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Waleed Shahid

@waleedshahid.bsky.social

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Very Senior Democratic Strategist. Former Spokesperson, Justice Democrats. Formerly @ Bernie Sanders, AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, YNWA.

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Waleed Shahid·Mar 21

The top 25 political and news accounts on X in the past 30 days.

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Waleed Shahid·Feb 20

"[Musk] is trying to gut everything good in America for his own private profit. This is the culmination of what oligarchy is all about...the fusion and the capture of the billionaire class of our democracy." - @aoc.bsky.social with @fedworkersunited.bsky.social today #SaveOurServices

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Waleed Shahid·Feb 19

"Elon Musk is stealing from the entire American public, stealing our data. Stealing the services that we all rely on. They're going to use everything they supposedly save to justify massive tax cuts for themselves." - @fedworkersunited.bsky.social #SaveOurServices

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Waleed Shahid·Jan 26

I wanted to share an update with you all. I’ve decided to take on an important role in the new @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social administration as Deputy Communications Director of Economic Justice.

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Waleed Shahid·Jan 2

What if the apocalypse didn’t hate us? What if it just wanted to help? Pluribus ends with a village deemed obsolete and an atom bomb delivered on request. Gilligan’s calmest horror about uniformity and AI. www.waleed-shahid.com/p/pluribus-f...

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Waleed Shahid·Dec 23

Why does liberalism feel stuck managing decline instead of building a future? www.waleed-shahid.com/p/why-is-lib...

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Waleed Shahid·Dec 21

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Waleed Shahid·Dec 12

New: We should treat civil rights leaders as the Founding Fathers and Mothers of a new republic. Today’s liberalism debates (over identity, the state, and capitalism) are their unfinished quarrels. www.waleed-shahid.com/p/snccs-ghos...

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Waleed Shahid·Dec 11

Fascinating chart from @gelliottmorris.com: the pivot to “affordability” in Democratic messaging follows Zohran Mamdani’s NYC primary victory in June. I dig into what that means for party realignment here. www.waleed-shahid.com/p/how-one-pr...

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Waleed Shahid·Dec 11

Fascinating chart from @gelliottmorris: the pivot to “affordability” in Democratic messaging follows Zohran Mamdani’s NYC primary victory in June. I dig into what that means for party realignment here. www.waleed-shahid.com/p/how-one-pr...

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Waleed Shahid·Dec 5

In response to Matt Yglesias piece: If you zoom out, today’s so-called “postliberal” politics looks less like a break with liberalism than the predictable product of it. www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-henhou...

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Waleed Shahid·Dec 4

Most Americans think the system is broken and that Democrats overpromise and underdeliver. So 2028 won’t be a rerun of the 2020 ideas primary. It’ll be about your theory of power: the Senate, gerrymandering, and the media ecosystem we have to govern in. www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-2028-i...

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Waleed Shahid·Dec 3

Wrote about Pluribus, Vince Gilligan’s new series, and why its alien hive mind feels disturbingly close to our AI yes-bots: always affirming, incapable of refusal, drowning us in “help.” waleedshahid.substack.com/p/pluribus-a...

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