Politics

People do not care about democracy in the abstract.

Wealth has infused the policymaking process to great effect for a long time

The Harris campaign probably outspent the Trump campaign by quite a bit

He has a coder who modified the software providing payment services for the Treasury Department.

This will be the most kleptocratic administration since the last Trump administration.

He said on X, I killed it, I put it through the woodchipper.

Musk tweeted that USAID is corrupt and needs to die.

A process inside the Department of Justice reviewed executive action and constrained it according to the judgment of the head of OLC.

Federal lawmaking has been completely unresponsive to bottom 80 or 90 percent of public opinion when opinions of wealthy are different from opinions of non-wealthy

A reporter at the Washington Post can say concentrated wealth is the number one problem in American politics and American democracy if their boss is Jeff Bezos.

They make up facts.

They frame the story as good versus evil.

He gets to do it.

He is violating all sorts of rules and laws.

Elon Musk's Doge team took over the Treasury Department's computers.

The corrupting influence of money inside of political system has been a fight for 18 years

Define mechanisms of monitoring internal and public reporting and accountability

Experiment with alternative campaign funding mechanisms

Build support for a test court case to overturn the legality of super PACs

Archon Fung and Lawrence Lessig say Trump's embrace of billionaire partners could be an inflection point in America's slide toward rule by the wealthiest