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  1. Honoring #Labor

    Something Biden was all about. No matter what else, he was of & for 'the people' - workers, laborers, families.

    Trump? Labor is for the little people.... Let Sir repeat his wondrous wins!

    Sick, twisted, tangential... Be it #dementia or #BrainSpurs mixed with #TrumpVirus... What a contrast between a President serving #WeThePeople & improving our lives, versus a #grifter, #liar, #felon there to take it ALL for himself!

    #LaborDay #corruption #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Kleptocracy

  2. Honoring #Labor

    Something Biden was all about. No matter what else, he was of & for 'the people' - workers, laborers, families.

    Trump? Labor is for the little people.... Let Sir repeat his wondrous wins!

    Sick, twisted, tangential... Be it #dementia or #BrainSpurs mixed with #TrumpVirus... What a contrast between a President serving #WeThePeople & improving our lives, versus a #grifter, #liar, #felon there to take it ALL for himself!

    #LaborDay #corruption #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Kleptocracy

  3. Honoring #Labor

    Something Biden was all about. No matter what else, he was of & for 'the people' - workers, laborers, families.

    Trump? Labor is for the little people.... Let Sir repeat his wondrous wins!

    Sick, twisted, tangential... Be it #dementia or #BrainSpurs mixed with #TrumpVirus... What a contrast between a President serving #WeThePeople & improving our lives, versus a #grifter, #liar, #felon there to take it ALL for himself!

    #LaborDay #corruption #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Kleptocracy

  4. Honoring #Labor

    Something Biden was all about. No matter what else, he was of & for 'the people' - workers, laborers, families.

    Trump? Labor is for the little people.... Let Sir repeat his wondrous wins!

    Sick, twisted, tangential... Be it #dementia or #BrainSpurs mixed with #TrumpVirus... What a contrast between a President serving #WeThePeople & improving our lives, versus a #grifter, #liar, #felon there to take it ALL for himself!

    #LaborDay #corruption #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Kleptocracy

  5. Honoring #Labor

    Something Biden was all about. No matter what else, he was of & for 'the people' - workers, laborers, families.

    Trump? Labor is for the little people.... Let Sir repeat his wondrous wins!

    Sick, twisted, tangential... Be it #dementia or #BrainSpurs mixed with #TrumpVirus... What a contrast between a President serving #WeThePeople & improving our lives, versus a #grifter, #liar, #felon there to take it ALL for himself!

    #LaborDay #corruption #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Kleptocracy

  6. RE: newsie.social/@ProPublica/1172

    How many in Congress are *not* violating ethics, oath of office, or law? And it rises to the top, where the stinking fish head rots downward into our economy and our world standing. Sad.

    Paxton's. but one fitting poster child.
    Even Sir is apologizing for him (he's not a 10 in the appearance department). Sick.

    #GQP #TrumpVirus #Kleptocracy #corruption

  7. Short but pithy #TrumpVirus #Truth from Robert Reich

    > How Trump Made America Expensive Again

    youtu.be/uXw1QpD2duo

    > Trump just said the quiet part out loud: he doesn't care about your finances. "Not even a little bit."

    > Here's where your money is going instead.

    #corruption #emoluments #WarCrimes #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup #TrumpVirus #nepotism #Kleptocracy #grifting #Plutocracy #Jan7 #fraud #sedition #treason #BrainSpurs

  8. Vapid depravity’: Rudy Giuliani

    rawstory.com/raw-investigates/

    #Vapid #Depravity - seems like the key words for the whole #TrumpVirus / #GQP / #Kleptocracy #cult

    But Rudy #Giuliani, like Sir, is special. Perfect vapid depravity. Like so many stars of the #TrumpEpsteinFiles and Cabinet of #Corruption

  9. @gottalaff.bsky.social

    Yes, all jokers!

    The only apt metaphor with cards, for this Stable Genius who managed to bankrupt casinos and everything he touches...

    "He's playing without a full deck."
    And as has been pointed out (Late Nite), these cards are UNO. A game whose goal is to end with the FEWEST cards. "Like bragging about the highest golf score."

    #TrumpVirus #Truth #BrainSpurs #emoluments #WarCrimes #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup #sedition #Jan6 #Kleptocracy #nepotism #law

  10. #Trump & his family have spent decades aggressively avoiding #taxes…. The newly won ability to escape from #IRS examinations could be worth tens of millions of dollars∶ One audit, ongoing in the days before the new #immunity for Trump was announced, could have resulted in a bill from the government exceeding $100 million, NYT has reported. Other authorities have had questions, too∶ In 2022, the #TrumpOrganization was convicted of #TaxFraud in #NewYork.

    #law #criminal #fraud #DOJ #kleptocracy

  11. Senator #SusanCollins, Republican of Maine, just voted for Schumer’s motion, the first #Republican to vote “yes.”

    This motion can still fail if three Republicans vote for it, if everyone is voting. Collins is up for re-election in a critical & competitive state.

    Senator #ThomTillis, who voted no, is not running for re-election.

    #Trump #law #judiciary #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #MAGASlushFund #SlushFund

  12. Dle mého názoru (DMN) se český režim snaží postavit na roveň režimu Rudých Khmérů, který zrušil majetek.

    "Nový zákon umožní zabavit podezřelý majetek. Podle odborníků hrozí zneužití" -- "právník varuje, že se do problémů mohou dostat i osoby, které se ničeho nezákonného nedopustily" -- "doma loni na podzim našli 80 milionů korun v hotovosti" -- "celoživotní úspory jeho dědečka a otce. Do banky je prý nikdy nedal, protože jeho děda zažil v 50. letech měnovou reformu a bankovním institucím tak obecně nevěřil"

    idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/novy-za

    Cítím

    e x t r é m n ě s i l n é o p o v r ž e n í

    vůči českému režimu, když toto vidím.

    DMN plýtvavému, zkorumpovanému státu již nestací daně občanů na jeho rozhazování, tak začne občanům beztrestně loupit majetek prostřednictvím nového DMN kleptokratického zákona na frivolní loupeže majetku nepohodlným občanům.

    Dáš si peníze do banky? Ukradneme ti je na základě výmluvy AML/CFT. Necháš si je v hotovosti? Uloupíme ti je beztrestně frivolně a řekneme při tom magické slůvko "podezření z nabytí trestnou činností".

    "Putin podepsal zákon o zabavení majetku kritikům války" -- newsbox.cz/zpravy/putin-podeps

    "Kdo bude v Rusku kritizovat válku, přijde o peníze i majetek" -- "Putin podepsal zákon o konfiskaci majetku osob odsouzených za vyjádření proti válce rozpoutané Ruskem na Ukrajině" -- eurozpravy.cz/zahranicni/rozho

    "Situace se zhoršuje Nový zákon: Putin nyní vyvlastňuje kritiky války" -- "represe dosahují nového rozměru: disidenti mají přijít nejen o svobodu, ale i o majetek." -- krone.at/3251703

    V čem je teda přesně rozdíl mezi českým a ruským režimem?

    #khmerrouge #khmerrougeregime #confiscation #presumptionofinnocence #robbery #stateorganizedrobbery #stateperpetratedrobbery #staterobbery #highwayman #plundering #waragainstcitizens #brutalregime #kleptocracy #kakistocracy #russia #putin #dissident #nationalization

  13. By contrast, large #corporations in #Minneapolis have been much less vocal about the effects of #immigration enforcement on the city, known as both a bastion of progressive politics in the #US #Midwest & a robust corporate #employer. 17 #Fortune500 companies are based in #Minnesota, including #Target, #UnitedHealth, & #GeneralMills.

    #complicit #economy #business #SmallBusiness #WorkingAmericans #Trump #affordability #CostOfLiving #authoritarianism #kleptocracy #plutocracy #ForMeButNotForThee

  14. "A cryptocurrency firm run by the billionaire Winklevoss twins was facing a punishing federal lawsuit. After Donald J. Trump returned to the White House, the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to freeze the case.

    The S.E.C. had also sued Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, but then dropped the case altogether under the new administration.

    And after a yearslong legal fight with Ripple Labs, the new S.E.C. tried to reduce a court-ordered penalty against the crypto firm, seeking to soften the blow of the punishment.

    The agency’s pullback from these cases illustrated a wide-ranging transformation in the federal government’s treatment of the crypto industry during President Trump’s second term, a New York Times investigation has found.

    It is unheard-of for the agency to retreat from a swath of lawsuits against a single industry. And yet, The Times found that the S.E.C. had eased up on more than 60 percent of the crypto cases that were ongoing when Mr. Trump returned to the White House, moving to pause litigation, lessen penalties or outright dismiss the cases.

    The dismissals were particularly unusual, The Times found. Under Mr. Trump, S.E.C. dismissals came at a far higher rate for crypto firms than other cases.

    And although the particulars of the crypto lawsuits differed, many of these firms had something in common: financial ties to Mr. Trump, the self-described crypto president."

    nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/poli

    #USA #Trump #Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy #SEC #Binance #Winklevoss #RippleLabs

  15. "A cryptocurrency firm run by the billionaire Winklevoss twins was facing a punishing federal lawsuit. After Donald J. Trump returned to the White House, the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to freeze the case.

    The S.E.C. had also sued Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, but then dropped the case altogether under the new administration.

    And after a yearslong legal fight with Ripple Labs, the new S.E.C. tried to reduce a court-ordered penalty against the crypto firm, seeking to soften the blow of the punishment.

    The agency’s pullback from these cases illustrated a wide-ranging transformation in the federal government’s treatment of the crypto industry during President Trump’s second term, a New York Times investigation has found.

    It is unheard-of for the agency to retreat from a swath of lawsuits against a single industry. And yet, The Times found that the S.E.C. had eased up on more than 60 percent of the crypto cases that were ongoing when Mr. Trump returned to the White House, moving to pause litigation, lessen penalties or outright dismiss the cases.

    The dismissals were particularly unusual, The Times found. Under Mr. Trump, S.E.C. dismissals came at a far higher rate for crypto firms than other cases.

    And although the particulars of the crypto lawsuits differed, many of these firms had something in common: financial ties to Mr. Trump, the self-described crypto president."

    nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/poli

    #USA #Trump #Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy #SEC #Binance #Winklevoss #RippleLabs

  16. "A cryptocurrency firm run by the billionaire Winklevoss twins was facing a punishing federal lawsuit. After Donald J. Trump returned to the White House, the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to freeze the case.

    The S.E.C. had also sued Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, but then dropped the case altogether under the new administration.

    And after a yearslong legal fight with Ripple Labs, the new S.E.C. tried to reduce a court-ordered penalty against the crypto firm, seeking to soften the blow of the punishment.

    The agency’s pullback from these cases illustrated a wide-ranging transformation in the federal government’s treatment of the crypto industry during President Trump’s second term, a New York Times investigation has found.

    It is unheard-of for the agency to retreat from a swath of lawsuits against a single industry. And yet, The Times found that the S.E.C. had eased up on more than 60 percent of the crypto cases that were ongoing when Mr. Trump returned to the White House, moving to pause litigation, lessen penalties or outright dismiss the cases.

    The dismissals were particularly unusual, The Times found. Under Mr. Trump, S.E.C. dismissals came at a far higher rate for crypto firms than other cases.

    And although the particulars of the crypto lawsuits differed, many of these firms had something in common: financial ties to Mr. Trump, the self-described crypto president."

    nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/poli

    #USA #Trump #Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy #SEC #Binance #Winklevoss #RippleLabs

  17. "A cryptocurrency firm run by the billionaire Winklevoss twins was facing a punishing federal lawsuit. After Donald J. Trump returned to the White House, the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to freeze the case.

    The S.E.C. had also sued Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, but then dropped the case altogether under the new administration.

    And after a yearslong legal fight with Ripple Labs, the new S.E.C. tried to reduce a court-ordered penalty against the crypto firm, seeking to soften the blow of the punishment.

    The agency’s pullback from these cases illustrated a wide-ranging transformation in the federal government’s treatment of the crypto industry during President Trump’s second term, a New York Times investigation has found.

    It is unheard-of for the agency to retreat from a swath of lawsuits against a single industry. And yet, The Times found that the S.E.C. had eased up on more than 60 percent of the crypto cases that were ongoing when Mr. Trump returned to the White House, moving to pause litigation, lessen penalties or outright dismiss the cases.

    The dismissals were particularly unusual, The Times found. Under Mr. Trump, S.E.C. dismissals came at a far higher rate for crypto firms than other cases.

    And although the particulars of the crypto lawsuits differed, many of these firms had something in common: financial ties to Mr. Trump, the self-described crypto president."

    nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/poli

    #USA #Trump #Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy #SEC #Binance #Winklevoss #RippleLabs

  18. "A cryptocurrency firm run by the billionaire Winklevoss twins was facing a punishing federal lawsuit. After Donald J. Trump returned to the White House, the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to freeze the case.

    The S.E.C. had also sued Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, but then dropped the case altogether under the new administration.

    And after a yearslong legal fight with Ripple Labs, the new S.E.C. tried to reduce a court-ordered penalty against the crypto firm, seeking to soften the blow of the punishment.

    The agency’s pullback from these cases illustrated a wide-ranging transformation in the federal government’s treatment of the crypto industry during President Trump’s second term, a New York Times investigation has found.

    It is unheard-of for the agency to retreat from a swath of lawsuits against a single industry. And yet, The Times found that the S.E.C. had eased up on more than 60 percent of the crypto cases that were ongoing when Mr. Trump returned to the White House, moving to pause litigation, lessen penalties or outright dismiss the cases.

    The dismissals were particularly unusual, The Times found. Under Mr. Trump, S.E.C. dismissals came at a far higher rate for crypto firms than other cases.

    And although the particulars of the crypto lawsuits differed, many of these firms had something in common: financial ties to Mr. Trump, the self-described crypto president."

    nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/poli

    #USA #Trump #Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy #SEC #Binance #Winklevoss #RippleLabs

  19. Michael Nedd’s BLM Calendar, From Election Day 2016 through the Inaugural Period

    Back in 2019, I made a Freedom of Information Act request for the work calendar of Michael Nedd, a longtime Bureau of Land Management official, for the months following the 2016 election through the inaugural period. The documents were released just the other day, six years and four months after I submitted the FOIA request.

    Nedd had been promoted from Executive Director, Energy Minerals and Management to Deputy Director at the Bureau of Land Management in March of 2017, just a couple of months after Trump took office. He would have been privy, I imagined, to any discussions of Twin Metals’ canceled mineral leases and the full-court-press flurry to renew them. I thought his work calendar might help me fill out the Timeline I made of that coordinated effort or help me reconstruct what was happening behind closed doors at BLM.

    Upon review, these documents do not seem all that helpful in that regard. For example, the Timeline indicates that on February 7, 2017, Nedd forwards a briefing paper on land withdrawals to his colleagues; no surprise, his calendar for that day shows a “Land Withdrawal Proposal Discussion.” In my view, all this does is drive home a point I’ve made many times, that reversing land withdrawals was a priority for the incoming administration. And we already have Nedd’s calendar for April of 2017, when he met with then-solicitor Daniel Jorjani and other officials to discuss “Mining in Minnesota.” Or at least we had that calendar, but the link (to a domain called altgov2) has now gone dead. Well, not exactly dead: it’s a tarted-up 404 Page, occupied by “affiliate marketers.” I’m not going to bother linking to it, but if you want to see what I’m talking about, just go to the entry for April 10th on the Twin Metals Timeline and click the link to Nedd’s calendar.) It’s been a while, and, contrary to popular wisdom, the Internet is not forever.

    So why put these documents up now? Circumstances have changed. The threat to the Boundary Waters looks even more menacing than it did during Trump’s first term, and we should be paying attention to what’s going on now, not what happened eight or more years ago, right?

    What’s more, Michael Nedd was frog marched out of BLM’s office back in May, 2025, for telling employees to ignore a DOGE directive. (Politico has the details here; the Washington Post also has a story; I’ll note in passing that it’s classic Politico to report Nedd’s ouster, which is part of the clumsily executed destruction of modern American government that we’re witnessing, as a threat to Trump’s fossil fuel agenda.) Though Nedd is still listed on the BLM website as Deputy Director, Greenwire reports that Joe Stout has now replaced him as Acting Deputy Director. Things are unclear: there may be litigation underway or some reinstatement in the works. (After all, the DC kleptocrats wouldn’t want to do anything to threaten that fossil fuel agenda).

    Anyway, I put these records up now because a) they arrived, so I might as well acknowledge the response; b) they help fill out the public record for a critical period; c) someone else might find these records useful; and d) I have a chance to test out Muckrock’s DocumentCloud plugin for WordPress — which I have not used until now.

    In order to upload the 2000-plus-page calendar to documentcloud.org, I had to break it into two parts.

    Part 1.

    Part 2.

    Postscript 30 August 2025: Results from the plugin experiment are mixed. Right now, it looks as if the documentcloud server is returning a 500 error. The docs, if you want them, are here.

    Postcript 2, 9 Sept 2025. 1) It turns out the 500 error only shows up when I try to view the documents on Chrome, on my laptop. The plugin works just fine on Safari and Firefox. And when I emailed Sanjin Ibrahimovic at Muckrock to ask about all this, he said he could not replicate the 500 error, even when viewing the post in Chrome. So, who knows? I speculated that it might be an extension I’m running on Chrome. As long as people can access the documents, all is well, I guess. 2) On Chris D’Amico‘s suggestion, I tried looking at the post in an incognito window. And I can see the docs just fine.

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    #antiScience #bureaucracy #climateDenial #corruption #FOIA #FreedomOfInformationAct #kleptocracy #Muckrock #publicRecord #recordKeeping #Water #Wordpress

  20. The new *authority* [overthrown] follows a standoff this week with a top #Treasury ofcl who had resisted allowing #ElonMusk’s lieutenants into the department’s payment system, which sends out #money on behalf of the entire #federal #government. The ofcl, a career #CivilServant named #DavidLebryk 🦸🏻‍♂️, was put on leave & then suddenly retired [was #fired] on Friday after the dispute….

    #law #criminal #kleptocracy #TrumpCoup2 #robbery #GovernmentOverthrow #plutocracy #autocracy #authoritarianism

  21. #Coinbase & #Kraken have both been battling the #SEC in court. #Robinhood received a #WellsNotice in May related to its #US #crypto business, which is typically one of the final steps before the SEC issues formal charges. #Ripple has been in a years-long legal fight with SEC & outgoing Chairman #GaryGensler.

    #broligarchy #oligarchy #kleptocracy #plutocracy #law #regulations

  22. #ElonMusk’s reactionary #anger was fueled, too, by the decision of one of his children to #transition; he later said that he had been “tricked” into authorizing #gender-affirming #care for her.

    #Musk had left the dinner at #Peltz’s house dissatisfied…. He had started talking privately to #Lonsdale, who was a member of his new friend group in Texas, & a few others about how he might take matters into his own hands.

    #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #Tech #Republicans #Kleptocracy #RulingClass

  23. #Peltz, who was 81 at the time & made his fortune via junk bonds & leveraged buyouts, had gathered some traditional high rollers, including the hedge-fund manager #JohnPaulson & the Las Vegas casino #tycoon #SteveWynn, as well as #RonnaMcDaniel, then the chair of the #RNC. He had also invited #ElonMusk.

    #Kleptocracy #RulingClass #Bourgeoisie #Aristocracy #Totalitarianism

    #HarrisWalz2024

  24. There were plenty of people in the room who had publicly disavowed #Trump after the #Jan6 #insurrection at the Capitol — #Peltz among them — but it was pretty clear now that he was going to be the candidate, & it was time to get onboard & figure out how to help him win. There were a lot of problems. An especially uncomfortable one was that a lot of donor money was going to paying Trump’s mounting #legal bills rather than building a serious political campaign.

    #Kleptocracy

    #HarrisWalz2024

  25. More than half a million concurrent viewers were tuned in to streamer #AdinRoss' Kick channel on Monday afternoon to watch an interview w/ #Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. In addition to hearing the #GOP presidential nom rant about some of his favorite topics, they also saw Trump receive 2 expensive, potentially #illegal gifts from Ross: a gold #Rolex & a custom-wrapped #Cybertruck.

    #law #corruption #Kleptocracy #Autocracy
    #democracy #ProsecutorVFelon #Harris2024

  26. They’ll fail just as badly in Judge #Chutkan’s court if not worse than every other #court that already found the cases #meritless & #frivolous.

    But they will force us to suffer their foolery anyway.

    #Trump #Indictment #TrumpIndictment #Conspiracy #Obstruction #democracy #autocracy #kleptocracy #Jan6 #Law #legal #DOJ #JackSmith