This Is What 500 Days of Trump's Corruption Looks Like:
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#Trump #USPol #US #Corruption
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.Senator Chris Murphy (YouTube)
So, we can build arches & ballrooms & gild statues, destroy the reflecting pool, bail out farmers in Argentina, give billions to Iran - but can’t do Medicaid & feed children, forgive student debt, or fund Social Security for Gen X. Got it. We’re in a fascist nightmare of incompetence & greed.
#fascism #Trump #GOP #MAGA #Genx #AmericaFirst #liarinchief #Corruption
This is unbelievable & the reason we must not stop. These defendants are all of us
...Benjamin Song was hit with the longest prison sentence: 100 years behind bars. Maricela Rueda was sentenced to 70 years in prison. Autumn Hill was sentenced to 50 years, along with Zachary Evetts, Savanna Batten, Meagan Morris, and Elizabeth Soto. Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison...
#USPOL #Antifa #Corruption #Legal #Resist #PrairieLand #Texas
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Benjamin Song, identified as the group's leader, was handed the lengthiest sentence. The others were handed decades-long punishments.Matthew Ablon (CBS Texas)
REQUIRED #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles READING
❝…one of Epstein’s beefy bodyguards had moved into a house right next to his, as if to send a message “we are watching you.” Reiter suspected — and still believes — that Epstein had a mole in the police department…
When police showed up with search warrants at Epstein’s mansion in October 2005, it was clear he had been tipped off — all the computers had been removed.❞
"A new report from Public Citizen has calculated that🚨14 #ballroom donors have raked in >$50B combined in govt contracts over the last 6 mos.
Not only is the fed govt enriching donors like Lockheed Martin, Amazon, Apple, Meta, & Nvidia, but:🚨actively getting them out of legal trouble.🚨16 of the 27 donors, incl the cos⬆️, are presently involved in some form of fed litigation, incl antitrust reviews, securities charges, & labor disputes.."
#Bribery #Corruption #Trump #USPol
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They’re getting a huge return on investment.The New Republic
New pledge to the Amerikkkan flag just dropped
#USA #Flag #corruption #Amerikkka
These paragraphs in @pluralistic 's latest blog post are about as simple and digestible an explanation of the difference between what you might call "techno-libertarianism" versus "techno-socialism" as one could ask for. Plus @web3isgreat mentioned as well.
"What is the role of technology in this foundational struggle?
My technopolitics faction – the faction associated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where I've worked for a quarter-century – has an answer: the role of encryption is to provide a measure of privacy and security that is best used to organize political struggles to demand the rule of law and respect for human rights. Encryption isn't proof against rubber hoses, but it is effective against many other forms of state repression, and it can provide a technical edge for those engaged in a political struggle."
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#cryptography #cryptocurrency #crime #corruption
Pluralistic: Hold on for dear life (28 May 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
You'll be unsurprised that this report (in the post below) does not feature highly in the FT (or at all, for that matter) this bank holiday weekend, while the deregulatory Financial Services & Markets Bill, which scraps the financial services' payments watchdog, ditches certification rules for City employees & partially neuters the financial ombudsman, does on its arrival in the House of Lords this week.
Deregulation, hurrah... criminal behaviour, shhh
#FinancialServices #corruption #politics
If the figures are correct & various forms of tax evasion, money laundering & corruption account for around 10% of GDP, then the proposition that the financial sector does not have the best interests of the country as a priority would seem to be obvious.Rather what we have is a sector that seeks to shape fiscal & economic policy but is also profiting from a range of international activities that bring the country into disrepute & are dangerous to the world.
#politics
theguardian.com/business/2026/…At least £325bn of ‘dirty money’ flows through UK each year, says report
Call for crackdown as finance linked to corruption, tax evasion and money laundering is estimated at 10% of GDPKalyeena Makortoff (the Guardian)
@dar Like sports professionals, politicians need to wear their sponsors logos whenever appearing in public.
I'm unsurprised that in a developing case in the USA, lawyers from elite Wall Street legal firms have been charged along with bankers in a large insider trading case.
Its seems these (as yet un-named) lawyers were passing confidential information on to contacts in financial services over a period of a decade & across around 30 major transactions.
And we can be sure that this (as recent market oscillations have suggested) is just the tip of the iceberg!
#InsiderTrading #corruption
h/t FT
You're unlikely to be surprised that not long after receiving a £5mn 'gift' from Christopher Harborne (in addition to monies he has funnelled into ReformUK Ltd), the Fascist Frog started to champion the deregulation of (and lowering of taxation on) cryptocurrency transactions....
On one hand, this is just a more brazen example of business as usual for our (often if not always) corrupt political class; on the other, one more reason to think he's unfit to govern.
#NigelFarage #corruption
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#policestate controlled by #lammy #starmer #cooper
It must cease
Bring back the British police, defeat #corruption
> Pluralistic: The enshittification multiverse (27 Apr 2026) pluralistic.net/2026/04/27/ana… by @pluralistic
FTA: "Enshittification happens when someone sets out to reduce your choices, and then uses that lock-in to make things worse for you in order to make things better for themself."
No, it is not just for digital services and #tech.
#enshittification #SocialMedia #business #BadEconomy #corruption #exploitation
"Mr. Trump didn't just happen to America. He was elected, twice – the second time after attempting a coup. That alone should tell us that something fundamental has changed in American society, that it is so broken that one half of it could knowingly put a degenerate lunatic in the White House just to spite the other half."
~ Andrew Coyne
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #cruelty #immigrants
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We don’t need to close off our trade and relationship with the U.S., but we do need to open up to the rest of the worldAndrew Coyne (The Globe and Mail)
Wondering the same: how did that car pass the inspections for safety requirements? I guess there were none or they were #bribery and #corruption.
There are growing suspicions (set out here some weeks ago & now gaining traction in the mainstream media) that people close to the Tangerine Tyrant are using insider knowledge to place bets on political actions/developments....
Are are we surprised?.... of course not; the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant is only out for itself & is seeking to maximise the financial returns of the Tyrant's remaining time in the White House.
#politics #betting #corruption
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Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakersLauren Aratani (the Guardian)
well, given the enormous amounts the private healthcare industry has invested in #Streeting's political career, surely they are entitled to profit?
"So [Magyar] gets, you know, all of these Orban supporters to hear the stories of the Orban corruption. In the meantime, their hospitals are falling apart. Public services are falling apart. He takes camera crews into the hospital before they started banning him. But he takes camera crews into the corporate hospitals and shows everybody what the conditions are like."
Kim Lane Scheppele
#Orbán #Putin #Trump #Hungary #corruption
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Hungarians rejected their Trump-Vance endorsed dictator. What does it all mean?Jennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
"How? One word, friends. Corruption.
Corruption is the killer app of anti-authoritarian politics. It always has been."
#Orbán #Putin #Trump #Bannon #JDVance #Republicans #Hungary #corruption
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"One major reason [Orbán] lost so overwhelmingly is that Hungarian citizens were disgusted by corruption in government, and knew about it because of investigative journalism that remained strong despite Orban’s all-out effort to control the legitimate press."
~ Margaret Sullivan
Quoting Brian Stelter:
"Analysts say that pervasive corruption in Hungary was a key factor in the fall of Orbán’s illiberal Fidesz party."
#Orbán #Putin #Hungary #corruption
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Plus: A report card on 'No Kings' coverage by media large and smallMargaret Sullivan (American Crisis)
"In a speech today, Magyar told reporters that the outgoing foreign minister, who has been accused of working closely with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, was shredding confidential documents."
#Orbán #Putin #Hungary #CPAC #Republicans #corruption
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"Orbán has clearly been working for the benefit of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, and just days before the election, news broke that last October, Orbán told Putin, 'In any matter where I can be of assistance, I am at your service.'
So it appears that CPAC was funded by a foreign government that was working closely with Vladimir Putin."
#Orbán #Putin #Hungary #CPAC #Republicans #corruption
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"His system replaced the multiculturalism at the heart of democracy with Christian culture, stopped the immigration that he believes undermines Hungarian culture, and rejected 'adaptable family models' in favor of 'the Christian family model.'
Today Péter Magyar, the man who will replace Orban after winning the election in a blowout, revealed that Orbán was using government money to finance CPAC."
#Orbán #Putin #Hungary #CPAC #Republicans #corruption
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"As a major networking event and ideological trendsetter for the radical right in the United States, CPAC has been instrumental in celebrating Orbán’s Hungary as the center of the effort to destroy the liberal democracy of the United States and Europe in order to replace it with what Orbán called 'illiberal democracy,' or 'Christian democracy.'”
#Orbán #Putin #Hungary #CPAC #Republicans #corruption
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"Outrage about corruption, CJR’s Ivan L. Nagy wrote before the election, has a 'lot to do with the tireless work of investigative journalists.'”
#Orbán #Putin #Hungary #corruption
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"A populist autocrat who had gerrymandered the maps, captured the courts, swallowed the media, and bent the constitution into a pretzel got blown out by ten points in a country he had spent sixteen years rigging in his own favor. What he accomplushed are the things Trump, Bannon, and their fellow travelers only dreamed of in the United States."
~ Lincoln Square
#Orbán #Putin #Trump #Bannon #JDVance #Republicans #Hungary #corruption
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"On April 12, the day of Hungary’s parliamentary elections, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) posted on social media that it was closely watching the election and stood firmly behind Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Orbán #Putin #Hungary #CPAC #Republicans #corruption
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The Guardian: US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company
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#corruption #AI #USpol
Expert said federal law bars officials from taking actions in their jobs that benefit their own financial interestsAram Roston (the Guardian)
