They’re Not Hiding It Anymore: The ‘Violent’ DSA

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The mask keeps slipping. And nobody in Democratic leadership seems eager to grab it and put it back on. A new compilation from Canary Mission caught Democratic Socialists of America members, DSA-backed candidates, and assorted far-left commentators talking about where they want to take the party. The clips aren’t ambiguous. They’re plans. DSA activist and streamer Michael Beyer put it plain: “The Democratic Party establishment that we have has to be ripped out,” he said on a panel. Then he went further: “We can actually start to grab hold of the ship of state and steer it our direction, but

Too Moderate for Maoists: AOC’s 2028 Problem From the Left

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The most radical socialists in America just told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez she’s not one of them anymore. The DSA’s Liberation Caucus — a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist faction inside the Democratic Socialists of America — put out a statement this week that reads less like a press release and more like an excommunication. AOC, they said, has engaged in a “continued retreat from socialist politics.” They will not, they wrote, hand her the “presidential standard-bearer” mantle for the movement. The charge sheet: she voted to affirm Israel’s right to exist. She joined House Democrats defending Israel’s right to a defense system, after voting against

The Algorithm Has an Opinion — And It Isn’t Neutral.

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Here is a small, sturdy fact that ought to bother more people than it does: the news that lands in your pocket every morning was not chosen by you. It was chosen for you, by an algorithm at Apple or a formula at Google, and lately those choices have had a shape. A political shape. The Media Research Center has been at this for months now, and the pattern holds up story after story. When a Democratic Senate candidate in Maine turned out to have a Nazi-linked tattoo and a Reddit history nobody wanted to explain, Apple News and Google

Trump Confirms Kim Meet. Spills Tea on Nuke Count.

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President Trump confirmed Wednesday he’ll sit down again with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un before the year is out — their fourth meeting overall and first since Trump returned to the White House. “Yeah, I will be,” Trump told reporters when asked whether a summit was coming. No date has been set, but the president has directed aides to make contact with Pyongyang, and the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China this November is the leading candidate for a venue. The White House and North Korea have not officially confirmed plans. Trump is moving fast to clear the diplomatic runway.

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