Jeff Mangan
@jmangan.bsky.social
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Middle-income Americans straining to pay for Affordable Care Act health insurance are unlikely to get relief next year, according to a new analysis that shows insurers in the marketplace are proposing a second straight year of double-digit premium hikes. https://to.pbs.org/4wCbf4A
Obamacare premiums surged this year. A new analysis shows it's likely to happen again in 2027
Middle-income Americans straining to pay for Affordable Care Act health insurance are unlikely to get relief next year, according to a new analysis.
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A @BrennanCenter study published in 2025 documented that dark money spending nearly doubled from 2020 to 2024, reaching a record $1.9 billion—and that figure is likely an undercount.
. @IssueOneReform "..voters in Montana will also be asked whether they want to end corporate and dark money spending in Montana elections through an innovative ballot initiative known as the Montana Plan" link in thread" @transparent406
A State of the Union Message from President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905! “All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholders’ money for such purposes;
America’s farmers and cattle ranchers are warning that data centers are gobbling up farmland acreage, electricity and water needed to raise livestock and grow crops. “It’s almost like the wild west to see who gets there first.” on.wsj.com/4ph1S7P
A New Foe Has Emerged for Data Centers: Farmers
Growers, ranchers and companies warn of too much farmland being used for AI data centers, siphoning water.
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A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.
"The groups are two of the biggest spenders in this year’s midterm elections, laying out nearly $24 million and promising that over $100 million more" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/...
They Are Top Spenders in the Midterms. And They Hate Each Other. (Gift Article)
One super PAC is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They’re both spending millions to influence this year’s elections.
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Dark money has evolved since Citizens United. Rather than purchasing their own advertisements (which would trigger some disclosure), dark money groups now primarily make massive transfers to allied super PACs—amounts far exceeding any previous direct spending.
BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.
Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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#ELB: BREAKING: “Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act” (This is going to be a BFD if Trump Tries to Assert the EAC’s Powers over the Federal Voter Registration Form) https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157199
Contribution limits are designed to guard against corruption and the appearance of corruption. But thanks to a new SCOTUS ruling last week, a donor can now give more than $300K this year alone to a party committee like the NRSC or DSCC to help a specific candidate issueone.org/press/suprem...
Supreme Court Opens New Avenue for Big Money to Buy Favor with Candidates - Issue One
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision today in the major campaign finance case known as National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, also called NRSC…
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It's also time for everyone to change their profile pic! Let everyone know where you stand, that we're taking democracy back!
"We must prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes" TR first brought corporate and special interest spending & corruption to our attention in the early 1900s.
KYUK reports on how an upcoming Supreme Court ruling on mail voting could affect thousands of Alaskans:
How a change to mail-in voting could impact Alaska’s most rural voters
Alaska is one of 29 states that allow at least some late-arriving ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked on or before election day. But a U.S. Supreme Court ruling could complicate that, especially for voters in the Bush.
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Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections. Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it. Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win. (via @levernews.com)
Investors have poured an unprecedented $255 billion into five AI hyperscalers — Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle — already this year, more than twice what those companies raised in all of 2025 www.axios.com/2026/06/10/m...
Wall Street is raining unprecedented cash on the hyperscalers
Just five companies have raised $255.34 billion through both equity and debt so far this year.
axios.com
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🇺🇸 The Montana Plan: A Conversation w/ Governor Marc Racicot (R) & Senator Jon Tester (D) We are excited to announce that Former Governor Marc Racicot and Former Senator Jon Tester will kick off…...
🇺🇸 The Montana Plan: A Conversation w/ Governor Marc Racicot (R) & Senator Jon Tester (D) We are excited to announce that Former Governor Marc Racicot and Former Senator Jon Tester will kick off the ...
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'Keep Calm and Sign the Petition' Montana cartoonist JC Moore. disruptdarkmoney.feather.blog/keep-calm-a...
"The groups are two of the biggest spenders in this year’s midterm elections, laying out nearly $24 million and promising that over $100 million more" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/...
Montana, if you haven't signed yet, no excuses! You can print and sign and submit yourself even. Wanna keep corporate money in Montana politics?
Jeff Mangan@jmangan.bsky.social · 2mo agoI Want to Sign The Montana Plan I-194! 😍 Print, Sign, & Submit and/or find events near you across Montana at sign.mttei.org Continually updated!
Not a single flyer in my mailbox has been from a candidate, dozens and dozens all from PACs.
Dark money has evolved since Citizens United. Rather than purchasing their own advertisements (which would trigger some disclosure), dark money groups now primarily make massive transfers to allied super PACs—amounts far exceeding any previous direct spending.
