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DrALJONESInterview "The Dark Money Game" Alex Gibney"Both the Democratic and Republican parties have served the interests of the billionaire class since well before Citizens United in 2010.""The removal of restrictions on political spending created a system by which corporations could route millions of dollars in bribes through an intricate, opaque network of nonprofit organizations and super PACs."<a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-dark-money-game-w-alex-gibney" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-dark-money-game-w-alex-gibney</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkmoney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uscorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uscorruption</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/citizensunited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#citizensunited</a> .

MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<a href="https://todon.eu/tags/EndCitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EndCitizensUnited</a> <a href="https://endcitizensunited.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://endcitizensunited.org/</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elections</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/USElections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USElections</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a>

SoozcatOkay, people, help me figure this out. If the <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a> case determined that <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporations</a> are <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#people</a>, what's to keep <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/McDonald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#McDonald</a>'s from running for <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#POTUS</a>?REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME PRESIDENT: * Natural born citizen of the United States (McDonald's began its existence in San Bernardino, California) * At least 35 years old (McDonald's was founded in 1940) * Must have been a resident of the United States for the last 14 years (long before 2010, Mickey D's was serving "billions and billions" of burgers across every state in the Union)Also, unlike our current president, McDonald's has never attempted to stage a <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coup</a>.

DrALJONESInterview: "Our country is being run by a small group of people who have an enormous amount of money, and they dominate our politics."It’s almost as if bribery has become utterly legalized."An untraceable amount of money flows through nonprofits & super PACs to support candidates & influence political movements. <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/15/alex_gibney_dark_money_game" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/15/alex_gibney_dark_money_game</a> Trailer: <a href="https://www.hbo.com/the-dark-money-game" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.hbo.com/the-dark-money-game</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/citizensunited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#citizensunited</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkmoney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usgovtcorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usgovtcorruption</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thedarkmoneygame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thedarkmoneygame</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> .

Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️Just saw the first episode of Dark Money Games. The story of corruption in the Ohio legislature and the cynical manipulation of Ohio voters is worthy of the film noir narrative contained in the descriptions by FBI and prosecutors of Speaker Householder, Borges and Clark. Jane Mayer produced and appears in the film. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/citizensunited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#citizensunited</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/c4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c4</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkmoney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/HBO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HBO</a>

DrALJONESInterview: Alex Gibney film The dark money game"Our country is being run by a small group of people who have an enormous amount of money, and they dominate our politics."It’s almost as if bribery has become utterly legalized."An untraceable amount of money flows through nonprofits & super PACs to support candidates & influence political movements.<a href="https://www.hbo.com/the-dark-money-game" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.hbo.com/the-dark-money-game</a> <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/15/alex_gibney_dark_money_game" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/15/alex_gibney_dark_money_game</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/citizensunited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#citizensunited</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#darkmoney</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usgovtcorruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#usgovtcorruption</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thedarkmoneygame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thedarkmoneygame</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> .

MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuT-qDQ1Kr4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuT-qDQ1Kr4</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocracyNow</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/doku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doku</a>, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TheDarkMoneyGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheDarkMoneyGame</a>, Director <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/AlexGibney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlexGibney</a> on How <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a> Ushered In Legalised <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/UnitedStatesOfBATSHIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStatesOfBATSHIT</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/documentaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#documentaire</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#documentary</a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/documental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#documental</a>

DARLENE RYAN 🇨🇦When all the corruption started… <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a>

harryprayiv<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rberger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rberger</a> IMO, the only thing that can stop the rise of the far right would be to eliminate FPTP (which effectively makes anything beyond a 2 party system impossible) while simultaneously (at least in the US) ending <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/citizensunited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#citizensunited</a>.Short of that, WE ARE DOOMED to watch two RIGHT WING, fascist parties feign conflict and dupe low-information voters while selling everything that isn’t padlocked around thier “constituents” necks to their donors.Bernie & AOC are controlled opposition.

The Conversation U.S.Nearly every major American social media platform is controlled by just one or two men. And Supreme Court decisions on corporate constitutional rights give those founders unprecedented power to shape society. <a href="https://buff.ly/TAwBoMy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://buff.ly/TAwBoMy</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HobbyLobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HobbyLobby</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TikTokBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TikTokBan</a>

Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe<a href="https://union.place/@lisagetspolitik" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lisagetspolitik</a> This is SCOTUS right now, and also a whole lot of SCOTUS's from yesteryear. <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/DredScott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DredScott</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Korematsu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Korematsu</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PlessyvFerguson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlessyvFerguson</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BuckvBell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BuckvBell</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BushvGore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BushvGore</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/BowersvHardwick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BowersvHardwick</a>There are many, many more but I just got tired of typing hashtags. See Legacy Museum, Montgomery, Ala., for a more complete list of crap decisions

RevDrMatthewFoxImpeach <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/JusticeRoberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JusticeRoberts</a> for: <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a>, destroying <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/votingrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#votingrights</a> laws, killing <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/RoevWade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RoevWade</a>, giving Drumpenführer <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/presidentialimmunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#presidentialimmunity</a>, allowing blatant <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corruption</a> in <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>, enabling <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportation</a> & more. NOT for speaking up vs. T's demand to impeach judges who disagree w/ him. bit.ly/4jiGuLP <a href="https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/08/simplistic-pollsters-asking-about-impeaching-justice-roberts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/04/08/simplistic-pollsters-asking-about-impeaching-justice-roberts/</a>

CarolleisaMonday Monday 🎶 Blink blink. What!?! After two days of blocking most news for the better part of two days, I wake up to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CharlesKoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CharlesKoch</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a> cronies eating crow but suing Trump over tariffs. Lord have mercy. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NewCivilLibertiesAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewCivilLibertiesAlliance</a>

Fan of Shared Truth & Empathy<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a> FOR THE WIN!!!<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/DeathToDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeathToDemocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@anirvan/114280582432512529" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@anirvan/114280582432512529</a>

Nicole Parsons<a href="https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Strandjunker</a> Trump is just a proxy. The billionaires behind Trump's corrupt GOP paid for these policies. This is what Koch's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a> has wrought.Promises of tariff relief or exemptions will be used to pressure money out of the donors. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/10/senate-gop-dark-money/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/10/senate-gop-dark-money/</a><a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/boosted-by-8-figure-donations-mcconnell-aligned-nonprofit-raised-172-million-in-2020/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/boosted-by-8-figure-donations-mcconnell-aligned-nonprofit-raised-172-million-in-2020/</a>The pressure campaigns work both ways. <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/republican-donors-threaten-to-cut-off-funds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/republican-donors-threaten-to-cut-off-funds</a>Just as promising government contracts was used to extort billionaires. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/bezos-appease-trump-administration/681899/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/bezos-appease-trump-administration/681899/</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html</a>1/2

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