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advocate,organizer, momma. deemed "problematic" by neoliberals. I lead UnKoch My Campus and Generation Common Good among other things.

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A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.

03.02.2026 15:40 👍 608 🔁 347 💬 10 📌 25

We have to name and shame these CEOs

14.01.2026 12:30 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

Democrats in Congress can’t decide whether to continue funding the unconstitutional occupation force which is murdering and kidnapping people in cities across the country.

13.01.2026 17:54 👍 261 🔁 48 💬 7 📌 3
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Committee Releases Conferenced CJS, E&W, and Interior Bills | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

Senate g House Approps are out with FY26 Interior, EPA, Commerce, Science, Energy and Water Development text after four months of the fiscal year have already lapsed.

05.01.2026 21:22 👍 40 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 6
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Blue Dog Democrats Vote for Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget The Blue Dog Coalition, a group of self-described fiscal conservatives led by Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), largely voted for the GOP-crafted bill pushing defense spending above $1 trillion.

Outlets can ask the 17 House Dems who voted for Trump's trillion-dollar Pentagon budget if they still think they're right: Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez ( #WA03), Adam Gray ( #CA13), Josh Gottheimer ( #NJ05), Henry Cuellar ( #TX28), Vicente Gonzalez ( #TX34), plus Don Davis ( #NC01), etc.

03.01.2026 14:19 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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Amicus Spotlight: Loper Bright & Relentless | Revolving Door Project 21 right-wing groups linked to court-whisperers want SCOTUS to make its most dangerous regulatory power grab yet.

“21 right-wing groups linked to court-whisperers” Leonard Leo and Charles Koch backed the successful assault on Chevron v. NRDC, which held that “the courts should generally defer to federal agencies.”
Article from 2024: therevolvingdoorproject.org/amicus-spotl...

30.12.2025 22:06 👍 81 🔁 50 💬 5 📌 2
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Now reading

24.12.2025 21:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
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The second edition of Mutual Aid is coming out on March 31 from @versobooks.bsky.social

19.12.2025 23:21 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 1
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Koch Network Fuels Republican Push to Kill ACA Subsidies As millions face higher premiums, Koch‑funded groups are pressuring Republicans to oppose Obamacare subsidy extensions.

GOP slashing healthcare will cause tens of millions of people to lose coverage or see their costs skyrocket. Seems questionable on a number of fronts?

Remember the Koch network? Their super PAC spent 3x as much for Republicans in 2024 as in 2020, and they are pushing for privatization. Latest:

15.12.2025 14:01 👍 5 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0
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NEW REPORT- Risky Business: Microsoft and its Fossil Fuel Lobbyists fminus.org/wp-content/u...

03.12.2025 17:02 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing

01.12.2025 13:36 👍 10438 🔁 1385 💬 290 📌 46

Republicans are killing the most vulnerable among us to give trillions in hand outs to the richest people in the history of the world.

Don’t be silent. Fight back. And know we will win. And their time of judgement will come.

27.11.2025 19:07 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

18.11.2025 18:05 👍 29328 🔁 12304 💬 1116 📌 661

if you work for doordash, contact me on signal at marisakabas.04

12.11.2025 02:42 👍 1584 🔁 335 💬 25 📌 4

Join us tomorrow. Together with our friends, Divest Oregon and Beyond Toxics, will explore why Oregon MUST fire forever chemical double agent lobbyists. actionnetwork.org/events/orego...

11.11.2025 14:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC

I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.

I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

06.11.2025 20:33 👍 18169 🔁 5991 💬 1127 📌 370

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

05.11.2025 03:35 👍 46778 🔁 8104 💬 248 📌 218

Yep. This is how I just found out.

04.11.2025 13:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

F Minus has uncovered these lobbying conflicts with our first-of-its-kind database of every fossil fuel lobbyist in Oregon–and in every other state. Join us on November 12 as we connect the dots between:

03.11.2025 16:01 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

🐳🐳🐳 may need to hire their own, non-compromised lobbyist to save themselves because the firm Gowling WLG that’s registered to lobby for the Pacific Whale Watch Association also lobbies for TC Energy. Let’s #savethewhalesfromlobbyists

@pacificwhalewatchassociation.com

27.10.2025 15:33 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Landmark New Report Shows Canadian Lobbyists Represent Major Polluters Alongside Environmental Groups In a major conflict of interest, F-Minus study shows nation’s climate action taking a back seat to Big Oil’s lobbying playbook.

As reported in @desmog.com today, our new report with EDC exposes Canadian #fossilfuel lobbyists who also get paid to lobby FOR climate-health issues for health orgs and local governments. These lobbyists are working as #climatedoubleagents @environmentaldefence.ca
www.desmog.com/2025/10/27/l...

27.10.2025 15:06 👍 14 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

Who speaks for the 🌲🌲🌲 in the Canadian parliament? Incredibly, lobbyists for the Pathways Alliance and other fossil fuel mammoths also get paid to lobby for conservation orgs like the Nature Conservancy of Canada. This is outrageous and it's time for climate orgs to #firefossilfuellobbyists

27.10.2025 15:29 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:

24.10.2025 12:50 👍 1031 🔁 402 💬 16 📌 54
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🗓 Join us Nov. 12th for “Oregon’s Dirty Secret: the Public School and PERS lobbyists who secretly work for oil, gas, and chemical companies,” a public briefing on how to align Oregon’s investments with its values. actionnetwork.org/events/orego...

21.10.2025 13:15 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Newsom vetoes California bill banning cookware with Pfas, ‘forever chemicals’ Governor says bill would cause sudden product shift, sparking debate among chefs, lawmakers and environmentalists

California just vetoed a bill that would’ve banned PFAS “forever chemicals.”

Even the most progressive states are bowing to industry pressure!

Oregon: let’s do better.

Clean water, clean kids, clean lobbying.
#PFAS #Oregon #EnvironmentalJustice

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

15.10.2025 16:10 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

They both have done so much to fulfill the commitment to *become* two of our biggest problems since.

09.10.2025 01:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Elon Musk’s Secret Army of Progressive Lobbyists Why are the people being paid to fix the problems DOGE created also taking money from Musk?

Have y'all seen this? prospect.org/power/2025-0...

12.08.2025 20:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NEW: Why are the people being paid to fix the problems DOGE created also taking money from Musk?

With @fminus.bsky.social, we shed light on the lobbying firms that are working on behalf of entities harmed by DOGE and still representing Tesla at the same time.

Link ⬇️

28.07.2025 13:32 👍 69 🔁 43 💬 1 📌 1
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Are you a caregiver, parent, or chosen family member navigating the intersections of parenting, politics, and justice? We want to hear from you. Nomiate yourself for the podcast. #ParentingIsPolitical actionnetwork.org/forms/be-our...

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