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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · 1d

There we go

Screenshot of a Facebook post by WHYY announcing that the Penn State board of trustees has agreed to sell the operating assets of WPSU to WHYY

Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · 2d

Penn State will pay James Franklin nearly $50 million not to work. Meanwhile, the university shut down WPSU, which had an annual operating cost of $7 million, half of which was paid by the university.

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Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer.bsky.social · 2d

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For the life of me, I cannot figure out what the hell the Senate Democrats are doing in Maine — the most important Senate race in the country. Their decision to back Janet Mills suggests they have learned no lessons from our loss in 2024.
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Are Democrats About to Blow It in Maine?

By backing Janet Mills over a grassroots outsider, party leaders may be repeating the same mistakes from 2024

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · 12d

@upenn.edu caved to a bully and the bully came back for more. There’s nothing shocking about this.

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Trump seeks influence over hiring and admissions at Penn in exchange for federal funding

The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” would give Trump wide-ranging influence over hiring, admissions, tuition pricing, and even curriculum. Nine colleges were asked to sign on.

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ACLU of the District of Columbia @aclu-dc.bsky.social · 19d

BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration on behalf of four D.C. residents for its practice of illegal arrests of immigrants in the District. Since August, federal agents in D.C. have arrested hundreds of immigrants with no warrants and no legal justification. 1/ 🧵

A white background with a photo of protestors with low transparency set against it, and D.C. flag imagery at the top. The text of the image reads: "Police have abused their power. Using militarized tactics on local residents, racially profiling immigrants and Latinos at work, schooll, and church, and ripping communities apart." At the bottom of the image are the organizational logos for the ACLU of D.C., National Immigration Project, CASA, Washington Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, and Amica Center For Immigrant Rights.

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is what a governor should be saying to unequivocally oppose the deployment of National Guard troops in their state. This is no time to be mealy mouthed.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yes, it's true. Someone did take your job. And your healthcare, pension, wage hikes and life off a single income.
It just wasn't immigrants, welfare recipients, queer people or women having abortions.
If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all the money.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · Aug 27

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments.

Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers.

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Aug 22

A lot of Elite Dems need to get familiar with the playbook for toppling an authoritarian. Mockery is one of the tactics. Tim Walz was onto it by calling them weird, until Beltway strategists talked him out of it.
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Why Everyone Should Stop Freaking Out About Gavin Newsom's Social Media

If his goal was to get people talking, Gavin Newsom has succeeded with his new pugnacious, Trump-like approach to social media.

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Aug 19

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19

"Dems can turn things around by holding up people who are working hard on this issue & succeeding. Brandon Scott talking about how he actually brought down crime in Baltimore is more effective than the blathering of 'strategists' whose answer to everything is that Dems should act like Republicans."

Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime

They're wrong on the policy and wrong on the politics.

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Vera Action @veraaction.bsky.social · Aug 19

Democrats can overcome "soft-on-crime" attacks—not by tacking to the right or dodging the issue altogether—but by proudly owning safety and justice by focusing on what is working in places like Baltimore, Chicago, and Detroit to make communities safer.

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Aug 16

I received texts today from a former Navy pilot and a former prosecutor running for Congress as Democrats. They just can’t quit this candidate profile, can they? 😑

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ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 13

We need DC statehood NOW.

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Aug 7

Important lessons from Poland for Democrats in the US: running the same tired establishment candidates doesn’t work. And simply being “not the other guy” isn’t an inspiring enough message to defeat right wing populism.

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Poland is sliding back towards populism. Democrats elsewhere should heed our mistakes | Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz

Donald Tusk has failed to offer a positive vision for the future. Without one, liberals will just be an interval between populist acts, say historian Karolina Wigura and journalist Jarosław Kuisz

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Aug 5

We were at the same town hall

maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · Aug 4

At a town hall in PA-10 and I’ve never heard people so angry. Our Rep is the worm Scott Perry who deserves a dump truck of shit on him. But the people here are also furious that the Dem currently running against him is Janelle Stelson — seen as a worthless pawn of the rich.

Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Aug 5

From Janelle Stelson’s website. Can’t even muster a throwaway line like, “We’re a nation of immigrants.” If this is how Ds are going to run in 2026, we’re screwed

Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Aug 4

Another audience member during the open mic said, The status quo is not working. We need something new.

Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Aug 4

Heard at a town hall tonight in Harrisburg: Democrats, “stop this moderate nonsense.” The crowd is also clearly not happy with the party getting behind Janelle Stelson in PA-10

Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Aug 4

Heard at a town hall tonight in Harrisburg: Democrats, “stop this moderate nonsense.” The crowd is also clearly not happy with the party getting behind Janelle Stelson in PA-10

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Jul 31

Elite Democrats like Josh Shapiro and Hakeem Jefferies just won’t quit the failed pro-corporate, pro-war strategy that has taken the Democratic party to its lowest approval rating in three decades. Unbelievable

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onepennsylvania.bsky.social @onepennsylvania.bsky.social · Jul 31

One PA West Southwest Rising had a press conference to celebrate our victories in getting repairs to 12 vacant homes. What’s next:
1) repair 5 more abandoned homes
2) create a program to make repairs to unsafe buildings
3) create policies so vacant property can = affordable housing & green space.

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Jul 22

The DA of Washington County PA is illegally pursuing death in most homicide cases. That's why Atlantic Center for Capital Representation, one of my clients, has asked the state Supreme Court to intervene.
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Lawyers ask Pa. Supreme Court to clamp down on Washington County DA's use of death penalty

A team of defense attorneys on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to restrict Washington County District Attorney Jason Walsh from pursuing the death penalty — accusing him of using capital p...

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Jul 15

Elite Democrats still don't get that we are in an era in which voters want candidates to stand for something. They're not interested in poll-tested, inauthentic candidates.
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Democrats Are at a Historic Low Point. A Certain Kind of Advice Brought Them Here—and They Can’t Stop Listening to It.

During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.

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Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Jul 11

Live look at Elite Washington Democrats

Andy Hoover @andyhoover.bsky.social · Jul 11

The way to fight ICE - the secret police, wannabe Gestapo - is through nonviolent confrontation. Because they are cowards...
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Tucson Stands up against ICE

This happened June 11

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · Jul 9

I ran into a Migrant Justice protest two days ago outside the post office (Burlington’s post office shares the federal building with the courthouse) and last night was at a sporting event where the crowd cheered resisting ICE. I don’t think ICE and Trump are prepared for how unpopular they now are.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · Jul 9

drove 5 min from where I live where some state lawmakers and local religious leaders were having an emergency press conference. Right in my neighborhood because, get this, some people find it uncouth that the trump admin would want to disappear the Muslim chaplain of cincinnati Children’s hospital

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