Ravi Mangla

Why infiltrate movements when you can just use disinformation to divide them?

That's exactly what the tech right is doing.

Really important read: signalbreak.substack.com/p/how-techno...

How tech oligarchs are using misinformation to take away our political power.

A must-read from @rynnreed.bsky.social: signalbreak.substack.com/p/how-techno...

Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further Into Government Palantir has become one of the few winners in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, offering other contractors a lifeline while consolidating its own reach and power.

NEW: Palantir is carving out a unique role as not just a federal contractor but a partner to other contractors, putting it in an increasingly central role across the government. This is from @makenakelly.bsky.social

WaPo published a list of the 18,500+ children killed in Gaza with stories and pictures from their families.

Why the Democrats’ Digital Strategy Is Doomed to Fail We can’t win the new media space while giving nothing of ourselves

ICYMI—Why the Democrats' digital game is faltering—w/ @rynnreed.bsky.social

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We Can’t Talk to People That Way If we can’t even communicate what an authoritarian is, how do we stop one from taking power?

I was chatting with someone recently who pointed out that what @ravimangla.bsky.social wrote about in this article (pub date 12/27/2024) is basically what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social put into practice in his campaign at every level. Worth a revisit. convergencemag.com/articles/we-...

Why the Democrats’ Digital Strategy Is Doomed to Fail We can’t win the new media space while giving nothing of ourselves

Wrote on the Democrats' new digital strategy and why it doesn't work. (w/ @rynnreed.bsky.social)

"Democrats expect to win back favor by turning the camera inward, on themselves. It’s digital media as reputation management, divorced from any kind of ideological project or movement building."

Signal Break | Ravi Mangla | Substack A disruption of ideas. Click to read Signal Break, a Substack publication. Launched 2 hours ago.

So excited to be launching Signal Break w/ @rynnreed.bsky.social

We need a new political playbook if we're going to defeat rising authoritarianism.

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Democratic Party leaders who are polling lower than the Antichrist telling Zohran how he should govern.

On Musk's 'America Party': "Billionaires have their choice of two of the parties already. We don't need a third billionaire party." Maurice Moe Mitchell @mauricewfp.bsky.social @workingfamilies.org – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/46Lw8Ao

Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.

Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

The NYT was better when it had any public editor, and arguably at its best when Margaret Sullivan was that public editor. A takedown as withering as it is plainly stated www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA

"As I was filming, people came to me and said: look at your forehead. There were three green laser dots on my head: private armed U.S. contractors who were guarding the site were pointing their weapons at my head. One spoke through a loudspeaker, in English: 'No filming allowed.'"

The full-court press on Zohran isn’t simply about peeling off votes for Adams/Cuomo.

It’s about chilling enthusiasm and popularity. Weakening his mandate to lead.

The same playbook used against AOC after her victory.

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Mahmood Mamdani · The Asian Question: On Leaving Uganda President Yoweri Museveni was careful not to refer to Asians as citizens; he explained that they were ‘investors’,...

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Some of the most insane things in Trump's megabill:

- $1b tax break for Musk and Bezos's "spaceports"
- $2b tax break for rum producers
- Tax break for gun silencers
- Tax break for people who donate to private school scholarship funds
- Tax break for whale hunters

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

"We deserve leaders who will fight for us—not obey the commands of their wealthiest donors." - @mauricewfp.bsky.social

Republicans saying they're not going to cut Medicaid. They're cutting Medicaid.

This should be getting covered in major U.S. papers

When it comes to endless wars and billionaire tax cuts, Republicans always find the money.

But when it’s about Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, Republicans all of a sudden demand budget cuts.

Billionaires get everything. Working people get nothing.

If the bill passes this week, it will give ICE enough money to become, by 2029, the nation's largest federal interior law enforcement agency with enough funding to become the nation's largest jailer.

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Right-wing elites believe there will be *a billion* humanoid robots in the U.S. in 10 years.

But free buses or universal child care are radical pipe dreams.