🧵 “Not progressive enough” is a trap Democrats shouldn’t fall for bc it’s spoken by people who will never vote for or support them no matter what they do.
It’s really code for something else. - Obama gave us healthcare & rescued the U.S. auto industry (yes, the working class the far left LOVES to claim Dems ignore)
And how does the far left talk about him? He’s a failure bc he didn’t go far enough (ignoring the reality of congress) and he might as well have been Bush

🧵 Disingenuous voices love to point to footage of violence/looting/fires during protests and want to paint the whole movement or Democrats w/that broad brush.
Having covered lots of protests, let’s break down the 3 groups that generally show up to these events: 1. The sincere people & voices who are largely peaceful. Yes, you can be angry and peaceful. They represent the majority of protesters like we’re seeing this week in DTLA, what we saw in Minneapolis/St. Paul after the George Floyd murder

🧵 My reactions to some key pieces of the WaPo story about Trump voting residents of New Castle, PA who rely on programs like social security and food stamps: Single mom Lori Mosura who relies on social security & food stamps says she drifted away from Dems over rising grocery prices, nevermind the fact that Republicans have tried to slash programs that keep her housed & fed. And she thinks the GOP would want corps to make less money?

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I believe it’s important to bear witness. Last night, I went to the new Nova Music Festival exhibit “We Will Dance Again” as part of the Black-Jewish Entertainment Alliance. (1/x) Near the end of the exhibit is a table of shoes left behind by Nova attendees who were killed and and it of course is reminiscent of the display of shoes at the Holocaust museum.
And it struck me with both displays how Jews constantly have to prove their trauma to the world. (2/x

Coffee thoughts on polling: (branding a new segment: tweets while I finish my 2nd morning iced coffee)
- For the last two years (at least) we have seen that polling has been WIDELY OFF from actual results. Why?
Part of it is methodology: sample size and sample demographic (1/x) - How many people have landlines? How many people are willing to pick up a call from an unknown number and say "Why yes! Thank you for the interruption, I certainly have 5-10 minutes to answer your survey questions!" (2/x)

I've tweeted this story before, but feel like it's relevant again:
When I was working for NBC and they hired Megyn Kelly I publicly stated that I thought it was a huge mistake bc I believed Megyn was a racist and had made racist statements. NBC brass hauled me into an HR meeting NBC HR admonished me and said I "wasn't being a team player and was making them look bad." I said, "You're making yourself look bad with this hire, if I had tweeted or said some of the things Megyn has said, would you still hire me?"

Attacking power stations is a common plot spread across several extremist groups. During the course of looking into and reporting on them I have seen this discussed in various channels, and there seems to have been an uptick in these discussions since 2020 (1/x) These extremist groups have the racist belief that cutting the power will trigger minorities to start rioting and looting on a massive scale and law enforcement will be so overwhelmed that the groups will be able to step in and take advantage of the situation in several ways (2/x

Let’s finish this out strong.
#January6thCommitteeHearings If there was any question…always on brand 😎