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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️“Open Celebration of Oligarchy:” Dems/GOP Both Sucked Up to Billionaires in 2024 Election <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/8/david_sirota_billionaires_election_2024_trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/8/david_sirota_billionaires_election_2024_trump</a>* richest people saw net worth soar as stocks rapidly shot up * outsized role of super-rich in U.S politics * Trump, Kamala Harris campaigned heavily w. billionaires looking for return on investment<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DavidSirota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DavidSirota</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump2</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WealthTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WealthTax</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bezos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeVos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Uihlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uihlein</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Schwarzman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schwarzman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Singer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Singer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meritocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meritocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inequality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WealthConcentration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WealthConcentration</a>

Chuck DarwinBacked by a cabal of wealthy conservative patrons like industrialist <a href="https://c.im/tags/David" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#David</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Koch</a>, banker <a href="https://c.im/tags/Richard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Richard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scaife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scaife</a>, and the devout Catholic entrepreneur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Frank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Frank</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hanna</a>, the Federalist Society under Leo became a breeding ground for conservative judges who were recruited at law school, groomed through the society’s program of events and talks, and then bound together through their careers. “The key was to figure out how to develop what I call a ‘pipeline’ — basically, where you recruit students in law school, you get them through law school, they come out of law school, and then you find ways of continuing to involve them in legal policy,” Leo later explained. In 2005, the Federalist Society began openly advocating for <a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#John</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Roberts</a> — a former member — to be nominated to fill a vacant seat at the Supreme Court, the first time it had campaigned publicly for a particular candidate. A few months later, its sway had grown so much that it torpedoed President George W. Bush’s own preferred candidate for another vacant seat on the Supreme Court — <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harriet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harriet</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Miers</a>, a judge and close friend of the president who wasn’t a member of the Federalist Society — and pressured him to nominate <a href="https://c.im/tags/Samuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Samuel</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Alito</a>, one of its members, in her place. Leo worked closely with the "Judicial Confirmation Network", a new nonprofit organization set up using funds from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Robin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Robin</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arkley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arkley</a>, a California businessman known as the “foreclosure king,” who had made billions buying up mortgages of people in financial difficulties. The idea for <a href="https://c.im/tags/JCN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JCN</a> had been hatched at a dinner in Washington attended by Leo and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia shortly after Bush’s reelection in late 2004. JCN spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on radio and online advertisement to shape public opinion. It was run by <a href="https://c.im/tags/Neil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neil</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ann</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Corkery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corkery</a>, a couple who had been members of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Opus</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dei</a> since at least the eighties. Neil had been a critical figure in getting a new residence for male, celibate members of the Catholic movement built in Reston, Virginia. “Opus Dei members preach their faith through their work as well as the friendships they develop,” Ann explained. She and her husband would later preach their faith by becoming central figures in a series of nonprofits that would channel dark money for Leo’s efforts.

NonilexInterviews w/his associates, along w/a review of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#court</a> documents & other public records, reveal an ideologically driven <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservative</a> w/a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/combative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#combative</a> streak. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a> spent most of his life leveraging his family <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fortune</a> to create his own. His freight railroad, a regional line that repeatedly ran afoul of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/worker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worker</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmental</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/protections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protections</a>, was recently sold for $600M.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarkMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkMoney</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OSHA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OSHA</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EPA</a>

NonilexAll told, he has given $227M in contributions to federal candidates & political committees since 2020, nearly all to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> — a sum that puts him in the top echelon of the party’s donors, alongside far better-known megadonors like <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MiriamAdelson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiriamAdelson</a> & her husband, Sheldon, who died in 2021, & Liz & Dick <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Uihlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Uihlein</a>.Yet for all his financial <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#influence</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a> & his interests — & what exactly is motivating his largess — have remained largely a mystery.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarkMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkMoney</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>

NonilexThe episode was a rare glimpse into the private life & the public dealings of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a>, 81, a reclusive <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/heir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heir</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RailroadMagnate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RailroadMagnate</a> who has recently turned himself into a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#political</a> force [presumably a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FauxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FauxNews</a> consumer]. He has surprised even political insiders w/the size of his contributions this year, throwing $75M behind <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s attempt to return to the WH & an additional $25M toward <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a>’s independent presidential run, making him both candidates’ single largest benefactor. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarkMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DarkMoney</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

NonilexBut to his neighbors in a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RhodeIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RhodeIsland</a> beachfront enclave, he is better known as the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PrimeSuspect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PrimeSuspect</a> in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NarragansettRunestoneAffair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NarragansettRunestoneAffair</a>.A hulking boulder once positioned just offshore in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NarragansettBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NarragansettBay</a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/runestone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#runestone</a> bears inscriptions that some believe were left by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Viking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Viking</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/explorers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#explorers</a>. It was the stuff of local lore & attracted visitors at low tide — to the consternation of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a>, the pedigreed businessman whose home looked out on the rock.And then one day it was gone.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>

NonilexA Pedigreed Rail <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Magnate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Magnate</a> Is Pouring <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Millions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Millions</a> Into Electing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TimothyMellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TimothyMellon</a>, reclusive <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/heir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heir</a> to a storied fortune, is spending tens of millions to elect Trump. Precisely what he wants in return is one of many curiosities surrounding him.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a>, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wealthy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/banking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#banking</a> heir & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RailroadMagnate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RailroadMagnate</a>, has reached the stratosphere of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#American</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/political" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#political</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#influence</a> doling out millions<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WeirdAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WeirdAF</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-2024-campaign-timothy-mellon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-2024-campaign-timothy-mellon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb</a>

MindTGap 🇺🇸Spaceship of Fools Jul 20, 2023 | National Security Major U.S. media and Congressional leadership swallow new unverified stories of alien visitations. Allegations of fraud filed with the SEC against conspiracy-promoting former DOD officials, rocker Tom DeLonge and the company they fronted for peddling false UFO-related claims. Growth in UFO cults and cult-like behavior, violence and cyber-stalking by UFO zealots raise new concerns. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/TTSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TTSA</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fraud</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SEC</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Investigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Investigation</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Delonge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Delonge</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Mellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mellon</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Elizondo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elizondo</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UFO</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UAP</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Cult" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cult</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Grift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grift</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Grifter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grifter</a> <a href="https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://washingtonspectator.org/spaceship-of-fools/</a>

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