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Media Matters Lays Off A Dozen Staffers Following Federal Probe, Lawsuit By Elon Musk
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Posted on 05/23/2024 12:31:17 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe

Media Matters followed suit with several liberal outlets by laying off at least a dozen staffers following a federal probe and lawsuit by “X” chief executive officer Elon Musk.

Staffers, some of whom have been with Media Matters for years, took to social media announcing their sudden departure from the outlet. The layoffs followed federal probes filed by Republican Attorneys General Ken Paxton of Texas and Andrew Bailey of Missouri into the outlet for possible fraudulent activity by allegedly manipulating data on “X,” formerly known as Twitter.

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I list it as another background item of the push to get rid of Paxton.

Now they can go after Brock's other endeavor called "Project 65".

1 posted on 05/23/2024 12:31:17 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

That one I am not familiar with.

I do know that Brock has started up yet another organization to do a lot of the same sort of stuff MMFA does.

Brock is scum.


2 posted on 05/23/2024 12:36:33 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Surprising good news.


3 posted on 05/23/2024 12:36:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: Tench_Coxe

Well this is encouraging. Hard to think of a worse outfit than this.


4 posted on 05/23/2024 12:40:51 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: sauropod
Scoop: High-powered group targets Trump lawyers’ livelihoods
5 posted on 05/23/2024 12:41:36 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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Thanks for the link. The super PAC American Bridge 21st Century was what I was thinking of.

There has to be a way to fight back against this stuff.

Judicial Watch? Landmark Legal Foundation?


6 posted on 05/23/2024 12:49:41 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Laid off, doubtful. Moved to another leftist organization is more likely.


7 posted on 05/23/2024 12:56:32 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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Closest thing I know of is Mike Davis' Article III Project.
But I think something more vicious would be needed to 'send a message'.
8 posted on 05/23/2024 12:58:36 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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Agree.

Will look at the Article III Project. I have heard of them.


9 posted on 05/23/2024 12:59:29 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Musk needs to go straight for the head of the snake, David Brock.


10 posted on 05/23/2024 1:15:03 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Tench_Coxe

I’m skeptical. I believe that MMFA will shutdown tomorrow, and MMFB will open on Monday with the same people, doing the same things.


11 posted on 05/23/2024 1:18:54 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: Tench_Coxe

One thing consistent about those Tweets - liberal journalists still think they’re the smartest people on the planet.


12 posted on 05/23/2024 1:22:42 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Tench_Coxe

Filthy libtard roaches running


13 posted on 05/23/2024 2:08:51 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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"Musk needs to go straight for the head of the snake, David Brock."

And ruin him so thoroughly that even Soros can't bail him out. The destruction of this libelous, slanderous leftist scumbag is way, way overdue. Good to see it finally going down.

14 posted on 05/23/2024 2:40:58 PM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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“... A top executive at Media Matters for America and the principal activist in the “Stop Rush” campaign made racist and anti-Semitic comments and disparaged “trannies” on a dormant blog that he wrote just several years prior to his prominent liberal activism career.

Blog entries reviewed by The Daily Caller show that Angelo Carusone made derogatory remarks about ethnic groups and used language to insult “trannies” and ugly “gays” that would be considered hate speech by his own organization.....”


15 posted on 05/23/2024 3:04:29 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Brock isn’t the head of the snake, Marc Elias is.

And ultimately the rich guys above him...


16 posted on 05/23/2024 3:31:46 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Marc Elias


17 posted on 05/23/2024 3:34:54 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Elias’s law firm is where the J6 protesters should have gone, if they had really been right wing and if that had really been an insurrection, which it wasn’t. Not the Capitol. Know your enemy. It isn’t the politicians but who owns the politicians.

From February:

...Republican lawmakers demanded the recusal last week of Badger State justice Janet Protasiewicz from taking up a redistricting motion due to her criticism of Wisconsin’s “rigged” maps while running in 2023. That heavily scrutinized effort to overhaul Wisconsin elections is being led by Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias, whose influential Elias Law Group raked in more than $680,000 combined for “legal services” in 2023 from left-wing groups that, in turn, rallied to support Protasiewicz, according to Federal Election Commission filings....

The Elias Law Group.


18 posted on 05/23/2024 3:42:36 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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19 posted on 05/23/2024 4:53:36 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Tench_Coxe

They’ll all go get jobs at their sister organization, The Hill.


20 posted on 05/23/2024 7:07:43 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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