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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The money and activism was from his PAC, Leaders We Deserve. He just can’t also advocate from the inside anymore, which is a shame.

    It seems probable that he had already made his point internally and was facing the grind of bureaucracy with the competing agenda.

    I know Ken Martin (DNC chair) is a shrewd operator, so with what little hope I have left for a progressive party takeover, I want to believe this signals tacit acceptance if not approval. This might play out something like this: As Hogg’s primary challengers meet polling thresholds against incumbents, we would see a “retargeting” of DNC funds from the incumbents to spend against Republicans elsewhere. They can’t actually cut off incumbents for what should be clear reasons (literally politics). And let’s be real: Ken will also be considering the post election power of successful incumbents; i.e. any ramp down will take into account the existing party power of the incumbents.

    I’m not hopeful that we’ll see any big power brokers fall. I am hopeful that he can get several loud progressive voices elected to start reversing this rightward ratcheting.









  • Ah yes, the cherry-pick and ad hominem.

    The previous several paragraphs were more concerning.

    For example:

    MintPress News said it was a for-profit “regular news organization,” with an initial business plan where advertising revenues would exceed costs after three years.[12] MintPress’s anonymous investors were originally intended to fund MintPress operations until 2015.[2] The editor had investors, who Muhawesh claimed were “retired businesspeople”, but she would not name them, a situation MinnPost said was “unfortunate for a journalism operation fighting alongside people seeking transparency. The site’s ‘About Us’ page is similarly skinny.”[12]

    The irony of your insinuating I don’t check my sources when my comment is about precisely that is both amusing and disheartening. Shouldn’t we all exercise this caution?

    This seems like good reporting, and there is literally 0 coverage from this angle elsewhere that I could find.

    For what it’s worth, I’ve been to Palestine and inevitably Israel. I have lobbied my congressional representatives to cease support for Israel. I voted “ceasefire” in the Democratic primary. But because I happen to think the source you chose is questionable and come from a different instance, I must support the apartheid regime.

    And indeed I chose .world in the reddit API migration when .ml was actively encouraging sign ups on other instances, please forgive my terrible oversight.

    I hope you have a better day.