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This administration is basically doing Hunter Biden corruption at an industrial scale. And whereas there was no evidence Joe Biden in any way benefitted from Hunter's shenanigans, the current President's family business is raking in the payoffs.
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Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion
President Donald Trump and his family are deeply involved in the world of cryptocurrency as his administration seeks to deregulate the industry.
www.rollingstone.com
May 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This administration is basically doing Hunter Biden corruption at an industrial scale. And whereas there was no evidence Joe Biden in any way benefitted from Hunter's shenanigans, the current President's family business is raking in the payoffs.
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I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as *** $20 MILLION *** worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy.
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Company Boasts Spending Up To $20 Million On Trump Crypto Coin To Buy Influence
The arrangement puts money in Trump’s pocket in return for the opportunity to change policy — exactly the sort of pay-to-play scheme critics warned about.
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May 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
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Wild to live in the same age as perhaps THE most personally repellent person this nation has ever produced.
Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.
JD Vance and his forty 4x4s visit the Vatican during trip to Rome
The US vice-president, a self-styled ‘baby Catholic’ who was baptised in 2019, and his family met senior officials from the Catholic Church
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April 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wild to live in the same age as perhaps THE most personally repellent person this nation has ever produced.
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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
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We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.
JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID
February 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.
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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.
What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
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This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration.
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
Trump team preps list of banned staffers
The names include conservatives linked to Project 2025 and Republicans viewed as disloyal to the former president.
www.politico.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration.
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
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Affirmatively stating that you are a racist is no longer a fireable offense. But supporting workplace diversity is.
February 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Affirmatively stating that you are a racist is no longer a fireable offense. But supporting workplace diversity is.
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every single republican in office is a fucking oathbreaker who is selling out the constitution and our democratic birthright
February 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
every single republican in office is a fucking oathbreaker who is selling out the constitution and our democratic birthright
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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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February 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
www.bloomberg.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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it really is appropriate to view this as potentially the biggest privacy and cybersecurity scandal in American history
“Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer who has been tapped to lead a technology team at G.S.A., told some staff members that he hoped to put all federal contracts into a centralized system so they could be analyzed by artificial intelligence”
Our deep dive into Musk's takeover: Even some officials who like what Musk is doing feel helpless to hold him accountable. His allies are diving in to agencies, gaining access to systems, planning layoffs, and proposing a sweeping AI initiative to review contracts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
February 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
it really is appropriate to view this as potentially the biggest privacy and cybersecurity scandal in American history
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How can a non-elected person go into our payment system and cut off funds Congress already appropriated? How is any of this legal?
Remember this, by the way, the next time you see a Tesla — a company totally kept aloft by "carbon credits" but whose owner is now effectively starving immigrant families in the name of ending DEI, including "environmental justice" payments.
February 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
How can a non-elected person go into our payment system and cut off funds Congress already appropriated? How is any of this legal?
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I don’t see a meaningful difference between this being done by Russian hackers or Musk’s cronies (who might be Russian hackers)
Musk has zero right to:
- enter Treasury systems
- abscond with data
- install software
- stop payments authorized by Congress
- decide… anything
These are all fucking illegal
- enter Treasury systems
- abscond with data
- install software
- stop payments authorized by Congress
- decide… anything
These are all fucking illegal
February 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I don’t see a meaningful difference between this being done by Russian hackers or Musk’s cronies (who might be Russian hackers)
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This is a five-alarm fire. There are many fires burning right now, and this one is harder to fully grasp than some.
But while tariffs will do rapid economic damage, this one is not only an economic threat but has moved us another big step toward losing our democracy entirely. 12/12
But while tariffs will do rapid economic damage, this one is not only an economic threat but has moved us another big step toward losing our democracy entirely. 12/12
February 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is a five-alarm fire. There are many fires burning right now, and this one is harder to fully grasp than some.
But while tariffs will do rapid economic damage, this one is not only an economic threat but has moved us another big step toward losing our democracy entirely. 12/12
But while tariffs will do rapid economic damage, this one is not only an economic threat but has moved us another big step toward losing our democracy entirely. 12/12
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Of course it will lead to corruption. But it is also deeply, deeply authoritarian.
And I’m not even getting into the other big danger, which is permanently breaking vital government functions—air traffic control, Medicare provision, CDC disease tracking—with indiscriminate top-down cuts. 11/x
And I’m not even getting into the other big danger, which is permanently breaking vital government functions—air traffic control, Medicare provision, CDC disease tracking—with indiscriminate top-down cuts. 11/x
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Of course it will lead to corruption. But it is also deeply, deeply authoritarian.
And I’m not even getting into the other big danger, which is permanently breaking vital government functions—air traffic control, Medicare provision, CDC disease tracking—with indiscriminate top-down cuts. 11/x
And I’m not even getting into the other big danger, which is permanently breaking vital government functions—air traffic control, Medicare provision, CDC disease tracking—with indiscriminate top-down cuts. 11/x
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There is a reason that the actual federal faucet has always been controlled by apolitical bureaucrats.
Having a president (or an unelected billionaire) with direct, granular control of a quarter of all U.S. spending is power beyond the Founders’ wildest dreams. 10/x
Having a president (or an unelected billionaire) with direct, granular control of a quarter of all U.S. spending is power beyond the Founders’ wildest dreams. 10/x
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
There is a reason that the actual federal faucet has always been controlled by apolitical bureaucrats.
Having a president (or an unelected billionaire) with direct, granular control of a quarter of all U.S. spending is power beyond the Founders’ wildest dreams. 10/x
Having a president (or an unelected billionaire) with direct, granular control of a quarter of all U.S. spending is power beyond the Founders’ wildest dreams. 10/x
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I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
January 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
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On his orders, his henchmen murdered my former colleague and chopped up his body with a bone saw.
Trump says he's going to ask Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who he describes as "a fantastic guy," to invest $1 trillion in the US economy
January 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
On his orders, his henchmen murdered my former colleague and chopped up his body with a bone saw.
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South African Billionaire Gets GOP To Cut Kids Cancer Research Funding
Included in the bipartisan deal that Elon, Trump, and Republicans scrapped was $190 million for childhood cancer research.
That’s what they were so intent on cutting.
That’s what they were so intent on cutting.
December 19, 2024 at 11:14 PM
South African Billionaire Gets GOP To Cut Kids Cancer Research Funding
these guys are about to learn real hard that when people say “inflation bad” they don’t mean literal inflation
".. During a radio interview Saturday .., Bessent said 'tariffs can’t be inflationary because if the price of one thing goes up -- unless you give people more money -- then they have less money to spend on the other thing, so there is no inflation.'"
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‘Huge relief.’ CEOs exhale after Trump taps Scott Bessent to lead Treasury | CNN Business
Hedge fund executive Scott Bessent survived an internal squabble over the role of Treasury secretary, a key position that will face almost immediate deadlines and pressures.
www.cnn.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:47 PM
these guys are about to learn real hard that when people say “inflation bad” they don’t mean literal inflation