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@danancona.bsky.social

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Daddo and married to @jenancona. Standing athwart history yelling, WTF. Research, writing, ads, and building processes for understanding and persuading across the Dem-left coalition.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · Oct 11

The Trump-Vance mass deportation plans are sickeningly extreme. Most Americans don't support them and Dems have room to go on offense on this. Ad by me and the geniuses I am incredibly lucky to work with at Way to Win, production by Conexión. (both not on here yet)

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Todd (they/them) #AbolishThePolice @toddbohannon.bsky.social · 1d

“In 2 Years of #GazaGenocide , Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest” #MediaBias
inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

inthesetimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 20h

we gotta get back to this

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 20h

Excruciating. I'm a little tempted to drop this ad into our testing system. I don't do predictions or make bets but I just bet it'd move Trump '24 and white noncol voters towards Dems outside the MoE.

Big Mark & Co @bigmark.co.nz · 20h

I'm just thinking about how Mamdani talks (and defends) trans people for two minutes more than the democrats did at the last convention. And the video is only two minutes and five seconds long.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 21h

I remember when people were debating if Israel would actually strike a single hospital while they were leveling an entire civilization

Complete and total destruction of Jabalia camp in Gaza

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 23h

CA and every other blue state need to be stopping funding for this shit. Immediately. Cut them the fuck off. Now.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe not all. But almost all. It took me at most 3 or 4 minutes to fact check this as being obviously false, something none of the conservative accounts sharing it apparently could have bothered themselves with. Including US Senators.

Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a deceptively edited video of Spanberger and every thirsty-ass grasping desperate right wing account on Twitter is amplifying it like crazy.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

This @gregsargent.bsky.social piece snaps into an ongoing disagreement I have with my poor friends who desperately don't want right wing bad faith to be true, and use services like CrowdTangle to "hear from both sides." The problem is, conservatives lie. Constantly. About everything. All of them.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 1d

In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder, I saw a fair amount of speculation as to whether or not we would see a "Charlie Kirk Effect" in new voter registrations. It's still too early to fully answer this question, but there's not much evidence of it, as of now.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

This is the first post I've had go even little on xitter in months. Some of this is volume, I hardly ever post there. But interesting that it was factional rage bait at least on a cursory read, which is what the algo + audience + bots there are all biased towards and insanely thirsty for there. 💩

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

This is fun and interesting!

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1d

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems

criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 1d

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

One reason Dems should be sharing this and talking about it nonstop is because the key to dominating the public mind is media that evokes emotion. It’s how George Floyd started nationwide protests overnight. And it’s impossible to see this without feeling blind rage. Healthcare policy could never.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic video, and fantastic writing about the video. Yes!! It’s all the same fight!

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t really a classic both-sides treatment, it’s more the institutional rule that it’s rude and unsophisticated to summarize the facts of a situation in a headline if you can write an archly detached vague understatement instead

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a deceptively edited video of Spanberger and every thirsty-ass grasping desperate right wing account on Twitter is amplifying it like crazy.

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Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social · 1d

Huge shoutout to George Soros for funding our supporters with suits and pee bottles.

Here’s to a successful False Frog Operation In Portland, Chicago, and any city that oppressors invade.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 2d

I guess it's possible that US education outcomes in red states just happen to align so very perfectly with David Brooks' prior beliefs about teachers' unions. I don't know ed policy remotely enough to say, but that piece is emitting serious quantities of bullshit particles.

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon of spongebob brushing his teeth and holding a toothpaste bottle

ALT: a cartoon of spongebob brushing his teeth and holding a toothpaste bottle

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 2d

Another one of the more interesting talks from the Way event last week -

Way to Win @waytowinus.bsky.social · 2d

When we started planning #Persuasion2025, Terrance Woodbury from @hitstrat.bsky.social was one of the first names that came up. Terrance has a unique ability to shape a story with data that will fire you up... and maybe scare you a bit. (in a good way)

Persuasion 2025: Terrance Woodbury

YouTube video by Way to Win Action Fund

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

It’s very much Not Great to have GOP leadership describe a planned non violent march as being in service a the “terrorist wing”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Self-Described "Deal Guy" @danancona.bsky.social · 2d

If I give the President an old 747 can I rename NORAD to ANCONARAD

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