Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩

Organizer, writer, other things. Believer in the work of doing politics. I'm much nicer in real life.

“We have a moral obligation to be effective.”

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

Since everyone else is posting their Darializa articles, I’ll go ahead and promote mine! I wrote a short piece for @TheIndypendent on Espaillat’s remarkable weakness, the decline of relational machine politics and the rise of ideological mass politics.

https://t.co/n1wMwGooDI

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I'm pleased to invite @Wemby to our second Commission on Government Efficiency hearing on Wednesday June 10th 5-8pm, where we'll be asking the public for their thoughts on how government can run better. Would love to have you there for the whole time!

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

Underreported causation of the post-2024 centrist backsliding is the fact that the advocacy groups they wanted to demonize have been some of the only vestiges of the establishment fighting back against Trump. It's really hard to hate the ACLU, etc in this political environment.

[Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸 @HBendaas]

Name a bigger one year drop in relevance and hype than WelcomeFest 2025 vs WelcomeFest 2026

[Hamid Bendaas 🇩🇿🇵🇸 @HBendaas]

Name a bigger one year drop in relevance and hype than WelcomeFest 2025 vs WelcomeFest 2026

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

@unluckycrown2 Well it's more you can't easily get elected with those characteristics, I do think technocracy and socialism are mutually compatible in governance (see Zohran).

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

It’s the obvious, self evident death of the Warrenite/NGO left, a project that claimed to be an electoral compromise for socialists and ended up being way less electable than actual socialism in both primaries and generals. You can’t be highly ideological and highly technocratic.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Being mean to her staff and a reporter is definitely not the full story of Katie Porter getting <5%

[mike casca @cascamike]

another good election night for @AOC:

1. adam hamawy wins in nj-12.

2. sam forstag, who was down 20+ points in polling by the very reputable @TulchinResearch before her endorsement, wins in mt-1.

3. randy villegas is up 4 in ca-22.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

Don’t let the everything else distract you from the fact that a Bernie aligned affordability populist is set to win the primary for a quasi winnable red district in Montana. More than any other race last night this is an opportunity for the left to smash electoral narratives.

[Faiz @fshakir]

Shaping up to be a clean sweep for Bernie’s endorsements last night. Five for five:

Sam Forstag (MT)
Randy Villegas (CA)
Adam Hamawy (NJ)
Analilia Mejia (NJ)
Jane Kim (CA insurance commissioner)

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

@TheIndypendent 💪

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

Assuming Mills doesn’t run, the budding Democratic Tea Party should fiercely go after this race. This is an eminently winnable senate seat that mainstream Dems have seemingly zero interest in attaining. A well run left-wing campaign could capitalize on the total lack of a field.

[Taniel @Taniel]

Quite the UNH poll of Maine:

Governor Janet Mills' favorability is 51/41
Senator Susan Collins' is ... 14/57.

Among independents, Collins' favorability is a startling 8/60.
https://t.co/GZT7tigiND

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

nyt can you please have some decency about a decorated war veteran combat surgeon who saved tammy duckworth's life, who treated 9/11 first responders and was in gaza during the genocide. i get that he's muslim and antizionist but this is a shameful and racist subheader!

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Yemisi Egbewole founded Podium Strategies, a consulting firm. Democratic consultants make their cash off commission on large-scale TV and digital ad buys.

The success of campaigns like Platner's, reliant on canvassing and in-person voter outreach, is a threat to her pocketbook.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

Another scalp for the Democratic Tea Party! My advice to centrists: Keep running candidates who can’t stop talking about Israel, keep running racist smear campaigns against every Muslim that runs for office, keep on spamming 2018 identity politics while calling leftists woke!

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

Stick a fork in it.

Dr. Adam Hamawy — a combat trauma surgeon and veteran who volunteered in Gaza and the West Bank, who saved Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s life — will be the next Congressman from NJ-12.

He was backed by Bernie Sanders, AOC, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Justice Democrats, Our Revolution & many other lawmakers/groups on the left.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

@aorejuela1 Have a busy night but will try my best to do so soon.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

I hate to compare someone I like to Trump, but seeing how elite liberals are talking about Platner really does bring me back to 2016. The way they keep framing his campaign as embattled, hated, on the ropes, as he gains ever more ground is such a fascinating act of projection.

[Andy O'Brien @aobrien2010]

Online is not real life. Mainers don’t give a shit about a candidate’s private sex life.

[DSA @DemSocialists]

We stand in full solidarity with the nearly 300 detained immigrant community members who began a hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

This is one of the most annoying low stakes talking points, Bernie 2020 featured exciting new House member Analia Mejia, likely 2028 candidate Ro Khanna, excellent operatives Faiz Shakir and Chuck Rocha, and many wonderful organizers. Why should BJG’s badass cancel them all out?

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

Bernie 2020 hiring decisions

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

From the very beginning of his pro-social, mass politics campaign one of Zohran’s most revolutionary projects has been his crusade to rebuild civil society and social trust, and the belief that our crisis of community can be explicitly addressed with politics and public policy.

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani releases map of free and affordable NYC activities for summer 2026.

[Josh Arnon @josharnon]

Come to the Neurodivergent Socialists house party I’m hosting for @yuhline featuring our current neurodivergent socialist elected @JumaaneWilliams in addition to @rontkim and @CynthiaNixon! Tickets: https://t.co/Yz2VA19BmN

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

@admcrlsn The internals have gotta be, like, unimaginably bad, like 7 layers of shit bad.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

@Gunslinger018 Good luck with your unilateral disarmament!

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

This is exactly what I’ve been saying for months and it applies to all facets of the post-norms era. Unilateral disarmament is the perfect description for ditching promising candidates over personal behavior, as is embracing norms that your opposition breaks without consequence.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Axios: Center-right columnist Matt Lewis wrote this about the Maine Senate race and Graham Platner’s controversies

“Maybe Maine Democrats have absorbed the same lesson Republicans adopted in 2016: Once voters stop treating scandal as disqualifying, policing your own side for off-the-field behavior starts to look like unilateral disarmament”

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

These posts fill me with glee because Liberal Zionists so clearly thought attending this march would be a winning chess move and that Zohran would come out looking bad, and now they’re the ones clumsily backpedaling. How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?

[NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG]

Islamophobia has no place in New York.

I unequivocally condemn Bezalel Smotrich’s hateful rhetoric.