@wdlindsy

Everything Trump does seems to be related to his fossil fuel industry donors & their tech apparatchiks.

David Koch
Tim Mellon
Elon Musk
Peter Thiel
#PrinceBonesaw
Putin
Larry Ellison
Erik Prince
Charles Koch

The DOJ is covering for the billionaires working with enemies of America.

Google, Thiel Feature in Saudi Prince's Silicon Valley Tour

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three-week U.S. visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil-rich nation.

Bloomberg.com
Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

Gadget Review

@bastardsheep

Now imagine Charles Koch, Harold Hamm, Tim Dunn, John Addison, Putin, #PrinceBonesaw Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, Farris & Dan Wilks, dressed like this.

The horror. The horror.

The fossil fuel funders of fascism delude themselves that a nuclear WW3 is survivable.

Google, Thiel Feature in Saudi Prince's Silicon Valley Tour

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three-week U.S. visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil-rich nation.

Bloomberg.com

@lauren

There's a reason why oil oligarchs like Oleg Deripaska, Alwaleed bin Talal, Vekselberg, intrator, Konstantin Sokolov, Konstantin Nikolaev, #PrinceBonesaw, and Putin buy US corporations & donate so generously to Republican campaigns & invest so heavily in tech...

Why fight a war, when you can buy corrupt Republicans instead?

@billyjoebowers

We can pinpoint the time too.

When Silicon Valley was drowned in fossil fuel cash.

Koch -- 2017
https://www.axios.com/2017/12/14/koch-tries-its-hand-at-venture-capital-1513277500

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/onramp-secures-15m-to-accelerate-growth-and-scale-ai-capabilities-led-by-koch-disruptive-technologies-302612386.html

https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2025/07/17/bill-gates-charles-koch-and-three-other-billionaires-are-giving-1-billion-to-enhance-economic-mobility-in-the-us/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

#PrinceBonesaw -- 2018

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/5/1/23702451/silicon-valley-saudi-money-khashoggi

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/21/roaming-charges-124/

https://popular.info/p/kushner-takes-millions-from-saudis

https://cepr.net/publications/electronic-arts-and-private-equity/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/29/saudi-crown-prince-socially-acceptable-war-criminal-enjoys-us-tour-hosted-americas

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/1/18511540/silicon-valley-foreign-money-china-saudi-arabia-cfius-firrma-geopolitics-venture-capital

https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi

https://www.wired.com/story/bezos-phone-hack-mbs-saudi-arabia/

Koch Industries launches a venture capital group

The group will be led by Charles Koch's son, Chase.

Axios
Citizens United v. FEC, 558 U.S. 310 (2010)

Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n: Limiting independent expenditures on political campaigns by groups such as corporations, labor unions, or other collective entities violates the First Amendment because limitations constitute a prior restraint on speech.

Justia Law