Jack Breen
@jbreen16.bsky.social
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will | Lowell, MA | views are my own 🍞🌹🇮🇪
Reposted by Jack Breen
every republican president destroys the economy
2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003.
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
@byheatherlong.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 1:47 PM
every republican president destroys the economy
Reposted by Jack Breen
It’s not even “are these people racist?” It’s “do these people have any beliefs at all besides white supremacy?”
Like, this an actual post from an actual government social media account, posted in the last hour.
January 1, 2026 at 1:49 AM
It’s not even “are these people racist?” It’s “do these people have any beliefs at all besides white supremacy?”
Reposted by Jack Breen
Nuke the Beltway
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Nuke the Beltway
Reposted by Jack Breen
I haven't been to church by choice in 30 years, but quite obviously you can develop an absolutely righteous moral center for justice based on the Bible alone. I mean, just look at the history of American organizing.
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I haven't been to church by choice in 30 years, but quite obviously you can develop an absolutely righteous moral center for justice based on the Bible alone. I mean, just look at the history of American organizing.
Reposted by Jack Breen
Fuck the Democratic Party. Absolute 100% losers.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Fuck the Democratic Party. Absolute 100% losers.
Reposted by Jack Breen
Allow me to build on this a bit and say the fundamental divide in the Democratic Party is not some warmed over 2016 battle over left vs. center.
It's about who communicates politics directly and effectively and who is still listening to Clinton-era consultants.
It's about who communicates politics directly and effectively and who is still listening to Clinton-era consultants.
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Allow me to build on this a bit and say the fundamental divide in the Democratic Party is not some warmed over 2016 battle over left vs. center.
It's about who communicates politics directly and effectively and who is still listening to Clinton-era consultants.
It's about who communicates politics directly and effectively and who is still listening to Clinton-era consultants.
Reposted by Jack Breen
There are two lessons from last noght, a local and a national. Nationwide, we see a mobilization of the Dem base and a rebuke of Trump’s vision. In New York—really a Dem-on-Dem race!—we see something more specific: the emergence of a new vision that contradicts the preferences of Dem leadership.
"Mamdani’s victory, above all, is a rebuke to the conventional strategies of the Democratic party. Democratic congressional leadership seems to have replaced the work of politics with a sort of learned helplessness," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
There are two lessons from last noght, a local and a national. Nationwide, we see a mobilization of the Dem base and a rebuke of Trump’s vision. In New York—really a Dem-on-Dem race!—we see something more specific: the emergence of a new vision that contradicts the preferences of Dem leadership.
Reposted by Jack Breen
And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
Reposted by Jack Breen
Reposted by Jack Breen
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Reposted by Jack Breen
one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.
November 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
one last observation: donald trump has never won a majority of the vote and yet the political press treats him like the embodied spirit of the american people. will be interesting to see how they discount mamdani as representing new york if he wins less than a majority.
Reposted by Jack Breen
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
Reposted by Jack Breen
yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.
The Better Things Aren't Possible Wing has declared Spanberger is The Future Of The Democratic Party with this transparently stupid line fed to one of their press familiars
November 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.
Reposted by Jack Breen
Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare really sums up both Ginsburg and the Kavanaugh hearings in one righteously beautiful paragraph that I agree with in pretty much every way.
October 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare really sums up both Ginsburg and the Kavanaugh hearings in one righteously beautiful paragraph that I agree with in pretty much every way.
Reposted by Jack Breen
i would respect the democratic congressional leaders more if they straight up absconded to the french riviera and said "well, we tried. good luck out there americans. we believe in you 😉" as a farewell because that, at least, would constitute a decision
February 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
i would respect the democratic congressional leaders more if they straight up absconded to the french riviera and said "well, we tried. good luck out there americans. we believe in you 😉" as a farewell because that, at least, would constitute a decision
Reposted by Jack Breen
The Times of Israel is publishing commentary on Charlie Kirk that would get you and your wife both fired back here in the states
September 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Times of Israel is publishing commentary on Charlie Kirk that would get you and your wife both fired back here in the states
Reposted by Jack Breen
The U.S. has had very few meaningful general strikes and every one of them came through existing unions, never through some spontaneous mass worker action of the anarcholeft's dreams.
Even the oft-cited Rosa Luxemburg was clear that mass strikes depend on a whole lot of prior organization. And not just the “engagement” that passes for that these days. It needs institutional solidity and solidarity
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The U.S. has had very few meaningful general strikes and every one of them came through existing unions, never through some spontaneous mass worker action of the anarcholeft's dreams.
Reposted by Jack Breen
The decline of reading and the rise of fascism are directly related.
There has been a steady decline in reading for fun. From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40%, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend, according to a study published on Wednesday.
Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds
From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.
nyti.ms
August 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The decline of reading and the rise of fascism are directly related.
Reposted by Jack Breen
Did you know that if NY had kept its original gerrymander for 2024, there’s a very good chance the Dems would have kept the House, giving them leverage to stop the gutting of American state capacity and oversight? You can’t unilaterally disarm in a war, and this is a war.
Gerrymandering is bad actually
And anyone, even governors, who are proposing this are playing a dangerous game that’ll further undermine democracy and further the race to the bottom of fascism
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
And anyone, even governors, who are proposing this are playing a dangerous game that’ll further undermine democracy and further the race to the bottom of fascism
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
‘Crazy hill to die on’: Newsom jolts California with bid to throw out House maps
Newsom’s new obsession has energized, enraged, and confused Democrats.
www.politico.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Did you know that if NY had kept its original gerrymander for 2024, there’s a very good chance the Dems would have kept the House, giving them leverage to stop the gutting of American state capacity and oversight? You can’t unilaterally disarm in a war, and this is a war.
Reposted by Jack Breen
Tbh, I think the problem here is less the Democratic Party and more the "centrist" media. Like, Dean Phillips is not currently elected to anything, and he is actually pretty disliked by the Democratic establishment for being a rat. Why are they interviewing him except to push an agenda?
Everyone like this needs to be hounded out of the Democratic Party. These are people who genuinely believe a permanent Trump/GOP trifecta is a better outcome than policy being slightly left of their preferences. They are a major reason why millions of people who agree with Dems don't bother to vote.
July 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Tbh, I think the problem here is less the Democratic Party and more the "centrist" media. Like, Dean Phillips is not currently elected to anything, and he is actually pretty disliked by the Democratic establishment for being a rat. Why are they interviewing him except to push an agenda?
Reposted by Jack Breen
Every Democrat who votes in the NYC general election for someone other than Mamdani has no right ever again to tell leftists to shut up and vote for the Democrat.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/n...
After Mamdani’s Win, Some Democrats Are Determined to Stop Him
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Every Democrat who votes in the NYC general election for someone other than Mamdani has no right ever again to tell leftists to shut up and vote for the Democrat.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/n...
Reposted by Jack Breen
trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether
July 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether