Turns Out There Was Voter Frau...
@emptywheel.bsky.social getting the dems to do *anything* has been an exercise in futility, which i wager is like, the #1 issue across the board.
if they actually tried, shit would happen, but like, it seems they are absolutely and abjectly unwilling to try
Elon Musk was given the cash to buy elections by Larry Ellison, Alwaleed bin Talal, and the sons of two Russian oligarchs, Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/5/23058295/elon-musk-twitter-funding-qatar-larry-ellison
https://fortune.com/2024/08/22/elon-musk-x-twitter-owner-list/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake
https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oligarchs-mean-for-musk/a-70088598
https://medium.com/predict/musks-ties-to-putin-laid-bare-2d0b0568a42e
Larry Ellison is desperately trying to create a right wing media monopoly that Goebbels would have envied
https://www.businessinsider.com/ellisons-warner-bros-discovery-paramount-new-bid-netflix-2026-2
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/opinion/larry-ellison-paramount-cbs-tiktok.html
https://fair.org/home/as-ellison-buys-out-tiktok-us-moves-toward-one-party-media/

Elon Musk told the SEC he has lined up over $7 billion in funding to support his Twitter purchase. Key names include Larry Ellison, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Andreessen Horowitz, Binance, and the state investment firm of Qatar.
@emptywheel.bsky.social I think we should tax political advertising at like 300% then use 2/3 of that to publicly fund elections.
It's something that could be implemented county by county that'd dramatically undermine billionaire power.
@emptywheel.bsky.social Well. 300,000,000 people going on strike in Inda _als_ didn't get any coverage.
I wonder -- are there people doing a cover-up, globally?
@BLTpizza @emptywheel.bsky.social
And deportation, since he committed visa fraud to get his citizenship.
So America finally found an immigrant who got there by committing visa fraud, then went onto commit electoral fraud, and they DON'T want to talk about it? Weird.