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  1. ⬆️ @thetnholler.bsky.social

    >> #ElonMusk: “With #ArtificialIntelligence we are summoning the demon.” 😳 … Why are we giving these anti-human #oligarch #sociopaths control over our entire lives? … This should be a bipartisan issue.

    It IS a bipartisan issue, and that issue is #corporate money that flows to both parties, #Republican as well as #Democratic, thanks to #SCOTUS ruling on #CitizensUnited that treats corporations as natural persons for contributing money, but not for voting.

  2. ⬆️ @thetnholler.bsky.social

    >> #ElonMusk: “With #ArtificialIntelligence we are summoning the demon.” 😳 … Why are we giving these anti-human #oligarch #sociopaths control over our entire lives? … This should be a bipartisan issue.

    It IS a bipartisan issue, and that issue is #corporate money that flows to both parties, #Republican as well as #Democratic, thanks to #SCOTUS ruling on #CitizensUnited that treats corporations as natural persons for contributing money, but not for voting.

  3. ⬆️ @thetnholler.bsky.social

    >> #ElonMusk: “With #ArtificialIntelligence we are summoning the demon.” 😳 … Why are we giving these anti-human #oligarch #sociopaths control over our entire lives? … This should be a bipartisan issue.

    It IS a bipartisan issue, and that issue is #corporate money that flows to both parties, #Republican as well as #Democratic, thanks to #SCOTUS ruling on #CitizensUnited that treats corporations as natural persons for contributing money, but not for voting.

  4. President Biden just announced $150M in research spending for his cancer moonshot.

    To put that in perspective, a pro-Trump super PAC will spend $100M in the next few weeks trying to disparage Kamala.
    politico.com/news/2024/08/12/t

    And AIPAC spent $100M trying to unseat progressives critical of Israel's war on Gaza.
    amp.theguardian.com/us-news/20

    We need better priorities.

    And better campaign funding rules.

    #cancer #research #ResearchFunding #CancerResearch #democracy #CampaignFunding #CampaignSpending #Election2024 #Kamala #KamalaHarris #Biden #CancerMoonshot #Gaza #genocide #CitizensUnited

  5. …the #CitizensUnited ruling… upended nearly 100 years of #CampaignSpending #restrictions.

    The #conservative #legal movement seized the moment w/greater success than any other group, & the consequences have shaped American #jurisprudence & #politics in dramatic ways.

    From those early discussions among #Leo, #Thomas & #Crow would spring a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the #judiciary & #overturn longstanding legal #precedents on #abortion, #AffirmativeAction & many other issues.

  6. The #SCOTUS 2010 #CitizensUnited decision transformed #politics. It loosened restrictions on #CampaignSpending & unleashed a flow of #anonymous #donor #money to *nonprofit* groups run by #political activists.

    In the months before the ruling…, a group of #conservative activists came together to create just such an org. Its mission would be to, at the time, block then-President Barack #Obama’s pet #initiatives.

    #DarkMoney #GinniThomas #LeonardLeo
    politico.com/news/2023/09/10/g