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Democratic Party: We have the best vendors already. If you work for a primary challenger we will blacklist you.

Iowa Democratic Party: Yes, our vendors are the best. Check out our new app.
No but seriously let's unpack what happened: In 2018, a group of savvy organizers executed a sophisticated digital and on-the-ground strategy -- which involved developing the breakthrough app @reach_vote -- that knocked out the heir to the Speakership, Joe Crowley. The party...
responded not by examining what had happened, learning and absorbing lessons, but instead by simply banning any firm who supports challengers to incumbents from working for the DCCC.
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Ryan Grim
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So @anotheracronym is saying it was just a mere investor in Shadow, the developer that botched the Iowa caucuses. Here's @taraemcg celebrating its launch, which begins, "With Shadow, we're building..." [followed by gibberish]
@anotheracronym @taraemcg "at Shadow, we've got a plan..."

Who is the "we" if this was just some random investment?
@anotheracronym @taraemcg This is the same firm doing this nytimes.com/2019/11/04/us/…
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Ryan Grim
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The broad consensus among political reporters & operatives seems to be that Warren's camp did not in fact intentionally leak details of the meeting, but that it was more likely somebody else either with an axe to grind or who'd benefit from the resulting fracas. /1
Warren could've blunted the story and said her memory is what it is but she takes her friend at his word that he didn't mean it that way. Sanders could've de-escalated by saying he was sorry if he gave off the wrong impression and only meant that Trump will exploit sexism. But
my guess is that we will eventually find out where it came from, and it will make more sense than Warren doing it intentionally.
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Ryan Grim
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This "fact check" of Bernie Sanders' newsletter on Biden and Social Security is just flat out wrong in multiple ways, and I'll explain how politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
Politifact says Biden was being sarcastic and mocking Paul Ryan when he agreed that you have to cut Social Security to balance the budget. But that whisper thing Biden does is an old move: he does it when he's speaking forbidden, politically incorrect truths to the left
Go watch Biden speeches, you'll find that whisper move is consistent. Means he's attacking the left. But ok, say you don't believe me. It's wrong on a second count here. Politifact bolded the wrong words. The right ones are highlighted ("it still needs adjustment"):
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New RF report Mapping Millennials is out today. The lack of generational progress on living standards – where young people no longer enjoy far higher incomes than their predecessors - is a huge problem. But our new analysis shows that are also great regional disparities...
People in their 20s in the North East are earning more and are more likely to be in work than their predecessors 15 years before were at the same age. But young people in London & South East are earning less than their predecessors. Regional pay gaps have narrowed as a result...
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This is on its face monstrous, but I want to talk about the actual manifestation for a bit just to give you an idea of exactly how pointless it is.
The fact that Fortnite:BR makes huge changes to the island every twelve weeks for each season is already a daunting development task. But it really doesn't stop there.
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Danielle Cave
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New HUGE @ASPI_ICPC project just launched online: Mapping China's #Tech Giants. It represents 5mths work from 6+ of our analysts (& is why I've been more terrible than usual on email of late..).

Check out our new website chinatechmap.aspi.org.au
.@ASPI_ICPC put this site + public database together to help fill a research gap. In 2018 we had non-stop Qs from international media & stakeholders we couldn't answer: "What is Huawei, Tencent, Baidu, CETC etc doing in X country?" They were always very difficult Qs to answer
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Austin Frerick
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Check out my new article in @amconmag -- it's honestly my favorite thing I've ever written.

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Ali Adair #WaveCast #WaveCastFL
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🌊🗳️#Democratic Americans—the ones who are standing up for Democracy—have gone to "extraordinary lengths" to promote candidates and get out the vote. They've:

▶️Quit jobs
▶️Delayed school
▶️Moved across country
▶️Worked without pay

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🙌👊Thank you to all of them.

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NEW THREAD: Because it never stopped being 2016, the media has still not vetted @Ocasio2018 to figure out (pretty easily): 1. Her bio is fraudulent; 2. She is amplified by fake socialist bots/trolls; 3. Her #1 goal for 2018 is to divide @DNC. Here's what I've found so far... /1
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