Labour buddies up with gig economy grifters rather than the ordinary working people they exploit 🤷♂️
How much further to the right do Labour have to lurch before progressives wake up and realise it’s a totally lost cause?
The UK desperately needs change in its politics but seems fixated on repeating the mistake of ‘97 by planning to elect a Tory Lite Labour™️ Government. Again.
The opaque right-wing think tank the Adam Smith Institute (beloved of Thatcher) has said it will be “expanding its network” into the Labour Party and will announce one of Labour’s peers as a patron in the coming weeks.
How much of Marjorie Taylor Greene's net worth of $41 milliion is of Russian Kremlin origin?
Has/have there been a thorough investigation(s) by expert tax investigators?
Georgian $41 million space laser blondie MTG, who compared military aid to Putin-attacked Ukraine to "money laundering" should try to honestly explain to the American people wheter or not she laundered Russian/Kremlin mob money as straw-woman (not referring to brains!) buying $15,000 in Lockheed Martin stocks for Russians exactly two days before Putin's aggression hordes invaded free Ukraine.
The start of Putin's war of aggression was also, when loudmouth & new Lockheed-Martin-stock-owner Greene dumb-brazenly trumpeted: "War is big business to our leaders"!
Who's funding the "non-partisan" front group No Labels whose objective is to siphon off Democratic votes and put Trump back into the White House? As Judd Legum @juddlegum reports, the group fights to keep its donors secret.
But internal documents obtained by Daily Beast show "prominent executives from Fortune 500 companies and leading financial-services firms have contributed to No Labels…."
Big funders of No Labels include Peter Thiel, Foster Friess, Home Depot founder Ken Langone, and Clarence Thomas's sugar daddy Harlan Crow. All Trump supporters….
Judd Legum asks,
"Is No Labels a thinly disguised effort by Wall Street and Trump supporters to deny Biden a second term?"
@marcelias Organizations, which can't win in free & fair elections take to criminal acts like voter suppression & election subversion.
If they're serially committing such fraudulent acts, they should be banned from the ballots on ground of conspiracy against rights.
State legislatures codifying injustice are providing hostile public disservice to the people, justice, the United States & their Constitution.
Super secretive, ultra wealthy/conservative, anti-union, climate change denial, subversive funder of neoliberal think tanks, agendae. As dangerous as Leonard Leo; good to see more coverage, unveiling of Koch's influence.
Clarence Thomas’ Billionaire Benefactor Tied To SCOTUS Bombshell
The Supreme Court just gutted wetland protections after lobbying by Harlan Crow’s business interests https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110498162127448374
It’s not a public square until it is controlled by the public democratically. Anything less is a substitute, a stand in for The Big Conversation we probably should be having.
The fears people have about “collective action for the common good” aren’t trivial. The potential for corruption, cheating and diversion of the public will to private whims is real.
Too many people are more comfortable letting some powerful man tell them “I’ll take care of people like you” and screw the Big Conversation.
...chapter aims to dispel this reductive, indeed incorrect, account of the relationship between West European socialism and the idea, form, and use of the state. It challenges what remains a dominant interpretation of the left’s propensity for state intervention in political and journalistic debates." *
Now, I do agree that there have been huge #DarkMoney flows...
registered 3rd party advertiser tied to Alberta & Saskatchewan conservatives, oil lobbyists, & obscure religious sect known as Plymouth Brethren: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Brethren
The Alabama government’s briefs before the three-judge panel in September referenced a concurring opinion by #Kavanaugh that questioned whether “race-based redistricting” can “extend indefinitely into the future.”
Alabama further relied on arguments — also rejected by the U.S. District Court — that a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court decision this same term ending affirmative action in college admissions (called Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ) compels the Court to find that a state’s use of a map in which “race predominates” now violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. As in Milligan, Kavanaugh filed a concurrence in Students for Fair Admissions, emphasizing the potential for #time#limits on race-related policies.
In addition, there now appears to be a significant connection between Alabama’s post-Milligan map redrawing process, #Leo’s powerful national dark money network, and Kavanaugh.
The tangled web of previously unreported ties centers around #Marshall, Alabama Solicitor General Edmond #LaCour — dubbed “the architect behind Alabama’s voting rights defiance” — and the D.C.-area law firm #ConsovoyMcCarthy, the firm founded by William #Consovoy, a now-deceased former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas who represented Shelby County in Shelby County v. Holder.
In Shelby County, the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act and its vital preclearance provision, which protected against unilateral state changes to voting rights and maps in states that had a documented history of racial bias in administering elections in order to disenfranchise Black voters. #LeonardLeo#scotus#darkmoney#clarencethomas#FedSoc#ShelbyCountyVsHolder#VotingRightsAct#racebased#affirmativeaction
BUSTED: "A dark money group tied to conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo was dissolved 3 days after POLITICO inquired about whether it helped to facilitate the multi-million-dollar sale of former White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway’s polling company"
The BH Fund, which was formed in 2016 with an anonymous $24 million donation, has been a nerve center for distributing millions of dollars around
Leonard Leo’s network of dark-money groups bolstering former President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court picks.
On the day of the 2017 sale of Kellyanne Conway’s polling business to the firm Creative Response Concepts Inc., a lawyer filed similar liens with Virginia regulators for both CRC and BH Fund, which financial experts say suggested the dark money group played a role in financing the transaction, POLITICO reported in late December.
The deal, which Conway valued at between $1 million and $5 million on her federal filings, raised potential ethical concerns because Conway was simultaneously advocating with Trump for some of Leo’s favored judicial candidates.
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.
“Elon #Musk’s X Corp., the parent company of the platform formerly known as #Twitter, on Friday sued #California’s attorney general over the state’s new content moderation law.