📝 🇺🇸 🌹 DSA is not simply a group of “democratic socialists.”
It operates as an umbrella for electoral socialists, ecosocialists, Marxists, Marxist-Leninists, Trotskyists, anarchist, abolitionists and revolutionary anti-imperialists.
These factions disagree over tactics, but they remain under one organization because they share the same goal: build political power, recruit younger voters and get their own members elected.
Their strategy relies heavily on social media, college campuses and youth organizing because they understand that long-term political influence begins by shaping voters early.
The caucuses fight over reform versus revolution, centralized discipline versus bottom-up organizing and whether to remain inside the Democratic Party or eventually break from it.
But many of them do not align with mainstream Democrats at all.
They use the Democratic ballot line because it provides ballot access, campaign infrastructure, media attention and the fastest route into office.
The plan is to win primaries in deep-blue districts, build a socialist bloc inside government, pressure elected members to follow DSA priorities and steadily move the party further left.
📎 Jammles
🛢📈 — Reuters reports that oil is approaching $100 per barrel following the latest exchange of attacks between Americans and Iranians on oil tankers.
▶️The price of Brent crude has risen to $97.07 per barrel, while American WTI crude has risen to $92.28. In the past week, Brent has risen by 7.8%, while WTI has risen by nearly 10%.
▶️On Saturday, U.S. forces attacked three Iranian oil tankers, one of which was stationed near the island of Kharg, a key center for Iranian oil exports. In response, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced attacks on three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and three more U.S. ships.
▶️In this context, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has sharply declined. Over the past 10 days, an average of only 10 cargo ships have transited the strait per day – the lowest level since May.
The WHO now states on its website:
Vaccination against COVID-19 can trigger multiple sclerosis through cross-reactive CD4+-T cells that recognize the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and myelin peptides.
In other words: Your own immune system destroys the nerve pathways and then attacks your brain and spinal cord.