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@engelr412.bsky.social
"Brighter than nothing. Smarter than nobody." Allegheny Dems committeeperson, Pgh ward 24
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More 2026 news: Kofi Osei, a stalwart opponent of water privatization and Democratic Towamencin supervisor, is running against GOP state Sen. Tracy Pennycuick. Her exurban Philly district will likely be a closely watched as Democrats try to flip the upper chamber.
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
More 2026 news: Kofi Osei, a stalwart opponent of water privatization and Democratic Towamencin supervisor, is running against GOP state Sen. Tracy Pennycuick. Her exurban Philly district will likely be a closely watched as Democrats try to flip the upper chamber.
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
All I want for xmas is for pols I’m tryna continue to like, to not primary Summer Lee. #pittsburgh
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
All I want for xmas is for pols I’m tryna continue to like, to not primary Summer Lee. #pittsburgh
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It's Giving Tuesday. Looking for something good to support? Here's a list of independent publications, nonprofit newsrooms, and other projects that are worth kicking a few bucks to. 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's Giving Tuesday. Looking for something good to support? Here's a list of independent publications, nonprofit newsrooms, and other projects that are worth kicking a few bucks to. 🧵
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Up next in our series on drivers of the affordability crisis: technology.
I wrote about AI bots are colluding with one another, anticipating consumer choices, and transferring wealth to the businesses that employ them. "That's why we're building all these data centers."
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I wrote about AI bots are colluding with one another, anticipating consumer choices, and transferring wealth to the businesses that employ them. "That's why we're building all these data centers."
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Prices in the Machine - The American Prospect
AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.
prospect.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Up next in our series on drivers of the affordability crisis: technology.
I wrote about AI bots are colluding with one another, anticipating consumer choices, and transferring wealth to the businesses that employ them. "That's why we're building all these data centers."
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I wrote about AI bots are colluding with one another, anticipating consumer choices, and transferring wealth to the businesses that employ them. "That's why we're building all these data centers."
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Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down (Published 2024)
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Wait so there are Peter Thiel-backed landlocked seasteading libertarian cities that the current Honduras govt wants to get rid of that Roger Stone has been advocating for that JOH also supports? And Stone has also been advocating for JOH 's pardon?
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/m...
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Happy Thanksgiving! I wrote something for everyone to discuss around the dinner table when the pie is passed around and everyone proposes specific measures to seize the wealth and break the anti-democratic power of the tech oligarchy.
How To Expropriate An Artificial Intelligence Oligarchy
An industry whose bubble is set to burst is crucial to U.S. national security, you say?
www.forever-wars.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! I wrote something for everyone to discuss around the dinner table when the pie is passed around and everyone proposes specific measures to seize the wealth and break the anti-democratic power of the tech oligarchy.
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I strenuously object to the implicit assertion that people don't want to hear about other people's holidays. I do! In Iran they have an outdoor picnic day (Sizdah Bedar). In Japan there's a bean-throwing day (Setsubun). There's a whole world of fascinating rituals and traditions.
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I strenuously object to the implicit assertion that people don't want to hear about other people's holidays. I do! In Iran they have an outdoor picnic day (Sizdah Bedar). In Japan there's a bean-throwing day (Setsubun). There's a whole world of fascinating rituals and traditions.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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MTG is resigning from Congress because she has agreed to be my business partner in a cart selling the world's first alcoholic hot dogs
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
MTG is resigning from Congress because she has agreed to be my business partner in a cart selling the world's first alcoholic hot dogs
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You all know I've been after the Treasury Department's own Epstein file. It's a set of thousands of detailed bank records, a map of Epstein's financial network. Secretary Bessent is blocking its release – and he denies it's even something Treasury should be investigating.
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You all know I've been after the Treasury Department's own Epstein file. It's a set of thousands of detailed bank records, a map of Epstein's financial network. Secretary Bessent is blocking its release – and he denies it's even something Treasury should be investigating.
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As for campaign funds, those can come from almost anywhere under Pennsylvania's lax laws which don't limit the size of donations nor how campaign dollars have been spent. You can get a taste of that fundraising in this project I did earlier this year:
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/03...
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/03...
These powerful interests donated $18M to PA’s top lawmakers
Lobbyists say political donations can lead to access, but PA’s weak transparency laws make it nearly impossible to trace influence.
www.spotlightpa.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
As for campaign funds, those can come from almost anywhere under Pennsylvania's lax laws which don't limit the size of donations nor how campaign dollars have been spent. You can get a taste of that fundraising in this project I did earlier this year:
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/03...
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/03...
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Trump: We're going to completely destroy the entirety of federal consumer protection and public safety oversight
NYT: Here's our profile on a fail-upward brunchlord pseudo-journalist absolutely nobody asked for
CNN: Is Wokeness to blame for the ambiguous, causation free affordability crisis?
NYT: Here's our profile on a fail-upward brunchlord pseudo-journalist absolutely nobody asked for
CNN: Is Wokeness to blame for the ambiguous, causation free affordability crisis?
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Trump: We're going to completely destroy the entirety of federal consumer protection and public safety oversight
NYT: Here's our profile on a fail-upward brunchlord pseudo-journalist absolutely nobody asked for
CNN: Is Wokeness to blame for the ambiguous, causation free affordability crisis?
NYT: Here's our profile on a fail-upward brunchlord pseudo-journalist absolutely nobody asked for
CNN: Is Wokeness to blame for the ambiguous, causation free affordability crisis?
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There was a second discharge petition going this whole time that reached 218 signatures and will now get a House floor vote too. It would reverse Trump's executive order that revoked federal union rights from workers.
aflcio.org/press/releas...
aflcio.org/press/releas...
Labor Movement Achieves Bipartisan Majority, Forces Vote to Restore Federal Workers’ Union Rights | AFL-CIO
A discharge petition on the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) reached 218 signatures today, mandating the House of Representatives vote on restoring union rights to federal workers within se...
aflcio.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
There was a second discharge petition going this whole time that reached 218 signatures and will now get a House floor vote too. It would reverse Trump's executive order that revoked federal union rights from workers.
aflcio.org/press/releas...
aflcio.org/press/releas...
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Full statement from our coalition partner, Transit for All PA
Transit for All PA! Statement on the Passage of the 2025-26 State Budget | Transit for All PA!
www.transitforallpa.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Full statement from our coalition partner, Transit for All PA
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Trump is closing the CFPB after a bizarre decision to redefine the word “earnings” made it impossible for the agency to even request funding. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/fKDWHN4
Russ Vought Tries to Bankrupt the CFPB - The American Prospect
A legal office in the White House, at the behest of Office of Management and Budget director and Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, has decided to redefine the word “earnings” in order to bankrupt the largely dormant Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
trib.al
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Trump is closing the CFPB after a bizarre decision to redefine the word “earnings” made it impossible for the agency to even request funding. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/fKDWHN4
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The party of the working class to illegally nullify the CFPB
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...
The new Republican ecomomic populism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
It’s the party of the working class and the party of constitutional government: In the filing, the CFPB said it has enough money to last “at least” through the end of the year but “anticipates exhaust...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The party of the working class to illegally nullify the CFPB
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-...
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When identity thieves destroyed our credit rating, it was the CFPB who fixed it, which is why we now own the house that we live in.
The Trump regime is declaring that funding for the CFPB is illegal.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
Remember: This is the agency that protects Americans from financial predators.
Anti-CFPB oligarchs, who spent millions to re-elect Trump, will now have an easier time padding their pockets by ripping you off.
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
When identity thieves destroyed our credit rating, it was the CFPB who fixed it, which is why we now own the house that we live in.
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A lot worth reading in this shutdown review from @mattglassman312.bsky.social, including lots of "what did you really think was going to happen"?
mattglassman.substack.com/p/twenty-eig...
mattglassman.substack.com/p/twenty-eig...
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A lot worth reading in this shutdown review from @mattglassman312.bsky.social, including lots of "what did you really think was going to happen"?
mattglassman.substack.com/p/twenty-eig...
mattglassman.substack.com/p/twenty-eig...
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Leadership has to look different than it ever has before.
If we want leadership that meets this moment, we need leaders that are responsive to the people and will fight for them.
If we want leadership that meets this moment, we need leaders that are responsive to the people and will fight for them.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Leadership has to look different than it ever has before.
If we want leadership that meets this moment, we need leaders that are responsive to the people and will fight for them.
If we want leadership that meets this moment, we need leaders that are responsive to the people and will fight for them.
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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Unure why Schumer has King/Shaheen/Kaine out w weak msg. "The house has passed 1 bill this session, which loads us w debt, takes Medicaid from millions, gives away our taxes to billionaires, & radically raises health care prems. We gave them a chance to walk back the worst of it but they will not."
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Unure why Schumer has King/Shaheen/Kaine out w weak msg. "The house has passed 1 bill this session, which loads us w debt, takes Medicaid from millions, gives away our taxes to billionaires, & radically raises health care prems. We gave them a chance to walk back the worst of it but they will not."
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A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win
I have what I suspect is a somewhat counterintuitive take on the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
A Quick Take on Team Cave’s Big Win talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-qui...
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.