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Evan Sutton
@3vanSutton
Han Shot first. Helping leaders tell stories that build trust and spark action. Pie baker. ENM. Formerly @AFTunion, @neworganizing, @barackobama
Apr 25 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The right wing is frothing at the mouth at the prospect of major clashes between students and police. It will give them the "Biden's America is spiraling out of control" story they crave. The most important thing D mayors and governors can do is NOT give them that story. Don't take my word for it — just look at Mike Johnson's nonsense stunt yesterday at Columbia. The only reason he went there was to escalate the situation and give himself the excuse to call for Biden to unleash the National Guard on a bunch of kids.
Apr 2 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
17 years ago yesterday, my boss showed up unannounced while I was doing weekly inventory at the bar I (very successfully) managed. He told me I was fired. I thought it was April fools, but it wasn't. I got circular logic and no clear reason... I got home completely shell shocked and found the final 3 grad school letters I'd been waiting on. They were all rejections, marking 3 straight years and a total of 17 MFA programs that didn't think I was good enough...
Jan 4 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Joe Biden and Democrats delivered a fix to the multiemployer pension crisis—the Teamsters' top priority for more than 20 years. They did it without a single R vote. I get the whole "we need to show that our endorsement process is real" argument, but it doesn't hold water here IMO In an open field, a robust process makes sense. But Joe Biden more than delivered on promises he made to win the endorsement in 2020. The correct approach here, IMO, is to spend the energy explaining to your members how we stick with people who are good on their word
Nov 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The thing about politics is that people don't have strong feelings about most issues unless you get them riled up. The GOP understands this, and makes up issues out of thin air. CRT, drag queen story hour, rainbow fentanyl, trans athletes, migrant caravans, ebola... These are all nonsense, but the GOP hammers them, press covers them, and voters get upset about them. Democrats need to learn to hammer the GOP in a way that voters understand. @brianbeutler is right - people don't like liars and cheaters. They don't like corruption.
Nov 4, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
He spent $44 billion to get debunked by his own platform. Delicious Image Here's the link to the actual tweet in case you want to check with this was photoshopped lolol. I'm dying imagining him screaming into a phone for someone to get him a programmer to fix it...but he just fired all of them
Nov 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Here's a radical proposal for anyone willing to take on big money on housing. Ban corporations from purchasing single family homes or multi-unit buildings with fewer than, say, 9 units. Impose a huge corporate tax on all such properties currently owned, with a 1-year escape hatch Here's what I see in my area: investors buy houses at inflated prices for cash, then turn them around and rent them at high rates. This drives down inventory, drives up prices for purchase and rent. In 2021, nationwide, 25% of homes were purchased by corporations
Sep 23, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Let's rewrite this without the passive voice!

Three police officers and two paramedics killed Elijah McClain, a young, unarmed Black man, by forcibly restraining him after injecting him with a powerful sedative. Passive voice ALWAYS absolves someone of responsibility. If you find yourself writing or speaking in passive voice, try to stop and think, "Who am I giving a free pass to with this language?" Then take a minute to figure out how you can place the burden of action where it belongs
Jul 3, 2022 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I keep seeing this take from centrist Dems that goes "Republicans got here through incrementalism, progressives need to learn from their example and accept incremental change." It's been getting under my skin, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why until just now... It gets down to one of my core problems: lack of vision or purpose from the Very Smart People™️ wing of the party.

Every Republican president since Gerald Ford has explicitly supported overturning Roe. They told the base "this is the goal" and so the base kept showing up.
Jun 14, 2022 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
I want to start by saying this piece is worth the read, and that I have both personal and professional respect for Ryan. But after reading it through twice, I believe it's plagued by a number of very substantial problems in both form and function. I'd like to explain a few 1/x Foundationally, the piece argues that internal strife has hobbled progressive advocacy. But no evidence is given that progressive advocacy would be succeeding without that strife. My personal experience over 14 years in lefty politics is that we would not 2/
May 9, 2022 • 27 tweets • 8 min read
After giving it some thought, I want to share a story about why I resigned as a @traindems trainer, how it speaks to institutional failures of the Democratic party, and some things I think we must fix about how we operate to create a future any of us want to live in 🧵 First, I loved being an NDTC trainer. I was in my 4th year. The work is valuable, the team is great. I want them to succeed and thrive. The people we'd meet at trainings need this kind of program. I did not resign easily, and I wasn't planning to share publicly that I had, but...
Oct 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
wHy wOn'T anYoNe wOrk? doN'T tHey wAnt joBs? tHeSe aRe g0od JobS I've worked for bosses like this in every industry I've worked in. Saying goodbye to my last toxic boss changed my life, and I constantly tell people no job is worth their happiness. It is a true joy watching workers realize they don't have to take it and walking the fuck away.
Sep 17, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
In April, everything everywhere was shut down, more than 1,000 people were dying per day, tens of millions were losing work, but...they didn't want to create panic by sending people masks. Checks out. Seems like a good time to remind folks that members of Kushner's virus control frat were dismayed when the White House kiboshed their efforts because at the time most of the people dying lived in "blue" states nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Jun 4, 2020 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
While Rahul Dubey sheltered 70+ protestors in his home, the @AFLCIO, a block from the heart of the protests, was behind barbed wire and private security. They didn't even fly a banner of support

Imagine a labor movement led by people with the courage and clarity of Rahul 1/17 I've been hesitating to post this for two days, and I'm ashamed of myself.

This is not a moment to shrink back from saying the hard thing, especially for those of us with privilege. I am afraid because my livelihood depends on working with unions, but that is no excuse 2/17
May 31, 2020 • 19 tweets • 6 min read
I take absolutely no joy in this happening, but I hope one thing that might come out of it is a clear understanding among members of the media about just how out-of-control the police are, and how little faith reporters should put in the "official" story Shooting press in the face with rubber bullets
Mar 30, 2020 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
Today we dropped Amy off at the ER. Spoiler alert, the chest x-rays were ok and she came home. But when I dropped her off I honestly didn't know if that would be the last time my kids saw their mom. Let's talk about a few of the complete failures that got us here #coronavirus ... A little background. On the 11th, she told me her throat was scratchy. On the 12th, she said she had a little fever. By the 13th, she had chest pain, coughing, sore throat and fever. Over the last 2+ weeks she's had a fever, she's dizzy, weak, cough and chest pain getting worse
Mar 26, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
When you read about the #joblessclaims, here's something you should know about. More than 2 million people know their paychecks and healthcare are protected at least through September thanks to the the payroll grants @FlyingWithSara put toward and fought for #coronavirus 1/9 Aviation has seen an 87% drop in revenue. The financial cost to the industry is already greater than the hit from 9/11 and the Great Recession COMBINED. Of those two million aviation workers, at least one million would have been laid off in the next month or so without this 2/9
Mar 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
🎶🎵🎶
Hello darkness my old friend
I'm social distancing again
Because a virus softly creeping
Was not the hoax they kept claiming
And the fever that was scrambling my brains
It still remains
It's the #coronavirus
🎶🎵🎶 🎶🎵🎶
In quarantine I sit alone
Cannot leave my little home
I see weird haloes and my guts are cramped
I can't stop coughing and I feel so damp
And my lungs are stabbed by the scratch of COVID's blight
I'm up all night
It's the coronavirus
🎶🎵🎶
Jan 20, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A few things I want you to remember today:

1) Seventy-five percent of Americans held NEGATIVE views of #MLK at the time of his murder. 2) His approval started to fall dramatically when he began to challenge segregation in the North, and to speak out against the Vietnam War
May 16, 2019 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
My life would be very different without access to abortion. When I was 22, a woman I was seeing got pregnant. She was almost 20. I was still in college. We worked together at a bar and had been sleeping together for maybe 5 or 6 weeks. I came of sex-consciousness in the height of the AIDS years, and protection is something I take very seriously. She couldn't take the pill for health reasons, but we used condoms every time and never had one break. Most of the time, we used condoms with spermicide.