#darkmoney — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #darkmoney, aggregated by home.social.
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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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“‘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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#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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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 -
Over the past two decades, the Roberts Court has pioneered and perfected the practice: #Sanewashing
—defined as “attempting to minimize or downplay a person or idea’s radicality to make it more palatable to the general public”
—It has become a prominent, if entirely underappreciated, feature of the Roberts Court.Relying on judicial sanewashing, the Roberts Court has ERODED:
#due #process protections,
political #accountability,
and civil rights,
while simultaneously #consolidating #power for itself, corporations, gun owners, Christian conservatives, and state officials who owe their political influence to heavily gerrymandered districts.All this has been accomplished while the Roberts Court has sought to present itself as a neutral, nonpartisan institution, free from corporate interests and policy preferences and guided solely by constitutional and democratic principles.
As the Roberts Court has transformed into a #conservative policymaking body, it has maintained that it is merely fulfilling its constitutional mandate.
The judicially sanewashed opinions of the Roberts Court haven’t been limited solely to sanewashing the law;
-- Often, they also involve extensive sanewashing of the facts too.
For example, in tandem with whitewashing the anti-racist purpose of the Reconstruction Amendments in Shelby County v. Holder,
the Roberts Court also recast former Confederate states subject to the #Voting #Rights #Act, or VRA, as aggrieved and mistreated, and in need of legal protection by the Court.According to the sanewashed facts in Shelby County, the VRA was no longer necessary because racially discriminatory voting practices were “rare”
and the remaining sections of the statute would be sufficient to protect minority voting rights.
In the decade since the Court offered those tepid reassurances,
states formerly subject to the VRA’s preclearance requirements have passed an avalanche of discriminatory #voter #suppression laws
as the Roberts Court has simultaneously sought to further weaken the law.
🆘 The Court is now prepared to strike down the remaining vestiges of the statute it promised would remain in place to ensure voting rights remained protected.Similarly, when sanewashing the First Amendment to recognize new speech rights by corporations to engage in unlimited political spending in #Citizens #United,
the Roberts Court tried to assure a skeptical public that dismantling decades of campaign finance regulations would strengthen the integrity of elections and allow voters to hold officials accountable.
🔥Fifteen years later, the ruling has unleashed a torrent of unregulated corporate spending in American politics,
enabling #superPACs to raise limitless funds from corporations
and undisclosed donors to exercise an outsized influence on election results.
⭐️Between 2010 and 2024, political spending by super PACs grew from $62.6 million to $4.1 billion.Americans are so disgusted with #darkmoney in politics that an overwhelming majority supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.ERO
https://newrepublic.com/article/204788/supreme-court-judicial-sanewashing-roberts
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Hanging over the hearing was the legacy of #SCOTUS’ wave of rulings that have pared back #CampaignFinance restrictions over the years, including the 2010 #CitizensUnited v. FEC decision, which paved the way for unlimited independent expenditures by outside groups known as #superPACs.
#law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #Trump #ElectionInterference #FederalistSociety #HeritageFoundation #judiciary #CitizensUnited #DarkMoney
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3 of the #donors also gave to Trump’s inaugural fund. #LindaMcMahon & #PaulSinger each donated $1M, while #MarleneRicketts, the wife of the founder of #TDAmeritrade, contributed $1.1M. In total, #Trump raised a record $250.4M for his inauguration, more than 2X the amount raised for his first one.
#HowardLutnick was also a donor to the $300M White House #ballroom construction project, acc/to a list disclosed last month.
#law #government #corruption #PayToPlay #power #billionaires #DarkMoney
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#SuperPACs #DarkMoney #boycottTikTok #BoycottX #boycottmeta #WerGewaltSät #charliekirk #Trump #taxtherich #Fascism #Feminismus #AntiFeminismus #PolitischeBildung #widerspruchistpflicht #AntiFaschismus #Antifa #GegenRechts #NoNazis #NoAfD #AfDnee #AfDVerbot #MeinungsDiktatur #NoNazis #NazisRaus #NazisTöten #AufstandDerAnständigen #WirSindMehr #KeinenMillimeterNachRechts #Faschismus #RechtsExtremismus #Konservativ
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"Discourse Magazine" is Koch-funded Libertarian propaganda
For those unfamiliar with Discourse Magazine, it is a new-ish (~2020 launch) publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, both of which are strongly Libertarian, highly ideological, free-market fundamentalist, strongly aligned with the Koch family and Koch Industries, who provide major financial support and whose head, Charles Koch, serves on the board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/about/
These are part of the larger global Atlas Network of Libertarian "think tanks" (that is, propaganda mills) founded in 1981 by Antony Fisher:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Atlas_Network
And are an outgrowth of the Mont Pelerin Society of "free-market' economists and propagandists.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mont_Pelerin_Society
Excellent investigations of these groups include
Jane Mayer, Dark Money: on political influence by the Kochs and others. https://archive.org/details/darkmoneyhiddenh0000maye_k2o0
Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: on climate disinformation by the Kochs and others.https://archive.org/details/merchantsofdoubt00ores
Oreskes and Conway, The Big Myth: on how "free markets" were sold as an ideological fable, by the Kochs and others. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/
I'd run across Discover Magazine via a recent HN submission, having been previously unaware of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856215
Edits: Markdown / reordering descr/links.
#DiscourseMagazine #KochBrothers #KochIndustries #CharlesKoch #Libertarians #Libertarianism #AtlasNetwork #MontPelerinSociety #Disinformation #MerchantsOfDoubt #TheBigMyth #NaomiOreskes #DarkMoney #JaneMeyer #EricMConway
