Describing Donkeys
@describingdonkeys.bsky.social
Here to dispel the myths and establish who the Democrats are and what they stand for. Somebody has to.
If you interact with me, I'll definitely follow. You don't need to agree with me, I want conversations and pushing back.
#DemocraticMessaging
If you interact with me, I'll definitely follow. You don't need to agree with me, I want conversations and pushing back.
#DemocraticMessaging
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A quick collection of independent media, feel free to add.
newrepublic.com
www.vox.com
www.motherjones.com
www.thebulwark.com
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
www.democracydocket.com
www.vanityfair.com
www.newyorker.com
slate.com
www.politico.com
crooked.com
www.meidasplus.com
newrepublic.com
www.vox.com
www.motherjones.com
www.thebulwark.com
open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
www.democracydocket.com
www.vanityfair.com
www.newyorker.com
slate.com
www.politico.com
crooked.com
www.meidasplus.com
@aoc.bsky.social
I don't know that you will see this, but could you use your tour to help people organize. There are few situations where so many like minded people are together. It would be an easy time to connect people.
I don't know that you will see this, but could you use your tour to help people organize. There are few situations where so many like minded people are together. It would be an easy time to connect people.
March 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
@aoc.bsky.social
I don't know that you will see this, but could you use your tour to help people organize. There are few situations where so many like minded people are together. It would be an easy time to connect people.
I don't know that you will see this, but could you use your tour to help people organize. There are few situations where so many like minded people are together. It would be an easy time to connect people.
This is a discussion I've been having on Reddit, but I think it distills what we are trying to say when we ask democrats to cut through the noise and focus on the issues.
www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal...
www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal...
OgreMcGee's comment on "GOP hardliners threaten revolt over Johnson plan to implement Trump agenda | CNN Politics"
Explore this conversation and more from the neoliberal community
www.reddit.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
This is a discussion I've been having on Reddit, but I think it distills what we are trying to say when we ask democrats to cut through the noise and focus on the issues.
www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal...
www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal...
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This is all 'the battle.' There isn't 'waiting for the right' one anymore. They know precisely what they are doing and it's meant to keep us pacing back and forth waiting for the 'right battle.' Stop dicking around and pick any battle. Get in the fight now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
February 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is all 'the battle.' There isn't 'waiting for the right' one anymore. They know precisely what they are doing and it's meant to keep us pacing back and forth waiting for the 'right battle.' Stop dicking around and pick any battle. Get in the fight now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory
February 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory
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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Thank you @raskin.house.gov for going out and saying what so few are. The Trump administration is stealing the power of the purse from congress. The budget becomes meaningless in that situation.
Jamie Raskin is on 🔥🔥🔥
"We don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk. And that's going to become real clear."
"We don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk. And that's going to become real clear."
February 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Thank you @raskin.house.gov for going out and saying what so few are. The Trump administration is stealing the power of the purse from congress. The budget becomes meaningless in that situation.
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These warning signs match exactly with actual behavior of the #MagaCult. The rest of us MUST gently help guide the #Maga to realize they're in a cult ... and to then help them break out of the cult.
And then we must all - #exMaga and #neverMaga alike - call for an #ElectionDoOver2024!
And then we must all - #exMaga and #neverMaga alike - call for an #ElectionDoOver2024!
December 23, 2024 at 7:44 PM
These warning signs match exactly with actual behavior of the #MagaCult. The rest of us MUST gently help guide the #Maga to realize they're in a cult ... and to then help them break out of the cult.
And then we must all - #exMaga and #neverMaga alike - call for an #ElectionDoOver2024!
And then we must all - #exMaga and #neverMaga alike - call for an #ElectionDoOver2024!
In the ongoing search for better messaging, I think we should frame what is happening as the government no longer honoring contracts. People understand what that means.
February 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
In the ongoing search for better messaging, I think we should frame what is happening as the government no longer honoring contracts. People understand what that means.
100% our goal is control the kind of discourse takes place, not gatekeep who can contribute to conversations. Force people to be civil, not have your ideas.
February 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
100% our goal is control the kind of discourse takes place, not gatekeep who can contribute to conversations. Force people to be civil, not have your ideas.
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Visit me in the camps
February 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Visit me in the camps
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Primary Every Democrat newrepublic.com/article/1909... via @newrepublic.com
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Primary Every Democrat newrepublic.com/article/1909... via @newrepublic.com
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There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.
February 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.
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I spoke to former Treasury and OMB officials, and they said Elon Musk accessing government payment systems could give him the power to selectively turn off payments. They described what this really means in very clarifying terms. See below:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
January 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I spoke to former Treasury and OMB officials, and they said Elon Musk accessing government payment systems could give him the power to selectively turn off payments. They described what this really means in very clarifying terms. See below:
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
newrepublic.com/article/1910...
What value does a statement provide? Is this the best way for Jeffries to be shining a light on what is happening? Doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity, which is what this feels like.
My statement on the FBI Purge that puts at risk the safety, well-being and national security of the American people.
February 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What value does a statement provide? Is this the best way for Jeffries to be shining a light on what is happening? Doing the same thing and expecting different results is the definition of insanity, which is what this feels like.
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This is such a terrible headline, I hesitated to share because I don't know what to say other than legacy media is broken. Games and puzzles have replaced fearless journalism.
Support independent media.
Support independent media.
February 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is such a terrible headline, I hesitated to share because I don't know what to say other than legacy media is broken. Games and puzzles have replaced fearless journalism.
Support independent media.
Support independent media.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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This is exactly why we all need to support independent media.
January 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This is exactly why we all need to support independent media.
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It is not hyperbole when I say that we are in the middle of a coup.
NO private citizen should EVER have access to the nation’s treasury unless you are there to plunder it.
This is unbelievable.
NO private citizen should EVER have access to the nation’s treasury unless you are there to plunder it.
This is unbelievable.
The highest positions of the FBI are being purged tonight.
Elon Musk is a private citizen trying to seize control of the treasury, having access to taxpayers money.
Trump cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by EO, we are in another Constitution crisis.
newrepublic.com/post/190983/...
Elon Musk is a private citizen trying to seize control of the treasury, having access to taxpayers money.
Trump cannot eliminate an appropriated federal agency by EO, we are in another Constitution crisis.
newrepublic.com/post/190983/...
Elon Musk Is Trying to Get Control of Key Payment System—at Any Cost
A top Treasury official plans to resign after a fight with Elon Musk’s allies over access to a sensitive payment system.
newrepublic.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
It is not hyperbole when I say that we are in the middle of a coup.
NO private citizen should EVER have access to the nation’s treasury unless you are there to plunder it.
This is unbelievable.
NO private citizen should EVER have access to the nation’s treasury unless you are there to plunder it.
This is unbelievable.
Can someone explain to me "condum bombs".
January 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Can someone explain to me "condum bombs".
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Trump is well aware. The independent media is hitting him a lot harder than corporate media, yet he is drawing attention to where he can control the narrative.
Do not trauma bond with corporations.
Do not trauma bond with corporations.
January 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Trump is well aware. The independent media is hitting him a lot harder than corporate media, yet he is drawing attention to where he can control the narrative.
Do not trauma bond with corporations.
Do not trauma bond with corporations.
I know this is kind of a small background story, but it will be critical to follow in how democracy is being attacked. Rejecting those votes will be one of the darkest moments in American history after the Civil Rights Amendment.
Incredibly alarming piece about three Republican justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court who seem committed to nullifying tens of thousands of lawful votes so they can steal a seat for a fellow Republican. Of course they're also gaslighting us about what they're doing. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The North Carolina Supreme Court Is Coming Dangerously Close to Stealing an Election
In this moment of crisis, the courts have become the final guardrail against the forces of authoritarianism that seek to undermine the will of the voters.
slate.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I know this is kind of a small background story, but it will be critical to follow in how democracy is being attacked. Rejecting those votes will be one of the darkest moments in American history after the Civil Rights Amendment.
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