Twenty-nine-year-old beat representative Diana DeGette in deep-blue Denver district

The democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated the long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party’s insurgent left.

The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros’s triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    It’s The Guardian, they operate on reader donations so that they’re not beholden to billionaires.

    The word choice here is somewhat poor, but I don’t get the sense that this article is lamenting…

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        5·
        2 days ago

        Gee, I don’t know. Why don’t you click on the link and see if there’s any ads? I sure didn’t see any, but maybe your eyes are better than mine…

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
                4·
                1 day ago

                No, that’s not what I said at all. Where the fuck did you pull that out of?

                You snarkily said “they don’t run ads?” As if that backs up your point that they’re captured by billionaire interests after I told you that they run on reader donations.

                I’m telling you there’s no ads when I read their articles, and you’re acting like there are. Well I don’t see any.

                I’m not complaining that they don’t run ads. I’m telling you you’re wrong for insinuating their primary source of funding is from ad revenue.

                This is a pancakes and waffles situation.

                • Optional@lemmy.world
                  12·
                  16 hours ago

                  You f*** . . . The Guardian, is a business. Businesses exist to make a profit. A business that made almost £300 Million last year.

                  You got that in your fucking couch cushions do ya? That’s a non-profit in your august estimation is it? Oo they take donations - so does the IRS! So does trump!

                  Here’s your pancakes: a major global news organization is not calling out trump’s crimes or the many, many corrupt dealings of this fascist farce any more than the Ellison or Murdoch crime families are.

                  Yes, they are kinder and gentler. Yes, they are moving in the right direction. And a bunch of stormtroopers on the front lines have doubts. Woohoo. They’re sitting on a nuclear arsenal of media influence not using it as the world burns. KUDOS ON THEIR FISCAL PURITY.

                  What, you need examples? Specific citations to stories they deliberately hamstrung in order to be more marketable to MAGA? We got a whole bag of it in every edition, and all it takes to unlock the super-seekrit code is to read it.

                  If they weren’t cozy with the colons of billionaires they’d be publishing on substack like the rest of the journalists with nothing to lose because corporate news found a well-informed populace to be less profitable.