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Turning the 33 into a full or partial tunnel would be a far worse generational blunder than anything they might do with a Bills stadium
Just in time for Halloween, a scary tale of the spooks and creeps stalking New York State with an insatiable thirst for wealth and power ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Billionaires, in YOUR backyard? In New York State, it's likelier than you may think. And they're using their extreme wealth to make you poorer and themselves richer.
NEW from @derekseidman80 at @twittlesis: littlesis.org/news/new-yorke…
We have an article coming soon touching this, but one notable set of donations here are from Terry & Kim Pegula, billionaire GOP donors who have sat out NYS politics for several years but maxed to Hochul & NYS Dems in 2026 as they seek more subsidies for the Buffalo Sabres arena
Billionaires, in YOUR backyard? In New York State, it's likelier than you may think. And they're using their extreme wealth to make you poorer and themselves richer.
NEW from @derekseidman80 at @twittlesis: littlesis.org/news/new-yorke…
One very small example I noticed is that the Wikipedia page for the “50 States One Israel” conference where Israel sponsored Democrat and Republican state legislators to visit Israel during the genocide last year was repeatedly edited to remove the names of the lawmakers who went
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Israel has spent $1 billion to influence US politics and is directly paying for ads promoting MAGA. Why isn’t MSNOW’s “foreign influence” sleuth covering it?
By @adamjohnsonCHI
therealnews.com/rachel-maddo…
Joined a class action suit against Blue Cross Blue Shield for ripping us off on health insurance. Settlement was <$10. Forced to accept prepaid debit card to receive settlement. Bank that runs prepaid card declines every transaction attempt with it. America #1
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A new study of patient costs in New York reveals that hospital mergers and consolidations have led to higher prices and charges, including in the Capital Region, where Ellis Medicine and the Albany Med Health System are contemplating a merger.
timesunion.com/business/arti…
Vibe shift
Buddy Shula’s WUSW (1230 AM, 95.1 and 93.3 FM) has abandoned right wing political talk in favor of country music of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. buffalonews.com/life-enterta…
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NEW: Utility political action committees (PACs) have poured $11.5 million into congressional races this cycle, a drop from the $13.6 million they had contributed by the same point in 2024.
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This could be interpreted as Musk's political operation just spending money in MI, then documenting "contributions" ex post facto so the expenditures are covered in the filing.
It's not exactly kosher, but easy to do when you have a single donor with virtually unlimited cash.
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I think the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity
The $850 million in subsidies Hochul allotted the Pegulas for the Buffalo Bills stadium significantly increased the paper value of the franchise, which is where most of the family's net worth is tied up
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The NYS Democratic Committee transferred another $6.5 million to Kathy Hochul this month, new filing shows—bringing its support to $16.5M total.
This has been a useful setup for Hochul, since the party can take donations of up to $138,600 from individuals vs. $9K for candidates
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⚡️ Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones and can be mounted on police cars and drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported.
Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup, Reuters previously reported. Meta banned the firm the same year, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians in Kenya, Mexico and Indonesia.
The firm is part of an Israeli surveillance industry that grew big as a result of the military's monitoring of Palestinians, whose phone calls Israel's Unit 8200 has intercepted and stored by the millions, including to carry out genocide in Gaza and enforce a brutal illegal occupation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Oh give me a break. Hochul is a private school-educated daughter of a corporate executive who constantly runs down WNY by exempting us from benefits awarded to NYC and exploits us by affecting an offensive and hacky Buffalo dipshit schtick whenever she thinks it's to her benefit.
“That was hurtful, and it gives us a chip on our shoulder — one that I still have today,” @KathyHochul in @nytimes. “People look down on us...People mocked us all the time. So that’s been our psyche. And I just thought, ‘But we’re not losers.’”
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/nyreg…
