Don’t take it from me, take it from Fox News: "Socialists are winning everywhere!"

This week, three Congressional candidates backed by democratic socialist New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani won “stunning” victories in their primary elections. It is even being called the “Mamdani tsunami.” The successes of Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Brad Lander confirmed that Mamdani’s own election was not a fluke for the city’s left, in what even the Bezos Post acknowledged was “a signal of strength for Mamdani’s political brand and the democratic socialist movement that powered his rise to City Hall.”

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This is an important moment, and not just because it establishes Mamdani himself as a “kingmaker” who can get his chosen candidates into office. (“The Mamdani name was magic across the city,” the Times concluded.)

It also demonstrates, as the Guardian’s analysis says, “some wider trends in US politics: socialism is no longer a dirty word, criticism of Israel is no longer taboo, and dissatisfaction with Democratic leaders in the Donald Trump era runs deep. Voters are thirsty for energy, fight and fresh ideas.”

Speaking on CNN, Van Jones said “the roof is collapsing on the Democratic Party establishment tonight,” and “this is a new era in Democratic Party politics.”

You know they've been lying about Epstein. You know they've been lying about ICE. You know they've been lying about racial equality and capitalism and fairness under the law and imperialism and climate change and so many other things.

THEY'VE BEEN LYING ABOUT COVID TOO.

Yes, even the scientists at the CDC. Yes, even the "good" politicians. Yes, even the well-meaning healthcare and public health professionals. Yes, even the corporate media.

COVID is an inconvenience to the people in power, because they need us to pretend everything is "back to normal" so we will continue to uphold the structures that make money for them.

You already know this. It's nothing they haven't done before. It's exactly what they're already doing with climate collapse, human rights violations, creeping authoritarianism, etc. etc. etc. You already accepted that. You just need to accept that they're doing it with COVID too.

Now is the time to accept that what you're being told to believe about COVID is also propaganda with a goal of keeping you complacent about suffering and death, in service of preserving the wealth and power of very few people. It's not really a stretch. And the research is there to prove it.

You've already done the work to learn about the rotten systems that have gotten us here. All you need to do is apply it to COVID.

I know the implications are overwhelming. You don't have to face them alone. But you do have to face them, right now. Because just like with the other large, societal issues we're grappling with, we can't make progress until we accept the full scope of the problem. And we can't do that until more good, justice-minded people do the work on this.

COVID is still killing and disabling people on a mass scale in 2026. It's not "just a cold." It never was. We cannot continue to let it rip through our communities unchallenged, without any mitigation efforts and very few effective treatments. We don't deserve to be lied to, and we don't deserve to be subjected to unnecessary suffering and death because powerful people don't care if we live or die as long as the stock market does well.