Lisa Schoop

Lisa Schoop

@scoopaz.bsky.social

Bestest black Democratic woman, Urban Farmer, destroyer of idiots. Data lady.

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@doublewhammied
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"Holding the lifeblood of medical research ransom — w/o warning, w/o consultation — is shortsighted at best & incredibly harmful at worst. Ultimately, it will hurt the patients & communities we serve far more thn researchers like me." #IDSky #CanSky #MedSky #cancer www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/r...

statnews.comThe federal research funding freeze holds the lifeblood of medical research ransom“Holding the lifeblood of medical research ransom — without warning, without consultation — is shortsighted at best and incredibly harmful at worst,” writes researcher David Victorson.

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Luke Russert
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” -Ulysses S. Grant

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Aaron Parnas
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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Lisa Schoop
@scoopaz.bsky.social

If you think people were impatient in getting the results from the national election, it's even worse when you have a local democratic chair election. I've been here for hours and I want to gnaw my arm off from hunger.

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K J Goss
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Food Security Is National Security 🤔 "Big Ag perpetuate the myth that...the U.S. can “feed the world.” How could we even begin to aspire to “feed the world” if we can’t feed our own country? UPDATE #Permaculture #FoodSecurity #Tariffs #FarmAction #UFW farmaction.us/2022/09/26/f...

farmaction.usFeeding the World? We Aren’t Even Feeding Ourselves: U.S. Ag Imports Reach Record High | Farm ActionThe U.S. is growing less and less of its own food and is becoming increasingly dependent on foreign countries to feed itself as a result.
Lisa Schoop
@scoopaz.bsky.social

#politics So I'm seeing quite a bit of chatter about a new DNC chair. Lots of opinions, lots of hot takes. I have to ask myself: Who knows how the DNC Chair is chosen? Ohh, Ohh! Me Me Me... /1

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Lisa Schoop
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/10 if you're willing to put in the work, you can be a delegate. If you're willing to put in the work, you can shape the direction of the party. Did I mention having to put in the work? It doesn't happen by magic. I mentioned that too didn't I?

Lisa Schoop
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/11 now admittedly, it never is as simple as that. Politics being as it is always has some level of nonsense going on. But it's perfectly possible to climb that rung with a little effort. A lot of coalition building and a bit of luck.

Lisa Schoop
@scoopaz.bsky.social

#politics So I'm seeing quite a bit of chatter about a new DNC chair. Lots of opinions, lots of hot takes. I have to ask myself: Who knows how the DNC Chair is chosen? Ohh, Ohh! Me Me Me... /1

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Lisa Schoop
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/8 we ran ours by ranked choice voting, and the top two from each round went ahead and became delegates. The same delegates you saw screaming and cheering on the floor at the Democratic convention. Now these delegates will vote for the next DNC chair.

Lisa Schoop
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/9 I mostly put this thread together because I keep on hearing people talk about the DNC like it's some super secret party which only is a certain people are invited. Most of what it takes is not being a super politician or donating a lot of cash. It basically takes work.

Lisa Schoop
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#politics So I'm seeing quite a bit of chatter about a new DNC chair. Lots of opinions, lots of hot takes. I have to ask myself: Who knows how the DNC Chair is chosen? Ohh, Ohh! Me Me Me... /1

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Lisa Schoop
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/6 state committee persons elect the state chair and the board. You also become visible and can make connections with other SCs across the state. Now we're getting to the real meat of this thread : becoming a DNC delegate. To be clear: you have to be a PC to be a delegate.

Lisa Schoop
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/7 and what do we have? More elections! The elections are run based on an agreed upon set of rules that everybody follows. You put your name in along with your pitch and then you politic. Get votes. Have SCs Pledge to you. About 6 months before the Democratic convention we had a delegate vote

Lisa Schoop
@scoopaz.bsky.social

#politics So I'm seeing quite a bit of chatter about a new DNC chair. Lots of opinions, lots of hot takes. I have to ask myself: Who knows how the DNC Chair is chosen? Ohh, Ohh! Me Me Me... /1

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Lisa Schoop
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/4 Now as you get families with the process, you make friends and contacts. You can start to discuss and persuade other PCs that your ideas are good. This is important because PCs elect their local democratic boards. And those boards feed into the county leadership, and then to the state level

Lisa Schoop
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/5 You can also at that point become a State committee person. Chosen by the PCs in your district. You then represent your district at the state level. (Which is why relationships at the local level are important)

Lisa Schoop
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#politics So I'm seeing quite a bit of chatter about a new DNC chair. Lots of opinions, lots of hot takes. I have to ask myself: Who knows how the DNC Chair is chosen? Ohh, Ohh! Me Me Me... /1

Lisa Schoop
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/2 The process actually started almost 2 years ago. Everyone focuses on the "superdelegate", the elected officials. But that is not where the real action is. it's in the trenches. On the ground. It all starts with the Precinct Committeeperson.

Lisa Schoop
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/3 Becoming a PC is different depending on your state, and it's called by different names but the job is the same. Knock doors, register voters. All in your neighborhood. Your neighbors. Learn who your democratic allies are around you. I'm in AZ so you'll have to check your states rules.

Lisa Schoop
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Mind you, I'm not just getting my garden going again just for good feels: it's a bulwark against the incoming shit show of an incoming administration and their inflationary policies.

Lisa Schoop
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What's next : a story. Once upon a time I had a beautiful urban farm that produces food and fruit and eggs. When Covid came I had food for me and my little community... 1/

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Lisa Schoop
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Flash forward to late 2022 : l go in for a regular checkup, only to find out I have cancer. Surgery, chemo and immunotherapy and two years later I'm in remission. But my poor garden! /3

Lisa Schoop
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What's next : a story. Once upon a time I had a beautiful urban farm that produces food and fruit and eggs. When Covid came I had food for me and my little community... 1/

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