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Donald Roy

@ChrisMayLA6

Yes. #astroturf patient groups have always been a problem and worse still were enabled to flourish in the vacuum in more general representation of patients created by the abolition of community health councils in #england initiated by #alanmilburn but completed by others twenty one years ago! After 2010 #davidcameron set out to appease #bigpharma and their allies in the #rightwing media by discriminating in favour of cancer drugs to the point where less effective ones were kept!

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Donald Roy

@ChrisMayLA6

There is certainly an element of #astroturf with these groups. On the other hand years back the value of a statistical life was set at the bottom end of the plausible range - presumably by someone in #HMTreasury hoping to save public money so decision-making has been distorted. A few years I found myself as a lay member on a committee trying to deal with these issues with regard to new cancer drugs - caught between a well-funded lobby and an indefensible valuation of life!

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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

That awkward moment when your anti-union, dark money, Astroturf fake labor "movement" is literally just one Trump minion, and that guy is too cheap to even hire fake workers.

theintercept.com/2024/08/07/tr

The “League of American Workers” Consists of One Guy: A Former Trump Spokesperson

"The League of American Workers is a “populist right, pro-worker organization,” according to its founder, Steve Cortes, a longtime conservative pundit and former Donald Trump spokesperson. The group’s website claims Cortes is leading “a young and growing movement of pro-worker patriotic populism.”

There’s certainly plenty of room to grow, The Intercept found. By all indications, this “league” is a one-man show without apparent ties to the “disregarded American workers” Cortes claims to represent. Instead, the League of American Workers has links to GOP dark money and a network of conservative websites dressed up to look like local news outlets."

Unless you spend a lot of time watching pro-Republican right wing media, there's a pretty good chance you've never heard of the League of American Workers, and if you've heard of Cortes, it's probably in the context of being a completely nondescript disingenuous talking head working to push pro-Trump, pro-DeSantis, and anti-union talking points in the media. When I first came across the name of this phantom organization, I naturally assumed it was a fascist Astroturf operation, but I had no idea just how absolutely fictitious it would turn out to be. Even by the standards of a dark money political propaganda op publishing fake articles in GOP-aligned fake newspapers, Cortes's effort here is remarkably half-assed and seems to be based entirely on the idea that if guys like Steve Bannon and Newsmax hosts simply say the words "League of American Workers" and "union corruption" enough times, labor class voters will simply assume it's a real organization representing their interests and... vote Trump, I guess?

Despite the absurd nature of this operation however, Cortes and "the League" have some interesting ties to various Republican politicians and pro-GOP dark money/Astroturf/pink slime media operations; including Metric Media, a known propaganda shop that publishes online articles while pretending to be a vast network of "local" news outlets, David Langdon, a semi-infamous conservative lawyer who specializes in dark money operations, and WinRed, a right wing online funding platform. As for Cortes himself, far from being a worker's representative he's a former Hedge Fund manager, Newsmax contributor, and worked on Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaign teams. The cherry on top of the shitcake here is that "the League" is also listed on the advisory board for Project 2025

While I strongly question precisely how many "workers" this Astroturf operation is actually reaching, it's certainly well-funded and Cortes has managed to get polls commissioned by his fake "populist right, pro-worker organization" mentioned on sites like FiveThirtyEight, the New York Times, and The Hill - which says a lot about how much effort those outlets actually put into vetting their sources of information, if nothing else. Otherwise, I think it's fair to categorize Steve Cortes and "The League of American Workers" as yet another example of Republican pro-labor cosplay akin to inviting Teamster's President Sean O'Brien to the RNC, or having Josh Hawley walk a picket line in Missouri; with the obvious caveat that at least the O'Brien and Hawley stunts involved actual workers in some way or another.

The Intercept · The “League of American Workers” Consists of One Guy: A Former Trump SpokespersonBy Shawn Musgrave
#USPol#Labor#Astroturf
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Kevin Leecaster

They know they're finally losing on the national level after Joe Biden got elected so now the fossil fools are attacking clean energy at the local scale and it's a real risk to our planet.

“I never in all my life thought I would stand up here to protect our property rights by being able to use our land legally for the best benefit of our family,” she said."

They never protested like this against oil & gas drilling and infrastructure!

#CleanEnergy #Astroturf #Climate yahoo.com/news/hoped-solar-pan

Yahoo News · They hoped solar panels would secure the future of their farm. Then their neighbors found outBy Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#Macys #Thanksgiving #Parade to be ‘#nonbinary and #transgender #extravaganza’, #conservative #Astroturf #group #warns.

#OneMillionMoms hates that #performances in the #parade that will include #music from two #Broadway #musicals, "& Juliet" and "#Shucked". Which have nonbinary cast.

#Nonbinary #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

thepinknews.com/2023/11/14/mac

PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news · Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade to be ‘non-binary and transgender extravaganza’, conservative group warnsBy Ali Condon
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FinchHaven sfba

I keep seeing this pop up on #Bluesky #Github and I still don't understand all of what's going on here

"If you have more than ~10 logins, the Sign in as form fills up the screen and you cannot access "Other account" or "Back". This should be made scrollable"

"If you have more than ~10 logins"

One person has >10 different logins on Bluesky?

Why?

Bluesky is one instance, one server, one online "app" only

It's not #Federated in any way whatsover

Who needs >10 different logins?

How many of these are #Astroturf, doing what exactly?

And this Pull request has been merged into Bluesky-Social: Main, so it's on its way

Here: github.com/bluesky-social/soci

GitHubMake choose account form scrollable by flicknow · Pull Request #1794 · bluesky-social/social-appBy flicknow
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FinchHaven sfba

huh...

Just saw this on the #Bluesky #Github and wondered just how much of this is going on

"At the moment I cannot add a further account when 8 accounts are already signed in.

Is this a necessary / technical limit? It'd be nice if one could manage more than eight accounts within the app.

Version 1.54.0 (1) for iOS."

So this one individual is "managing" eight accounts on Bluesky via #iOS and wants to be able to add more?

What topic(s) does he push?

How many accounts on Bluesky are just #Astroturf?

huh...

Here: github.com/bluesky-social/soci

GitHubAllow more than 8 accounts to be managed in iOS app · Issue #1725 · bluesky-social/social-appBy Cpt-KeksMonster
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