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Progressive Pam Keith was outspent by her opponent in #FL18 but crushed him, will face incumbent Republican Brian Mast in the general Image
to clarify, she was the more progressive candidate in the race, but she’s not remotely a Justice Dem type
She was, interestingly enough, endorsed by JD in 2018, though not in 2020

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Jan 25
This doesn’t seem to be getting enough attention. The Silicon Valley social contract forced on the public by Obama and then Trump and then Biden (minus Lina Khan) and now Trump was straight forward: We will let these bros become the richest people in human history and in exchange they will develop a tech industry that makes the U.S. dominant for a century.

They did the first part, then built monopolies to try to keep out competition rather than continue to innovate at a top level, and then got out-competed by Chinese companies in both AI and social media. They are the losers we always thought they were — and now so are we.
Now they’re gonna spend $500B gobbling up energy in Texas to build a product China is making for $5B and giving away basically free. Lemme know how that goes.

Meanwhile the Texas grid breaks when it gets cold.
U.S. tech oligarchs and the actual president of the United States spending time and energy doing crypto nonsense while China releases an AI that kicks our ass is such a perfect metaphor while also being literally what’s happening
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Dec 26, 2024
IDF is now openly acknowledging the 5 journalists they incinerated were indeed operating as journalists, but the IDF believed their work was “combat propaganda.”

The IDF is entitled to its opinion and is free to engage in media criticism, but deliberately killed 5 journalists because you don’t like their work is terrorism, barbarism, a crime against humanity, and should be prosecuted immediately
So the @nytimes can drop the he said/she said pretense here since both sides acknowledge they were indeed working as journalists Image
@nytimes For the prosecutors, here’s the confession
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Dec 2, 2024
🚨Major investigation just dropped at @DropSiteNews in partnership with a consortium of independent European news outlets. A major player in global journalism is primarily bankrolled by the U.S. State Department, we can reveal. Story to follow in next post: Image
Read it here

As @rafat notes, there are still some outlets doing strong print journalism dropsitenews.com/p/occrp-budget…
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Aug 29, 2024
🚨 Today at @DropSiteNews--in collaboration w/TI Brasil--we're publishing text messages sent by the US-backed attorney general, a rise star celebrated in Time magazine by Samantha Power, that show her using the powers of her office to undermine the party of Rafael Correa /1 Image
For instance, in one message sent to Ronny Aleaga, who says he had an "intimate relationship" with Salazar despite being political adversaries, she says she is delaying the prosecution of a right-wing official so as not to help the left in the elections dropsitenews.com/p/ecuador-left…
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The full story, with @jlosc9, is here dropsitenews.com/p/ecuador-left…
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Aug 7, 2024
Fun 🧵on the power of reporting:

Back in the summer of 2018, Minnesota AG Lori Swanson was surging toward the nomination for governor, polling well ahead of Tim Walz and another candidate.

@rmc031 was spending the summer there and picked up on a scandal the MN press had failed to uncover
The short version is Swanson for years had been deploying her govt staff for campaign and personal stuff. It was a really hard story to nail down and to write in a way that got across what a true scandal it was. She pulled it off, the MN press picked up on it, Swanson flailed and flamed out
Walz surged into the lead, won the nomination, became governor, and the rest you saw today theintercept.com/2018/08/06/lor…
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Jul 14, 2024
It's reported that Trump's attempted assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks made a $15 donation to "Progressive Turnout Project PAC" on January 20, 2021.

I've reported on this PAC and its Mothership before: It's one of those scammy firms that blasts peoples inboxes relentlessly 🧵
Here's an example of one I found in my inbox:
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Progressive Turnout Project uses "Mothership Strategies" as its email consultant, which we investigated many years ago at HuffPost for hoovering up emails, blasting people with emails that looked like bills and other crap, and keeping much of the money huffpost.com/entry/end-citi…
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