Bryan Whitaker

Cofounder at TwoRivers Strategies. Namer of the F. Salt Fitzgerald.

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

[Ken Martin @kenmartin73]

Are you a campaign staffer or looking to join a campaign? Apply for the DNC’s NextWave Regional Bootcamp, a FREE training program designed for campaign staff of all experience levels.

Our next bootcamp is in Pittsburgh, PA, on June 24-26. Apply today: https://t.co/px9iDskRyj

[taylr @taylr]

the DFL convention remembers alex pretti and renee good, both of whom were murdered while defending our neighbors in minneapolis by federal agents during operation metro surge. bruce springsteen’s “streets of minneapolis” plays in the background

[Ken Martin @kenmartin73]

Read more about what I have to say here: https://t.co/9wochQttN5

[Kyle Tharp @kylewilsontharp]

Do you work on political campaigns?

Looking to build out some cross-partisan AI use insights along with @katieharbath @AmandaCarey1 @ericwilson - take this 30-second survey really quick, its anonymous 👇 🇺🇸

Will share out learnings in the near future

🔗 https://t.co/hzt9UIhJ4y

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc

[Danny Gold @DGisSERIOUS]

Been shouting this from the rooftops. One of the most important paragraphs in the world today. For culture, media, ideology, politics etc. everyone is downstream of this.

[Brian McClung @bmcclung]

As a fellow MN political hack (I use the term endearingly) I’ve known @kenmartin73 ~25 years. I don’t know anything about the inner workings of the DNC. But the amount of time/effort other Dems spend ripping him seems bizarre. The guy wins elections. Trust me, I wish he didn’t.

[Ted Alcorn @TedAlcorn]

With data from @nytimes API, I analyzed all national+local coverage since 2000—224K articles— to see which topics in each state get covered out of proportion to the rest of the country. A portrait of how the paper of record sees America, one state per tweet, alphabetical. 👇

[Katie Harbath @katieharbath]

Everyone's talking about AI in campaigns, but it’s hard to measure.

That’s why @AmandaCarey1, @kylewilsontharp, @ericwilson and myself are running a survey on how political pros are using AI.

If you work in campaigns and politics we need your input!

https://t.co/6Sn5PXmV8R

[ROME REPORTS @romereports]

🎶 The Swiss Guard surprises Pope Leo XIV with ‘Sweet Caroline’ at his second swearing-in ceremony

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

Whoever came up with this survey question deserves a pulitzer

[Jane Fleming Kleeb🇺🇸We The People @janekleeb]

One of the best pieces written about how @TheDemocrats and @DemStateParties are re-building state infrastructure to win this cycle and beyond. We are done with only targeting a handful of states. That's not party strength, that's an outdated playbook that doesn't work. Thx @michaelkapp for writing this and making the case for year-round permanent infrastructure, exactly what Chair @kenmartin73 is doing. https://t.co/TcPaEpshiZ

[Raymond Buckley 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 @ChairmanBuckley]

The numbers don’t lie: The DNC is winning where it matters most https://t.co/IUHP6R9dPc

[The Obama Foundation @ObamaFoundation]

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[Bryan Whitaker @whitakerb2]

@tompitfield @AzamIshmael @liberal_party Hang this in the Louvre!

[Michael Kapp @michaelkapp]

I've been on the DNC long enough to remember when we lost the WH & Tom Perez was DNC Chair and fundraising ⬇️. Yet these stories didn't happen to Perez.

Ken Martin has beaten every Perez record by millions of $ – yet we have this B.S.

The media is missing the true story.

🧵

[John McCormick @McCormickJohn]

“It’s this perfect storm of pain,” said Sue Dvorsky, a former Iowa Democratic Party chairwoman.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Erika Filter @efilter531]

For the morning crowd: As DNC Chair Ken Martin faces criticism for fundraising shortfalls, I spoke with state party chairs to see how they're feeling 6 months after the DNC increased their budgets.

(free to read)
https://t.co/Tm1GPlFsZW