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1.2K

Account age

3 yrs

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Follow-up to yesterday's story: Billionaire hedge fund investor Daniel Och, whose earmarked contributions funded AIPAC's record donation to Hakeem Jeffries' joint fundraising committee, also donated $50,000 in June to Republican Sen. Susan Collins, per new FEC filing.

2 views Follow-up to yesterday's story: Billionaire hedge fund investor Daniel Och, whose earmarked contributions funded AIPAC's record donation to Hakeem Jeffries' joint fundraising committee, also donated $50,000 in June to Republican Sen. Susan Collins, per new FEC filing.

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

1.3%

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: New: James Carville, who has been calling to purge the left wing · 80 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

4.7 / week

Posts several times a week.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

113×

Follows 11 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post New: James Carville, who has been calling to purge the left wing of the Democratic Party, was a senior advisor to a lobbying shop that was paid more than half a million dollars by a crypto industry group as crypto money poured in to knock out progressives. https://readsludge.com… ★ 80

NEW: Freedom 250 LLC doesn’t have to disclose what its corporate sponsors paid. But new lobbying filings reveal millions given by major corporate backers. https://readsludge.com/2026/07/31/lobbying-filings-reveal-what-companies-paid-for-tr… ★ 3 New: Cleta Mitchell's voter suppression charity tripled its spending ahead of the midterms, per Sludge's review of its latest tax filing. One of the people it's been paying now oversees election integrity at DHS. https://readsludge.com/202… ★ 11 James Carville was senior advisor to a corporate lobbying firm—one touting its services to "reduce negative press"—that was paid more than half a million dollars by the crypto industry as crypto super PACs spent against progressives in Dem… ★ 19 NEW: Former Trump officials are already lobbying the agencies they just left. A Sludge review of Q2 disclosures found multiple revolving-door hires already lobbying their old agencies—after the White House declined to issue any ethics ple… ★ 4 The House GOP is readying a vote on a bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress that good-government groups call a "fig leaf" for ethics. The Stop Insider Trading Act from Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) would allow lawmakers to keep their … ★ 13 NEW: Dark Money Group Led by Corporate Lobbyists Funds Pro-Stevens Super PAC A new FEC filings show nearly all of the $13 million spent so far by the pro-Haley Stevens super PAC A Stronger Michigan came from Center Forward, a dark money gr… ★ 9 AI companies are donating millions to the campaign groups of state AGs investigating them. Elon Musk's xAI is both suing California AG Rob Bonta, seeking to block a new AI transparency measure in the state, and being investigated by Bonta … ★ 3 New: AI companies are funding the attorneys general who police them. OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, xAI, and Anthropic have poured more than $2 million into the Democratic and Republican AG committees, even as the same AGs investigate and s… ★ 9

Follow-up to yesterday's story: Billionaire hedge fund investor Daniel Och, whose earmarked contributions funded AIPAC's record donation to Hakeem Jeffries' joint fundraising committee, also donated $50,000 in June to Republican Sen. Susan… ★ 2 NEW: Hakeem Jeffries recently received AIPAC PAC's largest ever earmarked contribution to his joint fundraising committee. Today, he came out against cutting billions in Israel aid. https://readsludge.com/2026/07/14/jeffries-opposes-bid-to… ★ 33 NEW: Tax filings reveal a hidden web of obscure, interconnected nonprofits that moved $173 million into the record-breaking “dark money” operation backing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2024. https://readsludge.com/2026/07/13/the-dark-mone… ★ 4

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

journa.host

A journalists server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 16 views per post.

📤Posts about 4.7× per week.

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Estimated

80/100

Excellent Credibility score

97%

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Low Fake-follower risk

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Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Strong engagement (~1.3% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

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Relentlessly uncovering corruption. An independent, reader-supported newsroom: https://readsludge.com/

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