researching corporate power and other things / formerly @twittlesis
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16 Nov 2022
Chuck Schumer's sister-in-law was Ticketmaster's lead outside counsel on its LiveNation merger.
Schumer – then a member of the antitrust subcommittee – never recused himself. He initially pledged to fight the merger, then went silent.
news.littlesis.org/2014/02/2…
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17 Nov 2022
oh and Schumer's sister-in-law is currently on the board of the Match Group, which owns almost every dating app (see below) and is itself an obvious candidate for a breakup (zing!)
she has $3m in stock & makes $300k/yr for this extremely part-time gig
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11 Sep 2021
just so we’re clear the “Irish goodbye” is merely a means of escaping the Irish goodbye process, a complex ritual that typically lasts hours (and in some cases - very rare but it does happen - gets stuck in an infinite loop)
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13 Jan 2021
A month into Trump's coup attempt, Blackstone CEO and GOP donor Stephen Schwarzman: "If you got a call from the president, you'd probably help him, wouldn't you?" businessinsider.com/blacksto…
Schwarzman promoted Trump conspiracy theories about PA results:
ft.com/content/558f2a68-7d42…
5 Nov 2020
Asked what he feared most about impact of budget cuts on NYC, Cuomo's biggest billionaire donor said...taxes: "The thing that I worry about most is stupid legislation, such as what happened in Albany last year with residential assets, and unsustainable tax increases.”
5 Nov 2020
Here's Governor Cuomo's biggest billionaire donor cheering Democratic losses, in case you're wondering why New York's high-profile leader has been underground for days....
MakeBillionairesPay.info has the donor stats: makebillionairespay.info/and… #TaxTheRich #MakeBillionairesPay
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5 Nov 2020
Wall Street billionaires cheer Dem losses/deeply divided country, set their sights on austerity:
Leon Cooperman: "the most important thing that came out of the election results thus far is the repudiation of the left" fool.com/earnings/call-trans…
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5 Nov 2020
Steven Roth: "I think pretty clearly the sweep is off the table. And I think that's from my point of view and probably from most folks' point of view, a very, very good thing."
seekingalpha.com/article/438…
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5 Nov 2020
Ken Fisher: "There was no landslide either way, and it looks like gridlock will ultimately win the day...[stocks] like gridlock...fundamentals on this front are shaping up nicely, in our view"
fisherinvestments.com/en-us/…
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17 Apr 2020
Check out our new report on the Chamber, its push against use of the Defense Production Act to produce PPE, and its corporate backers. One finding: @3M, maker of N95 masks, has both a board seat and meeting room at the Chamber.
public-accountability.org/re…
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4 Apr 2020
“Do not let our lives be lost because of the almighty dollar. Our lives count, as does everyone else on this earth.”
A group of detainees at Batavia Federal Detention Center have issued a powerful statement:
justiceformigrantfamilies.or…
#FreeThemAll
7 Feb 2020
The wives of two disgraced hedge fund billionaires, Dan Loeb and Steve Cohen, maxed out to Pete Buttigieg last quarter.
Loeb has a history of making racist remarks, Cohen's firm pleaded guilty to securities fraud. Both are big education privatization donors.
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5 Feb 2020
any good pieces out there on the leadership of the Iowa Democratic Party?
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Kevin Connor retweeted
27 Jan 2020
BREAKING: 30 @CCIAction and @IAStudentAction members are refusing to leave @JoeBiden’s statewide headquarters in Des Moines over his lies about #MedicareForAll and his ties to the insurance company CEOs who are funding his campaign.
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27 Jan 2020
NEW: Raising taxes on New York’s wealthiest residents has broad support: 67% of New Yorkers support wide range of tax increases including ultra-millionaires tax, wealth tax, and tax on second homes according to new @DataProgress poll nydailynews.com/news/politic… via @SlatteryNYDN
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26 Jan 2020
Jared, Ivanka, and Kellyanne Conway all went to a party at Jeff Bezos' house last night
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22 Jan 2020
NEW: Banco Popular is hoarding thousands of foreclosed homes and is custodian to billions in austerity money that could go towards a just recovery for Puerto Rico.
news.littlesis.org/2020/01/2…
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16 Jan 2020
Alice has a swank $25 million pied-á-terre on Park Avenue in Manhattan that’s a ripe target for the pied-á-terre tax.
Will the Governor choose more cuts to healthcare, schools & public transit when he should be taxing his billionaire donors?
#MakeBillionairesPay #BudgetJustice
16 Jan 2020
Jim and Alice Walton, of the Walmart Waltons, gave Gov. Cuomo's re-election campaign a combined $89,700 in July. Alice Walton is a major backer of charter schools.
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16 Jan 2020
Paul Weiss is also for Biden news.littlesis.org/2019/12/1…
16 Jan 2020
I have a letter on my wall from this firm, demanding I secure all my emails in case they showed a conspiracy to hurt Exxon. Law students: if you would enjoy a career harassing activists and writers on behalf of the super-powerful, Paul Weiss is for you!
theguardian.com/business/202…
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Kevin Connor retweeted
9 Jan 2020
Important to note here (since Sinatra didn't) that Collins was both a lender to and an investor in Sinatra's real estate business while serving in Congress. Collins was also the chief advocate for Sinatra's brother's appointment to a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary.
9 Jan 2020
Influential WNYers have been urging leniency for Collins. Laurie Frey of Frey Electric and developer Nick Sinatra both describe Collins as man of integrity.
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