@saikatforcongress
Engineer, organizer, policy wonk. Running for Congress to represent San Francisco (CA-11). We need solutions as big as the problems we face. Previously Chief of Staff to @AOC, Director of Technology at Bernie 2016, founding engineer @Stripe.
When I'm elected, Trump will still be president. But we can still make real progress on issues like weeding out corruption and ending forever wars. These are overwhelmingly popular issues and we can actually win.
Next time they beg for a bailout, buy them out for pennies on the dollar. And then we can run AI for the good of humanity rather than just to consolidate wealth and power in the hands of a few.
1. Make the essentials affordable by having the government provide them
2. End political corruption
3. End the endless wars
4. Use AI to create the Star Trek future, not the Mad Max future
5. Create a mission for America to build a clean economy and prosperity for all
Hasan asked me what the five issues that define my campaign are. Here they are:
We shouldn’t be funding genocide anywhere, and that includes Israel.
We need to fight Trump and primary the ineffective establishment who’ve proven they won’t. Watch the full interview on @adammockler.com’s YouTube channel.
What we could have had if we hadn’t spent $8 trillion on war since 2001.
Why is the War Powers Resolution vote Thursday? It needs to happen now.
We need to absolutely ban this.
This is a blatant attempt to tank the Khanna-Massie resolution and hand Trump a blank check for endless war.
In 30 days this war will have escalated massively. They are hoping that by that point it will be too complicated for us to get out.
This is also the view of many members of Congress.
We just dropped our first ad.
I’m not running to join the establishment, I’m running to replace it.
Can Progressives Save the Democratic Party and America?
The main priority of "centrist" Democrats, funded by corporate money, is to weaken the progressive wing of the party. @saikatforcongress.bsky.social, cofounder of Justice Democrats, sees another path forward.
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Really appreciate it!
Trump believes we will be done in just a few weeks. That’s the same thing Bush believed in Iraq. We know how this goes. Congress needs to vote on the War Powers Resolution now and stop this war before it escalates further.
About $2 billion in about 2 days.
In San Francisco, $2 billion would fully fix the deficit for Muni, BART, and SFUSD with about $1.2 billion left over.
Trump has decided that Americans must die because Israel wants war with Iran.
I would co-sponsor this.
Dropping bombs to kill people is just a game to him.
For those who don't know, @rokhanna.bsky.social passed an amendment in 2019 (!) to prevent defense funds back then from being used in a war in Iran back then. I was working with AOC at the time, and we were proud to back it.
@rokhanna.bsky.social has been prescient about this for years.
San Francisco says NO WAR IN IRAN.
We tried regime change wars in Iraq, in Libya, in Afghanistan. It never works. All we've done is killed millions and left chaos and ruin in our wake.
NO WAR IN IRAN. Any politician not doing all they can to stop this must be replaced in 2026.
America has spent about $8 trillion on war since 2001. And we just started a war that will make that number look like peanuts.
Somehow, these "fiscal conservatives" always find money for more bombs, but there's never enough for healthcare, childcare, housing, or food.
NO!
Wednesday or Thursday is too late. You do not need to be briefed before voting on this. Troops should stop all military action now.
No, they do not need to simply "explain themselves." They need to not go to war.
Democratic leadership should be loud and vocal in condemning this war and doing all they can to stop it. Our current Democratic leadership is not fit to lead.
We just bombed two schools in Iran, killing 50. Is that defending our national security?
Disgusting rhetoric. Someone needs to primary Rep. Gottheimer.
Any politician who votes to start another endless war in the Middle East should lose their seat in 2026.
This administration came to power promising no new wars.
But now that the administration has devastated the American economy, millions of Iranians may have to die.
Iran had agreed to stop stockpiling enriched uranium. But America and Israel are going to war with Iran anyway.
This was never about nuclear weapons or uranium. This was about Israel and American war hawks wanting a war with Iran.
They are trying to drag us into war now.
We needed a vote on @rokhanna.bsky.social’s War Powers Resolution last week. Instead the war hawk caucus of the Dem Party delayed it, and now it may be too late.
