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Sofie Rask Karasek

@sofierkarasek.bsky.social
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Building people-powered movements. Formerly comms at @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, co-founder @EndRapeonCampus.bsky.social, YesMeansYes organizer, subject in #TheHuntingGround film. She/her.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
What does move people - not in the hermitic forced view environment of surveys - but in the world is when people are loudly, proudly, repeating our refrains and, critically, creating a sense of belonging. Of a group to which you want to belong.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Gun in her face this woman is absolutely the #BraveOfUs. MAGA Murder Regime.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Incredible that the center-left habitually chides progressives for forgetting the "ancient wisdom" of politics and then watches as they're beaten by the most basic organizing: campaigning in public, finding volunteers, canvassing. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...
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The Campaign Tactics Helping Progressives Win Primaries Ahead of the 2026 Midterms
Progressives are being outspent and are receiving little support from the Democratic Party. Their tactics show a different way to succeed.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
One of the most valuable assets a campaign has is candidate's time. If they're spending it on "call time" (dialing for donor dollars) they're not spending it with voters. Second, messages spread by people - especially those known to listener - are always more effective than those broadcast by ads.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
After all the half baked hot take “analysis” of voting in the MI primary, I see that AES won Scholten's district by over 20 points and Stevens dominated Rashida Tlaib's district. I’m sorry but none of these internet analysts know what tf is going on (neither do I), have some epistemic humility
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Texans KNOW THEIR WORTH. They're worth leaders who fight for everyone's freedom to make a good living and have a good life. Texans stand ready to reject this MAGA Murder Regime and are so lucky to have Gina ready to work with and for them.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Instead - say what IS true, call out the fact that he lies (without repeating the claim) and ascribe motivation to it. In America voters pick our leaders, our leader do not pick their voters. But Trump knows voters are turning against him so he is peddling the same lies about the election he lost
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Timely reminder: Authoritarians lie to be repeated - to force us to have their conversation instead of our own. If you're debunking the claims, you're giving them airtime.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The through line reaction of our biweekly 2025 focus groups was, Dems keep saying the House is on fire but they aren't actually running in to put out flames or get people out. So either they're just saying shit, politics as usual, or they believe it and refuse to act.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is the MAGA Murder Regime. They will destroy anything and everything that keeps them from complete and total power. Refusal to fight them on every front - especially targeting the most vulnerable - allows them to flourish. We will not "affordability argument" our way to ending fascism.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Read my latest:
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We didn’t need a rape accusation to know Graham Platner was unfit
Despite months of red flags, his allies insisted he was the vision of positive masculinity the party needed.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026
One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.
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Sofie Rask Karasek @sofierkarasek.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This game is absolutely cursed
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I am totally biased to be sure but this is gold medaling in Race Class Narrative: Speak to our shared values across division, narrate the dog whistle - how right divides to conquer - w/o repeating their lies, present a desirable vision that recasts "Americanness" in progressive terms.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
In a multi-party system, the Democratic Party should be three different parties—and so should the Republican Party. The establishment Democrats who are concerned about the rise of the left should make proportional representation a priority for the next Dem controlled Congress. It just takes a law!
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026
I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I’m 95% done with dinner I just have to decide what I’m eating, how I’m cooking it, and what store I want to shop at
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/05/2026
It's hard to believe, but this really is the official position of our country's Very Serious Financial Analysts: "it would simply be too horrible if the strait stays closed, so ... [closes eyes tight, taps heels together] ... it won't!"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
TRUMP: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. Not even a little bit.” And there you have it, folks
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2102...
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The South is America's conscience. If you have ever wondered how you would have stood up against Jim Crow segregation, your time is now. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/
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All Roads Lead to the South — National Day of Action for Voting Rights
The voting rights they marched for are being stripped away right now. We're going back. Are you coming?
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Once more, for anyone who needs it:
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We fight horrors, yes, by confronting ICE but you can't undo oppo lies without true sound of our own. We must amplify a full throated, honest story that immigrants are awesome. Not for how "they" serve "us" economically but for how in solidarity we make this country look/sound/be better.
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Get Free @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When students organize we can disrupt business as usual and force our institutions to live up to their values and side with real equality. That’s why we’re launching our Freedom Futures Campus Fellowship program this summer. Learn more and apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
America has always been an argument. An argument between those who want to hoard wealth, power & control in the hands of landed, white men and those who fight to make "liberty & justice" be truly "for all," no exceptions. The Brave of US carry on the legacy of the latter.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Every damn book, conference, big money fellowship has been about reducing polarization. Many knew the real issue wasn’t polarization, but that polarization was the only politically correct proxy for the real problem. What a joke man
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
With their latest decision, the Roberts Court is letting MAGA politicians prevent Black and brown people's votes from counting so that their billionaire backers can control the outcomes of our elections.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I think assassinations are bad. I don’t think killing leaders solves anything. I don’t want to live in a country in which that’s how we deal with disagreements. Trump does not deserve an iota of respect. We should oppose political assassinations for moral and strategic reasons.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"We've built a rapid response network to stop ICE detention centers before they start. Receive immediate alerts if a facility is planned for your community and help lead the local fight to stop it..." gtfoice.org
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GTFO ICE — Get The Facilities Out
ICE is rapidly expanding its network of detention centers. We have a playbook to fight back. Sign up to get alerts if a facility is planned near you.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/04/2026
"In the US, especially among the elites that ought to be leaders, people are hiding because of what Trump can do to them. They're complying in advance, not standing up because they’re afraid. But once there are too many of you for the govt to do bad stuff to each of you, it’s almost like immunity."
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What America can learn from Viktor Orbán’s defeat
"The key was linking Orbán’s corruption to Hungarians’ daily lives."
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
80% of young Americans want "major changes" or "complete reform" to our political system. If we want to mobilize more young people for democracy, we should mobilize them against the political system and status quo.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Winning any debate starts by setting the terms and one key way to do that is to pick for what you'll be attacked. Welcome, Gov. Hochul, to sudden popularity boost.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It's astonishing how wedded people are to the idea that refusing to name what's happening is how we overcome it.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Cannot say enough how in 2024 disaffected & conflicted voters kept telling us in focus groups: "in 2020 you told us to turn out to 'protect our freedoms.' we did & then all this [dobbs, anti-voter laws, econ hardship] happened anyway. now you're telling us the same thing?"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Well put. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Anthony Vidal Torres @avtorres4.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Excited for the day when Americans follow their lead. May all the tyrants fall. May we win a lasting freedom for all.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hope is the word of the day. Here's hoping Magyar has figured out that authoritarians require shaming & blaming some "other" to divide & conquer & that the public outcry after Orban criminalized Pride helped power today's victory. bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
As we await Hungary's election both for the liberation of its people and as portent for our own, let us recall the role that ridicule, resistance and refusal has played. Yes, elections can be turning points but only if movements make them so.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.
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Darwin Woodka @darwinwoodka.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The entire GOP is complicit in wishing genocide on an entire nation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Republicans silent as Democrats call on US cabinet to oust Trump over Iran
Lawmakers call for use of 25th amendment after president brazenly threatens to commit war crimes in Iran
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The criminal president ratcheting up crimes with Cabinet & much of a Congress capitulating. Meanwhile, Iranian people putting their lives on the line, telling us with their bodies they believe we will see their humanity and courage & find some of our own. www.instagram.com/reels/DW1p5g...
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Saadia Mirza on Instagram: "Iranians are gathering on bridges and around power plants, forming human chains after threats of US and Israeli strikes on Iran’s civilian infrastructure."
2,441 likes, 85 comments - saadia___m on April 7, 2026: "Iranians are gathering on bridges and around power plants, forming human chains after threats of US and Israeli strikes on Iran’s civilian infr...
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