Reed Galen

@reedgalen.bsky.social

President, JoinTheUnion.us Host/Author: The Home Front Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-home-front/id1765927918 Substack: https://reedgalen.substack.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/reedgalen

“.. The Florida for-sale market is flashing warning signs: 45% of listings have taken a price cut (6.6 pts above the national rate) “.. 1 in 10 homes are selling for less than the original owner paid.” - Parcl Labs

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🔥"Establishment Dems refuse to acknowledge anything is wrong that Trump’s departure won’t fix. This is ludicrous....I’ve seen writers lament progressive victories as 'taking on their own party' as opposed to fighting Trump. This is bullshit." Courageous piece from @reedgalen.bsky.social

Ignore Your Base, Lose Your Party

Former Republican insider Reed Galen watched the GOP dismiss its voters until Donald Trump remade the party. He says Democratic leaders are making the same mistake.

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Democratic voters are telling their party they want 'fighters.' Then when their primary opponents take each other to task for serious (and un-serious) issues, the establishment gets the vapors. Pick a lane. This ain't beanbag.

It’s Heater’s birthday!!!! She has received her favorite thing in the world: 3 McDonald’s french fries — 1.5 to eat, 1.5 to bat around the house for the next several days.

Heater, a tiny orange cat with a white chest and clipped ear, peers menacingly over a plate of Nando’s French fries. She is plotting.Heater’s face has fully appeared from behind the plate. She has made her decision.HEATER IS STEALING A FRENCH FRY! I REPEAT, HEATER IS STEALING A FRENCH FRY!

This statement is meant to be left-punching, but notice that the most popular left-wing candidates (Bernie, Mamdani, AOC) are superb at plain-spokenness, and it is the moderate wing that usually offers language that has been optimized and focus-grouped to death

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

NPR@npr.org · 5mo ago

The push for generational change in the Democratic Party faces a test in a Chicago-area congressional district, where the top candidates span three generations: from Gen X and millennials to Gen Z. n.pr/3PD5bZ6

Why are you the only person saying this.. that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war … FYI this is NY Times reporter Shawn McCreesh