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FBI Investigates Frequent Traveler’s Business-Class Upgrades
The anti-MAGA coalition coming together—the thing Trump fears most.
Walz Captivates DNC, Trump’s Candidacy Faces Collapse
Tim Walz accepts his nomination with flare as Donald pushes his campaign to the brink. Last night’s acceptance speech made one thing clear: Tim Walz is an impossible candidate for Trump and Vance to campaign against.
Coach Walz as Ted Lasso 🙂
Trump: On abortion, we did a great thing. We got rid of Roe v. Wade. Everyone wanted that
Trump and Vance spend a lot of time pretending they don’t know about Project 2025.
Gov. Walz: “When someone takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”
I wrote a thing: “DNC day three: let’s revisit the times Kamala made Republicans cry” — Senator Harris has a few questions. when Kamala Harris was a Senator from California, she had a thing she specialized in: making Republicans melt down into a big puddle of sad.
as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, she thoroughly humiliated Trumpist fuckwads like Bill Barr and Brett Kavanaugh and Jeff Sessions by refusing to accept any of their mealy-mouthed bullshit for an answer.
VETS HATE TRUMP
Trump forced to retract letter, purporting to come from dozens of GOP describing themselves as retired from military service, after the progressive advocacy group @votevets looked at service records & debunked false claim.
#Xitter investor has ties to Russian oligarchs and OUR defense industry.
VC firm 8VC, which has invested in top U.S. defense contractors, employs 2 kids of sanctioned Russian oligarchs at a time when the U.S. gov is increasingly concerned about the proximity of foreign adversaries to Silicon Valley. 8VC is also an investor in Twitter, along with Palantir.
You can see what’s coming. The Leonard Leo court is a clear and present danger to the US Constitution. Leo judges are Catholic Integralist Holy Warriors, intent on establishing a Christofascist regime ala Franco. So called originalism is pure states rights on steroids.
4th Circuit Revives Consumer Protection TILA Lawsuit Against PNC Bank
Fake Biden Robocalls Cost Wireless Provider $1 Million in FCC Penalties
The calls used AI to spoof Biden’s voice, telling potential voters to stay home during the primaries.
Twitter’s part owner BINANCE is of course a Chinese front whose chief executive just went to prison for galactic-scale money laundering.
Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty last year to charges that he failed to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program. The sentence, handed down in a US federal court in Seattle, is far lighter than the three years prosecutors had argued for. Prior to the sentencing hearing Tuesday, Zhao, who goes by CZ, apologized for mistakes he made as CEO of Binance, the crypto exchange he founded in 2017.
Original funding sources that helped Elon buy Twitter.
Top banks that contributed to the $13 billion in loans:
• Morgan Stanley ($3.5 billion)
• Bank of America, Barclays, and MUFG ($2.7 billion each)
• BNP Paribas ($650M)
• Mizuho ($475M)
• Societe Generale ($275M)
AND THE REST of the Money
Elon Musk (personal funds) $27 billion
Larry Ellison $1 billion
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal $1.89 billion
Qatar Investment Authority $375 million
Binance $500 million $800 million
Sequoia Capital $700 million
VyCapital $400 million
Andreessen Horowitz $13 billion
Disgusting pig Andrew Tate has a minor problem, Now arrested for trafficking minors and money laundering. Andrew Tate might wind up in federal prison thanks to George W. Bush. Under Bush we passed a law that Americans are bound by the US age of consent everywhere on Earth, so Tate doesn’t need to have broken the Romanian age of consent to get convicted. Andrew Tate reportedly “cried like a little bitch” after arrest over child trafficking allegations. There are 35 new victims in Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate’s latest case. This includes two minors, aged 15 and 17. There are a total of 49 victims across all of their cases.
The @PaSenateDems fought during #PAbudget negotiations to ensure funding was available to provide free menstrual products in Pennsylvania’s schools throughout Pennsylvania. Gov. Shapiro signed a final budget that included $3 million for this important program.
A DC appellate court has revived an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.
The suit says that Amazon uses its monopoly powers to illegally set price floors and artificially drive up prices.
Now @DCAttorneyGen’s suit against the corporate giant has new life.
Missing scissors cause 36 flight cancellations in Japan
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/20/missing_scissors_cut_flights_japan/
Japan’s digital minister declares victory against floppy disks
China Classifies Crypto Transactions as Money Laundering in Update to AML Law
The measures, expected to take effect on Tuesday, are part of broader efforts aimed at tightening anti-money laundering laws in China.
Google has to face a class action lawsuit over Chrome’s data collection
AWS CEO Says Most Developers Could Stop Coding Soon As AI Takes Over https://www.businessinsider.com/aws-ceo-developers-stop-coding-ai-takes-over-2024-8
“model collapse” refers to a hypothetical scenario where future AI systems get progressively dumber due to the increase of AI-generated data on the internet.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y
Unique ‘heart-in-a-box’ tech keeps donated organ beating for 9 hrs
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