Zander Smiley

Co-founder of Venture backed start-up, post Series B (now exited). Bedside nurse for 6 years. Brand and marketing.

[Zander Smiley @PoliticSmith]

@CigarThoughts @JacsonBevens is my North Star for Seahawks. I never expected us to win a title, but I am encouraged by the progress I’ve seen. I wish our development was 2 years in the future with THIS Geno because I think he deserves a lot more credit nationally than he gets. Go Hawks.

[Zander Smiley @PoliticSmith]

@mattyglesias <Insert conspiracy to rationalize this for Trump>

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

This is the most fucked up thing perhaps said by any American politician ever. If this isn’t a red alert for newsrooms I don’t know what is. This needs to be on front pages and lead all news coverage immediately. What the actual fuck.

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

For years I've been investigating Jared Kushner's business deals with foreign governments. He's masquerading as an investment manager but the evidence I've seen makes him look like an unregistered foreign agent. @RepRaskin & I are calling on the DOJ to appoint a special counsel.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Vice President Harris to MAGA hecklers: “Oh you guys are at the wrong rally. I think you meant to go to the smaller one down the street”

🔥🔥🔥

[Colin Allred @ColinAllredTX]

On January 6, I got ready to defend my colleagues and texted my wife: “Whatever happens, I love you.”

Ted Cruz was hiding in a supply closet. If you summon a mob to overturn a free and fair election, you should lose your job. This election is his accountability.
#TXSenateDebate

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump appears lost, confused, and frozen on stage as multiple songs play for 30+ minutes and the crowd pours out of the venue early

[Zander Smiley @PoliticSmith]

Ok this was the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen. I think he just got a little lost and because they can never show weakness they just roll with it like it’s normal. Anyway, this whole thread had me rolling.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

I'm going to put together a thread covering the Trump town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania. Follow along for clips and commentary.

[Zander Smiley @PoliticSmith]

Watch this on 2x and it’s even more bizarre (and saves you some time from watching Trump).

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Wow -- this was weird. Trump wrapped up his "town hall" in Oaks, Pennsylvania, after just a few questions, and right after he said he would take a few more questions. More music then played while Trump stood around on stage. Deeply bizarre scenes.

[Zander Smiley @PoliticSmith]

@JordanDajani As a Seahawks fan, RW never had much of a pass blocking O-Line. Then again, his legs were different then, but he knows how to step up to avoid the free rusher (or swing out of it) and hit a deep ball.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Disagree. The reason is elite Democrats are mostly (not entirely) genuinely scared about a second Trump term.

Elite Republicans just pretend to be scared about a Harris term to please their voters but in actuality see a benefit to being in the minority.

[Zander Smiley @PoliticSmith]

@RealMayaLuna We got a lightly used 2023 Chevy Bolt with 6k miles on it for $25k. Absolutely love it (and the crazy value).

[Mike (not a) Rothschild @rothschildmd]

This is the worst I've ever seen him. Irrationally angry, incoherent, unable to stand up straight, out of breath, spinning out stories of things that never happened. Mentally shattered, physically unwell, absolutely detached from reality.

[Kraz Greinetz @krazgreinetz]

Here are the numbers for August and September:

August 2016: 26 rallies
August 2024: 7 rallies

September 2016: 21 rallies
September 2024: 6 rallies

It might not matter (unclear if campaign events really help) but I think it's a notable change in his brand/campaign.

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

NEW: Kamala Harris needs to sell her economic vision. It’s not Bidenomics. And it's definitely not neoliberalism.

It's something new. I'm calling it "middle-class capitalism." It appears to have 2 key elements:

1) Build-build-build. Build 3 million homes. Build factories. Build more US small biz. Build "diverse sources of energy". This part of her plan is pro-growth and sounds a lot like the abundance agenda.

2) Help those who are struggling. Expand the CTC. Make childcare and eldercare more affordable. And aggressive anti-trust actions. This part of her plan sounds more traditionally Dem.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

A deep dive into Pennsylvania (and an expletive or two) with @smerconish tonight.

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

8. We know that malign foreign actors understand that Trump is financially compromised and that he is easily manipulated. They know he’s cash strapped and has access to $2B IF he can find a buyer for his (otherwise soon-to-be) penny stock.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

How are we ok with this? How are we sleepwalking into a presidency where the guy is openly promising to be a dictator, terminate the constitution, put the military on the streets, round up his political opponents, & violently deport undocumented immigrants? How media, how?

WTF.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

In this clip, Tucker Carlson lies and says I texted him to express outrage that he'd platformed Darryl Cooper. That's false. He actually texted me because I’d publicly mocked his interaction with Cooper — mockery that he now mischaracterizes as “outrage” and “hysteria”  — and that apparently got under his skin. By text he accused me of slander, saying I’d smeared him as a Nazi. He also insulted me repeatedly. I asked him what I said that was slanderous or even hinted that he was a Nazi and he refused to answer.

It was in response to his accusation of slander that I explained why I, and others, had publicly voiced objections. It was pretty wild, I explained, to see a Hitler apologist platformed and praised effusively by Tucker Carlson. He replied, “Platformed? You mean ‘spoke to?’” I said yeah, you spoke to him on your platform to purposefully amplify his voice and that has understandably raised some eyebrows. It’s fine if you want to do that, I told him. You have every right. But people also have a right to respond honestly and critically without being accused of slander.

I have always appreciated Tucker’s support of free speech in general and The Babylon Bee, in particular. I do not appreciate his publicizing and mischaracterizing our private interactions. I also think it's beyond silly how Tucker and others on the right are pretending they aren't "allowed" to have these conversations. He claims we're living in a society where you’re "not allowed" to express heterodox views. That's ridiculous. He and Cooper started a discussion. Others have continued it. No one has tried to end it. Pretending it’s “forbidden” just because people care enough about the truth to respond is both dumb and dishonest. The conversation happening over the last several days has been about whether or not Cooper’s claims are valid — it has not been about whether he had a right to make them. That's debate, not censorship.

But this is the new playbook for many on the right. They make provocative statements in hopes of generating objections, and then they cite those objections as proof that no one is allowed to have the conversation. I guess they think you're too stupid to see that the objections are themselves part of the conversation.

[Reshma Saujani @reshmasaujani]

Today I asked @realDonaldTrump what he would do to solve the child care crisis. His response? Incomprehensible at best; at worst, outrageously offensive to the millions of families drowning in costs.