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Eric Ressler
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Founder & Creative Director @ Cosmic, building social impact brands for the modern era.

I’m basically here to shitpost, if you want serious stuff find me on LinkedIn.
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…has anyone tried turning society off and then back on again?
September 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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America so desperately needs something positive. Something to hope for. This sh*t is completely untenable.
September 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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In an interview earlier this month, I talked a bit about online fundraising in the Democratic Party, my own personal culpability here as an email fundraiser from 2012-2016, and how @runforsomething.net thinks about it. eressler.substack.com/p/amanda-lit...
How are you thinking about fundraising in your world and, more broadly, how can we bring people together for these movements in a way that's constructive — not extractive or transactional? Amanda Litman: I've been thinking a lot about this because my original career entry point was in digital fundraising. My first job was doing online fundraising for Barack Obama's presidential campaign in 2012. I did the same thing in 2014. Then I ran Hillary Clinton's email program, which was asking people for money and to volunteer and engage in other ways — primarily grassroots support. I remember in 2012 running an experiment on our email list testing, was there such a thing as too much email? One of my jobs for two months was that every day I was responsible for picking the two or three emails we were going to send that day and sending it to an additional test group and a control group to determine: was there a limit to how many times we could ask people to give? What we found in that experiment — this was 2012, over a decade ago — more email meant more money even when you factored in unsubscribes. And if our job on the campaign was to raise the money to help win, that was worth it, even if people complained. We were thoughtful and careful about the tactics we used as part of those emails. We were intentional about making emails sound like the voice they were coming from. We thought about treating supporters with respect. Our guiding ethos was to never treat the list like an ATM. Over the decades since then, people and programs have internalized "more email means more money" — you ask more, you get more — without remembering the treating people with respect part. Run for Something does not run a program like that. We email people for money regularly because we're doing work that deserves to be funded, but not every time, not every day. I am rigorous about the kinds of things I approve. Sometimes we do things and I'm like, we need to scale that back next time. I think it's important because we're trying to build something long-term and sustainable, and that means we want our supporters to be with us for the long-term. I can't burn those bridges. Campaigns have a very different mindset, and nonprofit groups can have a very different mindset. One of the tensions is that if you aren't putting your foot to the fire for your small-dollar fundraising — email, social, text — the money has to come from somewhere else. And right now, it's not. Major money — foundations, institutions, major donors — is also not really moving in a meaningful way. So we're at a standstill. I still don't think that's an excuse to treat supporters like crap, but I understand the motivation for these organizations to do so. It's a big conversation among the Democratic left and the broader nonprofit sector: how do you do this in a way that sustains the work and the relationship?
August 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Season 3 of my pod Designing tomorrow is a warp.

If you’re in the #socialimpact sector give it a listen and subscribe.

New episodes dropping weekly.
November 27, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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There have been a lot of times where I feel like we need to have honest discussions on the left about what has worked and what hasn’t, share observations without judgement, but it feels like there isn’t much space for it. I think it’s holding us back.

I wonder how and where we can accomplish that.
November 22, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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RT if you think they should still release the ethics report on Matt Gaetz
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Nov 21
BREAKING: Gaetz withdraws from consideration for attorney general.
November 21, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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When the WWF appointee is NOT the least qualified of the batch so far…
a man in a wrestling ring holds a microphone with a w on it
ALT: a man in a wrestling ring holds a microphone with a w on it
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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Any good comedian starter packs?
November 16, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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BREAKING: ABC reports that the teenager at the center of the Matt Gaetz investigation testified to the House Ethics Committee that he had sex with her when she was 17 years old.

Release the report. abcnews.link/mHbu5bd
Woman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources
The woman at the center of the DOJ's probe of Matt Gaetz testified to the House Ethics Committee that he had sex with her when she was 17 years old, sources say.
abcnews.link
November 14, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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MY DMs are filled with these guys yelling at me about RFK Jr and healthy food but they disappear once I bring up the other stuff.
November 15, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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From a friend: “Someone I know had a meeting with a Trump agriculture transition team member. This person said surely you’re not going to impose tariffs on food imports. He responded why wouldn’t we? And my person said: because about 30% of the food Americans regularly consume cannot be grown here…”
November 14, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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My feelings on RFK Jr. Simps
November 14, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Its so....nice here?
November 14, 2024 at 11:29 PM
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Just in: Trump picks Kennedy for DHHS.

People will die because of this.

Many, not just a few. www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/p...
Trump picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services | CNN Politics
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, a source familiar with the move told CNN, a choice that would add...
www.cnn.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Ok if this is going to replace Twitter there is going to need to be a MAJOR step up on the memes
November 14, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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Ok if this is going to replace Twitter there is going to need to be a MAJOR step up on the memes
November 14, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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The relationship with the incoming administration and nonprofits / NGOs is...complicated.

Elon is saying government funding of NGO's is a waste of money.

JD Vance has called endowed funds a cancer on society.

And the incoming chief of staff has a history of lobbying for nonprofits.
Incoming Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Lobbied for Nonprofits Backed by Major Funders
Wiles’ firm was paid $2 million to lobby for nonprofits backed by billionaires like Bill Gates and foundations like Hewlett and MacArthur.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:36 PM