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29 May, 12 tweets, 1 min read
Finding it tough to contain my excitement over the prospect of having a three day memorial weekend with two small kids and rain every day.
The 1.5 yr old has already climbed up every chair, laughed at me as I frantically run over to make sure he doesn't kill himself. And then crawled back off. So I guess that activity is down with for now. Only 2.9 more days to go!
The older one is currently working his way through the ENTIRE catalogue on Alexa's fart sound program. Literally, 20 minutes straight of fart sounds and counting. Only 2.85 days to go!
Oh my god they have a Beethoven fart sound. Lol.
I can NOT believe it is only 9 am😔🤪
My wife is already strategically "going to the bathroom." And conveniently "washing her face." It's gonna be a long few days folks
Lol. She's been "washing her face" for 15 minutes now. What a cheater
20 minute freak out over the absence of popcorn. 2.5 days left.
To be clear, I love my kids! And even dressed one up as Elmo today for then hell of it Image
How many times can one man take a replaying of the entire Moana soundtrack????
God invented alcohol for these moments
what a great weekend

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25 May
As I watch Marjorie Taylor Greene equate Covid vaccination efforts to the Holocaust, I can’t escape the memory of going to Yad Vashem and seeing the exhibit of shoes, preserved from Holocaust victims. (a thread, if you’ll oblige me)
Like so much of the museum, it grips you to a point of near paralysis. The sheer quantity of those shoes—piles and piles— is haunting. Human beings wore them at some point in time.
But, of course, they were not seen as humans by the Nazis. They were sub-human. And so, the shoes eventually became all that was left to preserve.
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19 Jan
On inauguration day '17, Obama briefed Trump on a natl security matter.

“Trump,” Mosteller recalled, “says, ‘Well what would *you* do in this situation?’”

Mosteller exchanged a glance with Pete Souza. “We had this realization that this was really bad”

politico.com/news/magazine/…
“Jesus that day sucked,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s longtime adviser, who was with him that day.

politico.com/news/magazine/…
At the ’09 inaugural, Obama paused and closed his eyes before heading out. “It was clear to me that he was saying a prayer," said Souza

In ’17, there was no attempt to summon the divinities.

“I don’t remember him closing his eyes,” Souza said. “Maybe he should have.”
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9 Dec 20
NEW — During the campaign, a top Dem group secretly did a study to see if the most viral Lincoln Project ads were persuading persuadable swing state voters. It turns out, they weren’t.

thedailybeast.com/the-hottest-ca…
The ads were proving motivational. But "the correlation of Twitter metrics—likes and retweets—and persuasion was -0.3, 'meaning that the better the ad did on Twitter, the less it persuaded battleground state voters.’"
The Lincoln Project didn’t argue with the conclusions. They had two tracts of ads, as they saw it. And the ones going viral on twitter weren’t supposed to change someone’s mind in PA.
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1 Nov 20
NEW—Joe Biden made a bet: the majority of voters didn’t want the Democratic version of Trump but, rather, the polar opposite of him. On Tuesday, we’ll see if it works.

thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-bet-…

A detailed look at how we got her, with @HCTrudo
@HCTrudo A few campaign moments that get overlooked that Biden’s team points to as important.

1. The Zelensky phone call. It allowed Biden to say: here’s proof Trump himself believes Biden is his toughest re-election opponent, at a time when defeating Trump was the top primary issue.
2. Finishing 2nd in Nevada. It was a ~25 point loss to Sanders. A complete drubbing. But a campaign aide told us: “Had we finished third or fourth, I do not think we could have made it to South Carolina.”
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26 Oct 20
Back when I did Candidate Confessional, we interviewed @stuartpstevens about Romney-Obama ’12. One thing that stuck with me is how confident he said the campaign felt that they would win. One of the reasons they were confident? Because Obama was flailing. (cont…)
@stuartpstevens Stu chuckled at one attack line in particular: a riff Obama did in mid Oct. about Romney suffering from “Romneysia.” It was cheap and silly. And for the Romney campaign it was a sign that Obama was still scrambling for a message.

theguardian.com/world/us-news-…

(cont..)
In the end, Romneysia didn’t stick. But that’s because a separate story overtook it and everything else: Hurricane Sandy.
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8 Sep 20
A thread about what's happening now on the Left.

Last week, a coalition of leading progressive groups that make up the relatively secretive Fight Back Table discussed, for the first time, how to organize and prepare for post-Election Day chaos. 

thedailybeast.com/the-left-secre…
The meeting was two hours. And touched on operational questions: setting up a communications infrastructure, how to fight against disinfo, how to get quick transportation in place if a pol location mysteriously closes, etc...

thedailybeast.com/the-left-secre…
There is wide consensus that this could be the biggest mass civil unrest moment in decades. One source described the plan as: “Occupy shit, hold space, and shut things down, not just on Election Day but for weeks." 

thedailybeast.com/the-left-secre…
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