On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city.

This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

Why yes of course, this is Belle, also addressed as Princesse Belle 😸

I welcome any & all discussion and also here’s the usual palette cleanser:

I fear the death of USAID and “humanitarian reset” will just see elites take over this ready base of humanitarian aid-produced human labor to streamline their extraction/protection rackets; societies turned into perfect war production machines, to put it dramatically

Thinking more about how the West’s humanitarian aid, esp. “food security & livelihoods”, was set up in war-torn countries in large part to create conditions for capitalist expansion. Now many are experiencing the alienation, displacement, & culture death that comes w/ economic “formalization”

79 post-shopping spree 🫡

Diversity, community, revolutionary culture, artisan donuts, mad hoards of pigeons—Glasgow is home for this former Northern Californian/New Yorker ❤️

These are my @sgsah.bsky.social photo competition submissions, despite not being anything close to a photographer. Gorgeous ride from Cumbrae to Arran yesterday aboard the Waverly; after a huge dolphin pod sighting we arrived back at Millport to a pipe band 🥹

Though have to say, Picking up industrial remains (glass, concrete, piping..) across the way from a decommissioned nuclear plant feels…ominous? But correct for Scotland’s post-industrial/late capitalist crisis

Kicking off another SGSAH residential with some beachcombing ❤️ @sgsah.bsky.social

The truth revealed below.

Yes, AI will have societal benefits. But left unchecked, the downside will drown the upside.

CEOs are going to lay off millions of workers and then use the savings to supersize the concentration of wealth and economic power.

Someone today referred to the fight over USAID as "do we help the right people or do we help the white people" and god damn that's still in my head

I love this phenomenon of registered Republicans doing research in search of truth, uncovering networks of political pay offs & accidentally ending up socialists. More of this! ❤️

My hopes!

Palate cleanser

I’m tired of myopic social media claims and apparently felt like yelling into the digital ether too

The mainstream media narrative is neoliberal capitalism—not socialism, not conservatism, not classical liberalism. News media won’t expose system failure due to misled austerity AND it won’t overtly support racism—it’ll protect a “middle” open market+mass/margina. labor+private property at all costs

No but it’s actually crazy how this country 🇬🇧 has been led to believe immigrants, and not the wholesale severing of economic ties with its biggest trade partner(s) 🇪🇺, is the reason for the fiscal crisis

gahhhh

It it unclear to me how I survived inland California’s 40° summers growing up and am now withering in 20° Scottish summer but

It is too hot

Right @lunanyellow.bsky.social

Go Kate!!!

So we may not have won the local by-election in the 'traditional' sense 😅​ but we did incredibly well, and due to our phenomenal team, the bestest of candidates in Q, and for the party's future, it feels like a victory 🌱​💚​

THANK YOU to EVERYONE who has been involved

@qmanivannan.bsky.social

Wake up call for the DNC: Stop ignoring us, start embracing progressive politics, and move the damn needle

“Tax cuts will lead to more jobs!!!”

Thanks to the lovely folks (and cohort mates <3) at E-IR for having me on their #BISA2025 Day 2 recap! In case you’re interested in hearing my ramblings on the evolution of political economy of conflict research, this one’s for you: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/19/e...