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Chalin

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Louisiana ex-pat, IP attorney, and panda lover. Mom to 2 daughters and too many cats.

  1. I couldn’t read anything after learning that less than 2% of $$ raised by these former DCCC staff-turned-fundraising consultant & PAC founders actually goes to candidates. @democrats.org need to stop this now before it kills the party.

    data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

    How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

    The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine

    How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

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  2. Being anti-Netanyahu, anti-settler, anti-IDF, anti-Gaza genocide =/= antisemitic.

    Everything about this story is horrific:

    1. The student never mentions Jews
    2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide
    3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist
    4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved
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  3. Catherine, why is collective action so hard? Surely they see that he’s not gonna stop with any deal they make. The blackmailer’s play is to keep coming back. And Trump has admitted he sees contracts as starting points rather than binding.

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