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• Trump to discontinue Obama policy of voluntarily releasing White House visitor logs
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• "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" covers the absurd world of congressional fundraising, a practice that "turns our lawmakers into telemarketers." (Citing data from the Sunlight Foundation!)
  0 comments ∙ ⬆︎26 ∙ ⬇︎0 ∙ posted 5 years ago
• Back from a 15-month deployment to Iraq, Alex Horton penned a 1,000-word rant against the Department of Veterans Affairs on his blog. Now the VA has hired him to keep blogging and criticizing from the inside.
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• Pentagon Asks to Keep Future Spending Secret
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• A pro-Hillary super PAC has found a loophole allowing it to coordinate directly with Clinton's campaign. Now it's pledged to spend $1 million to "correct" internet commenters who "personally attack" the candidate
  2 comments ∙ ⬆︎23 ∙ ⬇︎0 ∙ posted 5 years ago
• Colbert Report - After hearing about a plan to keep senators’ suggestions on tax breaks secret for 50 years, Stephen Colbert says elections should be decided by blindly throwing darts: "If our lawmakers get to make their policy suggestions in secret, we don't know who we're voting for anyway."
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• This is not a democracy: How the 1 percent rigged the game. Money is speech, dollars have more influence than people -- it's time to be honest about the plutocracy we live in
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• Court Orders Government Not to Destroy Evidence in EFF Cases Against the NSA
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• The CIA Doesn’t Want You to Know How Badly It Botched Torture
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• FBI refuses to turn over documents on alleged plot to assassinate 'Occupy' leaders
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• "We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition."
  4 comments ∙ ⬆︎25 ∙ ⬇︎0 ∙ posted 9 years ago
• NYPD rejects Freedom of Information request... for its Freedom of Information handbook. Really?!
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• Constitutional amendment introduced to overturn Citizens United
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• Stephen Colbert demonstrates c4 money laundering
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• Sunlight Foundation to Discontinue Activities and Cut Staff
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• A Whistleblower's Horror Story: Years after blowing the whistle on Countrywide, Michael Winston is bogged down in the courts, and fighting for his life. By Matt Taibbi
  0 comments ∙ ⬆︎20 ∙ ⬇︎0 ∙ posted 6 years ago
• Unknown (until now) group called Freedom Partners secretly gave $250 million to groups promoting conservative causes - everyone from the NRA to the US Chamber got cash. Guess who's behind it? The Koch Bros., of course.
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• House Democrats push legislation to overturn Citizens United ruling
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• Chris Dodd Breaking Promise Not To Become A Lobbyist Just Weeks After Leaving Senate; Joining MPAA As Top Lobbyist
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• Speaker John Boehner denies C-SPAN access to record House proceedings
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• A multimillionaire, first-term Florida congressman flipped shares in a solar company the same day he acquired them in an initial public offering, despite a federal law that generally prohibits members of Congress from participating in IPOs
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• The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject requests for records to that office
  0 comments ∙ ⬆︎21 ∙ ⬇︎0 ∙ posted 6 years ago
• X-post from r/nonprofit: Cards Against Humanity Donates $250k to the Sunlight Foundation
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• Sunlight is now part of an 86-member coalition-including reddit!-requesting Congress put an end to NSA spying.
  0 comments ∙ ⬆︎20 ∙ ⬇︎0 ∙ posted 7 years ago
• The records from Huckabee's 12-year stint as governor are unavailable, and the hard drives that once contained them were erased and physically destroyed
  0 comments ∙ ⬆︎20 ∙ ⬇︎0 ∙ posted 10 years ago