Tag: revolving door politics

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Crypto connected real estate man revolving-doored in & out of the Shapiro admin and into data center consultancy.

Dodgy looking conflict of interest crypto & AI stuff in Pennsylvania.

Read More 2025-10-02

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Pennsylvania American Water needs to just stop with the pathetic PR.

PA American Water keeps reminding me with their many commercials, now the ads on Youtube seem to be claiming that they Scranton from the EPA or some…

Read More 2025-07-31

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Embedded access journalism, the corruption of governance.

It’s a perversion of journalism in service of propaganda.

Read More 2025-01-11

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social Guys. Andreesen and Thiel have always been conservatives. Musk has his own path. But there was a concerted movement led by Elizabeth Warren, the Revolving Door Project, etc to kick center- left business Democrats out of the coalition. They bragged about it. November 29, 2024 at 7:37 PM

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Isn’t kicking the fox out of the hen house the right thing to do?

2024-1211

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Hypernormalisation Documentary, 2016, by Adam Curtis. ”The liberals were outraged at Trump. But they expressed their outrage in cyberspace so it had no effect. Because the algorithms made sure that they only spoke to people who already agreed with them. Instead ironically their waves of angry messages and tweets benefitted the large corporations who ran the social media platforms. one online analyst put it simply — angry people click. It meant that the radical fury that came like waves across the internet no longer had the power to change the world. Instead it became a fuel that fed the systems of power making them ever more powerful.”

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The problem of busy work activism.

2024-07-30

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