went to the alpaca farm and Werder came back from a man down to get a draw. Think I might do this every weekend

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Aug 25

Her work

Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Aug 25

Had an incredible dad day yesterday, went on an errand running adventure, then my 4 year old ask me if we could paint 40k minis together and ended the day playing soccer together

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Aug 15

Just watched a dog get hit and go under a car cause some dickhead in a Subaru was ripping through the other three lanes of traffic stopped and people in the road

Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Aug 15

What I call lunch in the summer

𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · Apr 1

Milton Glaser, Therapy with a Tomato, 1978

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Aug 11

I’m ready fired up and ready to run through a wall after talking to chapters about political education.

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Aug 11

Singing at the convention is always such a great ending to the weekend and I always get verklempt during Solidarity Forever

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 8

@demsocialists.bsky.social convention 2025 -- our consensus resolution PASSES on the consent agenda this am! Thanks for supporting us delegate comrades, get ready for more political education than EVERRRRR 🔥🌹

READ OUR PLAN for 2025-7 ⤵️

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National Political Education Committee Consensus Resolution -- 2025

National Political Education Committee Consensus Resolution -- submitted by NPEC SIGN HERE! Whereas: NPEC was founded in 2019, with a mission to “invest”--organize and expand--political education wi...

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Aug 8

@education.dsausa.org Did it folks! Our first consensus reso!! I’m personally excited to start working on the Party School and Socialist Sprouts’(Children’s) Curriculum

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 4

Starting in a hour 📚

DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 4

Tonight's Gathering the Masses, 8 pm ET! We are excited for this. If you haven't RSVPed yet, do that here and get the materials:

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If you haven't read, still come by! ...but, if you can get a little time today, here's what you can do in 30-40 min --

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Gathering the Masses: an NPEC Pre-convention Gathering

Calling all DSA convention delegates, political educators, and comrades who gather... NPEC invites you to a preconvention gathering to discuss socialist and working class mass gathering, as we prepar...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Aug 1

Just a couple more days to go! Join us on Monday to dish about working class and socialist mass gatherings, and get psyched for convention!

RSVP NOW ⤵️

DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Jul 25

Calling all DSA delegates and comrades who love to gather...Come read and discuss mass left gathering with us in our lead-up to our big convention!

Event: Monday 08/04

RSVP HERE: actionnetwork.org/events/gathe...

Gathering the Masses: an NPEC Pre-convention Gathering

Calling all DSA convention delegates, political educators, and comrades who gather... NPEC invites you to a preconvention gathering to discuss socialist and working class mass gathering, as we prepar...

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DSA Political Education @education.dsausa.org · Jul 25

Calling all DSA delegates and comrades who love to gather...Come read and discuss mass left gathering with us in our lead-up to our big convention!

Event: Monday 08/04

RSVP HERE: actionnetwork.org/events/gathe...

Gathering the Masses: an NPEC Pre-convention Gathering

Calling all DSA convention delegates, political educators, and comrades who gather... NPEC invites you to a preconvention gathering to discuss socialist and working class mass gathering, as we prepar...

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Jul 14

A three chambered tomato!

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Jul 10

Everyone feeling out your Delegate Survey please press that support button for CR04: National Political Education Committee Consensus Resolution -- 2025

for your time here's some pictures of my dogs

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Jul 13

For folks back home

DSA-Ozarks @dsa-ozarks.bsky.social · Jul 10

Next DSA Ozarks meeting will be held July 14th at the Library Center from 7:30-9 PM in Community Room B

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politicoricky.bsky.social @politicoricky.bsky.social · Jul 10

Universal childcare would be one of the best ways to stimulate the economy. Studies have shown an increase in workplace participation and wages. For kids, it helps foster development. The ROI on childcare is insane.

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Shepard of the Pills 💊🧙🏻‍♂️ @guybenbrown.bsky.social · Jul 10

Everyone feeling out your Delegate Survey please press that support button for CR04: National Political Education Committee Consensus Resolution -- 2025

for your time here's some pictures of my dogs

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