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  1. #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."

    levernews.com/how-the-koch-net

  2. #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."

    levernews.com/how-the-koch-net

  3. #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."

    levernews.com/how-the-koch-net

  4. #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."

    levernews.com/how-the-koch-net

  5. 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...

    wired.com/story/dark-money-gro

    #uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork

  6. 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...

    wired.com/story/dark-money-gro

    #uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork

  7. 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...

    wired.com/story/dark-money-gro

    #uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork

  8. 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...

    wired.com/story/dark-money-gro

    #uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork

  9. 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...

    wired.com/story/dark-money-gro

    #uspol #SixteenThirtyFund #chorus #BlueMAGA #darkmoney #KochNetwork

  10. @senatorcory_

    8. Effort inspires effort -- and defending (and ultimately repairing) our democracy from the damage the #KochNetwork has been doing to it for the last several decades.

  11. The Republicans’ Most Cynical, Pointless Brawl Yet newrepublic.com/article/183508

    People used to complain that the Republican Party was too ideological. You don’t hear that so much anymore, because now the problem (as, yes, I’ve written before) is that the GOP possesses no ideology at all. You don’t believe me? Consider that FreedomWorks, the extremist libertarian group that successfully championed Tea Party conservatism a decade and a half ago, closed its doors in May. It blamed Trump.

    #maga #trump #fascism #freedomworks #teaparty #kochnetwork #gop

  12. The Republicans’ Most Cynical, Pointless Brawl Yet newrepublic.com/article/183508

    People used to complain that the Republican Party was too ideological. You don’t hear that so much anymore, because now the problem (as, yes, I’ve written before) is that the GOP possesses no ideology at all. You don’t believe me? Consider that FreedomWorks, the extremist libertarian group that successfully championed Tea Party conservatism a decade and a half ago, closed its doors in May. It blamed Trump.

    #maga #trump #fascism #freedomworks #teaparty #kochnetwork #gop

  13. The Republicans’ Most Cynical, Pointless Brawl Yet newrepublic.com/article/183508

    People used to complain that the Republican Party was too ideological. You don’t hear that so much anymore, because now the problem (as, yes, I’ve written before) is that the GOP possesses no ideology at all. You don’t believe me? Consider that FreedomWorks, the extremist libertarian group that successfully championed Tea Party conservatism a decade and a half ago, closed its doors in May. It blamed Trump.

    #maga #trump #fascism #freedomworks #teaparty #kochnetwork #gop

  14. The Republicans’ Most Cynical, Pointless Brawl Yet newrepublic.com/article/183508

    People used to complain that the Republican Party was too ideological. You don’t hear that so much anymore, because now the problem (as, yes, I’ve written before) is that the GOP possesses no ideology at all. You don’t believe me? Consider that FreedomWorks, the extremist libertarian group that successfully championed Tea Party conservatism a decade and a half ago, closed its doors in May. It blamed Trump.

    #maga #trump #fascism #freedomworks #teaparty #kochnetwork #gop

  15. Looks like #KochBrothers got their money's worth!

    #ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochNetwork Donor Events

    Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the #SupremeCourt.

    by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
    Sept. 22, 2023

    "The Koch network is among the largest and most influential political organizations of the last half century, and it’s underwritten a far-reaching campaign to influence the course of American law. In a case the Supreme Court will hear this coming term, the justices could give the network a historic victory: limiting federal agencies’ power to issue #regulations in areas ranging from the #environment to labor rights to consumer protection. After shepherding the case to the court, Koch network staff attorneys are now asking the justices to overturn a decades-old precedent. (Thomas used to support the precedent but flipped his position in recent years.)"

    Read more:
    propublica.org/article/clarenc

    #ImpeachJusticeThomas
    #ScotusIsCorrupt #SCROTUS
    #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ScrotusSunday #EnvironmentalRegulations #EPA #Chevron

  16. Looks like #KochBrothers got their money's worth!

    #ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochNetwork Donor Events

    Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the #SupremeCourt.

    by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
    Sept. 22, 2023

    "The Koch network is among the largest and most influential political organizations of the last half century, and it’s underwritten a far-reaching campaign to influence the course of American law. In a case the Supreme Court will hear this coming term, the justices could give the network a historic victory: limiting federal agencies’ power to issue #regulations in areas ranging from the #environment to labor rights to consumer protection. After shepherding the case to the court, Koch network staff attorneys are now asking the justices to overturn a decades-old precedent. (Thomas used to support the precedent but flipped his position in recent years.)"

    Read more:
    propublica.org/article/clarenc

    #ImpeachJusticeThomas
    #ScotusIsCorrupt #SCROTUS
    #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ScrotusSunday #EnvironmentalRegulations #EPA #Chevron

  17. Looks like #KochBrothers got their money's worth!

    #ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochNetwork Donor Events

    Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the #SupremeCourt.

    by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
    Sept. 22, 2023

    "The Koch network is among the largest and most influential political organizations of the last half century, and it’s underwritten a far-reaching campaign to influence the course of American law. In a case the Supreme Court will hear this coming term, the justices could give the network a historic victory: limiting federal agencies’ power to issue #regulations in areas ranging from the #environment to labor rights to consumer protection. After shepherding the case to the court, Koch network staff attorneys are now asking the justices to overturn a decades-old precedent. (Thomas used to support the precedent but flipped his position in recent years.)"

    Read more:
    propublica.org/article/clarenc

    #ImpeachJusticeThomas
    #ScotusIsCorrupt #SCROTUS
    #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ScrotusSunday #EnvironmentalRegulations #EPA #Chevron

  18. Looks like #KochBrothers got their money's worth!

    #ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochNetwork Donor Events

    Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the #SupremeCourt.

    by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
    Sept. 22, 2023

    "The Koch network is among the largest and most influential political organizations of the last half century, and it’s underwritten a far-reaching campaign to influence the course of American law. In a case the Supreme Court will hear this coming term, the justices could give the network a historic victory: limiting federal agencies’ power to issue #regulations in areas ranging from the #environment to labor rights to consumer protection. After shepherding the case to the court, Koch network staff attorneys are now asking the justices to overturn a decades-old precedent. (Thomas used to support the precedent but flipped his position in recent years.)"

    Read more:
    propublica.org/article/clarenc

    #ImpeachJusticeThomas
    #ScotusIsCorrupt #SCROTUS
    #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ScrotusSunday #EnvironmentalRegulations #EPA #Chevron

  19. Looks like #KochBrothers got their money's worth!

    #ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochNetwork Donor Events

    Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the #SupremeCourt.

    by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
    Sept. 22, 2023

    "The Koch network is among the largest and most influential political organizations of the last half century, and it’s underwritten a far-reaching campaign to influence the course of American law. In a case the Supreme Court will hear this coming term, the justices could give the network a historic victory: limiting federal agencies’ power to issue #regulations in areas ranging from the #environment to labor rights to consumer protection. After shepherding the case to the court, Koch network staff attorneys are now asking the justices to overturn a decades-old precedent. (Thomas used to support the precedent but flipped his position in recent years.)"

    Read more:
    propublica.org/article/clarenc

    #ImpeachJusticeThomas
    #ScotusIsCorrupt #SCROTUS
    #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ScrotusSunday #EnvironmentalRegulations #EPA #Chevron

  20. The IDU and Steve Bannon have been instrumental in funding and providing media to the Afd.

    Bannon is directly connected to Dugin and Putin, Murdoch, Mercer, Bannon is part of Koch network.

    AWZ and IDU have the same chairman.

    Stephen Harper has #KochNetwork backing his organizations.

  21. > It’s said that behind every great fortune is a great crime. This is the crime, the genesis of the Kochs’ $120 billion empire—and the foundation of the fearsome #KochNetwork, that political Death Star, created solely to keep #CharlesKoch out of prison.
    ... the rest of the Osage story—right up to today—especially their decades-long battle with #KochOil.
    gregpalast.com/what-charles-ko
    #ChiefStandingBear #GregPalast #LongKnife #LeonardoDiCaprio #GeorgeDiCaprio
    /HT @roblosricos via
    @DoomsdaysCW

  22. #2024USElections
    Two very powerful factions support Haley. If Haley AND Trump are still running for President in October, that will be a sign that the #kochnetwork and the NAR factions were not able to strike a deal with the Trump faction. Negotiations will happen after it becomes apparent that Trump is not heading to prison before November. Trump and Haley will be negotiating with the domestic factions as well as with Israel, Russia, India, China, the competing Middle East Muslim factions, not to mention our good friends in the UK/EU. And there is still a chance that a surprise dark horse candidate will emerge at the last minute—that would be a very dangerous development.
    In 2016, the Trump family sold off SC justices, CIA intelligence, classified info (including nuclear info), EPA regulations, oil/gas leases on parklands to the petromob, and much more.
    In 2024, the Trump family is truly desperate. If he gets into office, Trump will do everything he can to ensure that he and his children remain above the law indefinitely. But either Trump or Haley may give #Kochnetwork and NAR free rein to pursue their own respective agendas, which are to control the markets and control the government indefinitely.
    The vast majority of likely voters have already made up their minds. Between now and November, the only questions that remain are whether ratfuckery and vote suppression will be successful, and whether enough Americans will still have enough sanity to save the American Experiment.
    As usual, in 2024 turnout will be key. So vote, and help someone else to vote.

  23. #2024USElections
    Two very powerful factions support Haley. If Haley AND Trump are still running for President in October, that will be a sign that the #kochnetwork and the NAR factions were not able to strike a deal with the Trump faction. Negotiations will happen after it becomes apparent that Trump is not heading to prison before November. Trump and Haley will be negotiating with the domestic factions as well as with Israel, Russia, India, China, the competing Middle East Muslim factions, not to mention our good friends in the UK/EU. And there is still a chance that a surprise dark horse candidate will emerge at the last minute—that would be a very dangerous development.
    In 2016, the Trump family sold off SC justices, CIA intelligence, classified info (including nuclear info), EPA regulations, oil/gas leases on parklands to the petromob, and much more.
    In 2024, the Trump family is truly desperate. If he gets into office, Trump will do everything he can to ensure that he and his children remain above the law indefinitely. But either Trump or Haley may give #Kochnetwork and NAR free rein to pursue their own respective agendas, which are to control the markets and control the government indefinitely.
    The vast majority of likely voters have already made up their minds. Between now and November, the only questions that remain are whether ratfuckery and vote suppression will be successful, and whether enough Americans will still have enough sanity to save the American Experiment.
    As usual, in 2024 turnout will be key. So vote, and help someone else to vote.

  24. @FrancisWilkinson
    1. With #KochNetwork backing, Haley will never lack funding.
    2. There is still a fair chance that Trump will not be the GOP nominee. More than just Primaries going on!
    3. Thus, even if Haley is not the GOP nominee, she might run as an independent, primarily to siphon votes from Trump; secondarily to be there for the GOP if Trump becomes non-viable.
    Koch (and the plutocrat coalition he represents) and the Christians (NAR, et al.) did not want Trump in 2016 and he is not their first choice in 2024. They tolerate him and the Russians, because he and the Russians help them weaken democracy in the West, a goal that they share with the Russians and other countries.
    Media should write MUCH MORE about how several countries are surreptitiously trying to influence the outcome of the US 2024 elections.
    Be prepared for a memorable October Surprise.
    The stakes are high.

  25. #ClarenceThomas’ involvement in the events is part of a yearslong, personal relationship w/the #KochBrothers that has remained almost entirely out of public view. It developed over years of trips to the Bohemian Grove, a #secretive all-men’s retreat in Northern California. #Thomas has been a regular at the Grove for 2 decades, where he stayed in a small camp w/real estate #billionaire #HarlanCrow & the Kochs….

    #SCOTUS #KochNetwork #Koch #Corruption

  26. #ClarenceThomas’ involvement in the events is part of a yearslong, personal relationship w/the #KochBrothers that has remained almost entirely out of public view. It developed over years of trips to the Bohemian Grove, a #secretive all-men’s retreat in Northern California. #Thomas has been a regular at the Grove for 2 decades, where he stayed in a small camp w/real estate #billionaire #HarlanCrow & the Kochs….

    #SCOTUS #KochNetwork #Koch #Corruption

  27. On Jan25, 2018, dozens of private jets descended on PSP. Some of the richest people in the country were arriving for the annual winter donor summit of the #KochNetwork, the #political org founded by #libertarian #billionaires Charles & David #Koch. A long wknd of strategizing, relaxation in the CA sun & high-dollar #fundraising lay ahead.
    Just after 6PM, a Gulfstream G200 jet touched down on the tarmac. One of the Koch network’s most powerful allies was on board: #SCOTUS Justice #ClarenceThomas.

  28. But wait, there’s more!

    #ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochNetwork #Donor Events

    by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott & Alex Mierjeski
    @ProPublica

    #Thomas has attended at least two #Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a #political network that has brought multiple #cases before the #SupremeCourt.

    #SCOTUS
    propublica.org/article/clarenc

  29. #ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochNetwork Donor Events. Went 2 private dinner 4 network’s donors. He attended Koch donor events at least 2x over yrs per interviews w 3 former network employees & 1 major donor. Thomas was brought in 2 speak in hopes that such access would encourage donors 2 continue giving. That puts Thomas in extraordinary position of having served as fundraising draw 4 network that has brought cases before #SCOTUS including 1 of most closely watched of upcoming term

  30. Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events - putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

    #clarencethomas #koch #kochnetwork #scotus

    propublica.org/article/clarenc

  31. #trump was advised by his attorneys to return the documents but Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch advised Trump he could legally keep them. #JudicialWatch is funded by the Koch Network which also funds #americansforprosperity. AFP oddly enough is now running ads against trump’s Re-election. Hmm?

    #KochNetwork #TomFitton #trumpindictment #trumparraignment #afp

  32. #trump was advised by his attorneys to return the documents but Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch advised Trump he could legally keep them. #JudicialWatch is funded by the Koch Network which also funds #americansforprosperity. AFP oddly enough is now running ads against trump’s Re-election. Hmm?

    #KochNetwork #TomFitton #trumpindictment #trumparraignment #afp

  33. #Mastodon is strange.

    I tend to see posts related to
    #COVIDisNotOver
    #COVIDisAirborne
    #MasksWork
    trending on large instances (ie. not just within my social network). I don't think it happened as often on the bird site, if ever.

    Is this the effect of lesser amount of obvious trolls/bots/astroturfing compared to #Twitter? Absence of popular figureheads of the #KochNetwork and similar players? Twitter was swarming with all of this.

    Or are people here simply naturally more open to these issues?

  34. CW: Long thread/15

    Iowa's pro-starvation law was authored by a conservative dark-money "think tank" based in Florida: the #OpportunitySolutionsProject, the lobbying arm of #FoundationForGovernmentAccountability, run by #TarrenBragdon, a Maine politician with a knack for getting money from the #KochNetwork and the #DeVos family for projects that punish, humiliate and kill marginalized people. The Iowa bill mirrors provisions passed in #KY, #KS, #WI and elsewhere - and goes beyond them.

    15/

  35. @Gal_suburban
    We could also use a framework, akin-but-anti to #CambridgeAnaytica / #KochNetwork base on #OpenSource and community cooperation and coordination but, for the life of me, I'm damned if I can figure out anything within those principles that the #Facist #OutrageMachine couldn't use against us.

    #ItSucksBeingTheGoodGuys
    #OkNotSucks
    #ButHard

  36. @Gal_suburban
    We could also use a framework, akin-but-anti to #CambridgeAnaytica / #KochNetwork base on #OpenSource and community cooperation and coordination but, for the life of me, I'm damned if I can figure out anything within those principles that the #Facist #OutrageMachine couldn't use against us.

    #ItSucksBeingTheGoodGuys
    #OkNotSucks
    #ButHard