Martina Fern, Senior Director of Development for American Atheists, writes in an email that the organization sent today:
"Elon Musk, who spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help elect President Trump, expressed his support for federal investigations into fundraising platform ActBlue, claiming it’s part of a “left-wing NGO cabal” organizing protests of Tesla. He even called the protests “terrorist activity.”
Speaker Mike Johnson and several Republican lawmakers have been pushing for a congressional investigation into ActBlue since last December. More recently, the Treasury Secretary has been urged to look into the fundraising platform for “allegations of the provision of… payment processing for terror-linked organizations and nonprofits.” Senator Ted Cruz has also suggested ActBlue might be held criminally liable and has threatened another private tech company that provides services to nonprofits, Bonterra, with investigations."
Fern adds that the ActBlue and Bonterra platforms, both of which American Atheists uses, "are being threatened precisely because they provide the infrastructure necessary for nonprofit organizations like ours to operate." If Trump's orbit can say that one left-leaning cause is a "terrorist" cause, then they have a pretext to take down the large donation platforms that fund a broad spectrum of left-leaning causes.
One core political function of calling someone a terrorist is that, in the United States as well as other places, you can seek to have the government shut them down on the basis of you having called them that. I wrote: Why Was Palestinian Student Leader Mahmoud Khalil Detained?: The meaning of ‘shalom’ I know is ‘peace.’ A political arrest isn’t peaceful. Tucker Lieberman, Mar 12, 2025
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