The craft of advocacy

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11 Jan 2022
Too many advocates bury their message 1/3 4cause.blogspot.com/2022/01/…

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6 Dec 2025
(1/2) This court is a problem that won't go away. They'll block everything the next Dem president does. Got to start talking about "court reform" now. "Republicans in robes", "corruption". Not "packing" or "expanding". Start framing the discussion now. .
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23 Jul 2025
the fine line between clulessness and parody
Great to see @heycappello launching a Democratic campaign that nobody can believe in
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8 Jul 2025
WOW is this late in coming. Evidently economic insights have the power to blind even very smart people to obvious truths.
My daughters, who practice medicine and social work in rural New Hampshire made me realize that a focus on macroeconomics, while valid, misses the human brutality that I now see as the most problematic aspect of the OBBB legislation. This round of budget cuts in Medicaid far exceeds any other cut the United States has made in its social safety net. Read my @nytopinion piece: nytimes.com/2025/07/08/opini…
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9 Feb 2025
Since MassDOT installed separated bike lanes on the Mass Ave Bridge in 2021, Boston has counted a daily average of 6,160 bikes, a 51% increase. 🚲

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23 Jan 2025
This thread on Bluesky, about comms failure at advocacy orgs, is spot on: bsky.app/profile/gregpak.net…
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22 Jan 2025
Drop in the bucket, unfortunately
FEMA gives Boston, MBTA $13M to reduce flood risks. Via @WBUR wbur.org/news/2025/01/21/fem… .
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21 Jan 2025
the fact that the MTA spent years conducting a 4,000 page environmental study about congestion pricing, only for opponents to claim the plan wasn’t studied, is a perfect example of how there will never be enough process to satisfy NIMBYs
Today I sent a letter to President Trump urging his Administration to reexamine New York’s congestion pricing scheme. Congestion pricing is a disaster for New Jersey commuters and must receive the close look it deserves from the federal government.
Community note
Governor Murphy claims that congestion pricing “has never been well-designed or adequately studied”. This is false. The MTA conducted an extensive 4,000 page environmental study evaluating the impacts of congestion pricing. Source: new.mta.info/document/93456
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29 Dec 2024
A person riding a bicycle has unobstructed views. They see far more than someone sitting in a car. The A-pillars are a great example of trade-offs. Their intended function is structural integrity -- keep the roof and windshield where they belong in the event of a crash. But A-pillars create significant blind spots for the driver. SUVs and pick-up trucks (America's favorite vehicles) have super wide A-pillars. When a car turns, particularly at intersections or in parking lots, the A-pillar can obstruct the view of pedestrians, cyclists, or other vehicles. Probably the most dangerous scenario is when a driver is turning left while someone is properly using a crosswalk. The driver is focused on beating oncoming traffic and cuts the left-turn at an angle. Drivers have to compensate by moving their head or taking extra caution, i.e. slowing down. Decades of crash reports reveal that drivers don't like moving their head or taking extra caution. Back to the reply guy below. It's super important for people driving a motor vehicle to come to a complete stop at a stop sign, move their body to see around the A-pillar, and drive cautiously. Those of us sitting on a bicycle are doing our best to avoid you because we know it's a struggle for you to exercise extra caution while operating powerful motor vehicles.
29 Dec 2024
I’m same height in my car so yea I can etc
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Artist Pablo Picasso remains in occupied Paris, giving German officers who visit him postcards of his anti-Fascist painting Guernica. One German asked: “Did you do this?” Picasso: “No, you did.”
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3 Dec 2024
Counterfactual much?
"I had lunch last week with a Democrat who worked on a winning Senate race this cycle, and this person told me that for all of Harris’s faults, her campaign saved Democrats from a total wipeout on Capitol Hill. If Biden was still the nominee, they would have lost their race"
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. - John Burroughs 🍁🍂 📷 : Sam Kauffmann
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6 Nov 2024
RT @paulkrugman: Don’t ask whose fault this was. Plenty of time for second-guessing and recriminations. Ask instead, what can you do? For m…
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Green parties in Europe are calling for Jill Stein to withdraw.   The race for the White House is too close for comfort. We call on her to withdraw from the race & endorse Kamala Harris for President of the United States.   Read the full statement here ⬇️ europeangreens.eu/news/us-el…
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oh well if smart people in tech say it
almost every smart person I talk to in tech is in favor of aerosolized sulfates to increase the earth's albedo in order to deal with climate change. people are absolutely fed up with the lefty approach of using climate as a pretextual cudgel to install socialism.
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1 Nov 2024
it wasn't "nonsensical," it was diabolical. Bowing to the BS arguments of the fossil-fuel industry. @MassDOER is complicit in its selection process, which should have been based on the merits. Better to have approved Somerville vs my town, Arlington, which was.
Truly outrageous: as this 80° Oct week wraps up, @MassDOER declares that Somerville is legally prohibited from banning fossil fuel hook-ups in new buildings. MA Legislature set a non-sensical limit of 10 cities in their “Fossil Free Pilot” & 11 applied. aol.com/northampton-rounds-d…
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A frank and productive exchange of views with my counterpart on key issues like expanding the global supply of candy and toys and tightening sanctions against chores.
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31 Oct 2024
The best way to pwn Elon Musk for all his election shenanigans is to build walkable neighborhoods so no one needs a car.
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#electionelectionelection 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿? Have an apple! I describe nearly 400 different varieties on my blog. adamapples.blogspot.com #apples
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