David Moore
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- Trump’s EPA is siding with the chemical industry lobby on PFAS, against public health. Hopefully @westvirginiawatch.com can ask Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, chair of the Environment Committee, what she thinks of the move.
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- In August, Seattle voters will decide on continuing to fund the source of support for the city's innovative "democracy vouchers" program. So, how has it worked since its debut in the 2017 cycle? A new book by Jen Heerwig and Brian McCabe finds gains in participation and representation. Interview:
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- Reposted by David MooreSenior Trump officials attempted to seize control of the Library of Congress yesterday. I analyzed the constitutional and statutory issues arising from Trump's effort to name an alt-Librarian of Congress. firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/a-constitu...
- AG Pam Bondi was formerly a partner at the Trump-aligned lobbying firm Ballard Partners, which was hired a year ago by defense contractor L3Harris to lobby on business development. The company was recently tapped by the DoD to overhaul the Qatari luxury jet gift of a new Air Force One.
- The New Democrat Coalition ( @newdems.bsky.social ) must be proud that their co-founder, former Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), heads the lobbying firm, Moran Global Strategies, that was paid millions last year by Qatar to lobby. A big moment for Qatar and New Dems, with the plane gift in the news.
- Reposted by David MooreThe House Republican's budget bill is starting to drop. It extends trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy while effectively crippling US manufacturing & energy industries and raising energy costs. It's effectively full repeal of the IRA. Here's tax portion waysandmeans.house.gov/wp-content/u... 🔌💡
- Reposted by David MooreToday, House Republicans are unveiling their plan to increase energy bills and pollution for everyday Americans, just to give billionaires another tax break. A summary of their proposals. THREAD! 🧵
- The DNC Credentials Committee passed a resolution vacating the elections of David Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta. I took a look at what the obscure panel does back in 2020, and how DNC leaders keep it stocked with at-large members they appoint as a bloc, including lobbyists and a U.S. Chamber executive:
- After some posts by @ericlipton.nytimes.com, media is again debating the definition of political "corruption" for riches. We've seen this flare up periodically. One thing to emphasize: many ex-Capitol Hill-ers have written tell-alls saying they clearly understand what they did to be quid pro quo.
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- Politico New York reports that the pro-Cuomo super PAC will today report a $1 million donation from DoorDash. In recent years, as NYC passed pioneering minimum pay rules for app-based delivery workers, DoorDash decided to start giving money to housekeeping as it lobbied NYC government on the rules.
- Democrats are pointing to the corruption of Qatar's plane gift to Trump. In 2021, Dems had a major government ethics package, which also would have increased voting access. The bill would have increased presidential conflict of interest rules, and gift rules for judges. It was filibustered by GOP:
- Trump's EO on drug prices will be challenged in courts and won't stand any more than his failed post-2020-election EO did, but until then, some of the headlines that CNN and Fox News viewers saw last night:
- The interesting question is what the Republican members of House Oversight think about the Qatar luxury jet gift. We can type and complain all we want here on this service, but some constituent pressure has got to be felt in the districts of Comer, Turner, Foxx, Grothman, etc.
- Reposted by David MooreSo this is what @governor.ca.gov calls a distraction? “We don’t know how they work. They use tactics that are meant to intimidate and instill fear for migrant communities. ... A lot of arrests that are occurring, they don’t have warrants for them.”
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- Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested by law enforcement in “Police Ice” jackets during an oversight visit of a facility, accompanied by members of Congress, who say that ICE officers manhandled them. Here are the companies profiting from ICE contracts:
- Reposted by David MooreTHIS IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED @nytimes.com.
- Breaking News: Newark's mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested while he and three members of Congress from New Jersey were protesting at an immigration detention center in the city. He was taken to an ICE facility in Newark, his aides said. nyti.ms/3Z680Un
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- NEW: Interactive map of ICE contracts nationwide, at @sludge.bsky.social It's not just GEO Group and CoreCivic profiting from Trump's immigration policies. Billions of dollars, including some brand-name companies:
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- We wrote about how Trump's stablecoin gets an advantage over its competitors from the GENIUS Act, with More Perfect Union. Congressional Democrats on Finance committees call it front-running. More of the ways that crypto is profiting the Trump family:
- Reposted by David MooreA report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
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- Here's how the GENIUS Act, scheduled for a down-to-the-wire Senate cloture vote today, underpins Trump's new stablecoin USD1. New @sludge.bsky.social x @moreperfectunion.bsky.social substack.perfectunion.us/p/senate-gop...
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- Reposted by David MooreWrote about those lonely dire wolves, the sick con of “de-extinction” and the crooks who dream of making it so flaminghydra.com/issue-315/
- "This atmosphere, this use of pressure and legal means to render taboo an ideological tendency, it's the closest I've seen to McCarthyism in my lifetime. An attempt to take a specific, constitutionally-protected perspective and intimidate people away..." Eight-minute segment:
- Quick! Of the top 10 dark money groups in the 2024 election, which party spent more? Democrats spent twice as much as the GOP among that set—$633 million to $322 million, according to a new analysis by a nonpartisan elections group.
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- When you hear about the last container of Maldon Salt before the UK shipments are tariffed
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- Reposted by David MooreSo enjoyed working with @felipedlh.bsky.social on his insightful analysis of the Latino vote in the U.S. We have a facing translation in Spanish with it and that is cool too. Looking forward more like this at @flaminghydra.com
- In August and September 2024, the Harris campaign focused on price-gouging. But by October, the focus on corporate power was missing from her closing message. Who had the ears of the consultants behind her super PAC? The donors chose to give anonymously, so it's a secret, if you're not Anita Dunn:
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- Early voting in NYC's elections starts June 14. Candidates are bound by campaign finance limits, but the super PAC set up by Cuomo's allies for wealthy donors has now received $7 million and spent over $3.1 million on ads. Cuomo recently told REBNY he regrets 2019 tenant protections he signed.
- Former lobbying firms of AG Pam Bondi and Sec. Sean Duffy are lobbying the federal agencies they now lead: Ballard Partners, for Bondi's past client Amazon; and BGR Government Affairs, for Duffy's past client Enterprise Products. Many more firm clients in latest @sludge.bsky.social:
- Someone who can reach Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema should ask them how they feel about Senate GOP considering a rules change that would undermine the filibuster, the 60-vote requirement for most bills, after the parliamentarian’s guidance. If Manchin's "good friend" John Thune nukes it, why, golly!
- Reposted by David MooreTODAY: A.J. Daulerio has bummed some screeners from a friend and presents a very helpful guide to the summer’s upcoming movies. Service journalism! flaminghydra.com/r/c091d82f?m...
- Sean Duffy lobbied the Department of Transportation for pipeline giant Enterprise Products. Now the company is lobbying his DOT on the same issues of maritime oil & gas, with the same lobbying firm, as now-Secretary Duffy cheers oil export terminals. He's not the only one. New @sludge.bsky.social:
- Reposted by David MooreNew: Former corporate clients of AG Pam Bondi, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles are now lobbying their offices.
- House Republican leaders suddenly pulled a vote on an AIPAC-supported bill that would criminalize politically motivated boycotts. See the fines and prison terms proposed.
- Reposted by David Moorewent to a may day poetry reading and flag-burning hosted by my friend's dad and wrote about it <3
- Reposted by David MooreNEW: A bill to criminalize participation in boycotts promoted by international governmental organizations was suddenly pulled from the House calendar this weekend, a major blow to AIPAC's campaign to expand anti-BDS laws. readsludge.com/2025/05/05/a...
- The House was preparing to vote on the IGO Anti-Boycott Act, a bill that would harshly criminalize political boycotts and is opposed by the ACLU. House leaders pulled it back after mounting chatter over the weekend. New @sludge.bsky.social
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- Voters in #ME02, #NM02, #NC01, #CA27, and #VA07 might be interested that their Democratic reps voted with Republicans in committee to approve the Trump budget that slashes Medicaid and food stamps.
- If you're interested in why Congress as a branch is so enfeebled in standing up to Trump's executive branch, there's some history on the institution's self-lobotomy under Gingrich. (Don't forget about Rush Limbaugh and Charlie Sykes, on conservative talk radio.) www.huffpost.com/entry/newt-g...
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- Defense contractors made their first donations to the campaigns of @democrats-armedservices.house.gov freshmen a few weeks before they voted for a $150 billion Pentagon increase in the Trump-GOP budget.
- Reposted by David Moore“Take and eat; this is my body.” - The Ueckarist
- Do Democrats wish they had taken a better approach at impeaching Trump the first time, in 2019? Nadler's team argued to take months for cross-examination of witnesses; Raskin argued to loop in Trump family corruption. Pelosi kept the first trial narrow and rushed. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- After De Blasio's re-election in Nov. 2017, New Yorkers told him in the #bikeNYC2020 report, "We feel unsafe biking on city streets. We'd like to be able to bike around safely in protected bike lanes." But no one could get De Blasio to manage the under-funded DOT. drive.google.com/file/d/1sGy3...
