@kenwhite.bsky.social

The billionaires paying for a fascist hijacking of American democracy:

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

This isn't about tax evasion.

It's about refining a system of public corruption.
Buying one dictator is cheaper than buying caselots of members of Congress & Supreme Court justices.

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

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The proud owners of a corrupt kleptocracy.

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
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

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The tax evaders who killed American democracy to line their own pockets.

21. Rob Walton $17,572,601
22. Janet J. 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
30. Lynne Walton $13,037,750
31. Charles Schwab $12,801,600
32. Stephen Wynn $12,518,750
33. Anthony Lomangino $9,529,705

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The folks who funded culture wars to get rich.

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
45. Susan Fox $6,687,414
46. Patricia Perkins-Leone $6,606,600

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The billionaires who divided & weakened America to feed their insatiable greed.

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

None of these people are making public statements about their role in a looming war. Hitler's aristocrats.

@TomSullivan

The fascism is funded.

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

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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@GottaLaff

Alwaleed bin Talal, Larry Ellison, and Fidelity gave Elon Musk $44 billion to subvert the 2024 election.

$290 million from Musk was matched by dozens of other billionaires.

With Koch's Citizens United, foreign interests can interfere in American elections freely, just by buying a corporation or funneling it through a hedge fund.

@aral

It is a cancer that has funding & direction from individuals.

These bigoted billionaires have names.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-elon-musk-doge-ketamine-eye-b2761052.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/06/21/who-is-timothy-mellon-trumps-biggest-donor-is-a-secretive-billionaire-banking-scion-who-paid-53-million-for-border-wall/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/30/donald-trump-not-aware-of-elon-musks-reported-campaign-drug-use/83956424007/

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/24/business-election-donations-republicans-00191072

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

Elon Musk
Timothy Mellon
Miriam O. Adelson
Richard & Elizabeth A. Uihlein
Kenneth C. Griffin
Jeffrey S. & Janine Yass
Paul E. Singer
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Timothy M. Dunn
Rob Bigelow

@Ask_aubry

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/podcast-the-retrievals-reveals-painful-experiences-of-female-patients-are-often-ignored

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/10/11/lawsuits-against-yale-mount-as-more-women-claim-nurse-stole-pain-medication-during-torturous-fertility-procedures/

That any nurse would do this, is horrific.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/health/yale-ivf-egg-retrievals-lawsuit.html

https://abcnews.go.com/wellness/story/women-pain-dismissed-lawsuit-alleging-fentanyl-switch-fertility/?id=81252153

That practice of withholding pain medication is also racialized.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/20/health/black-patients-pain-relief-post-surgery-study

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44294-025-00053-3

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/black-and-hispanic-women-receive-lower-doses-of-postpartum-pain-medication-according-to-new-study/

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2034159

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https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/when-was-the-last-time-marc-andreessen-talked-to-a-poor-person/

https://www.theverge.com/politics/657407/how-marc-andreesens-signal-group-chats-helped-spawned-the-tech-right

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/crypto-the-currency-of-the-uninhabitable-future/

https://venturebeat.com/ai/marc-andreessen-publishes-techno-optimist-manifesto-names-enemies-including-esg-trust-and-safety/

https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/over-five-dozen-billionaires-are

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/19/marc-andreessen-manifesto-silicon-valley/

https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/the-techno-optimism-of-marc-andreessen/

https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-11-marc-andreessen/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/27/the-end-days-world-war-tech-takeover-and-global-warming/

https://www.mediamatters.org/elon-musk/right-wing-influencers-leading-social-media-crusade-against-esg

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/17/marc-andreessen-ai-manifesto-techno-optimist

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And they are willing to kill to get it.

Mohammed bin Salman
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/21/jared-kushner-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/

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

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/politics/jamal-khashoggi-killing-cia-report.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-42129374

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/world/middleeast/mohammed-bin-salman-saudi-arabia.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/07/heres-a-look-at-who.html

https://observer.com/2019/01/how-saudi-arabia-crown-prince-mbs-rose-to-power/

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wall-street-mbs-saudi-al-rumayyan/

Alwaleed bin Talal
https://www.agbi.com/analysis/entrepreneurs/2024/11/question-mark-over-kingdom-holdings-2bn-musk-twitter-investment/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/31/saudi-prince-alwaleed-becomes-twitters-second-largest-shareholder/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-24/price-alwaleed-s-elon-musk-ties-are-boosting-his-comeback-bid

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/twitter-x-saudi-arabia-advertisers-elon-musk-prince-alwaleed/

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/05/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-invests-elon-musks-24b-ai-startup

Marc Andreessen
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/marc-andreessen-semafor-group-chat-signal/

https://newrepublic.com/article/166048/fox-news-petromasculinity-fossil-fuels

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They all want a petrostate dictatorship.

Larry Ellison
https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

https://www.techradar.com/pro/oracle-cto-wants-to-put-all-americas-data-into-one-big-system-to-study-including-dna

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

Charles Koch
https://www.newsweek.com/ai-race-fossil-powered-generators-are-data-centers-dirty-secret-2068791

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestowersclark/2025/03/14/how-ai-changes-critical-thinking-new-microsoft-research-findings/

https://www.salon.com/2018/11/05/koch-brothers-are-watching-you-and-new-documents-expose-how-much-they-know/

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/10/power-hungry-ai-data-centres-seen-driving-demand-for-fossil-fuels/

https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500

Peter Thiel
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/15/peter-thiel-who-is-he-republican-donor-tech-entrepreneur

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/13/thiels-gawker-takedown-could-be-coming-to-a-theater-near-you/

https://www.newsweek.com/peter-thiel-pre-nazi-germany-us-comparison-resurfaces-1934760

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/peter-thiel-2024-election-politics-investing-life-views/675946/

https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-regulation/palantir-ai-surveillance-585999

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-jd-vance-peter-thiel-founded-company-helps-israel-kill-lists-palestinians-gaza

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/24216215/palantir-microsoft-azure-ai-defense-partnership-surveillance

https://sherwood.news/business/ai-companies-cia-is-investing-in/

@kevinrns

"The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ [these] machines."

Frank Herbert

To get an idea of what AI is intended to do by its investors, look at the motivations of Larry Ellison, Charles Koch, Peter Thiel, Mohammad bin Salman, Alwaleed bin Talal, and Marc Andreessen....

They all want AI data centers that will inflate fossil fuel use & thwart a phase out.

They all want Orwellian state surveillance of every human being.

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@w7voa

Putin lies like he breathes, just like Trump.

Unless Putin gives back all of Ukraine's territory, including Donbas, Crimea, and Sevastopol, any treaty isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Bonus: Keeping Russian oil on sanctions might just save the planet from frying.

@QasimRashid

The names of the billionaires who bought themselves a fascist coup.

Twice.

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

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@luckytran

Covid disinformation is funded by billionaires for partisan gain as well.

It wasn't just Russia & China weaponizing Facebook & Twitter to prolong a profitable pandemic.
https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trump-robert-f-kennedy-jr-rfk-rally-go-wild-on-health-antivax/

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/23/koch_hijacked_war_on_covid

Trump, as always, blew up the national debt to give most of the covid relief bailout to the 1%.

https://jacobin.com/2021/12/right-wing-think-tanks-herd-immunity-death

https://www.desmog.com/covideniers-anti-science-covid-19-denial-overlaps-climate-denial/

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/10/07/a-koch-funded-lawfare-group-is-suing-the-biden-admin-to-protect-vaccine-skepticism/

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/12/21/koch-funded-litigation-group-fights-to-protect-covid-misinformation/

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Over 1.7 million Americans died of covid thanks to lies funded by oligarchs.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-excess-deaths-covid

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/5-years-true-counts-covid-19-deaths-remain-elusive-and-research-hobbled-lack-data

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/new-analysis-reveals-many-excess-deaths-attributed-to-natural-causes-are-actually-uncounted-covid-19-deaths/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00104-8

It made the richest phenomenally more wealthy, as they got 4/5 of all aid money. They deliberately prolonged the pandemic with disinformation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/coronavirus-bailout-spending/

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-bailout-is-working-for-the-rich

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/03/03/350-billion-covid-bailout-to-states-cities-and-counties--here-are-the-details/

https://time.com/5845116/coronavirus-bailout-rich-richer/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/biggest-fraud-generation-looting-covid-relief-program-known-ppp-n1279664

https://jacobin.com/2021/06/pandemic-covid-billionaire-increase-wealth-central-banks-quantitative-easing-monetary-policy

@Dss @RandyMongenel @mbybee @RealGene @bovaz @pluralistic @maggiejk@zeroes.ca

These are the people who bought an election to keep their wealth & predatory capitalism:

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

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

@TCatInReality @GottaLaff

The billionaires who bought an election win for the GOP:

These people own this mess.

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

@BrianJopek

Tim Mellon spent $197,047,200 to buy public office for RFK Jr.

Not enough people are asking GOP billionaires why they spend millions on promoting, prolonging, and perpetuating outbreaks of deadly contagious disease.

https://jacobin.com/2021/12/right-wing-think-tanks-herd-immunity-death

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

https://sanford.duke.edu/news/how-koch-network-spreading-covid-misinformation/

https://www.desmog.com/covideniers-anti-science-covid-19-denial-overlaps-climate-denial/

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/10/07/a-koch-funded-lawfare-group-is-suing-the-biden-admin-to-protect-vaccine-skepticism/

https://www.desmog.com/2020/10/26/american-institute-economic-research-great-barrington-declaration-herd-immunity-covid-19/

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/10/07/founders-of-koch-backed-covid-disinformation-organisation-bankroll-new-cross-party-parliamentary-group/

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/12/22/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/11/03/koch-funded-legal-group-fights-to-protect-online-covid-misinformation/