Dan Cohen (FCP)

Do not point at the shankbone. Do not lift the shankbone Do not look the shankbone directly in the eye Do not pay the shankbone any unsolicited compliments Do not tap on the glass of shankbone’s enclosure Do not ask the shankbone to do your own emotional labor for you

On the ground insght from @mikejgr open.substack.com/pub/mikegranof… #irondome

NEW: For more than 30 years he's chronicled California. Day in, day out. One paragraph at a time. Jack Kavanagh's website, Rough & Tumble, has a worldwide audience despite — or perhaps because of — its lack of flash, commentary and snark. latimes.com/politics/story…

Josh Shapiro and Jake Tapper’s brother were apparently hooping together in high school and led their small Philadelphia Jewish day school to a championship run?

I spy @FullCourtPress in Politico CA. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY — Full Court Press Communications, a Bay Area-based strategic communications firm dedicated to advancing social change, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Tx Politico Team. politi.co/41QI9kh via @politico

Early contender for photo of the season

@IAPolls2022 Betty Yee-mentum!

CALIFORNIA POLL: Governor - top two advance - Slavet (R) internal 🟥 Steve Hilton: 14% 🟦 Tom Steyer: 12% 🟥 Chad Bianco: 11% 🟦 Eric Swalwell: 9% 🟦 Katie Porter: 8% 🟦 A. Villaraigosa: 7% 🟦 Xavier Becerra: 6% 🟥 Jon Slavet: 5% 🟦 Betty Yee: 4% 🟦 Matt Mahan: 4% 🟦 T. Thurmond: 3% J. Wallin Opinion | 1/29-2/1 (posted today) weeklyvoice.com/new-poll-shows…

Great news for #TownBiz #OakProud Biz in Oakland is growing. @OaklandChamber nbcbayarea.com/video/news/loc…

everyone is all "severance" this and "industry" that- i am watching the greatest program in the history of american television: archival C-SPAN footage of a pancake flipping contest between three low tier 1996 republican presidential hopefuls

Early contender for #CAGov Ad of the cycle. Put your glasses on and focus on the next generation! @BettyYeeforCA

Secret investors. AI chatboxes. Political fundraising. That may pass in DC, but California needs a governor committed to ethics, transparency and accountability. Character counts and Californians deserves a leader they can trust. I am that leader. latimes.com/california/sto… #Ethics #Accountability #Transparency

We’re proud to share our 2025 Impact Report — a reflection of a year defined by resilience, innovation, and unwavering commitment to the communities we serve.

If you’re worried about AI coming for PR jobs, read on. A team from Princeton, Georgia Tech, and the Allen Institute for AI tested what makes content more likely to be cited by generative search engines. They ran 10,000 queries and measured nine different optimization methods. The three that worked best: - Verifiable statistics (37-40% visibility boost) - Expert quotations (~30%) - Credible third-party citations (30-40%). Read that list again if you're in PR, because that's what a good earned media placement produces. And @MuckRack's analysis of over a million AI-cited links backs this up from the other direction: 95% of AI citations come from non-paid sources. 89% from earned media specifically. So every time you place a client in a credible publication with real data and expert perspective, you’re also building the citation layer that AI pulls from when a buyer asks ChatGPT "who are the best companies in X space?" And that citation layer has a strong recency bias. For time-sensitive queries, journalistic sources account for 49% of all AI citations. Which strengthens PR’s long-standing argument for… a long-standing (sorry, couldn’t help myself), sustained and ongoing earned media strategy. PR pros have spent entire careers mastering what these systems now reward. The difference is that credibility compounds in a way it never did before.

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THIS is what Democracy looks like.   A diverse group of candidates facing voters in public forums. Tough questions. Substance over soundbites. That’s what California voters deserve - and I thank all the volunteers who make these conversations possible.   Too bad Katie Porter and Eric Swalwell are frequent no shows.   lookout.co/in-a-wide-open…

Our CEO, Jennifer Loving, will take the stage at the TED 2026 Conference in Vancouver next month. We're excited for her to share how Right at Home is leading innovative efforts to prevent homelessness, demonstrating how communities across the United States can ensure more people remain safely and stably housed. This work is made possible in part by @TheAudaciousPrj, whose partnership in the Right at Home initiative is helping drive thoughtful, people-centered solutions to stop homelessness before it starts. conferences.ted.com/ted2026/speake…

RT @BettyYeeforCA: As we celebrate Women’s history month, let’s talk about the candidate who has already MADE CALIFORNIA HISTORY by winning…

NEW: Eight Midwestern universities are opening a shared innovation hub in #SanFrancisco, establishing an unprecedented foothold near the city’s fast-growing artificial intelligence corridor in Mission Bay. @sfchronicle shorturl.at/odRuU

Fun shoutout from Politico’s California Playbook. Ms. Popularity isn’t bad, but Madam Governor will be historic. MS. POPULARITY — Betty Yee might be lagging in the polls for California governor, but she’s winning the popularity contest among her fellow Democratic candidates. Asked at a (recent) forum who they would endorse in the crowded race, if they had to name someone other than themselves, rivals Tom Steyer and Antonio Villaraigosa both said they would pick Yee. - Politico California Playbook