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PrivacyDigestPrivacyDigest@mas.to
2025-11-26

Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of #SuperPACs to Rein In the Industry

Jack Clark, a co-founder of #Anthropic , an A.I. company that favors more guardrails for the technology. Some of the company’s employees have discussed how to become more involved in #political advocacy.
#ai #politics #superpac

nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/poli

The USA Potatousa@murica.website
2025-11-24

Is the Tide Starting to Turn Against AIPAC?

Backing AIPAC may now be a political liability for candidates facing progressive challengers in Democratic primaries.

murica.website/2025/11/is-the-

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-10-03

@65dBnoise Or rather how much they are beholden to #billionaires and their #SuperPACs, because otherwise we'd seen #BernieSanders and #AOC on the ballouts!

Andi Waffeln!andiwaffeln
2025-09-18

Andi Waffeln!andiwaffeln
2025-09-18

vice.com/en/article/who-is-don

Andi Waffeln!andiwaffeln
2025-09-18

Andi Waffeln!andiwaffeln
2025-09-18

Andi Waffeln!andiwaffeln
2025-09-17

Wer war Charlie Kirk? Charlie Kirk war eine Schlüsselfigur des Rechtsextremismus in den USA. Sein Unternehmen Turning Point USA hat in den letzten 8 Jahren hunderte Millionen von Dollar an Dark Money von SuperPACs und aus den Reihen milliardenschwerer Amerikaner um die Koch Brüder erhalten, um im Netz und an Universitäten rechtsextreme Äußerungen zu verbreiten und zu normalisieren. Das war Kirks Geschäftsmodell, von dem er vor allem massiv persönlich profitierte. Zwischen 2016 und 2024 hat er allein mit rechtsextremen Formaten knapp 15 Millionen Dollar eingenommen. Finanziert in Teilen aus seiner Bubble und seiner Anhängerschaft. Aber vor allem durch rechtsextreme Mäzene, die ihm dadurch Reichweite und Aufmerksamkeit erkauften.
Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2025-09-10

@leeloo @Photo55 on the other side, people were stupid enough to believe that #Trump, who's past VP #Pence was a guest at #CUFI, wasn't gonna support #Israel conditionlessly, which is beibg played by #Evangelical #Christofacists ¹²

Needless to say #Sanders / #AOC should've been the #DEM|s nominations instead of #Harris / #Biden / #Waltz, but the former pissed off #BigDonors aka. #SuperPACs so they got #cockblocked!

StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎stacescases2.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-08-29

#TechBillionaires in #SiliconValley are creating #SuperPACs SPECIFICALLY meant to deny #democracy and influence elections in THEIR favor, similar to ElonMusk's, with the mission of installing politicians who agree with THEIR #pro-AI agendas ahead of the #midtermelections. youtu.be/mNraEzNCcxI?...

Silicon Valley Plot UNRAVELS I...

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesAnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems
2025-08-05

Like most observers of the second Trump presidency, I've found myself at a disadvantage in the face of the regime's open strategy to dominate the news cycle with a never-ending torrent of lies, propaganda, and horrifying nazi policy announcements that leave little time for any analyst to work out what the Trumpenreich might be planning to do next; a strategy noted slimeball fascist propagandist Steve Bannon once described as "flooding the zone with shit." Despite this however, over the past few months I've noticed an increasing focus in the regime's propaganda on religion, Christian nationalist ideology, and obliterating the traditional US separation between church and state, under the guise of protecting the "religious liberty" of cracker fundie fascists who worship at the altar of Trump. As I've stressed before, analysis isn't actually prophecy, but to my mind it sure does look like the Trumpenreich is gearing up for a war to install Christian Nationalism as a quasi-state religion, while using the fig leaf of "religious liberty" to further entrench and enforce policies that are ultimately designed to create a fascist dictatorship under the Swine Emperor.

At this stage of our investigation, we're more or less collecting breadcrumbs; the kind of stories that don't directly prove the Trumpenreich is about to start a Christian nationalist crusade to target "enemies within" and create a fascist dictatorship, but still point to a regime looking to align church and state to increase its own power to do fascist bullshit. Take for example the IRS's recent announcement that engaging in political activity or campaigning, will no longer threaten the tax-exempt status of churches and pastors - including of course, powerful nazi fundamentalist megapastors in increasingly-gerrymandered "red" states like Texas.

propublica.org/article/irs-chu

The IRS Says Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates. That Could Give Texas Pastors More Power Than Ever.

"For more than 70 years, churches and other religious institutions in the United States were told to steer clear of “any political activity” or risk losing their tax-exempt status. That federal measure, the Johnson Amendment, was added into IRS tax law in 1954 and named after its author, Lyndon B. Johnson, then a Texas congressman.

In August 2024, during the last months of the Biden administration, an association of religious broadcasters and two East Texas churches sued the IRS, arguing that the Johnson Amendment infringed upon their freedom of speech and religion.

Nearly a year later, the IRS, now under Trump, and the plaintiffs filed a proposed joint settlement outlining in the agreement that when a house of worship speaks to its congregation about “electoral politics viewed through the lens of religious faith,” it neither participates nor intervenes in a political campaign and so doesn’t violate the amendment. The court must now consider their proposal."

While I often applaud Pro Publica's commitment to fairness in its analysis, this article is an absolute tire fire of bothsides-ism and false equivalency; all of which I'm just going to ignore because ain't nobody got time for that fascist-enabling, "enlightened centrist" nonsense anymore. The reality is that in an American oligarchy barely clinging to even the appearance of democracy, there is no practical equivalency between Black churches telling marginalized people to vote against the modern US nazi party, and millionaire right wing fundamentalist megapastors working with a fascist president, and a theocratic Supreme Court, to install a dictatorship - full fucking stop.

While we're on the subject of bullshit, I think we can also dispense with fundie fascist arguments that the government was "silencing" pastors and suppressing free speech rights by linking their tax-exemptions to staying out of electoral politics. There is after all a reason why political action committees are tightly regulated by the government and dipshit nazi pastors are not; what Trump's IRS is making a matter of facts on the ground here is the creation of an entire new lobbying and electioneering engine that is not only wholly unregulated, but likely to be protected in doing so under the guise of religious liberty by a US Supreme Court with between 5 and 6 sitting fundie fascists on it. These folks, including Christian Zionist evangelical nazis like John Haggee, who claims to represent over 11 million members of CUFI, have a lot of money and a lot of influence to throw around in American politics and the IRS just gave them the green light to do so.

Finally as the article indicates, we don't really have the theorize that this is what the (again, fascist) religious right is going to do because due to lax IRS enforcement of the Johnson Amendment, Trump-loyal fascist megapastors are already building that political apparatus.

#Fascism #Trump #IRS #Churches #Politics #ChristianNationalism #Elections #SuperPACs #GOP #CUFI #Hagge #Texas #Megapastors

Thinking MunkThinkingMunk
2025-07-01

🔥HOT TAKE🔥 Lift all caps on campaign spending | @destiny

The USA Potatousa@voices.murica.website
2025-06-24

David Hogg: Same Dems Opposing Mamdani Question Why Party’s Losing Young Voters

Democratic operatives are spending big on consultants in attempts to win back support.

voices.murica.website/?p=24746

The USA Potatousa@voices.murica.website
2025-06-23

Poll Finds Mamdani Winning NYC Mayoral Primary by 4 Points Over Cuomo

A poll released the day before the primary election shows Mamdani ahead in the final round of voting, 52 to 48.

voices.murica.website/sharon-z

MakeCampaignsFair.commakecampaignsfair
2025-06-18

Billion-dollar campaigns. Untraceable donors. Super PAC loopholes.

Who’s really running for office? And who’s paying for it?

🔎 Read more: makecampaignsfair.com/the-brie

The Current State of Campaign Finance Dollar Sign Shadow Over Capitol
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Lazarou
2025-06-04

America is an Oligarchy, not a Democracy. Perhaps most Western nations are now, with a political class utterly bought and compliant, and if they're not, they're drummed out of politics or side lined.

In other areas, money is talking so loudly in politics that it’s all you can hear. Sanders has used Gaza as an example when he says that politicians are afraid to speak out on Israel’s actions in case Super Pacs - which can put forward unlimited amounts of money for a candidate - will penalise them at the next election. Today, he says it’s not just Gaza, but a host of other issues. “If you say, ‘Do you really think it’s a good idea to cut Medicaid and give tax breaks to billionaires? Do you really think that climate change is a hoax?” there will be a number, not a ‘majority, but a number of Republicans who would say: “No. But if I stand up and vote ‘no’, the next day, Elon Musk would say, “All right, you are going to be primaried [a candidate will be fielded against you], and Trump will support your opponent. I will put unlimited sums of money to elect your opponent.” Good luck to you?”
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:MusiqueNow@todon.eu
2025-05-20

youtube.com/watch?v=qoein0eU-S

#TheHumanistReport

#BernieSanders Bursts Trump-Supporting Podcast Bro's Bubble

#FuckCitizensUnited #FuckAIPAC #SuperPACs

Follow GOLFfogolf@vive.im
2025-04-25

fogolf.com/948190/trump-dines- Trump dines with major donors during $1 million-a-plate fundraiser at Virginia golf course #CampaignFinance #campaigns #Cryptocurrency #DonaldTrump #Golf #GolfCourse #GolfNews #Memes #Politics #SuperPacs #UsNews

Trump dines with major donors during $1 million-a-plate fundraiser at Virginia golf course
Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2025-04-02

#CitizensUnited #SuperPacs

c.im/@cdarwin/1093385157759571

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2025-04-02

Just 100 extremely wealthy families invested
2.6 Billion dollars during the election cycle that put Trump back in the White House and seated Republican majorities in both the House and Senate

That was more than double what billionaire donors contributed just four years prior.

The steep upward spending trend and the eye-popping amounts speak to the shifts in political power granted to the affluent and corporations in the wake of #CitizensUnited v FEC,
the supreme court’s 2010 decision that
💥enabled💥unlimited 💥campaign💥donations.

There are limits on direct donations to political candidates, political action committees and political parties
-- but the creation of #SuperPacs in the aftermath of that decision have opened opportunities for the surge in spending.

In the 14 years since the Citizens United ruling,
⚠️ billionaires have poured 160 times more funds into campaigns.

The money-for-power exchange that was always hidden in the back rooms of American politics
has burst into the open in the second Trump administration

Elon Musk and some of the world’s wealthiest families spent record amounts
to secure trillions in tax breaks and deregulation,
using cuts to vital services like healthcare, education, and nutritional support to pay for it.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

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