Ben Verdi
@benverdi.bsky.social
Strategy at @americanprogress 🗽 🇺🇸
Data enjoyer 📊 📈 Knower of ball 🏈 ⚾️
#altcitizen Opinions mine.
https://www.americanprogress.org/people/ben-verdi/
Data enjoyer 📊 📈 Knower of ball 🏈 ⚾️
#altcitizen Opinions mine.
https://www.americanprogress.org/people/ben-verdi/
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Zohran Mamdani proved that young progressives can win—and change everything.
Think you could be next? 👀 runforwhat.net
Think you could be next? 👀 runforwhat.net
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Zohran Mamdani proved that young progressives can win—and change everything.
Think you could be next? 👀 runforwhat.net
Think you could be next? 👀 runforwhat.net
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Neera Tanden is bodying folks on Twitter
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Neera Tanden is bodying folks on Twitter
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Feeling inspired by all the winning so far? runforwhat.net - it's not too late to get on the ballot for 2026.
Run for Something
Find offices you can run for
runforwhat.net
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Feeling inspired by all the winning so far? runforwhat.net - it's not too late to get on the ballot for 2026.
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🚨VIRGINIA: tomorrow is the last day to register to vote ahead of our November 4 election. Go to abigailspanberger.com/vote to check your status today.
October 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🚨VIRGINIA: tomorrow is the last day to register to vote ahead of our November 4 election. Go to abigailspanberger.com/vote to check your status today.
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Should the European Union speed up enlargement?
Yes... but it should add Canada! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYww...
Yes... but it should add Canada! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYww...
Should the EU Speed Up Enlargement?
YouTube video by TLDR News EU
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Should the European Union speed up enlargement?
Yes... but it should add Canada! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYww...
Yes... but it should add Canada! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYww...
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My work has now been cited by leading figures from both Stars Trek and Wars.
We’ve lived 15 years under Citizens United, watching billionaires and corporations shape democracy with their wallets. Reform once seemed impossible. But now, a group in Montana is asking a radical question: What if states simply stopped granting corporations the power to spend in politics?
Could We End Corporate Money In Politics?
Backers of a referendum before Montana voters next year believe they’ve found a vulnerability on Citizen United
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
My work has now been cited by leading figures from both Stars Trek and Wars.
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We’re in this together, Virginia.
October 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We’re in this together, Virginia.
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we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.
How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.
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U.S. billionaires reached a record breaking $7.6 trillion in wealth as of September 2025, an increase of $4.7 trillion in the less than eight years, per MorePerfectUnion.
October 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
U.S. billionaires reached a record breaking $7.6 trillion in wealth as of September 2025, an increase of $4.7 trillion in the less than eight years, per MorePerfectUnion.
Audit companies are using AI to audit companies who use AI to provide other businesses with AI services. Our next recession will be our worst and our least surprising.
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report
Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.
www.afr.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Audit companies are using AI to audit companies who use AI to provide other businesses with AI services. Our next recession will be our worst and our least surprising.
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
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"After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like," Obama has said.
September 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like," Obama has said.
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Delighted that USA Today published my opinion piece today on @americanprogress.bsky.social's plan to undo Citizens United through state corporation laws.
Americans want dark money out of politics. We don't have to wait for Supreme Court. | Opinion
Corporations are not born; they are built. And the Supreme Court has always held that the power to build them belongs to states alone.
www.usatoday.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Delighted that USA Today published my opinion piece today on @americanprogress.bsky.social's plan to undo Citizens United through state corporation laws.
@everytown.bsky.social built a (depressing but essential) tool America has needed for decades, and everyone ought to bookmark it.
everytownresearch.org/labs/everysh...
everytownresearch.org/labs/everysh...
EveryShot
EveryShot is an AI-powered tool that tracks US shootings and gun violence in real-time, using US news outlets as sources of information.
everytownresearch.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
@everytown.bsky.social built a (depressing but essential) tool America has needed for decades, and everyone ought to bookmark it.
everytownresearch.org/labs/everysh...
everytownresearch.org/labs/everysh...
Fifteen years after Citizens United opened the floodgates of corporate and dark political money, the @americanprogress.bsky.social has figured out how to slam them back shut.
Fifteen years after Citizens United opened the floodgates of corporate and dark political money, the Center for American Progress has figured out how to slam them back shut.
CAP published its groundbreaking how-to report today: "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant."
CAP published its groundbreaking how-to report today: "The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant."
The Corporate Power Reset That Makes Citizens United Irrelevant
By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.
www.americanprogress.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Fifteen years after Citizens United opened the floodgates of corporate and dark political money, the @americanprogress.bsky.social has figured out how to slam them back shut.
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No, I am not thinking "What if Purdue drags Notre Dame to hell next week in South Bend?" Why are you asking me, man in a Purdue hat?
September 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
No, I am not thinking "What if Purdue drags Notre Dame to hell next week in South Bend?" Why are you asking me, man in a Purdue hat?
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"Even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals."
🙏 @errollouis.bsky.social
🙏 @errollouis.bsky.social
Mamdani’s New Ideas on Crime Show Make His Opponents Look Old
What he understands and they don’t.
nymag.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"Even in a contest against men twice his age, Mamdani has begun to sound like the adult in the room on issues of public safety, offering detailed, thoughtful policy proposals."
🙏 @errollouis.bsky.social
🙏 @errollouis.bsky.social
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The real issue isn’t left vs right.
It’s not white vs black.
It’s not citizen vs immigrant.
It’s not gay vs straight.
The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
It’s not white vs black.
It’s not citizen vs immigrant.
It’s not gay vs straight.
The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
September 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The real issue isn’t left vs right.
It’s not white vs black.
It’s not citizen vs immigrant.
It’s not gay vs straight.
The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
It’s not white vs black.
It’s not citizen vs immigrant.
It’s not gay vs straight.
The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.