#kleptocracy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kleptocracy, aggregated by home.social.
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Vintage (Twitter 2018) ... But seen/reposted today. #Septermber11
Still 100% #Truth - pre- #GQP / #TrumpVirus #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy
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Vintage (Twitter 2018) ... But seen/reposted today. #Septermber11
Still 100% #Truth - pre- #GQP / #TrumpVirus #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy
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Vintage (Twitter 2018) ... But seen/reposted today. #Septermber11
Still 100% #Truth - pre- #GQP / #TrumpVirus #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy
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Vintage (Twitter 2018) ... But seen/reposted today. #Septermber11
Still 100% #Truth - pre- #GQP / #TrumpVirus #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy
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Vintage (Twitter 2018) ... But seen/reposted today. #Septermber11
Still 100% #Truth - pre- #GQP / #TrumpVirus #Kleptocracy #Plutocracy
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13 Chinese online scam centers in Madagascar shut down. Damn!
The American DOJ can still do shit when it wants to. Now do Trump Crypto.
Article in French:
#Madagascar #kleptocracy #corruption #DOJ #HalfHeartedFanatic
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13 Chinese online scam centers in Madagascar shut down. Damn!
The American DOJ can still do shit when it wants to. Now do Trump Crypto.
Article in French:
#Madagascar #kleptocracy #corruption #DOJ #HalfHeartedFanatic
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13 Chinese online scam centers in Madagascar shut down. Damn!
The American DOJ can still do shit when it wants to. Now do Trump Crypto.
Article in French:
#Madagascar #kleptocracy #corruption #DOJ #HalfHeartedFanatic
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#JamieRaskin also says, if #Democrats take back one or both chambers of #Congress, they will shut down this crazy illegal #MAGASlushFund, & use #oversight power to compel release of a list of any / all payments made between now & 2027.
So #VOTE!!!!!!
#Trump #criminal #law #DOJ #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #MAGASlushFund
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#Trump & his lawyers “are figuring out a way to refund the January 6 militia, presumably to get them ready for the next round of battle," says #JamieRaskin in this prescient piece:
https://newrepublic.com/article/210521/trump-settlement-irs-slush-fund
#criminal #law #Jan6 #insurrection #militia #TaxpayersMoney #DOJ #kleptocracy #MafiaState #MAGASlushFund
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Acting AG #ToddBlanche said in announcing the fund in a statement that it was “a lawful [nope] process for victims of lawfare & weaponization to be heard & seek redress.”
#Democrats & #government #watchdogs immediately pledged to fight what they called a #corrupt & unprecedented resolution, warning that the arrangement would unjustly enrich people close to the president with #TaxpayerMoney & open the door to meritless claims of political persecution.
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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
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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
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They discussed the likelihood of #litigation & welcomed the idea that #Democrats would sue. They liked their chances with a #SCOTUS that #Trump had transformed in his first term, with a majority that now favored an expansive vision of #ExecutivePower.…
Trump had announced #DOGE on Nov 12 as an entity outside of govt, but #Musk quickly began to see problems with that — including the fact that it could be subject to #PublicRecord rules.
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#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