Antonia Scatton

"What we say now is critical. Elections are decided by those who are only paying attention now. We must set the agenda, lead with data centers, blame the cost-of-living on corruption, convince voters we will stand up to monopoly power, avoid safety net debates, and hold Republicans accountable."

NEW POST: “The question is: At what point do we assert that human beings are what all of this is about?” This is the second of several conversations I am having with the Fourth Founding Project. Our society has been unraveling for decades. What matters is that we consciously shape what comes next.

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

One of the projects of the post-Trump era should be de-privatization, something long overdue since the Reagan revolution. Bob Kuttner makes a list of reclaiming the public commons. prospect.org/2026/10/13/t...

"The fact that we even have to justify investment in renewable energy by saying it’s good for the economy, rather than that it will save our lives—why do we have to justify human survival in terms of what’s good for the market?" @antoniascatton.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reframin...

This is my first conversation with the Fourth Founding Project: “Our society has been unraveling for decades, leading up to the crisis we find ourselves in now. What matters is that we consciously shape what comes next.” reframingamerica.substack.com/p/changing-a...

“This is what crowd out looks like.” - Jason Furman

He makes a good point.

"We are so focused on fighting our opponents, sometimes we forget that the whole point of debates is to win over the audience. Instead of memorizing statistics, we should express our principles: pivot from attacks and land our “money” lines: moral statements that cannot be refuted."

"There is, in fact, an American tradition of fighting to bring collective and democratic authority to bear on disruptive technologies — of using politics to try to shape and direct the impact of major economic transformations."

Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."

New Jersey has fined a huge data center in New Jersey over $1 million for installing and operating 62 large gas powered generators without state permits. This comes as other data centers, like Elon Musk's facilities in Memphis, pollute communities with unpermitted turbines and face no consequences.

Reminding people to vote is great, but we still need to give them a reason to vote and to vote for us. The people we most need to reach do not follow the news. A protest or overpass sign may be the only message they see this cycle. The best signs tell people what we stand for and do it simply.

Fact! #Pinks #USDemocracy

DOGE gutted government spending with a chain saw. Trump has mass-fired tens of thousands of government employees, but our national debt has skyrocketed to over 40 trillion. Where's all that money going? Straight into Trump's crypto-pocket!

Melanie D'Arrigo Is Correct.......

NEW: Oregon has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each subsidized apartment has nearly doubled. But, thanks to a carve-out in its public records law, the state doesn’t have to provide the details of that spending.

NEW POST: The things people are most concerned with right now do not show up in the daily news. They are long-term problems that have reached a breaking point. We only learn about these by listening to real people, and we only win these voters by focusing on what matters to them, not Trump.

Exciting news: Illinois rideshare drivers are now covered under sectoral bargaining. This new model benefits all rideshare drivers facing low wages and threats of losing their jobs to robotaxis. Illinois joins Massachusetts and California on charting a new path forward in unionizing.

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......

If only writers and filmmakers had warned us... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/t...

NEW POST: Candidates have been told that voters are mad about the cost of living and hate data centers. If they’re not talking about WHY, they risk getting caught pandering to public opinion (following) rather than articulating what voters are feeling but have not yet put into words (leading).

NEW POST: American voters’ feelings are evolving so fast that politicians can’t keep up with them. They started at “prices are too high,” briefly alighted on “our economic system is broken” and leapt right ahead to “because our government is working for the mega-rich and not for us.”

Trump shouldn't be allowed to hold any crypto at all. See @publiccitizen.bsky.social: www.citizen.org/news/trumps-...

The Epstein Files showed that without transparency, abuse can be ignored for years. That is why I voted to require disclosure of Congressional misconduct settlements, while protecting survivors. We must stop allowing ethical violations to be buried by those in power.

This preposterous application should have a probability of success of less than zero

Today, billionaire investor & Epstein close friend, Leon Black, appears before House Oversight for his transcribed interview. Black paid Epstein $170+ million for what Black claims were "tax, estate planning, and other related services." Black's name appears more than 8000 times in the Files.

Today marks the 11th anniversary of the Obergefell decision that legalized marriages like mine nationwide. It was an incredible step forward for our country and one we can all be proud of as we still fight for full equality.
 P.S. Vermont beat the Supreme Court by 9 years 😉

NEW POST: “To make the moral case for taxing the rich, we have to rethink how the rich get rich and what the accumulation of wealth does to our economy. Then we can make the case for seriously taxing the rich and preventing the mass accumulation of wealth in the first place.”

Absolutely 💯 “HE WON'T RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES FOR THE SAME REASON HE DIDN'T RELEASE HIS TAX RETURNS: HE'S GUILTY!”

NEW POST: “Data centers are a proxy for the mega-rich and politicians making huge decisions without thinking through what happens to workers, like with NAFTA. We sided with big business in the past and that contributed to our losses in 2016 and 2024. Now, we must put people over Wall Street.”

1. Trump has repeatedly promoted an online casino, Stake, on social media after its founder and owner, Bijan Tehrani donated $1 million to Trump's Super PAC, MAGA Inc. According to multiple state regulators, Stake is an illegal operation.

Rebuilding costs have been escalating so quickly that we're seeing huge percentages of #homes that are destroyed in #disasters don't have enough #coverage on them. Douglas Heller, #insurance director at the Consumer Federation of America.

The US government was legally required to release the remaining Epstein files 168 days ago. They still have not done so.

On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying.

NEW POST: Personal outreach can beat money in politics, but we have to scale it way the heck up. Here are fifty ways people and communities can tap into their experience, relationships, and local knowledge to elect people who will answer to them once in office. open.substack.com/pub/reframin...

NEW POST: “If we want candidates to reject big money we have to provide another way to get votes. We can do that. Real-world word-of-mouth has always been the most effective way to influence someone. We don’t need permission. We can develop our own political capacity and use it as we see fit.”

NEW POST: This is what it would look like to channel people who attend protests into groups that help them expand their personal political capacity. It would create the kind of power we can’t get from just voting - and - generate the community belonging that many of us seek. #maydaystrong

NEW POST: "Drill, baby, drill" was a big fat lie. We are still hostage to low gas prices which depend on global markets. Renewables are the ONLY path to independence. Let's seize this chance to catapult the climate back onto the front page. reframingamerica.substack.com/p/renew-baby...

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

Pam Bondi said, " If we let all of the Epstein files out we'd have to shut down the government." She may have been telling the truth for once. SHUT THAT BITCH DOWN!

So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🧊 🎣

NEW POST: Decades ago, I saw people steal an election by selectively applying legitimate rules. If DHS decides who gets to vote, they could purge blue areas or individuals based on their social media content! We must act now to prevent this! reframingamerica.substack.com/p/save-the-s...