Scott Downs
@wsdowns3.bsky.social
Pro-democracy. Pro-rule-of-law. Pro-freedom. Pro-individual responsibility. Pro-education. Pro a governing coalition that supports ordinary people’s abundance - but not through fascism. Anti-fascist. Anti-totalitarian. Former Republican. Christian.
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Scott Downs
@wsdowns3.bsky.social
· Dec 20
I think it's a time when we all need to stand up and be counted. In service of authenticity (with humility), this thread suggests points of a potential manifesto for #theOpposition. I'm sure many won't agree with my stances, but I want to put this out there. 🧵
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social @andybeshearky.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov
@adamkinzinger.substack.com Wake Up A vision for the future of the American Middle (all colours) needed.
Obama Won Record Numbers of Nonwhite Voters. This Is How the Democrats Lost Them. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
@adamkinzinger.substack.com Wake Up A vision for the future of the American Middle (all colours) needed.
Obama Won Record Numbers of Nonwhite Voters. This Is How the Democrats Lost Them. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Obama Won Record Numbers of Nonwhite Voters. This Is How the Democrats Lost Them.
One in five voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024 was a person of color. Why?
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social @andybeshearky.bsky.social @govpritzker.illinois.gov
@adamkinzinger.substack.com Wake Up A vision for the future of the American Middle (all colours) needed.
Obama Won Record Numbers of Nonwhite Voters. This Is How the Democrats Lost Them. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
@adamkinzinger.substack.com Wake Up A vision for the future of the American Middle (all colours) needed.
Obama Won Record Numbers of Nonwhite Voters. This Is How the Democrats Lost Them. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
substack.com/@demwinsmedi...
Yes @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. I love you. Want to vote for you. And… you have got to have a story about how you will RAISE WAGES for the American Middle. I say it has to be a pro-business industrial policy plus education reform to bring hi skills. What do you say?
Yes @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. I love you. Want to vote for you. And… you have got to have a story about how you will RAISE WAGES for the American Middle. I say it has to be a pro-business industrial policy plus education reform to bring hi skills. What do you say?
Democratic Wins Media on Substack
BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg just laid out the best case yet for the future of the Democratic party. This is incredible.
substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
substack.com/@demwinsmedi...
Yes @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. I love you. Want to vote for you. And… you have got to have a story about how you will RAISE WAGES for the American Middle. I say it has to be a pro-business industrial policy plus education reform to bring hi skills. What do you say?
Yes @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. I love you. Want to vote for you. And… you have got to have a story about how you will RAISE WAGES for the American Middle. I say it has to be a pro-business industrial policy plus education reform to bring hi skills. What do you say?
Guess what! He never did!
June 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Guess what! He never did!
“An advocate of love, universal values….the only God is Truth”. Sounds absolutely like Faith to me , properly understood. I read you as a person of the very greatest faith! Please roll on!
May 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“An advocate of love, universal values….the only God is Truth”. Sounds absolutely like Faith to me , properly understood. I read you as a person of the very greatest faith! Please roll on!
Sorry, but I think this is a very blinkered neo-Marxist view. Of course we have male dominance in many fields-and our job is to evolve out of that. The idea that “the men” somehow monolithically invented religion to “control women” seems paranoid. Monoliths “the men” and “the women” do not exist.
May 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Sorry, but I think this is a very blinkered neo-Marxist view. Of course we have male dominance in many fields-and our job is to evolve out of that. The idea that “the men” somehow monolithically invented religion to “control women” seems paranoid. Monoliths “the men” and “the women” do not exist.
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Trump is hopeless when it comes to Putin - whom he both fears and admires as the Renfield to Putin's Dracula - but he has no effective national security or defense team around him to pick up the slack and actually run anything like an actual foreign policy.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Trump’s Tirades Aren’t Swaying Putin
The president stamping his feet on social media will do nothing to quell Russia's aims.
www.theatlantic.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Trump is hopeless when it comes to Putin - whom he both fears and admires as the Renfield to Putin's Dracula - but he has no effective national security or defense team around him to pick up the slack and actually run anything like an actual foreign policy.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Save and share. Maybe email or tag Byron Donalds and Kash Patel.
May 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Save and share. Maybe email or tag Byron Donalds and Kash Patel.
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Rand Paul (R-KY) going off on his own party.
May 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Rand Paul (R-KY) going off on his own party.
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This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.
May 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.
What NONE of these people have is a plan to raise wages for the working middle class. I say the answer is industrial policy plus education reform. Trump owns this space with tariffs - crap policy but Dems need a clear answer. Get with it #leadersoftheopposition
open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
The Democratic Party's Path Forward Primary
Democrats are offering competing visions for how the party can rebuild—whose will prevail?
open.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
What NONE of these people have is a plan to raise wages for the working middle class. I say the answer is industrial policy plus education reform. Trump owns this space with tariffs - crap policy but Dems need a clear answer. Get with it #leadersoftheopposition
open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
Damn right. Any executuve order targeting one organisation for political disagreement is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Shame on the others firms who have caved to Trump. The Supreme Court should confirm, shameful other agreements be rescinded. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Judge strikes down Trump order punishing law firm Perkins Coie
President Donald Trump has targeted several law firms with penalties, four of which sued to challenge his actions.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Damn right. Any executuve order targeting one organisation for political disagreement is patently illegal and unconstitutional. Shame on the others firms who have caved to Trump. The Supreme Court should confirm, shameful other agreements be rescinded. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A vision of the future: in every country, there is a partnership among business, government and education to foster great companies offering hi-skill, high wage jobs in a socially responsible way, and to teach and train citizens to claim those jobs. #dumpTrump
April 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A vision of the future: in every country, there is a partnership among business, government and education to foster great companies offering hi-skill, high wage jobs in a socially responsible way, and to teach and train citizens to claim those jobs. #dumpTrump
A vision of the future: the President of the United States truly believes in, honours the constitution & the rule of law. Congress passes the laws & the administration administers! them. If the President wants to see a new law, he or she proposes it to Congress, seeks to convince them to pass it!
April 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A vision of the future: the President of the United States truly believes in, honours the constitution & the rule of law. Congress passes the laws & the administration administers! them. If the President wants to see a new law, he or she proposes it to Congress, seeks to convince them to pass it!
A vision of the future: in the US, we have a partnership of government, business and education to welcome business investment, leading to loads of hi-wage, hi-skill jobs with education and training to help our citizens fill those jobs. All in the context of free markets and international free trade.
April 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A vision of the future: in the US, we have a partnership of government, business and education to welcome business investment, leading to loads of hi-wage, hi-skill jobs with education and training to help our citizens fill those jobs. All in the context of free markets and international free trade.
A vision of the future: the US government stands strong against aggression, especially by totalitarian fascist powers, and would never validate that aggression. And indeed, our own government is not in the hands of totalitarian fascist powers. #dumpTrump #theOpposition
April 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A vision of the future: the US government stands strong against aggression, especially by totalitarian fascist powers, and would never validate that aggression. And indeed, our own government is not in the hands of totalitarian fascist powers. #dumpTrump #theOpposition
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“The point is this: any expression of religion worth its salt will awaken followers to the mysterious fulness that lies at the heart of the human soul.”
New post on my Substack - open.substack.com/pub/markvern...
New post on my Substack - open.substack.com/pub/markvern...
April 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
“The point is this: any expression of religion worth its salt will awaken followers to the mysterious fulness that lies at the heart of the human soul.”
New post on my Substack - open.substack.com/pub/markvern...
New post on my Substack - open.substack.com/pub/markvern...
A vision of the future: our President appoints only highly qualified public servants to high office. They have minds of their own and give him insightful and valuable advice. They are free, even encouraged to disagree. They hold their oaths of office sacred. #dumpTrump #leadersoftheopposition
April 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A vision of the future: our President appoints only highly qualified public servants to high office. They have minds of their own and give him insightful and valuable advice. They are free, even encouraged to disagree. They hold their oaths of office sacred. #dumpTrump #leadersoftheopposition
Agreed @petebuttigieg.bsky.social.
But please focus on winning elections. Right now Trump owns the space advocating for higher earnings for working people. You need a story here. I say a hi-wage industrial policy and education reform. What do you say?
substack.com/@petebuttigi...
But please focus on winning elections. Right now Trump owns the space advocating for higher earnings for working people. You need a story here. I say a hi-wage industrial policy and education reform. What do you say?
substack.com/@petebuttigi...
Pete Buttigieg on Substack
The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better k...
substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Agreed @petebuttigieg.bsky.social.
But please focus on winning elections. Right now Trump owns the space advocating for higher earnings for working people. You need a story here. I say a hi-wage industrial policy and education reform. What do you say?
substack.com/@petebuttigi...
But please focus on winning elections. Right now Trump owns the space advocating for higher earnings for working people. You need a story here. I say a hi-wage industrial policy and education reform. What do you say?
substack.com/@petebuttigi...
@sanders.senate.gov I love your soul, your passion, your commitment. You’re a great American. And you’re right about working people. But what’s needed is not a min wage hike but a pro-business industrial policy to bring in hi-wage jobs and education reform to train for them. Ditch the socialism.
Workers are not asking to get rich. They just want to afford three meals a day.
In the richest country in the history of the world, no one should work for starvation wages.
It is time to raise the disgraceful $7.25/hr federal minimum wage to a living wage of AT LEAST $17/hr.
In the richest country in the history of the world, no one should work for starvation wages.
It is time to raise the disgraceful $7.25/hr federal minimum wage to a living wage of AT LEAST $17/hr.
April 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
@sanders.senate.gov I love your soul, your passion, your commitment. You’re a great American. And you’re right about working people. But what’s needed is not a min wage hike but a pro-business industrial policy to bring in hi-wage jobs and education reform to train for them. Ditch the socialism.
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This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!
April 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!
I agree with those who say Harvard and others in academia are awash in neo-Marxist “critical theory” blather and that this situation should be rebalanced. But bending knee to Trump’s fascism is not the way to change. Organically, from the inside of the community is. Bravo, Harvard.
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I agree with those who say Harvard and others in academia are awash in neo-Marxist “critical theory” blather and that this situation should be rebalanced. But bending knee to Trump’s fascism is not the way to change. Organically, from the inside of the community is. Bravo, Harvard.
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Be like Harvard, not like Columbia.
Be like Costco, not like Target.
Be like Perkins Coie not like Paul Weiss.
Courage is not easy, it can be costly but the stakes are existential. Show up on the right side of history or forever be a footnote to cowardice.
Disdain has no statute of limitations.
Be like Costco, not like Target.
Be like Perkins Coie not like Paul Weiss.
Courage is not easy, it can be costly but the stakes are existential. Show up on the right side of history or forever be a footnote to cowardice.
Disdain has no statute of limitations.
April 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Be like Harvard, not like Columbia.
Be like Costco, not like Target.
Be like Perkins Coie not like Paul Weiss.
Courage is not easy, it can be costly but the stakes are existential. Show up on the right side of history or forever be a footnote to cowardice.
Disdain has no statute of limitations.
Be like Costco, not like Target.
Be like Perkins Coie not like Paul Weiss.
Courage is not easy, it can be costly but the stakes are existential. Show up on the right side of history or forever be a footnote to cowardice.
Disdain has no statute of limitations.
Anti-Trump is not enough, and I am as #antiTrump as you can get. We lost on that in 2024, will lose again in 2026, 2028. We need a positive message for #theworkingmiddle. How will we raise their earnings? Get with it ##leadersoftheopposition!
You could be a powerful voice @jbpritzker.bsky.social, but you need a positive message to #theworkingmiddle to win. Needs to be a pro-business industrial policy and education reform to create hi-wage jobs and skills to match.
Https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/20/pritzker-tktktk-00296824
Https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/20/pritzker-tktktk-00296824
JB Pritzker burnishes his national brand as one of Trump’s fiercest critics
The two-term governor hasn’t announced whether he’ll run for reelection next year, but is increasingly making high-profile appearances across the country.
www.politico.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Anti-Trump is not enough, and I am as #antiTrump as you can get. We lost on that in 2024, will lose again in 2026, 2028. We need a positive message for #theworkingmiddle. How will we raise their earnings? Get with it ##leadersoftheopposition!
