The IRA created an EV tax credit of up to $7,500. Does Elon Musk really want it repealed by Trump and congressional GOP?
I spoke with Dan Becker of the Safe Transport Climate Campaign about Musk's interests with Tesla, for @sludge subscribers:
https://readsludge.com/2025/01/30/trump-takes-aim-at-electric-vehicles/
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Fossil fuel lobbying group AFPM got a rush of revenue in 2023 and threw it into a lobbying blitz totaling nearly $20.7 million in 2024, tripling their previous record.
A look at what's next for EPA rules and EV tax rebates, for subscribers @sludge
https://readsludge.com/2025/01/30/trump-takes-aim-at-electric-vehicles/
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Scrappy marvelous Flaming Hydra is one year old! Independent journalists and artists sharing resources and democratically managing our heartfelt publication.
Today, Maria links 10 pieces she adores, now paywall-free ! š
https://flaminghydra.com/happy-birthday-flaming-hydra/
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Trump's official crypto tokenā80% owned by his companiesāpromises all the bribery with no need for the mess of actual payoffs. Here's how, for @sludge subscribers.
https://readsludge.com/2025/01/28/how-trumps-meme-coin-enables-corruption-even-without-a-direct-payoff/
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Doug Emhoff is going to work for a law firm that has advised private equity giants like CVC Capital Partners, Warburg Pincus, and Bain Capital. Latest post for subscribers:
https://readsludge.com/2025/01/27/emhoff-returns-to-corporate-law/
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For example, IG Reels is one of the places where Dems could have had video ready when Trump suddenly fired independent officials, in violation of federal law.
It might have been an appearance with a trusted public official in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, city in the #KY01 district of GOP Oversight Committee Chair James Comer. It could have been creative.
But no video there. Nothing to compellingly explain the impact of Trump firing independent watchdogs in federal agencies.
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Last month, House Democrats voted 131-84 in a secret ballot to elect the 74-year old Gerry Connolly, with terminal esophageal cancer, over AOC for Oversight chair.
Is Connolly capable of holding a smartphone, having an aide log him into IG Live, and explaining to independent voters the stakes? He hasn't exactly been front and center in the media, much less on digital social media.
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There's no social media video out yet from Oversight Dems, he isn't showing his face.
Connolly's X account and the committee's has a statement on the firings, and his Instagram account has the same statement (but not Oversight's).
Nothing on YouTube, nothing on Facebook. No idea if House Dems comms had anything prepared for TikTok.
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Maybe 74-year-old cancer patient Gerry Connolly shouldn't be in charge of Oversight's response!
He owes his chair to the caucus rules kept in place by Nancy Pelosi.
Under her leadership, House Dems would not even release the rules by which their secretive Steering and Policy Committee operates.
https://readsludge.com/2021/10/21/the-secretive-group-steering-the-dems/
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Trump fired 17 independent auditors at agencies late night, in violation of federal law.
Presumably Rep. Gerry Connolly, chair of Oversight Dems, is on a rapid response tear right now and has already fired off a video message to voters in the districts of his GOP Oversight colleagues explaining gov't waste...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-fires-least-12-independent-inspectors-general-washington-post-reports-2025-01-25/
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NEW: We put together all the money AIPAC spent in the 2024 elections, all in one place.
Search and see how much AIPAC donated to every member of Congress and more federal candidates, and how much super PAC support they received. Totals at @sludge for subscribers:
https://readsludge.com/2025/01/24/here-is-all-the-money-aipac-spent-on-the-2024-elections/
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New: The Trump administration picked a high-fructose corn syrup and seed oil lobbyist to help implement policy at the USDA. Full story for subscribers to our independent muckraking site @sludge :
https://readsludge.com/2025/01/23/maha-junk-food-and-seed-oil-lobbyist-tapped-for-top-usda-position-2/
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The year-end disclosures are in: Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram, spent a record high $24.4 million in lobbying as lawmakers banned rival TikTok.
Info for @sludge subscribers today
https://readsludge.com/2025/01/22/meta-spends-record-lobbying-sum-amid-tiktok-ban-debate/
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The latest filings for Meta show it hit new high in lobbying last year as Congress banned TikTok. Zuck has been pushing the idea to lawmakers that the Instagram rival is a national security threat.
New for @sludge subscribers, diving into the forms:
https://readsludge.com/2025/01/22/meta-spends-record-lobbying-sum-amid-tiktok-ban-debate/
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In 2020 (and before), reformers proposed barring corporate lobbyists from serving as DNC members.
The proposal was hastily voted down in a convention meeting chaired by two corporate-tied members, Maria Cardona of consultancy Dewey Square and former Rep. Barney Frank, a Signature Bank board member.
https://readsludge.com/2020/08/05/corporate-lobbyists-vote-to-keep-corporate-lobbyists-in-the-dnc/
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New: Oil and gas executives in the room at the Mar-a-Lago meeting where Trump asked them to raise $1 billion for him got one of their top priorities in a day-one executive order: lifting the pause on LNG exports.
Names at @sludge for subscribers to this anti-corruption reporting:
https://readsludge.com/2025/01/21/trump-rewards-fossil-fuel-donors-on-day-one/
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