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The Phoenix Project
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The Phoenix Project
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Tracking a network of Bay Area political pressure groups, secretly funded by a handful of conservative tech and real estate robber barons.
San Francisco Katılım Aralık 2023
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Meanwhile, rents are rising, evictions are up, homelessness is unchanged & drug use persists in the Tenderloin. SF voters are left wondering: what exactly has changed?
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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, sworn in just over a year ago promising "accountability and change," has faced a string of scandals that even a $500K PR campaign can't hide. 🧵
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Tech billionaire Peter Thiel donated $1.5 million to the Club for Growth last month, per new filing.
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For those at the AAG, come say hi at the IJURR lecture today. "Technofeudal Fever Dreams: Silicon Fiefdoms, Doom Loop Dystopics, and the Emancipatory Possibilities of Failure." @IJURResearch
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Build American AI, the advocacy group spun out of Greg Brockman, a16z, Perplexity etc-funded super PAC Leading the Future, has been touting a list of 500k+ “grassroots” supporters in major news outlets without scrutiny.
So I looked a bit closer - and it turns out that “grassroots” group was harvested via paid ads costing at least half a million dollars.
Read more at the link in reply
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He’s not a California candidate, he’s a Silicon Valley candidate. He needs a location because Silicon Valley is an industry, not a place. It’s this or some billionaire’s private office.
Asad🗽🍎@AsadFromNYC
California candidate for Governor makes “Man on the Street” video in New York because San José isn’t walkable enough to do this there lol
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For the 2026 election, here is the top crypto and AI Super PAC + dark money playbook which is primarily funded by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and their VC firm a16z:
CRYPTO:
Fairshake (parent SP)
Protect Progress (Dems)
Defend American Jobs (GOP)
The Cedar Innovation Foundation (dark money group)
AI:
Leading the Future (parent SP)
Think Big (Dems)
American Mission (GOP)
Build American AI (dark money group)
Robert Reich@RBReich
The pro-Israel, crypto, and AI lobbies have spent $21M+ to influence tomorrow's Illinois primary via innocuously-named Super PACs like "Elect Chicago Women". Not a single one of their ads mentions Israel, crypto, or AI. Citizens United is corrupting our system every day.
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ICYMI: Read our excellent article about the failure of trickle-down housing at our Substack page.
And remember to subscribe -- it's free! housingishumanright.substack.com/p/are-corporat…
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At the end of PALO ALTO, where people wanted me to write about crypto because that was the big thing, I wrote about how this was going to happen nytimes.com/2026/03/18/tec…
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You know what else Mahan is definitely not going to promise to do 👉🏽 Not take donations from tech and property billionaires.
So far Matt Mahan for CA governor donor list includes:
John A. Pritzker
John R. Sobrato
Rick Caruso
Sergey Brin
Reid Hoffman
Joe Lonsdale
Sean Parker
Mayor Matt Mahan@MattMahanSJ
.@ZohranKMamdani and I have something huge in common — we’re both entirely focused on making life better for working people. We have very different ideas on how to do that, but I think that’s the sign of a healthy democracy: the ability to disagree civilly, debate thoughtfully, and grapple with the fact that what we’ve been doing isn’t working — even, and perhaps most importantly, when you come from the same political party. I love New York, but I’m happy to be on a flight home right now — because California, we have a whole lot of work to do.
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It was great to do my first-ever podcast with the incomparable Mia Wong of It Could Happen Here, on venture capital and tech fascism.
It's out now!!!
iheart.com/podcast/105-it…
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Meta's $45 million super PAC lost 3/4 of the Illinois state legislature races it spent in last night.
Meta spent $750,000 across four state races in Illinois and their only chosen candidate who won was Paul Kendrick in IL-HD-12.
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This tech-backed mayor got into California’s gov’s race with a bang. Now he’s stalling out. dlvr.it/TRYXxv
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If you're just a regular person and want a common sense leader running the 4th largest economy in the world, Matt Mahan is the only one on the Democrats side not beholden to special interests or a billionaire. He has my vote.
Mayor Matt Mahan@MattMahanSJ
I know that government can make people’s lives better because I’ve experienced it firsthand. That’s what we need to focus on, and that’s why I’m running to be your next governor.
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