Dan Appalachia

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Twitter refugee. Retired teacher in West Virginia. #Democracy #Antifascist #Science #VoteBlue
New in PN: How Democrats can win the messaging war

"Almost all campaign spending goes to communications, whether it’s door knocking or mailers or broadcast ads. Democrats spent over $5 billion on that stuff — on ads alone, actually. That money should be used to set up some sort of party messaging operation. My idea is to fund some local journalism. Just a regular daily paper in strategic locations, strategic swing states."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/ryan-cooper-interview-democratic-messaging
How Democrats can win the messaging war

"Liberals trust the mainstream media — foolishly, I think. The trust is not deserved," Ryan Cooper tells us.

Public Notice
Profits from frozen Russian assets: Ukraine receives from U.S. first $1B of pledged $20B

Ukraine has received from the U.S. $1 billion, secured by profits from frozen Russian assets. — Ukrinform.

Укринформ

The problem with occupying any kind of privileged social identity is you're less likely to experience the consequences of your own actions, so you don't mature. In fact, the consequences of your actions are offloaded onto others in a subordinate status.

This is how we see middle-aged asses like Musk doing impulsive, ill-conceived adolescent crap that will OBVIOUSLY get others killed and no one is stopping them.

Kinda feeling this:

What if I say I'm not like the others

What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays

Youre the pretender

What if I say I'll Never Surrender (Foo Fighters)

This all happened about 18 months after the Warsaw Pact was formed - the only modern mutual defense alliance in history to repeatedly attack itself.

We genuinely pretend we can't understand why NATO is so popular amongst our former colonies.

All my trolls are morons

Via Mehdi Hasan:

For anyone still in doubt

KFILE:

Our report last night on CNN - a GOP staffed superPAC is hitting up voters in Michigan and Wisconsin with left-wing sounding robocalls telling them to vote for Jill Stein over Gaza and the environment.

Thousands of calls have been sent and the group has spent $1+ million in the last 11 days per expenditures.

At the same time, the same group also is telling RFK Jr. voters to back Trump.

So that Julia Roberts ad that triggered Watters and Kirk? YouGov has polling that shows 1 in 8 women have secretly cast voters that differ from their partner.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/01/women-voting-secret-choice/
1 in 8 women say they’ve secretly voted differently than partners

One in 10 men say they have, too.

The Washington Post
The best explainer of today's situation.
Hard to believe this is a close race.