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21 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW —

The Silicon Valley mega-donor pushing Democrats to go for broke on voting rights.

My profile of Karla Jurvetson — and her first big Washington push.

She's dropping money, talking up Chuck Schumer, and thinking of ways to pressure Kirsten Synema.

puck.news/karla-jurvetso…
On a conference call last month, Chuck Schumer explained the bind that Democrats were in when it came to voting rights.

One of the first tough questions he fielded came from none other than one of the party's single biggest donors: Karla Jurvetson.

puck.news/karla-jurvetso…
Karla Jurvetson, one of the Democratic Party's single biggest donors, has talked to her network about finding and funding a primary challenger to Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema in 2024.

puck.news/karla-jurvetso…
Megadonor on why some big donors are pissed that Dems are slow-walking on voting rights:

"It’s just good money after bad now. So much money and time went in, victory secured, and Dems can’t wield power. So investing now is like an abusive relationship.”

puck.news/karla-jurvetso…

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20 Sep
Jeff Bezos's $10 billion philanthropy — the Bezos Earth Fund — is now a lot more public-facing.

Now on social @BezosEarthFund and on the World Wide Web. Here's its manifesto.

bezosearthfund.org
Jeff Bezos is the chair of the Earth Fund.

Lauren Sanchez, his girlfriend, is the vice-chair.

And here are its five policy priorities.
If you discover anything interesting on this website, my DMs are ... open.
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27 Jul
What exactly is Big Tech critic Tom Cotton doing in Silicon Valley next month?

Is Tom Steyer's wife, Kat Taylor, running for office?

And why has AOC and the left turned Jeff Bezos into a villain?

Landing in @PuckNews subscribers' inboxes right ... now.

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@PuckNews One possible 2024 presidential candidate, Ron DeSantis, is appearing at a fundraiser for a possible GOP primary rival, Tom Cotton, next month.

What a world.

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@PuckNews Here's the full schedule for Tom Cotton's fundraising trip to Silicon Valley next month —

A morning fundraiser at ... the Rosewood

A luncheon in San Francisco

A blowout evening event on Lake Tahoe with 2024 rival Ron DeSantis

ckarchive.com/b/0vuwh9h686rm
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8 Jun
This is an amazing leak ... but also not terribly surprising?

1. Billionaires don’t make their money off of income.

2. Billionaires have access to the world’s savviest accountants and lawyers.

I primarily want to know how ProPublica got the data!

propublica.org/article/the-se…
This is largely the system working as designed.

Tax avoidance, not tax evasion.

Deductions, philanthropy and other perfectly legal ways to slash someone’s tax bill.

Still amazing to see the numbers in print.
If you want to know how ProPublica got this massive leak, good luck. They’re not saying.

They understandably want to protect their sources, but the tradeoff (which I’m sure they thoughtfully weighed) is that it makes it harder for the public to assess the work.
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7 Jun
🚀 🚀 Friends, time for Some Personal News:

After four wonderful years at Recode, I am pumped to help launch a new media company later this year.

Money in politics. Philanthropy. Billionaires.

More to come, but for now — smash that subscribe button:

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For the last six years, I’ve been writing about how the Bill Gateses & Charles Kochs of the world are deploying their billions into soft power that we should unpack, debate and report the hell out of.

If you care about inequality, you need to care about the outrageously wealthy.
I’ll have more to say over the next few months, but in the meantime I’m going to begin narrating an email about this stratosphere of billionaires.

I think you’re going to find what we’re building to be pretty special.

🚀 🚀 Welcome to The Stratosphere:

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3 May
🚨🚨Bill and Melinda Gates are getting divorced.

Potentially huge implications for the Gates Foundation.
Bill and Melinda Gates say they will “continue our work together at the foundation.”

But this obviously will be very complicated!
This is obviously a sad and personal story.

But given that Bill and Melinda Gates co-run one of the — if not THE — world’s most powerful and most venerated philanthropies, this is a massive story with enormous implications for the public at large.
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1 May
>@brianmrosenthal and @katieglueck take a look at how Venture for America, Andrew Yang’s nonprofit in the startup world, kinda was a failure. nytimes.com/2021/05/01/nyr…
My piece on this theme from during Andrew Yang’s presidential run.

vox.com/recode/2019/6/…
I think my Venture for America story is getting significantly more play today than it did when it was published in 2019.

Then, it was a cute piece about a political neophyte. Now, it and the NYT’s piece are badly needed scrutiny on the front runner to be the next mayor of NYC.
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