According to tax records gathered by #InfluenceWatch, #Paragon has received seven-figure donations from groups linked to high-profile conservative activists #CharlesKoch and #LeonardLeo. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Hard-liners’ Medicaid letter h...

Koch-Funded Group Authored GOP Letter Demanding Medicaid Cuts
https://truthout.org/articles/koch-funded-group-authored-house-gop-letter-demanding-medicaid-cuts
Hard-liner Medicaid letter tied to GOP think tank
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/02/congress/chip-roy-medicaid-letter-paragon-health-00324249

#billionaires #Koch #Musk #CharlesKoch #KochIndustries #capitalism #libertarianism
#oligarchy #meritocracy #plutocracy #antiunion #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Medicaid
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #transgenocide
#unionize #DemocraticSocialism #socialism #WealthTax #solidarity

🏳️‍⚧️ #TransLivesMatter
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870

And who HELPED put the world in this mess, Charles, HMMM?

https://time.com/7282130/charles-koch-speech-trump-tariffs/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#CharlesKoch

Une partie des libertariens réactionnaires qui ont lourdement financé le dispositif électoral de #Trump se rebiffent.
Les #Tariffs sur la #China menacent leurs propres business.
Tu vas voir qu'ils vont finir par porter plainte contre le clown orange 😂
Ah, ben oui, ils viennent de le faire 😂
#CharlesKoch #LeonardLeo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-tariffs-lawsuit

Monday Monday 🎶 Blink blink.
What!?! After two days of blocking most news for the better part of two days, I wake up to #CharlesKoch and #CitizensUnited cronies eating crow but suing Trump over tariffs. Lord have mercy.
#NewCivilLibertiesAlliance

#RobberBaron #ElonMusk #Musk #JeffBezos #MarkZuckerberg #BillGates #KochBrothers #CharlesKoch #DavidKoch #HarlanCrow #Throwback #TheGoodOldDays #ItsNotBadIfYouLaughWhilePeopleSuffer #GaslightGatekeepGirlboss

Everyone who is mad about Trumps advertisement show for Tesla in front of the White House shouldn't be.

It's great what he did and I'll explain you why I think so.

Getting the President to pose as a used car seller shows how desperate #Musk is and that we can hurt him here, so we must continue. Another added value of this genious PR stunt: it will have the opposite effect Ren and Stimpy were hoping for as the brand is now really 100% associated with the shitheads and will further catalyse the brands meltdown. #Trump and Musk can in the meantime get creative on how to explain to all the #DodgeRAM #MAGA meatheads that they now should buy all of a sudden a (gAaaaYyy!!11!) electric car while at the same time sucking #CharlesKoch's oily d***. Good luck!

(Edit: added 'desperate'; changed Koch brothers to Charles Koch, as it is minus one since a few years already)

“These guys have, both at the corporate level and at the individual level, been even better at avoiding taxes than in making good products,” Stiglitz said. “The level of taxes they pay as a share of their profits should be an embarrassment to them.” The 24 superbillionares declined to comment or didn’t respond to requests for comment.

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/meet-superbillionaires-worlds-ultra-rich-cb7a797c?st=7un8Cf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#classwar #classwarfare #oligarchy #corruption #taxavoidance #capitalism #capitalaccumulation #primitiveaccumulation #elonMusk #markzuckerberg #davidKoch #charlesKoch #Fascism #MAGA #corporatewelfare #usPol

Charles Koch Spent $91M in 2023 to Influence Higher Education
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/03/koch-spent-91-million-to-influence-higher-education-in-2023
https://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-koch

* poured $90.8M into 127 university/college recipients in 2023 to promote business/policies

Comment: your billionaire dollars at work. I suggest you read Jane Mayer's Dark Money
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112810230899017402

#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism #CharlesKoch #KochIndustries
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #OpusDei #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS

#CharlesKoch’s network launches $20m campaign backing Trump #tax breaks
Revealed: #fossilfuel #billionaire’s #AmericansForProsperity vows ‘herculean undertaking’ to renew and deepen tax cuts
The donor appeal calls for even bolder tax cuts for corporations that would directly benefit #KochIndustries, the energy and chemicals giant from which most of #AFP’s funding derives.
It is estimated that the #Kochs have benefited by more than $1bn a year from Trump’s tax cuts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/koch-americans-for-prosperity-trump-tax-breaks

#Pandemic RT @DrALJONES: Analysis/expose: "Right-Wing Dark Money Pushed For Trump’s exit from the World Health Org.

The Heritage Foundation & Charles Koch, eg, opposed public health efforts to control the spread of Covid-19.

The foundation opposes WHO's planning for a pandemic preparedness treaty intended to enable better international cooperation.

https://www.importantcontext.news/p/right-wing-dark-money-pushed-for

#WHO USPol #Trump #CharlesKoch #HeritageFoundation #PublicHealth .

[2018] Decade-Long Plot to Kill Public-Sector Unions
https://inthesetimes.com/features/janus_supreme_court_unions_investigation.html

* SCOTUS: Janus v. AFSCME
* poised to decimate public-sector union
* made poss. by network of rt.-wing billionaires/think tanks/corporations
* State Policy Network
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113652894383261288
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110634164486546830
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113596007587922764

#USlaw #SCOTUS #RightToWork #Janus_v_AFSCME #UnionBusting #antiUnion
#DarkMoney #DAF #BradleyFoundation #ALEC
#capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism #privatization #CharlesKoch #SPN

[thread] Rebecca Friedrichs

Friedrichs v. California Teachers Assoc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrichs_v._California_Teachers_Association

* opp. to public sector collective bargaining/fees
* Center for Individual Rights w. funding f. Bradley Foundation
* init. contact w. plaintiffs, 10 public school teachers who had paid agency fees
* lead plaintiff elem. teacher Rebecca Friedrichs

#USlaw #SCOTUS #RightToWork #Freidrichs #Janus_v_AFSCME #UnionBusting #antiUnion
#BradleyFoundation #CharlesKoch #billionaires #libertarianism #censorship

Reblog von Christian Stöcker:

Reblog via Christian Stöcker

So #CharlesKoch, #HarlanCrow et al. bought a Supreme Court (@scotus) that kept #Trump out of prison, granted him massively extended immunity and then pumped money into the @GOP campaign.

They own the horrors of the coming years (only 4, hopefully). https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/us/politics/trump-special-counsel-report-election-jan-6.html

So #CharlesKoch, #HarlanCrow et al. bought a Supreme Court (@SCOTUS) that kept #Trump out of prison, granted him massively extended immunity and then pumped money into the @gop campaign. They own the horrors of the coming years (only 4, hopefully). www.nytimes.com/2025...

Special Counsel Report Says Tr...

So #CharlesKoch, #HarlanCrow et al. bought a Supreme Court (@scotus) that kept #Trump out of prison, granted him massively extended immunity and then pumped money into the @GOP campaign.

They own the horrors of the coming years (only 4, hopefully). https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/us/politics/trump-special-counsel-report-election-jan-6.html

Koch Network Tax Plan Targets the Poor in Louisiana
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/12/29/koch-network-tax-plan-targets-the-poor-in-louisiana

* day after Trump2 electoral sweep
* Governor Jeff Landry(R-LA) convened special session of state legislature
* overhaul state’s tax system
* Koch-backed groups actively pressured governor/legislators to pass slate of bills
* reduce taxes on wealthy/corporations
* Americans for Prosperity-Louisiana
* Pelican Institute

#capitalism #libertarianism #CharlesKoch #KochIndustries #CorportatePolluters #AFP #PelicanInstitute

Privatizing the Post Office Would Be a Disaster
https://jacobin.com/2024/12/us-post-office-privatization-trump

* Trump confirmed he’s considering privatizing US Postal Service
* would be a big step in direction of a libertarian dystopia
* USPS Offers an Irreplaceable Public Service
* We Need a Bigger Public Postal Service

#JRE #JoeRogan #sycophants
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #MailBallots
#USPS #USmail #PostMaster #LouisDeJoy
#capitalization #privatization #libertarianism #billionaires #CharlesKoch #SPN #TFAS

Trump Confirms Extreme Plan to Demolish Postal Service
https://newrepublic.com/post/189454/trump-plan-demolish-postal-service

* USPS likely be on chopping block during Trump2 administration

Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/14/trump-usps-privatize-plan/

* Trump1 feuded w. USPS
* privatizing it could shake up consumer shipping & business supply chains

#USPS #USmail #LouisDeJoy
#MailBallots #ElectoralFraud
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#privatization #libertarianism #billionaires #CharlesKoch #SPN

After Reports Suggest Trump Seeks to Privatize USPS, Progressives Speak Out
https://truthout.org/articles/after-reports-suggest-trump-seeks-to-privatize-usps-progressives-speak-out
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/14/trump-usps-privatize-plan

* Trump “keen” for scheme that hands USPS to for-profit, private interests

#USPS #USmail #LouisDeJoy
#MailBallots #ElectoralFraud
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#privatization #libertarianism #billionaires #CharlesKoch #SPN