Matt Broad
whitefishsalad.bsky.social
Matt Broad
@whitefishsalad.bsky.social
Sacramento-Based Lobbyist and Twitter Refugee
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If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
April 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Wouldn’t it be nice if the ACLU came and talked to us about our bill before opposing it?
April 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Someone explain to me how Target Circle/similar programs don’t totally violate AB 5? It’s amazing how brazenly massive corporations skirt labor law knowing it will never be enforced against them.
March 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"Lewelyn Dixon, who came to the United States from the Philippines five decades ago and is a green card holder, has been held for more than three weeks at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Tacoma. … Dixon, 64, lives in Edgewood and works as a lab technician at UW Medicine."
Lewelyn Dixon, UW lab technician, held in Tacoma ICE detention center
Lewelyn Dixon, a lab technician who has lived in the U.S. for 50 years and is a green card holder, is being held at an ICE detention center in Tacoma.
www.seattletimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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#TeamLiz proudly attended a rally to stand in solidarity with ATU Local 265 workers. VTA, it’s time to step up and give these workers a fair contract and respect. @atucomms.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is beyond troubling. Who is president? The President or the guy who bankrolled his campaign?
The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said. nyti.ms/41GYSGt
March 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Paying 90k for a very ugly glue job
Tesla is recalling more than 46,000 of its Cybertrucks due to a cosmetic exterior trim panel that it said can “delaminate and detach from the vehicle,” potentially becoming a road hazard and “increasing the risk of a crash.”
Tesla recalls 46,000 Cybertrucks, citing exterior panel that it says can increase 'risk of crash'
Owners of affected vehicles can take their Cybertrucks to Tesla’s service department for free replacement of the cant rail, the company wrote.
nbcnews.to
March 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.

If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
benefit.me
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.
March 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Trump-Musk-Vance are closing a Social Security office in Mansfield, OH. The county Mansfield is in went for Trump 70.8% to 28.4% in 2024. Voters 65+ in Ohio overall went for Trump at a higher rate than voters in that age group did nationally. Caveat emptor.
March 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Got a little scoop here.
The next general counsel of the NLRB will be a virtually unknown lawyer at union-busting law firm Morgan Lewis, whose biggest recent client is Amazon.
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
Trump to Pick Union-Busting Attorney for Key Labor Law Position
The National Labor Relations Board general counsel is a key policymaker shaping labor law. Crystal Carey, an attorney at anti-union firm Morgan Lewis, is the apparent choice.
prospect.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Gavin Newsom sees 10-point net drop in favorability since launching his podcast. Survey finds "the podcast only made 13% of voters have an improved perception of the Governor, with 26% saying that it harmed their perception."
CA 120: Gavin's podcast - Presidential run or empire building? - Capitol Weekly
Gov. Gavin Newsom's new podcast has sent shockwaves through California's political world. But is there more to Newsom's efforts than meets the eye?
capitolweekly.net
March 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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The Democratic Party has reached a new low, the latest national NBC News poll finds.

It's searching for a path forward after a loss to President Trump, and the party’s voters want their leaders in Washington to put up a fight.
Democratic Party hits new polling low, while its voters want to fight Trump harder
Unlike in Trump’s first term, Democratic voters say 2-to-1 they want party leaders to fight rather than compromise, even at the risk of not getting things done, per the NBC News poll.
nbcnews.to
March 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM