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Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
What's so amazing about this Scott Colom interview is that he just comes out & says something Dems rarely say: *workers need to make more money.* This is a big deal. For decades Dems have been telling workers that to earn more, they need to learn more cnn.com/2026/11/06/politics/…
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Scary times. Everyone should be concerned about the precedent this sets.
Florida under DeSantis designated the Muslim civil rights group CAIR a terrorist group, forcing it close its local office.
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Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
The fourth winter in a row that most of Gaza is enduring winter rains in tattered tents. Over a year since the “ceasefire” went into effect without Israel allowing a single brick, bag of cement or shelter in.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
I don’t know. It feels obscenely stupid to start posting videos of my loved ones in Gaza right now, as their tents flood with rainwater in the middle of the night, as they sleep in damp clothes on soaked mattresses, and to think for a f*cking second that these images might move someone to save their babies, to protect what little dignity they have left.
As if this time could be any different from last year, or the year before that, or the year before that.
As if people around the world, especially those with the power to do something, might suddenly be moved by a family’s tent flooding with rainwater when the sight of hundreds of babies whose bodies were shredded by Israeli bombs was not enough to put an end to this.
How many more times must we expose the suffering of the people we love, strip them of their privacy in their most vulnerable moments, in the desperate hope that someone, somewhere, might finally care enough to act?
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
A Palestinian child weeps amid the rubble of her demolished home and other children sit atop the ruins of their homes in the town of Biddou, northwest of Jerusalem, after Israeli forces carried out demolitions for several houses, displacing 110 Palestinians
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Ro still refuses to support a full arms embargo on Israel, instead doing the hyper-qualified conditional bullshit that will, by design, simply maintain the status quo and do nothing to meaningfully pressure Israel. This policy is a moral sieve and people need to recognize this.
Rep. Ro Khanna told Breaking Points he is “seriously considering” a 2028 presidential run, as NBC News reported that allies, including former Rep. Jamaal Bowman, have launched a “Run Ro” committee to build support for his potential candidacy.
Khanna said any Democratic presidential candidate must:
▪️oppose U.S. wars,
▪️recognize Israel’s genocide in Gaza
▪️end military aid and weapons sales used to kill civilians*
▪️support Medicare for All and
▪️support taxing billionaires.
▪️Recognize a Palestinian state
▪️ end U.S. diplomatic protection of Israel at the United Nations.
Khanna said he will consult his family and assess support before deciding whether to run.
(*Khanna has previously clarified that he does not support a comprehensive arms embargo that would prevent Israel from obtaining “defensive” weapons systems such as Iron Dome, although he opposes U.S. taxpayer funding for them.)
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
You should be prosecuted btw
The midterm results send a clear message: How we show up in the world affects our lives at home, and Americans understand that. When we alienate allies, appease autocrats, impose arbitrary tariffs, and drive needless conflict, American families pay the price. The Administration’s actions over the last two years have had real consequences for our security, our economy, and our everyday lives. Americans have spoken loud and clear. We should act on the message they're sending. A good place to start: a diplomatic resolution to President Trump's war of choice with Iran.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
She’s a genuinely terrible person, and it’s nice I suppose for her to confirm that one more time on her way out
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Israel bombed the limbs off Palestinian children and then trapped them in Gaza and denied them treatment.
Unfathomable cruelty.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Columbia trustees: turn the volume up!
You and SIPA's racist Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo will answer for the abhorrent actions you did to pro-Palestine students.
Accountability is coming, and I'll be working with the newly elected officials to deliver it.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
God he’s such a rat. You sold the war! You promoted it! You said in March that Iran wanted to blow up “nuclear suicide bomb vests” in American grocery stores. If you opposed it you could have quit in protest before 130 school girls and 3000 other Iranians we’re snuffed out
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
Jeffries spending the morning taking a false high road about "not getting even" is not a great sign that he knows what to do with this moment.
Anne Silver 🇵🇸 retweeted
I find this effort to distance Stevens from her staff/supporters tiresome. I buy they were left in the dark about the explicit Rogers endorsement but—even on the issue of partisan loyalty—they had no problem with her primary being funded almost entirety by Trump mega-donors (1/5)
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Former Stevens staffers blast her "selfish ... irrational ... shameful" decision in open letter
Comes from former organizing director Max Skove and 20+ other (not named) ex-staff, including one now in senior role on El-Sayed campaign
ALT We worked for Haley Stevens’ Senate campaign because we all believed in one thing: that it is absolutely essential to keep Michigan’s Senate seat blue come Election Day. For over a year, Rep. Stevens criticized Mike Rogers as a corrupt career politician who would blindly rubber-stamp Donald Trump’s chaos, regardless of the damage it inflicted on Michiganders. It’s infuriating to watch her become the very thing she once condemned. She told CNN there was too much “on the line” to play games a few days ago. Now, she's doing just that. Her appalling behavior is an insult to anyone who wasted even a moment of their time supporting her campaign. Here is what her selfish – and irrational – decision puts in jeopardy: reproductive rights, health care, voting rights, at least two Supreme Court seats, and the manufacturing jobs that she claimed to champion. The day before she endorsed him, leaked audio confirmed Rogers would support a national abortion ban. That is what’s at stake. As former.