Hope Van Dyne

@HopeVanDyne@progressivecafe.social
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Democratic voter, organizer, and get out the vote volunteer. No birdsite links.

@TonyStark

The media's vacuousness is maddening.

@TonyStark The Maga Media Machine, (billionaire media, legacy media, whatever) is the enemy of the people..

@TonyStark @CassandraVert @VATVSLPR

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"We are the liberal media. “ - that’s what we OG Bloggers said in the early days, and that’s what everyone should say today.

Never underestimate your own impact.

The policy chops on this guy. Too bad there isn't a guy with 50 years of foreign policy experience, the trust of world leaders, and the vision to lead a coalition against Russian aggression we could call on to handle this. But a bunch of not smart people pushed him out.

Trump blasts Putin as "absolutely crazy" as Russia targets Ukraine with massive wave of drones and missiles - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-ukraine-war-trump-putin-crazy-kyiv-missile-drone-attack/

Trump blasts Putin as "absolutely crazy" as Russia targets Ukraine with massive wave of drones and missiles

Ukraine says Russia launched its biggest drone strike to date after Trump called Putin crazy for stepping up his offensive and "needlessly killing a lot of people."

CBS News

This explains a lot.

"In a 2024 Harris poll, fifty-nine per cent of respondents said that billionaires are making society more unfair, and a nearly identical number said that they hoped to become billionaires themselves"

Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder | The New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/donald-trumps-politics-of-plunder

Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder

Evan Osnos reports on America’s aspiring oligarchs, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, and on opposition to corruption by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Patriotic Millionaires.

The New Yorker

The media carpet bombed us with stories about high grocery prices under Biden as evidence the economy was weak but stuff like this passes through the news cycle like a fart in the wind under Trump.

#ItIsNotTheMessaging

U.S. beef prices reach record highs as cattle industry struggles to keep costs down - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-beef-prices-record-highs-cattle-industry-struggles-to-keep-costs-down/

U.S. beef prices reach record highs as cattle industry struggles to keep costs down

The average cost of one pound of ground beef reached a record-high of $5.80 in April, according to numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

CBS News

Under the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule barring medical debt from appearing on credit reports. Now, the agency under Trump is siding with the credit industry groups suing to have the rule vacated and screw over people with medical debt.

Both parties aren’t the same today either.

CFPB's medical debt rule could be thrown out under its new leadership : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/26/nx-s1-5406799/cfpbs-medical-debt-credit-report-lawsuit

Personally, I don't think it's possible for the Democratic Party to effectively disavow every online crank and stupid editorial that gets published that the right uses to damage the party's brand, primarily when most of that stuff is published just for the reason of getting the reaction it gets. It's just an endless vicious cycle.

If people are looking for a reason to hate Democrats, they'll find it regardless.

The rest of us need to be better microphones for the good things Democrats do.

@samiamsam @liferstate @TonyStark @Tengrain Well off whites who want an excuse to break stuff and let POC get arrested. This is what anyone who says “we need to consider stronger means” wants. Their own militia.

@MJ A certain number of people on the far left have convinced themselves that if shit isn't being set on fire, if there's no spray paint involved, it's not a meaningful protest. But the fact is you can't build a mass movement if normies stop showing up for protests because they have a reputation for getting out of hand.

@TonyStark @samiamsam @Tengrain