@StillIRise1963

Bari Weiss fired a lot of women too.

She's going to be exactly like Margaret Thatcher, conducting purges that ensure no women can ever threaten her position.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cbs-news-layoffs-eight-women-b2855655.html

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https://www.vox.com/politics/462076/trump-democracy-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/venezuela-autocratic-rise/684135/

The dynasties behind Project 2025 and plans to remake American democracy into a dictatorship.

Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

https://globalextremism.org/post/mapping-the-trump-movement-part-one-project-2025/

https://globalextremism.org/post/mapping-the-authoritarian-movement-part-two-afpi/

https://globalextremism.org/post/mapping-the-authoritarian-movement-part-three-cnp/

https://globalextremism.org/post/mapping-the-authoritarian-movement-the-far-right-network-of-think-tanks/

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/project-2025-goals-trump-presidency/682597/

https://www.desmog.com/2025/06/02/map-70-percent-trump-cabinet-tie-project-2025-heritage-afpi-convention-states-dunn-doge/

https://fullertonobserver.com/2025/10/20/trump-executive-orders-follow-project-2025-instructions/

https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/

https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/21/mapped-donald-trump-transatlantic-anti-green-network/

https://brenebrown.com/podcast/dr-heather-cox-richardson-on-democracy-awakening-notes-on-the-state-of-america-part-2-of-2/

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45. Susan Fox $6,687,414
46. Patricia Perkins-Leone $6,606,600
47. Jeffrey Hildebrand $6,508,389
48. Bernard Marcus $9,397,150
49. Steve Brodie $6,481,298
50. Daniel Newlin $6,063,928
51. Trevor D. Rees-Jones $5,765,124
52. Sarah Perot $5,643,416
53. Harold C. Simmons $5,596,530
54. Kelly Navarro $5,373,100
55. Alice Walton $10,248,000
56. Rob Granieri $5,587,899

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors

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30. Lynne Walton $13,037,750
31. Charles Schwab $12,801,600
32. Stephen Wynn $12,518,750
33. Anthony Lomangino $9,529,705
34. J. Christopher Reyes $9,536,425
35. Jay Winters Faison $9,084,324
36. James Davis $8,497,854
37. John W. Childs $8,694,286
38. Patricia Duggan $8,446,099
39. Richard G. Haworth $7,500,800
40. Marc J. Rowan $8,721,299
41. Jeffrey & Loeffler Specher $7,052,013
42. John L. III Nau $7,030,556
43. Shannon V. Addison $6,757,065
44. Robert H. Book $6,986,387

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15. Warren A. Stephens $25,895,650
16. Laura Perlmutter $25,344,890
17. Vince & Linda McMahon $23,961,659
18. Ronnie & Nina Cameron $21,372,500
19. Jan Koum $20,855,091
20. Thomas Klingenstein $17,410,263
21. Rob Walton $17,572,601
22. Janet Duchossois $16,306,033
23. Howard W. Lutnick $16,503,667
24. Kelcy L. Warren $16,151,105
25. Walter W. Jr. Buckley $15,522,500
26. Thomas Peterffy $14,305,900
27. Anthony Pratt $14,000,000
28. Sherrilyn Fisher $13,299,894
29. David Millstone $13,413,486

@jensorensen

Remember the names of the folks funding these GOP fascists...

1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284
6. Jeff Yass $101,128,680
7. Paul E. Singer $66,800,800
8. Marc Andreessen $42,365,113
9. Stephen Schwarzman $40,202,039
10. Timothy Dunn $35,780,200
11. Rob Bigelow $34,991,500
12. Diane Hendricks $33,165,417
13. JJ Ricketts $32,273,650
14. Shirley W. Ryan $32,198,116

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Tim Mellon is indeed as scary as Musk.

1. Funded Texas's stupid border wall
2. Bought public office for RFK Jr, the antivaxx wingnut
3. Involved with the attacks on Venezuela
4. Second biggest GOP donor, after Musk
5. Planning to dismantle the EU
6. Funding Project 2025
7. He's related to xenophobe Cordelia Mae Scaife who spent her fortune in opposition to immigration

@Dave_Goldsmith @futurebird @Godfrey642 @cvvhrn @raven667

To start?

1. Free & fair elections
2. Eradication of the Unitary Executive ideology
3. Outlawing Citizens United
4. Impartial redistricting boards
5. Mandatory ethical standards for SCOTUS
6. Reaffirmation of NATO
7. Expansion of the courts
8. Eradication of the Federalist Society
9. Campaign finance transparency
10. Restoration of Civil Rights
11. Recriminalization of public corruption & bribery

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@georgetakei

Trump is the epitome of "Male Chauvinist Dinosaur" awaiting extinction.

@WarnerCrocker

If ICE is allowed to hide their faces, so are protesters.

@RiaResists @WarnerCrocker

Protesters don't need rubber bullets & tear gas.

Protesters need public support, media reporting, and attention.

Protesters need ways to push back against the billionaires funding Trump's corrupt GOP.

Oct 18th and #NoKings

Start defunding the Project 2025 billionaires:

Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Mellon, Seid, Uihlein.

Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Rebekah Mercer, Omeed Malik, David Sacks, Winklevoss

Ken Griffin. Paul Singer. Stephen Schwarzman

@cstross

The fossil fuel industry seems willing to fund AI for as long as it takes.

It's bringing in enormous profits from double digit electricity utility rate increases.

It's re-opening coal & oil fired electricity generators.

Data centers are keeping fossil fuel demand artificially inflated.

AI is intended to interfere with elections, thwart a fossil fuel phase out, & end democracy.

Oil oligarchs everywhere are happy with the results even if AI never turns a profit.

@gemlog @angiebaby

With Citizens United, Koch Network successfully created the legal fiction of "corporate personhood" that had access to free speech under the 1st Amendment.

They created the lie that "Money equals Speech".

It resulted in a flood of foreign cash in American elections. It ramped up public corruption enormously. It made it possible for billionaires to buy elections openly.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/22/citizens_united

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@angiebaby

Nuremberg Trials & regrets -- failure to establish legal precedent for crimes against humanity & corporations.

IG Farben used its tissue-thin defense of "shareholder value", while armed services & public officials failed with "just following orders".

What would the world be today if we were able to charge Koch Network with crimes against humanity for ecocide ?

What would the world be today if we'd established a body of law to protect democracy from sociopathic corporations?

@timkmak

The economic hit of bigotry & exclusion are ignored until it's far too late.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/books/review-caste-isabel-wilkerson-origins-of-our-discontents.html

Red states ignore the loss of talent, the loss of tax revenues, & the entrenched public corruption that arises with white supremacy.

GOP bigotry means eliminating all women from education, jobs, and public life. Talent pool shrinks by 51%.

GOP bigotry means kneecapping the lives of POC. Talent pool shrinks by another 30%.

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GOP bigotry means excluding all LGBTQ. Talent pool shrinks another 10%

GOP bigotry means the government selecting a "winning religion", white evangelicals. Talent pool shrinks another 86%.

GOP bigotry means excluding people who don't vote GOP. Talent pool shrinks another 60%.

Limiting access to social mobility to rich, white, heterosexual, evangelical men means a tiny talent pool rife with cronyism, incompetence, corruption, & nepotism.

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/heather-mcghee-racism-has-a-cost-for-everyone-132781125887

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/17/968638759/sum-of-us-examines-the-hidden-cost-of-racism-for-everyone

@mcnado

In fascist movements, children are seen as hostages to the good conduct of their parents

It's one reason why they attack higher education: to use admissions, hire, fire, & research priorities as leverage against the children of political opponents

Kidnapping kids on school buses & public transit isn't far behind for ICE, even if the children are citizens themselves, to get at their parents

Economic warfare takes many forms.
It's another way to keep women home, to guard children

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@cwebber

Even local machine learning models will do an "ET phone home" for updates periodically.

What may be communicated back to the vendor is unknown.

Every interaction on a cell phone, Windows 11 or Microsoft 355 machine is at risk of being recorded & communicated back to the vendor, even if the user has made every effort to shut off AI, Copilot, Recall, etc.

@georgetakei

The gatekeeping efforts by Republicans keep getting more & more obvious; trying to limit access to good quality information

Don't go to school
Don't read
Don't involve yourself
Don't vote
Don't fund the education of "those others"
Book bans
Library closures
School board hijacks
Reduce literacy levels
Defund public health & education
Attack college funding
Fire teachers
Alumni donations with strings attached
Billionaires with hire, fire, fund vetoes in agencies & institutions

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Who funded the court cases against the Internet Archive? HarperCollins is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarperCollins

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive

https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/04/end-of-hachette-v-internet-archive/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_Book_Group

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/books/hachette-book-group-ceo-pietsch.html

Who funded Meta to weaponize web scraping from shadow library Library Genesis? The fossil fuel industry funds most AI initiatives.
https://fnex.com/groq-secures-1-5-billion-from-saudi-arabia-and-partners-with-meta-to-accelerate-ai-inference/

https://www.wamda.com/2025/02/meta-ai-officially-launches-mena-region

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

Preventing another Arab Spring?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/24/meta-ai-arrives-in-the-middle-east-and-africa-with-support-for-arabic/