Follow the Money.

I’ve been noodling around in the database at Follow the Money again. Having fun actually, it’s just amazing what you can find there.

If you have wondered who in your governement - on any level from federal on down - is taking money from whom (such as industry or lobbyists) this is for you.

Go. Play. Learn.

Change the state, change the level of government, change the industry filters.

And, if you can slip Follow the Money a few bucks for all hard work they’ve done to put this incredible database together, writing huge amounts of code to help filter results that you can use, then that would be very nice.

-maven

The 'Wrecking Crew' that nearly took down America

What is maven reading now?

“The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” by Thomas Frank, and she’s absolutely loving it. The time just flies by on the treadmill, reading this engaging, yet important book. I enjoy books written by journalists, since they’re so readable ( Hemingway was first a reporter) and this one is.

Frank completely, and with dark humor, dissects the so-called conservative revolution so that we can finally see it for the completly cynical sham that it is, and better understand why it’s currently in a death spiral.

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