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Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
This was the last NASA-ESA MSR plan - main retrieval was via Percy drive up to lander for loading into OS and then into MAV.
By the way, landing accuracy for NASA landings could be much better. Not a big tech hurdle. Just need to push and do it.
By the way, landing accuracy for NASA landings could be much better. Not a big tech hurdle. Just need to push and do it.
In a wild plan where this materialised, couldn’t Perseverance transfer the samples itself? I think it has that capability. So it could drive up to the Chinese lander.
September 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This was the last NASA-ESA MSR plan - main retrieval was via Percy drive up to lander for loading into OS and then into MAV.
By the way, landing accuracy for NASA landings could be much better. Not a big tech hurdle. Just need to push and do it.
By the way, landing accuracy for NASA landings could be much better. Not a big tech hurdle. Just need to push and do it.
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ICYMI, the Senate Approps Cmte posted the text and report for their CJS bill earlier today (been too busy to tweet the news till now): www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...
July 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
ICYMI, the Senate Approps Cmte posted the text and report for their CJS bill earlier today (been too busy to tweet the news till now): www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/ful...
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Noah speaks truth here.
I also think that the investment in youth sports is a bitter fruit of racism leading to the creation of white suburban high school teams who regularly lost to city teams, which was intolerable
I also think that the investment in youth sports is a bitter fruit of racism leading to the creation of white suburban high school teams who regularly lost to city teams, which was intolerable
There is, however, tremendous money in convincing kids as young as elementary to travel for hours every weekend to play hockey or soccer or baseball or volleyball, and no parent wants to buck that trend and put their kid at a disadvantage.
Guess I thought anticapitalists wouldn’t fall for that.
Guess I thought anticapitalists wouldn’t fall for that.
April 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Noah speaks truth here.
I also think that the investment in youth sports is a bitter fruit of racism leading to the creation of white suburban high school teams who regularly lost to city teams, which was intolerable
I also think that the investment in youth sports is a bitter fruit of racism leading to the creation of white suburban high school teams who regularly lost to city teams, which was intolerable