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iowa expat / Finance Director @AVindman
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In the first 24-hours of the campaign we raised over $1.7 million from more than 36,000 donations – all without taking a single cent of corporate PAC money.
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I’m Alex Vindman and I’m running for the U.S. Senate. Chaos, corruption and sky-rocketing costs are crushing ordinary people, while the billionaires and career politicians profit. I stepped up when my country needed a soldier, I reported corruption at the highest levels of
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New Zach Bryan album is out. Every song sounds exactly like every other song he’s done. So it’s good.
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There’s some new Zach Bryan songs out. They sound exactly like his old songs. So they’re really good.
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BIG campaign finance news: SCOTUS has taken up NRSC v. FEC This case is wonky but seismic. It could allow party committees (like NRSC/DSCC) to coordinate freely w candidates & buy TV ads at the much lower rate given to candidates It benefits Rs most & could affect midterms
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Upon seeing this Iowa farmer during his visit, Khrushchev patted his belly, exclaiming, “Now there’s a real American!” 1959.
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💨 💨 💨 VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke pours from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.
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The Two Popes is a superior movie to Conclave in every way. It even has double the amount of conclaves
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Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said. https://t.co/PXapjRSx5X
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Senator John Fetterman Job Approval 🟢 Approve: 50% 🟤 Disapprove: 35% ✨ Fetterman's highest approval rating by Morning Consult. His net approval was +1 in December '23 vs +15 in March '25 @MorningConsult | January - March https://t.co/p4ggRDXuiV
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"I became a Trump supporter because I couldn't buy access to the democrats" is definitely something I would expect someone to think in their head rather than say out loud.
.@chamath: “I was a megadonor to the Democrats … I couldn't get a phone call returned from the White House to save my life … The Trump administration is totally different. There's not a single person there you can't get on the phone and talk to.”
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The Democratic Party is doomed and dead, and also powerful enough to win an Amish country state senate race and spook Stefanik out of vacating her seat. Contains multitudes.
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Relative to some of the discourse, one thing I was surprised by, reading @ezraklein @DKThomp’s book, is that they are explicit that unions are NOT the cause of high public costs/building delays — they explicitly point out countries with far higher union density also build far
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