#pay-to-play — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pay-to-play, aggregated by home.social.
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Es beginnt mit einer Award-Marketing-Mail, die man nie angefordert hat. Kein Pitch, keine Bewerbung, kein nervenaufreibendes Auswahlverfahren – nur die erfreuliche Nachricht, dass das eigene Unternehmen plötzlich zu den Auserwählten des „Management Consulting Awards 2026“ gehört. Willkommen in der schillernden Welt der Business Awards, in der Exzellenz offenbar so großzügig verteilt wird wie Werbeflyer in der Fußgängerzone. 👇
#award #marketingtrick #paytoplay #spam #consulting #management #unternehmen
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Unbelievable. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sends $1M to a super PAC for his son-in-law. Months later, a top GOP donor, whose company DoT regulates, matches it. DC ethics? A joke. #Corruption #PayToPlay #Unbelievable thebadgerproject.org/2026/03/24/s...
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Controversy has engulfed #Wyoming’s state legislature after a conservative activist was photographed👉 handing checks to Republican lawmakers on the state house floor,
in an incident that has highlighted intra-conservative divisions and the role of money in the Cowboy state’s politics.The political storm started on 9 February, when Karlee Provenza, a Democratic lawmaker,
took a photo showing Rebecca #Bextel, a conservative activist and committeewoman for the Teton county Republican party,
handing a check to Darin #McCann,
a Republican representative, on the legislative floor.
Marlene #Brady, another Republican representative, stands in the photo’s background, a similar piece of paper pinched between her fingers.“You have a person from the richest county in the country coming down to Cheyenne to hand out checks on the house floor,” Provenza said. “I have never seen something so egregious.”
#paytoplay #MoneyIsNotSpeech
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/wyoming-republican-lawmakers-checks-house-floor?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
"25 days later, on February 17, the Trump administration’s Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), intervened on Crypto.com’s behalf in high-stakes lawsuit in federal court."
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"In a document quietly filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday night, MAGA Inc., the primary Super PAC supporting President Trump, revealed that it received a $5 million donation from Crypto.com on January 23, 2026. The donation was made in the name of Crypto.com’s parent company, Foris Dax, Inc."
~ Judd Legum
#Trump #crypto #corruption #PaytoPlay #graft
/1https://popular.info/p/days-after-5m-donation-trump-administration
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Why This #Trump Ally May Make #Billions on Public #Land. The #Pentagon is pushing to develop a #domestic supply of #antimony, a #metal critical to making #weapons and often found alongside #Gold. That may be a bonanza for #billionaire Trump supporter #JohnPaulson #oligarchs #corruption #democracy #paytoplay #graft #finance #publicland https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-02-20/trump-ally-may-make-billions-on-public-land-video
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"Melania is the first movie Ratner...has made since he was publicly accused of sexual harassment and assault by six women"
'One person familiar with the production estimated that some two-thirds of the crew members who worked on the film in New York had requested not to have their names formally credited on the documentary. A separate person who will be credited on the film said that, after experiencing the first year of Trump’s second term, they now wish they had not put their name on it. “I’m much more alarmed now than I was a year ago,” that person said'
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@DrALJONES
Sharing a comment from https://www.pbump.net/o/trump-is-uniting-autocracies-under-the-banner-of-peace/ :
“Trump appears to be building a pay-for-play alliance that gives bad actors access to American power, perhaps with an eye toward aggregating power to contravene the existing convening international body, the United Nations.”
Also shares a useful visualisation of how democratic each country is… not many rate highly… few have increasing levels of democracy. ☹️
#democracy #USPol #payToPlay #corruption #UnitedNations -
Saying "Board of Peace"
Will not create such a Board
Expose the splinters#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #BoardOfPeace #Splinters #NewWorldOrder #UN #USA #World #LeagueOfNations #PayToPlay #BillionaireBoysClub #Narcissist #2026 #Photography
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What happened to playing sports for the love of the game!?
GoFundMe said “competition travel” was the top sports fundraising cause in 2025. Youth sports has been transformed over the past two decades, largely by private equity and venture capital that have created pay-to-play (for profit) models.
Low-cost grassroots programs are being replaced by a high-priced industry filled with club teams, specialized training and travel tournaments.
Families are spending an average of $1,016 per year per child just to participate. Other surveys put the costs for youth club sports at $3-5K per child, per year. Travel costs NOT included.
And the KICKERS! Parents sometimes are charged to attend games and are sometimes BANNED from live-streaming their own child’s matches because the game rights have been sold. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/general/the-soaring-price-of-youth-sports-50-to-try-out-3-000-to-play/ar-AA1TJN1r #Sports #YouthSports #PrivateEquity #Kids #ClubSports #GoFundMe #SportsTravel #PaytoPlay
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Colleges are now buying players.
▶️ Paid to Play: Understanding College Sports in 2025 [FULL EXCERPT] | ESPN360
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rfBaTCOFvww&si=S-IfphiJ-tjMgyQ0
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"Meanwhile, millions of average, harmless travelers — fans coming for the World Cup, families planning a California road trip, Canadians who used to drive across the border to buy gas and discount Oreos — are instead being greeted with a digital strip-search and a bill for extra fees, background checks, and biometrics more suited to a dystopian sci-fi reboot."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption #travel #tourism
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"Human rights violators who make the TSA look like the Girl Scouts. People who do not care what nonsense the CBP (Customs and Border Protection) asks for, because their 'online activity' doesn’t exist or is conveniently curated by a PR team large enough to staff a minor embassy."
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption #travel #tourism
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"What kind of person has both $5 million in liquid assets and a pressing need for American residency without scrutiny?
I’ll tell you who.
Money launderers. Drug traffickers. Russian oligarchs whose yachts have been seized more times than Trump has contradicted himself in a single sentence."
~ Michael Cohen
#Trump #immigrants #visas #PaytoPlay #grift #Russia #drugs #crypto #corruption
/2https://www.meidasplus.com/p/your-profile-pic-better-be-patriotic
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"Former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández recently thanked God and Donald Trump – in that order – for being pardoned by the latter of a drug trafficking conviction won by federal US prosecutors less than two years earlier."
~ Ramon Antonio Vargas
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"Trump accepts two primary types of currency for his pardons: loyalty and money."
~ Don Moynihan
#Trump #pardons #crime #criminals #corruption #PaytoPlay #grift #authoritarianism #fascism
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"If and when Donald Trump and those who serve him, and themselves, are eventually called to account, they will be confronted by that single word, in all its shades – and all its force."
#Trump #narcissism #flattery #grift #EconomicElites #PaytoPlay #ethics #morality #corruption
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"The word corruption can be used in two ways. In its legal sense, it can refer to dishonest conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery. But it can also have a deeper meaning, referring to the corrosion of standards, the decline of norms and the removal of moral restraints."
~ Jonathan Freedland
#Trump #narcissism #flattery #grift #EconomicElites #PaytoPlay #ethics #morality #corruption
/5https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/trump-administration-opening-fire-drowning-men
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"There is a sickening rationalization creeping across our nation which says that sucking up to Trump is just the cost of doing business in America at the moment."
#Trump #narcissism #flattery #grift #EconomicElites #PaytoPlay #ethics #morality
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