I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.
1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.
2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.
3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.
4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.
5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.
6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.
7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.
The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.
Sec Hegseth fires four star US Army General CD Donahue commanding US Army Europe. Donahue clearly the most extraordinary combat leader in a generation. Brilliant. Fearless. Bold. Integrity. Incredible leader.
@BaddCompani SMH, he says all this after being the dumbest world leader, nobody else would have said sure to bombing Iran, but this orange idiot did. Now heโs mad? Why? Cause he didnโt bargain on Bibi being Bibi? Did the deal include him being less of a genocidal maniac? ๐๐๐ not impressed.
BREAKING: A federal judge has permanently blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order signed last year that required proof of citizenship to register to vote and demanded mail-in ballots be received by Election Day. https://t.co/I78dhdVBvz
NEW: The postmaster general told Congress that, under a new proposed rule, the USPS will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration.
The admission is evidence that the traditionally nonpartisan USPS is complying with Trump's mail voting attack. https://t.co/ylNuXDq7tG
Donald is the pettiest, immature, stupid af, corrupt to the core, PAB, child predator to ever walk the earth. He encapsulates all of the deadly sins, and then some. There really isnโt a decent cell in his entire old orange body. #FDT#SignTheDamnBill
So the postmaster says they will not deliver ballots if the state doesnโt provide the federal government their voter info. Smdh, first Donald breaks the post office then installs an extortionist.
๐จBREAKING: Postmaster General David Steiner told senators that, under a new proposed rule, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration https://t.co/WA59TUHa59
@jacquie_rn@BaddCompani Safe bet heโs on his way out the door to profit more by lobbying. @ThomTillis has a responsibility to help stop the giant mess the GOP made of the entire world and this country. If this is all heโs got, God have mercy on his soul.
NEW: Access to voting systems poses serious election security risks.
Now, Trump has installed an attorney linked to the largest known election security breach in U.S. history at the DOJ.
The good news: there are still steps we can take to protect our democracy, writes Susan Greenhalgh.
https://t.co/QdPc4OH9h8
This deal is an insult to the people of eastern North Carolina.
Chemours is directly responsible for enormous groundwater contamination, and the EPA just cut a backroom deal that lets them off the hook.
Our state is ground zero for GenX contamination, but under this deal North Carolina would receive practically nothing.
That is unacceptable.
The EPA may not care about water pollution in eastern North Carolina, but I do. My office will keep pressing our state case to hold Chemours accountable for the mess they made.
https://t.co/zYz7kY0V0S
@timburchett ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ when hell is froze, pigs are flying all around, and you take Donaldโs balls out of your mouth, Iโll consider a $1 donation.
The top 1% now hold as much wealth as the entire bottom 90% of Americans combined โ about 32% each.
This is what runaway inequality looks like, according to the Fed's most recent data released this month.
The Pentagon is the only place in America where you can fail 8 audits in a row, admit youโll fail the next few & still get handed more money than you asked for.
But let a family need help buying groceries and suddenly itโs a lecture about hard work, responsibility & bootstraps.