#darkmoney — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #darkmoney, aggregated by home.social.
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This is just taking the piss now...
#UKpol #UKPolitics #ChristopherHarborne #ReformUK #BenDelo #DarkMoney
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This is just taking the piss now...
#UKpol #UKPolitics #ChristopherHarborne #ReformUK #BenDelo #DarkMoney
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This is just taking the piss now...
#UKpol #UKPolitics #ChristopherHarborne #ReformUK #BenDelo #DarkMoney
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This is just taking the piss now...
#UKpol #UKPolitics #ChristopherHarborne #ReformUK #BenDelo #DarkMoney
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This is just taking the piss now...
#UKpol #UKPolitics #ChristopherHarborne #ReformUK #BenDelo #DarkMoney
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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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“Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings”
by Iain Overton in Byline Times
@uk_politics
@resist_fascism
@Yogiomm
@channel4“Senior Reform UK figures, including Nigel Farage, have been filmed in an undercover investigation examining ways in which money originating from a seemingly wealthy American donor could benefit the party without its source appearing in public records, Channel 4 News revealed last night”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Undercover #Sting #ReformUK #Channel4News #ElectoralLaw #DarkMoney #ForeignInfluence #Farage #Orr #Cambridge #Palantir #Thiel #Vance #FarRight #Racism #GreatReplacement #Harborne #Cottrell #Donation #Jukes #Verbatim #MetPolice
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Republicans Stumble In Bid To Flood Midterm Airwaves With Discounted Ads
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"No one pays money unless there is some value to be gained from paying it." I'm not a gambler but I'm betting the PM sold out us mug punters to his billionaire donors. Again. #australia #ausgov #anthonyalbanese #politicaldonations #politicalfavor #darkmoney
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/aug/26/it-shouldnt-be-a-secret-who-the-prime-minister-has-dinner-with-and-what-was-discussed-australians-deserve-to-know-ntwnfb -
@USpol #AIPAC #DarkMoney #AllIn #ChrisHayes
Hold that phone, Leroy. Woah.
It's that segment Chris Hayes covered just now about dishonesty in PAC political ads, but making the point that PACs that are against a particular candidate winning will not use the cause that they're organized for but use instead public issues they're convinced that the voters are dead set against and then accuse, falsely, that the target candidate is guilty of that instead.I don't see how THAT is anything new, but what's new is the Democrat-on-Democrat verbal violence, so to speak--the AIPAC Wasserman-Schultz wing of the Party vs the Democratic Socialist wing....except in AIPAC's case, well, they target any candidate who even wants to put guardrails around any aid that the US gives to Israel. And yeah, they will NOT say that's WHY they have targeted the candidate; they won't make that case but they'll make a side-case like immigration. ICE. And lie about it.
But this is what AIPAC has always done, actually--Hayes is a couple decades late in pointing that out.Following that segment, the bottom banner of the screen displayed:
"Trump says he doesn't need to campaign for Republicans".Except that's exactly what he's doing in the gubernatorial run-off primary election in Oklahoma, where there's GOP-on-GOP verbal "violence". Trump has a United Arab Emirates interest in that aluminum smelter proposed for Inola, OK, and that's what the negative ads against the #Trump favorite candidate focus on, and it's the reason why Trump is spending ad money on boosting Mike Mazzey vs Gentner Drummond and Drummond knows that the smelter and ANY foreign ownership of Oklahoma business and/or land will land where the Oklahoma voters live.
It's to be noted that the UAE also sits on the Board of Peace, so if y'all are wondering why any nation in its right mind would pay the big bux to sit on that board, well, wonder no more--odds are good that they've been bribed with such perks as this to do so.
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Wesley Bell and Cori Bush Head for a Rematch
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“The central corrupting feature of our politics right now is the power of money to buy politicians
so that government is captured by them,
not for us,” El-Sayed said as he fielded questions from the stage“AIPAC will spend huge amounts of money if you’re uppity like me and you speak out of turn to beat you,
and you’re seeing it play out on TV every day.”#MoneyIsNotSpeech #darkmoney #michigan
#moneyoutofpolitics
#moneyinyourpocket
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Voters will likely have the chance to decide this fall whether to ban political spending in state elections by Michigan’s regulated utilities and large government contractors.
#EnergyMastodon #Corruption #climate #EnergyTransition #DarkMoney
https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/money-out-of-politics-proposal-cleared-for-michigan-ballot
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“‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder’s Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures”
by Nafeez Ahmed in The Byline Times on Substack
“Why did Reform UK change from a privately-owned company into a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Ahmed investigates its funding and a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell”
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/posh-george-two-passports-and-a-fraudulent
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #Farage #Tice #Azami #ReformUKLtd #Cottrell #Donations #PoshGeorge #Fraud #DarkMoney #Finance #Criminal #MetPolice #NCA #Montenegro #Harborne #Abramovich #Drewitt
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Dark money, claims of racism continue to cloud Aurora Democratic primary legislative race
In this case, where you have two candidates who are Black women, you have to ask, ‘racism in service of whom?’
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Dark money, claims of racism continue to cloud Aurora Democratic primary legislative race
In this case, where you have two candidates who are Black women, you have to ask, ‘racism in service of whom?’
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#Minnesota #congress #senate #elections #DarkMoney #SuperPacs
#AngieCraig’s super PAC donors incl hedge fund founder, #UnitedHealth, & Chevron, but much of funding is unknown (dark money)
#PeggyFlanagan is backed by the DLGA (some questionable donors as well) & Clear Voice Minnesota. “Both super PACs must disclose their donors.” (NOT dark money)
Fellow MN Dems, letting Craig get the nomination would be a mistake and missed opportunity. Primary voting has started.
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“Who is Really Bankrolling Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain?”
by Josiah Mortimer and Max Colbert in The Byline Times on Substack
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@[email protected]
@[email protected]“EXCLUSIVE: Byline Times investigates the figures behind the Elon Musk-backed far-right rival to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK”
[..]
“Little is known about Restore Britain’s funding. The far-right party, seen as a disrupter on Reform UK’s right flank, was only formally registered as a party in February, meaning further donations records will begin to appear in the coming months, should they cross the threshold for declaration.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinetimes/p/who-is-really-bankrolling-rupert
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #FarRight #RestoreBritain #Lowe #Musk #Funding #X #Crypto #DarkMoney #CromwellClub #Donations
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New piece on who is actually funding Australia's renewable energy opposition in regional communities.
The climate obstruction playbook has moved on from denial. Delay is cheaper and more durable. You don't need to win the argument. You just need to prevent a decision from being made.
Follow the money, and you don't find a farmer's hat. Gina Rinehart's company donated $4.5 million to the IPA in a single two-year period. Fossil fuel interests donated nearly $4 million to major parties in 2023-24. Australia's $16,900 disclosure threshold keeps most of it invisible for up to 18 months.
The cruellest part: the playbook takes the genuine experience of being exploited by outside interests and weaponises it to defend the exploiters.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-07-02-who-profits-from-the-protest/
#RegionalAustralia #EnergyTransition #ClimateObstruction #DarkMoney #FossilFuels #RenewableEnergy #AustralianPolitics #Transparency #CommunityEnergy
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Aurora Democratic primaries engulfed in claims of libelous, racists attack ads by outside money groups
'I thought everything was about policy and about the work that we want to do, so to tread into what I literally call racism is disappointing'
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Aurora Democratic primaries engulfed in claims of libelous, racists attack ads by outside money groups
'I thought everything was about policy and about the work that we want to do, so to tread into what I literally call racism is disappointing'
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EVA HENRY: Corruption resurfaces in Adams, Arapahoe County politics linked to One Main Street
Corporate dark money groups are funneling millions into eleven different races statewide.
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EVA HENRY: Corruption resurfaces in Adams, Arapahoe County politics linked to One Main Street
Corporate dark money groups are funneling millions into eleven different races statewide.
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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us .
Dear Senator / Representative -
I want an absolute end to PACs, super PACs, and untraceable money in politics.
I recently read about private prison corporation Geo Group's dark money contributions to Jim Jordan via a Super PAC. That should not be a sentence that exists.
If you can't end these back-room, ultra-wealthy influence peddlers completely, I want you to support the two bills in Congress now that can help take the voluminous dark money out of politics and help make sure that our government is truly a representative democracy.
They are H.R. 2352 and S.4602. Both would limit contributions to PACs to $5000.
I want full transparency. I want every political donation to come with the name of the person who signed the check or made the bank transfer. I want all of it public.
I want you to cosponsor and enact these bills and restore our democracy to the American people.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #DarkMoney #SuperPAC -
Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us .
Dear Senator / Representative -
I want an absolute end to PACs, super PACs, and untraceable money in politics.
I recently read about private prison corporation Geo Group's dark money contributions to Jim Jordan via a Super PAC. That should not be a sentence that exists.
If you can't end these back-room, ultra-wealthy influence peddlers completely, I want you to support the two bills in Congress now that can help take the voluminous dark money out of politics and help make sure that our government is truly a representative democracy.
They are H.R. 2352 and S.4602. Both would limit contributions to PACs to $5000.
I want full transparency. I want every political donation to come with the name of the person who signed the check or made the bank transfer. I want all of it public.
I want you to cosponsor and enact these bills and restore our democracy to the American people.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #DarkMoney #SuperPAC -
Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us .
Dear Senator / Representative -
I want an absolute end to PACs, super PACs, and untraceable money in politics.
I recently read about private prison corporation Geo Group's dark money contributions to Jim Jordan via a Super PAC. That should not be a sentence that exists.
If you can't end these back-room, ultra-wealthy influence peddlers completely, I want you to support the two bills in Congress now that can help take the voluminous dark money out of politics and help make sure that our government is truly a representative democracy.
They are H.R. 2352 and S.4602. Both would limit contributions to PACs to $5000.
I want full transparency. I want every political donation to come with the name of the person who signed the check or made the bank transfer. I want all of it public.
I want you to cosponsor and enact these bills and restore our democracy to the American people.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay #DarkMoney #SuperPAC -
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 -
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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How political influencers avoid election rules, transparency and consequences
#Alberta #Canada #Politics #Election2025 #Democracy #ElectionsCanada #DarkMoney #Transparency #MetaAds #Accountability #CampaignFinance #ThirdPartyAdvertising #PublicInterest
https://the-14.com/how-political-influencers-avoid-election-rules-transparency-and-consequences/ -
How political influencers avoid election rules, transparency and consequences
#Alberta #Canada #Politics #Election2025 #Democracy #ElectionsCanada #DarkMoney #Transparency #MetaAds #Accountability #CampaignFinance #ThirdPartyAdvertising #PublicInterest
https://the-14.com/how-political-influencers-avoid-election-rules-transparency-and-consequences/ -
How political influencers avoid election rules, transparency and consequences
#Alberta #Canada #Politics #Election2025 #Democracy #ElectionsCanada #DarkMoney #Transparency #MetaAds #Accountability #CampaignFinance #ThirdPartyAdvertising #PublicInterest
https://the-14.com/how-political-influencers-avoid-election-rules-transparency-and-consequences/ -
“Trump’s funding a MAGA invasion of UK and EU -🚨 Code f*cking red 🚨
by Sam Bright on Substack
@uk_politics
@eu
@eu_os
@thegreenparty
@UKLabour“The FT revealed that Donald Trump’s State Department is pulling together a ‘slush fund’ to bankroll pro-#MAGA groups in the #UK and across #Europe”
https://open.substack.com/pub/writesbright/p/trumps-funding-a-maga-invasion-of
#Press #SocialMedia #Trump #MAGA #SlushFund #Subversion #Farage #Reform #DisasterCapitalism #FarRight #Fascism #Dictatorship #DarkMoney #HeritageFoundation
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KICK THE U.S. #FARRIGHT OUT of #EUROPE!!
Why #techbillionaires are quietly bankrolling #Europe’s #farright | #PinchPoint -'
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GHQAfk_5Ekk
#DarkMoney #extrêmedroite #tech
#GreatReplacement nonsense#BillionairesSUCK #FCKNZS #BillionairesSUCK #TechFascists #Fascism
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#COVID #TrumpRegime #KochNetwork #DarkMoney
"The academy was inspired by the pandemic. 'As we reflect on the worst public health fiasco in history, our pandemic response has unveiled serious issues with how science is administered,' noted the college president in a press release.
But the venture isn't exactly an effort to apply science to the COVID-19 crisis. The so-called 'fiasco' was government pandemic measures like mask and vaccine mandates, contact tracing, and lockdowns.
Hillsdale is a conservative Christian institution with ties to the Trump administration. And the scholars behind the academy — Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and Martin Kulldorff — are connected to right-wing dark money attacking public health measures.
The trio also has ties to the Great Barrington Declaration, a widely-rebuked yet influential missive that encouraged governments to adopt a 'herd immunity' policy letting COVID-19 spread largely unchecked, even as the virus has killed more than 800,000 Americans.
The academy is the newest initiative designed to provide intellectual cover to a nearly two-year campaign by right-wing and big business interests to force a return to normalcy to boost corporate profits amid a pandemic that is now surging once again thanks to Omicron."
https://www.levernews.com/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/
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#COVID #TrumpRegime #KochNetwork #DarkMoney
"The academy was inspired by the pandemic. 'As we reflect on the worst public health fiasco in history, our pandemic response has unveiled serious issues with how science is administered,' noted the college president in a press release.
But the venture isn't exactly an effort to apply science to the COVID-19 crisis. The so-called 'fiasco' was government pandemic measures like mask and vaccine mandates, contact tracing, and lockdowns.
Hillsdale is a conservative Christian institution with ties to the Trump administration. And the scholars behind the academy — Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and Martin Kulldorff — are connected to right-wing dark money attacking public health measures.
The trio also has ties to the Great Barrington Declaration, a widely-rebuked yet influential missive that encouraged governments to adopt a 'herd immunity' policy letting COVID-19 spread largely unchecked, even as the virus has killed more than 800,000 Americans.
The academy is the newest initiative designed to provide intellectual cover to a nearly two-year campaign by right-wing and big business interests to force a return to normalcy to boost corporate profits amid a pandemic that is now surging once again thanks to Omicron."
https://www.levernews.com/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/
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#COVID #TrumpRegime #KochNetwork #DarkMoney
"The academy was inspired by the pandemic. 'As we reflect on the worst public health fiasco in history, our pandemic response has unveiled serious issues with how science is administered,' noted the college president in a press release.
But the venture isn't exactly an effort to apply science to the COVID-19 crisis. The so-called 'fiasco' was government pandemic measures like mask and vaccine mandates, contact tracing, and lockdowns.
Hillsdale is a conservative Christian institution with ties to the Trump administration. And the scholars behind the academy — Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and Martin Kulldorff — are connected to right-wing dark money attacking public health measures.
The trio also has ties to the Great Barrington Declaration, a widely-rebuked yet influential missive that encouraged governments to adopt a 'herd immunity' policy letting COVID-19 spread largely unchecked, even as the virus has killed more than 800,000 Americans.
The academy is the newest initiative designed to provide intellectual cover to a nearly two-year campaign by right-wing and big business interests to force a return to normalcy to boost corporate profits amid a pandemic that is now surging once again thanks to Omicron."
https://www.levernews.com/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/
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#COVID #TrumpRegime #KochNetwork #DarkMoney
"The academy was inspired by the pandemic. 'As we reflect on the worst public health fiasco in history, our pandemic response has unveiled serious issues with how science is administered,' noted the college president in a press release.
But the venture isn't exactly an effort to apply science to the COVID-19 crisis. The so-called 'fiasco' was government pandemic measures like mask and vaccine mandates, contact tracing, and lockdowns.
Hillsdale is a conservative Christian institution with ties to the Trump administration. And the scholars behind the academy — Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and Martin Kulldorff — are connected to right-wing dark money attacking public health measures.
The trio also has ties to the Great Barrington Declaration, a widely-rebuked yet influential missive that encouraged governments to adopt a 'herd immunity' policy letting COVID-19 spread largely unchecked, even as the virus has killed more than 800,000 Americans.
The academy is the newest initiative designed to provide intellectual cover to a nearly two-year campaign by right-wing and big business interests to force a return to normalcy to boost corporate profits amid a pandemic that is now surging once again thanks to Omicron."
https://www.levernews.com/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/
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A new report by @taylorlorenz for WIRED reveals how a web of dark money, with scope that's drawn comparison to the Koch network, has been used to coerce liberal influencers into parroting Blue MAGA talking points, with lucrative contracts tied to strict censorship clauses.
The program is unironically called "Chorus," and the first rule of the liberal "Chorus" is that you don't talk about the Chorus...
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers
#uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork
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A new report by @taylorlorenz for WIRED reveals how a web of dark money, with scope that's drawn comparison to the Koch network, has been used to coerce liberal influencers into parroting Blue MAGA talking points, with lucrative contracts tied to strict censorship clauses.
The program is unironically called "Chorus," and the first rule of the liberal "Chorus" is that you don't talk about the Chorus...
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers
#uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork
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A new report by @taylorlorenz for WIRED reveals how a web of dark money, with scope that's drawn comparison to the Koch network, has been used to coerce liberal influencers into parroting Blue MAGA talking points, with lucrative contracts tied to strict censorship clauses.
The program is unironically called "Chorus," and the first rule of the liberal "Chorus" is that you don't talk about the Chorus...
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers
#uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork
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A new report by @taylorlorenz for WIRED reveals how a web of dark money, with scope that's drawn comparison to the Koch network, has been used to coerce liberal influencers into parroting Blue MAGA talking points, with lucrative contracts tied to strict censorship clauses.
The program is unironically called "Chorus," and the first rule of the liberal "Chorus" is that you don't talk about the Chorus...
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers
#uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork
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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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The Invisible Hand: How #DarkMoney Is Inventing Prestige for #rightwing #Academics. The Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) sounds #prestigious, but is it really? #science #vaccines #pharma #trump #leoleonard #synthetic #prestige https://drbobmorris.substack.com/p/the-invisible-hand-how-dark-money #academia #research #science
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CW: From TikTok
Now you know not to trust all poll numbers, and why.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8RWg71j/
#Poll #Polling #HeartlandInstitute #Koch #CharlesKochFoundation #ALEC #CatoInstutute #rassmussen #PrivateEquity #NumbersUSA #Partisan #tRump #TedCarroll #Election #DarkMoney #USA #America #MelonFamily #Project2025 #Tax #Law #AmericanMuckrakersPAC #BattlegroundStates #Nonprofit #TeaParty #Lobbyists #Survey #Illegal #Campaign #FarRight #Disinformation #Climate #HateGroups #Skew #Vote #HarrisWalz2024
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#NRA executive director #RandyKozuch celebrates the #SCOTUS #BumpStock ruling:
“The Supreme Court has properly restrained executive branch agencies to their role of enforcing, & not making, the law. This decision will be pivotal to NRA’s future challenges of ATF regulations.”
#law #SCOTUSstench #DarkMoney #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #ClarenceThomas #Alito #JohnRoberts #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo #HarlanCrow
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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
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/10/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-citizens-united-00108082 -
In Feb 2022, the #PAC announced that it had $122M in its coffers.
By the beginning of 2023, the PAC’s cash on hand was down to $18M, filings show. The rest had been spent on staff salaries, on the costs of Trump’s “political activities” last yr — incl’g some spending on other candidates & grps — & in other ways. That included the $60M that was transferred to #MAGAInc., a #superPAC that is supporting #Trump. And >$16M went to pay #LegalBills.
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Hmm, anyone seen the #TickTok ex #FacebookIntern getting grilled over the #SameArguments that can be leveled at #Meta today?
☣️#Meta ☣️ #MarkTheVirus ☣️
Bonus points for putting together the #ListOfMetaDarkMoneyTakers in #Congress & #Senate to be put next to the same list for #TickTok for comparison of who is taking money's 💲💰💱💹💸💴💵💶💷 from both.
🔎 #RTDNA #news #SocialMedia #DarkMoney #InfluenceMarketing #CancelCulture 🔍