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“I’ll try to be less of an idiot next week!”
Newly released records show Obama rebuffing calls to more aggressively pursue a public health insurance plan, report @andrewperez.bsky.social and @davidsirota.com
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Did Trump’s Pentagon bury bad news about Iran?
Pentagon officials pressured staff to soften or rewrite internal assessments to make Trump’s Iran war look more successful before reports reached the White House, @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social report.
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This from Susan Collins and her lobbyist husband is more corrupt than the typical corruption we see in Washington.
Aren't they extremely rich? Why do this?
when we did a Rolling Stone print piece on Musk in the trump admin, @andrewperez.bsky.social crunched the numbers to give readers an idea of what the Gargantuan sum Elon spent on 2024 meant to him. Sure, richest man alive but that number was MASSIVE, wasn’t it?
For your average american fam…
New by @andrewperez.bsky.social
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What’s really striking is that this amounts to an anti-Trump politician helping pro-Trump billionaires and crypto corporations sanitize their message to elect candidates that the crypto industry believes will benefit their bottom line. 🧵
This is right at the top of Collins' financial disclosure.
We at @zeteo.com appear to be the only people who read it.
The U.S. Congress is working on a dangerous gift for Trump and the crypto billionaires buying elections.
NEWS: Susan Collins’ husband appears to have worked last year for the lobbyist running her super PAC.
Her husband, Tom Daffron, lobbied years ago for Chesapeake Enterprises, and consulted for the firm again in 2025.
Chesapeake chair Scott Reed leads Pine Chair Results PAC
zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
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The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.
A new wrinkle to crypto's election buying: Jasmine Crockett taped an ad for a crypto super PAC to help the industry take out her Dem colleague Al Green.
“I can’t think of another instance of a sitting lawmaker appearing in an industry-funded super PAC ad," says @brendanfischer.bsky.social
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NEWS: Susan Collins’ husband appears to have worked last year for the lobbyist running her super PAC.
Her husband, Tom Daffron, lobbied years ago for Chesapeake Enterprises, and consulted for the firm again in 2025.
Chesapeake chair Scott Reed leads Pine Chair Results PAC
zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation.
Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.
