If billionaires owning social media platforms truly wanted to stop Russian and Chinese propaganda and disinformation from spreading, they could. The tools to detect and suppress much of it exist. But they’d rather you fear Russia or China than realize they are the greater threat to our democraties.
Lynda Woolard
@lyndawoolard.bsky.social
I had a podcast in Louisiana based on my 18 years as a successful political organizer & winning Democratic strategist. I’ve stopped recording but the content is evergreen! I moved to Delaware to care for family. Dog & cat mom…kinda obsessed w/tech & media.
NEW: Here's what we know, and don't know, about the cyberattacks that have hit water plants across at least 12 states in the U.S. in the last couple of weeks. The wave of attacks, allegedly carried out by Iran's government, are more widespread than previous attacks on critical infrastructure.
What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on U.S. water utilities | TechCrunch
Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly c...
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Trump promised Americans a new golden age. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a golden age for diarrhea and white-collar crime www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-gif...
Trump’s Gift to the Money Launderers
Treasury isn’t merely shutting down an anti-corruption database. It’s deleting the data so future investigators can’t use it.
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“… what we’ve stated in every poll I’ve seen for literally a decade: Democratic voters want leaders who will fight for us. Workers, women, the most vulnerable communities… Everyone wants a fighter who is on their side. “We don’t need internal squabbles. We need champions for the people.”
Winning is Our Only Option
"We are not as divided as our politics suggests." Barack Obama
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Hmm what’s wrong with Republicans? I guess get medical advice for your children from a pedophile rather than a pediatrician kind of people?
NEW Economist/YouGov Aug 7-10 % who approve | disapprove of Donald Trump's job performance U.S. adult citizens: 33% | 62% Democrats: 4% | 95% Independents: 18% | 71% Republicans: 79% | 21% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
1/ The future of voter suppression is not a poll tax. It is a personalized reason to give up. In 2016, targeted digital ads were linked to measurable turnout drops among non-White voters. Now add AI, data brokers, dark $, & fused identity profiles #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Add Wisconsin to the list, & stop listening to hysterical media narratives… “Plenty of moderate and establishment Dems won the night of the New York primary, as well as the night of the Michigan primary, & have been doing so all year.” #Democrats #Wisconsin lyndawoolard.substack.com/p/winning-is...
Winning is Our Only Option
"We are not as divided as our politics suggests." Barack Obama
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T shirt: BILL CASSIDY MD DID HARM
Sen. Bill Cassidy MD (R-LA), who swore the hippocratic oath to do no harm, has arguably done more harm to Americans than anyone in Congress by being the deciding confirmation vote on brainworm RFK Jr. & Pedo Protector Blanche. History should not be kind to this asshole. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
“Truth be told, when you take the ‘scary labels’ out of the equation, progressive policies poll very well with – not just Democrats – ALL voters.” The media & GOP want to divide & distract us. We have the right vision & the wind at our back. We should campaign like it. More on Democrats from me:
Winning is Our Only Option
"We are not as divided as our politics suggests." Barack Obama
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lol I believe dat! #whodat #saints #drewbrees #seanpayton
Screaming #WhoDat & weeping from home. 🐐 🐐 🐐 🐐 🐐 🐐 🐐 🐐 🐐 #DrewBrees #Saints
Drew Brees Flexes His Muscles
Alt: Drew Brees Flexes His Muscles
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Text from a former political coworker and current bestie… Apparently I’m not the only one over Carville’s & Piker’s yapping. Read why Winning is Our Only Option here: open.substack.com/pub/lyndawoo...
Happy Friday! Check out my latest post — created with angsty Democrats in mind — and let me know what you think. open.substack.com/pub/lyndawoo...
Winning is Our Only Option
"We are not as divided as our politics suggests." Barack Obama
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I feel like it might have been a bad idea to hand the world over to sociopaths
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
Abdul El-Sayed has his personal story & his reason for running down perfect, as well as his 3 talking points: • Money out of politics • Money in your pocket • Medicare for all He has killer social media & his folks were knocking 10,000 doors a day, speaking directly to Michigan voters. 1/2
Abdul El-Sayed is my candidate, but whoever wins the Michigan senate primary, there’s a big fight ahead. GOP will brand any Dem a communist 🙄 & they want this seat enough to dump a bunch of 💰 in the state. Neither candidate is a “safer” choice. Both gave good election night speeches, but Abdul was 🔥
It’s not just roads America needs to fix, it’s infrastructure as a whole. Fuck data centers and AI, there is a massive need for manual labor to modernize ancient plumbing, docks, bridges, roads, & dams. Our focus as a country should be on investing internally w/ new jobs, funded thru the fed, so
Boy he must have really been hoping no one would look at the documents he talked about tonight because they underscore what I've been saying for 6 years, which is that the Trump-Ukraine Scandal was infinitely worse than people thought from the facts revealed during Impeachment #1
Love the #WorldCup. Especially love PKs when I don’t care which team wins.
World Cup Simpsons
Alt: World Cup Simpsons: fake cartoon ad for World Cup
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The primary purpose of Freedom 250, which is not subject to congressional oversight and does not have to disclose its donors, is the elevation of Trump and his political movement. trib.al/TeLuAu5
To this day, this man makes excuses for those who carried out an attack to throw out your votes and install a defeated President.
Listen, I thought… hoped… in 2020 we’d expand the Supreme Court, give DC statehood, offer statehood to Puerto Rico (if they wanted it), pass voting rights protections. We fumbled. Biden trusted we could “go back to normal,” Manchin & Sinema barred progress, too many Dems failed to act with urgency…
One of Harris' policy proposals was anti-price gouging measures which would have dealt with shit like this. Instead of electing the person who was going to address the price of eggs, they went with the guy who made it worse.