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On Presidents Day, thousands of Americans nationwide protested against the Trump-Musk administration.

The felon in the White House just banned the use of the word felon while inside the White House.

BROLIGARCHY

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

Republicans, are a threat to our safety and national security.
This is a coup, do not obey in advance.

@RepMarcyKaptur 
Where does the accumulated debt of this country come from? It comes from Republican Presidents going back to Ronald Reagan.
3/4 of the accumulated debt of this country is due to Republican Presidents who didn’t pay for their spending—so much for Republican’s being the party of fiscal responsibility.

SECURITY — AMERICANS AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

NEXT TIME A REPUBLICAN TELLS YOU THAT “SOCIAL SECURITY IS BROKE,” REMIND THEM THAT PRES. BUSH “BORROWED” $1.37 TRILLION OF SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS REVENUE TO PAY FOR HIS TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH AND HIS WAR IN IRAQ… AND NEVER PAID IT BACK.

Goldman Sachs reported owning $1.558 billion worth of BlackRock and Fidelity Bitcoin ETFs — MacroScope

Trump Media authorizes investing in crypto assets.

KEEPING SILENT WILL NOT PROTECT YOU
CALL YOUR CONGRESS PEOPLE EVERY DAY
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member ENTER ZIP CODE

About a Third of Project 2025 Has Already Been Implemented

A conversation with Adrienne Cobb, who is tracking objectives agency by agency.
https://heatmap.news/politics/project-2025-tracker

“DOGE wanted access to SSA’s sensitive files, and the acting commissioner wouldn’t give it, and she was replaced,” said Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works.
“There is no way to overstate how serious a breach this is.”

Follow Justin Wolfers from UMich for actual fact-based takes on the situation: just 89,000 recipients of social security over 99, in a country of 330 million. Which is about the number you would expect! We have that many old people. It is not fraud.
And here’s the number of RECIPIENTS of social security in each age bucket with the death field set to false (and recipient set to true). A mere 89,106 are aged 99+, not the tens of millions suggested by @elonmusk.


@RBReich
813 US billionaires held a record $6.72 trillion in wealth at the end of 2024.
The bottom 50% of Americans held roughly $3.9 trillion in wealth.
When 813 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

JOE LUBIN

ALERT: @LeaderJohnThune just introduced a bill to permanently repeal the estate tax.
He says he’s doing it for farmers. But only the 50 biggest farming operations in America paid ANY estate tax in 2020.
It really amounts to a $2.7 TRILLION tax handout for billionaires.
Wow.

Judd Legum @JuddLegum
1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information.
The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be “disposed of or recycled”

Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
Marocco has leadership roles at both the State Dept. and USAID — two agencies that sidelined him during the first Trump administration after he was accused of undermining U.S. foreign policy.
This time, he answers to few besides Trump himself.
https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-peter-marocco-state-department-bosnia-serbia-diplomacy-trump-foreign-policy

Big Balls wants to see your tax returns.

Weird that we can’t see the President’s tax returns but a bunch of Peter Thiel’s teenage Nazis can rummage around in ours.

Wellfare Queen Shitler All seven of Elon Musk’s companies — X, xAI, Neuralink, Starlink, the Boring Company, Tesla and SpaceX —have netted a combined $20 billion in US government contracts and subsidies, according to the Financial Times.

How Elon Musk is benefitting from his role at DOGE.
He is targeting agencies that have investigated his companies or could impede his plans to including banking at X.

“The endgame here seems to be controlling every single apparatus of the federal government directly out of the White House. And that’s just never been how we’ve understood executive power,” says Stephen Vladeck, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown.

Eggs and coffee around 20 percent more expensive. Airplanes crashing. Mass layoffs. Tariffs. Data breaches. Shutting down energy projects. Letting food and medicine rot. Either they are really shitty at helping you, or you are not the one they want to help. @brianschatz

FDA EMPLOYEES REVIEWING MUSK’S NEURALINK BRAIN IMPLANT WERE REMOVED IN DOGE FIRINGS – SOURCES
Who’s gonna trust Neuralink now?

To summarize: Elon Musk, in his government capacity, went into the FAA and fired hundreds of air traffic controllers. Now two weeks later, Elon Musk, in his capacity as CEO of SpaceX, is in the FAA looking to privatize the very jobs he eliminated

Silicon Valley billionaire and douchebag venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, a Trump donor, openly argues in support of oligarchy.
Anti-Christ Andreesen is wrong. Yes, he is. One element is that the rulers are constantly propagandizing, fueling division amongst the masses, to prevent them from organizing and people fall for it.
He says “democracy is always and everywhere fake”.
He thinks it’s good that (broligarchy) capitalist oligarchs like him rule the US.
Here is anti-christ Marc Andreesen – one of the many technocrats influencing Trump’s 2nd admin – discusses how he came to the conclusion that humanity is destined to be ruled by elites. These technocrats see themselves as the “counter-elites” to the progressives. https://x.com/DBrozeLiveFree/status/1891591178887266769

Since we’re on the topic of government waste, Donald Trump’s joyride around the Daytona 500 cost American taxpayers around $5,000,000. Elon Musk is running everything while Trump is distracted by shiny objects wasting your tax dollars.

BITCOIN –> Texas Senate holds public hearing on Strategic Bitcoin Reserve legislation: “Bitcoin has become a recognized asset in the financial markets.”

TRUMP MEDIA HAS AUTHORISED BITCOIN AND CRYPTO PURCHASES – BLOOMBERG

EDUCATION –> Mark your calendars! #PSW25 is coming next week, Feb 24–28, 2025! Join us in celebrating public schools & the amazing educators, staff, parents, and school board members who support students every day.

If Vance hoped to persuade his audience, rather than simply insult it, he failed. Indeed, his speech backfired spectacularly, convincing many listeners that America itself is now a threat to Europe. In the throng outside the conference hall, a prominent German politician told me: “That was a direct assault on European democracy.” A senior diplomat said: “It’s very clear now, Europe is alone.” When I asked him if he now regarded the US as an adversary, he replied: “Yes.” https://www.ft.com/content/11f121f9-391c-4597-93f7-f12894e1b79d

—> Tether Co-Founder Is Working on Yield-Bearing Stablecoin Rival: BBG

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Drug Trafficker Maximilien de Hoop Cartier

Purported member of the Cartier family and five Colombian nationals charged for their roles in international money laundering and narcotics conspiracies.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “The charges brought today demonstrate this Office’s commitment to prosecuting international drug traffickers and piercing complicated money laundering networks seeking to exploit the U.S financial system. As alleged, Maximilien de Hoop Cartier, Leonardo de Jesus Zuluage Duque, Erica Milena Lopez Ortiz, and Felipe Estrada Echeverry were members of a network that laundered millions of dollars’ worth of drug trafficking proceeds using cryptocurrency and the U.S. financial system. Cartier is additionally alleged to have committed a series of financial offenses while working with this money laundering network that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of unlawful transactions. I commend the efforts of our law enforcements partners and the career prosecutors from this Office who work tirelessly to investigate and disrupt these money laundering and drug trafficking networks. We will continue to relentlessly protect the U.S. financial system from exploitation.”

…. conspiring to commit money laundering based on their alleged participation in a network that laundered millions in Tether (a stablecoin connected to the U.S. dollar), which constituted the proceeds of drug trafficking, through the U.S. to Colombia.  CARTIER is also charged with money laundering, bank fraud, engaging in a monetary transaction in property derived from bank fraud, and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business based on CARTIER’s system of U.S.-based shell companies and bank accounts that he used to operate an unlicensed over-the-counter cryptocurrency exchange.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/purported-member-cartier-family-and-five-colombian-nationals-charged-their-roles

The Cartier brand was family-owned until 1964, when grandson Pierre passed away and his heirs decided to sell the business.

The Cartier name is still making headlines today, but in a different medium. Instead of master jeweler, Maximilien de Hoop Cartier is producing fine beverages.

ECP NetHappenings Headlines Pastafarianism, founded by an Atheist

Turtle Mitch McConnell

says he plans to serve out his term to January 2027.

He’ll be 85. Republicans can’t talk shit about Biden’s age anymore. Even that Chuck Grassley is 90.

 

In November there will be two FL Supreme Court (@flcourts) justices on the ballot – Justice Renatha Francis and Justice Meredith Sasso. They were both recently appointed to the court by Governor DeSantis, so voters will now decide if they should remain on the court. They signed their own retirement papers on that failed dissent against the abortion amendment. Maybe close to the shortest tenures ever on the FLSC.

Hope Hicks has flipped on Trump; she’s testifying against him in the NY criminal trial
DEVASTATING for Trump: Hicks was in his inner circle during the events in question, in the fall of 2016. She can likely testify that the purpose of the hush money was the ELECTION.

John McGuire. He’s an ex-Navy SEAL. He’s a Candidate for Congress VA 05. He was at the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

TETHER

Tether is a massive scam. There are no US treasuries or anything backing it. Its founders are known crooks since the early days of crypto. When it implodes it’s going to be, by far, the worst bitcoin crash ever.

Rho Rider @RhoRider
⚠️🚨Wanna know the🔑to the ponzi?
Behold, the “Tether: Loan Interest” wallet
They ‘loan’ out $USDT to exchanges & market makers, ‘secured’ by crypto bought w/ $USDT, and collect ‘interest’ in $USDT they loaned.
They call these loans “reserves” Even if you want to assume they’re 99% backed at attestation time… when you have $105B in circulation and only show reserves evry 3 months, its very easy to print $1 or 2 Billion on the front end, give it out to your cartel friends, and backfill cash later. Best part? They don’t even have to ever collect real fiat on these bc Tether just calls it “loans” & “other investments” on their attestations
…aka, >$9B $USDT is whatever fugazi accounting they want. Thats more than enough to move the market
They can do this infinitely
Just like ‘central banks’ and ‘banks’.
Fiat out of thin air for worthless paper.

FRANCIS – BULLBITCOIN.COM @francispouliot_
Bitcoin meetup 2 days ago, I explain to a normie what is self-custody, telling her Coinbase may one day refuse her permission to withdraw. At the dinner, I show her how to pay me with BTC from her Coinbase wallet. And guess what? Didn’t have permission to withdraw Bitcoin.

Pastafarianism

In 2014, Shawna Hammond from Oklahoma sought to have her driver’s license photo taken with a spaghetti strainer on her head.

She argued that wearing the colander was a religious requirement as a member of the Pastafarian faith. Surprisingly, her request was approved because the colander is recognized as the official headwear for Pastafarians, making it permissible under the state’s guidelines for religious attire.

 in 2005, emerged as a protest against the inclusion of Creationism in school curricula.

When questioned about her adherence to Pastafarianism, Shawna identified herself as an Atheist, emphasizing her belief in freedom of thought. She explained that to her, ‘the colander represents freedom.’

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the deity of Pastafarianism, is depicted as a floating mass of spaghetti noodles with a large meatball on either side of its body and two centrally located eyestalks.

This depiction is a parody of traditional religious iconography and serves as a symbol of the movement’s light-hearted approach to religion.

The Pastafarian community is quite diverse and widespread. Adherents, who call themselves Pastafarians, purportedly number in the tens of thousands and are primarily located in North America, western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

This global presence underscores the reach and influence of this parody religion, demonstrating its ability to resonate with individuals across different cultures and geographies.

Pastafarians believe that humans are descendants of pirates, the original Pastafarians. This belief is a satirical take on the concept of a chosen people found in many religions. Pirates are revered as peaceful explorers, and the decline in their numbers since the 1800s is humorously cited as the cause of global warming.

ECP NetHappenings The Economy Today

The economy today is rigged against working people and young people.

National debt surpasses $34 trillion for the first time ever.

SEC schedules meetings today with New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, & Cboe to finalize comments on Spot #Bitcoin ETFs, Fox Business reports.

Bernie Sanders has said:

The Boomer generation needed just 306 hours of minimum wage work to pay for four years of public college.

Millennials need 4,459. 

 

Yesterday two trump republicans judges ruled that Texas doctors aren’t obligated to perform emergency abortions even to save a woman’s life.

When Democrats voted twice to restore Roe v Wade every single republican in Congress voted no and invited this vicious cruelty to women.

David Z Morris
SBF’s MOTHER
“Barbara Fried’s die-hard determinist materialism.
In her own work as recently as circa 2013, these beliefs led Fried to the perverse conclusion that no human should be morally blamed for their bad actions. The irony is, yeah, obvious.
Determinist and rationalist ideas were clearly passed on to Sam, in a near-systematic way. They are upstream from the “consequentialist” ethics that ultimately led Sam to EA, and that led him to believe there was no ethical justification for not lying and stealing.”

Bill Barr’s Father Donald Barr (August 8, 1921 – February 5, 2004)
was an American educator, writer, and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officer. He was an administrator at Columbia University before serving as headmaster at the Dalton School in New York City and the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York.
“Donald Barr would hire young people, and not necessarily young people who had a lot of credentials,” Semel says. Epstein was 21 when he started teaching at the school and had no college degree. Donald Barr, father of U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, hired Jeffrey Epstein as a teacher, served as his mentor, and wrote a novel about men raping teenage girls. … Donald Barr was headmaster of Dalton School in New York City until the summer of 1974. In September 1974, Jeffrey Epstein began working as a maths and physics professor at the school.

Calder McHugh· Associate Editor July 13, 2019
“Disgraced Wall Streeter Jeffrey Epstein was arrested last week for his alleged involvement in the sex trafficking of minors. Epstein’s past, and how he made his money, remains murky, but details have continued to emerge about his history. We do know that Epstein briefly taught at the Dalton School, a private co-educational school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in the early 1970s. Students in his classes at the time, who wished to remain anonymous, described Epstein to Yahoo Finance as a young man who “dressed flamboyantly,” with a “thick New York accent” who was “very high energy and dynamic.”
Donald Barr, Dalton’s headmaster and father of Attorney General Bill Barr, hired Epstein to teach math and science.
Epstein is pictured here in Dalton’s 1975 yearbook. He taught high schoolers. (Yahoo Finance)
“What we’ve all been wondering,” one of Epstein’s former students said, “is how did this guy get his job in the first place, without a degree.”

A Trump campaign adviser has been INDICTED in DC on information for failing to register as a Foreign Agent for Qatar. DoJ launched the probe in 2021. “Information” can mean cooperation or a plea deal.
Barry Bennett, who was an unpaid advisor, lunched a group called Yemen Crisis Watch to embarrass Qatar’s rivals. He also launched Avenue Strategies to sell access to Trump. Doug Watts, another veteran of Ben Carson’s 2016 campaign and ally of Barry Benett, has also been charged with FARA-related violations.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.263361/gov.uscourts.dcd.263361.1.0.pdf

Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump
BOOM: Audio involving Senator Ron Johnson is being investigated by prosecutors.
Prosecutors in Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin are investigating new evidence (audio below) that implicates Ron Johnson in Donald’s fake elector scheme. The best part: Donald can NEVER pardon him.
Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro is now cooperating with investigators…

je*******@**ad.social ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1
Black Robe Regiment pastor Bill Cook shared a stage w/ convicted Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, Mike Flynn, & other far right Christian leaders during the pro-Trump “Jericho March” rally on 12/12/20. Cook wore an Oath Keepers shirt. This is MILITANT Christian Nationalism.
@RightWingWatch
Christian nationalist Bill Cook declares that the separation of church and state is “tyranny” and asserts that Christians should not accept it, insisting that there is no “country on Earth that is contrary to the Kingdom of God.”
TRANSLATION:
Do it-even if it’s WRONG! Because “god” says so…

The Christian Nationalist Church is already subsidized by not paying taxes, even though they are a political arm of the GQP.

How much more before we finally expel @SenatorMenendez?

Tether founder Brock Pierce defaults, loses hotel, sues partner
Brock Pierce, the co-founder of controversial ‘stablecoin’ Tether, is suing his former business partner Joseph Lipsey III over control of the W resort in Puerto Rico, according to reporting from Bloomberg.
Pierce originally acquired a majority stake in the hotel in 2021. He then took a line of credit from Lipsey III, who made his fortune in trucking, to buy out the other owners.

Tether executives have brushed shoulders with crime since its inception

ECP NetHappenings How was Tether Created? by Truth Labs