Rick Claypool

Since Trump took office, @publiccitizen.bsky.social has tracked the admin's retreat from enforcement against corporate lawbreaking. Today, our new report documents the admin's cancellation of investigations, lawsuits, & penalties against more than *200* corporations. www.citizen.org/article/trum...

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

"Corporations, executives, and investors benefiting from canceled enforcement gave or pledged $210.5 million toward MAGA Inc. and other Trump-aligned super PACs." @rickclaypool.bsky.social for @publiccitizen.bsky.social

"Donnie and Eric have become leading promoters of the family’s crypto business because it is making them so much money. Money that they would never have been able to earn on their own and certainly not if Donald weren’t sitting in the Oval Office..." - @maryltrump.bsky.social

Yesterday I released a @Public_Citizen report documenting 200+ corporations benefiting from Trump's canceled enforcement. Today: A new report shows a handful of those corporations gave $200 million to MAGA Inc. & other Trump-aligned super PACs www.citizen.org/article/cost...

I expected Trump Administration to do this. Grateful that @publiccitizen.bsky.social is tracking this so regulations and enforcement can be reinstated....and strengthened.

This is great! www.ms.now/opinion/demo...

The best elite impunity that billionaires and corporate donors can pay for, folks.

This is a big f'n deal.

almost forgot since I was up late celebrating lefty wins in Pvd 😅 the 10-year anniversary edition of LEECH GIRL LIVES is out TODAY TYSM @nmamatas.bsky.social for the killer intro & @spaceboybooks.bsky.social for helping me share my weirdo vision of the shitty future bookshop.org/p/books/leec...

so we're all just like, guinea pigs in OpenAI's experiments now? cool, cool, I'm sure it'll work out fine

One year ago, I started highlighting the growing number of enforcement matters that the FEC cannot resolve until we regain a quorum. Last year, there were 154. Now, it’s doubled to 307. We need a quorum to tackle this backlog and fully achieve the agency’s mission this election.

I have five copies of Toadstones left over from NecronomiCon, each one exposed to the unnatural radiations of Providence, R.I. and exhibiting strange, supernatural properties, including the strange manifestation of unknown passages from the Necronomicon. Own one, if you dare...$25, that INCLUDES S+H

Chicken Parmigiana: "I am filled with fear. Pullet flesh, seared to white, cast like bronze within a crunchy coat." (Happy b-day, HP) buff.ly/2unvzL4

Great coverage of the eye-popping sums of corporate money gushing into the 2026 elections -- already 1/3 of all corporate money since 2010! A major problem I note is that it makes niche corporate policies (crypto regs) distract Congress from issues people actually care about (cheaper groceries)

"Trump dwarfs his predecessors in the number of ultra-rich in his second White House, report shows" Thomas Beaumont for @apnews.com with research via Doug Pasternak at @publiccitizen.bsky.social

NecronomiCon night one -- kickin it in Pvd with @geoliminal.bsky.social!!

TOADSTONES (2022, Malarkey Books) would bring this troubled nation together

Ok so "Win for America" is a super PAC that is literally being fueled by gambling losses – losses that are now being weaponized against our democracy to expand these corporations’ pool of potential marks. For the public and for our democracy, that’s a lose-lose.

Corporate Political Spending in 2026 Midterms Shatters All-Time Record: Today's #BradCast Guest: @rickclaypool.bsky.social of @publiccitizen.bsky.social; Also: Amazon and gig workers on SNAP and Medicaid skyrockets; Primary elections results from AZ... FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=18216

"The Trump DOJ’s grotesque retreat from corporate crime enforcement leaves Americans increasingly vulnerable to tainted food, workplace exploitation, environmental destruction, widespread ripoffs, and all-around illegal corporate predation​."

$517 million in corporate money and it's only July. This is exactly what happens when billionaires and corporations are allowed to bankroll our elections. The people should decide our future, not whoever can write the biggest check.

Silicon Valley really showing itself to be nothing more than Phillip Morris in a grey hoodie, buying the laws it wants so that it can continue its predation.

The midterms are a battle between the privileged and the oligarchs against the rest of us. The time to stand up and fight is now before it is too late.

"If the current, broken campaign finance system remains unchallenged—and corporate spending is allowed to drown out the voices of real voters and real people—these corporate campaigns will keep multiplying."

What an outrage. Proud to have contributed in a small way to the @publiccitizen.bsky.social research the Post's story is based on

is @anthropic.com finally catching up with @publiccitizen.bsky.social

I’m running for Congress! ❤️✌🏻

cointelegraph asked me about crypto and AI super PACs and I kind of unloaded 😂https://www.tradingview.com/news/cointelegraph:ab6436d34094b:0-crypto-and-ai-could-be-dirty-words-on-2026-midterm-campaign-trail/

happy 100th birthday David Attenborogh!!!

this was awesome (and I'm a little speechless the convo started with a discussion of my corporate crime research)

Big Tech companies have spent at least $653 MILLION cozying up to Trump & Congressional Republicans. Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, and Palantir have all chosen to align themselves with Trump. We have to choose democracy over oligarchy.

$1.5 million. wow, that'll show him

WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd