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Ron DeSaster. #DeSaster.

Feel like this one could really stick.
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May 23
McCarthy is offering either a deep recession or default/global crisis. He doesn't have the votes for a third option.

So getting out of this will require Ds to deliver the votes, save his Speakership & get nothing in return.

This ain't democracy peeps.

Yes my fiends it is only a negotiation if Dems get something in return.

If not it is hostage taking, and among the most anti-democratic, illiberal and dangerous acts in US history.
And Rs are even using the hostage to describe what is happening.
Read 4 tweets
May 19
Over the last few years I've spent a lot of thinking and writing about the disconnect between what was clearly an improving American economy and polls showing Americans not feeling it.

I keep wondering whether how we poll around the economy is incomplete somehow. 1/
Consider this new survey which finds job satisfaction at all time high:

"improved satisfaction across nearly all 26 components—w/gains in non-compensation factors like work-life balance outpacing even those from improved pay and benefits." 2/

conference-board.org/press/job-sati…
Look at how low down concerns about having a good job w/high pay & good benefits are in this new @NavigatorSurvey poll.

It's pretty clear the strength the economy/job market is allowing workers to worry about other things than their job/pay. That's good, right? 3/ Image
Read 12 tweets
May 16
So amazing, @DonnaDeegan with a huge win in the heart of DeSantis country!

Dems just keep winning, grabbing more political real estate.

Thanks to everyone who supported Donna and worked to make this happen - big win tonight!
This is why, like our big win in Wisconsin, our win in Jacksonville should be seen a live fire test of the strength of the two parties right now.

We are strong, united. They are an extremist mess and terribly divided.
Big shot in the arm for Florida Dems as we head into 2024.

Biden on the air there now, big win in Jax, DeSantis lurching way too far right, Trump just all sorts of ugly.

Need to go for it FL Dems and reclaim lost ground this cycle.
Read 6 tweets
May 16
Starting to believe that the corruption of the GOP by foreign powers and domestic oligarchs is the most important story in US politics today.
The $2b the Saudis put into the pockets of the Trump family is the single biggest act of political corruption in our history, and has sent a big loud signal to bad actors across the world Americans and America are for sale.
Democrats need to develop a big, meaty, serious political reform and anti-corruption agenda as soon as possible, and make it central to our 2024 narrative.
Read 4 tweets
May 15
4 reminders:
- Manafort had Putin/Russian intelligence ties
- He softened GOP platform towards arming Ukraine
- Trump welcomed Russian help publicly
- We know Manafort gave Russian intel polling info

Of course, a counter-intelligence investigation was necessary ffs!
Apparently Durham also missed the FBI agent "who oversaw some of the agency’s most secret and sensitive counterintelligence investigations" was just arrested for secretly working for the Russian who oversaw 2016 op against Clinton:

nytimes.com/2023/01/23/nyr…
From the Senate Intel Report:

“Manafort’s high-level access and willingness to share information w/individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”
Read 6 tweets
May 13
Twitter restricting access to accounts the day before an election in NATO member Turkey.

Western/NATO governments should be demanding full, immediate transparency for what could an intervention on behalf of a Putin friendly Erdogan.
It's long past time for issues around "information integrity," hybrid war, election interference, disinformation to be come a top tier NATO/G7 agenda item.

theguardian.com/world/2023/may…
More on Twitter and the Turkish Elections:

middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-el…
Read 9 tweets

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