Here’s what one Signal message uncovered.
I messaged a group admin asking how my family in NJ could help the Delaney Hall protesters. Within minutes she sent me a supply list and a Venmo donation link.
The supply list wasn’t water bottles. It was P100 respirators (tear gas grade), military-spec impact goggles, welding gloves for picking up hot tear gas canisters, helmets, body armor, and Sudecon chemical decontamination wipes. That’s a military/law enforcement product most people have never heard of.
The Venmo link: @cosechanj. That account belongs to Jenny Garcia. She’s the main organizer of the Delaney Hall protests.
Quoted in the American Prospect, Newsweek, and TIME. Listed as the official press contact.
She is not a volunteer. She is a professional organizer.
Venmo feeds are public. I pulled hers.
Payments labeled “Commissary” (money for detained immigrants to buy food inside the facility). “Commissary / phone accounts fund” (keeping detainees’ phones active). “DSA meeting” (Democratic Socialists of America). “Mutual aid.” “F ICE.”
Same account. Uber rides. Cumbia dance classes. A cafe called Pika’s Fika.
Protest donations and personal spending. One feed. No separation.
So who pays Jenny Garcia?
She holds three titles at three organizations.
Detention Watch Network. DC-based. $7.2 million in assets. Ford Foundation funded.
AFSC. Classified as a church. No public donors. Tides Foundation gave them $221K.
Cosecha NJ. The @cosechanj Venmo name. Files two 990s. Reports $0 in salaries. Every year. Every officer. Nobody gets paid.
Foundation money pays Garcia through DWN and AFSC. She organizes under Cosecha’s name. Cosecha claims to pay nobody.
More coming.
@nicksortor Not sure most people think of New York anymore as a place where normal Americans live or that it is a city worth thinking about. I know we shouldn’t give up on it but sadly it’s too late and you reap what you sow. Hell, most Blue cities are in that category.
@sportsrapport By far IMO…. Springsteen was and is more hype than substance. Sorry, but one album and a bunch of songs that barely have rhyming words are his legacy. His shitty politics are what he is famous for so I know people who hate Trump will tell me I am crazy.
@DanAndShay@FIFAWorldCup You slayed that gents. So good I had chills. I wish you could have sung the Paraguay anthem too. Does it even have words? I dunno but well done.
@CaptMarkKelly I didn’t know you were an astronaut because you have not mentioned it in the last 5 minutes. If you could lick your own balls you would.
Still my favorite movie and having Robert Duvall, Struther Martin, Glenn Campbell, Kim Darby show their acting chops along with the Duke made it that way…
TRUE GRIT starring John Wayne premiered on this day in 1969.
1969 was a pivotal year for the United States, bringing an end to a decade that bore witness to the high-profile assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Senator Bobby Kennedy, as well as the escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, coupled with civil unrest on the home front.
Three distinctly different Westerns graced the screen in 1969, closing out that tumultuous decade and putting the punctuation mark on Hollywood’s Golden Age which is typically acknowledged as concluding a few years earlier. There were other Westerns to hit theaters in 1969 but three immortalized the changing times through the medium of popular cinema; if THE WILD BUNCH was the future and BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID was the present, then TRUE GRIT was a nod to the passing of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
The 2010 Coen Brothers re-make is a closer adaptation of the 1968 novel by Marine Corps veteran Charles Portis on which both films are based, but I have a soft spot in my heart for the 1969 John Wayne version, probably because I have such fond memories of watching it in my youth. It didn’t hurt that Wayne shoots a large loop-lever Winchester Model 1892 Saddle Ring Carbine in .44-40 Win one handed and fires what I believe is an 1873 Colt Single Action Army Revolver in .45 Long in his other in one of the greatest Western shoot-outs ever filmed.
Wayne would receive his only Academy Award for his portrayal of U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn in the film. The final scene of TRUE GRIT, with the legendary John Wayne performing his own stunt, jumping his horse over that “four-rail fence,” is unforgettable, and a fitting way to tip one’s hat in respect to the sun setting on an era.
@RoKhanna@BernieSanders Your multi-millions are untouchable though, right? You 2 should suck each other off to see if that is your true calling versus grifting….
@RepSaraJacobs His worth is stock. If he sells it he is taxed on it otherwise it’s fake money you stupid skank. Go to school and learn. His taxes are high you just want to give Somali day care owners more. Take, take, take is all you know.