#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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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!
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@indivisiblechicago.bsky.social
Unless you are wealthy, The #US is now largely what we used to call a "third world nation".
#Kleptocracy
#Fascism
#oligarchy
#EpsteinClass#theocracy and #Propaganda are tools of the #aristocracy to impoverish and disable #civilSociety
And fuck #philanthropy btw.
#Billionaires should be taxed at 90% and we could spend it on infrastructure, #renewable power generation, infrastructure, and hardening..
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The AdWords of #kleptocracy
New strips every Sunday. Reposts of strips from my first-term collection, TRUMPBERT: OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE (https://www.Trumpbert.com) most weekdays.
The opposite of kleptocracy: https://www.ManyHands.team
#dilbert #parody #trump #satire #comic #webcomic #insidertrading #truthsocial
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#Trump family wants to massively spoliate #European #resources in #Albany .
IF YOU #DON'T #LOVE #EUROPE :
#GET THE #F_CK #OUT OF #EUROPE !#EUROPEAN #RESISTANCE
#EUROPEAN #SOLIDARITY : -
#Trump family wants to massively spoliate #European #resources in #Albany .
IF YOU #DON'T #LOVE #EUROPE :
#GET THE #F_CK #OUT OF #EUROPE !
#EUROPEAN #RESISTANCE
#EUROPEAN #SOLIDARITY :
#FIGHT THE #TRUMP #KLEPTOCRACY #CRONYISM #OLIGARCHY
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#Tr_mp family wants to massively spoliate #European #resources in #Albany .
IF YOU #DON'T #LOVE #EUROPE :
#GET THE #F_CK #OUT OF #EUROPE !
#EUROPEAN #RESISTANCE
#EUROPEAN #SOLIDARITY :
#FIGHT THE #TRUMP #KLEPTOCRACY #CRONYISM #OLIGARCHY
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#Tr_mp family wants to massively spoliate #European #resources in #Albany .
IF YOU #DON'T #LOVE #EUROPE :
#GET THE #F_CK #OUT OF #EUROPE !
#EUROPEAN #RESISTANCE
#EUROPEAN #SOLIDARITY :
#FIGHT THE #TRUMP #KLEPTOCRACY #CRONYISM #OLIGARCHY
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#insurrectionist #maga #trump #donold #donaldvonshitsinpants #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #uspol #uspolitics #politics #news #history #ethics #policy #conflictofinterest #corruptpresident #kleptocracy #screwworm #birdflu #usaid #texas #infestation
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LOL!!
https://youtube.com/shorts/R8TZi0X4iLw?si=jSMUjoHfaXFPIuoy
thekennedycenter #kennedycenter #insurrectionist #maga #trump #donold #donaldvonshitsinpants #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #uspol #uspolitics #politics #news #history #ethics #policy #conflictofinterest #corruptpresident #kleptocracy -
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZLjGDkIipa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
#j6 #insurrection #insurrectionist #maga #trump #donold #donaldvonshitsinpants #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason #uspol #uspolitics #politics #news #history #blindtrust #ethics #policy #dhs #conflictofinterest #corruptpresident #kleptocracy -
Judge #AmitMehta rules that #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump does *not* have #immunity from civil lawsuits resulting from consequences of the #January6th #FailedCoupAttempt. ✅ https://www.rawstory.com/trump-jan-6-2676815956/
#Resist #kakistocracy and #kleptocracy in #USpol.
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Another delay in the Boundary Waters litigation will open the door to even more political finagling
No one should be surprised by the Joint Status Report just filed in the Boundary Waters litigation before the DC District Court of Appeals. Twin Metals, joined by the federal government, has asked for yet another 180-day abeyance. The mining company clearly sees that it has little chance of succeeding at law, so it has joined forces with the federal government, the putative defendant in this case, to keep the Twin Metals project on a strictly political path.
This is the same strategy they’ve pursued for a while. By petitioning for delay at the DC Circuit, the mining company and its lobbyists can make headway on the political front. They have already made some. Last July, the Department of the Interior revoked the Biden-era legal opinion that canceled (or re-canceled) the zombie leases revived by a legal opinion issued by the Solicitor of the Interior during Trump’s first term. There is still time over the next few weeks for the Chilean mining company and its lobbyists to push the republican-controlled Senate to pass House Joint Resolution 140, which would overturn the 20-year Rainy River watershed mineral withdrawal. And just last week, the Trump administration announced the dismantling of the US Forest Service, closing more than 57 research facilities and virtually shutting down the agency’s ability to conduct scientific research — the kind of careful, incremental, localized research that the 20-year mineral withdrawal would allow and for which it was designed.
Another 180-day abeyance would bring us to October 3rd or thereabouts (depending on when exactly the court issues the order). That’s about a month before the November elections, after which the the political finagling behind closed doors should face some much-needed congressional scrutiny.
We are still waiting to hear from Intervenor Defendant Appellees — the group of non-profits and small businesses that I call the Civil Society Group. Though the federal government has done an about-face, the Civil Society Group has not, so I would expect them to oppose this request. I am not confident the court will see it their way, though. For now, here’s today’s Joint Status Report.
260406 Joint Status ReportDownloadUpdate 11 April 2026: Here’s the 9 April order: the case is on ice until 5 October, 2026. The plan is to keep justice at bay, sideline science, and let the mining company’s lobbyists (led by Trump’s former Secretary of the Interior) dictate to the corrupted agencies. And remember, there is still a chance — a slim chance at this point, but a chance all the same — that the Senate votes to overturn the 20-year mineral withdrawal.
If all this reads like so much inside baseball, that’s because it is: this is a complex and coordinated political project, with many moving parts.
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#ANTO #antiScience #Antofagasta #cheating #corruption #delay #kleptocracy #resourceHoarding #USForestService #Water -
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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The Bernhardt Group’s Lobbying for Antofagasta’s Copper and Nickel Mine on the Edge of the Boundary Waters, Q3 2025
The Bernhardt Group, the lobbying shop set up just down the street from the White House by Trump’s former Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, is now the sole firm lobbying for Antofagasta’s Twin Metals project on the edge of the Boundary Waters (as I noted back in July). The Group’s third quarter disclosure reports income of $110,000 for lobbying on “mine leasing issues” on behalf of Twin Metals. That’s more than double The Bernhardt Group’s Twin Metals Q2 2025 income ($40K), and toward the high end of what other clients pay per quarter.
Bernhardt’s firm has been lobbying for the Twin Metals project in both the House and the Senate and at the White House, the Department of the Interior, and, notably, DOJ. (I am a little surprised that there is no mention here of the Department of Agriculture.) At DOJ, The Bernhardt Group was likely helping to devise and coordinate the legal strategy that saw the federal government do an about-face, join forces with Twin Metals, and get the case before the DC Circuit put on ice.
It’s worth reading this latest disclosure in light of a piece by Brendan Bordelon, Amanda Chu, and Caitlin Oprysko that appeared a couple of days ago in Politico, about the reduced influence of non-Trump affiliated lobbying firms and the concentration of lobbying in one place: the presidency. The article offers a K-Street perspective on Congress’ abdication, the destruction of the administrative state, and the rise of a corrupt personalist regime.
The president and a handful of lieutenants have seized full control over policies once considered the remit of Congress and experts at agencies, including hyperspecific issues like tariff rates, high-skilled visa fees and funding freezes. Trump’s gravitational pull has forced CEOs to act as their companies’ top lobbyists, plying the president with gifts and concessions to secure their policy priorities. [emphasis mine]
Let’s pause here for clarification. These policies were not just “once considered the remit of Congress and experts at agencies.” They are lawfully the remit of Congress, but Congress remains supine or, worse, bent over and taking it. Meanwhile, the administration is ridding itself of all those pesky experts at the agencies and conducting sloppy and unlawful “reviews” of its own, as the Department of Agriculture recently did with the Rainy River watershed withdrawal.
Politico puts it more politely than I ever could, but the thrust of the reporting here is no less troubling. As Sam Bagenstos remarked yesterday, “per [Politico], the lobbyists are basically treating Article I as dead.”
The new dynamic has transformed the business of Washington influence, shutting out many veteran lobbyists and excluding even longtime experts from the most important policy fights in Washington. With Congress and the agencies often sidelined, outside lobbying firms and in-house specialists — many with decades of policy experience and cross-party relationships — are declining in importance….
The legislative branch is losing importance as Republicans — in charge of both chambers — take their cues from the White House to a degree that’s unprecedented in modern politics.
“Congress has basically taken itself out of the equation,” said Rich Gold, a Democrat who heads lobbying and law firm Holland & Knight’s public policy and regulation group. “There is a perception that Democrats have not fought back, and Republicans have basically ceded all their authority to the president.”
The same is true at federal agencies, which once operated more independently but are now closely responsive to the president himself.
From K Street’s point of view, there’s only one lever consistently worth pulling — and it sits in the Oval Office.
But rest assured: the lobbying world is adapting.
Despite the upheaval on K Street, Washington’s lobbying sector is on track to earn more money than in any year since 2010, adjusted for inflation — driven by corporations’ mix of enthusiasm and concern about what Trump is doing.
That revenue is flowing away from established firms with policy expertise and robust networks of cross-party contacts, and toward a handful of rising firms able to open the Oval Office door.
The Bernhardt Group is, of course, one such firm.
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#abdication #corruption #governmentCapture #governmentCollapse #kleptocracy #lobbying #personalistRegime #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.
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#corruption #cronyCapitalism #cronyism #kleptocracy #oligarchy #pollution #resourceHoarding #Water
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A handy list of large crypto donors to Trump’s inauguration fund, which is basically an unregulated pot of money the president can do whatever he wants with. A few translations are in order:
* Circle = world’s 2nd largest stablecoin after Tether (USDC), closely linked to #Coinbase
* Foris Dax = Crypto[.]Com
* Fred Ehrsam = #Paradigm (and co-founder of Coinbase)
* #Payward = #Kraken
* #KyleSamani = #MulticoinCapital
* #HaydenAdams = #Uniswap (more on Uniswap: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers)
* Charles Cascarilla = #Paxos, the stablecoin issuer behind the #Binance stablecoin #BUSD that was summarily executed by regulators for #moneylaundering
* Yuga Labs = #BoredApeYachtClub (the infamous monkey JPGs)#NFTs #corruption #crypto #BAYC #Inauguration #trump #uspol #uspolitics #bribery #kleptocracy #KleptocracyIsComing
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…[#MartyBaron said], #Bezos’ closer proximity to #Trump at the inauguration & through #Amazon’s production deal on a #MelaniaTrump documentary did not appear to fulfill his public goal of increasing the #WashingtonPost’s independence. “It was a sign of dependence, not independence—the dependence of Amazon, #BlueOrigin & Bezos on Donald Trump," he wrote.
#MafiaState #kleptocracy #FourthEstate #journalism #media #FreePress #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #ViewPointDiscrimination #law #USpol
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“There is no doubt in my mind that he is doing this out of #fear of the consequences for his other business interests, #Amazon (the source of his #wealth) & #BlueOrigin (which represents his lifelong passion for space exploration),” #MartyBaron wrote Wednesday. “He has prioritized those commercial interests over The Post, & he is betraying The Post’s longstanding #principles to do so.”
#Bezos #WashingtonPost #MafiaState #kleptocracy #FourthEstate #journalism #Trump #law #USpol
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“It was only weeks ago that The Post described itself as providing coverage for ‘all of America,’” #MartyBaron wrote in his statement. “Now its opinion pages will be open to only some of America, those who think exactly as he does.”
…Baron also accused #Bezos of acquiescing to #Trump & the his attacks on the #press for his own business interests.
#MafiaState #kleptocracy #FourthEstate #journalism #media #FreePress #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #ViewPointDiscrimination #law #USpol
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FFS
One of #ElonMusk’s closest friends, a #billionaire co-founder of #Airbnb, is taking a role in #Trump’s admin to help Musk carry out his drive to slash the federal bureaucracy….
#JoeGebbia, Airbnb co-founder, is a board member at Tesla who lives in Austin, where Musk, …keeps a large compound. He is planning to start shortly as part of Musk’s team, called #DOGE….
#broligarchy #kleptocracy #plutocracy #USpol
#boycottAirbnbhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/airbnb-joe-gebbia-musk-doge.html?smid=url-share
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“We’ve got a real issue here with, really, this emerging American #oligarch who has…no standing: The American people didn’t pick him. He didn’t run for office. Nor has he been nominated. I think that’s a huge stumbling block from the very beginning that could taint the entire process if the #Republicans aren’t careful,” Rep #GerryConnolly added.
#USpol #law #Trump #broligarchy #plutocracy #kleptocracy #technocracy
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#ElonMusk has been discussed as potentially becoming a “special government employee” within the #WhiteHouse — a position that would exempt him from certain reporting & disclosure requirements of other senior ofcls.
“He starts w/enormous #ConflictsOfInterest, & they need to be absolutely addressed in terms of #transparency & #accountability,” said Rep #GerryConnolly (VA), the top #Democrat on the powerful #House #Oversight Cmte.#USpol #technocracy #Trump #broligarchy #plutocracy #kleptocracy
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Their presence will shower nearly a trillion dollars’ worth of legitimacy upon #Trump — a demonstration that he has triumphed over decency & the rule of #law & is now fully accepted & feared by the well-heeled & the powerful, by #corporate America, by the #establishment. We are witnessing a melding of #oligarchy & #Trumpism. (In the days before the ceremony, there was a host of parties throughout DC, mounted by #tech #aristocrats to celebrate Trump’s inauguration.)
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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