PA Spotlight

Pennsylvania Spotlight is an accountability and investigative organization building power and digitally organizing for working Pennsylvanians.

[PA Spotlight @PA_Spotlight]

NEW: Jeffrey Yass and Corporate Interests behind Super PAC attacks on @JohnFetterman

"One of the biggest contributions comes from Jeffrey Yass, the managing director of a Wall Street Firm and the richest person in Pennsylvania worth $12 billion."

https://t.co/4uUinDhBfe

[J.J. Abbott @jjabbott]

This is double the usual length allowed, it serves no new value, and it’s basically a press release of talking points.

Usually this means regular voices get rejected by the Inky, instead the billionaires were the only op-ed published over the weekend.

What is happening?

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

I was walking back to City Hall and ran smack into a protest. Queer and trans activists and their allies are protesting @Marriott Downtown’s decision to host transphobic hate group Moms for Liberty; they plan to be out here every Friday afternoon until the hotel cancels

[Sara Nelson @FlyingWithSara]

Allan Block refuses to pay basic healthcare costs for @PittsburghPG news workers.

They've been on strike for 6+ months.

@cspan can’t "support journalism" & also allow Block to remain on its Board! #RemoveAllanBlock immediately. https://t.co/0eZjrzD3md

[Defense of Democracy @_dofd]

BREAKING!
State Senator Nikil Saval asks Marriott: why are you hosting a hate conference? https://t.co/2JsT5yLu2x

[PA Spotlight @PA_Spotlight]

Clarence Thomas Raised Him. Harlan Crow Paid His Tuition. https://t.co/wHAHT9Mvjn

[Philly Power Research @ResearchPhilly]

2 remaining Council candidates who haven't spoken out against SuperPAC spending supporting them funded by GOP megadonor Jeff Yass:
1) @SantamoorPHL, who accepted $6k of his PAC $ directly to her campaign in 2019
2) @DonavanSWest, former COO of charter school run by a conservative

[Philly Power Research @ResearchPhilly]

So far 3 of 6 Democrat Council candidates supported by GOP megadonor Jeff Yass via the Philly for Growth independent expenditures PAC have committed to not accepting his $ directly to their campaigns. Haven't seen anything so far from @SantamoorPHL @DonavanSWest @quetcy_lozada

[PA Spotlight @PA_Spotlight]

Quetcy Lozada breaks her silence on Yass contributions to her reelection campaign | Al Día News https://t.co/7SpuXT2XWa

[PA Spotlight @PA_Spotlight]

We don’t even have to do this to know who are Twitter twin is, @SpotlightPA!

[Stephen Caruso @StephenJ_Caruso]

Can I have a do over

[The Nation @thenation]

In the age of neoliberal capitalism, charitable giving follows circumscribed channels of neoliberal policy, such as school privatization, agricultural microlending, and anything that can be depicted as technologically disruptive.
https://t.co/HZIXxGgvC1

[Paul Dannenfelser @pdannenfelser]

I just signed a @phlafscmedc47 petition: Fair Pay Now for Penn Museum Workers. Sign here: https://t.co/r7cRQAK037

[Jerry T. Jordan @jerrytjordan]

My statement on the ongoing #phled facilities crisis: https://t.co/kBAwDfzpaU

[Rutgers AAUP-AFT Academic Worker Union @ruaaup]

Good Morning @RutgersU. It’s day 287 w/o a contract & STRIKE DAY 4! We are one big union but today we highlight the TIRELESS efforts of grads who are the heartbeat of the organizing that made this possible. This university runs on Grad labor and so does this STRIKE!

[PA Spotlight @PA_Spotlight]

“We’re Calling Bullshit”: Why Museum Workers Keep Unionizing https://t.co/vVMsFWomXo

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

If Democrats can criticize a Supreme Court Justice for traveling aboard yachts and private jets belonging to a right-wing billionaire who collects Hitler memorabilia, imagine what they can do to you.

[Cyril Mychalejko @cmychalejko]

Mom for Liberty: Extremists who think public schools are bringing pedophilia into classrooms, books will make their kids gay & that banning books (like Slaughterhouse-Five) is not nazi-like. #PA01 #Vote https://t.co/jxyg8yFNmT
https://t.co/G7roaeKqmj
https://t.co/U5tZkNvUC5

[Summer Lee @SummerForPA]

Two Black legislators were expelled from their duly elected positions for "speaking out of turn," protesting children being gunned down in school, and their white colleague who joined them was not!

It's right there in your face, and it's always been.

WHAT SIDE ARE YOU ON