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Tory Gavito
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Way to Win, President. Political Strategist. Tejana (for now-- monitoring the heat under Trump II / Abbott Regime).
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Tory Gavito @torygavito.bsky.social · Nov 13
Team, my job is to organize D- side money, I have seen bad ideas get funded and good ideas die on vine all based on how the resources move. Follow me for inside scoops. We’ve all got to get serious about how we fund at scale the depth of work needed to get out of this hell. ✌🏼
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Tory Gavito @torygavito.bsky.social · 14h
If we say his name, tell his story, and enough people chime in, we can bring him home-- just like we did with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17h
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 5d
Just posted this #Perusasion2025 session with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @anatosaurus.bsky.social in discussion with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social. We had brilliant speakers from all across the pro-democracy coalition, including some moments of disagreement. Two quick notes. At one point Sarah
Persuasion 2025: Anat Shenker-Osorio and Sarah Longwell, in conversation with Mehdi Hasan
YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 3d
Also you can try out Aisha - the instance of ChatGPT trained on Black writings that Esosa discusses - here:

onyximpact.org/aisha/
Onyx Impact | Aisha: the Black ChatGPT
Meet Aisha, Onyx Impact’s AI-powered tool assistant made by and for Black communities. Connect instantly to trusted Black news sources tailored by state and strengthen your news resilience with Aisha’...
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 3d
We felt like some of the #Persuasion2025 coverage, while much appreciated, fell short of getting across the bigger themes and ideas discussed at the event. This thought provoking @qasimrashid.com piece gets into some of the systemic and structural issues driving these patterns.
Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity
From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.
www.qasimrashid.com
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 3d
NEW Charting the Way Forward, with AI and disinformation expert @esosaosa.bsky.social. Esosa is doing crucial work in these areas and we had a great conversation sorting through these interrelated challenges.

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Your Oversamples Tell Me Where Your Heart Is (feat. Esosa Osa) - Charting the Way Forward Ep 42
YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5d
This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 8d
Zip-tying toddlers!?!?! The very incarnation of evil!!!
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doyle canning @doylecanning.bsky.social · 9d
I’m back from a trip east for this conference and usually
when I get back from DC I am drained, but I am fired up and following up on 100 great conversations, all thanks to the visionary @jenancona.bsky.social. Let’s go get it @waytowinus.bsky.social ✊
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 9d
Our inaugural #Persuasion2025 DC event has drawn praise and stirred up opinions across DC. We partnered with the ad testing platform Swayable and invited a spectrum of voices to join us for a day of new thinking and finding a path forward. A 🧵, and stay tuned for clips and session video.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 9d
The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 9d
This @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with @vanhollen.senate.gov was one of the #Persuasion2025 highlights. Don't miss the framing of the first question; that single question set the bullshit-free tone for the entire day.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d
"You can be angry about the assault on our democracy and our freedoms and still be a happy warrior in how you confront that. Roosevelt, when he was going after big-money special interests, said, 'I welcome their hatred," says @vanhollen.senate.gov. newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Chris Van Hollen Is Angry—at Trump, and at His Party’s Lame Pollsters
The Maryland senator explains why he went to El Salvador earlier this year while the rest of the party tried to downplay immigration issues, and his decision to go to Iowa and flirt with a 2028 presid...
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 9d
“We need to go back to being a party that tells the truth. It’s the only way to rebuild the Democratic Party as the party of working people. In this race, the ground is fertile to build power locally and then build that into structural power.”
@grahamformaine.bsky.social #Persuasion2025
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 9d
“Voters were struggling with an affordability crisis but had given up hope a mayor could do anything about it. Zohran wasn’t scared of naming villains and proposing solutions.” Morris Katz #Persuasion2025
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 9d
"There’s a concerted effort... to make sure that Democrats just focus on raising more corporate money, to engage in the failed strategy of then spending a ton of that money on mail and TV at the very last minute." Rep @gregcasar.bsky.social #Persuasion2025
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 9d
"The thing Mamdani is doing, people think he cares about them. They’ll forgive him the other stuff. The reason they like Trump? They think Trump’s on their side... Democrats can say the right words but if they don't feel it, people don’t believe them.” @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social #Persuasion2025
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 9d
The core of the argument that ran through the whole day was the need move past defensive politics into a compelling vision that speaks to people’s real lives. Affordability. Security. Stability. As Graham Platner said during the event, “the big things.” And the opposite of what Trump is delivering.
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 9d
Our inaugural #Persuasion2025 DC event has drawn praise and stirred up opinions across DC. We partnered with the ad testing platform Swayable and invited a spectrum of voices to join us for a day of new thinking and finding a path forward. A 🧵, and stay tuned for clips and session video.
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 9d
It was a day of tremendous content. Congratulations to James Slezak of Swayable and @jenancona.bsky.social and @torygavito.bsky.social for taking on risk and landing a big complicated plane in a hurry. And thanks to all of you for following this conversation, and for sharing your thinking.
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Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 9d
Fantastic writeup of our Tuesday #Persuasion2025 meeting in DC from @climatebrad.hillheat.com.
Democracy's Big Tent Revival
Persuasion 2025, a Democratic confab in the shadow of Michael Sandel
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Jenifer Fernandez Ancona @jenancona.bsky.social · 9d
Love this recap, thank you @climatebrad.hillheat.com!
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10d
whoa @grahamformaine.bsky.social @repcasar.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @katmabu.bsky.social @patrioticmillionaires.org @waytowinus.bsky.social @jenancona.bsky.social @swayable.bsky.social @torygavito.bsky.social @bhavik.bsky.social so wow much civics
Democracy's Big Tent Revival
Persuasion 2025, a Democratic confab in the shadow of Michael Sandel
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10d
whoa @grahamformaine.bsky.social @repcasar.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @katmabu.bsky.social @patrioticmillionaires.org @waytowinus.bsky.social @jenancona.bsky.social @swayable.bsky.social @torygavito.bsky.social @bhavik.bsky.social so wow much civics
Democracy's Big Tent Revival
Persuasion 2025, a Democratic confab in the shadow of Michael Sandel
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Tory Gavito @torygavito.bsky.social · 10d
Garrett Bucks nails it!
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Garrett Bucks @garrettbucks.bsky.social · 13d
A modest proposal!!

thewhitepages.net/p/ezra-klein...
Ezra Klein, have you considered just hosting a potluck?
Or volunteering for an ICE Watch, or organizing a childcare cooperative, or throwing an intergenerational block party...
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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 10d
According to a @washingtonpost.com poll, Americans blame Trump and Republicans in Congress for the shutdown by a 17-percentage-point margin.
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Tory Gavito @torygavito.bsky.social · 10d
Trump is pushing America into the fuck around and find out stage of history on so many levels— in today’s Trump foolery: what happens when we mess with our strongest state economies? I can’t see how this doesn’t immediately help competitors like China.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 11d
They are stealing taxpayer dollars from blue states because Democrats in Congress refuse to give Trump a blank check for his authoritarianism.

Corruption. Coercion. Blackmail. Lawlessness. 

I won’t bend the knee to a wannabe dictator and his cronies. We will prevail.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 12d
Hello! Just a reminder that if you work for or contract with the federal government and have information you'd like to share securely with a @wired.com reporter, you can use a non-work device to contact me on Signal at timmarchman.01 and I can connect you to someone who covers your area.
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