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Absolutely fascinating discussion with Obama’s White House political director @patrickgaspard for @LeverNews’s brand new video/podcast series “Don't F*%k It Up, Democrats.”
He looks back on what lessons Dems must learn from the last time they had power.
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This guy weighing in on Pay to play
Just for starters :
“Here is a list of major campaign donors and political supporters who received NO BID CONTRACTS AFTER DONATING
• Doody Calls / Portable Toilet Suppliers (Alligator Alcatraz / Immigration Enforcement): $122 million (portable sanitation and site facility services)
• CDR Maguire (Carlos and Tina Duart): $70 million+ (emergency pandemic staffing, logistics, and hurricane response; part of overall administration contracts valued at over $537 million)
•GEO Group (George Zoley): $79 million (private prison and detention facility management services)
•Critical Response Strategies: $78.5 million (Everglades detention center construction and staffing)
•Nomi Health, Inc.: $46 million (emergency COVID-19 testing and vaccination services)
•Air Bear (Gary Standel): $10 million+ (emergency aviation contracts)
• AshBritt (Brittany Perkins Castillo): Tens of millions (exact values obscured under emergency procurement exemptions; emergency disaster relief and debris cleanup)
•The de Moya Group: Varies by project (awarded multiple major Florida Department of Transportation road and infrastructure design-build joint venture contracts, including projects valued at $168 million+)… 👀DESPITE BEING INVOLVED IN A MURDER
•Herzog Contracting Corp.: Varies by project (expanded state transportation and transit contracts following political committee contributions)
Bending policy to protect entrenched interests at the expense of the American people’s health is morally wrong.
Utilizing the levers of power to enrich lobbyists and engage in pay-to-play is ethically abhorrent.
Engaging in these practices as a way to leverage special interests for campaign cash is also counterproductive.
If you do the right things for the right reasons you will gain more authentic support and won’t need as much campaign advertising. When you allow a special interest agenda to pollute the brand then spending massive sums of money is effectively putting lipstick on a pig. Hence, the hundreds of millions lit on fire in the midterms.
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1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.
This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
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Jeff Bezos wants Americans to stop demonizing billionaires.
Meanwhile, he’s sitting on a mountain of wealth while Amazon workers struggle to make ends meet and some rely on taxpayer-funded assistance.
Jeff, nobody had to invent a villain. You wrote the damn script yourself.
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Jared Kushner is set to go to Abu Dhabi next week to negotiate for the Trump administration.
Unless and until he gets confirmed by the Senate, that's illegal under the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. We sued to enforce the law. axios.com/2026/11/03/us-russ…
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El-Sayed on Trump and Stephen Miller: "He decides to hire the most broken man to continue to run the most dysfunctional White House we've seen. I don't know what Stephen Miller has actually contributed to our culture, our society, in any real way, except to make us more angry and stoke the worst kind of fear and vitriol."
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Seems she wasn’t wrong
“She leaked a memo that laid out how lobbyists and donors could buy access to the new Florida governor”
“While it is common for politicians to seek donations from lobbyists, the efforts by DeSantis ➡️to effectively auction off his leisure time to those seeking to influence state policy created a special pathway of access for wealthy donors to the governor that is striking in the way that it was documented in writing, ethics experts said.
The golf-related fundraising was part of a broader push by DeSantis to cultivate relationships with big contributors, some of whom have received state appointments or benefited from state policies”
Governor Ron DeSantis has been on to Susie Wiles and her scams for almost a decade.
DeSantis pushed the Trump campaign to cut ties with Susie Wiles in 2019 after he said she leaked an internal memo, she wrote, that laid out how lobbyists and donors could buy access to the new Florida governor.
She's now being accused of leaking information about the Trump administration.
She was chair of Ron DeSantis’s PAC at the time and sent it to his chief of staff about two weeks after DeSantis took office.
It was an internal strategy document for the governor’s political operation and outlined an aggressive fundraising plan that was basically selling influence - the same strategy she has been accused of implementing in the Trump administration. DeSantis said he never saw the memo and cut ties with Wiles immediately.
Wiles later said it would be “false and grossly unfair” to assume any of the ideas were implemented, and that DeSantis should be commended for high ethical standards.
Sources are now saying that Wiles was trying to push Secretary Pete Hegseth out to deflect blame for the midterm losses.
Trump’s close advisers reportedly told him that Wiles’s team was leaking information about Hegseth (related to the Iran war, management style, and firings of senior officers) to protect her position.
One former Trump official was quoted calling her a significant leaker.
Details:
🔺️In the fall of 2019, less than a year after Wiles worked DeSantis’s gubernatorial campaign, the Trump campaign severed ties with her as its top Florida adviser.
🔺️DeSantis personally made clear he wanted her out, saying her ouster was necessary “to get the party in order” ahead of 2020.
🔺️Wiles was also pressured to leave the lobbying firm Ballard Partners.
🔺️She later returned to Trump world and played a central role in the 2024 campaign.
🔺️That history is resurfacing as Wiles stepped down as chief of staff. Stephen Miller was named to replace her effective Monday.
🔺️Then more accusations about Wiles surfaced from Calley Means, the former HHS senior adviser who resigned in late October.
🔺️Means posted a formal request that Wiles and political adviser James Blair stop harassing him with texts and calls.
🔺️He said if he was inaccurate about any of the statements he made about Wiles' mafia-style White House run, he would correct and apologize.
🔺️He then dared them to sue, so discovery could find out whether Ballard Partners and Continental Strategy (where Wiles’s daughter Katie is a partner) had undue influence on White House policy.
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#ChristinaAguayoNews
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I know I wrote a post like this recently, but I feel like I am going to explode if I hear another Republican misuse the word "socialism."
For my Republican friends out there, let me explain what socialism actually means. Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are socially or publicly owned, including through state ownership.
Universal healthcare is not socialism. Social welfare programs designed to prevent homelessness and poverty are not socialism. Free public education is not socialism. In fact, it is entirely possible to have a highly capitalist economy alongside an extensive social welfare system. Even Milton Friedman, one of the most influential advocates of free-market capitalism, supported a negative income tax to provide a basic income floor for the poor.
So please stop with the BS accusations of socialism every time someone proposes a social welfare program.
Ironically, some of the most conspicuous examples of state intervention in private enterprise in contemporary America come from the Trump administration itself. Its increasingly dirigiste economic policies include acquiring ownership stakes in private companies, asserting government control over corporate decisions, and imposing economically damaging tariffs on American businesses and consumers.
If you are genuinely concerned about government interference in free markets, perhaps you should start there.
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“If you drop a bomb on a child, you’re dropping a bomb on Jesus… If you snatch a child from his family, you’re doing it to Jesus…”
Who else is excited to watch Major @Ojeda4America go to Congress and give these guys hell?
(From @hometown_holler)
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This enterprising grackle landed on my car while it was moving, hitched a ride for a minute or two while I was driving in a wooded area and then it got off when we got where it wanted to go. LOLOL. #BirdCab 🐦⬛
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We were elected to elevate the lives of working people across this country. We’re coming in LASER FOCUSED on the mission.
Help people. Hold anyone who has hurt people accountable. Tax the billionaires. The end.
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Excuse me? Oh, hell no.
As Chuck Schumer fights to remain leader of the Senate Democrats, his daughter remains a top lobbyist for OpenAI. prospect.org/2026/09/11/open…
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The only way that happens is if State ATTY Monique Worrell reopens .. or Donalds removes in his statement he won’t reopen
After all, DeSantis had his executive office of the governor employee who Desantis then appointed as the judge who expunged the Hope Florida grand jury report
Can’t make up the corruption in Florida
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I was celebrating my parents 40th wedding anniversary yesterday so completely forgot another important anniversary.
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Here you go
And fun facts : this person was promoted as SOE in Lee County for bringing this bill and other egregious bills that were passed…
“The bill sponsor, State Representative Jenna Persons-Mulicka, R-District 78 of Lee County”
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🚨NEW: An amazing thing is happening - in celebrating @JamesTalarico's anti-oligarch politics, Corporate Dems are (accidentally) admitting their whole political formula was wrong, and Bernie-style populism was the right formula all along.
Welcome to the political revolution!
