Ben McKenzie
@benmckenzie.bsky.social
EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY - @docnyc https://www.docnyc.net/film/everyone-is-lying-to-you-for-money/
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Went on @msnbc.com to talk crypto grift. Plus, a sneak peak of the film I directed, EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY playing @docnycfest.bsky.social this weekend!
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Oh no not bill clinton and lawrence summers anyone but those, mr president
November 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Oh no not bill clinton and lawrence summers anyone but those, mr president
Bitcoin down more than 20% in the last five weeks. Remember, it’s a store of value and an inflation hedge. 🤪
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Bitcoin down more than 20% in the last five weeks. Remember, it’s a store of value and an inflation hedge. 🤪
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Went on @msnbc.com to talk crypto grift. Plus, a sneak peak of the film I directed, EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY playing @docnycfest.bsky.social this weekend!
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Went on @msnbc.com to talk crypto grift. Plus, a sneak peak of the film I directed, EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY playing @docnycfest.bsky.social this weekend!
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
Asking the right questions :)
Why isn't @msnbc.com showing Ben McKenzie's documentary on crypto? @benmckenzie.bsky.social #msnbc #crypto
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Asking the right questions :)
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Stay classy Larry
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Stay classy Larry
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This week, @benmckenzie.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy to talk about the book he co-authored with journalist Jacob Silverman, Easy Money, which exposes the trillion-dollar scam that’s rotting our financial system from the inside.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This week, @benmckenzie.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy to talk about the book he co-authored with journalist Jacob Silverman, Easy Money, which exposes the trillion-dollar scam that’s rotting our financial system from the inside.
🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/HNdCUcE
🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/HNdCUcE
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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How Trump is Pumping The Great Crypto Grift
"Everyone is lying to you for money," concludes the actor and author @benmckenzie.bsky.social, who spent years investigating the great Crypto grift that has made Trump nearly $5 billion.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trump-...
"Everyone is lying to you for money," concludes the actor and author @benmckenzie.bsky.social, who spent years investigating the great Crypto grift that has made Trump nearly $5 billion.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trump-...
November 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
How Trump is Pumping The Great Crypto Grift
"Everyone is lying to you for money," concludes the actor and author @benmckenzie.bsky.social, who spent years investigating the great Crypto grift that has made Trump nearly $5 billion.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trump-...
"Everyone is lying to you for money," concludes the actor and author @benmckenzie.bsky.social, who spent years investigating the great Crypto grift that has made Trump nearly $5 billion.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trump-...
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We aren't dumb. Your company launched Trump's corrupt crypto coin. You greased the wheels of the massively corrupt UAE "trade secrets for cash" deal. You basically did whatever crooked thing Trump asked.
And then, voila - your billionaire owner gets a pardon!
C'mon.
And then, voila - your billionaire owner gets a pardon!
C'mon.
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We aren't dumb. Your company launched Trump's corrupt crypto coin. You greased the wheels of the massively corrupt UAE "trade secrets for cash" deal. You basically did whatever crooked thing Trump asked.
And then, voila - your billionaire owner gets a pardon!
C'mon.
And then, voila - your billionaire owner gets a pardon!
C'mon.
In case you needed another reason not to vote for this loser, OKX is now an admit money launderer. “One was OKX, an offshore cryptocurrency exchange that hired the former governor in 2024 as it came under scrutiny by the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors for operating illegally in the United States.”
Cuomo Earned Almost $5 Million From Consulting in 2024, Returns Show
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In case you needed another reason not to vote for this loser, OKX is now an admit money launderer. “One was OKX, an offshore cryptocurrency exchange that hired the former governor in 2024 as it came under scrutiny by the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors for operating illegally in the United States.”
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Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over?
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
October 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over?
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
www.ft.com/content/4855...
As predicted www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
October 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
As predicted www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
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Behold: Republican permitting reform.
October 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Behold: Republican permitting reform.
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Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.
Please pay attention to this. It’s dirty as hell. 👇
Washington Post report details deal that I and other El Salvador watchers have been talking about for years: Bukele made a pact with MS-13, DOJ has known about it, and now Rubio’s State Dept is helping him cover it up by handing over gang leaders in US custody to Bukele to be silenced.
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Please pay attention to this. It’s dirty as hell. 👇
No Kings rally in BK ❤️
October 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
No Kings rally in BK ❤️
Wahoo wah motherf#*cker
October 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Wahoo wah motherf#*cker
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That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.
Shame.
October 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.
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Had the privilege of seeing 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money' at its US premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival yesterday, and the honor of speaking with director @benmckenzie.bsky.social after the screening. You need to see this incredible documentary!
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A ★★★★★ review of Everyone Is Lying to You for Money (2025)
Based on his 2023 book 'Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud', TV star Ben McKenzie unleashes a very funny takedown of the crypto industry in his directorial debu...
letterboxd.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Had the privilege of seeing 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money' at its US premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival yesterday, and the honor of speaking with director @benmckenzie.bsky.social after the screening. You need to see this incredible documentary!
letterboxd.com/unequalized/...
letterboxd.com/unequalized/...
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Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.
“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.”
@bloomberg.com
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October 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.