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ECP NetHappenings Authoritarians consolidate power and create chaos
Trump confirms he is prepared to declare a national emergency and use military assets to carry out his mass deportation pledge.
Trump picks Project 2025 co-author as next head of the FCC
@ProjectLincoln
“There are five key areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert and author Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense and intelligence.
And in each of these arenas, the goal is to consolidate power, create chaos — and yes, even death.”
Robert Reich @RBReich
The top 7 individual contributors this election cycle were all GOP megadonors. They include…
-Billionaire nepo baby Timothy Mellon
-Hedge fund CEOs Ken Griffin and Paul Singer
-Shadow president Elon Musk
We must overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics.
They will argue privacy is unnecessary in a world where transparency is a virtue.
They will say, “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”
We reject these premises entirely.
We are privacy accelerationists.
http://privacc.org
BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan
I will never understand how a billionaire, the richest man on Earth, spent millions to buy an election for ANOTHER billionaire, and told us that his policies would cause us “temporary hardship…”
…and the public didn’t tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.
They call him Goldman Gary Gensler. Rumors of a big announcement about a potential Goldman Sachs, $HBAR & $XRP partnership. $3 trillion Goldman Sachs plans to convert its Digital Asset Platform into a blockchain venture for faster trading and settlements. Meanwhile JPM runs with their anti social JPM Coin.
the grievance babies are just getting started
imagine having everything — and being never satisfied.
imagine being born into obscene wealth, and being handed every opportunity on a silver platter. imagine being allowed to fail repeatedly, upwards and ever upwards, bailed out in turn by your father, the banks, and Russian mobsters, until finally, you fall ass-backwards into the United States presidency — not once, but twice.
imagine having your own hand-picked Supreme Court declare that you are A Very Special Boy who can do all the criming you want, forever, without consequence.
imagine having all that — and at the same time, never ever shutting the fuck up about how no one has ever been treated so unfairly as you have.
The Harris-Walz campaign provided staff with three weeks of severance pay, but the DNC laid folks off this week with nothing. Workers are striking.
One day’s notice, no severance—the DNC fights for workers, just not their own. Full statement below:
“A Betrayal of Party Values”:
Statement on Staff Layoffs
DNC Staff Union
The DNC Staff Union released the following statement on the news that
permanent DNC staff have been laid off with one day’s notice and no severance:
Statement for immediate release
pr************@***il.com
November 18, 2024 – The Democratic National Committee is facing the fallout of callous and short-sighted mismanagement by senior leadership. Starting Wednesday night, permanent employees were notified of their termination, effective Friday and with no severance pay. DNC leadership refuses to disclose to the DNC Staff Union the full extent of these layoffs and whether additional cuts are planned.
These cuts go far beyond typical campaign turnover and impact employees who were previously told their positions would be retained after the election. Chair Jaime Harrison and Executive
Director Sam Cornale refuse to address their staff face to face and have offered no explanation for how these cuts were decided.
Despite record-breaking fundraising, the DNC failed to provide any financial support to those who have tirelessly served the Democratic Party and its mission. Unlike the Harris-Walz campaign, which provided three weeks of severance to its staff, the DNC’s senior leadership has chosen to leave loyal staff scrambling to cover rent, medical expenses, and childcare costs.
Among those now facing financial uncertainty are workers expecting new children and single parents who have dedicated their lives to our party. Scores of experienced staff, some who have been here as many as four decades, will see their institutional knowledge vanish overnight due to
this rushed mass layoff. The individuals whose decisions throughout the campaign created this situation remain on payroll, while these workers are left with nothing.
The DNC staff is proud of the values that our party stands for. We want to make it clear, however, that the principles we champion on the national stage have been disregarded in our own workplace.
The process of regaining the trust of the American people must start with living our party’s values.
We call on leadership to align the DNC’s actions with our principles by:
1) Offering severance to every permanent employee who was laid off, and 2) Addressing your staff honestly and transparently. Only then can we begin to move forward as a party.
https://x.com/dncstaffunion/status/1858452951372550236
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Remember when we were called conspiracy theorists for labeling Trump a fascist?
Turns out — to nobody’s surprise — we were right all along.
‘Trump Goes Off The Rails With New Fascist Agenda’
The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow
Mitch McConnell is the reason why the United States hasn’t passed a renewed Voting Rights Act. He is the reason why the United States hasn’t passed democracy reform. He is the reason why Donald Trump is still able to run for office (he had the opportunity to end this nightmare but didn’t).
Mitch McConnell is the reason why Roe v. Wade was overturned, and why IVF is now illegal in Alabama.
McConnell is responsible for turning the U.S. Senate into the House of Representatives.
McConnell has never been a friend to labor, the environment, or responsive to climate change.
History, if it remembers him, will remember him for the things he did, and the things he prevented.
He put his own ambitions before the needs of the United States whenever he could.
SEPERATE BUT EQUAL : JIM CROW LAWS : SCHOOL VOUCHERS
Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found. In North Carolina, ProPublica identified 39 likely “segregation academies” that have received school voucher money. Of these, 20 schools reported student bodies that were at least 85% white.
So, here’s the plan: axe the Department of Education. Rip it out at the roots and toss it in the trash, they say. It’s bold. Revolutionary. And by “revolutionary,” I mean pulling the rug out from under every kid whose parents can’t afford private school.
CNN lead Data Analyst Harry Enten just destroyed the myth that Donald Trump has a huge mandate. Donald Trump’s wins was one of the narrowest in American history and Democrats still hold considerable power.
Why can’t Biden use absolute immunity to appoint 4 more justices to SCOTUS so they can be confirmed while Dems still control the Senate? I can’t find any statutes barring him from doing so. If not now, no one can stop Trump from doing it, and we’ll have no check on his power.
Texas may be next state to restrict abortion pills as “controlled substances”
Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization
Trump Is President-Elect for Just 7 Days and a Sex, Drugs and Bribe Scandal Breaks Out
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/11/trump-is-president-elect-for-just-7-days-and-a-sex-drugs-and-bribe-scandal-breaks-out/
Elon Jet Tracker
https://www.reddit.com/r/ElonJetTracker/
WSJ editorial warns Elon Musk’s ‘blow-it-all-up’ ideas will devastate US economy
Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a62919131/tesla-has-highest-fatal-accident-rate-of-all-auto-brands-study/
Four die in burning Tesla, trapped when its electronic doors won’t open (there is an unobvious mechanical override, that you need to know about in advance and be able to use in a panic). October 24 in Toronto.
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives & 9 BILLION LIFE YEARS in the last 50 years alone. Someone tell RFK Jr.
oh great, now the press is sanewashing Bobby Brainworms
This is a genius idea. The US should create a sovereign wealth fund and then buy Bitcoin with it.
BTC $92,156.80
NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE
With Bitcoin trading at $89,384.76 at the time of writing, an investor could buy 0.00112 BTC today with $100. Here is a look at how much that $100 would be worth in the future under Wood’s various price targets.
Bear Case, $258,500: $100 today would be worth $289.52, up 189.5%
Base Case, $682,000: $100 today would be worth $763.84, up 663.8%
Bull Case, $1,480,000: $100 today would be worth $1,657.60, up 1,557.6%
Bullish Case, $3,800,000: $100 today would be worth $4,256.00, up 4,156.0%
As you can see, a small investment would turn into a sizable return if Wood’s base or bullish predictions come true. Even the bearish price target hitting would more than double the investment from today.
Top 13 #Bitcoin holders – Nov 18th update
Wall Street now control 9.35% of #Bitcoin supply and US controls 12.81% of #Bitcoin
@BlackRock advances to 471k closing gap with @binance
@MicroStrategy acquires 51,780 to move to #4 behind @BlackRock
@Fidelity drops to #6
Ifinex (@bitfinex + @Tether_to) drops to #7 (based on known wallets)
In the past week MicroStrategy acquired 5x the amount of Bitcoin that Coinbase acquired in 12+ years.
Michael Saylor⚡️ @saylor
Our $MSTR treasury operations in the first 17 days of November resulted in a BTC Yield of 20.4%, a net benefit to our shareholders of ~51,470 BTC.
One of Saylor’s best explanations of bitcoin:
“The idea that’s so profound it shakes the foundation of the economy is that Satoshi figured out a method to store value without a trusted intermediary… storing the value, well that makes it the most useful thing for $450 trillion of capital. That’s worth $10 trillion a year. That’s the big idea.”
MSTR Updates @MSTRUpdates
$MSTR Price Forecast via mNAV Multiplier (11/18/2024)
MicroStrategy has acquired 51,780 BTC for ~$4.6 billion at ~$88,627 per #bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 20.4% QTD and 41.8% YTD.
As of 11/17/2024, we hodl 331,200 $BTC acquired for ~$16.5 billion at ~$49,874 per bitcoin. $MSTR
https://www.microstrategy.com/press/microstrategy-acquires-51780-btc-and-achieves-btc-yield-of-20-qtd-and-41-ytd-now-holds-331200-btc
https://x.com/MSTRUpdates/status/1858531025195774237/photo/1
“… #Bitcoin could break through one hundred thousand dollars by January. This is becoming more mainstream. 17 percent of Americans, so about one in five now have had some sort of exposure to #Crypto” — Alexis Christoforous on Good Morning America
Global healthcare group Cosmos Health adopts #Bitcoin as treasury reserve asset.
https://calc.bitcoineracademy.com/
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