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CHICAGO — In ballrooms, barrooms and backrooms this week, the business of big business is getting done with Democrats out of public view.

Yes, Bernie Sanders on Tuesday railed before Democratic National Convention delegates about how “millionaires and billionaires” should “not be able to buy elections.” And sure, curtailing “the corrupting influence of money in politics” is a plank in the 2024 Democratic Party platform.

But most Democrats in Chicago are ignoring the socialist senator and stepping over and around that party plank while pursuing cash that corporations and moneyed special interests are all too keen to contribute....

A political action committee for a ubiquitous home improvement company is doing some financial renovations in the wake of fraud, according to a new financial filing.

The Home Depot Inc., PAC reported to the Federal Election Commission that it experienced theft of $7,500 in December due to an "erroneous bank debit."

"The PAC has taken action to prevent this from happening in the future by closing that bank account and opening a new account," said a report to FEC from May 8. "In addition, the PAC is using positive pay through the bank to prevent any future occurrences."...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is back playing the stock market after an extended absence — and she just purchased stock in two companies whose business dealings potentially conflict with her congressional committee assignments.

In a public filing released today and reviewed by Raw Story, Greene reported buying up to $15,000 Qualcomm, a federal defense contractor. Greene serves on the Homeland Security Committee and the Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.

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The Home Depot Inc. apologized Thursday for a racist social media post that showed two black men using buckets sold by the hardware store chain as drums, with a person wearing a gorilla mask seated between them.

[rebelmouse-image 24749424 original_size="650x433" expand=1]Part of me found this article about the generation gap on opinions about immigration fascinating, and part of me wondered, "How often are we expected to find it a revelation that the teabaggers are a bunch of cranky old racists whose anger that the world is passing them by boiled over when the country elected a black President?" The article itself is kind of weird; the focus is on young white people resisting older white people and their racism, but what's missing is much discussion of the fact that younger people are also just a lot less likely to be white than older people. Not that there can't be racism across all sorts of lines, but the brutal reality is that the anti-immigration temper tantrum is being thrown by a bunch of older white people that are pissed about the multi-cultural direction this country is going. Perhaps the writer thought caveating his points to death would read poorly. Still, when he says something like, "her generation watched 'Sesame Street' with Hispanic characters", I have to point out that a lot more members of her generation are Hispanic, which is going to influence the polling data on this. True, there are many Hispanic Americans who oppose immigration, but on the whole, I have to point out that these demographic changes will influence the polling data tremendously, at least as much if not more than shifts in opinion amongst white Americans between generations.