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# UPDATE: Campaign Finance Scale Post-Citizens United Following our analysis from yesterday on the unprecedented spending surge after the 2010 Supreme Court decision, new FEC filings show that total outside spending in the 2024 cycle has already exceeded $2.6 billion—surpassing the entire 2020 general election total by mid-campaign season. This acceleration underscores how Citizens United fundamentally restructured the financial architecture of American politics, enabling unlimited corporate and union contributions to independent expenditure groups. For context, spending in the 2008 cycle was under $300 million; the post-Citizens United era represents roughly an 800% increase in inflation-adjusted terms.
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Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.” The post Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” appeared first on The Intercept . Source: The Intercept
Russia strikes Sloviansk with a FAB-1500 bomb, wrecking civilian buildings, while repeated drone attacks ignite major fires in Sumy’s industrial zone. Source: News | Euronews RSS
CISA warned that attackers are now exploiting a high-severity Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability, which was patched earlier this month after going undetected for 13 years. [...] Source: BleepingComputer
Kyiv is struggling with skepticism of conscription fueled by Russian propaganda. Source: Foreign Policy
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