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Judgment in Trump’s New York fraud case stands at $502 million ahead of inauguration
Trump orders CDC, FDA, and other health agencies to cease all public communications.
Trump appoints the truly unqualified.
@JuddLegum
1. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT “WOKE”
Trump just repealed an executive order that established basic non-discrimination requirements for federal contractors that was signed by Lyndon Johnson and has been in place for 60 years
It survived Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II. And even Trump’s first term.
And now it is gone
FACTS:
Executive Order 11246 does not require quotas
It does not require “reverse discrimination”
It requires government contractors to have a plan to reach out to women and other protected groups and collect data about their workforce
It has been an extraordinarily effective program. Prior to 11246 there were very few women or minorities working for government contractors. Now, that is not the case.
What will the impact of repeal be?
We may never know since we’ll stop collecting data.
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@doc_gero “Affinity groups” is such Orwellian f**king doublespeak. These were exclusionary race and sex segregated groups allowed to meet on official time & on the government dime.
Aside from the obvious illegality from a plain-language civil rights law perspective, the idea that these groups furthered “inclusivity” in the workplace, or even a basic modicum of organizational functionality is f**king absurd.
And the historical precedent for what’s going on now with the left’s precious DEI isn’t the 1930s, its the 1950s when the preference cascade against that psycho drunk Joe McCarthy’s “red scare” bullshit got exposed with the McCarthy-Army hearings of 1954.
Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org)@froomkin
Every article written about Trump’s blitzkrieg against DEI should have at least a short section explaining in the institution’s own voice why diversity is valuable. Not doing that is journalistic malpractice. And I haven’t seen anyone do it.
David Sirota @davidsirota
It would be great if liberals internalize the trauma they are feeling from Trump’s rampage & respond by finally – belatedly – realizing it’s important to create a Democratic Party that rejects neoliberals & connects with the working class. But I suspect that will not happen.
Wendy Siegelman @WendySiegelman
Trump’s 1st foreign leader call was w/Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Reminder Trump’s first 2017 foreign visit was to Saudi Arabia – and Saudi’s have paid Trump for golf and real estate deals and Kushner manages over $2billion in Saudi investments.
Days before the ceasefire, Jared Kushner DOUBLED his stake in an Israeli firm invested in illegal settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights.
Now, Trump is interested in “rebuilding” Gaza — “A phenomenal location. Right on the sea. The best weather.”
The bottom 50% of households hold just 2.4% of U.S. wealth.
The top 1% control 42% of the wealth.
JPMorgan Chase for years understated the risk it posed to the financial system & kept less capital in reserve than required by Fed & international rules, allowing it to rake in billions of dollars in added revenues, a whistleblower alleges. https://www.icij.org/news/2025/01/whistleblower-accuses-jpmorgan-chase-of-violating-cash-reserve-rules-meant-to-protect-the-financial-system/
Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, sentenced to life in prison for money
laundering, narcotics trafficking, and computer hacking.
Trump keeps ranting about Mexico/Canada/China fentanyl, but just pardoned a notorious narcotics trafficker.
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/donald-trump-pardons-silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-010206263.html
Read the book American Kingpin
Ross Ulbricht created a darkweb site to sell drugs, illegal weapons, stolen identities, child pornography, etc.
He profited from the harms, laundered money, & paid $730k to have 5 people murdered.
Profiting off the massive harms (overdoses, murders) enabled by his site isn’t the same as other “e-commerce platforms”. How many overdoses, murders, & child exploitations did Ross Ulbricht profit from?
How many people would be alive today if not for the Silk Road?
Whether that number is in the dozens, hundreds, or thousands it’s hard to understand the moral justification for pardoning him. When Ross Ulbricht was arrested they got all of his stored chats off his laptop. He was definitely the DPR of Silk Road. That’s why a jury found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest police union in the country, just released a statement rescinding their endorsement of President Trump due to his pardoning of Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Largest Police Union Turns on Trump Over J6 Pardons, Calling it a ‘Threat to Law and Order’.
Trump says:
- $100 billion AI initiative called — wait for it — “Stargate”
- L.A. fires make it much easier to get everything GOP wants — just refuse money unless Democrats capitulate on everything.
- [U.S. government fascist social media!] he’d be OK with Musk or Ellison owning half of TikTok and the U.S. government the other half.
[Adolf Trump Says]
– DOJ freezes all civil rights cases. Building a better Reich.
– Trump revokes executive order by President Lyndon Johnson from 1965 to promote equal opportunities for all.
– Report: Trump may invite Jan 6 convicts to White House.
– NASA sends order demanding that employees snitch on any employees using “coded” DEI language — warns of consequences if they don’t turn them in.
– Trump will impose 10% tariff on China on Feb 1
– Trump orders CDC, FDA, and other health agencies to cease all public communications.
– Trump says he’d be OK with Musk or Ellison owning half of TikTok and the U.S. government the other half – he didn’t say what his cut of the deal would be.
– Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC Trump has ordered the National Institutes of Health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.
“The impact of [Trump’s] collective executive orders appears devastating,” one senior NIH employee says.
Watch and the drugs are working ”
Elon is flying / glitching … Keta is meeeeening!
Anon – Leaked memo from US House Budget Committee Republicans reveals Trump tax handouts to the wealthy estimated at $1.2 Trillion, includes:
WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/budget_optionspdf.pdf
-Repeal 15% corporate profit minimum tax
-Elimination of estate tax for millionaires
-Lowers corporate tax rate to 15%
-Reinstate corporate tax loopholes
The memo also advocates for stripping away $80 billion from the IRS. They also want to tax hospitals and eliminate the charitable deduction for donations to hospitals. The memo also proposes a $1.9 TRILLION tariff on all imports.
To pay for the tax breaks for the wealthy, the memo proposes $2.2 trillion in tax hikes for middle and lower income families.
Includes:
– Repeal green energy tax credits
– Eliminate mortgage interest deduction
– Raise taxes on single parents and students
– Eliminate credit for child care
The memo is also targeting vulnerable groups and individuals, especially the elderly, disabled, and impoverished families, it takes aim at the following:
-Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
-Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
-Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Healthcare services for millions are also at risk, the memo targets weakening or scrapping the following:
-The Affordable Care Act
-Medicaid
-Nursing home staff
-Medicare
Consumer protections are also on the chopping block. This means it’ll be easier for corporations to scam and steal from USians. The memo cuts the following:
-Securities & Exchange Commission
-Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
-Office of Financial Research
-Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac
The memo also reverses all Climate Change protections and replaces it with items that will damage the climate even further. Again targeting national parks, and weather services, while expanding coal and offshore drilling.
If Congress approves this docket, we’re screwed. That includes nearly all MAGAts, too.
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EFF @EFF
VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/victory-federal-court-finally-rules-backdoor-searches-702-data-unconstitutional
Fascist Bezos at work — Washington Post associate editor, with paper for 48 years, condemns its equating Trump and Biden pardons
PBS did the same thing. The Post is doing Bezos’ fascist bidding,
and PBS is desperate not to lose their funding.
@_whitneywebb
Elon Musk was subpoenaed (along with Tom Pritzker and Google co-founders Brin and Page) as part of the Epstein-JP Morgan case in the US Virgin Islands, meaning the USVI court obtained information during discovery suggesting Elon was connected in some significant way to Epstein’s relationship with that bank. JP Morgan paid millions to settle and keep the case from going to court.
Will the information the USVI obtained on the JPM-Epstein link to Musk, Brin, Page and Pritzker ever be made public? It should be.
Jason Kint @jason_kint
Woah. Sheryl Sandberg, former COO of Facebook, just sanctioned by Delaware judge for deleting emails ahead of trial this spring. This is the state pension shareholder case alleging the company overpaid the FTC and SEC in $5B+ settlements in order to protect Zuckerberg. /1
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1881813961508827451.html
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US court grants IRS request to probe clients of offshore finance giant
Trident Trust was at the center of ICIJ’s Pandora Papers investigation exposing the offshore holdings of some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people. By Spencer Woodman
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into possible tax violations by clients of a prominent offshore services provider that operates across many of the world’s notorious tax havens.
On Dec. 23, 2024, a federal judge approved the IRS’s request to demand records about U.S. taxpayers from a Manhattan-based affiliate of the Trident Trust Group as well as records from international banks related to the firm’s global activities. Similar IRS requests are pending in two other U.S. states, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Trident Trust was at the center of ICIJ’s #PandoraPapers exposing the offshore holdings of some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people. Now, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service is investigating clients of the offshore services provider.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/us-court-grants-irs-request-to-probe-clients-of-offshore-finance-giant/
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IT’S HAPPENING!!!!
LET’S F*CKING GOOO
Acting Chairman Mark T. Uyeda launched a crypto task force dedicated to developing a comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for crypto assets. Commissioner Hester Peirce will lead the task force.
Bitcoin gains as US SEC gives crypto its first policy win
‘It’s Going To Happen’—Bitcoin Price Braces For Huge Trump Earthquake
Bitcoin Rises After SEC Says It Will Launch a Crypto ‘Task Force’
12 states have now introduced Strategic Bitcoin Reserve legislation!
Alabama
Arizona
Florida
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Texas
Utah
Wyoming
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Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb
The “blackpill” smear is the new “conspiracy theorist” smear for when someone wants to dismiss inconvenient facts without engaging with them.
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Forget Spain, here’s where to move to cut your tax bill – and receive a warm welcome
SHITCOINS
So, why did $TRUMP choose to start a shitcoin and why on Solana?
Shall we follow the ‘MoNeY’ to find out if there are any conflicts of interest and misaligned incentives?
@Princey21M Jan 19 9 min read
So, why did $TRUMP choose to start a shitcoin and why on Solana?
Shall we follow the ‘MoNeY’ to find out if there are any conflicts of interest and misaligned incentives?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1880932630377763186.html
SCAAAAAM ALERT Rothschild.eth
Here comes the 1st Call ! Aped $JUNIOR ! Donald Trump Jr.
$JUNIOR on Solana just went live !
TruthLabs @BoringSleuth
https://x.com/BoringSleuth/status/1882072414672035849
After the ETH ICO, the Ethereum Foundation would become involved in the theft of Half a Billion Dollars from GateCoin in 2016. This was prior to the infamous “The Dao” exploit, which faulty contract was setup by The My Ether Wallet Developer wallet.
Their Foundations began corrupted as The Ethereum Foundation and the My Ether Wallet Devs BTC wallets were originally funded from the same seized Silk Road address’ of Ross Ulbricht prior to the ETH ICO.
Proof of the Ethereum Foundations involvement in the Gatecoin Hack in 2016, prior to the DAO exploit
Below is a thread showing transactional evidence linking the Ethereum Team to the 185K Ether stolen from Gatecoin, now worth over $460M today.
https://x.com/BoringSleuth/status/1747666356437475823
thread https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1747666356437475823.html
Daniel Prince @Princey21M
https://x.com/Princey21M/status/1880932632499732551
THREAD !
So, why did $TRUMP choose to start a shitcoin and why on Solana?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1880932630377763186.html
Wait, it was shitcoining frauds all along?
Always has been.
Shall we follow the ‘MoNeY’ to find out if there are any conflicts of interest and misaligned incentives?
THREAD Who is David Sacks and why was he chosen to be the CrYptO Czar for Trump’s administration? Musk and Sacks are connected through Paypal.
Sacks was COO whilst Musk was CEO. Nicely sitting atop the tree of the Paypal Mafia. So Sacks is now directly tied to dozens of companies running on the Solana BlOcKcHaIn AND the network itself!?
And is advising the President on CrYptO as his Czar?
$Trump
James Lavish @jameslavish
Good morning.
I live in Las Vegas, but I never go to the casino. I also own Bitcoin and no other cryptocurrencies. There’s a lesson in there.
Have a great day.
Unlike Reagan, Kennedy, and previous Presidents, 
UnitedHealth has overcharged some cancer patients for medicine by over 1,000%.
