epolitics.bsky.social
Doing digital politics and advocacy since 1996. Writing about it at Epolitics.com since 2006. Digital consultant for nonprofit organizations and Democratic political groups. Campaigns & Elections columnist. Bass player for Manic Obsession.
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Kagan's dissent is scorching and worth reading in full. She calls out the majority for effectively overruling Humphrey's Executor on the shadow docket and allowing Trump to break the law without even awaiting the Supreme Court's permission. She is alarmed.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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I was talking about French and German soldiers.
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Yeah, a whole lot of soldiers who marched to war in 1914 were excited about it then, too. But not after they walked back from the front -- if they could still walk.
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I'm now used to spending a sizable chunk of my editing time turning off "features" that are supposed to "help" me. The Facebook Ads Manager interface may be the absolute worst.
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Boggles the mind.
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#Truth
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Rule #5: Is selling an idea (or a candidate) like selling soap? Yep.
Pushing a candidate or a cause is dangerously close to selling consumer goods, a statement that’s been true at least since the advent of democracy...
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Rule #4: Content is key
All of the promotion in the world won’t do you a bit of good if you don’t have anything compelling to say...
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Whoa.
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Yeah, I might want to sweep that thing for bugs. And spyware. And hidden cameras. Looking a gift horse in the mouth? Yes.
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Rule #3: Integrate, integrate, integrate.
"All of the pieces of your online campaign should work together, and they should also integrate with your offline advocacy."
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Rule #2: Brilliance almost always takes second place to persistence
"With very rare exceptions, successful political campaigns hit their points over and over from as many different angles and in as many different venues as possible."
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Slightly more seriously. It's crazy how the entire supposed constitutional theory of Trump 2.0 is that all power is vested in this single individual, down to every last tiny detail and whenever you ask him he's like "I have no idea; ask the lawyers"