After waiting months for Rep. #AyannaPressley to send an email update, this is what she finally sent out today. There isn't a single word in this message to her constituents about what Trump, Musk, and DOGE are doing to the federal government. Not a single […] [Original post on federate.social] - ThreadSky

jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy • 39 days ago

After waiting months for Rep. #AyannaPressley to send an email update, this is what she finally sent out today.
There isn't a single word in this message to her constituents about what Trump, Musk, and DOGE are doing to the federal government. Not a single […] https://federate.social/@jik/114260003261971540

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jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

I want to say a bit more about why this is so dangerous.
People take their cues from their elective representatives.
If Pressley sends out emails that are just business-as-usual community engagement pablum, then the cue people get is that politics right now is business as usual.
But it's not […]

EllenJS.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@jik
Your Rep’s newsletter does seem too calm , but it does mention “Trump-Musk” a few times. By contrast my Rep’s communications are always in full ‘yell mode’ and are never anything but an ask (demand?) for money. That too is frustrating.

jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@EllenJS yes, constant fundraising emails send the wrong message as well, because they make little suspect that the alarms being raised in the emails are exaggerated for the purpose of convincing people to give money

cshabsin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@jik What the

cshabsin.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@jik She hasn't been entirely silent; I found her speaking up in various press appearances. But... this does seem like a prime outlet for information that is being ignored.

That said, I just went to subscribe, and couldn't find it without a Google search, so maybe it's not considered that […]

jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@cshabsin There are no unimportant comm channels. The Republicans have understood that for decades. The Democrats still haven't figured it out.

not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@jik Did you read it? I see quite a few words: "how Democrats are pushing back against the Trump-Musk agenda", "As we fight to defend Social Security and Medicare from dangerous cuts by the Trump-Musk Administration", "how we’re fighting back against the Trump-Musk Administration’s harmful […]

jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy•39 days ago

@not2b Yes, I read it.
Do you see a single word there that says anything _specific_ about what Trump and Musk are doing in DC?
Do you think what is written in this newsletter is in any way proportionate to the cataclysmic destruction that they are wreaking across the federal government?
Would […]

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