Mike Huggins

Former city manager using 30 yrs management/planning experience to build the civic problem solving skills of everyday people to do extraordinary public work

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

Easiest route to the horse race storyline is to focus on "the Trump-backed candidate" and how close they are to winning. Now that is a valid story. But it's also a leveler. Who's up, who's down makes every election sound like a normal contest, rather than an authoritarian moment.

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

Unbelievable....

[Dr. Manuel Pastor @Prof_MPastor]

COVID tests & sushi — our new Saturday nights . . .

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

With devastating clarity, @bartongellman depicts the GOP as reorganized around the Big Lie. https://t.co/hIznpkZa9q Journalism has to oppose that lie or lose its soul, making it oppositional to the GOP. The doctrine of neutral professionalism says this cannot happen. But it has.

[Bill Hogseth @billhogseth]

1) The more doors I knock, more I learn this lesson: People don't care about politics.

They care about getting through the day.

They are busy: jobs, kids, school, bills, and other shit.

They don't have time or mental energy to care about policy debates or talking points.

[Bill Hogseth @billhogseth]

Takeaways from deep canvassing all day in Barron, WI today

*Rural areas are diverse, not a monolith
*Lives of working people are hard & complex
*People will talk if you listen & don’t judge
*There is a hunger to connect & feel heard
*We desperately need more rural organizing

[Mike Huggins @mwhuggins]

Eau Claire residents learn about participatory budgeting | News | https://t.co/teFdnVeZ8I https://t.co/Ncrz8NfLyS

[Mike Huggins @mwhuggins]

Participatory budgeting comes to Eau Claire. 1st session tonight Oct 5. PB first discussed many years ago. Inch by inch it's a cinch.

[City of Eau Claire @CityofEauClaire]

YOU can be part of a groundbreaking movement. Eau Claire is the first city in Wisconsin to have a participatory budgeting program. Kick Off event October 5 at the L.E. Phillips Senior Center from 4-7 p.m. Learn more about Empower Eau Claire at https://t.co/tXNE0nPOrp

[Joshua A. Miller @anotherpanacea]

My hot take: I have no idea what’s constitutional and neither do you, because the Supreme Court is a political branch just like the others and it is only bound by precedent when it wants to be. Fred Korematsu lost. Guantanamo Bay is still open.

[Joshua A. Miller @anotherpanacea]

Can we please all please go back to blogs? I'm as much to blame as anyone (except Google for killing Reader) but the internet doesn't work right when viewed through algorithmically-tuned timelines of hot takes.

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

Perry is rapdily becoming our most useful political columnist. Here he explains why it's lazy and wrong to claim that "moderates" or "centrists" hold the key to winning elections and passing legislation. https://t.co/l6IKChBvGD Recommended. @perrybaconjr

[Eddie S. Glaude Jr. @esglaude]

America is more than an idea. It is argument had over time. Not about perfection, but about the scope and reach of democracy. And I refuse to cede that argument to those who believe that I really don’t belong here.

[Joshua A. Miller @anotherpanacea]

I feel like I should have something to say about antivaxxers and magnets and democratic deliberation, but I can't formulate the thought. But it's something about social media, the signal-to-noise ratio, and epistemic institutional design.

[DiasporaCreole @DiasporaCreole]

Jim Crow. Black Codes. Indian Removal Act. Chinese Exclusion Act.
We can ad the executive order for Japanese internment. The protection of slavery. #whyhistorymatters #nomorelies #teachhistory

[Charles P. Pierce @CharlesPPierce]

@EricBoehlert

[Neil Howe @HoweGeneration]

And this mention with a more “European” version in the @DailyMailUK.
https://t.co/8BXJx2DJhL

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

Daily U.S. vaccinations have peaked

Now under 3M/day rolling avg

Doubt we'll get back above 3M again

Why?

Vaccine avid folks have gotten their shot

Its now the ground game

Reaching those with less access

Reaching those who have questions

It'll be hard. Its so important

[Mike Huggins @mwhuggins]

FYI-City Mgrs: Check out the Institute for Public Work and Life. Hands-on local problem solving skills. Focuses on "a new way of describing the world and its possibilities—one based in democracy’s best and most empowering practices." https://t.co/0VUSGb9SOb

[Bill Hogseth @billhogseth]

This is great news for Wisconsin.

Sarah is the right person to represent us in the Senate.

She is tough, smart, and compassionate.

[Mike Huggins @mwhuggins]

Hopefully "empowering local leaders" will include building the civic organizing and public problem solving skills and civic agency of everyday people to work with each other for the common good, sometimes with government and sometimes without.

[Hollie Russon Gilman @hrgilman]

Latest w/ @marcidale in @thehill on #civicinfrastructure -- an opportunity for participatory governance in the #AmericanJobsPlan cc @NewAmerica @HarvardAsh