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huh? you are not following the hundreds of millions pouring into the Biden campaign.

then there’s all the millions going to BLM/Actblue etc, for the rioters??

then there’s this:

14 Sept: NYT: Progressive Donor Susan Sandler to Give $200 Million to Racial Justice Groups
Her efforts will support organizations trying to build political power in states that are undergoing rapid demographic change.
By Astead W. Herndon
Ms. Sandler’s announcement comes amid skyrocketing investment in racial justice organizations, fueled by the national reckoning on systemic inequities and injustice that swept the country this summer...

In July, the foundation started by George Soros pledged $220 million to groups focused on racial equity, an eye-popping total that gave long-term sustainability to several organizations. Ms. Sandler’s fund will provide several groups with a similar assurance...

Initial recipients of grants from Ms. Sandler’s fund include several progressive organizations working in battleground states to register new voters from underrepresented groups. The organizations include the Texas Organizing Project, New Virginia Majority, New Florida Majority and the Arizona Center for Empowerment.
Vivian Chang, a veteran of the California nonprofit world who will serve as the fund’s executive director, said in a phone interview that “the investments are not so much targeted to battleground states, but looking at the landscape of racism and demographic change.”...

The Sandler Foundation, which was started in 1991 by Ms. Sandler’s parents, the billionaires Herb and Marion Sandler, has long been a hub of left-leaning philanthropic efforts. The foundation has helped create organizations like the Center for American Progress and the Learning Policy Institute, and has supported nonprofit journalism outfits including ProPublica...
She was a key supporter of former President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential run, and she backed Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/Susan-Sandler-donation-racial-justice.html

reminder:

1 Nov 2016: Politico: Podesta paid $7,000 a month by top donor
WikiLeaks reveals that Clinton’s campaign chairman had an unusually close relationship with an influential Democratic donor.
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and DANNY VINIK; Bianca Padró Ocasio contributed to this report
Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, last year signed a $7,000-a-month contract with the foundation of a major Clinton donor who made a fortune selling a type of mortgage that some critics say contributed to the housing collapse, hacked emails show.
In February of last year, as Podesta was working to lay the groundwork for Clinton’s soon-to-launch campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, he signed the contract with the Sandler Foundation, which was started by Herb Sandler and his late wife Marion Sandler.

The contract — a copy of which was included in emails illegally obtained from Podesta’s Gmail account and disseminated Monday by WikiLeaks — is still active, according to Herb Sandler, who said that it calls for Podesta to provide advice on grant-making and other foundation functions.
It’s unusual for the full-time chairman of a general-election presidential campaign to maintain an active side deal with a major donor to that campaign — let alone to raise money from that donor for the campaign...

Sandler and his children this cycle also have donated nearly $4.4 million to Clinton’s presidential campaign, a supportive super PAC called Priorities USA Action and various Democratic Party committees, according to Federal Election Commission filings...
The Sandler Foundation also is barred from supporting campaigns, and there is no evidence that it has done so with the Clinton campaign...
The Sandlers met Podesta when they helped seed the Center for American Progress, the think tank he started in 2003...
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/john-podesta-donor-foundation-230571

interference in Australia:

28 Oct 2016: The Australian: Green campaign against Australian coal: trail leads to John Podesta
by Dennis Shanahan
A secretive cabal of foreign-funded green groups is working to delay and ultimately destroy the vast Adani coal proposal in central Queensland, as well as pursuing the wider aim of stopping Australia’s coal industry. So far, it is succeeding...

The groups and their billionaire donors are encouraged and helped at the highest level of the US Democratic Party through John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman and a former counsellor to Barack Obama...

In a celebratory email in August 2015 to the US Sandler Foundation, which funds Sunrise, after a decision against the Adani mine, Hepburn, a former Greenpeace activist and one of the authors of the strategy to block coalmining in Australia, thanks the foundation for its support and names the groups working together as “our colleagues at GetUp!, Greenpeace, 350.org, Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Mackay Conservation Group, Market Forces and the brilliant and tireless Sunrise team”.

The leaked emails also created a furore in India this week after revelations that last year Podesta tried to help Greenpeace in India...

A minority report of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works found US’s environmental movement had grown into a billion-dollar industry described by Forbes magazine as “a well-oiled machine that receives its funding from a handful of super-rich liberal donors operating behind the anonymity of foundations and charities”.
The report — The Chain of Environmental Command: How a Club of Billionaires and Their Foundations Control the Environmental Movement and Obama’s EPA — sets out how the club funds nearly all of the leading environmental non-government organisations as well as many media outlets and supposed grassroots activists in the US...
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/opinion/green-campaign-against-australian-coal-trail-leads-to-john-podesta/news-story/42784b8b30e0ab18d7386054189a0933