ECP NetHappenings Her name is Moira Olmsted

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ESSAY Her name is Moira Olmsted
@heynavtoor

A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic.

Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined.

Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written.

She sued. She won. The court called the school’s decision “arbitrary and capricious.”

She is not the only one.

In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence.

AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix.

Here is what the math says.

If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem.

If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through.

There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective.

The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy.

The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine.

Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin’s AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year.

750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves.

The paper’s conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible.

The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused.

http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20254

NEWS

Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis
My advice to Jamie Dimon? Grab a chair, find a good spot on the beach
, and actually read this bill over July 4th. His concerns have been addressed — section 301 handles them directly. We have 16 provisions protecting against illicit finance.

#Maddow: “In Surprise Arizona…
you’re going to think I’m making this up, but I’m not making this up. The people in Surprise, Arizona who are fighting the potential Trump prison camp they want to put there. Those folks are SO ANNOYED with their city council not helping them stop this thing, that those local residents are now advancing an effort to literally DISSOLVE THE CITY of Surprise, Arizona, to unincorporate the city specifically so there won’t be a city council anymore, so the city council won’t be in their way as they continue to fight the Trump prison camp and therefore they can fight this thing harder.”

Postmaster General David Steiner told senators that, under a new proposed rule, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration.

ESSAY
Power to the People @ProudSocialist
This Vet brilliantly exposes the evils of US imperialism:

“The recruitment tool of the US military is to go to impoverished areas and offer things America doesn’t offer you like housing, healthcare, and income. We offer soldiers socialism to go abroad & defend capitalism.”

How do Americans not grasp how evil this is? The U.S. intentionally keeps its own people poor so they’re forced to enlist in the army to blow up innocent people in other countries, all to defend a capitalist system that makes the rich even richer.

When you defend US capitalism, you are defending a system that deprives your own people healthcare and housing so they’ll murder people abroad and fight in endless wars to ensure US corporations can plunder and extract other countries’ resources.

This is why we fight to end capitalism and build a world where no one is exploited or bombed to make another person rich. A world where the economy is based on meeting social needs and caring for the commons instead of endlessly exploiting others for profit.

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ECP NetHappenings July 4th Treasure Hunt is On

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This July 4th is a nationwide treasure hunt!
America isn’t just celebrating its 250th birthday. The U.S. Mint has secretly released 250,000 special Semiquincentennial quarters bearing a rare “250” privy mark into general circulation. Unlike most collectibles, these aren’t being sold directly to collectors. They’re being mixed into everyday change, hidden among millions of ordinary quarters passing through banks, cash registers, vending machines, and coin jars across the country.
That means the next valuable collectible might be sitting in your pocket right now. For the next few weeks, Americans will be checking their change the same way previous generations searched for silver coins or rare state quarter errors.
On a holiday built around independence, there’s something fitting about millions of people hunting for hidden treasures that cost just 25 cents!

One local building has stood since before the United States was formed.
America’s First Turnpike
While the historic cabin now serves as the Premier Eurocars shop office, it was originally a toll house for America’s first turnpike, the Philadelphia–Lancaster Pike. The road ran, you guessed it, from Philadelphia to Lancaster in what we now call Old Lancaster Road.

BREAKING: THE US HOUSE AND SENATE JUST BOTH OFFICIALLY PASSED A FULL CBDC BAN IN AMERICA
NEXT STOP IS PRESIDENT’S TRUMP DESK
THE DIGITAL DOLLAR IS DEAD IN AMERICA
INSANELY BULLISH FOR #BITCOIN

EPSTEIN

““I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump booms from a speakerphone. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

“Cohn had told [ex-head of the NYPD’s Human-Trafficking and Vice-Related Crimes Division, James Rothstein] that his role in this ring had originally come about because he himself had been entrapped and blackmailed, leading Rothstein to feel some sort of sympathy for Cohn.” – Webb

From a 2015 book by Roger Stone & Robert Morrow: “The one time I visited [Epstein’s] Palm Beach home, the swimming pool was full of beautiful young girls,” Trump told a member of his Club Mar Lago “‘How nice,’ I thought, ‘he let the neighborhood kids use his pool.’
https://www.amazon.com/Clintons-War-Women-Roger-Stone/dp/1510713921/

Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell, April 2, 2011: “the dog that hasn’t barked is trump.” Someone “spent hours at my house with him, he has never once been mentioned.” Maxwell replied: “I have been thinking about that.” That man is the sitting president.
https://x.com/epsteinsearchin/status/2069570032947142753

Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that Netanyahu blackmailed Trump with recordings of his conversations with Epstein.
Maxwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgjOsrXf3_U&t=21s

Ted Lieu A sitting congressman said this on the record on camera!
– “The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children.”

That is Congressman Ted Lieu, citing the Epstein files release, saying Lutnick lied to the public and knew exactly how evil Epstein was. Lieu’s demand: he must resign.
Howard Lutnick went into business with Jeffrey Epstein.

Howard Lutnick is Trump’s Commerce Secretary. In the files sits a November 2017 email from Jeffrey Epstein’s own account, forwarding notice of a Wall Street dinner honoring Lutnick to his accountant. The files had his name the whole time.

Larry Summers ran the U.S. Treasury and Harvard. In April 2014, he emailed Jeffrey Epstein: “I need small scale philanthropy advice. My life will be better if I raise $1m.” In the same thread: “Let’s get together. Monday dinner?” Summers did the chasing.

Noam Chomsky received $269,159 on December 3, 2018. A Justice Department ledger, sealed under grand jury rules, recorded it among Jeffrey Epstein’s financial dealings. The same page notes Chomsky’s salary was publicly described as funded by philanthropic donations.

Jeffrey Epstein texted Steve Bannon in 2018: “head of council of Europe plus Nobel peace prize chairman. You are welcome.”
The chairman was Thorbjorn Jagland. Epstein was hosting him in Paris.
He was brokering access to the people who choose the Peace Prize.

Bill Gates told the House Oversight Committee Epstein was “going in that direction” on blackmailing him over affairs.
The files had it. An archived email forwards a 2023 report: “Jeffrey Epstein Threatened Bill Gates With Sexual Blackmail.”
He met Epstein 12 to 14 times.
Bill Gates’ Epstein testimony was released Tuesday. He told the House Oversight Committee that Epstein sent ‘veiled’ threats through an adviser and was working out how to blackmail him over his affairs. Gates: ‘I was not blackmailed, but it looks like’ Epstein was going there.
Bill Gates told the House Oversight Committee he may have been in the presence of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims. He recalled seeing Epstein’s female employees at the end of a meeting on Epstein’s plane. The committee noted some of those employees were themselves abused.
Bill Gates anchors an entire day in Jeffrey Epstein’s September 2014 schedule. Walk to Leon Black’s office with Gates. Larry Summers set to join, noted “Is this happening??” Then Mort Zuckerman with Gates, then Kathy Ruemmler at the Four Seasons with Gates.

Jes Staley ran JPMorgan’s private bank and later led Barclays. An FBI and SDNY memo in the Epstein files: in October 2019, an adult victim said Epstein directed her to massage Staley, and that Staley raped her during it. He has never been charged.
https://x.com/epsteinsearchin/status/2069544814371364881/photo/1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgjOsrXf3_U

Michael Ovitz walked out of his deposition on June 1 when asked about Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m not going to discuss anything about Jeffrey Epstein,” he said, and left.
The files already have his answer. His December 2012 email to Epstein: “Hi Jeff. My boat is parked in St Barts.”

Epstein recruited one victim at 14, paid her $300, and told her to bring friends, but only girls under 18. She brought an estimated 50 girls, ages 13 to 16. He paid her $600 to $900 a week to bring him new girls. An FBI intelligence report lays it out.

JPMorgan kept Jeffrey Epstein as a client after his 2008 sex-crime conviction. Its own compliance file says why: ‘Jes Staley conferred with Stephen Cutler and the decision was made to keep Mr. Epstein as a PB client.’ The bank wrote down that it knew.
https://x.com/epsteinsearchin/status/2069557389263876261/photo/1

Jes Staley is scheduled to sit for a closed-door House Oversight deposition on July 23. A February 2013 email in the Epstein files: Epstein’s office directs his lawyer to go see Staley, then at BlueMountain Capital. The files named him long before Congress called.

Bard College, July 2016: ‘We are excited and honored to welcome back Mr. Epstein.’ The email coordinating Jeffrey Epstein’s campus visit copied the college president, Leon Botstein, and Epstein’s personal pilot. This was years after his sex-crime conviction.

More than 100 former federal and state judges have filed a bar ethics complaint against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. It cites his “botched and incomplete” release of the Epstein and Maxwell files. The man who ran the release is now the one facing the complaint.

Democrats better Attack Attack Attack

When we fight we win!

Marc E. Elias @marceelias
Donald Trump and DOJ have had a rough few days — losing big cases in his effort to rig the 2026 election. My team is preventing him from gaining access to sensitive state voter dats while Democracy Forward is blocking his misuse of federal databases.

Trump has brought nothing but trash to the White House.
The lawn is destroyed from the UFC fight, the East Wing, the Rose Garden and now the reflection pool. They can’t even properly cover up the 8647 in the grass.

Ro Khanna fires back at Elon Musk.
“He is so consumed with his own wealth and power. He thinks he can intimidate me. I’m not gonna be intimidated. The reality is why is he lashing out?
He sees that Democrats are gonna be in charge and he’s gonna have to answer. When we subpoena him, he will explain why he had those unconstitutional DOGE cuts. Finally we’re gonna have accountability.”


One upside to not being a billionaire is not having to leave California to avoid a wealth tax.

The investment portfolios of just 308 billionaires now produce more carbon dioxide every year than 118 countries combined. The average billionaire alone emits 1.9 million tons of CO2 annually through their investments.

Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
What Trumpsters didn’t tell you: Iran will be allowed to collect a fee from ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
“Insurance”? “Administration”? “Transit fee”?
Whatever you call it, it makes the Strait a toll gate for Iran.

Josh Shapiro @JoshShapiroPA
Four years ago today, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — gutting access to reproductive healthcare, placing women’s lives in danger, and opening the door to abortion bans all across this country.
Four years later, as Donald Trump and his enablers continue to undermine our freedoms, I’m still fighting as hard as ever to protect women’s fundamental freedom to make decisions over their own bodies.
Reproductive freedom is on the ballot this November — and as long as I’m Governor, abortion will remain safe and legal in Pennsylvania.

REP JOHN LARSEN
Republicans have never had a plan to strengthen Social Security. They want to raise the retirement age to 70.
That’s a 21% cut to the benefits you earned! They’ll make you live longer on less.
Democrats are ready to ENHANCE benefits by making the wealthy pay their fair share.

A major California labor union representing over 120,000 healthcare workers (SEIU-UHW) proposed a one-time 5% tax on California billionaires, and they secured enough signatures for this to make it on the November ballot. Organizers estimate that it’d raise $100 billion to offset federal healthcare cuts with additional funding for food assistance and education. Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin has spent $82 million on a committee to defeat the proposal, and the committee has raised nearly $120 million from less than 12 donors. Every American should be paying attention. This is a direct political confrontation between organized labor and organized oligarchs.

Holy fukk! @TulsiGabbard is a Hari Krishna
Final day as Director of National Intelligence, “I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab” is total bullshit.
Reporting by John Swaine, we understand that Tulsi just been a mouthpiece for a Hare Krishna cultist. See my piece on her out yesterday.
#TulsiGabbard parroted instructions from a #GURU, #HareKrishna-imitator #ChrisButler.
Lord Krishna’s lessons are the foundation of life: @TulsiGabbard

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ECP NetHappenings Trump is Corrupt

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We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack.

The reason why there are 52 cards in poker

Musk Owns Twitter
With midterms approaching, Anti-Trump accounts keep seeing the same pattern while Elon turns this platform into a right-wing influence machine and calls it “free speech.”
You don’t need the exact line of code to recognize what’s happening when audience response holds up but reach gets quietly strangled.
This platform is manipulating visibility, and it’s getting harder to ignore who benefits.

Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray
Every time you see a headline about how Trump is pushing for drilling on public lands, remember that he promised Big Oil whatever they wanted if they spent $1 billion to get him elected.
Save our public lands. Put America above Big Oil.

Rep. Jason Crow @RepJasonCrow
I serve on the Intelligence Committee.
FISA helps keep us safe.
But I won’t extend this program as the President appoints unqualified & incompetent people to serve as Director of National Intelligence.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she read the unredacted Epstein files herself. The law required a full release, only victims’ names withheld. The DOJ hid far more than that. She calls the remaining redactions an obvious, systematic cover-up.

Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly
The President just made thousands of stock trades — and then he turned around and made decisions that shifted those companies’ bottom lines. It’s corrupt, and we need to end it.

The Lincoln Project
We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack.
Trump is corrupt, he’s butchered the economy, and his DOJ operates like mob lawyers. And every voter knows it.
So stop looking backward. Stop with the endless focus groups. This isn’t complicated.
He’s weak. Finish him.

Senate Judiciary Democrats @JudiciaryDems
100+ former judges are urging a bar investigation into Todd Blanche.
He settled Trump’s self-rewarding IRS claim.
He’s leading prosecutions of Trump’s perceived “enemies.”
He’s at the center of the Epstein coverup to protect Trump, not survivors.
Corrupt.

Private equity executive David Gentile served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence after being convicted of a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded mostly mom and pop investors (with some losing their retirement savings), thanks to Trump granting him clemency.
An investigation into his commutation found Gentile discussed paying at least $2.5 million to people or companies that could help facilitate his clemency, including to a retired NYC priest with close ties to Trump.
The Trump administration just killed that investigation.

I spent the last few days digging through the $9.2 Billion bankruptcy filings for Steward Health Care and the corporate extraction mechanics are insane
“Strip the real estate, force the operating business to pay insane rent to lease back their own buildings, and walk away with the cash…”
Private equity strikes again!
The Steward Health Care bankruptcy

Emoluments Clause @Emolclause
#BREAKING: Hayes: “Acting AG Todd Blanche told Congress not to worry about the $1.8 billion slush fund for insurrectionists…The DOJ then told the court the same thing—don’t worry, it’s moot, it’s dropped, and then last week, the judge said okay, fine, put it in writing. She ordered Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and an associate AG to all sign ‘a declaration under the penalty of perjury, they will not take any action to create or operate the anti-weaponization fund and that the anti-weaponization fund will not proceed in any manner or under any name.’ Well, today was the deadline for that and guess what? They came back to the court and they said no, we’re NOT doing it. We’re NOT filing any declaration to officially kill the fund, which probably means the slush fund is NOT dead.”

ESSAY THE STRATEGIST

Jeffrey Epstein was directing Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation defense through Steve Bannon.

This was September 30 2018. The Senate judiciary committee hearing had concluded 2 days earlier. Christine Blasey Ford had testified. The FBI investigation had been ordered. The confirmation vote was days away.

Epstein sent this.

“tell burke they should make sure they ask ford about her medications, what type and for how long. my guess is that katz won’t let her answer”

Bill Burck was Kavanaugh’s personal attorney. Rachel Katz was Christine Blasey Ford’s attorney. Epstein knew both names. He knew the procedural dynamics. He was feeding cross examination strategy to Bannon to relay directly to the defence team.

In the same exchange Epstein had already sent Bannon research links on medications that cause memory loss and academic papers on false memories in social anxiety disorder.

A convicted sex offender. Directing the confirmation strategy of a Supreme Court Justice. Through the former Chief Strategist of the White House.

Source: DOJ Epstein Files Transparency Act release. Jmail iMessage Archive. steve-bannon thread. Message 1220. September 30 2018.

ESSAY Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm

My wife and I own Forest Park Pharmacy, and we don’t accept insurance. None of it. That decision is exactly why we could fix what happened to a patient today.

A family came in wanting to transfer their kid’s antibiotic to us. The child had already STARTED the course. Then, mid-treatment, the insurance company decided the last 14 tablets suddenly needed a “prior authorization” before the other pharmacy could hand them over. A sick kid, halfway through an antibiotic, and the answer was “please hold.”

The drug is linezolid. It’s a generic. It’s been generic for over a decade. It treats serious gram-positive infections — the kind you do NOT want to stop antibiotics in the middle of, because an interrupted course is how you breed resistant bugs and end up right back where you started.

So why the hold-up on a cheap, common generic? Follow the fake math.

Insurance and the PBMs behind them price drugs off a number called AWP — “Average Wholesale Price.” People in my industry have another name for it: “Ain’t What’s Paid.” It’s a benchmark number, not a real-world cost. On paper, the AWP for just those last 14 tablets is about $2,500.

My cash price for the same 14 tablets? $18.

Read that again. The system that’s supposedly “protecting” this family from cost is the same system that inflated an $18 medication into a $2,500 line item, then slapped a prior auth on it to “review the expense” THEY invented. They manufactured the problem, then billed everyone for the privilege of solving it — and made a sick kid wait while they did it.

This is the whole game. When a drug is priced honestly, there’s nothing to “manage.” When it’s priced off a fantasy benchmark, you get spread pricing, PA paperwork, pharmacy phone trees, and delayed treatment — all dressed up as cost control.

Here’s the part nobody tells you: roughly 90% of prescriptions are low-cost generics. For the vast majority of what people pick up every day, running it through insurance does two things — raises the real cost and risks delaying your care. That’s it. That’s the value-add.

That’s why we fired the insurance companies. No middleman deciding your kid can’t finish their antibiotics on schedule. No fake prices. Just the real number, on the shelf, today.

The medication was always cheap. The insurance was the expensive part.
https://x.com/ForestParkPharm/status/2069260284381089956

https://www.costplusdrugs.com/ run our price checker.
You’ll probably be shocked at what your “expensive” prescription actually costs.

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ECP NetHappenings Some thoughts on the 4th of July 2026

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Some Thoughts This 4th of July

Comedian Lord Buckley: A Chronology
Compiled by EARL RIVERS
April 5, 1906 Richard Myrle Buckley born, weight: 14 lbs, in Tuolumne, California, son of William Buckley, originally of Manchester, England, and Annie Laurie Bone Buckley, whose parents had immigrated to Seatle from Cornwall, England.
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/resources2lordbuckley.html

LORD BUCKLEY IN CONCERT
https://archive.org/details/lp_lord-buckley-in-concert_lord-buckley

DANCER  Mary Wigman is the Mother of Modern Dance.
Ruth St. Denis interview with Mary Wigman
by Ruth St. Denis 1880-1968
https://archive.org/details/csmha_000593
Publication date 1958-04-17 Topics california revealed, Dance teachers, Modern dance–History–20th century, Education, St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968
Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968) was a pioneer of modern dance. She and her husband Ted Shawn founded the Denishawn dance company in Los Angeles in 1915.
Pease visit the California Revealed website to see the most complete and up-to-date version of this object: https://californiarevealed.org/node/516701.

1990 INTERNET KNOWLEDGE WANTS TO BE FREE
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
https://archive.org/

Look through Audio Books Folksoundomy: Audio Books
Books read by narrators for enjoyment while walking or driving around, providing additional experience with the quality of the voice recording.
https://archive.org/details/folksoundomy_audiobooks

American Establishment
The Pilgrims Society: A study of the Anglo- American Establishment;
Rockefeller, Mellon, Luce, Rothschild, Cecil, Windsor, the Federal Reserve, WWII, the CIA, and So Much More
By: Joël van der Reijden | Date: July 17, 2008 | Updated: Feb. 22, 2024
Apart from a 1902-1903 list, this author is the first to publish about two dozen Pilgrims Society membership photocopies, ranging from 1907 to 2014.
https://archive.is/www.isgp-studies.com

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
–Chinese Proverb

4TH OF JULY FREEDOM QUOTES

BTC100% LEARN TO BE SOVERIGN WITH BITCOIN

“[The aim of the international bankers was] nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.”

Who Really Won The Iran War? (It Wasn’t The USA)

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside of the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.
— Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona)

“I will never be silenced until these people are brought to justice.”
Virginia Giuffre, in the memoir published after her death. She said it started at Mar-a-Lago, where Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her. She wanted everyone involved. Starting with Maxwell.

The most important political office is that of private citizen.
— Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) US Supreme Court Justice

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
— Frederick Douglass [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), Escaped slave, abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era

A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister….For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom.
— Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: Lecture, 13 February 2001

Reminder. Elon told us he bought the election for Trump.

“Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.
Such ingratitude”
— Elon Musk ** @elonmusk

 

Elon Musk gave $1 million to Donald Trump voters. California lawmakers want to ban that

Elon was literally sued BY PENNSYLVANIA for not paying Trump voters he promised to pay.

Georgia says Elon Musk’s America PAC violated election law

Wisconsin lawsuit seeks to ban Musk from offering cash payments to voters
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign filed a lawsuit seeking to prohibit billionaire Elon Musk from offering cash to voters in the state, saying that his offering $1 million checks to three voters and $100 to petition signers before the state’s spring 2025 election violated vote bribery and lottery laws.

PAY TO PLAY Allegations Against Elon Musk, America PAC for Failure to Pay PA Voters Move Forward, Judge Rules
“We are looking forward to moving ahead with this case on behalf of individuals who signed petitions, and recruited others to sign the petitions, but then didn’t get paid the amounts promised,” said Shannon Liss-Riordan, of Lichten & Liss-Riordan in Boston, who is representing the plaintiffs.

Elon Musk-founded PAC reprimanded by Georgia State Election Board for sending pre-filled absentee ballot applications in 2024
Counties that flagged the issue and were mentioned in the case included Chattooga, Cherokee, Coweta, Floyd and Whitfield.

We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth… For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.
–Patrick Henry (1736-1799) US Founding Father. Source: “The War Inevitable” speech to the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women;
when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.
–Judge Learned Hand (1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeal

ECP NetHappenings 4th of July Our National Anthem 2025

ECP NetHappenings May The 4th Be With You

Bitcoin Is True Freedom Happy 4th of July

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