I’m tired. I’m tired of posting about this day in and day out and having people who have a lot less than a lot larger audience than me saying the same damn thing. Maybe our Dems aren’t doing everything humanly possible but they are doing a hell of a lot more than you’re giving them credit for. 8/
It's like the blue team is playing football by the rulebook while the red team is kicking their ass making up their own rules. I hope the blue team refuses to play, especially when the red team needs their help to bail them out of another government shutdown before Sept. 30th
We have the best chance at saving the world when we praise those doing the work not just the top five that everyone can name off the top of their heads. You have one of the biggest platforms in the world. You could use it to talk about those that no one else is talking about. 7/
He does. On a regular basis. Perhaps you’re not aware of this so you’ve taken his comments out of context.
To amplify all the fighters. Do what you do with the banned book club. Have a segment where you amplify one democrat a week who is doing it right. Choose people no one else is talking about. You have the power to do that. 8/
In this piece, you said that you don’t know what happens behind closed doors and you’re not listening to people in Washington, but maybe you need to a bit because the people you named are the same people that everyone already knows. 9/
I really appreciate your work. I think you’re doing incredible work but this segment was shortsighted. This segment just affirmed what people were already feeling and what they were feeling is something I have been fighting against for six months. You did not help with that. 10/
I’m sure you’re just gonna see me as another person complaining and that’s fine but I needed to get this off my chest and if you would like to have me on my show to talk more about this, 11/
I would be more than willing to be part of a segment where you highlight some of our fighters people aren’t paying attention to. You have one of the loudest voices in the world. Please use it to change the conversation. 12/12
Thank you for the work you do.
Emendation: "History's begging for American voters to pull heads from asses & back to well-informed, principled leadership. If you're part of this country's electorate but unprepared to vote lucidly, conscientiously, & patrotically against fascist oligarchy, then you don't deserve this republic."
What a brilliant thread🧵. I really appreciate the work you’re doing👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. I hope he takes you on your offer.
That was fantastic Ariella.
Thank you for this. It’s been infuriating to argue against false narratives. Hell, even my not quite as online Rep has been doing constant tele-town halls & organizing incredible events with job assistance fairs for fired fed workers, healthcare outreach, food help, etc. All of these things matter.🍸
Who’s your rep?
Don Beyer from NoVa.❤️
Those things absolutely matter! Those are the kinds of things that voters feel and see.
Sure, a lot of things. Yet, mostly BAU. Do you think, BAU is what is needed now?
@skyview.social tree
Got their ass
🫡
Wow. This was fantastic. I tell anyone who complains that Dems aren’t doing enough, about you. Thank you for also doing the work.
I think it’s possible to praise Dems for things they do right while criticizing things they do wrong. I mean, that’s supposed to be how it works. People who are only on one side yelling at the other and calling them names are really annoying and tiresome.
And if people did the first, I wouldn’t have a problem with the second
Fair enough. I’ve gotten yelled at by intransigent people on both sides. We’ve got plenty of people to fight besides each other.
I hope he reads this entire thread! Thank you for what you do.
Ariella is stellar in documenting what media ignore but that matters incredibly. Ours is a diverse and powerful movement BECAUSE we don't default to a couple of leaders. All hands on deck. Up to media to TELL THAT STORY which they are NOT doing. Ari could. Or he can whine like all the other goobers.
Is @velshi.com going to acknowledge this detailed thread or ignore all the points she made?
They did they asked for my email hopefully something’s gonna come up that but he is acknowledging it. You just can’t necessarily see it because of the way threads work on blue sky.
👍 Good!
Thank you. Ali is usually very good, and I believe his heart is in the right place, but he, and many journalists like him, need to do the kind of listening to more people that they insist upon from Schumer and Jeffries.
Wonderful response, Ariella, I hope Velshi reads it and takes it to heart. Thanks for all you do to shine a light on the actual work being done.
Thank you Arielle, you are so right. We’re sick of regurgitated news. These people live in a news bubble and are often unaware of how society sees it. I wish they would get off their high castle cookie cutter news story and report on what Americans are thinking & feeling. ✊
Your complaint is thoughtful and I appreciate it.
Wonderful thread!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is an excellent idea. Will you help us curate such a list?
I would love nothing more!
Thank you. How should we connect about this? You could simply give me names and my team can follow up. Whatever works for you
Email me at ariella.elm@gmail.com and we’ll discuss further
Thank YOU, Ariella!
Well this was a lovely end to that thread!
👊👊👊👊
Sweet.
Well done and good for Velshi. He’s one of my favorite journalists. Not everyone is a street fighter or a moving speaker. We need the Schumers of the world doing what they do
The “well done” was directed to you. I truly appreciate your perspective. We need much more of it.
Would love to see this happen! Thank you both.
Thank you for listening. I would love to watch this!
Love the willingness to listen. 👏🏼
📌
THIS is something I can't wait to see! @ariellaelm.bsky.social does just incredible work
I love this idea- we need to build up those who are fighting the good fight and let others know what they are doing. One of the worst aspects of the current situation is that so many of us feel there is little we can do. I think that's at the root of much Democratic frustration and anger.
Good for you for listening to people.
💯 excellent!
Thanks Ali!
This exchange gives me hope.
Wow. 🙌🙌🙌
Good Ali, now here’s hoping your other media compatriots also do the same. And keep it up
👏👏👏
This is such a great read! Thank you! It makes me feel much more hopeful. I’m glad you are calling them out for saying Ds aren’t doing enough. I’m tired of hearing that too. Take care of yourself!
I do. Regularly. I think maybe you just don’t see much of what I do. But I’m happy to take your suggestions and center yet more of the people doing the hard work of upholding democracy.
I've watched you be a consistent anti-Democrat activist over the last few years as you'd hoped that America had moved past Trumpism and we could get back to the traditional liberal versus conservative policy debates we used to try to have. I've seen the result of the anti-Democrat activism.
I think you have Ali confused with Joe Scarborough; he's the conservative who can't seem to see how the 'Reagan revolution™" & Newt Gingrich led us to this moment. While I can't argue were at a critical moment, there journalists infinitely more problematic than Ali has ever been. (e.g., Chris Hayes)
I conflated him with a former MSNBC analyst and media figure.
Can you cite one example of my being an “anti-Democrat activist?” I truly don’t know what that means
I apologize, that is not something you have been apt to do to a large extent. I had conflated you with a former MSNBC analyst and am now just frustrated with how much anti-Democrat vile attacks are being lobbed towards our minority leaders in Congress by the people who helped put them in minority.
The lies you just posted on your TV show. I can call them lies because Ariel’s successfully refuted them. PS was a huge fan. I don’t have time for this bullshit nonsense you spew now. I don’t if you have billionaire handlers now.
Get with the anti-fascists, or leave us behind and become MAGA. You have a gigantic mouthpiece. act like it
This is silly. You can disagree with a piece, he is in no way an “anti-Democrat activist.” The fact is, many people don’t feel like Dems *as a group* are doing enough.
I think it is silly to undermine the political capital of the Democratic Party while fascist are in power. You are welcome to disagree with my opinion, but I highly doubt that you can prove me wrong.
Criticism doesn’t undermine political capital. Opinions aren’t fact so can’t be “proven wrong.”
Have you talked about the amicus briefs? I have been wondering why people aren’t filing them, and apparently they are!
This would be a giant step showcasing what the other Democratic representatives are doing. I love your show and appreciate your platform on books that have been/or bring banned.
another aggrieved screed by a Dem, highlighting the business-as-usual, status quo Dem actions -- as if these were normal times & these pathetically quietist-to-the-point-of-complicity acts were EVER adequate to the 40-year juggernaut of far right extremists - who followed a 40-year PUBLIC plan.
This whining is similar to students who assert they spent hours on a paper & should be graded on effort & time spent rather than missing the mark completely.
On this point we can disagree (but I agree with much of what you have written). What democratic leadership is doing is not enough. This week should have been a clear enough example of Ken Martin’s inability to lead the DNC.
@velshi.com Fine. Then it's fair to point out that what you're doing as journalist and what @msnbc.com is doing as an outlet is VERY FAR FROM "ENOUGH." Amplifying short-sighted frustration and ignoring the critical details of this massive quagmire makes you PART OF THE PROBLEM.
Amazing, Ariella gave you but a sampling of the actual work of democrats, in relation to the areas you say you covered but left all this info out of and you shrug it off as nothing
I cover this every day. This week I did 11 hours of TV in which I covered these stories. You all are focused on one 15 minute segment
because the 15 minutes is your primary thesis and the one thing your audience will retain
and sure link me to transcripts! Ariella's been listing democrat work for months now, if you insist you somehow haven't been ignoring all these details it won't be that hard to cross reference right?
But that is why I follow her and haven't seen a post of yours before now. Because that's what i need to do to actually learn what democrats are doing
I thought I've been following her for months but I guess I just follow enough people that repost her and that's been good enough. But dude just made me go hit that follow button
He’s not interested in the truth or doing the hard work like you. He just wants the tv “jorno” clout atta boy. Msnbc cnn etc are cheap tv. No longer worth it. Everyone needs to move on from them.