Always follow the money. I'll do a thread on particularly egregious political donations from Salesforce, Amazon and Facebook later, since tech is the world I know best. But this is a target-rich environment.
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If you want to do your own sleuthing, start here: https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&two_year_transaction_period=2018&min_date=01%2F01%2F2017&max_date=12%2F31%2F2018 … and type in company names in to "contributor". The Federal limit on PAC donations is $5K per election, so the dollar amounts are middling. But the recipients speak volumes about those companies' real values
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Some people claim that a corporate PAC is a cost of doing business in the US, and that you shouldn't hold companies accountable for these donations. But there are plenty of giant American corporations that don't have a PAC and do fine. Apple and IBM are two good examples.
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I've previously done threads for Google
#pride here, https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1137109394313818112 …, and Microsoft#pride here https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1134581433320824832 …. Fist bump to all the people at those companies working to defund these awful PACs, one donor at a time.Show this thread
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