Over 75 neighbors who care about the safety and security of those who live in central Brooklyn D39 showed up on Sunday, ready to table, door-knock, and phone bank because we are fed up with our city councilwoman Shahana Hanif. This is what a local, grassroots, people-powered movement looks like.

The CFPB protects consumers from bad companies trying to rip them off. My friend & 97% of her coworkers are being fired despite the fact that they cost the taxpayer nothing and return billions to consumers…it’s infuriating.

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Imagine being a multi-billionaire and choosing to spend your days trolling, firing and deporting people. It’s a pretty dark worldview.

Art imitating life imitating art:
“Murdoch’s children started secretly discussing the PR strategy for their father’s death in 2023. Setting off these discussions was the episode of…’Succession,’ where the patriarch…dies, leaving his family & business in chaos”

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In Dec 2023, on Steve Bannon’s "War Room" podcast, Kash Patel said:
"We will go out and find the conspirators-not just in govt ...we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections ...We're going to come after you.”

Apparently the move to broadcast the National Dog show, which draws about 20 million viewers, was inspired by the “Best in Show,” mockumentary. A classic!

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Latino neighborhoods accounted for nearly half of Mr. Trump’s total gains in NYC compared with 2020.

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Bluesky has to improve on helping people find who they want to follow and help people get more followers (encourage most popular users to follow more people) if it’s going to succeed.

While advocacy orgs play an essential role in shaping policy & holding leaders accountable, their growing influence over the Dems has led to an environment where compromise is increasingly viewed as a weakness rather than a necessary tool of governance. Balance bold ideas w/pragmatism so we can win

Obama understood that progress comes not from ideological purity but from the messy imperfect process of governing. The Dems are increasingly falling into a pattern of demanding ideological purity from leaders. This limits policy progress & weakens the party’s broad appeal. Let's stop w/litmus tests

Gaetz is out. That was fast!

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“In politics, winning elections is the moral imperative…Those who would rather lose elections so that they can feel better about themselves leave the real suffering to the people they claim to fight for.”

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