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America's 250th was going to be nonpartisan. Then Trump took over. Now it's being run by Trump loyalists & funded by $100+ million in federal contracts sent to MAGA-fied events.
New report from us + @Public_Citizen (link below)
Revolving Door Project
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- NEW: Biden has nominated Jennifer Rearden — a former Trump judicial nominee, GOP donor, and corporate lawyer who has helped Chevron-aligned law firm Gibson Dunn target human rights attorney @SDonziger — to serve as a federal judge.
- Jay Carney went directly from serving as Obama's White House Press Secretary to serving as one of Jeff Bezos' top advisors, becoming a chief architect of Amazon's corporate welfare deals and apologist for its aggressive union-busting. He's a poster child for the revolving door.1/2 With all due respect, Senator @BernieSanders, you’re wrong on this. We treat our employees with dignity and respect. We offer a $15 min wage, health care from day one, and a safe, inclusive workplace.
- We called on Biden to remove ALL Trump holdovers who could legally be fired on day one. So how’d he do? It was a good start but many more still need to be dismissed. Let’s recap:
- BREAKING: New financial disclosures reveal that top White House staff — including Jen Psaki, Bruce Reed, and Steve Ricchetti — consulted for Lyft, the Walton Family Foundation, AT&T, and facial recognition tech company AnyVision.
- 🔥@MondaireJones EXPOSES BIG TECH-FUNDED THINK TANK🔥 "With all due respect, sir, if we'd wanted to hear the views of Amazon, Google, or QualComm, we would have invited them."
00:00 - While you weren't looking, Louis DeJoy began rolling out his 10-year plan to gut the Postal Service. He must be stopped.
- NEW: Larry Summers advised the crypto conglomerate DCG for six years. Now its trading desk has been publicly accused of fraud, and is under DOJ and SEC investigation. Summers quietly left DCG a few months ago. Is anyone going to ask him about this?
- Replying to @revolvingdoorDC"You come before us today as a wolf in sheep's clothing. For decades, institutes like [Scalia Global Antitrust Institute] have masked corporate money to protect monopoly power. The American people are paying the price." — @MondaireJones to Scalia Law Professor Tad Lipsky
00:00 - Another week has gone by and Louis DeJoy is still the Postmaster General. The only way to end his tenure is for Biden to fill two Postal Board vacancies with the right nominees ASAP.
- President Biden and Treasury Secretary Yellen have both called climate change an "existential threat" that necessitates a bold government response. So why are they backing two ExxonMobil insiders for senior leadership roles at the Treasury Department?
- A leaked Wall Street memo confirms that privatizing the Post Office would mean higher prices, mass layoffs, and worse service — especially for rural America.
- RELEASE: Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter is inseparable from his history of using the platform to commit stock fraud, and intimidating anyone who tries to hold him accountable for it, writes our @MaxMoranHi
- ALARMING: Biden DNI nominee Avril Haines earned $180,000 consulting for Peter Thiel's Palantir, a top contractor of ICE that has helped the agency build and maintain an intelligence system to facilitate the Trump administration's mass deportations of immigrants.On New Years Eve, Biden team dumps a bunch of financial disclosures for nominees including SoS Tony Blinken and DNI Avril Haines Haines lists Peter Thiel's Palantir. She was a consultant there from July 2017 to June 2020 and lists 180k in income from the company
