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  1. @ahhhhhhhhhhh @LukefromDC @GossiTheDog The thing that baffles me the most about #FreeLuigi is that he allegedly went after a millionaire, a CEO, and it seems there are no copycats who go after billionaires. You can buy weapons at Walmart in the US, no? People die every day because people shoot at other peope, no? Then how comes we don't hear about daily assassinations and attempts on billionaires? Why do people shoot up schools instead?

    Just for scale, a trillion is a million millions. #BrianThompson had about $40M, that's how much he had enriched himself off the suffering of others. To get to #ElonMusk|s hoard of a trillion, he would need to steal Thompsons total lifetime earnings every day for 68 years.

    #EatTheRich

  2. @ahhhhhhhhhhh @LukefromDC @GossiTheDog The thing that baffles me the most about #FreeLuigi is that he allegedly went after a millionaire, a CEO, and it seems there are no copycats who go after billionaires. You can buy weapons at Walmart in the US, no? People die every day because people shoot at other peope, no? Then how comes we don't hear about daily assassinations and attempts on billionaires? Why do people shoot up schools instead?

    Just for scale, a trillion is a million millions. #BrianThompson had about $40M, that's how much he had enriched himself off the suffering of others. To get to #ElonMusk|s hoard of a trillion, he would need to steal Thompsons total lifetime earnings every day for 68 years.

    #EatTheRich

  3. Judicial Admissibility in the Mangione Trial: Evidence Narrowed

    Luigi Mangione trial update May 22, 2026: Judge limits evidence from arrest at Altoona McDonald's. What is allowed and what is not?

    #MangioneTrial, #Altoona, #JudgeCarro, #EvidenceRuling, #BrianThompson

    newsletter.tf/mangione-trial-j

  4. Judge Carro limited evidence in the Luigi Mangione trial today. A handgun and notebook are allowed, but statements before Miranda warnings and items from his backpack are not.

    #MangioneTrial, #Altoona, #JudgeCarro, #EvidenceRuling, #BrianThompson
    newsletter.tf/mangione-trial-j

  5. Ich hör mir gerade den Podcast: "This is America: Free Luigi" an. Darin geht es um den mutmaßlich von Luigi Mangione begangenen Mord am United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

    Wenn man sich anhört wie unmenschlich Profitorientiert das US Amerikanische Gesundheitsystem agiert, und man sich vorstellt das Brian Thompsons agieren wahrscheinlich tausende Menschenleben gekostet hat, fällt es echt schwer irgendwie Mitleid dafür zu empfinden das diese Mensch aus dieser Welt entfernt wurde.

    Ich bin mal gespannt was die Jury in diesem Fall entscheiden wird wenn dieser verhandelt wird:
    https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr/this-is-america/this-is-america-108.html
    #thisisamerica #freeluigi #brianthompson

  6. Judge rules some Mangione backpack evidence inadmissible

    A state court judge partially granted Luigi Mangione’s bid to prevent evidence found in his backpack during his arrest from being admitted at his murder trial for allegedly assassinating a health insurance executive in Manhattan. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #luigimangione #unitedhealthcare #brianthompson #killing Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Follow Reuters on…

    fllics.com/en/video/judge-rule

  7. Judge rules some Mangione backpack evidence inadmissible

    A state court judge partially granted Luigi Mangione’s bid to prevent evidence found in his backpack during his arrest from being admitted at his murder trial for allegedly assassinating a health insurance executive in Manhattan. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #luigimangione #unitedhealthcare #brianthompson #killing Read the story here: 👉 Subscribe: Keep up with the latest news from around the world: Follow Reuters on…

    fllics.com/en/video/judge-rule

  8. washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

    I do not GAF who #KenGriffin is in real life or the fact that he made a ton of money through being a hedge fund manager. That's that job where basically you play with other people's money and come out stinking rich on the other side.

    The editors at the #WashingtonPost have forgotten their journalistic past. They have mostly forgotten what it means to take a stand and call out assholes such as Donald Trump for being the greed monsters and terrible people that they are.

    It was #BobWoodward and #CarlBernstein at the Post who helped expose the unethical and seedy side of #American politics. It was those two reporters along with several other writers at national newspapers during the seventies who helped in bringing about the downfall of President Richard #Nixon.

    The new WaPo editors and owner have completely forgotten this history and why people today are tired of the ultra-rich behaving like extortionists. For the Post to come to the defense of Griffin as if unfettered capitalism always came first in every instance is really disingenuous and absolutely misleading.

    Jeff Bezos' bold greed and his awful brand are really on display here. Bezos owns the Washington Post. Bezos always was a hack who drove a lot of independent American book publishers and also book stores out of business when Amazon was founded. The transition point started when Amazon started selling books and launched the online Kindle book selling service. The point of starting Kindle was to strategically and financially undercut all of the brick-and-mortar book stores. This was also billionaire Sam Walton's ruthless strategy: Walmart was single-handedly responsible for putting many smaller mom-and-pop retail stores across the Midwest and the rest of America out of business during the late 1980's and 1990's.

    PS - See the blue backdrop in the photo of Ken Griffin? #MichaelMilken who founded Drexel Burnham Lambert was the low-life businessman who was *the* junk bond king during the 1980's. Gen X'ers: remember the Savings & Loan scandals that made their way to US Congress? That was Milken and his cronies (see the image in my comments that briefly explains how that occurred). The financier Michael Milken was PARDONED by Donald #Trump in 2020.

    These people are all on the same payroll. They are avaricious beyond reproach. That just means people such as #Bezos are so greedy and that they've lost touch with reality to the point where they will run over everybody to procure even more money for their off-shore accounts.

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    New York Mayor #Zohran #Mamdani has been scrambling to come up with money to fund a major expansion of city government, and he has put the politics of envy at the center of his effort. This is bound to be a fiscal failure, but it’s already a moral one.
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    Last month, the social-media-savvy socialist filmed a video outside the New York home of billionaire Ken Griffin. He told viewers who lived there and declared, “We’re taxing the rich.” Why pick on the hedge fund manager?

    The mayor didn’t accuse Griffin of violating any laws or even dodging taxes. His only crime was owning a nice penthouse — that is, being a successful person. Griffin said Tuesday that the video was “creepy and weird.” It was also unethical.

    “He seems to have forgotten that the CEO of another American company was assassinated just blocks from where I live in New York,” the Citadel chief executive noted, referencing the assassination of #UnitedHealthcare ’s #BrianThompson in December 2024.

    Luigi Mangione, awaiting trial for that premeditated murder, has inspired copycat violence aimed at the affluent. New court filings allege that the Los Angeles man charged with starting last year’s deadly Palisades Fire was also motivated by Mangione. When investigators asked him why someone might commit arson, he “responded that it would be out of resentment of the rich enjoying their money,” prosecutors say.

    Mamdani’s office said the mayor wants “all New Yorkers to succeed” and that this is about reforming the tax code. Yet such an egregious video isn’t about a good-faith debate over fiscal policy. It’s about vilifying Griffin.

    To class warriors like Mamdani, success in a capitalist economy is akin to theft. Entrepreneurs don’t provide services for their customers; they steal from them and spend the money on themselves while others suffer. This is the opposite of reality...

  9. The thing here is not really the crime or the accused but the regimes apparent desperation to make political theatre out of the judicial process.

    #Politics #Justice #DOJ #Trump #LuigiMangione #BrianThompson

    threadreaderapp.com/thread/201

  10. LIVE | Luigi Mangione Won’t Face Death Penalty As Judge Throws Out Two Charges | US News

    Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty for allegedly killing UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson when his case goes to trial later this year, a federal judge ruled Friday, throwing out two counts against the suspect that would have heightened the potential punishment for his alleged crimes. #LuigiMangione #UnitedHealthcare #BrianThompson #live #unitedhealthcareceo #usa

    fllics.com/en/video/live-luigi

  11. Federal prosecutors can’t seek the #DeathPenalty against #LuigiMangione in the killing of #UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson, a judge ruled, foiling the Trump admin’s bid to see him executed for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
    Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed a #federal #murder charge against Mangione, finding it was technically flawed. Garnett left in place stalking charges that carry a maximum punishment of life.

    #law
    apnews.com/article/mangione-un

  12. What do you do when Words are useless, the State looks the other way and you're at your wit's end? Just accept it, roll over and die?

    I won't weep for Brian Thompson like I won't weep for Charlie Kirk. Men who do nothing but bring harm and suffering to others, I do not give a shit about whether they live or die, and the feeling is mutual (particularly from Charlie, who hated Queers with a passion)

    #CharlieKirk #BrianThompson #LuigiMangione #FreeLuigi #USHealthcare

  13. When the crushing depths of the oceans killed #Billionaires in their hubris, people cheered. A widely seen opinion on #Mastodon was that more billionaires should get in the sea.

    When #BrianThompson the “healthcare” executive was gunned down, people cheered again. “More of this” was expressed all over the #Fediverse, with the virtual beatification of the accused.

    But for #CharlieKirk it seems different. Now to cheer righteous karma, is moderated for “encouraging violence”.

  14. CW: Charlie Kirk

    This #CharlieKirk thing gives me the same ambivalent feelings I had with the #BrianThompson shooting.

    On the one hand, I condemn violence and murder like every civilized human being should.

    On the other hand I can't get myself to feel any empathy for the Kirk. He was a fascist agitator, who considered "some gun deaths" a "rational" price for having the Second Amendment. So yeah, better him than any of the hundreds of victims of mass shootings the US had just this year.

  15. Digitaler Wochenrückblick 23. KW 2025

    Du, Papa, ist das ein Fake“ und schickt mir einen Link, ich sehe drauf, bin begeistert! „Ne“, sage ich, „Das ist das Endstadium des Kapitalismus!BlackRock, ein nicht unbedeutender Vermögensverwalter aus Nordamerika, „is PISSED about it“, weil UnitedHealth (größter Krankenversicherer) versagt hat. Begonnen hat die Misere, nachdem Luigi Mangione als Schadensregulierer im Dezember des letzten Jahres den knallharten Top-Manager Brian Thompson auf offener Straße zur Strecke gebracht hat, hatten wir hier besprochen.

    BlackRock verklagt UnitedHealth, sie hätten die Anleger „in die Irre geführt“. Es sei nicht absehbar gewesen, dass die negative Publicity dazu führen könne, die Verträge einzuhalten und mehr Behandlungen abzurechnen als vorher, das schmälert die Gewinne. Absurd? Dann werft selbst ein Blick drauf

    Der nordamerikanische Wirtschaftszweig Gesundheit ist nicht unbedingt Vorbild für unser Land, das bemerkt auch gerade unsere Ärzteschaft. Der Co-Vorsitzende des Ausschusses „Digitalisierung in der Gesundheitsversorgung“ Dr. Peter Bobbert macht Anleihen bei Airbus und sagt: „Wir brauchen jetzt Souveränität, Unabhängigkeit und einen echten europäischen ‘Airbus-Moment’ in der KI-Entwicklung.“ Klingt ansprechend, hat nur einen Haken, denn den Airbus konnten wir selbst entwerfen und in die Lüfte steigen lassen, bei der Digitalisierung stürzen wir ungebremst in ein Loch, weil Politik und Entscheidungsträger damit nix anfangen können.

    Kopfzerbrechen bereitet der Ärzteschaft die Monopolisierung der KI-Systeme, die auch nicht alles können. Erschwerend kommt hinzu, dass die Qualität der Daten entscheidend sei. Dem kann natürlich Abhilfe geschaffen werden, die Daten stehen demnächst – dank der elektronischen Patientenakte (ePA) – im Forschungsdatenzentrum Gesundheit (FDZ) zur Verfügung. Microsoft, Google, Amazon stehen bereit, ihre KIs mit diesem einmaligen Datenschatz zu trainieren, bunt aufzupeppen und dem Wirtschaftszweig Gesundheit in Deutschland wieder zuzuführen – gegen ein angemessenes Entgelt, versteht sich.

    Damit das funktionieren kann, müssen wir das FDZ über die ePA fleißig füttern. Das hat die Gematik perfekt gelöst, denn die Kosten tragen tragen unsere Kassen, vulgo wir. Insgesamt eine Win-Win-Situation, wir stellen die Daten auf unsere Kosten, die die Big-Tech-Konzerne brauchen, um uns danach ihre KI für unsere Ärzte zu verkaufen. Eingepasst in proprietäre Praxisverwaltungssysteme der Koblenzer CGM, ebenfalls ein Monopolist. Demnächst alles mit einem Aufschlag für Kassenpatienten.

    Sollen wir uns wirklich dagegen wehren?

    Mit den bestehenden Monopolen fahren wir doch sehr gut. Unser neuer Kulturstaatsminister, Wolfram Weimer, möchte davon profitieren, er wünscht von Google oder Meta eine Art Digitalzoll, eine Abgabe von zehn Prozent auf Einkünfte aus der Werbevermarktung hält er für moderat und legitim, redet von einem „Plattform-Soli“. Fragt sich nur, warum die Amis unsere digitale Inkompetenz finanzieren sollen. Nimmt sich als Vorbild Österreich, die „nur“ fünf Prozent verlangen, sagt „Es hat aber dazu geführt, dass die Konzerne endlich einen kleinen Steuerbeitrag für die Gesellschaft leisten, also ihre gewaltige Marge etwas sinkt. Zugleich öffnet das den Wettbewerb.” – Äh, welcher Wettbewerb? Er bezieht sich auf den Koalitionsvertrag „Medienvielfalt stärken – Meinungsfreiheit sichern“, verbreitet weiterhin Regierungsmitteilungen auf Elon Musks „X“-Plattform, selbst hat der Beauftragte für Kultur und Medien zum Beispiel keinen Auftritt bei Mastodon (wie andere Regierungsbehörden), das nenne ich Einfalt, nicht Vielfalt. Und Zoll, ist das nicht das Stichwort unserer Tage? Bin gespannt, was aus Nordamerika zurückkommt.

    Souveränität gestaltet sich anders, selbst die Bundeswehr findet es mittlerweile wenig bekömmlich, dass ihre frisch bestellten milliardenschweren F35-Kampfjets nur mit einer Cloud aus Übersee betrieben werden können. Da haben Worte wie: Softwarefehler, Cyberangriff, Manipulation einen ganz anderen, sicherheitsrelevanten Wert.

    Bekomme ich von Martin Böttger einen Link zur Bundeswehr und sehe: es ist nicht die einzige Panne! Der Bundeswehr fehlen so ungefähr eine Million Reservisten, schreibt die Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ). Den Schuldigen hat die Bundeswehr bereits ausgemacht, nicht die Russen, der Datenschutz ist schuld. Und klar, für die Sicherheit muss der Datenschutz zurücktreten, eine Gesetzesänderung steht zur Debatte.

    Der Vorsitzende des Reservistenverbandes Patrick Sensburg sagt in der WAZ: „Wir haben ihre Kontaktdaten verloren“ und nennt tatsächlich als Grund strenge Datenschutzregeln! Die hatten mit der Aussetzung der Wehrkraft schlichtweg vergessen, ihre altgedienten Soldaten in der Reserve zu katalogisieren, selbst von den kampferprobten Afghanistan-Veteranen haben sie keine Anschriften. Deshalb wollen sie die Einwohnermeldeämter anzapfen. Von den Big-Tech-Konzernen lernen, heißt siegen lernen – die hätten sich nur unterschreiben lassen müssen, wie ihre Daten verwendet werden und wofür. Das haben Meta und Co auch getan, vor Jahren schon, mit deutlich weniger ehrenhaften Zielen.

    Die Augen gerade aus – und: Abmarsch!

    Über Christian Wolf:

    Christian Wolf (M.A.) ist Autor, Filmschaffender, Medienberater, ext. Datenschutzbeauftragter. Geisteswissenschaftliches Studium (Publizistik, Kulturanthropologie, Geographie), freie Tätigkeiten Fernsehen (RTL, WDR etc.) mit Abstechern in Krisengebiete, Bundestag Bonn und Berlin, Dozent DW Berlin (FS), Industriefilme (Würth, Aral u.v.m), wissenschaftliche und künstlerische Filmprojekte, Projekte zur Netzwerksicherheit, Cloudlösungen. Keine Internetpräsenz, ein Bug? Nein, Feature. (Digtalpurist)

  16. Those who are suing are the same that expect a return for UHC denying what should be covered insurance events.

    The people that are suing United Health Care for giving "too much care" have names and addresses also.

    finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedh

    #Luigi #LuigiMangione #UHC #UnitedHealthCare #BrianThompson #FreeLuigi

  17. Luigi Mangione is expected in federal court later today.

    The last thing I know about the case is that more than 100 days have passed since discovery has started, and the cops+feds have produced almost no evidence to Luigi's lawyers.

    It's not typically legal for a common citizen to be this slow at producing discovery material if they were in the fed's position.

    luigimangioneinfo.com/

    #LuigiMangione #Luigi #nyc #courtwatch #uhc #brianthompson #unitedhealth

  18. I was wondering what was going on with #Luigi...

    Federal prosecutors to seek #DeathPenalty for accused CEO killer #LuigiMangione

    Mangione is expected to plead not guilty at his arraignment on Friday.

    April 24, 2025,

    "Hours before Luigi Mangione's arraignment in federal court, federal prosecutors submitted formal notice that they intend to seek the death penalty if he's convicted, citing, in part his alleged desire 'to provoke broad-based #resistance to the victim's industry' by killing #UnitedHealthcare #CEO #BrianThompson."

    abcnews.go.com/US/federal-pros

    #FreeLuigi #ArmyOfLuigis #EatTheRIch #MakeCEOsAfraidAgain #LuigiMangione #BeLuigi #EatTheRichTheyreDelish

  19. [17:52] US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione

    The US Attorney General has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing the CEO of UnitedHealth Group's insurance division Brian Thompson in New York last year.

    rte.ie/news/us/2025/0401/15052

    #US #LuigiMangione #UnitedHealthGroup's #BrianThompson #NewYork #lastyear

  20. I noticed a youtuber summaried the latest evidence arguments. I'm gonna summarize the summary in toots, lol.

    ** cw - the youtuber is an x-cop/cop apologist. i just think it's funny youtube cops are pointing out how badly the cops might have fucked the case

    youtube.com/watch?v=dCVsQf1srR

    #PA #luigimangione #allegedly #brianthompson #UCH #update