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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"

Follow the money. Three days after being awarded an annual contract of $165 million to run US concentration camps, the GEO Group donated more than $1.4 million to MAGA Inc. (a super PAC run by Trump’s allies).

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

Looks like they wanted sponsors for Trump's Freedom 250 Grand Prix event, but couldn't find any. There is a big blank space on their banner. Embarrassing. And on their website they are still looking for sponsors.

Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

Sponsors list of UFC Freedom 250: Lots of tech, crypto, gambling, and beverages. Notable corporations include Dodge (Stellantis), Meta, Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch), Starlink (SpaceX), and Paramount. Avoid all of these if you oppose Trumpism.

If you are mad about 60 Minutes being intentionally destroyed, cancel your Paramount Plus subscription. Stop giving them money. It really is that simple. There are lots of other streaming options.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Scott Pelley has been fired by new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton.

The obscene gap between Main Street and Wall Street in two headlines. The 1% get what they paid for, while the rest of America suffers.

This event was sponsored by Deloitte, ExxonMobil, IndyCar, John Deere, Lockheed Martin, Mastercard, Oracle, Palantir, Penske, SAP, Scotts Miracle-Gro, UFC, and United Airlines.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Trump's bizarre pre-recorded message to Rededicate 250 ended up on abrupt note, but that didn't stop the follow-up speaker from worshiping him as a false idol

This is also likely stock market manipulation. He lets the markets surge one way based on this post, then will tip off his rich friends before another post that sends it surging the other direction. Such easy money, he can't resist. But appallingly evil.

This is on Musk, and if it infuriates you, don't ever ride in a Tesla robotaxi. Tesla currently has a market cap larger than Walmart because Wall Street thinks you will. Make them wrong.

Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI." But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined. They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

Donald Trump wore an oversize white and gold baseball cap at a recent dignified transfer of fallen soldiers. Fox News covered that up with old footage, sponsored today by Chase Bank and Jones Road Beauty. Don't support brands like these that fund misleading right wing media.

i really don't wanna hear that anthropic are the good guys when claude told the people doing a forever war to bomb a school

yes, nothing says "innovation reinvention" like a nepobaby trust fund brat with no meaningful experience being gifted a massive hollywood empire by his technofascist dad, who leveraged his corrupt influence over the country's pudding-headed autocrats to box out competitors (?)

David Ellison Unveils Sweeping Vision for Warner Bros: “This Is About Reinventing the Business”

HBO Max and Paramount+ will be merged when the deal closes, the mogul told Wall Street early Monday morning.

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what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

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At least 23 companies should have disclosed their donations to Trump's White House ballroom on their lobbying disclosure reports. Only one did.

White House ballroom donations should be disclosed on lobbying disclosure reports - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

At least 23 reported contributors to the White House ballroom should have disclosed those donations as part of their regular lobbying disclosure filings.

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Fox News this week mocked an American athlete as part of a divisive segment called "DEI Thursdays" sponsored by Vanguard, Chase Bank, and NyQuil. If you oppose Fox News, stop doing business with its sponsors.

Consumers have so much power. Keep using it!

The Verge@theverge.com · 8mo ago

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Wall street elites sold out America. Trump could not have been elected without their support or silence. This is them not wanting their MAGA bet to fall apart, at any moral cost.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

CNBC's Rebecca Quick and Joe Kernen brought Chris Coons on this morning so they could team up to berate him about how terrible they think the an idea shutting down the government again is, as though Democrats would be entirely to blame and ICE is just normal law enforcement

Four of the eight largest and most biased donors to the GOP in Trump's 2024 election were petroleum refiners. It's all connected.

Stop Funding Heat@stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 8mo ago

You can’t protect winter sport while one of the Games’ biggest sponsors is fuelling the climate crisis. The #IOC must drop oil & gas sponsorships. TAKE ACTION: 🟠 Share the video 🟠 Sign the open letter action.greenpeace.org.uk/drop-oil-gas... @greenpeace.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=5755...

Fox News Channel has not pivoted, and still airs extreme right wing and pro-Trump content every night. Top sponsors now are Force Factor and Sanofi (which owns Qunol). If you oppose Trump and ICE, shop elsewhere.

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/ (New piece) newrepublic.com/article/2057...

Donald Trump Is Frightened

Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.

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So Bank of America is signing on to be the premier sponsor (used to recruit other sponsors) of a revamped CBS News that in all likelihood will be right-wing biased, full of alt-right conspiracy, and inherently anti-science. Noted.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Part three of three, with Bari Weiss calling CBS News "the best capitalized media start-up in the world. We have the talent, energy, an mandate to transform CBS News..."

1. After weeks of silence, the CEOs of 68 large corporations based in Minnesota released and statement on ICE saying... what exactly? "There are ways for us to come together to foster progress..." "State, local and federal officials [should] work together to find real solutions..."

The hollow corporate response to the Minnesota killings

At the beginning of December, the Trump administration launched “Operation Metro Surge,” sending thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other federal officers to the…

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TikTok is under right wing billionaire control now. Plan your exit strategy.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Weak stuff from corporate Minnesota. Doesn't confront lies from ICE about the shootings, and completely leaves out a role for the people of Minnesota, who clearly want ICE gone. Also note from our database: Andersen and Sleep Number are big Fox News sponsors. Target rolled back its DEI programs.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce has released this letter on behalf of more than 60 CEOs of Minnesota-based companies.

Fox News is covering up for politically targeted ICE violence with conspiracy about "Somali-run daycare" and "nebulous NGOs", sponsored by Jones Road, Qunol, Advil, Hungryroot, and Bausch and Lomb. All long time Fox sponsors. If you oppose ICE, don't buy from them and spread the word.

If you want to support this Minnesota action from afar today, one way is to not spend at these three retailers especially: Home Depot, Walmart, Amazon. They or their owners help the GOP and failed to stand up for DEI. See all the evidence at whofundstheright.org

Ilhan Omar@ilhanmn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢ICE GET THE HELL OUT OF MINNESOTA. Minnesotans please join tomorrow’s ICE Out of Minnesota Day of Truth & Freedom here: iceoutnowmn.com