Big Sponge

Big Sponge

@biggersponge.bsky.social

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Adam Bonica
@adambonica.bsky.social

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

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jenny tightpants
@jtp.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

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merr-itt came from outer space
@merrittk.com

they’re going to stream a government snuff film on twitch and it’s still going to be a bannable offense to play a robert yang game about jacking off your car

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Scary Mr. Olmec Man
@scarymrolmecman.bsky.social

The Ms. Rachel thing is instructive because ppl just vaguely talk about her being antisemitic so as to avoid articulating her original offense: daring to feature in her videos a 3 year old whom the IDF blew the feet off of

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jenny tightpants
@jtp.bsky.social

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social

NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:

wired.comApple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening FeaturesThe new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.

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ceej
@ceej.online

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

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The Verge
@theverge.com

Replying to @theverge.com

1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe.

theverge.com1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux projectThe controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.

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Ohio Todd
@lettucewrangler.bsky.social

Sometimes i think about how, in the late 90s, USPS was moving to set up a secure email address for every US resident and how congress prevented it.

Tuta@tuta.com

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Bill Grueskin
@bgrueskin.bsky.social

US media: Why in the world are people voting for democratic socialists? Financial Times: “US corporate profits have hit a record high while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows.”

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Jessica Ellis
@baddestmamajama.bsky.social

James Carville got so confused by democrats winning that he quit.

Mediaite@mediaite.com

‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic Primaries

dlvr.it‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic PrimariesDemocratic strategist James Carville called for a "schism" in the Democratic Party, stating that he wants nothing to do with the likes of three candidates who won their Democratic primaries in New York.  The post ‘I’m Done, I’m Not in That F*cking Political Party’: James Carville Freaks Out After Progressives Win Big in Democratic Primaries first appeared on Mediaite.

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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

agri-pulse.comBird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by TrumpAmong the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...

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quinoa joaquin
@fullgroanman.bsky.social

Try to imagine a Republican Party with a dozen or so staunch abortion advocates. A dozen pro-choice Republicans wrecking every shot at eroding women's autonomy, ruining every anti-choice vote. Can't picture it, can you? Yet we have to accept this kind of Democratic Party, for some reason.

Fascist Dem Tracker@fascistdemtracker.bsky.social

8 Democrats vote yea to further erode the basic rights of trans youths. Waiting on the roll call to update to find out who these anti-trans Dems are.

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the possibility that love is not enough
@rhena.bsky.social

is there any better metaphor for the democratic party than an old man on his deathbed trying to impede progress

Politico@politico.com

EXCLUSIVE: Liberal icon Barney Frank is entering hospice care. One of his final acts: Preparing a book repudiating his party's left flank. One of his regrets: "I won’t see the continued implosion of Donald Trump.” Read the full interview👇

politico.comBarney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the leftThe former Massachusetts lawmaker says progressives in his party have “embraced an agenda that goes beyond what’s politically acceptable.”

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Alex Blechman
@alexblechman.bsky.social

The Supreme Court ruled that nobody is a U.S. citizen Chief Justice Roberts stated “No person can be in this country. We all have to leave. Now.” The judges packed up their robes and are getting on a boat

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The Onion
@theonion.com

“At some point, in ideal conditions, maybe I would be able to cobble together some feelings about Donald Glover playing a digital dinosaur, but right now I’m tired—very, very tired,” said Wisconsin resident Gina Logan

theonion.comExhausted Nation Lacks Strength To Form Opinion On Donald Glover Being Voice Of YoshiWASHINGTON—Claiming their mind was solely occupied by the hope of curling up in a ball and sleeping as long as they were allowed, the entire U.S. populace told reporters Thursday they lacked the stren...