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Ravi Mangla

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Press Secretary @nywfp | Author of The Observant and Understudies

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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are the online debates we're having being decided for us? We increasingly live in a constructed digital space where our feeds are being manipulated in real-time and the origins of trending conversations are difficult to pinpoint.
signalbreak.substack.com
Elon’s Ouroboros
Our public debates are taking place in a simulated reality being lorded over by Elon Musk
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 24/09/2026
Rep. Casar and Senator Sanders are right. We need to hit the brakes on advanced AI development and ban the development of superintelligent AI.
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Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The verdict is in: people don’t want Big Tech corporations deciding our future. And both the GOP and Dems are asleep at the wheel. If they won’t act: @workingfamilies.org will.
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: @workingfamilies.org released a memo on the AI threat and how we fight back. “It’s clear that the majority of people do not trust these corporations, do not trust the people who lead these companies... and are looking for some leadership” - @mauricewfp.bsky.social
washingtonsun.com
Progressives Plan to Capitalize on the AI Backlash
The Working Families Party wants to pivot to focusing on AI as the technology becomes a defining issue.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As a person who's worked at the intersection of narrative and movement building for 25 years, I appreciated this piece by @ravimangla.bsky.social reminding us that unless your narrative is part of a larger organizing strategy it might just be delusional wordsmithing. #ChangeTheStory #NarrativePower
signalbreak.substack.com
The Cult of Narrative
Our starry-eyed quest to wordsmith our way into hearts and minds has come at the expense of devoting time and resources to much bigger questions
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"In 2015, Trump descended the golden escalator not as a politician but as a showman. Trump’s skills weren’t learned at Ivy Leagues but in WWE arenas and behind the desk of The Apprentice. He spent his entire career embodying the behavior of a whale."
signalbreak.substack.com
The Theory of the Whale
Trump’s skills weren’t learned at Ivy Leagues but in WWE arenas and behind the desk of The Apprentice
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 31/07/2026
"The most persuasive version of change combines anti-establishment energy with concrete working-class priorities." The key elements of this candidate posture: • Challenge concentrated power • Demonstrate independence from party leadership • Connect change to material improvements in people’s lives
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
NEW poll in 18 toss-up districts (with a sample that voted Trump 48-45) shows independents & moderates are *not* looking for the archetypical Moderate candidate — and are not dissuaded if outsiders are labeled too far left. Strong support for Israel was the *least* appealing quality in a candidate.
zeteo.com
EXCLUSIVE: New Poll Shows Swing District Voters Prefer 'Outsiders' to Boring Centrists
Survey shared with Zeteo has a sample skewed towards Trump voters but shows strong support for Israel is the least appealing candidate trait. Plus, is Trump about to pull his controversial AG nominee?
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 31/07/2026
New poll from Working Families Party demonstrates what we're seeing across the country. Voters are tired of status quo candidates. They want change candidates to track a new future. This is exciting. Let's go. ❤️✊🏽 Full poll: workingfamilies.org/wp-content/u...
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our ideas about what makes a candidate "electable" are completely off. The Dem establishment doesn't want candidates who punch up at power and confront party leadership—but that's *exactly* what swing voters want.
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Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We polled voters in 18 toss-up districts and the results are clear: voters want candidates who will challenge the political establishment, not give it cover. Here are some interesting findings from @workingfamilies.org... 🧵
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
NEW: Polling of 18 Cook-rated toss-up districts shatters conventional wisdom about how to win in a swing district. Independents *and* moderates want outsider candidates who will stand up to the political establishment. The middle of the road is where you get run over.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
ICE agents keep killing people. Now, they aren’t even trying to explain it away. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
What ICE didn't say about its latest killing
The agency is no longer even claiming its officers feared for their lives.
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Fascinating thing happening in Michigan. Populist Will Lawrence is winning over Republicans and independents by running on fighting back against data centers. Latest polling shows him as the *only Dem* beating Tom Barrett in a head-to-head. Huge political realignment.
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Biggest takeaways of the cycle so far: ✅ Dem voters are extremely pissed off (much more than DC insiders realize) ✅ Dark money spending is not moving the needle (or, in some cases, backfiring) for incumbents ✅ Gaza is seen as a moral litmus test for Dem candidates
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/06/2026
A new poll shows that these Americans are worried that AI will eliminate their jobs—and they want the government to do something about it. trib.al/HPUqTvg
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Democrats Are Missing a Huge Opportunity to Win Working-Class Voters
A new poll shows that these Americans are worried that AI will eliminate their jobs—and they want the government to do something about it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
*3% of GDP. That is what Musk's net worth represents. At the height of his fortune, Rockefeller's net worth was 1.4% of GDP
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Among likely New York voters: Working Families Party net favorability: Overall: +24 Independents: +19 Democratic Party net favorability: Overall: -3 Independents: -29 (D4P/IMEU poll - 5/20 - 5/26)
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"Mr. Villegas called Ms. Bains 'Republican-lite,' noting that both she and Mr. Valadao had accepted money from corporate donors. 'It’s not even this fight about left versus right—it’s bottom versus top,' he said."
nytimes.com
Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Try Boosting Progressives in Red Districts
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In case you want to read about the RNC's super in-depth 2012 autopsy and how it helped the GOP regain power.
signalbreak.substack.com
We Deserve a Party that Takes Us Seriously
What we can learn from the Republicans' loss in the 2012 presidential election
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Bernie endorses @wewill2026.bsky.social in a competitive three-way primary in MI-7. "Lawrence has endorsed Sanders’s call for a national moratorium on AI datacenters until lawmakers develop stringent regulations."
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Absolutely wild. A doctor running for Congress with the DCCC's backing wouldn't support legislation on the HPV vaccine. Bains said she's willing to "buck consensus."
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 13/05/2026
@ravimangla.bsky.social: “An imperfect narrative heard many times, from many directions, will always beat out a stronger narrative heard only once or twice.” How to build the message infrastructure we need? As @ritti.bsky.social teaches: MAP, SEED, ECHO, INVITE. convergencemag.com/articles/sur...
convergencemag.com
Surround Sound Communications: How to Build a Narrative Machine
A single canvass conversation doesn’t shift how people understand their world. What does is encountering the same frame across contexts—at their door, in a group chat, in a news story…
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This week, the House voted to expand ICE’s powers to go after people accused of shoplifting and minor retail crimes, enabling them to collect and share even more of our private data to aid their mass surveillance machine. (1/2)
dailykos.com
Homeland Security finds a new sneaky way to steal your data
In a barely publicized House vote on Tuesday evening, 144 Democrats joined 203 Republicans to pass the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act—one of the biggest ICE power grabs of President Donald Trump...
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Part of the reason we can’t reckon with the threat of AI is that we can’t imagine a world in which our supremacy is ever challenged.
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/05/2026
New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.
wrd.cm
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 06/05/2026
Progressives aren’t happy, and say that the DCCC’s decision to elevate certain candidates over others betrays an inability to learn from Democrats’ past mistakes. buff.ly/YmYzrgw
buff.ly
Establishment Dems and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Moderation 
The DCCC endorsed eight moderate candidates, even in races where their progressive challengers have the momentum.
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Everyone and their mother is running on affordability. But do they actually mean it?
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Not enough candidates are talking about the scam economy
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Maybe we should be more worried about this
nytimes.com
A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Media is changing and political communications has yet to catch up. Read here: signalbreak.substack.com/p/actually-t...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
There's a classic moderate v. populist primary in a swing seat in California's Central Valley. But the moderate, Jasmeet Bains, has tailored views to different audiences: she's been both for & against Medicare for All, & that Israel is & isn't committing genocide. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social reports.
prospect.org
How Do You Beat a Central Valley Republican? - The American Prospect
Two Democrats in California’s 22nd District have very different ideas.
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is so good from @mauricewfp.bsky.social
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In politics, we’ve been taught to deflect, reframe, and pivot away from hard topics. But in an era where media has become democratized and viewers are no longer passive spectators, that strategy no longer works.
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Image A: Alex Pretti standing between an innocent woman and armed ICE officers. Image B: Stephen Miller hiding behind his pregnant wife during an active shooter situation.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
You'll never believe what this speaker--now cancelled thanks to "free speech" warriors like TPUSA & Sen. Mike Lee--posted about Charlie Kirk. She said she was "gutted" by his murder. She described it as "horrific" and said it "should have never happened." And then she went on to post Kirk's words.
College Where Charlie
Kirk Was Killed Revokes
Graduation Speaker's Invite
Utah Valley University was thrilled that Sharon McMahon, a best-selling author, would speak at its graduation. And then her old posts resurfaced.
Listen • 5:02 min
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Third Way and Searchlight want to claim the mantle of "popularism." But talk to voters in swing districts: there's nothing less popular than AI and data centers.
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Alex Roarty @alexroarty.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sign of where things are going on the left: @workingfamilies.org today is unveiling a policy platform for 2026 that includes a federal jobs program designed in part to combat any AI-related job losses www.notus.org/2026-electio...
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Zohran Effect: - Oct ‘25: 31% of NYers say the city is moving in the right direction - Apr ‘26: 56% of NYers say the city is moving in the right direction (via Marist)
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump must step down or be removed from office, and Congress must immediately return to DC to pass a War Powers Resolution to stop his war crimes in Iran.
Donald Trump’s threats to annihilate more than 90 million people are vile and reckless. We refuse to stand by while the sitting President of the United States threatens another genocide. 

Donald Trump must step down or be removed from office, and Congress must immediately return to DC to pass a War Powers Resolution to stop his war crimes in Iran.
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"These past several months... we have seen an uptick in discourse looking to discredit protest, along with targeting some of the left’s largest movement leaders and creators." On how propaganda is infiltrating the left movement: signalbreak.substack.com/p/what-if-yo...
signalbreak.substack.com
What If Your Ideas Aren't Your Own?
Propaganda doesn't just affect people on the right.
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Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
As the number of people in detention climb, so have the deaths: The 33 fatalities in 2025 were the most in a single year on record since the Department of Homeland Security started operating in March 2003. Reporting w/ Allison McCann and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/u...
nytimes.com
Deaths in ICE Custody Are Growing. ‘They Let Him Rot in There.’
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New: Pete Hegseth’s pastor and close spiritual advisor says he wants Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico to die. “We want him crucified with Christ,” Brooks Potteiger said of Talarico, as the podcast host said he prays “that God kills him.” www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...
huffpost.com
Pete Hegseth’s Pastor Says He Wants James Talarico To Die
“We want him crucified with Christ,” Brooks Potteiger said of the Texas Senate Democratic nominee, after the podcast host said he prays “that God kills him.”
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Rynn and I chatted with @convergencemag.com about the Texas and Illinois primaries, AI data centers, and more. Can listen here... convergencemag.com/articles/the...
convergencemag.com
The Attention Economy Navigator, March 2026
This month on the Attention Economy Navigator, our guide to what you should be paying more attention to, and what you can probably pay less attention to. And why those stories might not be what you’d…
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I feel like we deserve a higher quality of fascist batshittery
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Ravi Mangla @ravimangla.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I wrote on how we need a more expansive vision of defiance to defeat authoritarianism.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
“Leave her alone! What are you doing?!” ICE snatching a mom from her daughter in San Francisco’s airport (not a normal TSA function) Post: www.instagram.com/reel/DWOaZoo...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The Roberts Court's position is that if you deserved justice or due process you would be rich bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
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