I wonder how much good shit could have been done if the federal government spent all this money on helping your community, rather than terrorizing you.

Is this an Elephant Graveyard reference?

And really it's because they have to release the Epstein files in 2 days.

As a white millennial male, that institutional discrimination against white dudes must not be very effective, since I'm doing pretty damn well.

I'm proud of every activist blowing whistles. And I can tell you that the ICE agents certainly don't like listening to them day after day. They're encouraged to stop facilitating criminal activity in the United States, but if they continue then they're gonna keep hearing fucking whistles.

Pot meet kettle...

The whistles are surprisingly effective. On Friday I heard a whistle in my neighborhood, ran outside, and within 5 minutes ~20 people converged on an ICE vehicle, who promptly left the area. Get a whistle, blow it 3 times if you see ICE, and help drive ICE out of your neighborhood!

Not even bothering with the hoods & robes these days

I don't think that "bribing Trump to save their CEO" is really a rhetorical concern for the board. Trump has no power to fire the CEO, only the board does. There is no need for the board to approve this deal, so that they themselves are then not forced to fire the CEO. They could just not fire him.

IANAL, but converting this to equity eliminated the "claw-back and profit-sharing provisions" of the CHIPs Act for the $2.2B previously granted, and those won't apply to the $8.9B that Intel now receives as equity, which in reality Intel probably wasn't going anyway. So there's SOME benefit to Intel