It's good that so many companies halted contributions after the Capitol attack, but the fact that they had to do so at all is a reminder of how broken our campaign finance system is.
We shouldn't have to rely on corporations to hold the line for the good of the Republic.
Corporations don't give political donations for love of country. They give because Congress makes decisions that impact their bottom line, and they want a seat at the table.
They want to influence the process, regardless of the toxic politicians they bolster in so doing.
As the barricades and DC come down, and some form of normalcy returns to Washington, these companies are going to face extreme pressure to start giving again.
But we're going to be watching them and calling them out when they do.
We can’t depend on corporations’ newfound civic courage to last without external pressure. Nor can we expect Congress to act differently, if the lifeblood of their campaigns is restored without any clear act of repentance for the anti-democratic violence they caused.
When I said that corporations will feel pressure to start giving to the sedition caucus again, I should have said...they already are wsj.com/articles/pause…
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One of my favorite new TV/podcast genres is "insane shit that happened in the 90s." I was a kid when all the stuff with OJ, the Unabomber, Lorena Bobbit, Monica Lewinsky, and the DC sniper happened.
I remember all this stuff going down, but, man, all my memories are wrong.
We're watching the Manhunt series about the Olympic bombing, and I don't think I ever realized just how screwed Richard Jewell got.
This is a theme in these shows. Bobbit and Lewinsky also come out as much more sympathetic characters than I gave them credit for as a kid.
Also, growing up in Charleston, I remember when Eric Rudolph's brother cut his hand off to...protest the FBI and the media?
He had it reattached at the hospital my dad worked at.
Hahaha you know what makes this NRA video really hilarious?
Having a gun in the house drastically increases the chances that a spouse or child will be killed in an act of domestic violence or that a family member will use the firearm to commit suicide.
"Over half of all intimate partner homicides are committed with guns. Indeed, a woman is five times more likely to be murdered when her abuser has access to a gun." efsgv.org/learn/type-of-…
To channel @eisingerj: You can't have a functioning democracy without a functioning tax collection system that people generally see as fair and equitable.
What we have, though, is a broken system that punishes the poor, while letting the ultra-wealthy run roughshod over it.
Gutting the IRS has also helped fuel the rise of massive dark money groups. As the agency's budget was whittled away, it diverted more and more funds away from nonprofit oversight -- because it's a revenue collection agency, and those groups are tax exempt.
TFW you're walking down Connecticut Ave with an apple pie on a nice afternoon, and you notice the bus stops are all showing images of violent insurrectionists that the FBI is trying to hunt down
There's a term in climate change lexicon "blissonance" that describes the mix of joy and terror you get on a warm winter day, knowing it shouldn't be that warm.
I'd say it also applies to walking down the street with pie, and then being subtly reminded the city is in danger.
‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’ - Trump, in an hour-long call, pressuring Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Oh Lordy, there are tapes
Bet y'all didn't expect Trump to prove election fraud exists by possibly committing election fraud