Notices by David Moore (davidrussellmoore@mastodon.social)

Pro-crypto Rep. French Hill, set to lead the FinServ committee, was the number one recipient among all House candidates of donations from Coinbase. 🤯

New @sludge on crypto's wish-list in what is being dubbed the "most crypto-friendly Congress ever:"

https://readsludge.com/2024/12/31/crypto-ally-french-hill-to-lead-financial-services-committee/

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The 2024 elections have been overshadowed by Elon Musk's spending and antics. A bit more traditionally, conservative billionaire Charles Koch's super PAC also smashed its spending record, focusing especially on matchups in #OHSen and #PASen. New @sludge

https://readsludge.com/2024/11/04/koch-super-pac-shatters-its-election-spending-record/

New - The DNC has paid more than $550k to a law firm that lobbies against the pro-union PRO Act for Dine Brands, owner of Applebee's and IHOP.

The payments came after the party considered a union-drafted rule that would have barred anti-labor lobbyists.

https://readsludge.com/2024/02/08/the-dnc-is-still-contracting-with-firms-that-fight-against-unions/

Latest - https://readsludge.com/2023/07/14/climate-caucus-leader-owns-natural-gas-company-stock/

@maria @oscar Yes, to my eyes, Ghost's leaps over the past couple years mean it offers everything that Substack does and more. Ghost is deeply open-source, so its current features are guaranteed to run on your server of choice, ad-free and surveillance-free.

And like Maria, we've seen Big-Tech-backed platforms with communities crumble—e.g., Tumblr.

Substack's lead investor behind its Series A and B rounds was the giant firm Andreesen Horowitz, which made a fortune being early in Facebook...