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#undermines — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Tuesday, August 19, 2025

    Russia occupied less than 1% of Ukraine’s territory since November 2022, monitoring group says — Russian media shows US armored vehicle with Russian, American flags storming Ukrainian positions — Russian gasoline prices hit record highs after drone strikes shut refineries — Muscle beaches, drag racing, and drones falling into the sea. Summer in Odesa hasn’t stopped — In Ukraine, democracy finds its fiercest defenders … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  2. Federal law requires campaigns to disclose their spending, including itemized details of their vendors, as a safeguard against #corruption and in the interest of #transparency.
    But as in many aspects of #campaign #finance #law, campaigns have found "workarounds", and the body that oversees such regulations, the Federal Election Commission, is perpetually hamstrung by partisan #deadlock.

    Campaign finance experts said that among increasingly #brazen moves by political candidates, Mr. Scott’s new financial disclosures stood out as exhibit A.
    “This practice completely #undermines the federal campaign finance #disclosure #requirements,” said Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance expert. “The public has a right to know how political committees are spending donor dollars.”

  3. Move by Tennessee Republicans to oust 3 Dem lawmakers startles state

    What’s unfolding in the Tennessee State Capitol, where Republican leaders want to #expel three #Democrats over participation in a #protest demanding new #gun-#safety laws, is extraordinary for its political #brazenness and #scope.

    “It will echo across the country. I think it will have a #chilling effect on all states where there’s supermajorities or very red states,” Rep. Gloria Johnson, one of the Democrats under threat of expulsion, said in a phone interview Tuesday.

    “This is chipping away at our #democracy, there’s no question, because everybody’s going to wonder, ‘am I next?’”

    The ACLU in Tennessee also issued a warning the effort “#undermines Democracy.”

    “Expulsion is an extreme measure that is used very infrequently in our state and our country because it strips voters of representation by the people they elected,” Kathy Sinback, the executive director of the ACLU in Tennessee, said in a statement.

    politico.com/news/2023/04/04/t