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Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman
Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think and to grow.
#POLITICS
There has never been a midterm election in a post-insurrection, post-Roe America. No poll is capable of factoring in these seismic shifts in American politics. Ignore the naysayers. Make history. Vote.
Tom Bonier @tbonier
I am including all ballots cast before election day, including mail, early in person, etc.
States w/ substantial early vote reported thus far and where voters of color have increased their vote share over the same point in ’18:
CA, FL, GA, ID, IN, MD, MI, MN, NE, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, PA, VA.
The Roy Cohn Doctrine. Drumpfs mentor. Didn’t work out so well for Roy so here’s hoping Stone gets a similar result.
“Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack” – Roger Stone
The Dirty Trickster
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-dirty-trickster
Stop saying inflation when what you really mean is record-breaking corporate profits and price gouging.
@RepKatiePorter Katie Porter Big Business is raising their prices gouging the public during inflation
Markup (noun): What a corporation charges consumers on top of production costs, to generate profit. Example: The biggest recorded year for markups was 2021.
https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1582802684393816065
@davenewworld_2
America’s largest privately-owned company is Cargill. Their revenue in the latest fiscal year went up from $134.4 billion to $165 billion, while their profits saw a 35% increase compared to the previous year but our politicians ignore this because they’re spineless sacks of shit.
Ask Liz Cheney why Donald Trump is getting a subpoena almost two years after January 6 that there is no time to possibly enforce. And then ask her why her friend Ginni Thomas never got a subpoena or had to testify under oath on television.
“Outright Rejected:’ Senator Chastises OLC Head for Opinions on White House Immunity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/gonzalez_transcript_072407.html
The White House @WhiteHouse
Right now, our Strategic Petroleum Reserve has about 400 million barrels of oil – more than enough for any supply emergency.
The Department of Energy will release another 15 million barrels to help bring gas prices down.
BITCOIN
The #Bitcoin Gang in #Bulgaria is purchasing some beer, candy, and, of course, raw nuts, with decentralised, censorship resistant, lightning fast HARD money!
https://twitter.com/Plamen__Andonov/status/1582688134982406144
Life hack: Normalise buying #Bitcoin EVERY time you get paid.
#Bitcoin is Property.
Willy Woo -A long history of TD9 bullish reversal on monthly candles for the US stock market, since 1900.
i.e. typical timing for exhaustion of a bearish trend.
15 events in 120 years, 13 played out.
It’s happening now. The last event was 2009, the bottom of the world financial crisis.
#Internet🌐 users in 1997: 140 million
#Internet🌐 users in 2007: 3.7 billion
#Bitcoin users today: 140 million
#Bitcoin took 6 months to get 1000 users; 5 years to find 1 million users.
Today, 13.8 years from inception, it has 300m+ users, 4% of the world.
At current growth rates, 1 billion users will be hit in the next 3 years. That’s 12% of the world.
FACT: @Greenpeaceusa a former grassroots organization, took $5M from Ripple’s CEO to spread misinformation about Bitcoin
MYTH: Bitcoin is bad for the environment
REALITY: Bitcoin stabilizes grids, makes solar&wind profitable & is helping slash global methane emissions
Babe, what do you mean did I just “buy” more Bitcoin?
https://twitter.com/__overflow_/status/1583075984622104576
Awesome. This #NFT house sold for $175k over the weekend. 🏡
Holding the NFT gives you ownership of the actual house in South Carolina. The company that made it happen is @Roofstock
and you can view the traits on @opensea
https://twitter.com/Rusty_Bill/status/1582098885933027328
Tesla reveals none of their 10,700 #Bitcoin was sold in Q3 2022.
JUSTICE
卐rump is a Christian nationalist fascist
Republican Party bigotry is a feature not a bug.
Russia is a terrorist state. Pass it on.
NEW: A New York judge has denied Trump’s motion to reassign the NYAG’s lawsuit — and take it from NY Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron. Engoron was the judge who decided all of the pre-suit disputes over discovery, including whether the Trumps had to be deposed. 1/
This ruling leaves Engoron, who is already VERY knowledgeable about the alleged years-long fraud, in place to hear the NYAG’s motion to enjoin the Trump Org. from moving material assets. That hearing is scheduled for 10/31. 2/
And between this ruling, today’s deposition in the E. Jean Carroll case; and a CA court’s holding that yet more John Eastman communications are evidence of Trump’s crimes (and therefore have to be turned over to 1/6 committee), this is another *not good* legal day for Trump. FIN
https://twitter.com/lawofruby/status/1582815968132489217
HELL YES! Fox News’ CEO will be deposed in the billion dollar Dominion defamation lawsuit for pushing election lies. Fox News must be held accountable for their lies.
Brandon Van Grack @BVanGrack
·DOJ’s Task Force KleptoCapture is bringing #sanctions and export control charges at an impressive clip w/ unprecedented int’l cooperation. Charges today involved Italy, Germany, Estonia and Latvia. We’re witnessing a new sanctions enforcement paradigm.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-charges-and-arrests-two-cases-involving-export-violation-schemes
904 CONVICTED REPUBLICAN SEXUAL FELONS
There’s a new class of political criminals at loose in America
They are all proud sex criminals. Pedophilia, rape, sodomy. GOP 2022 values, exemplified. Supremacy, voter suppression, & political violence seem quaint these days. If you respect perverts? Please vote Republican.
https://twitter.com/BombshellDAILY/status/1580385940085755907/photo/1
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE ARRESTED MASTURBATING AT PRE-SCHOOL
Randy Kaufman was arrested on Oct 4th. Kaufman was running for the governing board of the Maricopa County Community College District, but was caught masturbating by the college police. @gop #creep
https://twitter.com/BombshellDAILY/status/1580385940085755907
REACTIONS
Norman Lear @TheNormanLear Oct 18
Today, having recently turned 100, I read Donald Trump’s appalling words about American Jews, and I am nine years old again. The phrase, a horse’s ass, was an everyday expression when I was nine and it occurs to me again now. 3/3
The nation’s first tax on digital advertising was struck down as unconstitutional by a Maryland judge on Monday.
It’s a law that attorneys for Big Tech have contended unfairly targets companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon in a separate federal case against the same law.
Judge Alison Asti of Anne Arundel County Circuit Court said the Maryland law violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on state interference with interstate commerce. She also ruled that it violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibits discrimination against electronic commerce.
The state estimated the tax on digital advertising could raise about $250 million a year to help pay for a sweeping K-12 education measure to expand early childhood education, increase teacher salaries, boost college and career readiness and help struggling schools.
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-maryland-constitutions-annapolis-5c61d7517cba52384eee6ac8a09c4cad
BUSTING UP THE MEDIA OLIGARCHS
The owners of the media hate antitrust enforcement. Busting up mass media conglomerates would ruin everything.
At least 7 board directors have recently resigned from their positions at 5 different corporations in accordance with the Clayton Antitrust Act because they were already sitting on the board of a competitor. This should be bigger news but the media hates antitrust enforcement.
“The Justice Department announced today that seven directors have resigned from corporate board positions in response to concerns by the Antitrust Division that their roles violated the Clayton Act’s prohibition on interlocking directorates.”
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/directors-resign-boards-five-companies-response-justice-department-concerns-about-potentially AND
https://www.wsj.com/articles/corporate-directors-resign-as-u-s-targets-overlaps-at-competing-firms-11666199333
Christopher Steele @Chris_D_Steele
Igor Danchenko’s unmasking and indictment is one of the most disgraceful episodes in US judicial history. Igor, a valuable FBI source on Russia, was thrown under the bus for partisan political gain. Imo the only beneficiaries from Barr and Durham’s actions are Putin and the FSB.
New York Medicaid needs to change its archaic rules for women seeking permanent contraception.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/16/medicaid-change-archaic-rules-tubal-ligation/
Multiple foreign nationals charged in alleged schemes to send military technology to Russia
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/politics/russia-justice-department-foreign-nationals-military-technology/index.html
“One indictment, filed in New York, accuses five Russian nationals and two oil brokers for Venezuela of setting up a network of shell companies to illegally send US military technology to Russia and millions of barrels of Venezuelan oil to Russian and Chinese buyers, avoiding US sanctions.
In a second indictment, in cooperation with Latvian authorities, US officials intercepted a piece of equipment originally manufactured in Connecticut, bound for Russia, that has applications “in nuclear proliferation and defense programs,” according to the Justice Department.”