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#Wisconsin In a stunning rebuke to outside influence and big-money #politics, Susan Crawford has defeated Brad Schmiel in the hotly contested race for the Wisconsin #SupremeCourt. The election, which drew national attention for its implications on abortion rights, voting laws, and corporate influence, took an even more dramatic turn when billionaire #ElonMusk poured a staggering $20 million into support for Schmiel—only to come up empty-handed. #billionaires #corruption #elections #democracy
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@arstechnica your fascists stealing public funds. #Corruption #3rdworld
Starting July 26th, 2020 (the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act), UC Access Now and allies started sending emails to the Governor, the UC Board of Regents, and every UC chancellor to read and act on the UC Access Now Demandifesto.
Our Governor mentions his dyslexia when it's convenient for him, but he never bothered answering the hundreds of people who wrote him about the systemic ableism within UC.
""Gov. Gavin Newsom recently sent burner phones to major California business leaders with his number preprogrammed — paid for by his nonprofit, allowing him to communicate with executives without having to disclose the content publicly.""
Ah. That's why.
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/04/california-lawmakers-transparency/ #Ableism #Capitalism #Corruption #HigherEd #UCAccessNow @disability @academicchatter
CalMatters · California politicians try to shield business from the publicTransparency alert: While Californians confront officials at town halls, politicians are pushing bills to shield themselves from public view.
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5334415/doge-institute-of-museum-and-library-services
glané sur le net Mise en demeure contre le musée Guimet pour son effacement du Tibet: Plusieurs associations tibétaines ont déposé une mise en demeure contre le musée Guimet pour avoir systématiquement effacé le mot « Tibet » dans la présentation des œuvres d'art tibétain. Des courriers ont été envoyés mercredi 26 mars par leurs avocats Me William Bourdon et Lily Ravon à la (…)
-- Culture (France), Chine, Tibet… https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article74260&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Tibet #MuséeGuimet #Culture #Histoire #Corruption
www.europe-solidaire.orgMise en demeure contre le musée Guimet pour son effacement du Tibet - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières Plusieurs associations tibétaines ont déposé une mise en demeure contre le musée Guimet pour avoir systématiquement effacé le mot « Tibet » dans (…)
U.S. seeks to ramp up social media data collection. Here’s what to know about Homeland Security’s plans
Officials are proposing to collect social media handles from people who have already been vetted and in the U.S. legally.
Fast Company · U.S. seeks to ramp up social media data collection. Here’s what to know about Homeland Security’s plansThe Department of Homeland Security is proposing the collection of social media handles from people already vetted and legally in the U.S.
MAGA Rages After Far-Right Leader Jailed and Banned From Election
The Daily Beast · MAGA Rages After Far-Right Leader Jailed and Banned From Running for President
Of course they are. Churches love to bitch and moan about others having "privilege" but these #deadbeats get tax exemption advantage.
> Supreme Court likely to embrace expanded tax exemption for religious charities https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/mcTlhFXeJKwGJcEAxnHReFRpWVnEcNkS
SCOTUSblog · Supreme Court likely to embrace expanded tax exemption for religious charities - SCOTUSblogThe Supreme Court on Monday appeared sympathetic to the argument by a Catholic Charities chapter that Wisconsin violated the Constitution when it refused to give the group the same exemption from the state’s unemployment tax that it provides to churches, religious schools, and some religious groups.
Wired: DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/
WIRED · DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
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"All of them want autocratic rule so that they can keep power indefinitely. But sooner or later, corruption and stagnation will follow. If Hungary is the future, it’s grim."
#Trump #economy #authoritarianism #corruption #Orbán #Hungary
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"Why does Hungary’s trajectory matter? Because the United States is now on it. From Donald Trump to Steve Bannon to Tucker Carlson, multiple MAGA figures have praised Orbán, praised Hungary, or visited Budapest themselves. Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation, notwithstanding his own institution’s negative analysis of Hungarian governance, has called modern Hungary 'not just as a model for modern statecraft, but the model.'”
#Trump #economy #authoritarianism #corruption #Orbán #Hungary
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"Although Orbán talks a lot about “the people,” he has used his near-absolute power to enrich a small group of wealthy businessmen, some of whom are members of his family. Corruption has cost Hungary EU funding and foreign investment. It also means that some twenty percent of Hungarian companies operate 'not on market principles, not on merit-based principles, but basically on loyalty.'"
#Trump #economy #authoritarianism #corruption #Orbán #Hungary
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"In the 1990s, Hungary’s educated population, rapid privatization, great architecture and decent food meant that Hungary attracted a disproportionate amount of foreign investment, given its small size.
But now it's the 2020s, and Hungary is bumping along at the bottom of many indexes instead. ...
Without checks and balances, without transparency and journalism and the rule of law, Hungary first became corrupt, and then poor."
#Trump #economy #authoritarianism #corruption #Orbán #Hungary
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"If anyone had been placing bets back in 1989, trying to guess which Warsaw Pact state would emerge most rapidly and successfully from communism, most of the money would have been on Hungary. Thanks to a regime that began experimenting with economic liberalism in the 1980s, Hungary was known back then as 'the happiest barrack in the socialist camp.'”
~ Anne Applebaum
#Trump #economy #authoritarianism #corruption #Orbán #Hungary
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Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum · The Hungarian Model
glané sur le net Vue de Prague. Assistons-nous à la fin de la carrière politique de Marine Le Pen ??: La femme politique française Marine Le Pen a été condamnée à quatre ans de prison. De plus, elle ne peut participer à aucune élection pendant cinq ans. Comment cette décision judiciaire va-t-elle affecter la situation politique ? Lundi 31 mars, une audience très attendue a eu lieu au parquet de (…)… https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article74254&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MarineLePen #Justice #PolitiqueFrançaise #Élections2027 #Corruption
www.europe-solidaire.orgVue de Prague. Assistons-nous à la fin de la carrière politique de Marine Le Pen ?? - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières La femme politique française Marine Le Pen a été condamnée à quatre ans de prison. De plus, elle ne peut participer à aucune élection pendant cinq (…)
“We will never know what would have happened if the US justice system had not totally failed at protecting the rule of law against an attempted coup d’etat. On the other hand, we know the consequences of not acting: the destruction of the rule of law and state capacity, the creation of a parallel system of prerogative and privilege from proximity to political power, and a slide towards outright fascism.” #justice #law #corruption
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/31/france-marine-le-pen-corruption-anti-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The Guardian · With this damning of Le Pen, France can be the ‘anti-Trump’. It’s a bold path others should follow
[Article] Marine Le Pen condamnée par la justice, sanctifiée par l’extrême droite
Sitôt prononcée la peine d’inéligibilité de la cheffe de file du Rassemblement national, ses soutiens médiatiques et politiques, à l’international comme au national, ont hurlé au gouvernement des juges, à la fin de la démocratie, à la cabale.…
https://www.blast-info.fr/articles/2025/marine-le-pen-condamnee-par-la-justice-sanctifiee-par-lextreme-droite-_-RoSXwbTV61lqZf8mlegw #Corruption #Extremedroite #Justice
www.blast-info.frMarine Le Pen condamnée par la justice, sanctifiée par l’extrême droiteSitôt prononcée la peine d’inéligibilité de la cheffe de file du Rassemblement national, ses soutiens médiatiques et politiques, à l’international comme au national, ont hurlé au gouvernement des juges, à la fin de la démocratie, à la cabale. Des refrains…
#journalism #corruption #CenterForPublicIntegrity
"The Center for Public Integrity, a thirty-six-year-old nonprofit newsroom in Washington, DC, that won acclaim for its investigations but has endured financial and organizational turmoil for much of the past decade, has ceased publishing and is in talks to turn over its archives to the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), an anti-corruption watchdog group."
https://www.cjr.org/news/center-for-public-integrity-shutting-down.php
Columbia Journalism ReviewCenter for Public Integrity is shutting downWesley Lowery resigned as board chair. The nonprofit newsroom, founded in 1987, is in talks to turn over its archives to a watchdog group.
Observons.
Marine Le Pen est condamnée. On entend beaucoup parler de son inéligibilité. On entend moins parler du pourquoi. C’est leur stratégie : étouffer le pourquoi.
Marine Le Pen, avec 8 autres eurodéputés, et 12 assistants, ont été déclarés coupables. De la prison ferme pour plusieurs, dont Le Pen et Aliot. La peine d’inégibilité a été prononcée pour les eurodéputés.
2 millions d’amende.
Ça ne dérange pas les électrices-teurs de voter pour des criminels ?