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GET A GRIP.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

DMC (@artistlike) I’m resharing this because it’s worth listening to, thinking about, and relistening to and rethinking about. One of the most important set of ideas I have heard.

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Bingo.

It’s insane that some people are still trying to attribute the mass starvation of an entire country to “it’s just complicated in the region.” That’s the refuge of cowards. Geopolitics is always complicated. Moral clarity in the face of genocide is - or should be - a simple ask

Awww man, Ryno died? 65 is way too young.

The first two seasons were meh but this season got so much better - and you nailed it about the beautiful and vapid!

Hahahahhah it’s so true.

A post from Reddit about a user being scammed by Shaun King.

People are STILL FALLING for Shaun King shit after alllllllll these years????

Every news outlet that reports on US stocks "surging" should be required to note that the wealthiest 10% of Americans hold more than 90% of all the value of US stocks.

When ICE Agents Are Waiting Outside the Courtroom An asylum seeker and her children face the terrifying new reality of immigration hearings.

Since the spring, federal agents have been patrolling government buildings in New York City, waiting to arrest migrants as soon as they step out of a courtroom, regardless of the status of their case.

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Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight A love letter to music listings

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We absolutely should not become numb to this

Pretty Woman or Pulp Fiction.

Agree.

New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.

They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway

Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking

And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere

The Egyptian Theatre - LAFCA Presents: Norma Rae Q&A WITH SALLY FIELD | PART OF LAFCA AT THE EGYPTIAN

Special screening of NORMA RAE with a Sally Field Q&A at the Egyptian Theatre on 8/13 in case you're in a union-forming mood.

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The details of MJW’s drowning death are so incredibly sad. His poor family. Awful.

Feminists and abortion rights activists warned that this would happen, and now here we are: A Tennessee woman has been denied prenatal care because she’s unmarried.

The woman—who hasn’t shared her name—spoke about her experience at a town hall last week.

The unitary executive can set the curriculum at Harvard, order the owners to change the names of professional sports teams, throw his enemies in prison, close a Cabinet-level Department, but he is powerless to ask the sycophants he put in place in the FBI and DOJ to release the Epstein files.

I’m having SUCH a hard time believing those were all done by one guy.

even at the time, Mark Twain was roasting this kind of airless romanticization of aristocracy in the South as "the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society"

Wow the fact that you can learn how much funding a particular station has lost is so helpful!! Thanks for sharing.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

This is a great resource

adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

I’m happy to donate to @pbs.org and @npr.org but I hope this means they’re going to stop the incredibly harmful “both sides” approach to everything. Actual facts don’t have two sides.

I hope it’s before that!

FB is the absolute least of my anxieties with the way tech is going.

If not for the gardening groups and my elderly relatives, I’d have quit it long ago.