ECP NetHappenings Newsletter March 25, 2026

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ECP NetHappenings Newsletter March 25, 2026

POLITICS

Emily Gregory is the GOP’s worst nightmare.
She pulled off the Mar-a-Lago upset: just flipped a district Trump won by 9 points!
A Democrat just flipped Trump’s home district.
When asked how she did it, her answer wasn’t strategy.
It was this:
“No one is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves.”
That’s the part people miss.
Not money. Not party backing. Not national attention.
Local people
Trump stinks so bad, he can’t even win his own hometown. Republicans will continue to lose as long as they stick with the pedo.

Trump-endorsed North Carolina state Senate leader loses by 23 votes.

Florida flips 2 seats blue and suddenly DeSantis calls a spring session to redraw the map and try to add 5 more GOP seats before midterms.
“We will crush House Republicans in November if DeSantis tries to gerrymander the Florida congressional map.” — @hakeemjeffries

Florida election records show Donald, Melania, and Barron Trump all voted by mail in the Florida HD-87 special election. This is despite the fact that Trump calls voting by mail “cheating” and is trying to significantly restrict voting by mail in his SAVE America Act.

Fetterman is sleazy af and on the way out. Enough of these pricks who take money for one thing and do another with it.

The pedophilia comes in the racism package.
Not all Trump supporters are rapists. But they all decided that rape wasn’t a deal breaker.
70 million people voted for a rapist, that’s insane.

Republican Chip Roy, the SAVE ACT’s author, assured voters on Fox News it would be easy for women to vote. In private leaked footage provided to CTA, Roy admits his Chief of Staff had to jump through “hoops” and go to the DMV at least twice. This is criminal.
https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/2036428294288011671 video

The House Oversight Committee quietly dumped Epstein’s accountant Richard Kahn and lawyer Darren Indyke‘s deposition videos today when media focus is on Trump’s zigzags on Iran. Epstein’s lawyer Darren Indyke claims that he had no personal ties to trafficker Jeffrey Epstein at all after 30 years of employment but MADE EPSTEIN GODFATHER TO HIS CHILDREN. Epstein’s attorney withdrew $700,000 in cash for him in chunks of $7500 (just enough to not flag suspicious with banks) and he claims it was perfectly normal for “food” etc. 👀
The attorney DARREN INDYKE has NEVER BEEN INVESTIGATED by the FBI.
Why is that?

He doesn’t want to get rid of TSA, he wants to privatize it. You dumb Republicans. That means same problems, less accountability.

Mamdani just cut a $9 million contract that McKinsey has with NYC. And then brags about it publicly. Zohran is cancelling the NYC Department of Social Services’ $9 million contract with McKinsey. Starting in 2022 under Eric Adams the City of New York paid McKinsey $1.6 million to research trash cans.

UBS Hides Credit Suisse’s Dirty Secrets for Decades, Then Wins Approval to Offer Americans Checking Accounts.
“Key Points
•UBS received an important approval, enabling it to offer standard U.S. banking products.
•Recent advisor losses and profitability gaps drove UBS to expand U.S. banking services.
•UBS aims to boost U.S. growth and competitiveness amid tightening Swiss regulations and industry shifts….”
https://www.thestreet.com/markets/ubs-just-got-the-license-to-bank-like-jpmorgan-and-morgan-stanley

GOP Trump & other pedophile billionaires

@lesleyabravanel
More evidence that Donald J(effrey Epstein) Trump is a rotting corpse emerges during his swearing in of Markwayne Jim Bob Jingleheimer Schmidt Mullin.
https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-slathers-makeup-swear-markwayne-mullin-health-rumors/

Pepe Escobar reveals that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pushed Donald Trump to launch a catastrophic war with Iran purely for financial gain.
Kushner is literally taking billions from Saudi Arabia to push for regime change in Iran.

A FOIA Files flashback: Dozens of pages of emails I obtained reveal how FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was cleared by ethics officials to write a chapter in the 922-page Project 2025 manifesto when he was a commissioner

The Rothschild raid just got bigger.
French prosecutors say diplomat Fabrice Aidan transferred UN Security Council briefings to Epstein.
Epstein had access to classified international intelligence.
This is no longer about money. This is about state secrets.
The U.S. Ambassador to France has been banned from contacting any government official in France because he broke a law prohibiting any foreign diplomats from influencing or interfering with French elections. He did this twice. His last name is Kushner. His son’s name is Jared.

Bill Barr is an Opus Dei deep state fixer who covered up Iran-Contra for Reagan & Bush, deep-sixed the Mueller Report, and killed Epstein to cover up for Trump & other pedophile billionaires. Bill Barr should be captured, interrogated & put on trial. Among those standing in the 3-hour TSA security line at George Bush Intercontinental Airport is Former Attorney General Bill Barr. There should be a special line for Bill Barr that never actually goes anywhere.

Epstein’s accountant and lawyer tell Congress they were never interviewed by federal investigators

Trump had business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them — and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain.
http://www.ms.now/news/trump-classified-documents-smith-investigation-business-motive

The MAGA chief of staff Craig Scott Valdez, 36, early Friday in Juneau, for a top Republican official Republican Wasilla state Sen. George Rauscher’s chief of staff in Alaska has been indicted for sex trafficking children. Officials believe there may be at least 12 minors who were victims of his operation. https://alaskapublic.org/news/public-safety/2026-02-20/alaska-legislators-chief-of-staff-arrested-on-child-sex-crime-charges

The Onion is a national treasure:
Markets Surge After Trump Claims He Had Sex With An Angel

ICE AGENTS ARE AT AIRPORTS TO DISTRACT FROM A FAILED WAR THAT WAS STARTED TO DISTRACT FROM THE FACT THAT HE RAPED KIDS WITH HIS GOOD FRIEND EPSTEIN.

Head of CISA, the US’s cybersecurity agency, said they have *1,000* vacancies right now Post-DOGE and post-shutdowns…. that number is striking
This agency protects against attacks on our infrastructure

Former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein on the difference between running a public company and a private partnership. From his conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin from 92W
“In a private partnership, you get wealthy if you work there by your capital count rising. You do not care if you make it all in a 10 year cycle, or make it in 3 years and tread water for the other 7
You can make it evenly or make money in one year and lose money in the next. As long as after the 10 years, you have got it there
In a public company, its about your stock price. Your stock price is a function of your earnings times a multiple. And that multiple is predicated, in part, by the reliability of your earnings.” https://x.com/BoringBiz_/status/2036642361967571132

BITCOIN

$3 TRILLION MORGAN STANLEY’S #BITCOIN ETF LAUNCH ON NYSE IS NOW “IMMINENT.”
$MSBT WILL BE THE FIRST SPOT BTC ETF FROM A MAJOR US BANK
THE WORLD’S LARGEST FINANCIAL GIANTS ARE RACING TO ADOPT BTC

#Bitcoin has no top because fiat has no bottom. All fiat systems ultimately implode, but because the system is GLOBAL, it will take longer than the doomers think. BUT, while the major governments manipulate their currencies, they are providing smart investors a long period to acquire the preeminent, provably scarce, monetary asset at severely discounted prices in FIAT terms. Be smart and own some Bitcoin.

@FTI_Global and @OndoFinance launch tokenized ETFs, enabling 24/7 trading directly from crypto wallets without brokers or market hours. The products mirror Franklin’s money market funds and allow instant swaps via wallets like @MetaMask, with onchain settlement removing traditional T+1 delays.

BNY Mellon CEO Robin Vince says large banks will lead crypto’s next growth phase by linking digital assets to traditional finance.

It is IMPOSSIBLE that the identity of the entities placing these trades can be hidden. The @CFTCcertainly has the ability. The only question is if they have the will…

@dmweisberger
I wonder how long it is going to take the Banks to realize that by incentivizing MOVEMENT of money, that it will, therefore MOVE FASTER??? (current CLARITY language says stablecoin deposits earn nothing, while SPENDING them can earn rewards) Once they do, they will realize that money is going to leave the payment system UNTIL NEEDED and flow to tokenized investments that can be instantly sold when necessary. THAT means the end of fractional reserve banking IS on the horizon, to be replaced by AI enabled, global pools of capital seeking investment returns. Ironically, those Community Banks with real expertise in their local markets will thrive as global investment demand will need that specialized information. BUT, many of todays financial business models will break and new ones will take over.

BTC has been in a bear market since October 5 and is only five months into it. Colin said that this means there is likely further downside since a typical bear market lasts for 12 months. Crypto analyst Celal has predicted that the Bitcoin price could hit a new all-time high (ATH) of $145,000. The analyst also provided a timeline for when the leading crypto could hit this milestone. In an X post, Celal stated that the Bitcoin price will rally to $145,000 between October and November.

Steve Wozniak says he’s “disappointed a lot” by AI and rarely uses it
https://www.techspot.com/news/111806-steve-wozniak-disappointed-lot-ai-rarely-uses.html

DISGUSTING

Only 27% of Americans agree with Trump’s war on Iran, but on TV one expert after another comes on the news to support the war. Turns out most of these experts are from a few think-tanks. And most of these think-tanks get funding from the military industrial complex.

Massive reality check. Tech oligarchs did not suddenly become conservative. Biden tried to regulate Amazon and Meta so they simply switched sides and bought Trump instead. It is not about ideology it is about raw capitalist control over the government.

OLIGARCHS WANT IT ALL
Who is pushing AI? Musk. Bezos. Zuckerberg. Ellison.
What they want is not what working families need.
If you want to understand why extreme wealth concentration is a failure, just look at the oligarchs it produces.
Watching multibillionaires actively try to dismantle the societies that enriched them is the only argument you need against their influence.
First a jury nailed Elon Musk, now a different jury nailed Meta.
Let’s move judges aside and have juries make these kinds of choices.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/jury-reaches-verdict-in-meta-child-safety-trial-in-new-mexico.html

AMERICA’S WEALTH GAP IS NOW THE WORST IN A GENERATION
Top 1% owned just 23% of U.S. wealth in 1990. Today? 32% — and rising 2x FASTER under Trump.
Billionaires feast on tax cuts + deregulation while working families skip meals, sell plasma, and watch homes & groceries vanish. Tariffs hammer the poor hardest.

Ohio has recently become the top destination for Big Tech data centers and AI infrastructure. This the story about how the state owes much of its rapid transformation into the so-called “Silicon Heartland” to a now vast array of public-private partnerships pioneered by the state’s richest man, Leslie Wexner, and his former money manager and fixer, Jeffrey Epstein.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/03/investigative-reports/technate-ohio-new-albany/

The day after a jury convicts Meta of illegally endangering children, Trump puts Mark Zuckerberg on a panel overseeing AI regulation.
Trump to Name MarkZuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Jensen Huang to Tech Panel Group to advise the president on how to regulate artificial intelligence, among other issues. Trump just gave 13 tech billionaires the keys to America’s AI policy. But there’s a HUGE conflict of interest.. Combined market cap of the companies represented: Over $12 trillion. Combined AI spending commitments for 2026 alone: Roughly $700 billion. Zero consumer advocates. Zero labor representatives. Zero independent scientists. Zero ethicists. The people spending $700 billion on AI are now advising the government on how to regulate AI. The people firing hundreds of thousands of workers are now advising on workforce policy.

The AI Streaming Drain
AI-generated “artists” are flooding Spotify, racking up millions of streams, and siphoning revenue from real musicians. This website shows you how much money is being siphoned off from human artists by AI slop on Spotify. Over $2.5 million lost by real people – and that’s just from 50 AI ‘artists’. Slop dilutes royalties. A major reason AI training on copyrighted work should not be considered fair use.
https://sloptracker.org/

BREAKING: 50 billionaire families have already spent over $433 MILLION influencing the 2026 midterms. 80% of the cash is going towards politicians and groups who will protect tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations. Tax the rich.

WALMART’S AI PRICE SYSTEM JUST ACTIVATED — DIGITAL PRICES CAN CHANGE IN SECONDS WHILE YOU SHOP AND A CUSTOMER CAUGHT IT ON CAMERA America’s biggest retailers are quietly replacing paper tags with digital screens. Prices are no longer fixed. They can change in seconds.

Jamie Raskin says DOJ gave the judiciary committee, apparently by MISTAKE, “damning evidence”
– Trump stole classified documents to advance his “business interests” in 2021
– Trump showed a classified map to unnamed passengers on a private plane
– Trump stole documents so sensitive only six people in the entire U.S. government had access to them
– Prosecutors warned that some of the materials posed an “aggravated potential harm to national security”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-classified-documents-business_n_69c33a16e4b081f8eb138606

The SEC’s top enforcement official left abruptly last week after reportedly clashing with agency leaders over her desire to be more aggressive in pursuing fraud and misconduct charges—including in cases involving Trump allies Elon Musk and Justin Sun.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-secs-ex-enforcement-chief-clashed-with-bosses-before-leaving-sources-say-2026-03-23/

ESSAYS

Mark Cuban @mcuban
They are a function of health insurance plans. The insurance companies create plans with deductibles that most people can’t afford.

So to get to the insurance money from their plan, they will loan the patient money to cover their deductible.

That turns the hospital into a sub prime lender. Then the insurer will under pay, late pay and claw back in the contract. Costing the hospital more cash. And costing them in administrative costs even more

Then the insurer will delay approvals and deny care, earning interest on the premiums.

So then the hospitals. Non profit or not, have to compensate for the issue with insurance companies. So they create ridiculous shit like facilities fees, abuse 340b programs , abuse site neutrality and more. And of course non profits don’t pay taxes

And then the biggest provider systems will say they can’t make money on Medicare. Which is a function of them spending like drunken sailors on everything they can. From buildings to consultants.

There are more administrators than doctors and in aggregate they make more.

It makes no sense that hospitals spend so much money on consultants. It’s a waste. It’s like them want them to give the CEO cover , so they can try to buy more hospitals which leads to more pay for the ceo

Break em all up

© Women In World History #archaeohistories
Dorothy Thompson had a gift that made powerful men uneasy: she paid attention when others dismissed…. In 1931, when she interviewed Adolf Hitler, she didn’t walk away dazzled—she walked away alarmed. She described him as oddly unimpressive, almost forgettable. But beneath that, she recognized something far more dangerous: a man who could weaponize grievance, manipulate fear, and turn ordinary frustrations into something explosive.

At a time when many foreign correspondents treated fascism as political theater—or worse, a passing phase—Thompson was already writing with urgency. She had spent years moving through post–World War I Europe, watching instability harden into extremism. She understood something others didn’t yet want to admit: this wasn’t chaos—it was momentum.

From her post in Berlin, she wrote bluntly about the Nazi rise, refusing to sanitize what she was seeing. It didn’t take long for the regime to notice. In 1934, she became one of the first American journalists expelled from Nazi Germany. Not quietly reassigned. Expelled. Labeled a threat.

Back in the United States, she didn’t retreat—she amplified. Her column, On the Record, reached millions. Her voice carried across radios into living rooms. And while much of the world debated whether Hitler could be “managed” or “contained,” Thompson kept saying the part people didn’t want to hear: this would not stay contained.

She warned against appeasement when it was still politically convenient. She spoke with a clarity that made people uncomfortable, because clarity often does. And she did it as a woman in a profession that still expected her to soften, to defer, to step back.

She didn’t. Dorothy Thompson wasn’t just reporting history as it unfolded—she was trying to interrupt it. Trying to force people to see what was already forming in plain sight. And for a time, she stood almost alone in saying it out loud.

The tragedy isn’t that she was wrong. It’s that she was right—and the world hesitated anyway.

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