Happening now in a packed room at @netrootsnation.bsky.social: “Wins Are Replicable: From Mamdani to Minnesota to Middle America” with @anatosaurus.bsky.social, @jlemonsk.bsky.social, @heyansa.bsky.social and Gabriella Zutrau

Digital strategy is for engagement and fundraising. It is not the only thing that wins. But candidates should prioritize Bluesky over other text-based platforms if they’re serious about digital strategy. Here’s a 45-minute convo I had with @jlemonsk.bsky.social about this: youtu.be/XOfkMBMpw3s?...

Voters are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok about candidates. Most campaigns have no idea what those answers say about them. And even fewer know how to influence them. >>>

One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.

Just scrolling the DNC autoposy... man that's a lot of red mark-ups. Hoo boy.

Quite a salient point from @danpfeiffer.bsky.social here!

Another huge win last night. 😊 Worked with an awesome candidate in Pennsylvania. We were waaaay outspent. We were also running against the establishment. We won by 15 points. LFG!

Republican consultants are using AI daily at nearly twice the rate of Democrats. “Every day that we are not adopting this stuff, the other side is moving faster. And I think ultimately that’s going to translate into votes.”

How tarnished is the DNC brand these days? The DLCC is actively distancing itself. SL: We’re not the DNC.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Good content matters. No question. But if there's no conviction behind it, the best content in the world falls flat. Every time. You can play a fighter on the internet. But if you cave on every vote, people notice.

So is InfoWars talking to Stephen Colbert about bringing the OG into the fold? 🤞 cc: @bencollins.bsky.social

Want to turn your bluesky posts (ok ok skeets) into screenshots to post anywhere? @jlemonsk.bsky.social just made ShareSparrow.com to help make that easy! Here's what they look like. The tool is free & well timed cuz on Thurs @newmediamentors.bsky.social kicks off our Strategic Visual Design course🧵

Want to turn your bluesky posts (ok ok skeets) into screenshots to post anywhere? @jlemonsk.bsky.social just made ShareSparrow.com to help make that easy! Here's what they look like. The tool is free & well timed because on Thursday New Media Mentors kicks off our Strategic Visual Design course🧵

Just a reminder that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was called, "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

Everyone hates Twitter. Everyone loves screenshots of tweets! Turn your tweets and Bluesky posts into social-friendly graphics — quick, easy and free — with ShareSparrow.

Serious question: why would Ken Martin request that interview? He clearly didn't want to answer the most obvious question he was there to answer. Wouldn't he have been better off doing... anything else with his time?

"It doesn't matter if Democratic senators or members of Congress put out TikTok videos or bring influencers for special hearings. Ultimately, if it's not in their bones that they want to fight with everything they have, the people will see right through it."

Texas redistricts without a vote, Republicans cheer. Dems in Virginia respond by putting it UP FOR A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, it passes, Republican cry foul. Oh well. Good job Virginia!!

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court permanently disbarred John Eastman — a key architect in President Donald Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election — delivering one of the most consequential professional penalties yet for an election denier. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

HOWLing

Haven't updated this chart in a while. Seemed like it was time. Some takeaways: WI Dems have had 7 wins since 2018 with margins bigger than 10%. Compare that to WI Republicans that have had 4 wins... total! >>>

Schrödinger's Straight

RESULT: The right took over the Francis Howell school board, a large MO district in the St. Louis suburbs, earlier this decade; followed book bans & restrictive policies on LGBTQ students. Tonight, the slate endorsed by the teacher's slate swept, and the last remaining conservative was ousted.

I worked a bunch of races tonight and all my candidates won. Feeling pretty good y’all.

Yeah he did (I helped make this happen and I’m feeling really good this evening 😊)

Pam Bondi got fired and my Scaramucci calculator really blew up! mooch.lol

Most campaigns use the Meta Ads Library the same way (if they use it at all!). They scroll around, take some notes, maybe screenshot a few ads. Joshua Canter took a different approach. >>

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

The poll of the weekend? The main Alaska pollster, ASR, released a poll of Alaska’s Senate race with Mary Peltola leading by 5 against GOP Senator Dan Sullivan. Even just putting this one in play is a big deal for Dems and their difficult path to a Senate majority.

Madison No Kings.

Just so we're clear here, Trump installed his own defense lawyer as the Deputy Attorney General and had him lead the purge of the federal prosecutors who brought cases against Trump.

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Uncancel Colbert and I’ll commit to 30 mins a week of something else on the network. Bari’s choice.

It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.

Art of the deal? No deal!

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

the republican justices are as pickled in MAGA slop as any pardoned jan 6er

Love this summation of Trump’s approach to endorsements from The Downballot. @davidnir.com

CSIce Law and (Authoritarian) Order Murder, She Did White (Supremacist) Collar Miami ICE How To Get Away With Murder Only Murders in the Building (or really anywhere else you want)

A 13-year-old girl tried to take her life by cutting her wrists with a plastic knife from the cafeteria after guards took away drawing materials, and was put into isolation without seeing a doctor. The teen was deported to Colombia after nearly two months in confinement

Afghan, not Afghani. Watching a show on @netflix.com and they messed that up. How does a show about war and spycraft not have a single person on staff who knows the proper way to refer to someone from Afghanistan?

Entering the SIXTH hour in the TSA line

Immigration is without question a net positive.

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

Excuse me, it’s Trump! or Hey, it’s Trump! Which do you prefer? These two emails hit my inbox 8 mins apart. What a ridiculous program.