#darkmoney — Public Fediverse posts

This is just taking the piss now...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/12/christopher-harborne-matches-36m-reform-donation-of-ben-zelo

#UKpol #UKPolitics #ChristopherHarborne #ReformUK #BenDelo #DarkMoney

This is just taking the piss now...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/12/christopher-harborne-matches-36m-reform-donation-of-ben-zelo

#UKpol #UKPolitics #ChristopherHarborne #ReformUK #BenDelo #DarkMoney

This is just taking the piss now...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/12/christopher-harborne-matches-36m-reform-donation-of-ben-zelo

#UKpol #UKPolitics #ChristopherHarborne #ReformUK #BenDelo #DarkMoney

This is just taking the piss now...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/12/christopher-harborne-matches-36m-reform-donation-of-ben-zelo

#UKpol #UKPolitics #ChristopherHarborne #ReformUK #BenDelo #DarkMoney

This is just taking the piss now...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/12/christopher-harborne-matches-36m-reform-donation-of-ben-zelo

#UKpol #UKPolitics #ChristopherHarborne #ReformUK #BenDelo #DarkMoney

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

#Arizona #CampaignFinance #ArizonaPolitics #DarkMoney

“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”

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/04/reform-uk-sting-broadcast-by-channel-4-confirms-years-of-byline-times-warnings/

#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

Republicans Stumble In Bid To Flood Midterm Airwaves With Discounted Ads

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/28/republicans-stumble-in-bid-to-flood-midterm-airwaves-with-discounted-ads/

“‘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

@uk_politics

“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

#Starmer lied his way to power, with #DarkMoney. He ran a #HierarchyOfRacism in the #LabourParty, purged Jewish members for anti-zionism, binged on #freebies.

In power, Starmer:
^ starved kids
^ froze grannies
^ endorsed cutting water to civilians
^ shared intelligence with genociders
^ criminalised opponents of #genocide as "terrorist"
^ appointed a #paedophile-adjacent ambassador
^ restricts #TrialByJury

But now Starmer has the cheek to call #ZackPolanski unfit to lead. 😡 #YCMTSU.

#ukpol

Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views

Albertans end up bombarded with targeted messaging that amounts to Propaganda or Slopaganda, funded by dark money.

This week, a report by the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO), a joint project between the University of Toronto and McGill University in Montreal looking into Canadian media, identified 20 YouTube channels as part of a co-ordinated network focused on separatism in western Canadian provinces, and other political issues.

The report noted they use near-identical scripts and dubbed them “slopaganda.”

Altogether, the accounts have garnered roughly 40 million views.

The report says many of the videos contain “frequent and obvious lies, drawing on real news stories to reach exaggerated conclusions designed to exploit political divisions.” The report did not identify the individuals behind the apparent network, citing a lack of “identifying information to real humans or organizations nor ties to the secession movement in Alberta.”

“I think it’s disturbing that these voices are able to insert themselves in the conversation, and their interest is not to further the democratic discourse or … have a healthy, authentic conversation,” said Chris Ross, a senior analyst at the Media Ecosystem Observatory.

“They’re putting themselves in the middle of that, misleading Albertans, Canadians, and they’re just doing it to make money.”

#META #DestroyMeta #Privacy #DarkMoney #TechFascists

https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings

“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

KICK THE U.S. #FARRIGHT OUT of #EUROPE!!

Why #techbillionaires are quietly bankrolling #Europe’s #farright | #PinchPoint -'

A #MustWatchVideo

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GHQAfk_5Ekk

#DarkMoney #extrêmedroite #tech
#GreatReplacement nonsense

#STOPBitchingAboutTheBoats

#BillionairesSUCK #FCKNZS #BillionairesSUCK #TechFascists #Fascism

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…

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This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.

This video explains why the #Wisconsin #SupremeCourt election is important to the future of the state and the nation. It also explains how #DarkMoney from the #Kochs and #LeonardLeo is having an outsized influence against #SusanCrawford. youtu.be/6WL3pwdQnvA?...

Trump Backer CAUGHT Trying to ...

#Billionaire #LeonardLeo’s Extremely #Revealing #Letter to a #DarkMoney #Group

The #rightwing #powerbroker’s call to “#weaponize” #conservative #ideas tells us everything we need to know about his #twisted #vision for #America.

https://newrepublic.com/article/186013/leonard-leo-85-fund-revealing-letter-dark-money-group

#Billionaire #LeonardLeo’s Extremely #Revealing #Letter to a #DarkMoney #Group

The #rightwing #powerbroker’s call to “#weaponize” #conservative #ideas tells us everything we need to know about his #twisted #vision for #America.

https://newrepublic.com/article/186013/leonard-leo-85-fund-revealing-letter-dark-money-group

#Billionaire #LeonardLeo’s Extremely #Revealing #Letter to a #DarkMoney #Group

The #rightwing #powerbroker’s call to “#weaponize” #conservative #ideas tells us everything we need to know about his #twisted #vision for #America.

https://newrepublic.com/article/186013/leonard-leo-85-fund-revealing-letter-dark-money-group

#Billionaire #LeonardLeo’s Extremely #Revealing #Letter to a #DarkMoney #Group

The #rightwing #powerbroker’s call to “#weaponize” #conservative #ideas tells us everything we need to know about his #twisted #vision for #America.

https://newrepublic.com/article/186013/leonard-leo-85-fund-revealing-letter-dark-money-group

#Billionaire #LeonardLeo’s Extremely #Revealing #Letter to a #DarkMoney #Group

The #rightwing #powerbroker’s call to “#weaponize” #conservative #ideas tells us everything we need to know about his #twisted #vision for #America.

https://newrepublic.com/article/186013/leonard-leo-85-fund-revealing-letter-dark-money-group

Project 2025: The Plan To Take Over The Courts w/ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse | iHeartRadio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGe5_tKEWo0

#Politics #DarkMoney #LegislationLoopholes #Law #Project2025 #Feudalism #Fascism #PropertySupremacy #Buchananism #Trump #JDVance #Thiel #Mercer #KochBrothers #Crow #SCOTUS #Executive #Totalitarianism #CorporateWelfare #CorporateSocialsim #ClimateCrisis #Economy

@davidtoddmccarty Right! Guys like regulation-adversary Elon Musk shouldn't be allowed to infect & subvert elections & governments eg by buying & weaponizing a multimillion user internet platform, to the disadvantage of most people.

#RuleOfLaw #JusticeMatters #Democracy #PartyFinancing #Donations #Contributions #DarkMoney #OligarchInfluencers #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheConstitution #CleanGovernment #Corruption #Bribery #Lobbyism #MuskSuX #AntisocialMedia #ElectionInterference #Misinformation #Disinformation #EnemiesOfDemocracy

@realTuckFrumper Mike Johnson no longer has his Confederacy (has been defeated), but is still on his own crusade against the Fourteenth (Reconstruction) Amendment, which Louisiana & the other ex-Confederate states had to ratify to regain representation in Congress.
SCOTUS's 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (use of contraceptives) was based on the Fourteenth Amendment.

P.S.: Leonard Leo's protégé Johnson is either intellectually unable or unwilling to tell contraception from abortion.

https://www.concordlawschool.edu/blog/constitutional-law/contraception-and-the-14th-amendment/
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #DefendTheConstitution #ReconstructionAmendments #14thAmendment #AbortionRights #ContraceptionRights #Contraception #Freedom #DueProcessClause #EqualProtectionClause #DefendDemocracy #DefendTheUnion #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Overthrow #CleanSCOTUS #JudicialInsurrection #InvestigateLeonardLeo #InvestigateOpusDei #DarkMoney #Bribery #MoneyLaundering

"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

#ClarenceThomas #Reversed Position After #Gifts And #FamilyPayments #SupremeCourt #justice #switchedsides on a #landmark legal doctrine satisfying his benefactors’ conservative advocacy machine #harlancrow The so-called #ChevronDeference #doctrine stipulates that the executive branch — not the federal courts — has the power to interpret laws passed by Congress in certain circumstances. https://www.levernews.com/clarence-thomas-reversed-position-after-gifts-and-family-payments/ #SCOTUS #corruption #darkmoney #billionaries #PaytoPlay
#Conservatives bought #SCOTUs

This is what happens when you let businesses and corporations bribe politicians openly and freely. They run the country. They get to bypass safety restrictions and ignore the disastrous consequences of their greed.

#DarkMoney #CorporateGreed #CorporateRule #Plutocracy

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