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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.

@adambonica.bsky.social one thing you may have missed, the director of End Citizens United (at least in 2016) was the third co-founder's, Jake Lipsett's, husband.
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Beyond parody

“If the mayor really cared about helping the restaurants out, she would go after corporate landlords. But she won’t do that,” O’Leary said. “She won’t go after their practices because she is bought and paid for by the real estate industry.”
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This isn’t about saving restaurants. It’s about protecting the powerful. And I promise you: restaurant workers, voters, and everyday Washingtonians aren’t going to forget it.

We’re not going back to the days of $5 wages. Not without a fight.

If the @mayorbowser.bsky.social truly wanted to help restaurants, she'd go after the real source of pain: corporate landlords. Rent hikes and triple-net leases are what’s killing local businesses. But she won’t touch them—because she’s bought and paid for by the real estate development industry.

Let’s be clear: this is a betrayal.

Mayor Bowser’s budget doesn’t just propose overturning Initiative 82. It overturns the will of 75% of DC voters who stood up for fairness and dignity on the job. As we speak, there are DC tipped workers who are unionizing for better working conditions... 🧵

What does this North Carolina tourism ad mean??!?

Mohsen was just released by the federal judge in VT!!

HES OUT HES OUT OH MY GOD

post from 1199SEIU.org that has 945 replies, 261 reposts, and 0 likes: The healthcare workers of 1199SEIU proudly endorse Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of New York City. #linkinbio for our full statement: https://digital.1199seiu.org/3YOW89f

wow i didn’t realize you could turn off likes

Bzzzt

Lmao @uniondrip.bsky.social front and center

About to post something on LinkedIn that gets my high school to reach out and convene a mf committee

Why are you all arguing with a cherubic, intransigent dude in chinos named Will about politics. Did you not go to liberal arts school? Did you not get your fill of this behavior in the common room late at night?

🚨 YEATS: TURNING AND TURNING OF THE WIDENING GYRE EXPECTED TO COINCIDE WITH THE FALCON NOT BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE FALCONER, CENTRE NOT EXPECTED TO HOLD

Zohran Mamdani pre busses

Take me to God's country

Congrats to Booker for turning one of the most shameful acts of racist obstruction into a hollow milestone. This kind of empty spectacle doesn’t honor the struggle for civil rights—it buries it under feel-good fake wins while Dems keep dodging real fights on Gaza, housing, labor, and voting rights.

The number of those abducted that have had union connections should be a 5 alarm fire for the labor movement.

It's honestly humbling how dedicated he is to blaming me for everything and not, say, tens of thousands of federal workers getting fired or a freeze on federal employee spending.

Cranberries
U2
Enya
The Coors
The IRA

The Irish don't miss

Switching banks is not a fun time but now that I use @amalgamatedbank.bsky.social not only do I support union labor, I also get interest from my checking account 🤑

First day in prison, establishing myself as mitochondria

you wanna get people to vote you get somebody to run on sticking this guy in a dungeon and starving him to death on livestream

@chrislhayes.bsky.social you shoulda hit Schimer on his answer to the AFGE statement. Talking about how it will hurt "their employees," he totally whiffed that.

More Americans died from COVID than have ever died in war and we don't even have a federal holiday to show for it let alone, idk, 1,000 rural hospitals built or a new executive department or something.