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Self-Described "Deal Guy"

@danancona.bsky.social

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Daddo and married to @jenancona. Standing athwart history yelling, WTF. Research, writing, ads, and building processes for understanding and persuading across the Dem-left coalition.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · Oct 11

The Trump-Vance mass deportation plans are sickeningly extreme. Most Americans don't support them and Dems have room to go on offense on this. Ad by me and the geniuses I am incredibly lucky to work with at Way to Win, production by Conexión. (both not on here yet)

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 3h

This is fun and interesting!

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 5h

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems

criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 4h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

One reason Dems should be sharing this and talking about it nonstop is because the key to dominating the public mind is media that evokes emotion. It’s how George Floyd started nationwide protests overnight. And it’s impossible to see this without feeling blind rage. Healthcare policy could never.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 3h

Fantastic video, and fantastic writing about the video. Yes!! It’s all the same fight!

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4h

This isn’t really a classic both-sides treatment, it’s more the institutional rule that it’s rude and unsophisticated to summarize the facts of a situation in a headline if you can write an archly detached vague understatement instead

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 4h

There’s a deceptively edited video of Spanberger and every thirsty-ass grasping desperate right wing account on Twitter is amplifying it like crazy.

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Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social · 20h

Huge shoutout to George Soros for funding our supporters with suits and pee bottles.

Here’s to a successful False Frog Operation In Portland, Chicago, and any city that oppressors invade.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 20h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 22h

I guess it's possible that US education outcomes in red states just happen to align so very perfectly with David Brooks' prior beliefs about teachers' unions. I don't know ed policy remotely enough to say, but that piece is emitting serious quantities of bullshit particles.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of spongebob brushing his teeth and holding a toothpaste bottle

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

Another one of the more interesting talks from the Way event last week -

Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 1d

When we started planning #Persuasion2025, Terrance Woodbury from @hitstrat.bsky.social was one of the first names that came up. Terrance has a unique ability to shape a story with data that will fire you up... and maybe scare you a bit. (in a good way)

Persuasion 2025: Terrance Woodbury

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

If I give the President an old 747 can I rename NORAD to ANCONARAD

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

wat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa is not a group; the president cannot designate domestic terror groups.

My @brennancenter.org colleague @faizapatel.bsky.social is out today with a deep review of NSPM-7. It is a dangerous directive that will facilitate predatory politics-based targeting: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 1d

Rue de la Paix #edouardcortes #cortes

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

oops

Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

my command center isn't technically in my mom's house

Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

you should make an exception for charting the way forward, substantive new thinking for putting the dems back together with lots of sizzling hot research.

totally kidding btw, i strongly support your chill

Charting the Way Forward

Politics Podcast · Updated Weekly · Research-informed strategy and intelligence from across the winning Democratic coalition, with Way to Win cofounders Tory Gavito and Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, and g...

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

^ very niche @espiers.bsky.social-only skeet ^ although @jamesinbrooklyn.bsky.social may appreciate also

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah well I'm brokering a deal between the Abundance Bros and DSA from the makeshift command center in my mom's house, beat that Jared

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Here’s how Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, helped broker an Israel-Hamas breakthrough from a makeshift command center in Florida.

How Jared Kushner, a Self-Described ‘Deal Guy,’ Helped Broker a Gaza Breakthrough

Trained in New York City real estate, the president’s son-in-law had a single goal: Get to a yes first, and hash out the details later. “It’s just different being deal guys — just a different sport,” he said.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhh hell yeah I am SO using Self Describe "Deal Guy"