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Beyond Both Sides: The Delete Button Isn't a Strategy | Episode 27


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Mallory McMorrow deleted 6,000 tweets before launching her U.S. Senate campaign. When CNN's KFile surfaced it, she defended herself by invoking authenticity — but the deletion itself was the opposite of authentic. Chris Moyer and Allie Walker unpack the contradiction: why the scrubbing is always the story now, why the old political consultant playbook is dangerously outdated, and the more honest answer McMorrow hasn't given yet. It's a stress test for every executive and organization sitting on a decade of social media history.

Then, we talk with Kerry C. Duggan — founder of Energy Security Partners and former White House policy advisor to Vice President Biden — about her "receiver city" thesis: why Michigan and the Great Lakes are uniquely positioned for climate migration, where she lands on Michigan's data center debate, and what it would take for the next clean tech cluster to form here.

Plus, in Disagree Better: three counties team up to give every student free SMART bus rides.

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