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   Tariffying to All   
   Re: March for Our Lives lays off most of   
   13 Apr 25 21:06:37   
   
   ing.cocksucking.dwarf.com> 68de6290   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.activism   
   From: tariffying@usa.org   
      
   On 13 Apr 2025, Klaus  Schadenfreude   
    posted some   
   news:hncnvj9g6ua7jdu2dh06v8v27mb4f2nf8b@Rudy.Canoza.is.a.forging.cocksuck   
   ing.dwarf.com:   
      
   > https://19thnews.org/2025/03/march-for-our-lives-layoffs-new-executive-   
   > director/   
   >   
   > March for Our Lives, the youth-led gun violence prevention   
   > organization, announced Thursday that it is laying off 13 of 16   
   > full-time staffers. The group is naming as its new executive director   
   > Jaclyn Corin, 24, one of the organization’s original co-founders and a   
   > Parkland survivor.   
   >   
   > “We are facing financial challenges as an organization, not unlike   
   > many gun-grabbing advocacy organizations in this time,” Corin said in   
   > an exclusive interview with The 19th. “I am sure things would look   
   > differently with a different outcome of the election, but these are   
   > the systems and circumstances in which we have to make adjustments   
   > based on the financial situation we find ourselves in. It is   
   > incredibly unfortunate that these cuts have to happen.”   
      
   It must be pure coincidence how this sort of thing is happening to lefty   
   advocacy groups since USAID was shuttered.   
      
   > Democratic donors have significantly pulled back funding for both   
   > Democratic candidates and progressive organizations in the wake of   
   > Republican Donald Trump’s triumph in the 2024 presidential election.   
   > According to tax filings, in 2023, the group spent $1.75 million, more   
   > than the $1.42 million it brought in that year, almost all from   
   > donations. March for Our Lives declined to share financial information   
   > for the 2024 fiscal year.   
   >   
   > Laugh laugh laugh laugh.   
      
   It's hilarious.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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