Rob Flaherty
@robflaherty.bsky.social
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Was: Deputy CM for Harris for President, Digital Director for WH and Biden '20 Now: Poster
AI is going to be the most important issue in the ‘28 election in ways bigger than I think most folks realize. I wrote about what it means for Democrats, Republicans, and, well, the whole country.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...
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Opinion | The Democrats Again Risk Losing Voters They Take for Granted
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/opinion/ai-democrats-jobs-economy.html
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G Elliott Morris
11 months ago
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
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"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-day-protests-turn-out-millions
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in retrospect, they probably should have made this a key fob
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Wrote about Democrats, the media environment, culture, and authenticity for the
@nytimes.com
Our problem is bigger than an election: it's that we lack the tools to communicate the vast majority of the electorate who get their information through culture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
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Opinion | If You’re a Voter Reading This, This Essay Is Not About You
Opt-out voters don’t buy what we’re selling — and even if they did, we’d have a hard time reaching them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/voters-democratic-party.html
about 1 year ago
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Sorry we cooked your retirement savings. We were hoping to make inflation worse and slow down the economy.
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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Chris Hayes
about 1 year ago
“The truth is that a tattoo identifying Tren de Aragua does not exist,” she told me. “Tren de Aragua does not use any tattoos as a form of gang identification; no Venezuelan gang does.”
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Carl Quintanilla
about 1 year ago
JPM calls it “the fastest Momentum unwind in 40 years .. erased 2 years’ worth of gains and accelerated investors’ late-cycle positioning into Defensive / Low Vol ..”
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Chris Hayes
about 1 year ago
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Just think it’s important to look at the politics of a moment for how they are and how you can change them, versus learning lessons from an era that’s passed.
about 1 year ago
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"a little disturbance but we'll be okay with that" is gonna be around for a while, I think
about 1 year ago
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slava ukraini
about 1 year ago
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Bill Kristol
over 1 year ago
Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.
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jamelle
over 1 year ago
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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This all gets harder for them once the (already low) honeymoon polling comes down to earth. The polling comes down because the unpopular stuff they're doing breaks through. The unpopular stuff they're doing breaks through because people with megaphones sharply oppose it in ways people can hear.
over 1 year ago
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I have found
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social
‘s email stuff to be a real highlight of late. Sorta lives in the space between a substack and a fundraising program.
over 1 year ago
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I'm not sure where it sits on my list of "shit the last year pretty clearly revealed to me" but "conflict drives attention drives outcomes" is pretty high up there!
bsky.app/profile/jame...
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over 1 year ago
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Your "doing massive amounts of unchecked corruption won't lower egg prices" post is currently being reviewed by the DOJ and really, quite frankly, making them rethink their position.
over 1 year ago
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Fundamentally agree with this. A few points I'll add: 1. Imo there's another category: People who don't care about the news at all who sort of loosely hear about politics through culture, who A) were the cohort who swung the election and B) Democrats have a hard time reaching
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over 1 year ago
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Two random thoughts: 1. Obviously, they’re paving the way for unprecedented levels of grift, self-dealing, and corruption. 2. The amount of work the next Democrat is going to have to do to unfuck the Government is going to be staggering.
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over 1 year ago
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Thomas Zimmer
over 1 year ago
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
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Tech is obviously stealing the show but I do think the traditional media companies handing Trump cash settlements is really its own scandal.
deadline.com/2025/01/para...
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Paramount Global Discusses Settling Donald Trump Lawsuit Against CBS News As Media Companies Look To President’s Next Term
Paramount Global executives have held internal, informal discussions about what it might take to settle a lawsuit by incoming President Donald Trump against CBS News.
https://deadline.com/2025/01/paramount-global-donald-trump-lawsuit-cbs-news-60-minutes-1236260155/
over 1 year ago
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Aaron Rupar
over 1 year ago
Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"
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Look: there’s going to be a lot for post-mortems, but for now I’ll just say this: one thing you can do to help right now is by having a convo with a soon-to-be unemployed Harris digital staffer. Here’s a form you can fill out so they can get in touch with you.
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Help Harris Digital Staff Find Jobs
Help hire some very talented, very tired, very sad digital marketing staff. In general, we have folks with skills in the following: Social Media Email/SMS/CRM Strategy Digital organizing/community ...
https://forms.gle/YiZiwwky9uwp2Rda6
over 1 year ago
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HEARTWARMING: Hero Billionaire Purchases Toxic Social Media Site Only To Close It Down
almost 3 years ago
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