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Maya Contreras

@mayatcontreras

14 Dec 20

https://twitter.com/JillWineBanks/status/1338411736362348544

1)I'll say this again: This isn't going to happen without a massive overhaul of policy that leads to a fundamental change of leadership in both the media and those elected to office. Fighting decades of GOP marketed tested messaging (parroted by the media) w/ facts --won't work.

https://twitter.com/JillWineBanks/status/1338411736362348544

2)We've had decades of media regulation and deregulation policies that have harmed how the public receives its news and from whom: elimination of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987/2011, Telecommunications Act of 1996, etc. leading to conglomerations. pbs.org/now/politics/m…

3)Not only did this allow for the rapid proliferation of Conservative (fact-free full-of-fear) talk radio, the dismantling of local news, but it also led to the siloed echo chambers where you can listen to fact-free news all day w/o correction or response. washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-kle…

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Maya Contreras

@mayatcontreras

12 Dec 20

@stuartpstevens

1) One of the best books I've read analyzing the GOP is @stuartpstevens' 'It Was All a Lie.' Stevens, a former Republican strategist, has come to regret his role in the GOP's current (and consistently bigoted) incarnation. Below are just a few sentence from the book. (Thread)

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1337508807258365953

2) "When any political movement loses all sense of self and has no unifying theory of government, it ceases to function as a collective rooted in thought and becomes more like fans of a sports team."

3)"Asking the Republican Party today to agree on a definition of conservatism is like asking New York Giants fans to have a consensus opinion on the Law of the Sea Treaty. It’s not just that no one knows anything about the subject; they don’t remotely care."

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Maya Contreras

@mayatcontreras

12 Nov 20

@AndrewYang

Hi @AndrewYang,
It’s not a mystery. We don’t need to “figure it out it”, it’s voter suppression, decades of hyperpartisanship, rolled up in disinformation.
When Obama was elected in Ohio and Iowa in 2008 and 2012 that was before the Voting Rights Act was gutted in 2013.

https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1326507419543941121

Disinformation has proliferated during Trump’s regime: “Despite its small viewership, Trump has helped OAN gain outsize reach and reputation by endorsing its outrageous reporting and by his multiple assertions that he might prefer the network to Fox News.” motherjones.com/politics/2020/…

We already knew America was divided and has been so since before the Civil War, but Putin & Trump exploited that and racial resentment through the use of Nationalistic disinformation then coupled that voter suppression and you have our current situation. pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…

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Maya Contreras

@mayatcontreras

6 Nov 20

1/OK, I finally started crying. This is a historic moment.
A quick Senator Kamala Harris, or rather, Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris thread.

2/So many of us believed in Kamala Harris from the start. (BTW the tiny bow was out of gratitude for how she eviscerated Jeff Sessions at his confirmation hearing.)

@blackwomenviews

3/Many of us, like Reecie @blackwomenviews, Drew @sjs856, Kenny @2RawTooReal, Sydney @TheSydneyA, and Heather @heatherrosegoes defended Kamala against the misogynoir in the media and from some in the public that she faced (and will still face, but we will shut that down!).

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Maya Contreras

@mayatcontreras

17 Sep 20

@ChrisRock

1/So I'm going to tell @ChrisRock why he's incorrect. Also, how exhausting is it that people with fame think that everything that falls out of their mouth is gold and people like me with my tiny platform have to attempt to clean up their misinformation. newsweek.com/why-chris-rock…

2/When folx w/large platforms spread misinformation about policy w/o the basic understanding of how the Legislative, Executive, Judicial branches function it harms all of us (makes Putin happy!). That's not civics shaming, just don't place blame w/o understanding how it works.

3/(I also think Chris Rock forgot why Congress impeached Trump: BECAUSE HE SOLICITED FOREIGN INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 ELECTION AND THEN OBSTRUCTED THE INVESTIGATION INTO HIM OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Chris, Trump isn't a "5-year-old", he's a CRIMINAL. Get it?) lawfareblog.com/revisiting-cri…

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Maya Contreras

@mayatcontreras

13 Sep 20

1/Saw a few (mostly white) people upset by this article thinking it was disparaging Kamala. It's not. The reporter is a Black woman who focuses on the Haitian community. Why do various BIPOC groups feel neglected by DEMS? Because, at times, they have been. miamiherald.com/news/politics-…

@Redistrict

2/What white voters forgot is your vote is constantly pursued, spoken about, and valued. (e.g. see everything @Redistrict writes about). BIPOC voters, from other countries, are almost always neglected by Presidential campaigns except for an ad or two every 4 years.

3/Democrats always get a famous singer or actor from (insert Caribbean, Central or South American country- here) or roll out a white person that speaks Spanish (Hi, Tim Kaine, and Beto) and think that’ll be enough to appeal to that demographic. It’s not.