Bitcoin and Crypto CEOs Testify before Congress Boomers

Crypto CEOs testify before lawmakers on digital assets

So, you can see and hear for yourself what the Boomers know.
They never built a computer, never learned to code, never learned HTML or any other language, never got off AOL (1990), no idea how to implement security or prevent a virus and don’t give a damn, never listened to  Hackers and Security Experts Warn Senate Panel October 7, 1997, never built a website, never understood the hubs and spokes of how the internet works, don’t comprehend Web 1, 2, or 3, never studied a god damn thing about any of this in their entire lives !!! but these total fuckers are in charge of regulating electronic energy using digital finance technologies and their markets using 200 year old tools . Yeah that’s right! It’s a total nightmare!

OLD UNSKILLED INCOMPETENT BOOMERS do not understand that “money” is information and that a cell phone ( even if you are poor you can get a phone service for fee) can call someone – go to the internet – click to order whatever, which means you are currently sending and getting information for free electronically.

MONEY IS INFORMATION
It’s NOT like you ignorant fools weren’t told about this in the 60’s.

1967 Buckminster Fuller predicted Bitcoin and new wealth.
“I’ll talk about something that would be one of the realizations by 2018 a realistic—scientific accounting system—of what is wealth. Wealth isn’t the gold of pirates—wealth is energy” 1967.

 

Bitcoin is electronic information built on internet rails sent for free to anyone, anywhere in the world.

Hey Congress how are you going to regulate that without pushing the smartest people in the U.S. out of the country where they can live without your ignorant bullshit destroying them.

2008 Satoshi White Paper
I bet they still haven’t read this either.

2009 Satoshi’s exit is the greatest exit of a creator in the modern history !!!

Oh Yes Congress 2000 – 2019

Protect Americans much?

The Rug Pulls from underneath the American tax payer has been endless all the way back to the beginning and all the way up until now. There is nothing to regulate the Federal Reserve. The American public has no understanding about who they are.

Ignorant Boomers are going to ruin America’s last chance to give the next generations the opportunity to generate life changing wealth all to make sure that they can protect the last century lying scum Bank Cartels! and the richest .01% that own 99% of the world’s wealth.

Quietly, the Fed Releases the Names of Banks that Got Billions in Emergency Repo Loans in 2019
Congress isn’t talking about how the bankers are able to defraud the tax payer and continue to allow it and nobody ever goes to jail – ever. . . .

PUT THEM IN JAIL

WE NEED THE YOUNG BLOODS FOR ENERGY, STRENGTH, IDEAS, AND ENTHUSIASM.

  • WE NEED TO ABOLISH THE SENATE.
    READ THE TREASON OF THE SENATE

The Treason of the Senate was a series of articles in Cosmopolitan magazine by David Graham Phillips, published in 1906.

The Aldrich machine controls the legislature, the election boards, the courts — the entire machinery of the “republican form of government.”

Nelson Aldrich tried to get rid of it to pass an anti-poll tax bill in 1891. 

In the United States, and indeed in France, political power was guaranteed by financial incentives and the appointment of suitable candidates, in other words through bribery and corruption. Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island was chosen by the secret elite to be the voice of “sound economics” in the Senate. A wealthy businessman and father-in-law of J.D. Rockefeller Jr., Aldrich was known as “Morgan’s floor broker in the Senate.” Shameless in his excesses, he used public office to feather his own very large nest.

The Meeting at Jekyll Island November 20, 1910–November 30, 1910
A secret gathering at a secluded island off the coast of Georgia in 1910 laid the foundations for the Federal Reserve System. From the outset they insisted on secrecy, operated in secret and ensured that their influence was airbrushed from history. They believed that white men of Anglo-Saxon descent rightly sat at the top of the racial hierarchy. Ruskin advocated that control of the state should be placed in the hands of a small ruling class. Social order was to be built upon the authority of superiors, imposing upon their inferiors an absolute, unquestioning obedience. He was repelled by the notion of leveling between the classes and by the disintegration of the “rightful” authority of the ruling class.
In November 1910, five bankers representing Morgan, Rockefeller and Kuhn Loeb interests, met in total secrecy with Senator Aldrich and the Assistant Secretary to the U.S. Treasury on Jekyll Island, an exclusive playground of the mega-rich off the coast of Georgia. Of the seven conspirators, five, Senator Aldrich, Henry Davison, Benjamin Strong, Frank Vanderlip and Paul Warburg, were members of The Pilgrims. The proposed “Federal Reserve System” was to be owned entirely by private banks, though its name implied that it was a government institution. Individuals from the American banking dynasties, including Morgan, Warburg, Schiff and Rockefeller, would hold the shares. Political control moved hand in glove with the Money-Power. MORE

The Federal Reserve System constructed on Jekyll Island had powers that King Midas could never have contemplated.
The objective was to establish a franchise to create money out of nothing for the purpose of lending, get the taxpayer to pick up any losses, and convince Congress that the aim was to protect the public.

Capitalism does not require democracy. Or even benefit from it. Capitalism as a system may well work best in the absence of democracy.

RICH AS HELL – the financial curriculum you wished you had been given

FIND OUT WHY WE ARE IN THE DARK ABOUT MONEY

How the 1% of great American and European fortunes were actually built on the ugly immoral “China” (opium) drug and slave trades, not by the “industrious, moral” behavior propagated by myth makers.

There is no evidence that a K12 financial literacy education leads to household well-being or improved behavior from citizens, government or banks.

This curriculum expands your experience of financial literacy by providing exclusive information and links to first historic person resources, videos, pictures, and original research. We have created content with 6 archetypes of learners in mind: K12 elementary, teens, parents, teachers, academics, and “conspiracy theory” enthusiasts, journalists, and government.

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ENVIRONMENT

Help us remove 30 million pounds of trash by January 1st, 2022.
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MATH

Calculations Suggest It’ll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI

Ethical AI Trained on Reddit Posts Said Genocide Is OK If It Makes People Happy

Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade.The US government is starting a generation-long battle against the threat next-generation computers pose to encryption.

California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash
If everything had gone according to plan, California would have approved new guidelines this month for math education in public schools. But ever since a draft was opened for public comment in February, the recommendations have set off a fierce debate over not only how to teach math, but also how to solve a problem more intractable than Fermat’s last theorem: closing the racial and socioeconomic disparities in achievement that persist at every level of math education.
California guidelines, which are not binding, could overhaul the way many school districts approach math instruction. The draft rejected the idea of naturally gifted children, recommended against shifting certain students into accelerated courses in middle school and tried to promote high-level math courses that could serve as alternatives to calculus, like data science or statistics. The draft also suggested that math should not be colorblind and that teachers could use lessons to explore social justice — for example, by looking out for gender stereotypes in word problems, or applying math concepts to topics like immigration or inequality.

LOOK at what our “American Leaders” are doing

What Schools have any American Presidents built for the citizens of the United States lately? CAUSE THEY DON’T INVEST IN BITCOIN!

El Salvador will use a “few million” of its bitcoin profits to build 20 schools, President Nayib Bukele said Tuesday.
This Dictator President is acting more like a George Washington of El Salvador than anyone in America is acting in The best interest of American Citizens.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/el-salvador-president-nayib-bukele-170228557.html
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/el-salvador-bitcoin-schools-president-nayib-bukele-profits-build-2021-11

We’ve got this Nobel Prize-winning economist … what could possibly go wrong?

Petrodollar System Breaking Down

8-word crypto amendment in Infrastructure Bill an ‘affront to the rule of law’ VOTED ON TODAY

The iconic Bitcoin (BTC) white paper celebrates thirteen years of financial disruption after being first published on Oct. 31, 2008, by an anonymous person or entity named Satoshi Nakamoto. While Bitcoin was initially perceived as a threat by traditional financial institutions, thirteen years of community support and a growing user base have made Bitcoin one of the most profitable investments for the internet age

Crypto Comprehension Study: 98% of People Don’t Grasp Basics of Bitcoin, Stablecoins or NFTs

SEC Delays Decision on Valkyrie Bitcoin ETF Until Next Year. Who cares, Dumb money goes into ETFs

We have only just begun to scratch the surface of the full potential of blockchain.

Survey finds lower-paid workers are quitting jobs thanks to crypto profits
Almost two-thirds of respondents who quit their jobs after making life-changing gains from crypto had a total income of less than $50,000.

U.S. Congressmen Reps. Darren Soto and Tom Emmer just sent the SEC a letter advocating for the trading of a spot #Bitcoin ETF

Coinme is the first state-licensed bitcoin ATM company in the U.S. The company also expanded to include digital wallet and private client services.

Federal Reserve to Taper Money Printing That Fueled Bitcoin Bets.
$120 billion of monthly bond purchases has provided a tailwind for bitcoin as investors see the cryptocurrency as a hedge against dollar.

JPMorgan renews prediction that bitcoin could hit $146,000 – and says it’s acting more like digital gold than ever. The bank says bitcoin is increasingly looking like a digital alternative to gold in the eyes of investors. It said cryptos are “are an emerging asset. JPMorgan renews prediction that bitcoin could hit $146,000 – and says it’s acting more like digital gold than ever.

Coinbase Users Can Borrow $1 Million In Cash Using Bitcoin As Collateral Along With Some Other New Features

Kleiman v. Wright: Bitcoin’s Trial of the Century Kicks Off in Miami –
Wright, an Australian computer scientist and early cryptocurrency pioneer,has been claiming to be the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin since 2016. Cut to the chase, Wright is a FRAUD.

POLITICAL FAILURE

Trader University
A New Plan To Seize Your Bank Account
How The US Government Can Destroy Bitcoin

Facebook’s metaverse will still track your every move

“Moderate” just means serves the Republican Party and corporate power.
Cancel Student Debt with a stroke of a pen – Biden doesn’t bother!

Chomsky: Build Back Better Fiasco Exposes How Both Parties Serve Corporate Power

Unchecked Corporate Power Is at the Root of America’s Democracy Crisis

Progressives on Virginia Loss: Corporate Democrats Have Only Themselves to Blame

Virginia Election: Glenn Youngkin, GOP Got Away With It

It’s 2010 all over again. Literally no one learned a fucking thing. Biden, the guy that ran with Obama in order to court the centrists and moderate right? The guy who thinks he can still compromise with republicans after having been vice president during the creation of the ACA? Biden should of gone in on Manchin and started inquiries into his daughters EPI  pen dealings. That and started auditing the states mines to help put pressure on Manchin.

How to Make Your Own EpiPen

Sinema would of been easier to coax into voting for the initial deal Biden wanted.
2 democrats and the 50 Republicans just get a free pass at being assholes. Biden let 2 Senators derail his entire agenda — no wonder Democrats aren’t voting – nothing gets done!
Moderate Dems keep undercutting Progressives. Progressive policies have shown to be extremely popular yet Dem leadership refuses to support progressive candidates.
Abolish the Senate: 52 Senators are opposing the progressive parts of this reconciliation bill.
Fifty of them are Republicans, Two of them – paid off by Koch – are not actually democrates but paid off puppets. That means 95% of Dems are in support of it.Every story that mentions Manchin or Sinema holding up the bill should make a note that 50 Republicans are under Moscow Mitch’s thumb and doing nothing at all.

UNDERGROUND MARKETS

Senate targets foreign-donor loophole
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is introducing legislation barring foreign nationals from financing U.S. referendum campaigns, after Axios revealed federal regulators recently okayed the practice.
Why it matters: Gillibrand’s bill would close what good government advocates call a glaring loophole in federal election laws allowing foreign nationals to bankroll efforts to reshape state and local laws.

FEC lets foreigners finance U.S. ballot fights

NSO Group: Israeli spyware company added to US trade blacklist
NSO Group, which makes the Pegasus spyware, acted against US interests, officials say.

Finding foreign agents: An odd group of congressional bedfellows will introduce a bill Thursday to fully standardize and digitize the process of registering foreign agents — making it far easier for the public to search and enforce the federal database.

The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes
The bots convincingly and effortlessly help hackers break into Coinbase, Amazon, PayPal, and bank accounts.

 

Bitcoin Celebrates 13 Year Anniversary Of The Bitcoin Whitepaper
The iconic Bitcoin (BTC) white paper celebrates thirteen years of financial disruption after being first published on Oct. 31, 2008, by an anonymous person or entity named Satoshi Nakamoto. While Bitcoin was initially perceived as a threat by traditional financial institutions, thirteen years of community support and a growing user base have made Bitcoin one of the most profitable investments for the internet age

THE AGE OF BITCOIN


The iconic #Bitcoin logo was created by an unknown artist 11 years ago this week.

“Bitcoin is complicated and scary. Just like fire, electricity,computers, and every other ground-breaking invention before it.
It is complicated and scary because most people do not understand how it works and why it might be useful.”

“Converting to a Bitcoin standard will cut global energy usage by 75%. More than 51% of the remaining energy output will be used by Bitcoin.” — Max Keiser

Fourstates in the U.S. have the highest Bitcoin hash rate distribution. The dataset shows that many Bitcoin miners are headed to New York, Kentucky, Georgia, and Texas. Hope for New York a.k.a. The Bit Apple

Elon becoming the world’s first trillionaire is the biggest sin of the American Petro Fiat Scheme.

BOOMERS SAVE YOURSELF

If you know about Green Stamps then you can buy Bitcoin!

Half Of Millennials Are Comfortable In Owning Crypto
Specifically, 49% of millennials were okay with crypto investments, 37% of generation X, and 22% of the baby boomer generation. Despite real estate still being a popular choice in general, bitcoin still appeals more to millennials than the housing market. Real estate and equity remain popular choices for older Americans, but there’s no denying the trend of increased crypto investments

Creator of the popular Bitcoin price prediction chart “stock-to-flow” (S2F), PlanB forecasts that bitcoin (BTC) to reach $98,000  this November 2021

Paytm, a digital payments firm and India’s 2nd largest internet company may soon allow the 1.3 billion Indians to use #Bitcoin.

The Philosophy of Bitcoin and How it Could Change the World As We Know it

How do bitcoin transaction fees work!

Samson Mow The #LightningNetwork has a theoretical throughput of 40 million #TPS. That’s the equivalent of 14.4 TB size blocks every 10 min. Lightning enables #Bitcoin to be a planetary scale decentralized medium of exchange. This calculation is based on research on the upper limit of transactions per second a channel can support being 500 tps.

Adam Back @adam3us Nov 4 Replying to @elonmusk
“maybe this scaling analogy helps clarify why blockchains have layers, same way rockets have stages: internet physics.”

SAYLOR SAYS

If you Follow Saylor long enough you’ll be all in on BTC.

What Michael Saylor Says About Bitcoin

The Saylor Series | Episode 1 | The Rise of Man through The Stone and Iron Ages

The Predator-Prey Dynamics Of Bitcoin: Michael Saylor – Bitcoin Magazine

The Saylor Series | Episode 4 | Bitcoin: The First Digital Monetary Energy Network
Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.

Michael Saylor and Robert Breedlove discuss how Bitcoin is Cybernetic Life and dematerializes almost everything: accounting, finance, compliance, banking, security, politics, weapons, war, work, capitalism and property.

This Bitcoin Battle Is Not Going To Be Easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPlAJbCn1VE

Michael Saylor on the What is Money podcast

The Saylor Series | Episode 17 | How Bitcoin Changes Everything

The Saylor Series | Episode 4 | Bitcoin: The First Digital Monetary Energy Network

NFT Money laundering 2021

Ryan Patrick Kirlin @RyanPKirlin NFT people tell me this was a “flashloan.” Meaning, this individual took out a loan to fake someone buying it, bought from himself, then immediately payed the loan. WHO the hell gives out a $532 million loan to an individual? Even for an instant?
@cryptopunksbot
[Punk 9998 bought for 124,457,07 ETH ….]
Needless to say, this punk will never resell again.
Someone now has a $500M asset they can borrow against using it as collateral. Business Empires have been built on shadier foundations in the past … Welcome to the 21st Century! Marvellous isn’t it!?!

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TORY COMMIE TRASH

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwallaNEW: Hugely significant interview with ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele.
He speaks on the record with @haynesdeborah for first time ever about Russian interference in Brexit.
‘Did you ever uncover evidence of hostile operations of Russia against the UK?
‘Yes.’
In US, an entire dept of FBI investigated Russia’s interference. In UK, we now know: ZERO investigation
Steele is utterly damning on UK govt’s failure. Polarisation of Brexit debate led to political decision to ignore. Huge & yet to unfold consequences for national security.

Russia Is Censoring the Internet, With Coercion and Black Boxes
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/technology/russia-internet-censorship-putin.html

The fragility of the internet is a threat to the economy | The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/10/21/commentary/world-commentary/fragile-internet/

PUBLIC HEALTH

Like Venom Coursing Through the Body: Mechanism Driving COVID-19 Mortality Identified

Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist

A Century-Old Idea That Could Revitalize Public Health (It’s… er… public health.)How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall
The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.

Internet Service Providers Collect, Sell Horrifying Amount of Sensitive Data, Government Study Concludes

BITCOIN

The Japanese trustee for the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox said creditors have approved a plan that will eventually lead to the distribution of more than $9 billion in Bitcoin.

Number go up: Bitcoin is a Trojan Horse | Alex Gladstein and Lex Fridman

How To Choose The Right Lightning Network Channels For Your Bitcoin Node

Bitcoin Lightning Network Routing Fees Explained w/ Carsten Otto

U.S. Bitcoin Futures ETF is for stupid dumb money

Just days after launch, the first U.S. Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund
risks becoming too popular for its own good.

Publicly traded corporations should be prohibited from issuing cryptocurrencies by law.

@JACK Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair: Inflation may “last longer than previously expected” #Bitcoin fixes this. Bitcoin is deterministic immunity to fiat debasement, and it’s open to anyone in the world.

Do we want Facebook-based monetary policy?

A government is not a corporation by definition.
A corporation is, itself, a function of the state. Nobody talks about DAOs anymore, but under law that’s an unincorporated association. There’s actually good rules for that, like those around community gardens. A corporation exists by permission of the state. Corporate cryptocurrency can never be permissionless by definition. It is commonly held that the first “corporation” was the Dutch East India Company which issued stock to investors under grant of the king for the purposes of sharing profit. All securities law derives from it. The issuing of a security which, even in 2018, is to issue a share in a venture for the purposes of profit (re: Howey Test) has always been regulated by the government of whatever country in which the people founding the corporation selling shares was based. Bryce “Delta Actual” Weiner @BryceWeiner

Bitcoin’s Netscape Moment is Finally Here

Bitcoin believers have been waiting for their 1994 moment for years. It may have just happened.

“The browser moment has happened in the last year,” says Jesse Walden, an Andreessen Horowitz vet who just raised $120 million to start a second venture fund dedicated to early stage crypto. (Marc Andreessen co-founded Netscape, by the way.)

In a recent conversation we had, Walden made the case that recent events other than just price action—from the NFT explosion to the millions of people playing the metaverse game Axie—means crypto has gone beyond early adopters to the first stage of mainstream use.
For the first time ever citizens in countries with hyperinflation have a lifeboat that not only holds their wealth but increases in value over time. #Bitcoin will be obvious to everyone very soon.
It’s a bearer asset.

Having a slot on the blockchain with a massive network effect and resistance to censorship or mutability, that can be self-custodied and sent anywhere, has value.
Satoshi devised a new way to manufacture digital-native money that requires a tremendous amount of work. Fiat currency systems manufacture free money. There is no real cost for the financial system to create more dollar/euro/yen currency units.Adam Back @adam3us most of the work is to mine new #bitcoin’s. the 6.25 btc is about 98-99% of recent block value, the rest being transaction fees.

The Japanese trustee for the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox said creditors have approved a plan that will eventually lead to the distribution of more than $9 billion in Bitcoin.

EFF

John Gilmore Leaves the EFF Board, Becomes Board Member Emeritus | Electronic Frontier Foundation

John Gilmore Leaves the EFF Board, Becomes Board Member Emeritus

Cindy Cohn </about/staff/cindy-cohn>October 22, 2021
Since he helped found EFF 31 years ago, John Gilmore has provided leadership and guidance on many of the most important digital rights issues we advocate for today. But in recent years, we have not seen eye-to-eye on how to best communicate and work together, and we have been unable to agree on a way forward with Gilmore in a governance role. That is why the EFF Board of Directors has recently made the difficult decision to vote to remove Gilmore from the Board.

We are deeply grateful for the many years Gilmore gave to EFF as a leader and advocate, and the Board has elected him to the role of Board Member Emeritus moving forward. “I am so proud of the impact that EFF has had in retaining and expanding individual rights and freedoms as the world has adapted to major technological changes,” Gilmore said. “My departure will leave a strong board and an even stronger staff who care deeply about these issues.”

John Gilmore co-founded EFF in 1990 alongside John Perry Barlow, Steve Wozniak and Mitch Kapor, and provided significant financial support critical to the organization’s survival and growth over many years. Since then, Gilmore has worked closely with EFF’s staff, board, and lawyers on privacy, free speech, security, encryption, and more.

In the 1990s, Gilmore found the government documents that confirmed the First Amendment problem with the government’s export controls over encryption, and helped initiate the filing of Bernstein v DOJ <https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice>, which resulted in a court ruling that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and the government’s regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional. The decision made it legal in 1999 for web browsers, websites, and software like PGP and Signal to use the encryption of their choice.

Gilmore also led EFF’s effort to design and build the DES Cracker <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker>, which was regarded as a fundamental breakthrough in how we evaluate computer security and the public policies that control its use. At the time, the 1970s Data Encryption Standard (DES) was embedded in ATM machines and banking networks, as well as in popular software around the world. U.S. government officials proclaimed that DES was secure, while secretly being able to wiretap it themselves. The EFF DES Cracker publicly showed that DES was in fact so weak that it could be broken in one week with an investment of less than $350,000. This catalyzed the international creation and adoption of the much stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), now widely used to secure information worldwide.

Among Gilmore’s most important contributions to EFF and to the movement for digital rights has been recruiting key people to the organization, such as former Executive Director Shari Steele, current Executive Director Cindy Cohn, and Senior Staff Attorney and Adams Chair for Internet Rights Lee Tien.

EFF has always valued and appreciated Gilmore’s opinions, even when we disagree. It is no overstatement to say that EFF would not exist without him. We look forward to continuing to benefit from his institutional knowledge and guidance in his new role of Board Member Emeritus.

HACKED

First Finger Prints then Finger vein tech to verify COVID-19 vaccination records
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/22/national/covid-vaccine-app/

Commerce Announces Rule for Selling Hacking Tools to Foreign Governments
A new interim rule takes aim at Russia and China.
By FRANK KONKELOCTOBER 20, 2021 03:34 PM ET
U.S. companies will need to obtain a license from the Commerce Department to sell certain kinds of software—specifically cybersecurity tools that could be used for hacking or surveillance purposes—to foreign governments.

How Hackers Hijacked Thousands of High-Profile YouTube Accounts
https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-bitcoin-scam-account-hijacking-google-phishing/

The fragility of the internet is a threat to the economy
The sheer frequency of the web’s problems shows industries, in aggregate, do not take the issue seriously
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2021/10/21/commentary/world-commentary/fragile-internet/

HS cyber talent system set to go live with ‘around 150 positions’ next month

RETHUGLICANS

Laurence Tribe This week, all 50 Senate Republicans voted against beginning debate on the Freedom to Vote Act. As Marc Elias says, “There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist. And right now, Republicans are the arsonists, lighting the house of democracy on fire.”
We’ve also learned Kevin McCarthy received money from Lev Parnas, the Rudy Giuliani sidekick whose money came through Ukrainian oligarch Firtash and who was convicted by a jury yesterday. And Oleg Deripaska seems to be involved. Hence Moscow Mitch, given Okeg’s Ky aluminum plant.

Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal
More bombshell evidence. Facebook’s failure to police itself—causing destructive, tragic damage—cries out for action. Our ongoing subcommittee hearings, focusing on Big Tech’s devastating harms, will continue Tuesday, aiming for bold legislative steps.

Remind me again of the democratic principle by which states should have equal representation in government, regardless of wild population disparities. Is our government for states, or is it for people?

DUMB WORTHLESS DEMOCRATS STARE INTO THE ABYSS

The current plan appears to be to NOT fight for voting rights and then hope everyone gets mad enough at voter suppression to magically overcome voter suppression, including the laws that are putting vote counting and certifying in the hands of partisans. So the plan is to lose. So many fools think the fight for democracy is in 2022 and 2024.

Will the president’s party pass major legislation before the midterm elections? By Ronald Brownstein
If Democrats fail to act: “It would be seen as the biggest missed opportunity…in a generation…If they don’t take steps now to protect our democracy, the window could shut and there may not be another chance.”

Jared Kushner is reportedly in talks to receive upwards of $2 billion from Saudi Arabia for his private equity firm.

Parents Sue AG Garland for Violating Free Speech Rights with FBI School-Board Memo

Merrick Garland’s Dodges on Investigating Former Presidents – emptywheel

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Maybe the problem with social media is less the business model, the algorithms, or our habits on them. It’s that humans evolved to be connected to relatively small groups — and connecting to massive ones is inevitably going to cause problems.
Understanding human psychology, motivation, and behavior is one of the hacker’s most important tools. #Engineering

Those arrested for Jan. 6 are often contrite. John Eastman is desperate to reframe his memo, facing professional repercussions. Bannon may be criminally charged. Accountability works — when it exists.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/22/accountability-works-where-it-exists/

THREAD What I’ll add here is that our growing fascist movement is based on an endless, unjustified sense of grievance. Trump and his followers have convinced themselves they are *victims* of liberals, who are somehow stealing something the fascists believe is their birthright.

Texas AG Ken Paxton Tells El Paso Crowd an ‘Overthrow’ Put Joe Biden in White House
‘We just want him gone’: Houston paper calls for far-right AG Ken Paxton’s resignation Mr. Paxton, who has been at the center of bribery and corruption accusations and was indicted in 2015 on allegations of securities fraud in a case that has not been resolved.

Nevada Republican Kirk Hartle, who claimed someone stole his late wife’s ballot, is charged with voter fraud.

@waltshaub
If you’re tweeting defenses of politicians who can’t pass voting rights legislation, you’re the one working for the fascists by spreading your vision of citizenship as submission to a party. The rest of us will keep pressuring these weak politicians because we live democracy.

Who’s Listening? Exposing Global Multicorp
Can you save the whistleblower from peril?

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