🚨🚨🚨 SC case may gut the CFPB. Depending on how the SC rules, past rules issued by the CFPB may be deemed illegal. Funding mechanisms of agencies like the Fed & govt programs like Social Security might also be thrown into doubt. CFPB: estab. in 2011 by the Dodd-Frank FIN reform law in the wake of the Great Recession. Lawmakers created the fed agency to protect consumers from predatory FIN practices. To date, it's collected $17.5B in financial relief for ~200M eligible ppl. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/03/cfpb-supreme-court-case-may-gut-the-agency.html
Zacharias Diamantides-Abel is accused of helping congressional candidate Omar Navarro misappropriate tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations for things like trips to Las Vegas and wine country.
Republicans haven’t just been giving their wealthy donors tax breaks, they’ve allowed them to avoid (evade) taxation for years, esp. during #TFG’s admin (TSY Sec Mnuchin, complicit IRS COM…) Thanks to Sen Wyden, who exposed the corruption, Americans now know: Nearly 1,000 tax filers who earn >$1M per year have still not filed federal tax returns for at least one year from 2017-2020. #GOPCorruptionhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/28/wealthy-tax-avoidance-ron-wyden-data/
Dallas mayor betrays his constituents, but it's Texas, so maybe that's expected:
"America’s Cities Need Republicans, and I’m Becoming One. While Dallas has thrived, elsewhere Democratic policies have exacerbated crime and homelessness."
The Freedom Caucus demands: from/funded by RW groups incl.: Conservative Partnership Inst. CPI, Council for Nat. Policy’s Conservative Action Project, America 1st Policy Inst., Heritage FND, Club for Growth... *push for a govt shutdown unless their ideological demands are met🚨 -focus on reigning in govt spending *demands all based on culture war priorities. Each of 15 funders contributed >$1M to the groups pushing for a govt shutdown at the end of this mo. #GOPCorruptionhttps://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/09/21/whos-bankrolling-the-shutdown-showdown/
SCJ Thomas, #TFG, many Rs... are not only bought by donors *unethical & at times, illegal, but they empower & enrich their donors, so the machine they've created destroys democracy. The ruling class becomes more influential & wealthy -majority are powerless & left with scraps: Thomas has attended Koch donor events at least twice -brought in to speak, staffers said, in the hopes that such access would encourage donors to continue giving-.
Florida & other states are hiding #HateCrimes by not bothering to report them: We're experiencing the highest level of hate crime in this country🚨-from SPLC. FBI: 31% increase in hate crime incidents from 2020-21. >60% of the victims: targeted bc of race or ethnicity -while major drop in agencies reporting crime to the FBI. In FL, 67% of agencies reported crimes to the FBI in 2020. In 2021, only 33% did. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office didn't report. #GOPCorruption#GOPLieshttps://news.yahoo.com/ridiculous-hate-crimes-time-high-224320701.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr
#DeathSantis' office had quietly conspired with local sheriffs to tarnish the reputations of these democratically elected prosecutors -turning local cops against the state attorneys they’re supposed to partner with & trust. In the latest instance, he did one sheriff a huge favor by firing Orlando-area ST ATTY Worrell just as she was about to crack down on a wide-ranging cover-up by deputies who, she says, were faking docs to hide lethal & abusive behavior🚨. #GOPCorruptionhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/the-real-story-behind-ron-desantis-newest-fired-prosecutor?source=twitter&via=desktop
I don't think we should let any of the people who brought this climate catastrophe upon us off the hook. If you can't be held accountable for destroying the planet, wtf can you be held accountable for.
Pro-Bus South: Their offer to bus & wealthy ppl *always been: Come to the South. Do whatever you want. WE WON'T REGULATE OR TAX YOU. We’ll crush any unions that dare come here +provide a pool of dirt-cheap labor -bc we don’t tax you -our public services will be awful -public schools: inadequate -we'll build graceful prv. schools for ppl with💰+prv. country clubs/gated communities to shield you from the poverty +racist cops to police🚨 #GOPCorruption#GOPRacism#VoteBlue2024https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-cannibal-south
Dems must fill media platforms with truth-telling, fact-checking & positivity about their party's achievements & plans: Following Musk’s lead, Youtube & FB are giving up on policing conspiracy theories. SM companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against pol misinfo -trend expected to profoundly affect the 2024 pres. election. In a sign of Musk’s influence, Meta briefly considered a plan last year to ban all pol advertising on FB-then shelved it. #GOPCorruptionhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/25/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk/
Republican strategists learned impt. lessons in the fight over who'd get the presidency in the 2000 election. In 2002 midterms -Bush Admin used the DOJ to aggressively investigate Dems for vote fraud based on little or no evidence. In 2006 -fired 9 of its own US ATTYs for refusing to prosecute spurious voter fraud allegations -went on to the Heritage FND & other conservative think tanks after 2008 to push baseless conspiracies of widespread voter fraud...🚨 #GOPCorruptionhttps://joelowndes.org/not-just-trump-the-tactics-of-election-subversion-have-long-been-a-gop-strategy-2/
Yes. This is why tRump needs to be prosecuted and the GOP soundly defeated. They put “power over morality, ruling over governing and profit over truth.” They are as anti American as can be. Stop falling for the “patriotic” gaslighting and see them for who they are. #voteblue#defenddemocracy, #gopcorruption
The Const. refers to the general welfare of Americans twice -defining the powers of Congress to raise taxes & spend money “to provide for … the GENERAL WELFARE of the US…” Over the centuries the concept of a “we society” expanded -as the voting franchise & indiv. HR were expanded & extended beyond wealthy/land-owning straight white men. But the “me society” rich of the day kept trying to corrupt politics to their own advantage🚨. TY @ThomHartmann#TaxTheRich#GOPCorruptionhttps://hartmannreport.com/p/can-america-move-from-a-me-society-5ef
Long Beach man conspired with congressional candidate to embezzle campaign funds, feds allege (lbpost.com)
Zacharias Diamantides-Abel is accused of helping congressional candidate Omar Navarro misappropriate tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations for things like trips to Las Vegas and wine country.