Andrew Silver

Georgia-based writer. @

[Andrew Silver @standsagreenoak]

I’m now at @andy-silver.bluesky.social

[Andrew Silver @standsagreenoak]

Can’t think of a candidate who more disastrously meets the moment.

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

New: Rahm Emanuel is weighing a bid for DNC chair, 3 ppl with knowledge tell Axios.

Axelrod has been an early booster this week.

https://t.co/QvZQlV6TS6

[Andrew Silver @standsagreenoak]

This! The media let the Trump campaign and his media supporters frame the campaign.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The ability of demagogues & autocrats to surprise, to create a new scandal every day, is their superpower. It diminishes attention to the previous day's transgressions & normalizes them. It slowly numbs the senses, including outrage. Values are the only defense. Hold them dear.

[Vertigo Vinyl @vertigovinylga]

day 3/8 of hints for our 3 back to back 750 unit drops (nov 20-22)

hint #3: think wedding veils, haunted south, guns, candles, tumblr, old chapels, and angels

[katie @katefeetie]

is the left “obsessed” with gender, sexuality, race, etc, or are they just constantly having to defend people in marginalized groups against a right wing that’s ACTUALLY obsessed with gender, sexuality, race, etc

[Vertigo Vinyl @vertigovinylga]

mitski drop today! here’s an irl photo of the test copy we were sent :)

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

That was a cataclysm. Electoral map wipeout. Senate D practical ceiling is now 52 seats. R's is 62.

Time to rebuild the left.

We are out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA. We refuse to pick big fights. Our tent is too small.

1/ Some early thoughts:

[Vertigo Vinyl @vertigovinylga]

our biggest drop. an album that means the world to us. tomorrow. 11/11. only at vertigo

[Vertigo Vinyl @vertigovinylga]

last hint before the big announcement is that thanks to the die cut sleeve, the cover is reversible and can be changed to display an alternate display with a song lyric 🤍

[Andrew Silver @standsagreenoak]

This is all true. And the great mobilizer? Racism, sexism, and grievance at those below, not above. This has its dark precedents in American history.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

To everyone who is afraid of what happens next, I share your fears. But what we do next is important.

We have to learn from what happened. And then, make a plan. As we confront a second Trump presidency, here’s a path forward: 🧵

[Andrew Silver @standsagreenoak]

@GabrielSterling “even losing the popular vote.” I mean, that should be the norm if you lose the election. Nothing special about that in the last 100 plus years until Bush and Trump lost the popular vote and won the electoral college.

[Ahmed Baba @AhmedBaba_]

Democrats don’t have a messaging problem. They have a distribution problem.

Liberals need to get innovative about how they’ll push out the truth amid this information ecosystem dominated by a powerful right-wing disinformation machine.

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

History = a series of endless cataclysms
Poetry = in the middle of all this a human voice is trying to sing

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

No, I am not going to write about what Harris should have done, and pretend that my personal biases/preferences have some kind of universal significance

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

Those who do remember it are also doomed.

[Andrew Silver @standsagreenoak]

@RachelBitecofer But ARE we finger waggers? Or did billionaire oligarchs use cable and social media to amplify anecdotal cases or simply spread disinformation and foist that image upon us?