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Love that tumblr news featured this! You can download all the data if you want to dig deep sunfoundation: Lobbyists’ Honorary Gifts to Federal Officials Companies and organizations can donate an unlimited amount of money to honor officials, sponsor their conferences, and donate to their pet charities, so long as these donations are reported to the Senate. The Sunlight Foundation analyzed these filings from 2009 and 2010 and found about $50 million in honorary gifts and meeting costs. These donations can all be viewed in the interactive display below by company making the donation or by official being honored. Zoom

Love that tumblr news featured this! You can download all the data if you want to dig deep

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Lobbyists’ Honorary Gifts to Federal Officials

Companies and organizations can donate an unlimited amount of money to honor officials, sponsor their conferences, and donate to their pet charities, so long as these donations are reported to the Senate. The Sunlight Foundation analyzed these filings from 2009 and 2010 and found about $50 million in honorary gifts and meeting costs. These donations can all be viewed in the interactive display below by company making the donation or by official being honored.

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Posted 11 months ago
Zoom

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Posted 12 months ago
Look in the brilliant/highbrow section for Influence Explorer! sunfoundation: The Approval Matrix: Week of June 13, 2011 Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies. Zoom

Look in the brilliant/highbrow section for Influence Explorer!

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The Approval Matrix: Week of June 13, 2011

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.

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Haha, that’s my boss, hipsterized sunfoundation: We got a sick tweet this afternoon: @natpriorities: Just found out that @sunfoundation has a Tumblr blog of interesting data visualizations: http://cot.ag/mC3pCh. How very hipster of them! Hipster? Yeah, you caught us. That’s our boss, Ellen Miller, debuting Inbox Explorer yesterday at Personal Democracy Forum.

Haha, that’s my boss, hipsterized

sunfoundation:

We got a sick tweet this afternoon:

@natpriorities: Just found out that @sunfoundation has a Tumblr blog of interesting data visualizations: http://cot.ag/mC3pCh. How very hipster of them!

Hipster? Yeah, you caught us. That’s our boss, Ellen Miller, debuting Inbox Explorer yesterday at Personal Democracy Forum.

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sunfoundation: Bribespot lets people “check in” when they’ve been bribed Bribery may not be a huge problem in the US, but worldwide it’s almost an epidemic, with some local governments sanctioning bribes of law officers to the degree that no one pays official fines any more. Instead, the officer gets his cut and part of it goes back to the government. It’s sickening and it’s rampant, especially in countries like Romania, Russia, Mexico and many other nations. Zoom

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Bribespot lets people “check in” when they’ve been bribed

Bribery may not be a huge problem in the US, but worldwide it’s almost an epidemic, with some local governments sanctioning bribes of law officers to the degree that no one pays official fines any more. Instead, the officer gets his cut and part of it goes back to the government. It’s sickening and it’s rampant, especially in countries like Romania, Russia, Mexico and many other nations.

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Posted 1 year ago

I’m never getting over Trish Keenan’s death.

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Broadcast - Corporeal

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Dirty Beaches is my new fangrrl <3

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Posted 5 years ago
Wondering how my garden is growing

Wondering how my garden is growing