#cronyism — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116946669644034707
"The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs was scheduled to launch about 2,000 inquiries in 2025, all of which were derailed by Mr. Trump’s order. Among the companies spared additional scrutiny was Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, oversaw Mr. Trump’s initiative to shrink the federal government."
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116946669644034707
"The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs was scheduled to launch about 2,000 inquiries in 2025, all of which were derailed by Mr. Trump’s order. Among the companies spared additional scrutiny was Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, oversaw Mr. Trump’s initiative to shrink the federal government."
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116946669644034707
"The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs was scheduled to launch about 2,000 inquiries in 2025, all of which were derailed by Mr. Trump’s order. Among the companies spared additional scrutiny was Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, oversaw Mr. Trump’s initiative to shrink the federal government."
#DOGE #racism #sexism #favoritism #cronyism #politics -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116946669644034707
"The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs was scheduled to launch about 2,000 inquiries in 2025, all of which were derailed by Mr. Trump’s order. Among the companies spared additional scrutiny was Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, oversaw Mr. Trump’s initiative to shrink the federal government."
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Link-tree inside:
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/a-collection-of-blanche-checks
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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/a-collection-of-blanche-checks
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#blanche #toddblanche #crooked #shyster #illegal #unlawful #fascism #cronyism #gop #maga #fuckmaga #trump #fucktrump #epstein #jeffreyepstein #pedophile #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #epsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #donold #donnydipshit #donaldvonshitsinpants #treason #crime #news #usnews #globalnews #policy #politics #uspol #uspolitics #globalpolitics #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #history #ushistory #worldshitory
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Good grief, what a clusterf*^%
“The ICAC inquiry has heard former UOW governance chief Alyssa White celebrated recruiting former colleagues because the university was "broke" before later agreeing recruitment processes were compromised.
Ms White accepted multiple candidates received advantages and agreed she had repeatedly breached university policies and conflicts of interest requirements.”Read more
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-09/white-admits-recruitment-breaches-uow-icac/106897586#UoW #UniversityCouncilWoes #TertiaryEducation #Cronyism #Managerialism #UniversityMarkets #NeoLiberalism
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Good grief, what a clusterf*^%
“The ICAC inquiry has heard former UOW governance chief Alyssa White celebrated recruiting former colleagues because the university was "broke" before later agreeing recruitment processes were compromised.
Ms White accepted multiple candidates received advantages and agreed she had repeatedly breached university policies and conflicts of interest requirements.”Read more
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-09/white-admits-recruitment-breaches-uow-icac/106897586#UoW #UniversityCouncilWoes #TertiaryEducation #Cronyism #Managerialism #UniversityMarkets #NeoLiberalism
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Translation: The con artist and his cronies don't make money from offshore generics, but boy, would they ever, if they could control the entire market, and jack up the cost to patients. These people are crooks, but media treats them as truthful.
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Translation: The con artist and his cronies don't make money from offshore generics, but boy, would they ever, if they could control the entire market, and jack up the cost to patients. These people are crooks, but media treats them as truthful.
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Wow. 👀
"Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that he will appoint one of his most senior advisers to the Senate, a move that could send shockwaves through the Red Chamber...
...In a highly unusual move, Carney will also name a sitting Conservative MP"
#CdnPoli #Nepotism #Patronage #Cronyism
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Wow. 👀
"Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that he will appoint one of his most senior advisers to the Senate, a move that could send shockwaves through the Red Chamber...
...In a highly unusual move, Carney will also name a sitting Conservative MP"
#CdnPoli #Nepotism #Patronage #Cronyism
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kstp56fjsymztwl5jppmn3vc/post/3mq2slkon7k2n -
This is gross in multiple ways. Patronage nepo appointments, indeed.
Carney's chief strategist. Ties to the AI strategy. A plum reward for 2 generations of service and friendship apparently.
It's this type of thing erodes public trust in government.
#GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli #Nepotism #Cronyism
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This is gross in multiple ways. Patronage nepo appointments, indeed.
Carney's chief strategist. Ties to the AI strategy. A plum reward for 2 generations of service and friendship apparently.
It's this type of thing erodes public trust in government.
#GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli #Nepotism #Cronyism
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o3wys2sczetxtmyv7fn7xzva/post/3mq2ffgmsac2g -
This is gross in multiple ways. Patronage nepo appointments, indeed.
Carney's chief strategist. Ties to the AI strategy. A plum reward for 2 generations of service and friendship apparently.
It's this type of thing erodes public trust in government.
#GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli #Nepotism #Cronyism
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o3wys2sczetxtmyv7fn7xzva/post/3mq2ffgmsac2g -
This is gross in multiple ways. Patronage nepo appointments, indeed.
Carney's chief strategist. Ties to the AI strategy. A plum reward for 2 generations of service and friendship apparently.
It's this type of thing erodes public trust in government.
#GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli #Nepotism #Cronyism
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o3wys2sczetxtmyv7fn7xzva/post/3mq2ffgmsac2g -
This is gross in multiple ways. Patronage nepo appointments, indeed.
Carney's chief strategist. Ties to the AI strategy. A plum reward for 2 generations of service and friendship apparently.
It's this type of thing erodes public trust in government.
#GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli #Nepotism #Cronyism
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#Trump family wants to massively spoliate #European #resources in #Albany .
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#Tr_mp family wants to massively spoliate #European #resources in #Albany .
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The SpaceX IPO Sends Elon Musk And Trump’s Starlink Cronyism Into The Thermosphere
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The SpaceX IPO Sends Elon Musk And Trump’s Starlink Cronyism Into The Thermosphere
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@treleanor @drrimmer
Lack of scrutiny and accountability, lack of whistleblowers, overworked staff, clueless student bodies, slack Unionists and almost non-existent investigative journalism. Add to this #managerialism and #NeoLiberalism with entitled individuals appointed to Councils rife with #Cronyism and you have a perfect cocktail for catastrophic failures in our education system. That’s how we got here. But we know how to get out of here as well, it just takes an education #Minister with political will and courageous spirit to sweep the broom. Are all #Education ministers capable and willing to take up the broom? That is the $M question. -
@treleanor @drrimmer
Lack of scrutiny and accountability, lack of whistleblowers, overworked staff, clueless student bodies, slack Unionists and almost non-existent investigative journalism. Add to this #managerialism and #NeoLiberalism with entitled individuals appointed to Councils rife with #Cronyism and you have a perfect cocktail for catastrophic failures in our education system. That’s how we got here. But we know how to get out of here as well, it just takes an education #Minister with political will and courageous spirit to sweep the broom. Are all #Education ministers capable and willing to take up the broom? That is the $M question. -
Today we find an anti- #MAGA #protest in...
#JaredKushner and #IvankaTrump, with assist from Donald #Trump and Albanian Prime Minister #EdiRama, want to build a resort on a nature preserve
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The continuing saga of #University mismanagement now focuses on the #UniverstityOfWollongong with allegations of #cronyism and favoured #consultancies.
“The corruption watchdog has confirmed three main areas it will probe, including whether the university's chief governance officer and secretary, Alyssa White, or any other staff subverted recruitment processes for governance roles.
The commission will also examine whether, since 2024, Chancellor Michael Still, Ms White, or any other staff improperly awarded or influenced the awarding of work to a consultancy company, Aspirall Consulting International.” (Source: ABC News)
#Managerialism #NeoLiberalism #UniversityCouncils #Mismanagement #Corruption #TertiarySector #UoW #AusPol #GovernanceFails
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The continuing saga of #University mismanagement now focuses on the #UniverstityOfWollongong with allegations of #cronyism and favoured #consultancies.
“The corruption watchdog has confirmed three main areas it will probe, including whether the university's chief governance officer and secretary, Alyssa White, or any other staff subverted recruitment processes for governance roles.
The commission will also examine whether, since 2024, Chancellor Michael Still, Ms White, or any other staff improperly awarded or influenced the awarding of work to a consultancy company, Aspirall Consulting International.” (Source: ABC News)
#Managerialism #NeoLiberalism #UniversityCouncils #Mismanagement #Corruption #TertiarySector #UoW #AusPol #GovernanceFails
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A Reminder that Antofagasta’s Copper and Nickel Mine on the edge of the Boundary Waters is a Coordinated Political Project
In my most recent post about the Senate vote to overturn the Rainy River Watershed Mineral Withdrawal, I made the simple point (for what seems the umpteenth time, forgive me) that this latest bid to hand over the Boundary Waters to a foreign mining company is part of a coordinated political project, one that stretches back to Trump’s first term and with connections to Project 2025.
The coordinating is being done behind closed doors, much of it by Antofagasta’s lobbyists, and nowadays that means The Bernhardt Group, the lobbying firm that Trump’s former Secretary of Interior, David Bernhardt, set up last year. The Group has edged out all other firms and now exclusively runs the Antofagasta lobbying game in DC.
Now we have The Bernhardt Group’s lobbying disclosures for the first quarter of 2026. The form shows a slight increase in revenue — from $110,000 in the final quarters of 2025 to $120,000 this quarter. Three Bernhardt lobbyists worked every room necessary: the House, the Senate, Interior, Executive Office of the President, and USDA.
It’s notable that the Group did not lobby DOJ this quarter, as they did in 2025. As I remarked last week, passing HJR 140 likely rendered moot the case before the DC District Court of Appeals. A favorable judgment in that case seemed highly unlikely.
Having worked with the federal government to put that case on hold, the Bernhardt Group could focus instead on the political front. The House and Senate passed House Joint Resolution 140 to overturn the mineral withdrawal. The Executive Office of the President could be involved in all sorts of ways, and it’s worth remembering that one of the most powerful figures in that Office these days is Russell Vought, architect of Project 2025; the agencies (Interior and USDA) had to be captured and controlled — easy enough with people like Doug Burgum and Brooke Rollins in charge.
Under their direction, the agencies will now start taking steps to approve Antofagasta’s lease applications (the stated object on these federal disclosures) and move the Twin Metals project toward the permitting phase.
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RE: https://psiren.eu/@PSiReN/111710577994124671
#FancyThat...?!
"Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption" aye...
#SpaceKarenX as #Head of #Efficiency... At #TheTrumpWhiteHouseCrimeSyndicate...
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Two firefighters suffered chemical burns in a #BoringCo. tunnel. Then the #Nevada Governor’s office got involved, and the penalties disappeared
https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnels-injuries-osha-citations-fines-rescinded-nevada-governor-office-documents-altered/
https://archive.ph/JUevh
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Arresting protest leaders under the guise of legal procedure is a classic tactic to decapitate movements. This substitutes legal compliance for justice, protecting institutional abuse over human well-being.
https://kalvin.my/arresting-leaders-isnt-justice-its-a-tactic-of-control/
#activism #socialjustice #abuseofpower #malaysia #psm #housingrights #authoritarianism #control #cronyism #justice #humanrights #protest #legality #ethics #governance #politics #accountability #resistance #unity #dignity
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The Boundary Waters Litigation is on Hold, Again.
I’ve been traveling for the past week or so, and haven’t had a chance until this morning to publish these latest filings in Twin Metals v. US. (For background, see this, this, this, and this, among many other posts.)
As those who have been following the case are aware, in March of 2025, just a month after he was sworn in, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum did an about-face and joined the plaintiffs (a foreign mining company with plans to mine nickel and copper and on the edge of the Boundary Waters). At the time, the parties requested that this case be put on hold, or held in abeyance. A group of small businesses and non-profits involved in the case as Defendant-Intervenors that I have been calling the Civil Society group did not join the government in that request.
The motion for abeyance granted (back in July), Burgum and the mining company’s lawyers and lobbyists then had 90 days to find a way around the provisions and protections put in place by the Biden administration. Those 90 days have nearly come and gone. So on October 1 they requested and on October 7 the court granted another 180 days.
90 days was not enough time to do all they had to do. Pete Stauber failed to smuggle a Boundary Waters blowout sale into the budget bill, but Interior managed to revoke the legal opinion that recognized the federal government’s authority to say “no” to the mining company. (That legal work had mostly already been done by solicitor Daniel Jorjani in the first year of the first Trump administration.)
Now Doug Burgum and the mining company lawyers and lobbyists need to find a way to revive the Chilean conglomerate’s cancelled leases and do something about the preference right lease applications that the previous administration denied. That will ultimately require doing something about the 20-year Rainy River watershed mineral withdrawal, which Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins claims a “review” determined to be unnecessary.
The federal government is currently shut down and the case in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals is now on hold until April, 2026. For the sake of good housekeeping, here are the court documents.
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#corruption #cronyCapitalism #cronyism #kleptocracy #oligarchy #pollution #resourceHoarding #Water
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The Boundary Waters Litigation is on Hold, Again.
I’ve been traveling for the past week or so, and haven’t had a chance until this morning to publish these latest filings in Twin Metals v. US. (For background, see this, this, this, and this, among many other posts.)
As those who have been following the case are aware, in March of 2025, just a month after he was sworn in, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum did an about-face and joined the plaintiffs (a foreign mining company with plans to mine nickel and copper on the edge of the Boundary Waters). At the time, the parties requested that this case be put on hold, or held in abeyance. A group of small businesses and non-profits involved in the case as Defendant-Intervenors that I have been calling the Civil Society group did not join the government in that request.
The motion for abeyance granted (back in July), Burgum and the mining company’s lawyers and lobbyists then had 90 days to find a way around the provisions and protections put in place by the Biden administration. Those 90 days have nearly come and gone. So on October 1 they requested and on October 7 the court granted another 180 days.
Antofagasta and its lawyers appear to have realized a while ago that they are unlikely to prevail in a court of law, so the company has been seeking delays at the DC Circuit while looking for political answers to its problems. This is a theme I’ve been trying to stress in my posts on this subject (e.g., this one, from 2023).
90 days was not nearly enough time to do all they had to do. Consider just a couple of highlights (or lowlights) from this past summer. Pete Stauber failed to smuggle a Boundary Waters blowout sale into the budget bill, but Interior managed to revoke the legal opinion that recognized the federal government’s authority to say “no” to the mining company. (That legal work had mostly already been done by solicitor Daniel Jorjani in the first year of the first Trump administration.)
Now Doug Burgum and the mining company lawyers and lobbyists need to find a way to revive the Chilean conglomerate’s cancelled leases and do something about the preference right lease applications that the previous administration denied. That will ultimately require doing something about the 20-year Rainy River watershed mineral withdrawal, which Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins claims a “review” determined to be unnecessary.
The federal government is currently shut down and the case in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals is now on hold until April, 2026. For the sake of good housekeeping, here are the court documents.
1 October 2025 Joint Status ReportDownload 7 October 2025 180 day abeyanceDownloadType your email…
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#corruption #cronyCapitalism #cronyism #kleptocracy #oligarchy #pollution #resourceHoarding #Water
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The Boundary Waters Litigation is on Hold, Again.
I’ve been traveling for the past week or so, and haven’t had a chance until this morning to publish these latest filings in Twin Metals v. US. (For background, see this, this, this, and this, among many other posts.)
As those who have been following the case are aware, in March of 2025, just a month after he was sworn in, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum did an about-face and joined the plaintiffs (a foreign mining company with plans to mine nickel and copper and on the edge of the Boundary Waters). At the time, the parties requested that this case be put on hold, or held in abeyance. A group of small businesses and non-profits involved in the case as Defendant-Intervenors that I have been calling the Civil Society group did not join the government in that request.
The motion for abeyance granted (back in July), Burgum and the mining company’s lawyers and lobbyists then had 90 days to find a way around the provisions and protections put in place by the Biden administration. Those 90 days have nearly come and gone. So on October 1 they requested and on October 7 the court granted another 180 days.
90 days was not enough time to do all they had to do. Pete Stauber failed to smuggle a Boundary Waters blowout sale into the budget bill, but Interior managed to revoke the legal opinion that recognized the federal government’s authority to say “no” to the mining company. (That legal work had mostly already been done by solicitor Daniel Jorjani in the first year of the first Trump administration.)
Now Doug Burgum and the mining company lawyers and lobbyists need to find a way to revive the Chilean conglomerate’s cancelled leases and do something about the preference right lease applications that the previous administration denied. That will ultimately require doing something about the 20-year Rainy River watershed mineral withdrawal, which Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins claims a “review” determined to be unnecessary.
The federal government is currently shut down and the case in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals is now on hold until April, 2026. For the sake of good housekeeping, here are the court documents.
1 October 2025 Joint Status ReportDownload 7 October 2025 180 day abeyanceDownloadType your email…
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#corruption #cronyCapitalism #cronyism #kleptocracy #oligarchy #pollution #resourceHoarding #Water
