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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.

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Power users can even subscribe to search results from search engines or other websites, making RSS a powerful tool for research. Have you ever wondered how I keep up with cryptocurrency news? Besides the crypto publications in my RSS reader, I have feeds for Google searches like (cryptocurrency OR NFT) (theft OR hack OR scam) and CourtListener searches on crypto-related keywords for newly filed cases. CourtListener provides a feed for every docket, so I have a folder in my RSS reader for ongoing court cases I’m tracking.

since i was writing for a general audience i only tucked in a short paragraph about using RSS as a journalist or researcher, but i genuinely have no idea how anyone functions without it.

It's entirely possible we've received over 100 submissions of gentle flute songs and we're not certain but that has to be some kind of Bluesky record.

Picture of the Jawa Sandcrawler giant tank machine thing with the text "North Americans be like: opps we're out of milk I'll just run to the store to get some"

As seen on Reddit

www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/c...

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

It's just polymarket for Pascal's wager!

I've only been once, but bouillabaisse in a calanque was nice :)

I Miss Actually Owning Stuff "You'll own nothing and you'll hate it"

My latest newsletter is about how Big Tech killed the concept of ownership, in the process turning consumers into digital serfs.

whatwelost.substack.com/p/i-miss-act...

Today is Spoonerism Day so here’s a list of the top ten best celebrity names when spoonerized…

10. Lude Jaw
9. Bathy Kates
8. Parah Salin
7. Hatt Mancock
6. Sandy Ravage
5. Him Tenman
4. Bean Sean
3. Shartin Meen
2. Rid Kock
1. Cradley Booper

ln(😅) = 💧ln(😄)

Proposed redistricting map for Texas. The districts swirl hypnotically counterclockwise

Fun fact, this map would be impossible in Australia for two reasons:

1. The Commonwealth Electoral Act requires compact, community-based electoral districts.

2. The Coriolis Effect in the Southern Hemisphere would cause the districts to swirl around the metro center in the other direction.

death to tyrants! from disney’s animated robin hood

“keep politics out of kids movies”

disney in 1973:

sorry for this man but this quote made me absolutely see red in a literal way. fuck you motherfucker

⚓️ New Article: Mutual Reciprocity

Size matters.
@theonion.com

Tweet from Grace Segers @Grace_Segers Me, writing an email: I'm using an exclamation point so you know I'm friendly and excited! But now I'm using a period so that you know I'm not crazy. Here's another sentence with a period as a buffer, proving my normalness. Thanks so much!

I think of this every day

I see we are having a/c discourse today

my friends, respectfully, this is 101 level climate discourse

staying cool saves lives and you do not need to feel guilty about it. promise. no one benefits from your a/c guilt, least of all the planet

also heat pumps that both heat and cool are so great

This is exactly what the internet is for.

What’s going on with my "tops" and, in some cases, "bottoms?”

It ships with a really nice screwdriver, too, it's a nice touch. I got the 13" one a couple years ago.

Bizarre discussion on the radio likening air condition to passive smoking because it accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions.

But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.

My favorite thing is tightly swaddled video game babies

Hey there's also the while loop! 😁

Woodcut portrait of Jan Hus in profile, wearing a cap and robe, with Gothic script identifying him and a short German verse below. Text says: This medieval Czech priest has been a central figure in modern films, television, and even video games. What led to his enduring legacy? Jan Hus is considered by some to be the first Church reformer, speaking out for change a century before the Reformation and sparking a revolution.

On 6 July 1415, Jan Hus, a Catholic priest from the Kingdom of Bohemia, was executed for heresy. His death led to a series of conflicts where his followers defeated five consecutive papal crusades in what became known as the Hussite Wars. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

Closely related to naanbinary, where you get gender from indian bread

Seeing a lot of the FAFO discourse today and all I can say is that I try to apply the same rule to politics and organizing as I do to comedy: punch up, not down.

📢 DuckLake 0.2 is out! We added new features to the specification and improved support in the DuckDB ducklake extension.

See the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/07/04/d....

Fake website servic welcome page. text reads: "Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI" "you might not like it but shareholders love it"

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

please be kind. discuss the failings of the federal and state governments that led to this but the victims of this were children at a fucking summer camp. they didn't vote for anything. i am literally begging you to maintain some human empathy here