Elaine Frantz

Historian of violence. Nevertheless stubbornly optimistic. getting good at pissing people off when that's the right thing to do. @[email protected]

[Bob Hutton @HerecomesDrBob]

The biggest lie the devil ever got people to believe is that the economy is "natural" and government isn't.

[YDAC - Young Democrats of Allegheny County @YoungDems_AGH]

Thank you to all who sought our recommendation and went through the process with us!

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.

Some of those stories may even be true!

But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇

[Tanisha Long @Tanishaevonne]

My favorite Allegheny County Budget idea?

Taking money from the District Attorney’s office and reallocating it to the Public Defender’s office until they both have an equal amount of funding.

[Elaine Frantz @ProfEFP]

@jodydiperna Lucy Sante, _Low Life_

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Whether talking about police violence, climate change, homelessness, or genocide, a key form of propaganda is that the most powerful institutions in the world—who are directly causing and profiting from horrific stuff—really want to make things better but just can’t.

[Dan Osborn @osbornforne]

In case you missed it — a new poll has us UP by one point in the Nebraska Senate race.

The momentum is with us – retweet and help us get the word out that the people are ready to send an independent to the US Senate.

[Taniel @Taniel]

A poll of Nebraska: It's by SUSA, a prominent pollster, tho it's an internal poll for Osborn.

Dan Osborn up 45% to 44% on Senator Fischer. 11% undecided.

Last month, SUSA found Fischer up 39/38, & 23% undecided. That was a public poll for @SplitTicket_ https://t.co/Vi3Rssd1Zt

[Steve Neavling @MCmuckraker]

Prosecutor declines to charge Wayne State protesters arrested during Pro-Palestine demonstration https://t.co/VIFDqvNO1q

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

I am increasingly convinced that Gaza is
—and will be—the essential moral question of our time. But perhaps what’s even more essential is our collective failure to perceive the question.

[Elaine Frantz @ProfEFP]

@4st8 Being in decline is central to our identity. I refuse to accept that.

[Bethany Hallam @bethanyhallam]

At today’s Board of Elections meeting, we approved 10 ballot return sites (screenshot #1) and 5 satellite voting locations (screenshot #2) for the 2024 General Election:

[Elaine Frantz @ProfEFP]

@PINJNews That really is sad. I’m so sorry

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

There's not a *whisper* of Communism in anything Kamala Harris has ever said.

But Elon Musk tweets what we now know are *Kremlin talking points* dozens of times a day to hundreds of millions of people.

EVERY MAGA ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION.

Never, *ever* forget that maxim.

[Ryan Deto @RyanDeto]

PA-17 in Pittsburgh’s suburbs shifted from Lean D to Likely D, a boon to incumbent Dem Rep. Chris Deluzio. GOP challenger state Rep. Rob Mercuri is trailing in polling and fundraising and outside groups are staying out of race.

[Tera Hunter @TeraWHunter]

“It has been an exhibition of what the Palestinian scholar Edward Said called ‘the permission to narrate,’ and it is that permission that Palestinian Americans have been denied.” https://t.co/kyl3dlf7W7

[Tanisha Long @Tanishaevonne]

Palestine isn’t a local issue?
The why are we forcing City employees to resign for supporting Palestine?

[Bob Batz Jr. @bobbatzjr]

The only sure thing remains: We are right. https://t.co/3KL8Unx5UI

[SP&R @SusquehannaPR]

In SP&R's Pa poll, Harris is beating Trump in Allegheny Co. (Pitt) by 73:18 margin, improving on Biden's 20 pt. win in '20. In the suburban Phila collar counties, she leads Trump 55:35. If the Pa suburbs go this big for Harris, Trump will need to make up ground in rural Pa.