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Dan Ancona

@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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Dan Ancona @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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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 12h

“One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.”

“We could hear them laughing,” Rev. Black said.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 12h

I followed the stick blender refrieds recipe on the website and they came out SO good. Didn’t have lard but I fried the onions and garlic in bacon grease from the really good bacon.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 12h

You can tell how bad it’s getting there, those persimmons clearly have a ways to go before they are ripe

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 13h

Ohhhh oh. Oh. In the 90s tech boom I worked for a little startup called Critical Path that was famous for becoming the #2 firm in total shareholder lawsuits... after Enron. They were doing lots of deals like this to juice the revenue pre-IPO. A bunch of the execs served time even.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h

I've been looking for more reporting on this. NVIDIA has an increasing number of deals where it is paying companies to buy its chips. sounds very bubbly.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 14h

I cook a lot of pork shoulders but haven't done one in a while. Been cooking a bunch since I got back from your city for some reason. Got a pot of @ranchogordo.bsky.social mayacobas on the stove approaching maximum creamy apogee. The house smells so good just sitting here is making me hungry.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 14h

First session from our event last week is up, we'll post a bunch of these. This was a good one though. If you heard @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @danpfeiffer.bsky.social discussing an event on The Focus Group, it was this one:

Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 16h

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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17h

This is straight from the fascist playbook. It will ceate fear and mistrust among Democratic groups in Texas and it is ultimately designed to suppress votes.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 22h

based on the standards set by hegseth and others in the administration, this clearly means that hegseth should be fired

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 22h

LOL the Boston Globe gets its hands on Pete Hegseth’s 2013 Master’s thesis at Harvard KSG, in which he was a bit of a woke DEI lover.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 22h

Not totally sure I want to live in this future either 😬

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 23h

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · Apr 6

TALK TO "MY DOCTOR" LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN

THERE ALWAYS SAYEN TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR BUT I DONT KNOW ANY ONE WHO HAS "A DOCTOR" LMAO LIKE IF THEY POP THERE BACK OUT THEY MIGHT GO TO A DOCTORS OFFICE TO BEG FOR A MRI, BUT THE DOCTOR AINT SENDING THEM CARD'S AFTERWARDS LOL ,IMAGINE IF YOU GOT "CHECK UP" WHERE YOU GO IN TO THE DOCTERS IF THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU, ONE TIME I WENT TO THE DOCTERS AND THE MOTHER FUCKER OPENS UP WEB MD, LIKE I DIDENT DO THAT BEFORE I CAME IN , SO JUST SAVE US ALL SOME TIME AND LET WEB MD GIVE ME ANTIBIOTICS, IF THERS NO EFFECTIVE MEDICAL CARE FOR MOST OF THE COUNTREY THEN JUST LET ME BUY THE PILLS DIRECTLY FROM THE PILL STORE!!!!! IM TIRED OF THE LAW BINDING AND NOT PROTECTING ME!!! IF I AINT GETTING PROTECTED THEN DONT BIND MY ASS MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!! IF WERE DOIN THE POCALYPSE THEN LEGALIZA ALL DRUG'S AND GIVE ME THE RADIOACTIVE BEANS FROM FALL OUT!!!!! ILL EAT A DAMB GIANT ROACH IF IT MEANS I NO LONGER HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE WORD "DEDUCTIBLE" AND DA TEXT SAYS "TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR , IM AMERICAN, I DONT HAVE A DOCTOR, WHEN I GET SICK OR HURT I GO TO A BUILDIGN THAT USE TO BE A PIZZA HUT, AND I PAY A GUY $176 TO CALL ME FAT " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

he was on bill maher. imagine the worst most predictable outcome of that, then make it twice as bad.

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

This, and the Van Jones stuff over 72h. I am on the struggle bus here. The elites are not. ok.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Cultivate a couple of hobbies. Ideally, things that have nothing to do with your day job and that bring you joy, even if you're not great at them.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

Having kids was WAY more fun than I expected. I wasn't around little kids much growing up; I thought it was mostly about cleaning diapers and sleeplessness and crying. (theirs and mine) Those things are part of it, but they're a relatively tiny part of the deal.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 4d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

murder beanz, pink noze, hidin from cruel world

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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump's handling of...
(CBS News / @today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251006-top...

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

The affordability crisis IS the inequality crises. rich jerks took all the dough.

Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk just became the first person ever worth $500 billion.

And no one can afford a mortgage, healthcare, student loans, or groceries.

Trickle-down economics is BS.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

monday schedule -

1. up early, still jetlagged
2. read hater's big story in prestige magazine
3. discuss with awesome team
4. chill
5. munch garrett's popcorn from midway as internet ratios it past the outer rim
6. lunch
7. iced coffee

you may not like it but this is peak crisis comms performance

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with a briefcase .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with a briefcase .

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

Part of what's challenging is that it's a lot more than 5% that might or might not show up. If you look at the 0/4 + 1/4 + 2/4s - for 2024 that was 34% of the final electorate. The final margins are often small but the total numbers of voters that do or don't vote are relatively massive.

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 1d

This guy is so full of his own shit; he plans to "flee the country" in fear of retribution by Dems. But *Democrats* don't jail ppl for ideas or speech; Republicans do.

Those carrying out this intellectually unevolved idiot's plans MUST BE HELD accountability.

www.thenerdreich.com/panicked-cur...

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

www.thenerdreich.com

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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

Between that and this... this guy was going on the Bulwark not but two months ago talking about how he thought Trump was doing great. Asshole just wanted his freaking tax cut and for Lina Khan to get the axe.