What happened after $10 MILLION in #taxpayer funds was illegally diverted into Casey’s Hope Florida Foundation?
It was sent to dark money groups who laundered the cash thru #PACs run by
#JamesUthmeierFL
to fund political ads against Amendment 3.
Where's the accountability?
https://www.thestreet.com/personalities/howard-lutnick-net-worth
Commerce Secretary…has a net worth of between $2 billion to $4 billion…
…has a penthouse in Manhattan and a second home in Bridgehampton, New York. He reportedly purchased a home in Washington D.C. that previously belonged to #FoxNews anchor Bret Baier for $25 million in December 2024, in anticipation of his appointment to the Trump administration.
Lutnick, a Republican, was active in the 2024 presidential election, donating millions of dollars to #PACs…
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On the U.S. Supreme Court
—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy.
Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking
—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch
—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.
We can draw a straight line, for example,
from the Roberts Court’s 2010 #Citizens #United decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting,
to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender.
Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of #Super #PACs,
giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters.
The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda,
meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.
Three years later, in #Shelby #County v.#Holder, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act,
invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination.
Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era
and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history,
declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”
A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority.
“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent.
But soaking us was the whole point.
The downpour continues.
Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander,
a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in #Rucho v. #Common #Cause.
In that case, the Roberts Court
—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”
—conveniently found that #partisan #gerrymandering,
-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures,
-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.
Many trust physical access control systems (PACS) to secure their spaces, but did you know access cards can often be easily cloned?
In our latest blog, "How easily access cards can be cloned and why your PACS might be vulnerable," Warren reveals how attackers exploit outdated configurations and default encryption keys to bypass these systems: https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/how-easily-access-cards-can-be-cloned-and-why-your-pacs-might-be-vulnerable/
You’ll learn:
What PACS are and how they work
How attackers identify and clone common tokens
What makes a system insecure—and how to fix it
#CyberSecurity #PACS #AccessControl #PhysicalSecurity #DataProtection #CloningRisks #SecurityTips #CyberThreats
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"$16bil was pumped across #federal #elections this year; the 1st #presidential #campaign after e #CitizensUnited decision, in 2012, saw just $7bil, at the time a record.. More than 1 in 6 $ used by presidential #candidates & associated #PACs this year were contributed by a #billionaire .. Of tt total, just over 70% went to #Republican candidates & right-wing PACs.. #Darkmoney & “gray money,” will make up abt half of the $4.5 billion in outside #spending on all federal elections this year"
Your door's Physical Access Control System (PACS) helps keep your building secure, but it can be susceptible to cloning attacks.
Our Warren recently demonstrated this risk to an audience of security professionals by cloning an access badge in just a few minutes—right before their eyes.
His blog post highlights the top five checks you can take to prevent cloning: https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/making-sure-your-door-access-control-system-is-secure-top-5-things-to-check/
#AccessControl #PhysicalSecurity #CyberSec #RFID #PACS #BuildingSecurity #CardCloning #SecurityTips
Hat eigentlich jemand auf dem Schirm wie dt. Berufsunfähigkeits-Versicherer damit umgehen?
Und wie mit neuen Vertragsschlüssen, haben sich die Konditionen geändert?
#CovidIsNotOver #LongCOVID #pacs #pots #massdisablingevent #maskup
Wow. Elon Musk's "lottery" were hand selected "winners" that had to sign a NDA and fulfill their contractual obligations ... Holy shit they're all fucking disgusting
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/musk-pac-tells-philly-judge-1m-sweepstakes-winners-not-chosen-by-chance/4017920/
#elonMusk #trump #cheat #liar #lottery #nda #voteBlue #pacs
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AX2fFMySIxc
⛔️🇺🇸Putin asked Elon Musk to not enable Pentagon funded Starlink in Taiwan in possible ‘Logan Act’ violation (more) #Ukraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Mastodon #USA #US #OSCE #CoE #PACS #UK #EU #NATO #News #Musk #ElonMusk #UnitedStates #SHAPE #EuropeanUnion #BoycottTesla #BoycottMusk #X #AxisOfEvil #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar
#10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow
Prevalence and measurement of #PostExertionalMalaise in post-acute COVID-19 syndrome: A systematic review & meta-analysis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163834324002160
"pooled prevalence of #PEM among #PACS patients at 3 months or more after #COVID19 diagnosis was 0.55"
Hashtags:
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #PASC #COVIDBrain
@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME
Via the #DailyBeast @ 3:09pm EDT on Oct 15, 2024
The co-manager of #DonaldTrump’s #WhiteHouse campaign has raked in $22 million and counting from the #Republican nominee’s political operation in just two years, the Daily Beast has learned.
#ChrisLaCivita, an influential #GOP operative, reaped a $19 million financial windfall in 2022 when he served as a “strategic consultant” to two Trump-affiliated super #PACs, campaign finance records show.
⚠️🇷🇴U.S. Warns Of Possible Security Threat On Romania's Synagogues, Mosques (more) http://www.rferl.org/a/33156122.html #Ukraine #Romania #OSCE #CoE #PACS #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar
#BoycottHungarians #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow
#Republicans Are Pouring Millions Into #AntiTrans #AttackAds In #Election’s Final Stretch.
One analysis shows #Trump and #Republican #PACs have spent more than $65 million on #ads #targeting #trans #people's #access to #sports and #healthcare.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-anti-trans-election-ads_n_67084e47e4b0f3da64563b73
Stephen Council: Crypto's 'savagery' sunk Calif. progressive's Senate campaign, New Yorker reports
"The March primary for California’s open U.S. Senate seat was no typical campaign, according to a Monday investigation by the New Yorker. Instead, it was a premonition, a threat and a picture of tech’s newfound political might, all rolled into one.
Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey won the most votes in the race, clearing the way for the two to advance to the November election and for Schiff to surely assume victory in deep-blue California. But according to the magazine’s Oct. 7 story, “Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster,” runner-up Katie Porter can blame a powerful enemy: The fledgling cryptocurrency industry stuck a $10 million knife in her campaign."
#2024Elections #katieporter #adamshiff #cryptocurrency #California #PACs
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/crypto-katie-porter-senate-campaign-19829644.php
Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster
From crypto to A.I., the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda.
Our democracy has been taken over by grifters, big business, the super wealthy, and Silicon Valley...Where does that leave the rest of us?
#SiliconValley #lobbying #PACS #democracy
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley-the-new-lobbying-monster
Beyond the crude joke, the FAQ is insightful
And the part about ‘You got my data wrong!’ made me chuckle out loud
#NHGOP Executive Director 2002 - #felony
GOP deputy director of the #Milwaukee Election Commission 2022 - felony
First vice chairman of the Georgia #Republican Party -felony and trying to vote 9 times under a felony conviction
Attorney who has donated more than $3,000 over the past decade to GOP candidates and #PACs, including Donald #Trump voted in #Ohio and #Florida - felony
Tons more - #GOP FRAUD happening for DECADES
