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Florida Lib 🇺🇸

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I help Democrats run effective political campaigns across the country. I live in Florida where we are fighting a losing rearguard action.

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Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · Nov 17

The core starting point for understanding the 2024 election: the country moved heavily toward Trump *except* where voters heard the most from Kamala Harris.

The Harris campaign was incredibly effective, but she still lost. If we want to do better, we have to look outside campaign operations.

Why Kamala Lost

Campaigns work, but they only work on the margins

blherrou.medium.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 5h

Listening and learning

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

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Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · 4h

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 6h

If this happens in a hospital you call a stroke code 😳

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump's mouth starts drooping as he struggles to stay awake during this antifa roundtable

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h

they’re Big Fucking Mad that we greeted them with an inflatable costume rave rather than all out war

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Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · 6h

The problem is that mayors and governors don't necessarily lack legal powers to control police, they lack *practical* power to control police. De facto, police unions are the most powerful organization in most cities. Even chiefs of police have limited sway.

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 7h

In order to counter media suppression, we must build independent tools that organize the information which we have but the media doesn't use the right way. tools that **don't depend on grabbing attention**.

this is PIVOT TO WIKI.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h

Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · 7d

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Annie G @aff417.bsky.social · 1d

They REALLY don't want the Epstein vote...

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 1d

More and more people are saying this is to avoid the Epstein files. ;)

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

is there any republican phrase more common than "i dont know, i havent seen it"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · 1d

If you think this, you should take a step back and review your premises.

Because, if anything, the problem is that Dem electeds are too myopically focused on the next election and are therefore avoiding the larger battlefield in favor of pretending everything is a targeted mail plan.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t convince me they actually want to win elections

Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · 1d

Step 1: spend decades doing an 'elevated' version of this flowchart (perhaps sub in 'liberalism' for 'Democrats.')

Step 2: watch Republicans hold steady at 50/50 with Dems even as fascists take over their party

Step 3: act appalled that Democrats won't simply take your wise advice on how to fix it

Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · 1d

The academy, like mainstream journalism, have failed the test of basic introspection.

You contributed to this. Examine how and fix your own behavior before lecturing others on how they are failing.

alistair pomegranate 'lappy' percival @lappypercival.bsky.social · 1d

why are *checks notes* academics poasting like this

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats could for example attack Donald Trump as someone using arbitrary powers to make everyone's health care more expensive and worse

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · 1d

Dave Rubin is himself very stupid.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 1d

it really is astounding that the 80s, 90s and early 2000s were spent on this unrelenting campaign to stop teenagers drinking, having sex and doing drugs but when it finally starts working then millenials and gen X start freaking out about it in a way that is clearly just pure projection. incredible.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d

Q: You were elected 2 weeks ago. Why do you think you have not been sworn in by the Republican Speaker of the House yet?

Rep-elect Grijalva: I don't think there are reasons why I wouldn't be sworn in other than the Epstein files and the complete lack of transparency from this administration

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Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · 23d

And the move for us is obvious: blame Trump. It's Trump's America where political assassinations are suddenly commonplace. It's Trump’s rhetoric that makes people think shooting someone is a good idea. It's Trump who could end this any time, but who will never end it.

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Florida Lib 🇺🇸 @florida-lib.bsky.social · 2d

They really, really do.

Ken Grant @kgrant1073.bsky.social · 2d

They really hate the American people, don't they?