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28 Jun, 8 tweets, 2 min read
Among the signs at this @sunrisemvmt infrastructure action: BIDEN YOU COWARD FIGHT FOR US
We got drums
“It is this movement that delivered Joe Biden the presidency,” says first speaker.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman reviving up crowd
Cori Bush and AOC stopped by. “They want you to think that we’re not winning,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We went from making climate a very low issue to voters to a top three issue for voters.”
Folks…
The big ask today has been for the climate focused New Deal-style Civilian Climate Corps — “we’re going to get that in this infrastructure bill.”

“We’re going to fight until this infrastructure bill replaces every lead pipe in this country.”
The lead pipe replacement is actually part of the bill already; I read this as AOC secretly hyping something that will be flagged as a lefty win it it happens

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29 Jun
Seeing this get RT'd a lot, and most interesting part imo is the continuing evolution of atheist/free-thinker groups into anti-CRT groups. Like, check out the top- billed speakers at the first Mythinformed conference... then check out what they were doing pre-Trump. ImageImageImage
Check out the Mythinformed page five, six years ago, and it's "Jesus isn't real," check it out now and it's nonstop videos about anti-racism/CRT etc. Same journey as Bill Maher Image
Oh, and the clip in question does seem very stupid, an academic saying that black people are "relational" thinkers and don't learn or tell stories the same as white people. I'm always more interested in the pipeline, why and how we all learn about these idiots.
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19 Jun
First up today at Faith & Freedom Coalition conference; John Solomon, Jena Ellis, and Hogan Gidley, talking about media/2020. Cheers when Solomon predicts that in Georgia, (GOP) state leaders will "take over Fulton County and say, we're going to run the elections going forward."
This panel accentuates how much "the media" is shorthand for "cable news." Solomon: "They talk to their friends, and that's it, it becomes an echo chamber." That's not an unfair description of cable chatter! But of the actual reporting going on?
Like, for example, Reid Epstein and Nick Corasaniti didnt' call up some green room experts for this story, they talked to local elected officials, who shared views like "Trump won."
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18 Jun
Watching Ron Johnson at Ralph Reed's Faith & Freedom Coalition, struck by how much this sounds like what I heard from liberals for four years. "We focused all of our energy on winning the presidency, on winning senate races," ignoring county and school board races.
School boards have been full of conservative-vs-liberal action for decades; the idea that liberals took them all over while conservatives slept is a stretch.
Rep. Ann Wagner talks up both her Born Alive abortion bill, but applause was as loud or louder when she said she'd been to the border and Biden policies were "allowing thousands of women and children to be trafficked across the border and sold into slavery."
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10 Jun
A look at how the *Democratic Establishment* [insert thunderclap noise] has been mostly routing the left in primaries this year, with the kings @SchneiderG and @michaelscherer. (Beating Trump made D voters much more content w their old guard.) washingtonpost.com/politics/mcaul…
McAuliffe's win was expected, but the left lost a winnable LG primary, and three left-wing VA legislators lost primaries; the pro-Green New Deal candidate lost in #LA02; Nina Turner, the likeliest Bernie Wing winner of the year, is running as a pro-Obama Dem.
The situation in #NM01 was a little different, bc the left-wing candidate lost in a virtual convention, not a primary. But the more center-left candidate ran ads touting her work with police and won by a landslide.
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9 Jun
Speaker of Virginia’s HOD is a Jewish woman, Dem majority leader is a black woman. New Youngkin ad portrays him pushing through a sea of old white dudes, representing the “the same politicians” in Richmond. #VAGov really testing how voters define “outsider.”
He’s running against Terry McAuliffe, who’s a white dude — this ad surely stays on shelf if JCF or McClellan one. It’s just interesting to see how Rs run as change agents; Dems in 2017/2019 made the story about the diverse candidates they were fielding
Youngkin’s other new spot uses clips of Jennifer Carroll Foy calling McAuliffe a failure and a “politician of the past,” so some of this is trying to see if liberal voters will be unenthused at the prospect of TMac coming back.
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9 Jun
Looking good for Ayala in VA LG race; dominating NoVa, Richmond area. Rasoul not winning much outside of SWVA and getting wrecked in Tidewater.
This would be a blow for the left, which knew McAuliffe was going to be tough but correctly saw the LG race as wide open. Ayala spent last week on defense over Dominion domination, didn't seem to stop her.
The whole night is a testament to... Ralph Northam, who endorsed McAuliffe, helped Jones go the distance with Herring, and boosted Ayala in a race where, as one Democrat puts it, "nobody knew anything about anybody."
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