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Maddy Salzman
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Climate, Energy, Housing, & Labor Policy; DC Resident; Pop/Youth Culture Aficionado. Views are debatably even mine.
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Assuming this isn’t a billing mistake, I am concerned how this will hit DC residents not so flush with cash these days during the hottest months.

Last summer I was being charged 9.8 ¢/kWh, less than half the current rate. June was hot - my new bill is 4x the cost of May’s 😳😳
July 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Second, this meant that the coalition we need to win had softened. I warned about this a month before Election Day 👇 4/
Rep. Ruwa Romman quote tweeting @hotdamnhistorian’s tweet that reads: “i think @Ruwa4Georgia has either said that georgia or michigan is the biggest root of a harris loss - because of the (righteous) anti-genocide vote. forgive me if i'm wrong, ruwa.” with this response thread starting with tweet 1: “Let’s break this down because yes *and* there’s more. First and foremost, if Trump wins it’s going to be because white voters continue to vote for him. The other side of the coin is if there is a softening in our coalition we lose. What does that mean? 🧵1/“ Tweet 2: Time after time we’ve shown in Georgia and elsewhere that democrats win when we expand our coalition. Yes, that means we have to care about more issues, but the basic ask of voters in our coalition is *we not hurt them.* Then from there help make things better. Seems fair. 2/ Screenshot of tweets 3, 4, and 5 from the thread. Tweet 3: In order to defeat the GOP, we have to turnout historically excluded groups to outnumber GOP voters. When our policies kill people’s loved ones, we risk our ability to win because they leave our coalition. It doesn’t mean they vote Trump, it simply means we have less votes 3/ Tweet 4: The GOP keeps their numbers the same though. It’s why Trump’s polling doesn’t move. For the GOP to win they don’t have to convince people to vote *for* them just convince enough people in our coalition not to vote for us. 4/ Tweet 5: The easiest way for them to do that is Biden’s inability to see Arabs as people and his enablement of the displacement and mass killing of loved ones. This violence is so unpopular. It’s why Biden’s numbers cratered among black, brown, and young voters 5/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/republican-pac-blankets-michigan-with-ads-touting-harriss-support-of-israel/ Screenshot of tweets 6, 7, 8, 9 Tweet 6: When Harris became our nominee, our numbers among black, brown, and young voters shot up. The excitement was real. Then came the platforming of the GOP *at the expense of those who’ve been in our coalition.* Suddenly, the softening was back. 6/ Tweet 7: Not to mention Harris not breaking away on Gaza. In close swing states, this means every group can rightfully claim the inevitable loss and the importance of their issue. The difference on Palestine though is it’s become a symbol of what voters hate about government. 7/ Tweet 8: It includes everything from them hating war to money in politics after the primaries to elected officials ignoring public opinion. And, the advocacy groups we need to turnout voters are struggling both due to a dip in funding and because they care about this. 8/ Tweet 9: They’re anti-war. Feel like their policies are being ignored. And, their volunteers also feel the same. They turnout voters and volunteers. We need volunteers to turnout voters. Volunteers come from the coalition that cares about this. It’s depressing efforts. Etc. 9/ Screenshot of tweets 10, 11, 12 from the thread: Tweet 10: All Harris has to do is publicly commit to enforcing US and international humanitarian law that would stop the bombs being used to commit war crimes. It would only benefit her and grow her lead instead of keeping states like Georgia toss ups! 10/ Tweet 11: Biden’s position is ridiculously unpopular. She has a campaign side that can message on this. She just announced her policy on legalizing marijuana that is somewhat different than POTUS. This isn’t hard. 11/ Tweet 12: Not to mention it really feels like Biden and his team would rather have her lose. They could easily take the risk and stop the bombs themselves. They’re choosing not to, escalating, and setting her up for a glass cliff instead of helping her break a glass ceiling. 12/
November 17, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Can we get a version of this map that instead shows up/down arrows for turnout compared to 2020? Did turnout go up in any location, or was it town generally everywhere?
November 7, 2024 at 10:57 PM