Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”

@katmabu.bsky.social REALLY hates call time y'all. She's running one of the most innovative digital (and field) programs of the cycle imho. One of those innovations — replacing call time with livestreams. And it's working!

Wow. Newsom and his team have been crushing it on TikTok, getting "more views and engagement than that of Mamdani, who has been widely heralded as a social media savant." From @kylewilsontharp.bsky.social

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

Please remember that Fox News is HQed in NYC and now Zohran will be their mayor and that is just delicious.

I met Mark Kendall and Bill Worley at Netroots this year and was super excited to invite them on the pod. They’re doing something very unique in our space — using comedy, intentionally, to win hearts and change minds.

"Good stories, and bad ones, have characters and conflict. But what Democrats claim as stories are often more like grocery lists." - @anatosaurus.bsky.social www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

It's wild to me that every state in the union is gerrymandering themselves into oblivion and we STILL can't get fair congressional maps here in Wisconsin.

Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress in Illinois’ 9th District. I personally think she’s running one of the most innovative campaigns of the cycle, both from a digital and from a field perspective.

“Instead of Noem courageously confronting the “Antifa army,” viewers saw her keeping a safe distance from a few people milling about —including the Portland Chicken.” lol lucid.substack.com/p/the-portla...

Cool free digital tool for folks looking to add anti-fascism yellow to their profile photo this week, heading into the No Kings rally. www.resistanceyellow.com

across social media. They shared their findings, recs for orgs looking to ramp up their relational organizing programs, how they think about walled gardens and more. Find the ep, links, transcript and more at HelloMergeTag.com. You can also find it wherever you stream podcasts or on YouTube.

But so few campaigns are even thinking about them at all, much less developing strategies around them. I hosted Amanda Brink of Empower Project and Tudor Mihailescu of SoSha to tell us about a Community Mobilizer program they ran that collectively earned 80 million organic impressions...

The platform generating the most clicks online probably isn't the one you'd expect. Or at least, it wasn't the one I expected! WhatsApp, and other walled gardens, are doing a lot of heavy lifting in the digital organizing space. >>>

What do Mission Impossible, black-ish, and Stacey Abrams have in common? They all turned to Garima Verma to help craft a digital strategy. Garima’s experience is wild—in Hollywood, in politics, and now in consulting.

I’m Francesca Hong, a single mom, service worker, and State Rep—now running for Governor of Wisconsin. This campaign won’t be funded by billionaires or corporate PACs. It’s powered by working people. If you’re ready to take back our state, chip in today: secure.actblue.com/donate/fran-...

If you know me and my work, you know I have a very different approach to Facebook Ads than most people in our industry. I just gave a virtual session at Netroots called "We're Thinking About Facebook Ads Wrong." >>>

Forget about the garbage take. What is going on with this screenshot from Scott Walker?!

You’re not a superhero, you’re a megaphone. That’s the message I give every campaign I work with. It’s a hard truth for some to hear: no one cares about you — they care about themselves. >>>

“You don’t want to be caught in that high‑volume moment and not have a way to capture people…” That’s exactly what Gabbi Zutrau built with the Zohran Mamdani campaign.

I keep getting new followers on this platform, but my content has almost no engagement. Just me? Very bizarre.

We’re Thinking About Facebook Ads Wrong. I’m doing a virtual session with @netrootsnation.bsky.social about how campaigns can get smarter—and more strategic—using Meta ads. I’ve used FB ads to help some great candidates win their elections, and I’ll be sharing some of the lessons I’ve learned alon

Forget chasing a “Joe Rogan of the left.” It’s a distraction. What our party really needs is to connect with people already building large audiences—and living their values.

SIRI: Define irony deficiency.

It would be the funniest thing that ever happened if Trump vetoes this bill. Just saying.

"No reasonable progressive activist would have suggested, at any point, that these massive companies were genuine friends or allies. But now, the social networks — and the broader tech industry that has enabled more than a decade of American mass movements ...

🚨 New ep! I sat down with RC Di Mezzo to break down how he helped build the digital juggernaut that is Courier Newsroom. We talk: ⚡️ What’s working in digital right now 📈 Their fastest-growing channel (spoiler: it’s not what you’d expect!) 🧠 How small teams can punch way above their weight

RON Pac (the Super PAC of DeSantis) just shared this email. It's terrible. Let's discuss. First of all, the Ron tweet it screenshots isn't even well written. "I highly doubt that if this was even said that it was anything other than a joke." What?! >>>

The calls are coming from inside the house 👀 www.indy100.com/science-tech...

Imagine sending this email after Saturday's massive and peaceful turnout, across every corner of the country. What a tool.

I once signed up for a Republican governor candidate’s email list — cause that’s how I roll! He wound up selling my email to a conservative outlet… who ended up backing his primary opponent. Womp womp! How’d I know? I used a simple Gmail trick to track it. 1/2

Why doesn’t Trump hire Americans?

wah wah www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/t...

Amazon LOVES independent sellers y'all.

It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. Surprise inspections must be surprise.

In a normal functioning government, the fact that a cabinet member is so volatile and bad at his job that no one is willing to work for him would mean the end of that cabinet member’s tenure.

This is literally the premise of Mountainhead. Same characters and everything. lol

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

My Scaramucci Calculator is blowing up right now but I'm not sure why. Is it the Epstein thing, or something else? 🤔 mooch.lol

This is real y’all. WOW

This is a great digital tool! www.cuomoscandals.com

"A message that no one hears cannot persuade them." @anatosaurus.bsky.social with @jlemonsk.bsky.social on Hello Merge Tag today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxt6...

If you're involved in progressive advocacy or Democratic campaigns, you're likely familiar with @anatosaurus.bsky.social. She works to ensure our movement's words align with our values. She stopped by the pod and we had a jam-packed conversation about the what, how, and why of Free America.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social describing how Trump is turning into a country club of grift and exclusivity. "There is always another rung you have to buy up into."

Threads officially has ads now.

Love this subject line from @maxwellfrost.bsky.social! Got my attention (obviously!) and is actually relevant to the email he sent. 🌯💸

Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.

Seen in Madison.