Hey BJ Peeps,
I assume that most of you have seen or heard talk of the Join the Fight! project some of us are working on, or at least have heard about one part of the project – our Social Media Initiative.
I have one simple ask of every person who sees this today. If you have an account on twitter, please follow us. We set up our group account on Saturday, so we are just getting started, and the (fucking) Twitter algorithm will allow our content to be seen more widely if we have a bunch of followers. So I am asking you to please follow us, even if you don’t get any more involved than that.
Our full group name is: Actual Citizens United – Join us in the Fight and you can find us on twitter as:
@Actual_Citizens
All our tweets will use the hashtag #ActualCitizensUnited
This tweet from the Palmer Report seemed appropriate for our pinned tweet:
Jamie Raskin is absolutely nailing it on messaging. The Democratic Party overall is very good at messaging. But most of you don't understand that your goddamn job as an activist is to amplify that messaging – not sit around and pretend that the Democratic Party has no messaging.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) April 29, 2022
Open fucking thread.
Update at 4:45: oops. I have one more ask, and I’m sorry I didn’t think of it sooner. There is a group that is doing something similar to what we want to do, only their focus is entirely on the state of Michigan. That would be another strategic follow to help them amplify their message, just by increasing the number of followers.
They are: @DistillSocial
Ninedragonspot
Added.
Now time for a nap.
RedDirtGirl
Done!
delk
Maybe add it to the sidebar?
WaterGirl
PSA: Folks on the CONTENT CREATION Team, remember our standing zoom meeting is tonight at 8 pm. This is an opportunity for folks who want to help create “print” pieces and/or video pieces.
Folks on the STATE-SPECIFIC CONTENT Team, I hope you are working your Insurrection spreadsheet for the state you chose. If you haven’t signed up for a state yet, please get in touch. It only takes a couple of hours to do the research for a state, and your effort will help us name and shame the candidates and elected officials who participated in the insurrection or the “alternate electors” bullshit.
If you haven’t signed up but you think you might want to get involved, please speak up in the comments or send me email.
Big thanks to everyone who is already involved in the project in one form or another.
WaterGirl
@delk: Oh, that’s a good idea! We only have one tweet so far, the pinned one, but I will add a couple more and then put the link in the sidebar.
Suzanne
Another thing to do is share information about resources. Hey Jane is an online abortion clinic accessible to people in six states. It would be good to know of others.
Rileys Enabler
Followed! Also created a video for the last day of early voting in Texas, it’s in my feed. @salcamCDS
Suzanne
So this is terrifying:
Data Broker Tracking Those Who Visit Abortion Clinics.
Omnes Omnibus
Followed.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: Creepy and terrifying.
CaseyL
I have had an utterly exhausting morning, one crisis after another*, but I can do that one little thing. Consider yourself followed!
*Had to cancel the Hawaii trip**, had to go into office to figure out what’s wrong with my access to a database, and a friend is gravely ill. Now I’m home and hoping for NOTHING ELSE to happen today, thanksverymuch.
**Travel company acting very strange as in, not responding to any communications. My Aunt is convinced they’re going out of business, and she may be right. Finally got through to a customer service person, after 3 hours on hold, to cancel the trip. We’ll see if they follow through with the refund.
schrodingers_cat
FYI this account @ActualCitizens also exists
WaterGirl
Credit where credit is due. MazeDancer made our Join the Fight! banner, and WolvesValley made our Actual Citizens United “circle”, which i suppose is our avatar.
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: Yes, that’s why we have the underscore.
They haven’t posted anything since 2015, so we’re not concerned about that.
Jerry
Following y’all now @jerrypemberton
WaterGirl
Thanks to all who are following!
dc
Followed.
Eunicecycle
Following!
JeanneT
Done
Middlelee
Done.
lowtechcyclist
Followed.
Jinchi
CNN is reporting that Vladimir Putin may declare war on Ukraine as part of Victory Day celebrations on May 9th.
WaterGirl
@Jinchi:
As opposed to what they have been doing to Ukraine since Feb 24?
Omnes Omnibus
@Jinchi: Well, golly! That will change everything!
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Now i guess we’ll know that Russia is really serious???
Jinchi
@WaterGirl: I’m trying to figure out the logic behind denying a war is going on for two months, only to declare it on Victory Day.
debbie
@Jinchi:
Only because he can’t declare victory like he thought he could. Fucking loser.
WaterGirl
@Jinchi: I think i know what your problem is. :-)
Logic and Putin… does not compute.
CaseyL
So the people of Russia will be allowed to call the war a war, starting on May 9?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Meanwhile…
(yes, the actual story is a tiny bit nuanced… make him deny the headline)
debbie
FYI: For those who were interested in Andrei’s serial epic “My Ukraine Is in Pain,” Dan Gutman has recovered all four chapters and reposted them on his FB page. Probably also his Twitter page.
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: Good question!
Mallard Filmore
@Suzanne: It does not have to be data trackers. Virginia used to, and maybe still does, have Alcoholic Beverage Control agents park in sight of liquor stores in Washington DC, then follow customers with cars that have Virginia license plates back across the river. It was a way to arrest people for violating liquor tax laws.
Anyone from an abortion-banning state should not drive their own car to an abortion clinic.
WaterGirl
@Mallard Filmore: Wowser. It’s 1970 all over again, only worse.
WaterGirl
oops. I have one more ask, and I’m sorry I didn’t think of it sooner.
There is a group that is doing something similar, only their focus is entirely on Michigan.
That would be another strategic follow to help them amplify their message, just by increasing the number of followers.
They are: @DistillSocial
Billcoop4
Declaring war is a legal thing — it changes the law which applies, so this is Putin being cute.
BC
JAFD
I remember when “Russia may declare ware on Ukraine” would have been a headline-in-another-reality …
I’ve often followed the ‘Twitter lists’ here and at LGM, clicked on links, found myself at bottom of some interesting rabbitholes and awake past my bedtime… Then, as you may know, Twitter edicted that ‘if you ain’t a member, you can’t read anything but the thread that was linked to.’ So
signed over my soulopened an account. Haven’t posted anything, yet, maybe I never will. But if you want to give me the record for ‘Most Followers for a Totally Empty Account’, go to @KinsaleJAFDNow, I have signed up for @Actual_Citizens. Plan to read the previous posts and comments on this (They’re amongst my umpteen open browser tahbs.), and contribute something useful in the near future. But gotten stuck in Bunch Of Other Stough this past week. Apologies.
Anyway, tomorrow brings The Great New Jersey Bagopocolypse. Also the anniversary of the killings at Kent State and Jackson State.
Mallard Filmore
@WaterGirl:
I have a paranoid and cynical mind, so it can get MUCH worse. democraticunderground.com has a thread posting of Jamie Raskin:
https://democraticunderground.com/100216653863
https://twitter.com/repraskin/status/1521495388771033099
Combining this with Stephen Miller’s border policy of snatching babies from refugees at our southern border, gives me visions of forced sterilizations of non-whites with questionable papers.
Hildebrand
Done and done.
Jackie
I wonder when Putin officially declares war, he’ll release all the media from jail – who were jailed for saying the word ‘war.’??♀️?
I see CaseyL wondered the same lol
Jim, Foolish Literalist
this seems interesting
I’ve found Delgado impressive. And I get so much email from him I sometimes forget we don’t actually know each other.
This is suboptimal perhaps, but….
citizen dave
I’m doing the twitter following. Down for another revolution.
Another Scott
For those of us who like clicking:
https://twitter.com/actual_citizens
:-)
Has anyone here done anything on Counter.Social? I’m pretty close to setting up an account there, but haven’t quite yet.
https://counter.social/index.html
Thanks for all you folks are doing.
Cheers,
Scott.
Another Scott
@Jinchi: There were twitter rumblings a day or so ago that there would be a russian national mobilization called soon. Presumably it’s related to that.
Cheers,
Scott.
Starfish
@Suzanne: Nandini is shaming all of the people involved with SafeGraph.
Starfish
@Another Scott: I have an account there. I don’t use it much.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Another Scott: “Call me a loser? I have not yet begun to fight!”
RaflW
Oh man. Is Perjury Taylor Greene a new thing, or have I just missed it up to now. LOL
@Actual_Citizens
Perhaps Perjury Taylor Green can supply the word for what it’s called when a person lies under oath. #ActualCitzensUnited
West of the Rockies
Tried to sign up for a Twitter account. Couldn’t make it past the damn birthday part. Rather than the usual fill in the blank 2/19/67 sort of set up, they have a calendar with today’s date and no intuitive way to go back 50+ years
We did just donate to ActBlue.
RaflW
@Mallard Filmore: Feels biblical, almost. “When it was time to leave, they returned to their own country by another route, for we had warned them not to return to Texas by traceable vehicle.”
Starfish
@West of the Rockies: Are you trying to sign up on desktop or mobile? That sounds like potentially a bad mobile interface? From desktop, I am seeing a drop down for each of month, day, and year.
FelonyGovt
Just followed both actual_citizens and distill social.
Taphozous
Added. Also have been busy donating and getting ready for a People’s Health Rally in Olympia, WA.
zzyzx
I had conversations with a few people today asking if they had any sort of exit strategy and making sure they know that I’ll help them if it’s needed.
I figure being in the bluest part of one of the bluest states, I personally should probably be safe for a while, so I’m going to see who else needs help.
Maybe that’s paranoia but I’m a Jew who was raised in the generation after the Holocaust. It’s kind of ingrained.
Ben Cisco
Added.
debbie
Guess she had to speak up eventually.
martha
Done…thanks for all your work WaterGirl!
japa21
Now following.
MomSense decided to follow me. I hope she likes a lot of tweets about the Milwaukee Brewers.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Added both.
@baseballreigns. Fwiw.
MomSense
I just went and followed a bunch of people who follow actual citizens United. Unfortunately I hit the max – Twitter probably thinks I’m a bot. I’ll follow more of you later.
I’m picking up my parents at the airport tonight. They’re coming home from FL after six months. The flight is delayed so I’m killing time at a brewery.
Omnes Omnibus
@japa21: Shouldn’t you watch the Bucks game right now?
MomSense
@japa21:
As long as you aren’t too hateful about my Red Sox – we’re cool!
MomSense
@debbie:
Fuck her. Seriously.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie: good for Norm for telling Big Pharma Spokesmodel and Murdoch family business partner (though I gather that business partnership failed?) to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up.
Let’s hope all her fellow travelers get the same message
japa21
@Omnes Omnibus: Hopefully they’ll decide to show up to the game soon.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@MomSense: Uh-oh. Go Yankees. : )
Omnes Omnibus
@japa21:
#Bucksin6
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Yep, replies were not approving.
Elizabelle
@debbie: Yay for Norm Ornstein.
And that is strong language for him.
japa21
@Omnes Omnibus: Definitely, maybe even 5. Looking forward to getting Middleton back.
japa21
@MomSense:
Only if they meet in the WS.
debbie
Still the master:
Kathleen
@japa21: I tweet about the Reds! One of them lives in my building. They had the nerve to trade Amir Garret who was our neighbor for 3 seasons and an absolute delight.
Kathleen
I followed.
West of the Rockies
@Starfish:
Yup, Android interface… I will try again later.
different-church-lady
Pssst… they’re not really activists.
Redshift
I’m in. I’ll try to get more involved as soon as I can.
Joy in FL
I’m now following both accounts.
MisterDancer
I have added y’all! And retweeted an item.
More to come!
Ruckus ??
John Smith has a new account and is following Actual Citizens.
DarbysMom
Done!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Does MNSBC have Kornacki hopping around for the Ohio primaries?
I can’t keep track. Is this the third non-trumpy hope of the OH GOP?
schrodingers_cat
I followed. If you are interested in news about India from the sources on the ground there including political parties and the media you can follow me @ManyWorlds1Cat and help me publicize how the BJP’s increasingly fascist policies.
Kristine
Following.
schrodingers_cat
@schrodingers_cat: * how should be deleted.
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: I’m not sure if you are asking for your comment at #83 to be deleted? It’s fine as is from my perspective, so please clarify if there’s something you would like me to do.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus ??: Does John Smith plan on making a ruckus?
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: What does that mean?
Citizen Scientist
Followed. Looking forward to working on this campaign.
WaterGirl
@Citizen Scientist: Yay!
meander
Please have @Actual_Citizens send out some generic-ish “what we’re doing” tweets so I and others can retweet them. Ideally our followers will see the retweets, follow @Actual_Citizens, and work with Actual_Citizens.
Ruckus ??
@WaterGirl:
Possibly. But he’s not sure. I’ve decided that I shouldn’t pressure him in this area. He’s been burned before.
WaterGirl
@meander: Interesting idea!