Celeste Pewter

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Former political staffer. UCI, King's College London, Johns Hopkins. | INFINITE SKY (Bloomsbury 2026) | Bylines in CNN, Teen Vogue, etc. | AAJA/SCBWI | Rep: Molly Ker Hawn at the Bent Agency.

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Meanwhile, Biden HAS quietly delivered $1 billion to communities for climate shocks resilience. 👇 (My previous post had "trillion", an autocorrect. It would be good to imagine what level of funding could do, on the USAID budget too.)

Campaign news has overshadowed this. For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards. www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...

President Biden Announces $1 Billion in Project Selections to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change and Natural Hazards Through His Investing in America Agenda | Homeland Securitywww.dhs.gov President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell today announced the 656 project selections for $1 billion in clim...

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^ This is not only a very good thing, we should be boosting news like this. The more we can speak to people in our lives and: 1) Make sure they know Project 2025 is terrifying, and 2) Explain the current Admin.'s achievements, the better.

Ok - this is a question I get a LOT, and am starting to get a lot again. Here are a few tips on calling electeds: 1. Try not to stress too much about the method of contact - e.g. email/calling. The important thing is getting in touch.

2. But if you really want to make an impact, calling is best. Offices have to stop and handle calls, while emails can idle in inboxes, especially through website contact forms.

3. Please call your own electeds. You want to make sure your calls are logged. And they WILL be disregarded if you're not a constituent. I know no one likes to hear this, but it's absolutely the truth. 4. Leaving a voicemail is fine - they'll be checked and logged.

5. Make sure you have an ask - e.g. a letter addressing questions/what the member is doing. Don't let the member take your remarks and not act on them. *Make them* respond to you.

6. Okay, here's one I really want to flag. Because Project 2025 is technically a campaign issue, you may get staffers who won’t engage /may not be able to engage. Be aware of this. You can't talk campaigns in official offices because of FEC rules. Don't take it necessarily as them not caring.

They can potentially get in trouble for engaging, and yes, there are plenty of people out there who try to bait these types of conversations. So staffers, especially interns answering the phones, are cautious.

But there are ways to word your concerns AND yes, you should also be calling campaign offices too. Working on a few scripts + a carousel, will share when I can.

Okay, first set of call scripts. I know I'm not the only one getting 2016/"But her emails!!!" flashbacks.

Also. There's a typo; please just roll with it. I have a book due, so I'm trying to write things as fast as possible.

Also, this is worth reading this morning on how European allies are thinking about a nuclear future without the U.S. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Europe is Quietly Debating a Nuclear Future Without the USwww.politico.com America has protected Europe with is nuclear umbrella for more than 70 years. In the era of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the continent is quietly debating a different nuclear future.

Re: what I said yesterday - credit where credit is due to @rbreich.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025 | Robert Reichwww.theguardian.com The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want – and more

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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when “trump opened the border” and her date said “best president ever.” obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

Where are the pundits weighing in on Project 2025's training academy, and just who they're recruiting, and what exactly they're teaching in this training academy? (By unverified accounts, it's all terrifying, especially because it's so structured?) It's so, so easy for a pundit to opine about-

- Biden's mental health, or Democrats in disarray. That's EASY, because it's opinion. It's blather. It's nonsense. But we should absolutely be calling them out on the fact that they clearly don't want to do the work and actually dive into some of what should really be talked bout.

So yeah - if you saw my last repost? I'm absolutely going to join in every person calling out every pundit-type blathering about Biden. Also, if any of you want to jam up the Project 2025 training academy w/ fake applications? You can get temporary numbers online. Just saying.

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NY Times opinion editor opines and so do I. Fuck off.

It's Hillary's emails all over again. It's really the worst kind of deja vu.

Do it do it do it

I thought this said bird feed live stream for a second, and I thought: "Oh, that makes sense. The RTV team can do anything."

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That's amazing! Congratulations, and that's what we love to hear!

Okay. For anyone who needs it, John Oliver did an excellent job on what a prospective Trump second term might look like. Watch, and share widely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwq... Remember: have you registered to vote? Have you checked your registration, and encouraged others to do the same?

Trump’s Second Term: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)www.youtube.com YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

I'm seeing so, so, so much doomscrolling and doom posting. Remember: get your facts from legitimate sources, don't confuse opinion with fact, and focus on what you can do. There's very little to be gained from debating this endlessly, and not doing the work.

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A crushing Labour win, the worst Conservative result ever and Nigel Farage’s crucial impact. This is how the UK election made history 🇬🇧🗳️

Reform UK Surge Turned a Labour Election Win Into a Tory Wipeoutwww.bloomberg.com The surge in support for Reform UK paved the way for Conservatives losing dozens of seats to Labour and the Liberal Democrats in the 2024 election.