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BumRushDaShow

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8. "I feel that the Democratic Party needs to really push for communication with each other, outside of the regular..media"
Mon May 12, 2025, 08:37 AM
8 hrs ago

They HAVE been.

They are putting videos of their town halls and other encounters on Instagram (which i don't have an account for), TikTok (which they were trying to ban and I don't have an account on even though my niece keeps sending me stuff on it), Facebook (another that I don't have an account for), and the various other social media apps like Xitter, Threads, & Blue Sky (none of which I have accounts on but will "read" the web versions if they are available and allow me to).

When I do searches on these people, all kinds of stuff comes up - but linking to social media, most of which won't embed on DU.

E.g., even the 80 year old Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (who was part of the group who tried to tour the NJ ICE facility in Newark) has been (or at least her younger staff) posting videos and whatnot on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/repbonnie/?hl=en

Many on DU (probably due to the age skew) either don't have accounts to see these or refuse to get them, and then huff and puff waiting for them to show up on MSNBC or maybe CNN or one of the OTA broadcast network stations (if they haven't already cut the cord to those), and if they don't, then that means "DEMOCRATS AREN'T DOING ANYTHING!!!11!!1!!".

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