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Evan Sutton
@evansutton.bsky.social
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Han Shot first. Making trouble @ Firekit Campaigns and baking pie. Formerly AFT, New Organizing, Obama '08. It's good to punch Nazis. firekitcampaigns.com
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · Nov 8
Hey friends, I'm doing my best to make it easy for folks to come here and find their communities. I've got two starter packs so far - one with general left-ish activists and leaders, and one with folks working on union issues. Links in chat, and if you'd like to be added to one let me know!
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 53m
And saying bad things about Republicans
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 3h
Something which he... Has absolutely no jurisdiction over lol.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 3h
And they double down in the sub. Top notch work
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 3h
incredible use of the passive exonerative tense
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Ryan McCrystal @ryanmccrystal.bsky.social · 8h
It took 8 paragraphs before acknowledging he has zero power over World Cup locations.

The press needs to be more direct in labelling lies and empty threats, preferably in headlines.

www.espn.com/espn/story/_...
Trump threatens to remove WC games from Boston
President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to revoke Boston's World Cup matches if local authorities don't get tougher on crime.
www.espn.com
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Dan "Deal Guy" Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 8h
In honor of @janetmills4me.bsky.social joining the Maine primary, here's some video of @grahamformaine.bsky.social from two weeks ago. His answer at 15:05 about why he's a Dem... it's just simple and clear and strong. Anyway, right at that moment someone started chopping onions next to me.
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 8h
Lot of news in the Maine Senate race today, so here's @grahamformaine.bsky.social at our #Persuasion2025 even in DC two weeks ago.
Graham Platner, in conversation with Way to Win President Tory Gavito at Persuasion 2025
YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 7h
You've gotta be the softest little soyboy cuck beta ever to be threatened by naked hippies riding fixies www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’
"The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there," said U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Tuesday.
www.oregonlive.com
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Lucas O’Connor @loc.bsky.social · 8h
I’ve already unsubscribed from the Mills spam texts three times today, and there’s a lot of time left
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 8h
The good news is that the DSCC and the establishment clowns haven't learned anything, so they're probably pissing off a ton of Maine voters and donors by spamming the shit out of people
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 8h
Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 8h
The good news is that the DSCC and the establishment clowns haven't learned anything, so they're probably pissing off a ton of Maine voters and donors by spamming the shit out of people
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 8h
Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 8h
I don't care if Mills wants to run. I do care that the DSCC just formed a joint fundraising committee with her.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 9h
And if being galvanized and inspired by Mamdani's run isn't enough, tune in for some incredible shaming of the pathetic Dems like @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social who still refuse to endorse the Democratic nominee in their own city or even talk about why archive.is/1ZNA1
screenshot from article reading I never did get to talk with Jeffries about Mamdani. Several phone calls to his team soon turned to voice mail messages that went unanswered. In October I told Jeffries’s staff that I would have to write that he avoided talking about Mamdani for months. There was still no response. Schumer and Gillibrand each declined an interview request.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 9h
Give yourself a few minutes to read this excellent story about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and feel some hope for the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m... (free link in next post)
Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 10h
As usual, the people who fancy themselves part of the master race are the most pathetic, unfuckable losers imaginable.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h
Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach Sam Douglass, Vermont state senator
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 15h
A thought experiment.

You walk by a shop and see a jacket you really like.

You go in to try it on.

The guy behind the counter throws a Nazi salute at you and starts ranting about immigrants poisoning the blood of the nation.

Do you stay and buy the coat or GTFO? #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall
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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d
Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d
Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 11h
Their parents, their environment, and way too often the internet
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 11h
lol establishment gonna do its thing
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h
🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.
🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills. Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 12h
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 12h
Trump created a permission structure that didn't exist before he won. We saw it even before he won. During the 2016 campaign there was a spike in race- and sex-based bullying in schools. It's only gotten worse. Once you establish a permission structure, tearing it down take a lot of intentional work
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 12h
There's real value in making people wonder if they'll be shamed out of society for abhorrent views. When the most powerful man in the world is just out there going "look, you can be a bigoted bully and become the most powerful man in the world," it completely skews what is acceptable in society
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 12h
Yes yes, the GOP was five bigotries in a trench coat long before Trump. But the revelation he gave them is that as long as you're shameless about it, bigotry might not be disqualifying. When he won, people saw that maybe they too could get away with—even profit from—letting their bigot flag fly
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 12h
Oh, 100%. But prior to Trump this kind of stuff was largely disqualifying for anyone to say out loud. George Allen and Steve King lost because they said the quiet part out loud. Trump demonstrated that shamelessness can be a winning strategy, and it mainstreamed the whole project
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 12h
Agreed, but before Trump there were consequences for anything like this happening in public. GOP campaigns got sunk by racist or sexist comments. Trump opened the floodgates and demonstrated that if you just don't act like it's shameful, people will lose any sense of shame.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 12h
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 12h
"Hendrix was a communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach until Thursday. He also said in the chat that, despite political differences, he’s drawn to Missouri’s Young Republican organization because “Missouri doesn’t like f--s.”"
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h
every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 12h
But somewhere some college progressives argued that student fees cash shouldn't go to comedians who mock the identity of students, and so it all comes out in the wash. #bothsides
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 13h
"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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