Brooke Densmore Williams (she/her)
@brdw.bsky.social
⚖️ Progress Alliance of WA & WDN Action Boards
🗳️ fan of @movementvoter.bsky.social, @workingfamilies.org & @waytowinus.bsky.social
📋 Get organized, fund movement!
🗳️ fan of @movementvoter.bsky.social, @workingfamilies.org & @waytowinus.bsky.social
📋 Get organized, fund movement!
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As part of her series on women, wealth & power, Tricia Raikes spoke with our Pres & CEO Leena Barakat about how women are reshaping philanthropy. Leena’s story is an invitation: follow what moves you & don’t wait until everything feels figured out. #philanthropy
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Redefining Power: A Conversation with Leena Barakat on the Future of Women-Led Wealth
As more wealth shifts to women than ever before, a defining question emerges: How can we lead in ways that truly redefine power and who it serves? In the second installment of my series on women, weal...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
As part of her series on women, wealth & power, Tricia Raikes spoke with our Pres & CEO Leena Barakat about how women are reshaping philanthropy. Leena’s story is an invitation: follow what moves you & don’t wait until everything feels figured out. #philanthropy
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JUST POSTED: some thoughts about the arguments of the past few weeks, Tuesday's election results, and where we are headed from here.
Everyone Is Wrong
The Way To Win Is Strength, Not Moderation. The 2025 Winners Proved It.
chartingthewayforward.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
JUST POSTED: some thoughts about the arguments of the past few weeks, Tuesday's election results, and where we are headed from here.
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One major takeaway: Winsome Earle-Sears tried relentlessly to attack Abigail Spanberger with the same transphobic messaging Trump used against Kamala Harris.... and people just didn't care. It shows anti-trans messaging isn't an inflection point.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Five big takeaways from Democrats’ blue tsunami election that should worry Trump
Record voter turnout, a revolt against Trump and DOGE in Virginia, affordability remains a throughline and all should worry Trump, Mike Johnson and the Republicans, Eric Garcia writes. Plus, one tough...
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
One major takeaway: Winsome Earle-Sears tried relentlessly to attack Abigail Spanberger with the same transphobic messaging Trump used against Kamala Harris.... and people just didn't care. It shows anti-trans messaging isn't an inflection point.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Interesting to think that this is the kind of polling that James Carville was looking at the last time he won an election 🤷♂️
Looking how politicians and advisors have categorized voter groups in old political polls can be jarring to say the least. From 1990, these "status groups" are bizarre, not to mention bigoted.
October 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Interesting to think that this is the kind of polling that James Carville was looking at the last time he won an election 🤷♂️
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AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
June 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
This is the energy we need from leaders - thank you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov !
April 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is the energy we need from leaders - thank you, @govpritzker.illinois.gov !
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🔥 WATCH: Bernie sweeps aside Senator Slotkin saying Dems should stop talking about fighting the oligarchy because people don’t understand.
Of course people get it. And if they don’t, you don’t stop saying it. You say it until they do. #FightTheOligarchy 🇺🇸
Of course people get it. And if they don’t, you don’t stop saying it. You say it until they do. #FightTheOligarchy 🇺🇸
April 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
🔥 WATCH: Bernie sweeps aside Senator Slotkin saying Dems should stop talking about fighting the oligarchy because people don’t understand.
Of course people get it. And if they don’t, you don’t stop saying it. You say it until they do. #FightTheOligarchy 🇺🇸
Of course people get it. And if they don’t, you don’t stop saying it. You say it until they do. #FightTheOligarchy 🇺🇸
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April 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Happening now on @haymarketbooks.org ' YouTube page (and available to watch afterward as well)! ⬇️
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Trump's Hammer, Our Hope: An Emergency Town Hall
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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April 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Happening now on @haymarketbooks.org ' YouTube page (and available to watch afterward as well)! ⬇️
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www.youtube.com/live/9vP5p_o...
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social elegantly summinng up the appeal of the podcast Manosphere.
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March 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social elegantly summinng up the appeal of the podcast Manosphere.
pca.st/episode/e185...
pca.st/episode/e185...
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ICYMI — here’s the lesson Schumer and the other Dems just taught them 👇🏽
March 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
ICYMI — here’s the lesson Schumer and the other Dems just taught them 👇🏽
Important 🧵 from @anatosaurus.bsky.social ⬇️
Now we have no choice but to accept what we have long known: We cannot vote our way to a democracy.
The only way forward is for us to take direct action.
The only way forward is for us to take direct action.
March 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Important 🧵 from @anatosaurus.bsky.social ⬇️
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Now we have no choice but to accept what we have long known: We cannot vote our way to a democracy.
The only way forward is for us to take direct action.
The only way forward is for us to take direct action.
March 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Now we have no choice but to accept what we have long known: We cannot vote our way to a democracy.
The only way forward is for us to take direct action.
The only way forward is for us to take direct action.
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AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.
March 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.
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Putting a lot of chips on thermostatic public opinion here. Not sure “we’re fighting Trump by voting to let him do what he wants” is gonna motivate a lot of people to vote, donate and organize for the midterms. bsky.app/profile/atru...
HAYES: There's an unconstitutional assault on the government right now
SCHUMER: There is, absolutely
HAYES: But they say you're not fighting!
SCHUMER: They're already doing it without this CR
SCHUMER: There is, absolutely
HAYES: But they say you're not fighting!
SCHUMER: They're already doing it without this CR
March 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Putting a lot of chips on thermostatic public opinion here. Not sure “we’re fighting Trump by voting to let him do what he wants” is gonna motivate a lot of people to vote, donate and organize for the midterms. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.
March 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.
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👇👇👇
McConnell abused the filibuster to make America worse. Schumer is refusing to use the filibuster to... accomplish what, exactly?
March 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
👇👇👇
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Apropos of nothing in particular, here is a photo of young Chuck Schumer at a birthday party for Donald Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn:
March 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular, here is a photo of young Chuck Schumer at a birthday party for Donald Trump’s mentor, Roy Cohn:
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absolutely
19-20 months from now, Trump will have pushed the economy off a cliff and left the civil service a smouldering husk. If you're a Democratic elected and you think a government shutdown from a CR fight is gonna be the thing voters remember, you need your fucking head examined.
March 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
absolutely
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Five years ago, Breonna Taylor was murdered. She should still be alive.
We will not forget.
#SayHerName
We will not forget.
#SayHerName
March 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Five years ago, Breonna Taylor was murdered. She should still be alive.
We will not forget.
#SayHerName
We will not forget.
#SayHerName
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Three years ago, three other reporters and I ID'd and called any school accused of having litter boxes for furries.
We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district.
Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district.
Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
March 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Three years ago, three other reporters and I ID'd and called any school accused of having litter boxes for furries.
We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district.
Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district.
Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...
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Good morning Washington. Today's the last day both the state House and Senate are able to pass (non-budget) bills off their floors, with a 5pm deadline where they can keep working on one individual bill.
The Senate has 68 bills ready to move, and the House has 71. Many of them will die today.
The Senate has 68 bills ready to move, and the House has 71. Many of them will die today.
March 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Good morning Washington. Today's the last day both the state House and Senate are able to pass (non-budget) bills off their floors, with a 5pm deadline where they can keep working on one individual bill.
The Senate has 68 bills ready to move, and the House has 71. Many of them will die today.
The Senate has 68 bills ready to move, and the House has 71. Many of them will die today.
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Some people think getting your books banned is a badge of honor, but it’s not. As I told Ms. Mag: “It’s not a badge of honor to have my creative work denigrated as obscene, especially when that work is about queer people and people of color. It’s offensive to have my work mischaracterized this way.”
March 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Some people think getting your books banned is a badge of honor, but it’s not. As I told Ms. Mag: “It’s not a badge of honor to have my creative work denigrated as obscene, especially when that work is about queer people and people of color. It’s offensive to have my work mischaracterized this way.”
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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Elon Musk's involvement in Wisconsin has turned what could've been a sleepy off-year election at a time when Democrats are still reeling from Trump’s second win into a race with major significance.
“We’ll find out whether Musk’s millions are more powerful than the fury [he] provokes among voters.”
“We’ll find out whether Musk’s millions are more powerful than the fury [he] provokes among voters.”
The Wisconsin Supreme Court election is a referendum on Elon Musk
“We'll find out whether Musk's millions are more powerful than the fury that Musk provokes among voters.”
www.motherjones.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Elon Musk's involvement in Wisconsin has turned what could've been a sleepy off-year election at a time when Democrats are still reeling from Trump’s second win into a race with major significance.
“We’ll find out whether Musk’s millions are more powerful than the fury [he] provokes among voters.”
“We’ll find out whether Musk’s millions are more powerful than the fury [he] provokes among voters.”