This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about lobbying, how the Tea Party was a psy-op campaign, and how to care about the little stuff when the big stuff seems so much more pressing!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://represent.us/action/5-facts-lobbyists/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/04/16/what-we-get-wrong-about-lobbying-and-corruption/

https://www.politico.eu/article/why-lobbying-in-america-is-different/

https://tinyurl.com/44c933e6

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2017/10/11/lobbying-is-growing-in-the-us-more-information-may-be-the-best-regulation/

https://www.healthline.com/health/do-cigars-cause-cancer#cigars-and-cancer

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-differences-between-bribery-and-lobbying.aspx

https://sunlightfoundation.com/2016/04/19/what-is-shadow-lobbying-how-influence-peddlers-shape-policy-in-the-dark/

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/shadow-lobbying-complex/

https://tinyurl.com/jk8d3jb8

https://theconversation.com/the-scale-of-us-election-spending-explained-in-five-graphs-130651

https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/campaign-finance-reform/

https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/24/world/global-campaign-finance/index.html

https://www.mic.com/p/a-group-of-capitol-cops-just-sued-trump-for-the-jan-6-insurrection-84170698

https://tinyurl.com/3fp2h86c

https://represent.us/action/private-prisons/

https://newint.org/features/2011/01/01/10-worst-corporate-lobbyists

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/04/14/pentagon-looks-to-undo-parts-of-revolving-door-law/

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/capitalizing-on-conflict

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7054854/

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2019/03/big-pharma-insurers-hospitals-team-up-to-kill-medicare-for-all/

https://tinyurl.com/yx7j4m4b

https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/prescription-politics/

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R42728.pdf