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Here's what's happened, if you're just tuning in:
1. Musk ally Tom Krause told the Treasury career staff to cut off USAID payments
2. The career staffer resisted, saying doing so is illegal
3. The career staffer was ousted by Trump team
4. Krause has now been installed as head of the payments system
1. Musk ally Tom Krause told the Treasury career staff to cut off USAID payments
2. The career staffer resisted, saying doing so is illegal
3. The career staffer was ousted by Trump team
4. Krause has now been installed as head of the payments system
BREAKING: The Treasury Department has installed DOGE ally Tom Krause as fiscal assistant secretary, placing the Musk ally in a powerful position over the nation's +$5 trillion payment network
Musk continues to demand unilateral cessation of payments
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Musk continues to demand unilateral cessation of payments
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Treasury installs ally of Musk’s DOGE as head of payment system
Tom Krause, an ally of Elon Musk’s, is expected to take over the key position.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Here's what's happened, if you're just tuning in:
1. Musk ally Tom Krause told the Treasury career staff to cut off USAID payments
2. The career staffer resisted, saying doing so is illegal
3. The career staffer was ousted by Trump team
4. Krause has now been installed as head of the payments system
1. Musk ally Tom Krause told the Treasury career staff to cut off USAID payments
2. The career staffer resisted, saying doing so is illegal
3. The career staffer was ousted by Trump team
4. Krause has now been installed as head of the payments system
Reposted by maggiejones.bsky.social
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
November 15, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
Apparently Facebook/Meta being down worldwide is enough to get people like me to remember to check in at Bsky!
March 5, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Apparently Facebook/Meta being down worldwide is enough to get people like me to remember to check in at Bsky!