“These bank failures were entirely avoidable if Congress and the Fed had done their jobs and kept strong banking regulations in place since 2018. S.V.B. and Signature are gone, and now Washington must act quickly to prevent the next crisis” -
@SenWarren
Delighted to share that I’ve returned to DC to fight for America’s workers as Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the
@AFLCIO
. As
@SenWarren
says: unions built America’s middle class, and unions will rebuild America’s middle class. Let’s go!
#ItsBetterInAUnion
#1u
The number of 2012
@ewarren
campaign leaders holding senior positions on the 2024 Biden campaign is a very, very promising thing for our country.
Also: Mindy is the smartest operative I know.
Scoop: Biden is bringing on some new blood to oversee his polling operation. Mindy Myers, a Warren and DSCC alum, will be his campaign’s senior adviser of opinion research.
Ady was such an incredible force for good in this world. Rest in power, dear
@AdyBarkan
. Thank you for sharing him with us, Rachael, Carl, and Willow. ❤️
Make no mistake: the
#GOPTaxScam
is not just about numbers. If Congress passes a tax bill that gives corporations massive handouts, it’ll be on the backs of people like
@AdyBarkan
.
A post-1/6 reminder to Capitol Hill reporters and staffers: Please don't post screenshots of the USCP emails with directions about where to go/what to do.
Stay safe, my friends.
Our officers are searching in and around the Senate Office Buildings in response to a concerning 911 call. Please stay away from the area as we are still investigating. We will continue to communicate with the public here.
Democratic digital fundraising has skyrocketed cycle after cycle, and we're heading into a presidential election year with razor-thin margins in Congress. Something about mass layoffs at
@actblue
just doesn't add up.
Today
@actblue
laid off 54 employees, 32 of which were in our bargaining unit. Layoffs unfairly punish union employees who are both not responsible for the current financial difficulties & have invested considerable effort into making
@actblue
what it is today
That AI can write better emails than campaign aides probably says more about the cookie-cutter, email factory nature of campaign emails these days than the quality of AI advancement.
John Walsh was very likely the nicest, most beloved operative in Massachusetts politics. Sending so much love to his loved ones and to our
@EdMarkey
/
@DevalPatrick
/
@MassDems
family. Such sad, sad news.
#mapoli
We’ve won some big victories for working families in Massachusetts and across the country, but there’s a lot more to do. So today I’m making it official: I’m running for re-election to keep up the fight.
This is a fantastic hire by the Fetterman team. I’ve been in the trenches with
@MadamCAdams
since her time with Rep. Slaughter — she’s super smart and an all around great person.
(Also yay to more people from digital running comms shops!)
Thrilled to welcome the inimitable Carrie Adams (
@madamcadams
on here) to team Fetterman as our new Communications Director! A real pro with a “who’s who” of Hill experience, we are beyond psyched to have her on board. 🎉
FYI
@playbookdc
readers: this is not me. I just have an extremely common name, including Seth Rogen’s wife, Courteney Cox’s character on Growing Pains, and seemingly every women’s college golf, volleyball, and water polo player in the country. 😂
NEW: No Labels releases policy plan: “A balance” on abortion access. “All-of-the-above” energy production. Act now on Social Security. Stop releasing asylum applicants into the country. Protect transgender people, but restrict teaching gender to kids.
Dear Senate digital directors:
1. Even if your boss's favorite meat is hot dog, you don't have to make a National Hot Dog Day video.
2. If your boss says "I love them in buns, I love them outside of buns," reshoot.
2. You should know better than to have ketchup.
xoxo,
me
Our team at the
@AFLCIO
is looking for a new strategist to lead our social media. Know anyone? Please share and help grow the fight for working families:
Sports Illustrated is nothing without its editorial staff.
The AFL-CIO Sports Council, representing 8 professional players' unions, fully supports
@si_union
in their fight against Arena Group, which has sent layoff notices to every single union member but none to top management.
Another smart piece on the scary state of Dem digital tech. It’s ActionKit heavy — but almost all the Blue State Digital folks left at Bonterra after the tools acquisition just lost their jobs too. The loss of the BSD tools still hurts the whole industry.
Jon is perhaps the only person in the world who can fill the shoes of
@BharatRamamurti
. A truly brilliant policy mind and all-around good person.
The only question is whether he'll try to match Bharat's social media chops. I know he *can*... but will he? 😉
"You lobbied for weaker rules, got what you wanted, & used this opportunity to abdicate your basic responsibilities to your clients & the public – facilitating a near-economic disaster."
@SenWarren
's letter to Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker is 🔥🔥🔥
We can't ignore what the deluge of cold doom-and-gloom and fake-deadline emails/texts from cookie-cutter email factory consultants who buy/sell contacts like they're trading cards to meet crazy fundraising goals has done to break our bigger digital fundraising ecosystem. (2/2)
Our own
@SenWarren
has been fighting the discriminatory blood donation ban since 2013, when a constituent wrote in about not being able to give blood after the Boston Marathon bombing.
10 years later, very glad this is finally done. It's way past time.
I am staying completely out of the Harvard drama, but take my advice: if you want to know what the heck is really going on, just follow
@mherszenhorn
.
NEWS
Months after leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about US nuclear submarines with a member of his Mar-a-Lago Club -- an Australian billionaire who then allegedly shared the information with scores of…
It's due diligence for the Biden campaign to run this NGPVAN vs Actblue test, but
@ttagaris
is right: potentially huge impact. I didn't make the full switch to Actblue in 2012 for EW because OFA had its donors saved in BSD quickdonate. Everyone would have to think twice in 2024.
America Ferrera’s monologue in Barbie just might be the best feminist rant in film history. If the great Laura Dern can win an Oscar for her own Noah Baumbach speech in a much worse movie, just hand America Ferrera the statue now.
President Biden called on Congress and regulators to reverse Trump-era deregulation and “strengthen the rules on banks to make it less likely that this kind of bank failure will happen again." Today I’m proposing legislation to do just that.
Breaking—Students at 25 campuses across the U.S. announce that on Thursday, Feb. 22, they will hold the first-ever national day of action to demand that their universities boot Starbucks off campus or voice support for Sbucks workers
The schools include NYU, UNC, Georgetown,UCLA
I've seen enough: in a major victory for the pro-choice side, Ohio Issue 1 (a measure to raise the threshold to pass a state constitutional amendment to 60%) fails.
The Boston
@MBTA
: where things might fall on you from the ceiling, where the undercarriage of your train might catch on fire, and apparently where the fire hydrants don’t actually work. Awesome.
The what ifs from January 6 haven’t gone away yet.
What if I hadn’t worked from home that day. What if my boss had been in the chamber. What if my friends and colleagues hadn’t made it out.
What if. What if. What if.
Let it be known that I, a childless geriatric millennial who has made four out-of-state moves in the past six years, also cried while watching the new episode of Bluey.
(I got FOMO wondering what everyone was talking about on social media today).
Didn't stick around for the
@Nationals
fireworks show tonight because the last time I did, they played Fight Song, and they should know better in Washington DC.
I will never stop ranting about the fact that the loss of NOI and Rootscamp - and inability for big progressive funders to rebuild it - is a major pipeline failure for the Democratic Party.
Look: once again we're losing the pipeline battle.
“The way you make senior staff is by making junior staff 10 years earlier.” Good read from
@ianwardreports
on the right's efforts to produce a critical mass.
I told the NYT a few weeks ago that I think the Biden/committee apparatus will raise record amounts online in 2024. I still do - the cycle over cycle trends + GOP primary/general just make that very likely. The top of the ticket will be fine. But...(1/2)
Hey DC/federal gov: If you want people to stop fighting in-person work, fund more
@wmata
trains on Wednesdays. It's clearly the city's in-person anchor day and the crowds are awful. If that's people's frame of reference for commuting, I wouldn't want to work in-office either.
Bless my Warren Democrat heart, the conflict of interest/fiduciary rule is back. If you want to know why this is so important, read one of my all-time favorite reports from
@SenWarren
's office from 2015 (yes, we've been fighting for that long):
Workers, retirees and their families lose billions of dollars every year from bad financial advice. We strongly support the Biden administration’s strong
@USDOL
fiduciary rule to make retirement advisers put their customers' interests first.
Today I’m announcing a bipartisan bill for a new regulator to rein in Big Tech.
Big Tech companies have far too much unrestrained power over our economy, our society and our democracy. Reining in tech giants will be hard, but it’s a fight worth fighting.
“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years,” read a quote by Paul Reubens that accompanied the announcement of his death. “I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.”
Honored to be a part of
@UCLA_Alumni
’s inaugural 2023 Bruin Excellence in Civic Engagement cohort.
I love being a Bruin, and I’m forever grateful for the education, skills, and friendships I gained that have made my career possible. 💙💛💙
#BruinsGiveBack
Our full
@HarvardIOP
Spring 2023 poll will be out in April, but we've released our findings on gun legislation today. 63% of young Americans 18-29 support stricter gun laws. That number has been consistent since Parkland.
Full findings here:
NEW TODAY: The Spring 2023 Harvard Youth Poll conducted March 13-23 indicates that 63% of young adults 18-29 believe our gun laws should be stricter – a majority across education, race, gender, and urban/suburban/small town divides.
Details here➡️
Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms. I believe this is ours.
That’s why I’m running for reelection as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job.
BREAKING: New polling conducted by
@GBAOStrategies
reveals 88 percent of young Americans support labor unions.
We've said it before and we'll say it again: Gen Z is on track to become to most unionized generation in American history.
If you're someone who believes in big, structural change that levels the playing field for working families, a day that finalizes the fiduciary rule, the overtime rule, and the noncompetes rule is about as good as it gets.
Thanks President Biden!
You can pretend like you were too good for it now, but if you were a 90s kid/teen with any TV freedom at all, you almost certainly watched Jerry Springer.
Rest in peace, Jerry. Take care of yourself, and each other.
Senator Tuberville is blocking promotions for nearly 200 military officials–jeopardizing national security & harming military families–to take away servicemembers' freedom to travel for reproductive health care. I'm taking this fight to the Senate floor.
Delighted to be back at
@UCLA
tonight for a reception in honor of being named to the
@UCLA_Alumni
Association’s inaugural Bruin Excellence in Civic Engagement cohort. I love being a Bruin, and my career wouldn’t have been possible without UCLA.
#BruinProud
The campaign for Derek Myers, an Ohio Republican candidate competing in the Tuesday primary for Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District, accidentally issued a concession statement hours before polls closed in the Buckeye State
New: The Condé Nast union is launching a 24-hour walkout tomorrow in protest of what they claim are regressive bargaining practices. VF, Vogue, GQ, etc. in work stoppage mode, on Oscar noms day