#citizensunited — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #citizensunited, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@blue_alpine/117007178570121514
Happy September and LABOR DAY! Remember, if you like having "weekends" and "days off", thank the Labor Movement. Also, remember to give what you can to your local, state and federal candidates as well as parties or special advocacy groups close to your heart. There's a lot more of us than the billionaires and corporations, but we do have to get around to kicking in a little to fund OUR people in opposition to THEIRS. Got $100 bucks to give? Use this silly little table below to allocate it!
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#SCOTUS’ 2010 #CitizensUnited decision opened the door to unlimited independent spending in federal #elections.
The limits on party spending stem from a desire to prevent large donors from skirting caps on individual contributions to a candidate by directing unlimited sums to the party, with the understanding that the #money will be spent on behalf of the candidate.
The #SupremeCourt had previously upheld the limits in 2001.
#law #plutocracy #aristocracy #wealth #Republicans #influence
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https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxiTyMNE9bssTZxArWaVPWoGoiVJ2KWU1M
#fossilfuels #pollution #polluteforfree #subsidies #pollutionfee #corrupt #corruption #politicalcorruption #darkmoney #citizensunited #superPACs #501c3s #501c4s #donorstrust #thechamber #nam #frontgroups #billionaires #scotus #CleanPowerPlanmemos #fraud -
Joe Ball Weeps for Humanity. #racism #sexism #homophobia #xenophobia #hatred #humanity #hatredforhumanity #endracism #endsexism #endhomophobia #endxenophobia #climatechange #globalwarming #citizensunited #endcitizensunited #dirtymoney #enddirtymoneyinpolitics #corruption #politicalcorruption #scotusiscorrupt #potusiscorrupt #insurrection #insurrectionistpresident #endinsurrection #hatecrimes #bullying #chauvenism #malechauvenism #malesuperiority #humantrafficingawareness #HumanTraffickers
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A Public Service Announcement. #publicservice #publicserviceannouncement #citizensunited #overturncitizensunited #endcitizensunited #corruption #corruptmoney #corruptpolitics #republicansareevil #democratsareincompetent #reTHUGlicans #demoPRATS #evilpoliticalsystem #changethesystem #getdirtymoneyoutofpolitics #thesystemisbroken #vote #votenow
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THE MESS WE FIND OURSELVES IN TODAY IS ONE CAUSED BY TWO POLITICAL PARTIES OF CORPORATE WHORES FUCKING THE CONSTITUTION UNTIL WE HATE YOU ALL!
How many decades ago was Citizens United made law? Was there a Democratic POTUS ever? WHERE WAS CONGRESS?
Up Epstein's ass to find a child to RAPE!
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TRUMP IS A SYMPTOM, NOT THE DISEASE!!
#CitizensUnited #fascism #Democrats #Republicans #Trump #Durbin #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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No, that's not what #CitizensUnited did, though there is so much misinformation about the ruling.
In the ruling, unlimited expenditures was part of what was asked for, the SCOTUS refused, putting limits at the core of the ruling it handed down.
These stories of unlimited power handed to corporations are just sensationalized clickbait. They don't reflect what the ruling actually said, often getting it exactly backwards.
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Montana Has an Ambitious Plan to End Dark Money in Elections
Fifteen years after a landmark Supreme Court case turbocharged corporate spending in the political process, a group hopes it may have a way to finally rein in some of the outsized influence of the ultrawealthy. The 2010 ruling on Citizens United v. FEC opened the floodgates of political spending in elections. Every year since then, untraceable financial political contributions…
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
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We literally have the best government money can buy, and our nation, our very survival depends on unflinchingly addressing this pugnacious problem of money as free speech foisted on us by the unaccountable SCOTUS, “Repugnicans” and Corporate Democrats.
Founder of #TheLever, #DavidSirota joins #TheMajorityReport's #EmmaVigeland to discuss his new book, “MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
#US #Economics #Politics #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited #Corporatocracy #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Illiberal #AntiDemocratic #Monopolistic
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🔥HOT TAKE🔥 Lift all caps on campaign spending | @destiny
#CampaignContributions #CitizensUnited #SuperPACs #OpenSecrets #Destiny
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CW: New #introduction for the latest greatest #twitterMigration
Coming to you from my newish #selfHosted #Pleroma instance after a couple years on #Mastodon. I was a middle class #musician back when that was a thing, trained as a #drummer and, since I was 13, I put all my dedication and dollars into making an honest, modest living as a sideman. I grew up listening to #classicRock from half a generation earlier, and played lots of #blues in my hometown, #Chicago, before I became a #jazz snob and got my 1st steady gig with a cruiseship showband.
I ended up in #LosAngeles just in time for the Great Depression and subsequent triumph of #Socialism for the Rich™, which I thought was as bad as it could get until they passed the CARES act. I retrained myself at the #piano when club gigs no longer paid enough for me to hire a bassist and piano player to accompany me in playing my earliest efforts at #songwriting. My #radicalism was firmly established by the time the DNC cheated Bernie out of the nomination. The 1st time, I mean. 2020 finished the job. I don't know what I am now, a #progressive, an #anarchosyndicalist, or what. I just know I'm not a Democrat and find the #BizarroWorld direction of many calling themselves #liberal to be absolutely terrrifying, as we already have one intolerant and sociopathic "opposition".
I am content to identify with my #outsider artist influences like #TomWaits and #WarrenZevon, general #geeks like #JoeJackson, and the #workingClass works of #BobDylan, #NeilYoung, and #BruceSpringsteen.
I've almost entirely freed myself of the dependence on proprietary platforms and use and support several #openSource projects. #Owncast and #OBS have made it possible for me to keep my #music #livestream alive after sacrificing roughly 75% of my viewers when I left FB for labelling my #artist page a source of #misinformation. #FreeSpeech and fighting #citizensUnited, #corporatism, and #censorship and #propaganda are my primary political concerns.
I'm a fairly accomplished amateur at #cooking and I love #tobacco after discovering #pipesmoking and #cigars and quitting a 30-year cigarette habit. I drink #beer and #scotch throughout the weekly livestream, which you can follow for a notification when I go live at @kyle
Saving the most important thing for last, I generally love people and I am much, much more fun and easy going than this introduction makes me sound lol
