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Will Easton @williameaston.bsky.social · 3d

I'm going to distill 20+ years of professional experience into about 90 minutes. It's a firehose, but don't worry, the link-rich slide deck will be shared, AND we have two open office hours sessions afterwards for your followup questions.

New Media Mentors @newmediamentors.bsky.social · 3d

How many political emails did you delete today without reading them? We're betting it's a lot. @williameaston.bsky.social is leading a masterclass on email for nonprofits, unions & social change orgs Oct 15. Learn how to send emails that subscribers want to open & standout from the spam.

Email Strategy 201: Stepping Up Your Program for EOY 2025 and Beyond

Over the next few months, inboxes across America will be flooded with nonprofit fundraising, spam from candidates you’ve never heard of, and plenty more. Renowned email expert Will Easton is teaching ...

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Will Easton @williameaston.bsky.social · 3d

A cat would likely send better emails than most of the spammers & scammers out there right now!

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Will Easton @williameaston.bsky.social · 6d

When they're openly shredding the constitution, you know you've landed at full fascism.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20d

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ImnotApu @imnotapu2.bsky.social · 24d

But sure..it's the radical left...
#UniteNotDivide

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Dennis Pitt @dennispitt.bsky.social · 27d

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 28d

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

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Will Easton @williameaston.bsky.social · 27d

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 29d

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 29d

Bomb threats against the Maryland General Assembly.

Bomb threats against the Michigan lieutenant governor and his family.

Bomb threats against 5 HBCUs.

Two arrests for violent assaults in Idaho.

In 24 hours.

All Democratic or left-leaning victims.

All suspected MAGA perpetrators.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 11

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 9

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 3

Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…

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Will Easton @williameaston.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hit me up if you live in PA, OH, IL, NY, NJ, MA or DC and want ... a) a good rate fixed for 12 months for 100% clean energy, and b) to help us build more solar farms & bring electricity costs down for everyone. :-)

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Will Easton @williameaston.bsky.social · Aug 27

There's a quiet energy transformation underway - it no longer makes ANY sense to build fossil-fueled generation, when solar+batteries is faster and cheaper. Happy to be playing a small role in accelerating this at @cleanchoiceenergy.bsky.social

David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · Aug 27

In which @billmckibben.bsky.social dreams a beautiful, POSSIBLE dream – with a plug for UBI thrown in! (A world that’s powered by clean, cheap solar AND provides basic income? That’s a world in which I’d happily live.) #FindTheGood

A Modest Proposal

What if we just flooded the planet with cheap or even free solar panels?

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Will Easton @williameaston.bsky.social · Aug 25

Neither did his curious disappearance from the Texas Air National Guard in 1972, with two full years still left on his six-year commitment.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · Aug 14

NYs Wafler Farms workers voted for the UFW in 2022 but still don't have a contract. In Feb, an arbitrator ruled for a 2-yr contract. Wafler won't implement it so we're going to court again. Workers will deliver a petition to tell Wafler they won't give up. act.seiu.org/a/waflerpeti...

Screenshot of a video of Wafler Farms shop that serves as a dispatch station with all the workers in the foreground looking at big TV screens and with the text overlay: tell Wafler Farms to obey the law and implement its workers' UFW contract. Sign the petition today.

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Will Easton @williameaston.bsky.social · Aug 10

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Will Easton @williameaston.bsky.social · Aug 7

Netroots is on fire this year, btw.

Netroots Nation @netrootsnation.bsky.social · Aug 7

"Stand up, fight back! Welcome to OUR table. I can't wait until you see what’s on the menu."
Victor Galvan @motustheater.bsky.social

#NN25 Opening Keynote
August 8 | 5:00PM CT | New Orleans

A black and white photo of a a Latino man, Victor Galvan, speaking.

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Netroots Nation @netrootsnation.bsky.social · Aug 5

#NN25 starts w/check in
But you've got enough going on w/out playing "Where's Netroots" in a venue that :checks notes: covers ~11 blocks w/+3M sq. ft. of space.

🧡 Crescent City, but no one wants to walk along a 1K long building *in August* looking for the right door.

So 👀 here for more directions

Banner with 20th Annual wrapped over Netroots Nation title.

Registration Hours
August 6 3-6PM CT
August 7 8AM-6PM CT
August 8 8AM-4:30PM CT
August 9 9:30AM-3PM CT

Beat the heat
Read this thread to find us faster

Join me there
August 7-9, 2025
New Orleans

Small sign graphic reads under 48 hours to go!

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Jul 29

The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades

Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated

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Will Easton @williameaston.bsky.social · Jul 27

It's almost a certainty that Donald is in at least a few of those videos.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 27

CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it

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The Rooster @rooster.info · Jul 25

In today’s Rooster dispatch, I walked through the establishment’s case against Jesse Vogel, an affable immigration attorney, and what that criticism is *actually* about.

www.rooster.info/p/the-inside...

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