237,268 DU user registrations and we and the press are drowning in Trump shit

[Laura PourMeADrink]

We [font color=red]CAN [/font color=red]make a difference (wish the DU activist corps was still in place)

Step 1- Think like an Undecided and/or Independent

Step2
Sign up on Twitter (easy as pie) *guess only way to communicate. In 2004 - 2008 we had email addresses of all press.

Step 3
Each day, decide what is the most egregious Trump sin. Or, we may want to come up with, say, 3 major themes, and stick with them for the long haul media push.

Step4
Bombard the media.

I can provide a full list of media twitter addresses.

P.S. If you poo-poo this idea - you will strongly be considered as a troll (why would a true DUer object??). Oh shit if that is a DU rule violation, my bad

P.P.S Think Chris Hayes is into DU, based on his program tonight


[font color=red] [fontsize = 4]ARE YOU IN??

[lonestarnot]

1. I don't face or twit tweet. Got anything else?

Good luck!

[kacekwl]

3. Same here

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Well, is there another way to mass-communicate? We used to have a

full list of media email addresses. We have to beat him at his game - master at managing news cycles. I saw as he switched it off the Kahn story. It was brilliant. He staged a fake deal where he was withholding support of McCain and Ryan...only to support them days later.

Recently read - the best way to communicate now and actually be read? a handwritten letter !

We are losing the PR/News cycle war.

Were you around when we at DU actually made a difference??? Beside from just agreeing with each other??

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. Losing the news cycle ! "She coughed last Tuesday" vs. "His Trump

Foundation DOESN'T ACTUALLY GIVE THE MONEY TO CHARITIES"

[lonestarnot]

9. Yes. The links to those mass mailers are at the old DU. How do we get them?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Yes...actually remember that website.

Wonder if this is better? I remember my personal email not taking them all and having to split them up

http://www.rumormillnews.com/MEDIA_EMAIL_ADDRESSES.htm

[lonestarnot]

17. I remember one that would send letters. Sign and click and send. Don't know if they went by email

or snail mail. Some by snail mail as I got snail mail responses.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. think email pretty much useless, I suppose. For me, it would just go into spam.

but a real letter....what an impact that would make.

[lonestarnot]

38. Well it's in the old DU.

[Divine Discontent]

49. I live at the Old DU2. :) I used to mod, and I still post there for old times sake along with a few

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=lobby
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=latest_threads

You cannot use the search function. You can sort through the Activism forum, or others though.

You can also search through google, and if you know the title of a thread, then you have a good chance of finding it. Like for example, if you search "20000th post on the still functioning beloved du2" my thread comes up from when I hit 20000 posts.

I wish you luck if you search. I am doing a little bit of searching for you, as I like this idea. If I find anything I'll post it.

[Divine Discontent]

50. it's over a decade old, but I found it. who knows if any of it is valid!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x674486
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x22579



it was on page 2 of the activism forum

[Divine Discontent]

51. DUer calimary put a ton of work in on these! Just look

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x8816#8820

maybe those phone numbers are useful still. lots of info there

[lonestarnot]

65. Excellent! There you go LPMAD!

[Staph]

34. This site seems to be out of date.

Their list of email addresses for senators includes Hillary Clinton (gone from the Senate since early 2009), Robert Byrd (died in 2010) and Jay Rockefeller (left the Senate in January of 2015).

[Laura PourMeADrink]

37. I know...still searching. Email may be too obsolete

[grossproffit]

2. I'm in.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. love you GP

[Demsrule86]

6. Can you send me the twitter addresses?

It is a great idea and we should all do it.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. 100 most influential twitter accounts

Number @name Name Followers Influence Rank
1 @mashable Mashable 2037840 59
2 @cnnbrk CNN Breaking News 3224475 71
3 @big_picture The Big Picture 23666 92
4 @theonion The Onion 2289939 116
5 @time TIME.com 2111832 143
6 @breakingnews Breaking News 1795976 147
7 @bbcbreaking BBC Breaking News 509756 168
8 @espn ESPN 572577 187
9 @harvardbiz Harvard Business Rev 219039 227
10 @gizmodo Gizmodo 111025 237
11 @techcrunch TechCrunch 1402254 319
12 @wired Wired 547187 322
13 @wsj Wall Street Journal 366133 358
14 @smashingmag Smashing Magazine 224333 360
15 @pitchforkmedia Pitchfork 1494896 384
16 @rollingstone Rolling Stone 133999 436
17 @whitehouse The White House 1794544 448
18 @cnn CNN 1196719 473
19 @tweetmeme TweetMeme 52386 515
20 @peoplemag People magazine 2099081 565
21 @natgeosociety National Geographic 274851 603
22 @nytimes The New York Times 2502914 705
23 @lifehacker Lifehacker 62302 708
24 @foxnews Fox News 260081 710
25 @waitwait waitwait 32895 824
26 @newsweek Newsweek 1250884 844
27 @huffingtonpost Huffington Post 632555 849
28 @newscientist New Scientist 144355 852
29 @mental_floss Mental Floss 68975 874
30 @theeconomist The Economist 311109 902
31 @emarketer eMarketer 30235 906
32 @engadget Engadget 135418 999
33 @cracked Cracked.com 110611 1037
34 @slate Slate 71091 1040
35 @bbcclick BBC Click 1749470 1041
36 @fastcompany Fast Company 148292 1056
37 @reuters Reuters Top News 194429 1119
38 @incmagazine Inc. Magazine 109256 1143
39 @eonline E! Online 2271026 1227
40 @rww Richard MacManus 1037907 1232
41 @gdgt gdgt 20556 1315
42 @instyle InStyle 1716786 1330
43 @mckquarterly McKinsey Quarterly 90981 1354
44 @enews E! News 279737 1540
45 @nprnews NPR News 270561 1572
46 @usatoday USA TODAY Top News 62790 1628
47 @mtv MTV 648014 1714
48 @freakonomics freakonomics 124751 1784
49 @boingboing Boing Boing 48649 1811
50 @billboarddotcom Billboard.com 63766 1818
51 @empiremagazine Empire Magazine 33335 1905
52 @todayshow The Today Show 620413 1927
53 @good GOOD 414956 2003
54 @gawker Gawker 37980 2027
55 @msnbc_breaking msnbc Breaking News 59375 2088
56 @cbsnews CBS News 1575638 2090
57 @guardiantech Guardian Tech 1592067 2139
58 @usweekly Us Weekly 228728 2233
59 @life LIFE.com 1270303 2277
60 @sciam Scientific American 88336 2373
61 @pastemagazine Paste Magazine 64642 2379
62 @drudge_report Drudge Report 100558 2468
63 @parisreview The Paris Review 22127 2599
64 @latimes Los Angeles Times 71287 2625
65 @telegraphnews Daily Telegraph News 17325 2629
66 @abc7 ABC7 Eyewitness News 36343 2638
67 @arstechnica Ars Technica 82051 2692
68 @cnnmoney CNNMoney.com 219552 2777
69 @nprpolitics NPR Politics 1801871 2882
70 @nytimesphoto New York Times Photo 79443 2927
71 @nybooks NY Review of Books 89827 2966
72 @nielsenwire Nielsen Wire 13840 2994
73 @io9 io9 12152 3023
74 @sciencechannel Science Channel 82514 3064
75 @usabreakingnews USA Breaking News 13987 3120
76 @vanityfairmag VANITY FAIR 76282 3182
77 @cw_network CW Network 70031 3183
78 @bbcworld BBC World News 262857 3202
79 @abc ABCNews.com 1119958 3411
80 @themoment The Moment 1580569 3413
81 @socialmedia2day Social Media Today 34516 3510
82 @slashdot Slashdot 29011 3527
83 @washingtonpost The Washington Post 149617 3636
84 @tpmmedia Talking Points Memo 15438 3678
85 @msnbc msnbc.com 41155 3696
86 @wnycradiolab Radiolab 9591 3776
87 @cnnlive CNN Live 39260 3793
88 @davos World Economic Forum 1508772 3891
89 @planetmoney NPR’s Planet Money 81309 3965
90 @cnetnews CNET News.com 75730 3981
91 @politico POLITICO 83729 4048
92 @tvnewser TVNewser 12301 4427
93 @guardiannews The Guardian 75198 4665
94 @yahoonews Yahoo! News 37154 4668
95 @seedmag Seed Magazine 9898 4696
96 @tvguide TV Guide 586240 4757
97 @travlandleisure Travel + Leisure 84029 4767
98 @newyorkpost New York Post 43334 4790
99 @discovermag DISCOVER Magazine 71913 4816
100 @sciencenewsorg Science News 75665 488

[certainot]

48. thanks. and local lobos-endorsed limbaugh megastation kkob was generating

[Demsrule86]

56. Thanks so much! nt

[onecaliberal]

7. I am already doing this on Twitter

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. + 1000000. Are you up for a big, co-ordinated effort? I envision us

all deciding what the biggest deal is and blasting the same thing???

[onecaliberal]

11. Absolutely

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. ok...what should be our tweet to as many as possible tomorrow?

I was thinking...

"While the press was deciding on when Hillary coughed, the Trump Foundation
is committing real crimes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/12/trumps-campaign-says-hes-given-tens-of-millions-to-charity-but-offers-no-details-and-no-proof/

The Washington Post has spent the past few months searching for evidence of that kind of personal donation, without much success. The Post has called 326 charities with connections to Trump, asking if they had received a gift of the nominee's own money. Between 2008 and this May, that search turned up just one gift, from 2009. It worth less than $10,000.

[onecaliberal]

25. Perfect. What time? I have 12 thousand followers

[Laura PourMeADrink]

32. I'll post something at 9 central. What do you think should be

our focus? Personally think the Trump Foundation is a huge story..but got nothing. Also, that Trump said to "take the oil" which is against US and International law as well as the Geneva convention. Help me come up with a focus.

If you do that, I will post the twitter account addresses and any email addresses I can dig up.

[onecaliberal]

58. This is a great topic because MSM is desperately trying to hide it

[tandem5]

30. "While Hillary coughed the media choked on Trump charity coverage"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. much better, thanks T

[LibraLiz1973]

45. FACT. Love this (n/t)

[riversedge]

31. sure. count me in. I will blast away.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. Counting on you RE ! Look tomorrow for instructions :)

[riversedge]

42. Will do and thank you.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. I could do that. Twitter is the one thing they seem to pay some attention to

Off topic - where do we look up the # of DU registrations now? Haven't looked at that for years, and discovered I don't know where to look now?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. Top Page....with "Enter Discussion Forums"

[Maru Kitteh]

15. Oh, I remember we used to be able to look throught the member list.

I don't see that any more.

You can send me the twitter list any time it's convenient for you.

[Lifelong Protester]

16. I'm in.

Let me know where to tweet (I do have a Twitter account-but need a tutorial on how to use it effectively). I would sure help!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. Thanks !! ! See below

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Twitter tutorial

1. Sign up, create a name

2. Think of it like [e-mail]. But....it is prefaced with an "@" symbol on twitter. Like Donald Trump is @realdonaldtrump. You might be @maryjones

3. You only have a hundred word limit and you can include a link. But, if I wanted to send Donald Trump a twitter message it would be "@realdonaldtrump YOU SUCK" (This automatically puts your tweet in his inbox and everyone who is "following" him will also see it in his inbox.

4. Additionally, there is the hashtag. This denotes subject. For instance, say it was 9-11. You might post a tweet and include #9-11. If you do that, and someone searches for everything about 9-11, they will see your post

5. Trending. May be a hashtag of great frequency.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. More info. So, lets just say we all decided to blast a story about

the Trump Foundation never giving money to the actually charity.

We would list the addresses of press we want to send to.. i.e. @maddow (which is Rachel's address. (Although I think we need to pounce on more mainstream media). Nevertheless, you would tweet.

@maddow. @realdonaldtrump lied about #trumpfoundation. Article Http/wapo/ (add link)

[SunSeeker]

40. So then you have to do that 100 times--one for each address you list in post 22?

Sorry if that is a stupid question. I don't tweet much.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

46. No, but it is subject to space. For instance @maddow is an easy one - because

so short. The system/Twitter will keep up with your characters as you are typing. so, bottom line, you can typically get a small handful of people to send to in one tweet, including your actual message. so in essence, you are right, takes a while

Of course, I am a novice - someone who is truly knowledgeable of Twitter could tell us more on how to group tweet

[tandem5]

21. I think it shouldn't be about what Trump says but about how an individual in the media responds

(or does not respond) to what Trump says. Matt Lauer is a prime example. Attack them where it hurts -- their vanity and you'll get more effective results.

In any event I'm in... you can PM me if it comes to that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Great point. Bombard the media person who ignores the important stuff

each day ! Just them alone?

[tandem5]

27. If it's pertaining to one specific incident then yeah one person alone

so as not to water down the impact and also to play them against each other. We are always seeing "reports" by news outlets about how one journalist or news agency has come under fire for blah on social media.

[virgogal]

26. I'm an 81 year old troll,I guess. This is all beyond me.

[tandem5]

28. If we all appear physically in one location to protest with signs and voice our shared opinions are

we trolls?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

29. LOL. You rock, except for liking Sox and not Yanks. What is beyond

you? twitter? Nooooo.

Bottom line, on the news, Trump is a master. He understands the timing and the manipulation of the press. He is controlling/orchestrating what millions upon millions see when they turn on CNN. And, why can't we do that? If we have a 1/4 of a million registered, why can't we point the media to what they are missing about the crimes of Trump?

So....how do we get the attention of the news? email, I guess, is passe. now it's twitter. which is merely just an updated version of email, which was an updated version of US mail.

[Divine Discontent]

54. as long as you talk to those you know and post online to news stories you're doing great!

here's to another 81! okay, or however many you'd like!

[my2sense]

39. Bookmarking

[SunSeeker]

41. K & R & bookmarked!

[certainot]

43. what liberals generally have no clue about is

yes, use social media as much as possible but talk radio has been kicking internet/ soc media ass (why do we have trump in the first place)

here's the simple math the left/dems have been ignoring for 25 years:

at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 1200 stations, rw talk radio is worth 4.68 BIL$/ year or 390MIL$ /month FREE for coordinated global warming denial, pro republican wall st think tank propaganda, free market deregulation bullshit, swiftboating, and the hate and fear used to get people to vote republican.

that is why trump is the candidate. that is why we aren't 15 pts left instead of still dealing with flat earthers on so many issues. that is the reason the talking head dumbfucks can't figure out why trump is close without spending money. that is why hillary's negatives are so high.

the social media and internet advantages are relatively democratic and disperse. the talk radio monopoly is a nationally and locally well coordinated and UNCHALLENGED classic style psyops that overwhelms that advantage.

ignoring talk radio is the biggest political mistake in history.

paint a RUSH tattoo on trump's forehead while you're at it, and you'll see a major change in the way the msm treats him

tell them to poll his followers for talk radio associations

complain to the 90 + universities who endorse trump by broadcasting sports on 270+ limbaugh stations

how do their students and faculty put up with all that global warming denial and racism and bigotry sold while those stations ride their beloved mascots?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

44. Great post...but how/could we tap into the talk radio arena...we can't, right ? Unless

we somehow manipulate/trick the hell out of them

[certainot]

47. all it would take is forcing a few unis to

start the discussion around the absurdity of their sports teams and community cred and mascots to be used to bring in advertising to help those stations sell trump, racism, global warming denial, defunding of public ed, fighting off efforts to lower student debt and tuition, etc.

whatever the school actually did or when is irrelevant - any serious discussion would freak out local gop and media would notice and then advertisers would flee - and i'll bet a lot of those stations would have to find alternative programming to keep the uni relationship.

a few schools doing something would shame others into following. it could spread

for eg.

a school like penn state, home of climate scientist micheal mann, supports 11 limbaugh stations that do globala warming denial while flying the nittany lions flag

Michigan St. 11, Michigan 7, Western Michigan 1 support 19 limbaugh stations helping gov snyder evade jail and fix the lead water problem

[Divine Discontent]

53. we should focus on one major area of effort, like one university and each do a contact by

phone, letter or social media. I pledge to do one of those if we were to focus on one main project each few months. Sometimes these things take weeks and weeks to see any progress.

[certainot]

60. i was just streaming some wisconsin rw radio - WIBA

and half way into the first hour of the limbaugh show i heard a long ad for an official university of wisconsin tailgate party for the badgers next game.

it's absurd the students there put up with that - the local blowhards after and before limbaugh are there to make excuses for trump and attack hillary like limbaugh does, but they're also serving walker and will predictably and dutifully do what local gop and their think tanks want including help walker defund public ed, attack teachers and professors, and fight off student debt relief and living wage efforts.

it's happening at universities all over the country and it's absurd.

those universities are the perfect places to protest anything trump/republican because of that connection to talk radio and because of the consequences for rw radio as advertisers all over the country dropped it..

[Divine Discontent]

52. POST OF THE DAY!!!

This is so true! The AM RADIO HATE MACHINE is powerful. It's on in millions of homes and cars and workplaces all day long, reaching them with BS lies and smears. I tell those I know to stop listening. They say they like to know what the other side is thinking, I say they're thinking lies and what's the point. Once a year or so I'll listen to 10 minutes of Rush and Hannity, and my God, they're still spewing nasty toned distorted half truth and lies.

We need a couple ten or twenty rich liberals to buy start some stations in major markets again, and fund some talented internet folks who struggle to get by.

[certainot]

61. their radio monopoly is well protected, like wall mt vs mom and pop

imo the best way to destroy the monopoly is described above, by protesting the universities that that monopoly can't do without

[Skidmore]

55. Laura, thank you for this post.

It is essential to do this. Been doing it for weeks now myself. We need to do the media's now. I don't know how much of the myopia is laziness, bias, or agreement with Trump's "agenda." I do know that we are starting to have an impact. We need to also get the poit across that the white nationalists' actions and Trump's refusal to denounce their activies are a threat to many and will not be tolerated.

[lastlib]

57. Trump shit--redundancy?

I'm in.

[Sunlei]

59. This works even with Congress & Senators. unfortunately twitter/facebook can remove unwanted users.

There are a couple who twitter-dog every comment trump makes. just a couple.

I think all the media reads here including Obama admin. I also think plenty of republicans use DU and post here. Where else will they go? people say redit but their 'news aigrette' system is buried in way to many separate 'forums' called sub-redits.

[Blue_Tires]

62. Way ahead of you

I've been calling out the punditocracy and media hypocrites on Twitter for awhile now

[remaineruk]

63. Some tips from the UK after Brexit

Hiya
Twitter is great but the trolls pushing trumps bile will be in all social media sites and most people just don't do twitter

Please use your pro HRC and anti Dumpf messages in parenting sites in car sites...anywhere with a news or chat section. This is what the leave campaign did. And it worked. People read and lurke. You can't persuade the trolls but you will the lurkers. Good luck. The UK is rooting for you

[grahamhgreen]

64. How bout we talk about the public option???

[Divine Discontent]

66. Right on, Graham! nothing more important to me, well, besides my broken car :(