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petersuber<p>Update. Here are some other Bluish fundraising orgs to avoid.<br><a href="https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">data4democracy.substack.com/p/</span><span class="invisible">the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation</span></a></p><p>From <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/adam_bonica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>adam_bonica</span></a></span>: "My analysis of…<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a> [filings] reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised [by a certain group of Dem PACS] has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees…This represents a fundraising efficiency rate of just 1.6 percent."</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fraud</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has been able to capitalize on a thirst from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporate</span></a> America to get into his good graces. He held a half-dozen fund-raisers for his super <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PAC</span></a> this year with tickets costing seven figures a seat. At the dinners, often held at one of Trump’s properties, executives &amp; lobbyists had the chance to tell the president about their businesses.</p><p>The super PAC’s exact cash on hand is $196.1 million, according to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a> filing.</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s super <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PAC</span></a> is sitting on about $200 million that it can spend against his rivals, giving a term-limited president a never-before-seen amount of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> in his party’s finances and future.</p><p>In the first half of 2025, Trump’s group, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> Inc., collected about $177 million from the likes of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>, Trump’s erstwhile ally, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> investor <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffreyYass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeffreyYass</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> execs <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BenHorowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BenHorowitz</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcAndreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarcAndreessen</span></a>, according to a filing on Thursday with the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/maga-inc-trump-fundraising.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/maga-inc-trump-fundraising.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Malcolm Nance<p>The <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a><br> has entered a de facto shutdown.</p><p>It can’t enforce or regulate campaign finance laws until <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/PresidentTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentTrump</span></a> and the U.S. Senate act.</p><p>Here’s what you should know — and what <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Federal</span></a> Election Commission commissioners told me today.</p><p>In <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/NOTUSreports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NOTUSreports</span></a> :</p><p><a href="https://www.notus.org/policy/fec-commissioners-meeting-congress-funding" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">notus.org/policy/fec-commissio</span><span class="invisible">ners-meeting-congress-funding</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>While its certainly true that part of why so much of the US mainstream establishment, particularly in the private sector, is willing to collaborate openly with the fascist Trump regime is because they prefer fascism to sharing, it's also true that there are clear material benefits to legitimizing and supporting the Trumpenreich regime. In what reasonable people would describe as "open corruption," Federal Election Commission data shows that the administration has dropped or frozen federal enforcement cases against "at least 17 corporations that donated to the president's inaugural fund."</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-corporations-inauguration" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/trump-co</span><span class="invisible">rporations-inauguration</span></a></p><p>'See How This Works?': Trump Drops Cases Against Corporations That Funded His Inauguration</p><p>"Public Citizen found that corporations facing federal investigations or enforcement lawsuits donated a combined $50 million to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee. Trump raised a record sum of $239 million for his second inauguration, the new FEC filings show.</p><p>"Corporations facing federal lawsuits and investigations aren't giving millions to Trump's inauguration out of the kindness of their hearts," said Public Citizen researcher Rick Claypool. "They are trying to buy good will. And when you're a corporation under investigation or facing prosecution, that means the government dropping enforcement actions against you. In some cases, it may even mean receiving pardons in cases in which guilty pleas have already been entered, or retractions of settlements already entered into."</p><p>Bank of America, Capital One, Coinbase, DuPont, and JPMorgan are among the corporations that donated to Trump's inauguration and subsequently had federal enforcement cases dismissed.</p><p>Public Citizen noted that Google, which donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee, could benefit from the Trump Justice Department's decision during an ongoing antitrust case to scrap part of a "proposed breakup plan requiring Google to sell off AI businesses."</p><p>As the article notes, dropped federal enforcement cases against corporations that paid millions to kiss the ring at the Klepto Kaiser's inauguration isn't the only way large corporate actors like Apple, Google, and Coinbase have directly benefited from fascist collaboration. Apple in particular must be delighted with Trump's decision to exempt most of its imports from his absurd tariffs; which seems like a ridiculously good return on its investment of a million dollars for Der Leader's inauguration. Finally, while I personally don't care that much about the regime's decision to monetize the Easter Egg Roll by accepting corporate sponsors, it does speak to the crass levels of greed and corruption the administration and its lawless president are willing to engage in.</p><p>On some level I understand that right now it's hard to care that much about bog standard open corruption between the Trump regime and corporate actors happy to normalize and facilitate fascism for five points a share. The Pork Reich is snatching protestors off the street, fighting a war that doesn't exist against a gang that isn't invading us while trafficking migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador, and Elon Musk is firing thousands of federal workers in a scheme to pay for billionaire tax cuts that will absolutely get people killed. There's a lot going on, and "rich capitalists are doing something terrible for their own financial benefit" almost doesn't rate as "news" in an environment like the one we're living in. </p><p>The fact is however, it's precisely because of all the other evil fascist shit is going on that private sector collaboration with the Trump regime is such an important story. As I've explained elsewhere: fascism costs American society a horrifying toll both financially and in terms of human suffering, but the installation and operation of a fascist regime can be quite profitable for some. These companies, many of whom also contribute to Republican election funds and political action committees, absolutely know what Trump is and what he means to do because Downmarket Mussolini and his minions say the quiet parts out loud on the regular. They just don't give a fuck, and are happy to help a fascist government normalize its authoritarian activities and odious ideology by touting the support they receive from respected American corporations; as long as doing so pays off on their bottom line.</p><p>There are many reasons for the rise of a successful fascist movement in an America that has always embraced what today we recognize as fascist ideology; trying to pin it down to one specific factor is a fool's errand. But if and when the history of this era is written, I'm willing to bet that rampant greed and a ruling class that lusts for power over the rest of us will rank pretty highly on the list of contributing factors to this political moment. </p><p>Archived: <a href="https://archive.ph/tXEjr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/tXEjr</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Coinbase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coinbase</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DuPont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuPont</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/JPMorgan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JPMorgan</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BankOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BankOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CapitalOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalOne</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Hey, would you believe me if I told you that the President signed an executive order on February 18th that gives Trump, a guy who tried to make election officials declare him the winner of an election he lost (and launched a coup attempt when that didn't work) and has been talking about shutting down media organizations that criticize him, essentially complete control over the previously independent Federal Election Commission and Federal Communications Commission? I mean probably not right, since for-profit media has barely covered the issue even though it has a direct impact on their industry. Unfortunately, it's true:</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/independent-agencies-oversee-elections-and-media-trumps-seizing-their-reins/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/independ</span><span class="invisible">ent-agencies-oversee-elections-and-media-trumps-seizing-their-reins/</span></a></p><p>Independent Agencies Oversee Elections and Media. Trump’s Seizing Their Reins.</p><p>"The order states that, “The heads of independent regulatory agencies shall establish a position of White House Liaison in their respective agencies,” and goes on to say: “Independent regulatory agency chairmen shall submit agency strategic plans … to the Director of OMB for clearance prior to finalization.” In other words, independent agencies will no longer be independent but will instead be ruled over by political commissars, their every action now scrutinized to make sure they are ideologically sympatico to the aims of the MAGA movement.</p><p>Two of the agencies subject to this new system are the Federal Election Commission (FEC) — a historically bipartisan, six-member organization that helps to set ground rules for how elections are run and financed — and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which, among other things, controls access to the country’s airwaves.</p><p>Trump has been angling for control of both of these agencies since the start of his administration."</p><p>Is any of this legal? Who the hell knows; but are you willing to bet a 6-3 fascist-high Supreme Court that has already endorsed the idea that Trump is above the law and the existence of an imperial presidency, are likely to stop him? I'm certainly not. Furthermore, to mount any sort of mass resistance to this type of "classic" fascist power grab ultimately targeting elections and media criticism of the regime, you'd probably have to know it's happening and understand why this executive order might be the single most dangerous thing Trump has signed since he took office again; and clearly for-profit media and a political class doing more collaborating with fascism than resisting it, don't consider informing you about this very relevant right now. </p><p>Folks, I dunno about you but I'm getting tired of waiting around for Trump to find his Reichstag Fire and finish crafting a multi-executive order version of the German Enabling Act while Very Serious PeopleTM keep pretending we don't know if Trump is going to go full Hitler and mustn't presume he means to do everything he openly says he's doing. We all heard this guy on tape pressuring election officials and even GOP Governors to "find" him thousands of votes and effectively rig the 2020 election for him. We're all watching as his Project 2025 nazi minion Brendan Carr uses his newfound powers as head of the FCC to threaten the broadcast licenses of media orgs that criticize him, try to shut down PBS and NPR, and even investigate media companies that the regime claims "promote diversity" like that's some kind of crime. So when Trump, the imperial president, passes an executive order that gives him complete effective control of the agencies that regulate American elections and what passes for the "free press" in the United States, you'd have to some kind of credulous rube to believe he's doing so for any other purpose besides rigging elections for fascists and eliminating whatever portions of the US media there are that won't carry water for the fascist administration and the odious ideology animating it. There's not a lotta wiggle room here; either you're a complete fucking muppet, or you're willing to quietly bootlick for a fascist President while he rips pages directly from Hitler's playbook to create his very own American Pork Reich. </p><p>I guess the only question left then, is which of those two possibilities best describes an American political and media class supposedly opposed to Trump's fascist regime, that doesn't want to talk about it before it's too late to stop him? </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FCC</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elections</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePress</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NaziGermany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaziGermany</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/BrendanCarr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrendanCarr</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a></p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fec</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ALT4you" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALT4you</span></a> <br>Joyce Vance<br>Corruption of FEC Election protections</p>
gentlegardener<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/virginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>virginia</span></a> is divided in 4 parts<br>8.8m people july24<br>2.4m NOT eligible to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a> 27.7%<br>2.3m <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/harriswalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harriswalz</span></a> 26.5%<br>2.1m trumpVance 23.5%<br>0.1m other 1.1%<br>1.9m eligible did not vote 21.2%</p><p>Sources <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UScensus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UScensus</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UFelectionLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UFelectionLab</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a></p>
BakersRelay<p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/TheGremlinZoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGremlinZoo</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a> </p><p>From CBSNews.com: Democratic FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub says Trump fired her. She says she's not leaving</p><p><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-fec-chair-ellen-weintraub-trump-fired-her/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/democratic-fe</span><span class="invisible">c-chair-ellen-weintraub-trump-fired-her/</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Stay strong, Ellen Weintraub! America loves you.</p><p>Election official who called out Trump's lies refuses to step down<br><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/2/7/2302109/-Election-official-who-called-out-Trump-s-lies-refuses-to-step-down" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dailykos.com/story/2025/2/7/23</span><span class="invisible">02109/-Election-official-who-called-out-Trump-s-lies-refuses-to-step-down</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EllenWeintraub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EllenWeintraub</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StopTrumpNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTrumpNow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpDidThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpDidThis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansDidThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicansDidThis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansOwnThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicansOwnThis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPKakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOPKakistocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPWeirdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOPWeirdos</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NoRepublicansEverAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoRepublicansEverAgain</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/investigations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>investigations</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election2024</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/404meda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>404meda</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/doxxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>doxxing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/voted-in-america-this-site-doxed-you/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/voted-in-america-t</span><span class="invisible">his-site-doxed-you/</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>BUT WE SAW PICTURES YESTERDAY! DID TRUMP VOTE TWICE?????</p><p>Mr. Trump will benefit from a 2021 New York State law that allows felons to vote as long as they are not incarcerated.</p><p>Sentencing is now expected on Nov. 26, when Mr. Trump could face probation or up to four years in prison.</p><p>Mr. Trump had initially said he planned to vote early but ultimately decided he would vote in person on Election Day.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NaziTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaziTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPWeirdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOPWeirdos</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Raccoon🏳️‍🌈<p>As we get closer to the election, I have realized something which is important to the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a>, be it <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Misskey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Misskey</span></a>, or any other <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/instances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>instances</span></a>...</p><p>Elon Musk, the person many people fled Twitter to avoid is now effectively a member of Trump's inner-circle, and should Trump win, he will have direct influence over the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FCC</span></a> and <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a>. The consequences of this will be disastrous, not only because it will end all regulation of his businesses, but will allow him to directly attack the Fediverse using regulatory levers. While it's not clear if there is any legal backing for this, most <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> based <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/servers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>servers</span></a> cannot handle this.</p><p>This is on top of the partisan fight over <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NetNeutrality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetNeutrality</span></a>, which Trump went after during his time in office, but Harris will likely protect, just as previous Democrats did.</p><p>That is why I have no choice, not simply as an <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> citizen in a marginalized group, but <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TechHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechHub</span></a>'s head of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/moderation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moderation</span></a>, to tell my fellow American users to vote for Kamala Harris.</p><p>Our <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Network</span></a> may depend on it.</p>
David August ❌👑<p>To pull a Bezos: to sell oneself out to someone only to be kicked in the teeth by them. </p><p>Couldn’t have happened to a smarter person. Like literally, almost anyone paying attention with a modicum of intelligence would have known acquiescence would earn them nothing but scorn.</p><p>h/t <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@amberwavesofflame/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>amberwavesofflame</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bezos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Raccoon🏳️‍🌈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Gargron</span></a></span><br>I am highly concerned, as a moderator on this platform, that if Trump wins, there is a certainty that he will let Elon Musk call the shots at the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FCC</span></a> and <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/FEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FEC</span></a> as a kickback for his full support for the campaign, which will directly threaten the North <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/servers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>servers</span></a>. I need to post the full endorsement here, but I am definitely telling people on this network that they need to VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS, if for no other reason than to keep our comms open.</p>
Nonilex

"Appalling": #RuthBaderGinsburg family denounces pro-#Trump “RBG PAC” ads

#RBG’s family called the shadowy PAC's pro-Trump ad buys an "affront" to the late justice's legacy

A Trump group is spending millions in #DarkMoney to claim he would defend reproductive rights while brandishing late #SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name.

The so-called RBG PAC spent nearly $20M to boost Trump’s campaign, per #FEC filings revealed on Fri.

#ReproductiveRights #HarrisWalz2024
salon.com/2024/10/25/appalling

Raccoon🏳️‍🌈

So it has been brought up to me that #ElonMusk is likely connecting himself with the Trump campaign right now in an effort to secure political influence during a potential Trump administration.

This would mean that he would have a huge amount of control over the #FCC and #FEC, the two agencies which oversee not only #Twitter, but the operation of #Fediverse and #BlueSky servers in the #UnitedStates.

This is highly concerning, considering #Musk is hostile not only to the Fediverse as a Twitter competitor, but freedom of speech and regulation of moderation in general.

I think, because of this, the Trump administration could now be a very real threat to this network and all networks like it.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Nonilex

#ElonMusk made a “substantial” contribution this month to a #superPAC affiliated w/RepTony Gonzales, #Republican of #Texas. A new filing from the #FEC shows how much money went to the super PAC, Hispanic Leadership Alliance: $825,000.

Acc/to another FEC filing, #Musk also donated $10 million to the #Senate Leadership Fund, the main Republican super PAC organized by allies of #MitchMcConnell, the Senate minority leader, to support the party's Senate candidates.

#Billionaire#Republicans#USpol
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