#darkmoney — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #darkmoney, aggregated by home.social.
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Stations have to file their political ad orders with the FCC, and those filings are public. AZ Follow the Money pulls the ones from 26 Arizona broadcast stations into a single searchable ledger for the 2026 cycle.
Search by committee or station, sort by dollars or flight date, and every row links back to the source FCC document. Built by one person from public records.
azfollowthe.money
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Republicans Stumble In Bid To Flood Midterm Airwaves With Discounted Ads
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A woman donates $1 million to Trump’s MAGA Inc.
Weeks later, her son — convicted of federal tax crimes and ordered to repay more than $4 million — receives a presidential pardon from Donald Trump.
Even more striking: the pardon request itself reportedly highlighted the family’s political donations.
This is not necessarily corruption in the criminal sense.
But it perfectly illustrates the growing perception of a “pay for access” system surrounding Trump’s political world — where money, influence and presidential power appear increasingly intertwined.#Trump #MAGA #USPolitics #PoliticalCorruption #CampaignFinance #Pardons #RuleOfLaw #DarkMoney #PayForAccess #AmericanPolitics
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Trump: Buy American, Unless It’s for My Ballroom
President Trump, who has long married “protecting American steel” with his “Make America Great Again” slogan, reportedly accepted tens of millions of dollars in donated steel from a foreign firm for his ballroom just days before he slashed tariffs in half that could help one of its plants.
According to a report by the New York Times from earlier this week, two people familiar with the White House ballroom plans said the steel was made in Europe by ArcelorMittal, a Luxembourg-based steel manufacturer.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-steel-white-house-ballroom-tarriffs/
#uspol #uspolitics #architecture #corruption #cronyism #DarkMoney #fascism
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Apparently, we are moving to a tax system where the #EpsteinElite get to choose how their tax voluntarily tax contributions are spent. What could go wrong?
#YourSwampIsShowing #MAGA #Republicans #TaxTheRich #Pentagon #EliteMoney #TimothyMellon #MagaBankingHeir #TaxTransparency
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An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the #crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists #MarcAndreessen & #BenHorowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each.
#OndoFinance, which has a partnership with the #Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to #MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
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Interviews w/his associates, along w/a review of #court documents & other public records, reveal an ideologically driven #conservative w/a #combative streak. #Mellon spent most of his life leveraging his family #fortune to create his own. His freight railroad, a regional line that repeatedly ran afoul of #worker & #environmental #protections, was recently sold for $600M.
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All told, he has given $227M in contributions to federal candidates & political committees since 2020, nearly all to #Republicans — a sum that puts him in the top echelon of the party’s donors, alongside far better-known megadonors like #MiriamAdelson & her husband, Sheldon, who died in 2021, & Liz & Dick #Uihlein.
Yet for all his financial #influence, #Mellon & his interests — & what exactly is motivating his largess — have remained largely a mystery.
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The episode was a rare glimpse into the private life & the public dealings of #Mellon, 81, a reclusive #heir & #RailroadMagnate who has recently turned himself into a #political force [presumably a #FauxNews consumer]. He has surprised even political insiders w/the size of his contributions this year, throwing $75M behind #Trump’s attempt to return to the WH & an additional $25M toward #RFKJr’s independent presidential run, making him both candidates’ single largest benefactor.
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#ClarenceThomas wrote a concurring opinion on #Trump’s #immunity that delved into the separate & unasked question of whether AG #MerrickGarland violated the #Constitution when he appointed #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith in Nov 2022 to oversee the 2 federal prosecutions of Trump.
#law #SCOTUS #ExtremeCourt #TrumpCourt #PartisanCourt #DarkMoney #MAGA
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#ClarenceThomas wrote a concurring opinion on #Trump’s #immunity that delved into the separate & unasked question of whether AG #MerrickGarland violated the #Constitution when he appointed #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith in Nov 2022 to oversee the 2 federal prosecutions of Trump.
#law #SCOTUS #ExtremeCourt #TrumpCourt #PartisanCourt #DarkMoney #MAGA
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#ClarenceThomas wrote a concurring opinion on #Trump’s #immunity that delved into the separate & unasked question of whether AG #MerrickGarland violated the #Constitution when he appointed #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith in Nov 2022 to oversee the 2 federal prosecutions of Trump.
#law #SCOTUS #ExtremeCourt #TrumpCourt #PartisanCourt #DarkMoney #MAGA
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#ClarenceThomas wrote a concurring opinion on #Trump’s #immunity that delved into the separate & unasked question of whether AG #MerrickGarland violated the #Constitution when he appointed #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith in Nov 2022 to oversee the 2 federal prosecutions of Trump.
#law #SCOTUS #ExtremeCourt #TrumpCourt #PartisanCourt #DarkMoney #MAGA
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#ClarenceThomas wrote a concurring opinion on #Trump’s #immunity that delved into the separate & unasked question of whether AG #MerrickGarland violated the #Constitution when he appointed #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith in Nov 2022 to oversee the 2 federal prosecutions of Trump.
#law #SCOTUS #ExtremeCourt #TrumpCourt #PartisanCourt #DarkMoney #MAGA
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"We need to be aware of the history leading to the current moment. McConahay has done us a great service by laying out the case."
And, of course, as Roberts says, Clarence Thomas, wife Ginni, and Leonard Leo and the corruption of a Supreme Court dominated by hard-right Catholics loom very large large in McConahay's study.
#Catholics #CatholicBishops #US #HardRight #CultureWars #DarkMoney #Republicans #ClarenceThomas #GinniThomas #LeonardLeo #SupremeCourt #corruption
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"Catholics today, still recovering from the deep betrayal by bishops in the ongoing sexual abuse scandal, may be reluctant to consider that their church is being further distorted and turned inside out by unseemly forces in their midst. But Catholicism in America is metastasizing into a thoroughly American Catholicism, subservient to the culture's most rapacious instincts."
#Catholics #CatholicBishops #US #HardRight #CultureWars #DarkMoney #Republicans
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Tom Roberts writes, reviewing Mary Jo McConahay's new book, Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right:
"A primary concern for those reporting on the Catholic Church in the United States today should be following the money."
#Catholics #CatholicBishops #US #HardRight #CultureWars #DarkMoney #Republicans
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