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 isnโt just treating donors like marksโitโs being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
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Itโs generally hell. Even if itโs a little kid. Hell.
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I donโt know, maybe Iโll like it better when Iโm older
03.08.2025 04:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Of course
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to be fair, there are no more milanos to be invented
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Terry Tao will replace AI
03.08.2025 03:54 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
knuckle tat ideas:
NICE HATS
DEAD FUCK
2SHY 4YOU
COZY HOME
TOOF HURT
GRAY MARE
RIPT JORT
COWT OOLS
SLIM LIPS
CRAB HEAT
HATE MILK
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The murder rate in Tampa, where Benny lives, is nearly triple that of New York City
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If the 28th amendment just said โyes,โ the FedSoc priests would puzzle their way to โno.โ
03.08.2025 02:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"
02.08.2025 05:37 โ ๐ 8971 ๐ 2710 ๐ฌ 114 ๐ 94
Who would get oysters at a place called bad luck bar ?
03.08.2025 01:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A lot going on there
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Whatโs SAR?
02.08.2025 21:38 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Sure, 700 years after they nearly killed Galileo for answering their rfp with this
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British Columbia on a roll bsky.app/profile/ther...
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Even in the most placid of waters, I will wade into the ocean and reflexively think โthe sea was angry todayโ
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yeah I think kalecki has a great explanation of business elites pursuing austerity at the expense of growth and profitability or undermining long-term industrial policy that benefits them.
But don't think the political economy of full employment extends to 'destroy everything for no reason'
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Incredible name for a company that makes ass-drying toilets
01.08.2025 20:08 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Columbia โ> CUNY Morningside
Cornell โโ> SUNY Ithaca
Harvard โโ> UMass Cambridge
Brown โ> RISD Annex Learning Center
02.08.2025 17:54 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
bitch you didnโt leave columbia, you got booted for being too annoying and shrill even for Quisling U
02.08.2025 17:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Sometimes, the way a campaign is run is a signal of the competency that will be brought to office. Not always, but this is smart, insightful, focused, and extremely well organized and executed.
02.08.2025 17:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate.
I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the โuniverseโ of voters to talk to. Here's how we won ๐งต
02.08.2025 12:28 โ ๐ 1500 ๐ 398 ๐ฌ 30 ๐ 87
I believe it.
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Iโm tapping the sign, warning of what lies ahead
29.04.2025 18:28 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
ridiculous that you would all stage an intervention over me saying โeffluviaโ too much
02.08.2025 04:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
My entire timeline is people jaw-dropped from this Trump interview, but everyoneโs posting a different clip
02.08.2025 00:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
roberts has been waiting 45 years for this at least, heโs not gonna balk at the chance to administer the coup de grace to even the slightest appearance of multi-racial democracy
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Incredible name for a company that makes ass-drying toilets
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