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danancona.bsky.social
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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Masked federal agents just illegally arrested New York City’s elected Comptroller. Outrageous. The Trump Administration went after Brad Lander for asking this simple question: “Do you have a warrant?” By asking this question, Brad was standing up for the basic rights of all Americans.

🚨 UNACCEPTABLE & FRIGHTENING 🚨 Today, NYC Comptroller Brad Lander—an elected official and U.S. citizen—was arrested by masked ICE agents at Federal Plaza while accompanying an immigrant whose case had been dismissed. This is an attack on democracy, civic duty, and New Yorkers’ fundamental rights.

NEW: It looks like Palantir is helping Trump build a mega-database of Americans' private information so he can target and spy on his enemies, or anyone. @aoc.bsky.social and I are demanding answers directly from Palantir.

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

thread. there's a lot going on right now that has more immediate harm to people, but selling our public lands will have really rotten effects on climate change, shared experiences, & public wealth

Major Airlines Sold Passenger Data to Border Agency in Secret Deal migrantinsider.com/p/major-airl...

uhhhh

Would be amazing to get a single piece of media on this topic centered on the right's firehose of bigotry and misinformation rather than "the trans rights movement's shortcomings" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

Any Democrat who can’t stand up and speak out now against the Trump-Netanyahu regime change war should not even consider running in 2028. You’re not who this country needs.

Do not. Let. Never Trumpers. Run. Your strategy. Particularly ones who can’t read a fucking poll. (only ‘24 Trump voters? Seriously? Bet the question wording on here is suuuper neutral, too)

This is good and true but they also featured a new and very awesome group called @waytowinus.bsky.social and their extremely awesome new poll - bsky.app/profile/wayt...

unreal

Trump is sending ICE to blue cities to enact the "largest mass deportation program in history" and Chicago is at the top of the list. I'm calling for every Democratic leader and candidate to stand against ICE, to call for its abolition, and to materially support immigrants. Inaction is complicity.

as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

This problem goes super deep. It goes to a whole theory of politics Dems urgently need to rethink; they've been blaming the left for their losses when what's really going on is cumulative advantage in right wing media. But saying this is inconvenient for their worldview. So they're stuck.

She makes no distinction. She uses the royal "we." The only mention of "Republicans" is noting Republicans' praise of the slain lawmaker's impact as speaker. NPR's characterization is fair as are the reactions.

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015. THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

I'm not a big Cancel My Subscription Guy for a bunch of reasons. Reporting is hard and most of what they do is good despite the blaring, terrible bothsidesist tendencies. But this shit is openly fucking ridiculous.

what the FUCK

This is Tub and Blue. They simply cannot figure out how to get their tennis ball that fell in the pool. Still 12/10 because they really are trying

Wish I had a better answer for this than please get people off of Facebook

Good substantive take on what going on at the DNC from an insider. Reasons to be cautiously hopeful here.

Totally true and what is also clearly driving a lot of the abundance bro hesitation to Mamdani

Meanwhile

Brennan is just wrong here. Lazy journalism based on assumptions, old data, and misinformation. Shows you how much damage certain high-profile pundits can do to the information environment. It’s very easy to just look at all the data, like we do: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/all-the-po...

Trump is no longer operating in the same place the rest of us are. This is so fucking crazy and wrong it is hard to put into words. He's just full on working to sell as much shit to his supporters while he can.

A lot in this poll but this is the one I keep coming back to when people say Trump is popular on immigration

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing