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Smedley Butler was one of the most decorated Marines in U.S. history.
ECP NetHappenings General Smedley Butler warned us of Terrorist Chiaquita Brands“I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism”
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Viral Discussion of Smedley Butler’s ‘War Is a Racket’ Book and Testimony on the Business Plot Coup Attempt Against FDR
Major General Smedley Butler, a highly decorated U.S. Marine who received two Medals of Honor, and his 1935 book ‘War Is a Racket,’ where he described U.S. military interventions as serving corporate interests in Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, Central America, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and China. They also reference his 1934 congressional testimony alleging a Business Plot by wealthy oligarchs and the American Liberty League to recruit him for a fascist coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt, backed by 500,000 men. The discussion notes the lack of punishment for the plotters and draws historical parallels to contemporary events.
In 1934 this man testified to congress that he was approached to lead a coup and replace FDR. The plan had the backing of America’s wealthiest oligarchs along with the backing of 500k men in order to install a fascist dictatorship here in America to match Europe. It is called the business plot. Many of the wealthiest families (who formed the american liberty league) admired, supported, collaborated or outright funded the nazis. All in response to FDR’s new deal government. A lot of these oligarchs worked with the black legion, which was a branch of the kkk that specifically targeted leftist and union organizers. After speaking with Butler, congress deemed the plan not a matter of if but when the backers deemed it expedient. We did nothing to bring these men in for justice because in this country, if you are rich enough, you are untouchable. It was mistake. It was a mistake to not punish the confederates. It was a mistake not to punish these families that planned a coup against FDR and it was a giant mistake not to punish Trump and all those who funded and made Jan 6 possible. We are living through these mistakes now and it is costing us dearly.
WAR IS A RACKET
Shell made nearly $7 billion in profit in the first three months of 2026—double the previous period. BP’s Q1 profits also doubled to $3.2 billion. While millions feel economic pain from the disruption of the Iran War, oil and gas companies are making massive sums of money.
No equivalent today. The closest thing in the US now is probably Larry Wilkerson, a former Colonel who, really, is just a US military conservative who’s critical of some specific US wars. By contrast, Butler went from Major General to Socialist, completely rebuking US military.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy JUST LIED to the American people saying fuel prices are ” “in a good place” and actually encouraged “all Americans to take a road trip.” Do they think their supporters are stupid?
Tennessee Republicans are now trying to eliminate the requirement to notify voters when their polling place changes during this gerrymandering mess.
Ask yourself one question: If everything is fair and legitimate, why would they need to make it HARDER for voters to know where to vote? Because they know exactly what they’re doing. Chaos and confusion is how they win.
Breaking: A physical library containing all 3.5 million pages of the publicly-released Epstein files—bound and printed in 3,437 volumes opens tomorrow in New York. Follow @RedactedReading and you can get all the details https://trumpsonian.us Brilliant.
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”
Lawyers from top mergers and acquisitions firms provided tips on some of biggest deals of the last decade to an insider trading ring that made tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits, federal prosecutors said.
BY ONE VOTE (101 to 100), Pennsylvania Democrats Passed Bill Blocking Whites-Only Towns With No Support From Republicans: After a “whites-only” organization developed plans to establish a settlement in Pennsylvania, state Democrats put their foot down.
– Never Forget That
211 House Republicans
Voted to Protect Pedophiles
BILL GATES: Most humans will be useless, and “we’ll decide” if we still need you.
THE U.S. IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER — AND THIS IS THE PROOF THEY CAN’T HIDE
Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, is now sitting at roughly ONE-THIRD FULL.
Not a dip.
Not a cycle.
A collapse happening in real time.
• Water levels are down ~170 FEET from full capacity
• A permanent white “bathtub ring” now wraps the entire lake
• Marinas stranded. Boats left sitting in dirt. Entire shorelines gone
• This single system supplies water to millions across the Southwest
And it all depends on one source that’s also breaking:
Colorado River
Now look at what’s happening:
Less snowpack.
Lower inflow.
Same demand.
Even when levels rise… they’re still losing.
This isn’t a bad year.
This is depletion.
The kind that doesn’t reverse overnight.
The kind people ignore until it hits a point it can’t recover from.
At what point does this stop being “temporary”… and become permanent?
📹: TikTok/djenybymyself.fan_0
Samsung family in South Korea pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill. IHT rate is 50%. The family said that “paying taxes is a natural duty of citizens”.
Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro
@character_ai
was presenting their chatbot as a licensed psychiatrist in Pennsylvania and providing users with medical advice, we took action. These bad actors are putting Pennsylvanians at risk — and we’re going to do everything we can to stop them.
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Lesley Abravanel @lesleyabravanel
Trump administration pardons January 6 pedophiles and neo-nazis but now classifies non-existent Antifa peaceniks and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups. So I am now a terrorist, but the Jan 6 insurrectionist child molesters are not. Got it.
Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1
Did anyone else know that there was a letter that was entered into the Congressional Record from a group of Medical Professionals & Physicians which stated that Trump needs to be removed from office immediately because he’s not physically or mentally competent.
https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2052249767271448762
Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury
Someone is insider trading on crude oil shorts using Iran War announcements from the White House…and making a LOT of money. You better bet we’ll be investigating
Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray
Hantavirus is the latest virus outbreak in the news right now. I promise you it won’t be the last. It’s not a question of IF there will be another pandemic, it’s a question of WHEN.
Americans need to realize Trump is razing our public health infrastructure to the ground.
The Epstein files contain… The #EpsteinTunnels. This video is on the department of Justice website. below is the Press release, we will post the unedited version as posted by Justice . gov in the next post.
https://x.com/IAmAnonLegion/status/2051340828111491289
https://silencedidthis.com/?file=Drop4.csv&v=gallery&q=Central+Park
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01244752.mp4
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Bingo.
Bias and discrimination can be proved in court by evidence of a pattern of outcomes, so there’s no reason we shouldn’t look at the Supreme Court’s ‘Republicans-and-fossil-fuel-always-win’ pattern of outcomes.
Here’s what’s wrong with Chief Justice Roberts saying the Supreme Court isn’t political Americans are not misunderstanding what the high court is doing but recognizing a clear pattern in its rulings.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/john-roberts-supreme-court-political-actors-americans
I guess it’s just an amazing coincidence that basically every decision related to politics helps Republicans, and every decision related to regulation helps fossil fuel polluters.
“I never met Jeffrey Epstein.” Leon Black, 2019.
He paid Epstein $158 million for tax advice between 2012 and 2017. After Epstein’s conviction.
With wealth inequality in spotlight, Patty Murray targets tax-dodging trusts over $50 million with new bill
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/03/with-wealth-inequality-in-spotlight-patty-murray-t/
BREAKING: Nebraska becomes first state to enact work requirements for Medicaid recipients. MAGAs claim this will “cut waste, fraud, and abuse.” This is the “Big Beautiful Bill” to cut Medicaid afford giving billionaires $2.1T in tax cuts.
Every study & implementation of work requirements ever done shows it saves no money and instead leads to immense harm and death. The Urban Institute estimates 10M people losing Medicaid by 2028.
This will kill people. The term for this is Structural Eugenics.
Masu Zafi @masuzafi
88 of America’s most profitable companies paid $0 in federal income taxes last year.
On $105 BILLION in profits.
While you and every other working American picked up the tab for roads, schools, defense, and Social Security.
This isn’t “smart tax planning.” This is corruption.
The tax code is deliberately rigged for the powerful. The rest of us get squeezed.
Time to close the loopholes. Make them pay their fair share.
Anna Bower @AnnaBower
EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses.
For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view.
Until now.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/testimony-heard-by-the-trump-grand-jury-in-fulton-county#transcripts
Power to the People ☭
@ProudSocialist
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This is outrageous.
In a new interview, Alan Dershowitz claims Jeffrey Epstein and his inner circle were not pedophiles because they liked 16-year-olds, not 12-year-olds. First off, he’s lying. The youngest victims in the Epstein files were 9 and 11. Second, raping 16-year-olds still makes you a child rapist and a pedophile.
He also claims Epstein did not engage in trafficking despite Epstein’s 2019 arrest for sex trafficking minors and the 3.5 million pages of evidence in the Epstein files documenting the child sex trafficking ring he ran.
So why is Dershowitz lying to defend Epstein and the child rapists? Because Dershowitz himself appears in the Epstein files 137 times, traveled to Epstein Island, was accused of sexual assault, and was Epstein’s longtime lawyer. He is defending the pedophiles because he is one of them. VIDEO https://x.com/ProudSocialist/status/2052399941507563679
In the United States a 16‑year‑old is a minor. Sexual activity between an adult and a 16‑year‑old is classified as statutory sexual abuse, sexual exploitation, or even child sex trafficking, depending on the circumstances. Dershowitz’s framing is not just offensive , it is legally incorrect.
BUSTED!!!! Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sold his $1.8 million property nine days after his confirmation to a lawyer with multiple cases before the Supreme Court. The property had been unsuccessfully listed for sale for two years prior to the sale. Gorsuch did not disclose the buyer’s identity.
MORE #BITCOIN
COINBASE THEY NOW OWN $1,300,000,000 WORTH OF BTC
TOM LEE JUST SAID WE’RE ENTERING A BULL MARKET AND THAT #BITCOIN IS GOING TO $250,000
“WE’RE GOING TO SEE STRONG MOVES THIS YEAR”
TIGHTEN YOUR SEATBELTS
WHITE HOUSE REPORTER JUST CONFIRMED A MARKUP FOR THE #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO CLARITY ACT AS SOON AS TOMORROW
A COMMITTEE VOTE IS EXPECTED NEXT THURSDAY
CLARITY IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING
French prosecutors are summoning Elon Musk to the French capital again—this time to face preliminary criminal charges in a sprawling investigation into his social-media platform, X.
Maryland homeowners will pay an extra $1.6 billion on their electric bills over the next decade to subsidize grid costs to feed data centers, according to a state agency https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/ai-push-to-add-1-6-billion-to-maryland-power-bills-state-says
Thomas Massie reminds everyone that when X initially started revealing account locations, the Official DHS Twitter account of the United States showed it was set up in Israel…
“There should at the very least be an investigation into this.”
-Thomas Massie
Sarah Kellen scheduled Epstein’s massages.
She appears 350 times in his calendars between 2000 and 2008.
She was never charged. She now goes by Sarah Kensington and lives in New York.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s top ally, Susie Wiles, was given the “Woman of Valor Award.”
She is the reason the Epstein files remain hidden.
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Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher
@EileenforCO
We must continue to speak out against injustices — and the so-called Big Beautiful Bill is a big one. Lauren Boebert played a key role in getting it passed which immediately slashed medicaid and other benefits for hundreds of thousands of hardworking Americans, and obstructed access to critical medical procedures. It was an honor to stand next to Protect Our care, patients, and other healthcare advocates last week to bring much needed attention to those who will be left behind with illnesses and poor health as more elements of the BBB take effect.
Right on the California/Nevada border near Primm is this failed power plant. You have all driven by it.
It was funded and backed by Google. Funded by billionaires. It now produces 0 power but will be there forever.
They fund the tech but not the cleanup when it fails.
Epstein told people he worked in intelligence.
His will listed a company called “Southern Trust” in the Virgin Islands.
That company had zero public filings, zero employees on record, and held $600 million.
Rep. Mike Levin
@RepMikeLevin
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You need to know what’s going on right now.
Senate Republicans just introduced a bill that would give more than $60 billion to ICE and Customs & Border Protection — agencies that are already sitting on over $100 billion in unspent funds and have spent months defying court orders and detaining American citizens with no accountability whatsoever.
They are also trying to bypass our efforts in Congress to impose accountability on the agencies.
Let me be clear: this is a blank check for an out-of-control agency operating with ZERO accountability.
If this makes it to the House, I am a hard NO.
The KKK is alive and well in Tennessee. The Sargeant of Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
FUCKING SHAMEFUL!
Nancy Mace
@NancyMace
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May 6
Donald Gresh was found in possession of nearly 1,900 images of toddlers being sexually abused.
He was facing 60 years. Yet he only served one day in jail.
South Carolina let him walk. Not on my watch.
I have introduced the Open Bench Initiative to bring full transparency to South Carolina’s judicial ethics system. South Carolinians have a right to know which judges are handing down sentences like this one and how many times it has happened before.
Hold the line.
Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly
Today, I was back in court, standing up against this Administration’s attempts to silence me, millions of other veterans, and all Americans. Our vets deserve leaders who stand up for their rights, not try to take them away. That’s why I’m not giving them an inch.
Republicans in Ohio have nominated Rodney Creech in a landslide election to represent them in Ohio.
Creech was accused of sexual misconduct with a minor relative.
Republicans enthusiastically voted for an accused pedophile 58-42.
GOP is the party of pedophilia.
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari
As the only woman on the Oversight Committee in Howard Lutnick’s interview yesterday, I found his lies completely appalling—and deeply disrespectful to survivors.
He needs to come back for a real, taped deposition before the full Committee. And he should resign.
Sandi Bachom @sandibachom
May 6
I took this picture of Jeffrey Epstein’s front door when he was
still alive in July 2019. I was in court for his arraignment and bail hearing.
I was in court when his survivors read their victims impact statements after he died
Basically you could not go into this house without knowing what he was doing.
There was 1700 photographs seized by the FBI on the walls of what appeared to be underage girls and famous people.
One young woman had her virginity taken by him. She was instructed by Maxwell she had to say what a great lover he was after.
She looked at walls and she saw pictures of all the famous people.
He showed off his massage tables with sex toys on them to ALL who entered.
My takeaway from these early weeks was we couldn’t go in that house without knowing what he was doing. FBI also confiscated colored massage tables.
What’s taking so long? He was protected in Florida and he was protected here. There were cameras in every room
California’s wealth tax would cost Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang $8 Billion.
His response was simple: “I don’t mind paying taxes.”
“Once a year we get a bill, we pay it, and it’s big. I never once thought about it.
We love this country. That’s our way of giving back.”
Epstein Files reveal that Jeffrey Epstein purchased 330 gallons of sulfuric acid in 2018. sulphuric acid is used to dissolve and dispose of human bodies btw
ABC News @ABC
Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
Maryland homeowners will pay an extra $1.6 billion on their electric bills over the next decade to subsidize grid costs to feed data centers, according to a state agency
Epstein had 21 phone numbers for Donald Trump in his black book.
Trump told reporters in 2019 he “wasn’t a fan” and hadn’t spoken to him in 15 years.
Photos show them together at Mar-a-Lago in 2000.
Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury
Every day, he is breaking the law.
The Supreme Court ruled his tariffs are illegal and now the International Trade Court.
This is not legit trade policy.
This is breaking the law, on the backs of the American people, who are paying for it every single day—while he recklessly messes with our lives and the global economy.