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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.
$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.
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.
open.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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.
$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.
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NEW: Texas Republicans have just escalated their redistricting power grab.
They've now issued arrest warrants for Democrats who left the state to block Donald Trump’s gerrymandered map.
This playbook is radical, even for MAGA. It’s authoritarianism in action.
bit.ly/4fq5cbR
They've now issued arrest warrants for Democrats who left the state to block Donald Trump’s gerrymandered map.
This playbook is radical, even for MAGA. It’s authoritarianism in action.
bit.ly/4fq5cbR
Texas House issues arrest warrants for Democrats who left state to block congressional redistricting
The warrants apply only within state lines, making them largely symbolic as most of the legislators in question decamped to Illinois, New York and Massachusetts.
bit.ly
August 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
NEW: Texas Republicans have just escalated their redistricting power grab.
They've now issued arrest warrants for Democrats who left the state to block Donald Trump’s gerrymandered map.
This playbook is radical, even for MAGA. It’s authoritarianism in action.
bit.ly/4fq5cbR
They've now issued arrest warrants for Democrats who left the state to block Donald Trump’s gerrymandered map.
This playbook is radical, even for MAGA. It’s authoritarianism in action.
bit.ly/4fq5cbR
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"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
June 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
"You’re battered by the Rot Economy ... so obsessed with growth that you are a nuisance to be mitigated far more than a participant in an exchange of value. ...
Be the person that explains to a friend why Facebook sucks now, and who chose to make it suck." 🎯
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
Be the person that explains to a friend why Facebook sucks now, and who chose to make it suck." 🎯
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
www.wheresyoured.at
June 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"You’re battered by the Rot Economy ... so obsessed with growth that you are a nuisance to be mitigated far more than a participant in an exchange of value. ...
Be the person that explains to a friend why Facebook sucks now, and who chose to make it suck." 🎯
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
Be the person that explains to a friend why Facebook sucks now, and who chose to make it suck." 🎯
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
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The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets.
These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
June 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets.
These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
Concise and helped bring our situation into focus. I've been thinking about this article a lot this week.
Probably the best summary of where we are that I’ve read. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-thorough...
A Thoroughly Confused Country: An Introduction to Class Politics and a Way Forward
Americans suffer from a lack of class consciousness, which makes them easy prey for manipulation
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Concise and helped bring our situation into focus. I've been thinking about this article a lot this week.
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San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
June 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
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Sweet Jesus.
You need to read this and know what happened to Viktoriia Roshchyna.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
You need to read this and know what happened to Viktoriia Roshchyna.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Sweet Jesus.
You need to read this and know what happened to Viktoriia Roshchyna.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
You need to read this and know what happened to Viktoriia Roshchyna.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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We were just denied entry into CECOT — the notorious prison in El Salvador where Mr. Abrego Garcia is being illegally held.
We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.
We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.
Van Hollen denied entry to CECOT, notorious El Salvador prison where Abrego Garcia is illegally held
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We were just denied entry into CECOT — the notorious prison in El Salvador where Mr. Abrego Garcia is being illegally held.
We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.
We were there for one simple reason: to check on his well-being, which his family and lawyers have not been allowed to do. We won’t stop fighting.
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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.
April 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.
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NEW: It’s 5 p.m. ET, and DOJ is officially late on its first daily court-mandated report on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![A. Facilitation of Abrego Garcia's Return
The Court should order the Government to take the following specific steps—in addition to whatever other steps are within its power—to '"facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody
in El Salvador," Noem, 604 U.S. _
→ 2025 WL 1077101, at *1, and return to the United States:
Request that its agents and contractors release Abrego Garcia from custody in El
Salvador pursuant to the contract or arrangement providing for his detention there
at the Government's direction. See ECF No. 31 at 11-12 ("the record reflects that Defendants have 'outsource[d] part of the [United States'] prison system" and "just as in any other contract facility, Defendants can and do maintain the power to secure and transport their detainees, Abrego Garcia included").
Dispatch personnel to accompany Abrego Garcia upon his release from CECOT to
ensure his safe passage to the aircraft that will return him to the United States.
Provide air transportation for Abrego Garcia to return to Maryland, because he may not be in current possession of sufficient identification to board a commercial flight.
Grant Abrego Garcia parole pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 212(d)(5), 8 USC § 1182(d)(5), and prepare all paperwork and forms required to allow him to reenter the United States.
B.
Expedited Discovery
Plaintiffs request that the Court order the following expedited discovery:
The Government should be ordered to immediately produce contemporaneously
prepared documents, in such form as they existed at the time of Abrego Garcia's removal, sufficient to reflect the terms of any agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the Government's use of CECOT to house U.S. deportees.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/bafkreigurxct4ymfhlb6ahhoqjmmhac2bojn5dmuttqzsastc6bua6ihku@jpeg)
April 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
NEW: It’s 5 p.m. ET, and DOJ is officially late on its first daily court-mandated report on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This kind of thing is so gross on so many levels
President Trump's nominee to head NASA, Jared Isaacman, really really really really really did not want to admit that Elon Musk was in his meeting with Trump, when Isaacman was offered the NASA post. This ranks up there as some of the worst testimony that I have ever seen on Capitol Hill.
April 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This kind of thing is so gross on so many levels
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Do not look away.
April 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Do not look away.
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VICTORY 🏆 Wisconsin has elected Judge Susan Crawford to the state supreme court 🚨
This win is a testament to the real power of the PEOPLE.
Voters said NO to attempts by Republicans + Elon Musk to buy an extreme right-wing majority on WI's highest court to act as a ‘support network’ for Trump.
This win is a testament to the real power of the PEOPLE.
Voters said NO to attempts by Republicans + Elon Musk to buy an extreme right-wing majority on WI's highest court to act as a ‘support network’ for Trump.
April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
VICTORY 🏆 Wisconsin has elected Judge Susan Crawford to the state supreme court 🚨
This win is a testament to the real power of the PEOPLE.
Voters said NO to attempts by Republicans + Elon Musk to buy an extreme right-wing majority on WI's highest court to act as a ‘support network’ for Trump.
This win is a testament to the real power of the PEOPLE.
Voters said NO to attempts by Republicans + Elon Musk to buy an extreme right-wing majority on WI's highest court to act as a ‘support network’ for Trump.
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1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
1/ On April 5, there are nationwide protests happening literally everywhere in the US. Find more details here: handsoff2025.com
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cross-posting:
if you have an iPhone, you may have pressed the power button 5x before. the phone vibrates briefly, you get options to call emergency services, power off, etc...
this kicks the phone out of this AFU state. you can do it with the phone in your pocket. you should practice doing it
if you have an iPhone, you may have pressed the power button 5x before. the phone vibrates briefly, you get options to call emergency services, power off, etc...
this kicks the phone out of this AFU state. you can do it with the phone in your pocket. you should practice doing it
March 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
cross-posting:
if you have an iPhone, you may have pressed the power button 5x before. the phone vibrates briefly, you get options to call emergency services, power off, etc...
this kicks the phone out of this AFU state. you can do it with the phone in your pocket. you should practice doing it
if you have an iPhone, you may have pressed the power button 5x before. the phone vibrates briefly, you get options to call emergency services, power off, etc...
this kicks the phone out of this AFU state. you can do it with the phone in your pocket. you should practice doing it
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Chuck Schumer has a book tour starting this week.
It would be a damn shame if people showed up to let him know how they feel about his capitulation on the short-term spending bill passed by the Senate Friday afternoon.
@schumer.senate.gov
It would be a damn shame if people showed up to let him know how they feel about his capitulation on the short-term spending bill passed by the Senate Friday afternoon.
@schumer.senate.gov
March 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Chuck Schumer has a book tour starting this week.
It would be a damn shame if people showed up to let him know how they feel about his capitulation on the short-term spending bill passed by the Senate Friday afternoon.
@schumer.senate.gov
It would be a damn shame if people showed up to let him know how they feel about his capitulation on the short-term spending bill passed by the Senate Friday afternoon.
@schumer.senate.gov
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TIL: A fellow Flasher (maybe we need a better name? 🤔) pointed out that pre-launch download registrations are crucial for me. Once the app goes live, all those pre-orders will count as downloads on launch day, potentially giving the app a boost in the charts. So...
apps.apple.com/de/app/flash...
apps.apple.com/de/app/flash...
February 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
TIL: A fellow Flasher (maybe we need a better name? 🤔) pointed out that pre-launch download registrations are crucial for me. Once the app goes live, all those pre-orders will count as downloads on launch day, potentially giving the app a boost in the charts. So...
apps.apple.com/de/app/flash...
apps.apple.com/de/app/flash...