As @derekwills points out, Facebook's FEC filing is up early this month! Let's see who America's most trusted social network gave money to while celebrating corporate #pride:
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Facebook has joined
@benioff and Microsoft in giving to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Just do a Google news search on the guy; I can't fit it all in a tweet. Facebook made its $5,000 donation to this extremely homophobic congressman on June 27pic.twitter.com/UuAjJDiAYR
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Adam Kinzinger, who voted against the Equality Act in May, got $1,500 from Facebook on June 27.pic.twitter.com/QBQYUD2aEJ
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Mitch McConnell is the key figure keeping election security legislation, legal protections for DACA, and the Equality Act from the Senate floor. Facebook gave $1,500 to his re-election campaign on June 27pic.twitter.com/S9DD7FoNHs
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Here's a $1,000 donation from Facebook to Mike Crapo on June 27. I like Senator Crapo! He was very kind to me when I gave testimony before his committee! But I like LGBT people more, and he is also a co-sponsor of the discriminatory First Amendment Defense Actpic.twitter.com/SQYBMYgVGC
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On June 21, Mike Johnson and Doug Collins (see upthread) introduced the Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act (https://mikejohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-collins-reintroduce-sweeping-legislation-address-abuse-immigration-laws …) which would turn away asylum applicants at the border in violation of international treaty. Facebook gave him $1,000 on June 27
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Facebook gave a maximum $15,000 donation to the National Republican Senatorial Committee on June 27. Again, this is
#pride month, which they vocally celebrated! But they can't even be bothered to wait three days for the sake of appearance, correctly predicting we'll do nothing.pic.twitter.com/K3uvCjQDM7
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Ladies and Gentlemen, here's Senator David Perdue: https://www.theatlantavoice.com/articles/georgia-senator-stands-by-trump/ …. Facebook gave him $2,500 on June 27pic.twitter.com/kMY6FzyQSI
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(I'm sorry for the length of the thread, but Facebook gave to a lot of really shitty people this month)
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I've tweeted before about Texas Senator John Cornyn. Along with Ted Cruz, he nominated to the Federal bench a guy who said transgender kids are "part of Satan's plan". The nomination was withdrawn after that, but Cornyn never repudiated it. Facebook gave Cornyn $5,000 on June 27pic.twitter.com/gmr22D288J
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Here's Thom Tillis, who rode on Air Force One to yesterday's Trump rally and joined the President in his motorcade, defending the President in the press today from accusations that he encouraged a "send her back!" chant from supporters. Facebook gave Tillis $2,500 on June 27pic.twitter.com/NK8lZuoKl5
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When the Senate voted 98-1 in 2015 on the resolution "It is the sense of the Senate that climate change is real and not a hoax," the lone holdout was Roger Wicker. Wicker is also a co-sponsor of the anti-LGBT First Amendment Defense Act. Facebook gave him $2,500 on June 27.pic.twitter.com/ULuuz4kywc
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What can you do about this? Here's the complete filing, including the full list of contributors. If you work at Facebook, you can reach out to coworkers who pay in and tell them how their money is being spent. Together, we have the power to shut this down! https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/239/201907189151433239/201907189151433239.pdf …
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And as always, I'd love to hear
@boztank explain why he contributes to these politicians. The man likes his Twitter but never seems to be online when there's a discussion of Facebook's political givingShow this thread
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