gary s broderick (he/him)

Early in adulthood, I was struck by a Dem Party leadership’s unwillingness to fight for Black peoples’ right to vote in FL or OH, even at the expense of the presidency. Virginia Dems debating whether to expand labor union power while Trump races to institutionalize authoritarian power seems similar.

Stand with the VSU Fired Six!!!

Don't kick us out of Collective Bargaining!
@abigailspanberger.com @donscott757.bsky.social

Give higher ed workers a chance to build a better higher ed system for our students, our workers, and all of VA! @aaup.org @aft.org @aaupmason.bsky.social @ucwva.bsky.social @unitehere.org @seiu.org

Nation's largest nurses union repeats calls for ICE abolition, pledges to do "everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people."

University of Virginia’s Board Names a New President

“I think the faculty senate has made clear that anybody who’s appointed before Spanberger takes office is not going to get a warm welcome,” said Dr. Heinecke, of UVA AAUP, who noted that searches to replace university presidents normally take a year or more.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

Ideology without politics is intellectual masturbation. Politics without ideology makes you accept material concessions that undermine your power to get more. Ideology becomes reactionary at the point in which it denies scientific evaluation, or suppresses the impetus for it.

"In New York City, Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring victory and massive turnout underscored that standing up for tenants, workers, and the quality of life isn’t just good policy—it’s good politics" - @rweingarten.bsky.social

The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

Forcing me to pay union dues is my kink. Make me chip in my fair share Mami.

Any thing is possible. But I feel highly skeptical about the legitimacy of the “anti-ICE” writing on the bullet casing. We are to believe someone who was against ICE, of their own volition, shot solely immigrant detainees, and wrote, “anti-ICE” - a phrase I’ve never heard said? Who benefits?

Being good at critique or analysis and being good at building/ organizing/ problem solving are two distinct skill sets and it's rare someone has both and the idea that they're complimentary and one follows the other is probably the largest epistemological error of the left

The Boss Has Had It With All the Office Activists It isn’t just Microsoft—companies are adopting a new, harder-line playbook for dealing with political debate at work.

Yet more reason to unionize. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

In destroying Rafah, Israel's military is looking to erase millennia of history COLUMN. The Palestinian city, located on the border with Egypt and whose development dates back to the Pharaohs, is now a field of rubble, writes historian Jean-Pierre Filiu in his column.

www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Commentary: Treat child care for what it is: economic infrastructure Just like roads, broadband and housing, child care is foundational to a functioning modern economy.

Absolutely. Childcare is infrastructure.
Quality childcare is more than daycare, rather preparing our children with the social and emotional skills to build resilience.

That's how children can better cope with adverse childhood experiences and trauma.

richmond.com/opinion/colu...

but he’s fighting for real. And arguing for it. That’s important for us to know. But, beyond national politics - that three dimensional assessment will serve us everywhere that we’re organizing.

play detective. Yes, it will serve us to not be fooled. Yes center forces will try to confuse us. But that’s not the main thing we need to pay attention to. Cory Booker fights for fake, we share interest in some short term outcomes, not long term ones. Newsom -same formulation in regard to outcomes…

Left Organizers will be served by distinguishing b/w a political force / politician willing to fight versus one who shares our long term outcome goals and distinguish further if they share our short term goals. Remove Trump is an example of short term. SPECIFICALLY to identify our interests. Not to

Rasoul is a god damn state hero & I'll die on that hill. Mealymouthed centrists pandering to genocide supporters will only get us further down the road to total fascist takeover.

Why So Few Politicians Are Speaking Up for Palestine A case study of the first Palestinian American elected to the Virginia State Legislature, Delegate Sam Rasoul, and the backlash he's receiving for speaking up

As Israel announces a full ground invasion of Gaza, only a handful of politicians have had the courage to speak up and condemn this genocide.

But as leaders like VA Delegate Sam Rasoul do speak up, they face attacks—not just from MAGAs—but from fellow Dems. Why?
www.qasimrashid.com/p/why-so-few...

I stand w/ @samrasoul.bsky.social! Not only because he has a track record of standing with us, not only because of his willingness to fight powerful moneyed interests, but also because Sam is right to call attention to genocide. The moral bankruptcy of focusing on semantics should be self evident.

Please don't ever bring up Booker running for President.

Let Zionists Speak A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

The response from many Dems imo ignores the reality of what ethnonationalist visions lead to when fulfilled. It’s one thing to say that Zionism does not necessarily mean ethnonationalism, and that even that if it does mean ethnonationalism, that’s understandable; open.substack.com/pub/peterbei...

being attacked by management to try to win market share for their leadership. AOC is an incredible leader. May we all find the courage and clarity she brings.

it means when they’re attacked. You understand democracy can be constructed to maintain unity in the face of opposing forces. You understand they discredit leaders because that’s easier than saying, “we don’t want you to have health care.” We would never let another member use a moment our leader is

When you’re in a workplace building a union, no matter how active you are in that moment. You come to understand the relationship between leaders and organization. You know you’ve selected leaders distinct from who management picked, you understand how leaders enable collective action. You know what

Scenes from the end of Zionism: Reflections on the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna The first Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress, which drew 1,000 anti-Zionist Jews and their allies to Vienna, marked a significant moment in the rising tide against the settler-colonial state of Israel.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/scen...

This. It’s really disheartening to see the vitriol — we can disagree and critique without canceling (& making false equivalencies).