Just 150 billionaire families have poured $1.4 billion into this year's elections. On average these super-rich families have spent $9.2M in political contributions — just 0.06% of their total wealth. The equivalent donation for a typical household would be ~$120. Oligarchy.
You know what he will do when you are asleep because of your ALT text ... ;)
Trump's administration weakened or wiped out more than 125 environmental rules over four years. Now, he's promised to do whatever Big Oil wants if they give him $1 billion for his campaign. That's the thing with Trump: He'll sell us all out for his own gain. Be warned.
Pollsters should start asking Trump voters “if former President Trump is re-elected and launches the campaigns of political violence he’s promised, will you personally take part or will you leave the attacks on scary brown people to others?”
Just a week after both Meta & Google promised Senators that they would never block a potentially embarrassing story related to a candidate for national office, both companies did just that. Apparently the promise only applied to embarrassing info on GOP candidates. www.techdirt.com/2024/09/30/b...
It probably will not shock you to find out that big tech’s promises to never again suppress embarrassing leaked content about a political figure came with a catch. Apparently, it only applies when …
Trump wants to extend his tax cuts for the rich, which would add $4.6T to the deficit. But he wants to go even further, cutting the corporate tax rate to 15%. This would result in the 100 biggest corporations receiving a giveaway of $48B annually. It's clear who he works for.
Florida is perfecting a system that looks very much like Victor Orban’s Pseudo Democratic autocracy in Hungary. What were ones test beds for democracy are swiftly becoming test beds for authoritarianism and anyone who thinks this ends the day after the election is not paying attention
The impact of Florida’s new law targeting voter outreach groups is clear: voter registration numbers have plummeted. In 2020, grassroots organizations registered nearly half a million voters. This year, only 13,521 have been registered so far. boltsmag.org/florida...
The GOP imposed new restrictions on voter registration organizations, and threatened them with steep fines for violations. Now these groups are scrambling to adapt.