Full reference for any U.S. officials who are working on this:

Counterpoint: This data doesn’t demonstrate an approval problem. It demonstrates a COMMUNICATIONS problem.

People don’t know what the federal govt is or what it does for them.

Biden Admin had the same problem. This is not new.

That persistency is the story.
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New game: Truth Social grift or text message scam?

Shots fired by Truth Social (now Truth+? I’ve lost the thread on the brand).

Regular reminder that government solves problems no one else wants to and that’s what its super power is.
@andrewjtobias.bsky.social

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Finally! A marketing campaign for “attend your city’s public meetings.”

Even in Cleveland

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1.5 Obviously, not all Americans are active Twitter users. Nor would many people say it's their primary news source. But what's worse is the information doesn't even match the user base.

This information is partially targeted to women--and women don't use Twitter nearly as much as men.

I went to the CDC website. It still says "Everyone ages 6 months and older should get a 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine."

So as someone who's been doing public comms for awhile, let's have a little a teaching moment about why this RFK COVID vaccine "announcement" is so bad.

Here's my audit:

Noooo @mozilla.org say it ain’t so—this is my only tool to combat extreme internet tabbing

On the latest season of “The Wire”…

Even the Vatican doesn’t want any part of the United States brand. Very intentional word choice here.

My protest is hosting a local workshop to help people learn to talk to each other.

AKA a neighborhood block party.

I’m sharing this because I have lost count of how many people have said to me “I just don’t know what to do.”

Start with what you know. And then just DO.

Pattern recognition