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BITCOIN

Bitcoin 67,200
This is a “horse vs car” moment
Buggy manufacturers holding a board meeting.
People feel safe with what they “know” even if it’s old and outdated including the so called “experts”. That’s the kind of attitude that got Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley fired.

James Stone, founder of Plymouth Rock Insurance company on Bitcoin.
“What are your thoughts is converting a small percentage of our assets into Bitcoin as a long term capital allocation strategy” ?
“I’ll take that one. Our returns have exceeded the market by a good bit. We’ve done very will with the strategy that we have, and we like it. We’re fundamental investors. We look for businesses that do well, have a good reputation and have a good product. Bitcoin’s almost the opposite. It’s not our zone at all. It’s speculative. It’s not backed up by the fundamentals of a product”
“It’s almost the opposite of the kind of thing we would ever invest in”

Quick check: turns out Stone founded Plymouth Rock in 1982. https://www.plymouthrock.com/about
All of which is fun linguistics for me, but says nothing about underlying meaning. You may well have nailed Stone’s attitude.

Statement by an Plymouth Rock in 1905:
“As a prudent and conservative insurance company, we must exercise caution in our investment decisions. While the automobile industry may seem promising to some, we believe it carries significant risks that outweigh potential benefits.

Firstly, the automobile is still a relatively new invention, and its long-term viability remains uncertain. The industry is characterized by rapid technological advancements and evolving consumer preferences, making it difficult to predict future market trends accurately.

Secondly, the safety concerns surrounding automobiles are undeniable. Accidents and fatalities involving automobiles are on the rise, raising serious questions about the reliability and safety of these vehicles. This poses a substantial risk to our investment portfolio, as increased claims and liabilities could erode our financial stability.

Furthermore, the infrastructure necessary to support widespread automobile usage, such as roads and fueling stations, is lacking in many areas. The development of such infrastructure requires substantial investment and time, further complicating the outlook for the automobile industry.

In light of these considerations, we believe it is prudent to refrain from investing heavily in the automobile industry at this time. Instead, we will focus on more established and stable sectors that offer greater predictability and lower risk to our shareholders and policyholders.”

“It is an inherently secure, tightly-controlled asset with a regulated supply, and is therefore a subversion to the whole basis of free-market financial capitalism.”
Alan Kohler: Bitcoin is no Ponzi bubble. It’s worse – an insurrection
The price of a bitcoin briefly hit a record high this week, and in Australian dollars it went above $100,000 for the first time

ETHGATE
“It’s not fair that 3 letter orgs and corps and anyone can buy people’s info out there, trade it, run AI on it and no one bats an eye, but if hackers, whistle blowers expose corruption it’s high treason. We need to level the field, protect consumer data from abuse.”

@BoringSleuth Data transparency and availability to the masses will absolutely be my mission when this is over. Consumable data availability to the masses is critical in balancing the playing field and should be the number one priority of anybody working in the field that I’m working in. Why this hasn’t been accomplished should tell you everything you need to know. Why this isn’t talked about should tell you everything you need to know.

NEWS

BREAKING: At the State of the Union, @POTUS plans to propose raising taxes on the rich and corporations.

—Minimum 25% income tax on billionaires
—Minimum 21% income tax on billion-dollar corporations
—Raise corporate tax rate to 28%
—Quadruple the stock buyback tax

Let’s go!

Sweden has formally become a member of NATO.
Sweden is set to officially join NATO after receiving final approval from Hungary, the last member of the Western alliance required to ratify Sweden’s bid. This historic decision marks Sweden’s departure from 200 years of neutrality and military non-alignment. Finland’s accession was processed relatively quickly, joining NATO in April 2023.

DRUMPF CORRUPTION

@DanRather
News anchors looking into camera and reading a script handed down by a corporate overlord, words meant to obscure the truth not elucidate it, isn’t journalism. It’s propaganda. It’s Orwellian. A slippery slope to how despots wrest power, silence dissent, and oppress the masses.

Newsweek Mike Johnson received campaign contributions from American Ethane, a company 88% owned by three Russians. Now, do you understand why he was categorically against the aid to Ukraine?

A mysterious donor covered Kavanaugh‘s $92,000 country club dues, $200,000 in credit card debts, and a $1.2 million mortgage. Following these payments, Kavanaugh voted to maintain Trump’s ballot presence and is postponing his trial in DC.
Koch Justice: Seek to Expand Influence over Law Enforcement and Courts in 2018. Charles and David KOCH’S Americans for Prosperity announced a SEVEN-FIGURE CAMPAIGN TO GET Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Judge Brett KAVANAUGH , CONFIRMED to the bench.
https://www.prwatch.org/news/2018/07/13372/koch-justice-billionaires-expand-influence-law-enforcement-courts-2018 AND
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/inside-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-personal-finances-credit-card-debts-92k-country-club-fee/
His parents are worth $20,000,000. Its not a mystery.

Ohio Chick-fil-A owner, Stacy Austin, has been arrested for driving over 400 miles to North Carolina to rape a 15 year old child.

New MAGA talking point: Trump is just “faking” dementia to fool “fake news”
Yeah, just like he’s faking being a fascist sociopath.

Trump lawyer Alina Habba sends letter to judge in E. Jean Carroll case — begging the court for Trump to have a few more days to come up with the $83.3 million.
SHORTER VERSION: Trump is broke.

“Truly dystopian”: Experts worry Trump’s school vaccine plan will spark “public health catastrophe”
“Trump would take millions in federal funds away from all Virginia public schools,” former GOP lawmaker warns.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump reacts to supporters as he arrives on stage at a Get Out the Vote Rally March 2, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
A former lawmaker raised alarms after former President Donald Trump’s vow in Virginia to defund public schools that require vaccines. Trump, who has repeatedly vowed not to “give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate,” repeated his call during an appearance in Richmond on Saturday, according to former Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va.

Trump and Hannibal Lecter
Trump is now claiming that migrants behave like Hannibal Lecter from “Silence of the Lambs”. He’s a truly sick individual. He’s the one that should be wearing that mask.

TRUMP V. UNITED STATES April 25 is the most on the nose case name of all time. The election wasn’t stolen the Supreme Court was.
Wow the republican supreme court will hear the trump Jan 6 criminal charge as the last case on the last day of the term. Every American should be disgusted by the corrupt republican supreme court trying to kill trump’s trial dead and not hiding it. JUST IN: SCOTUS schedules Trump immunity oral argument for April 25—the last day of hearings this term. This SCOTUS majority is disgusting #supremecourtcorruption The “SCOTUS” is without a Doubt Owned by Trump. He claims to be a “BOSS”. He Gave 3 Judges a lifetime Job with the understanding that they owe him…PERIOD! So Trump the “BOSS” Called in His Favors It’s being Played out right in front of our eyes.

Breaking News: Judge Cannon has indicated that two amicus briefs, submitted by lawyers supportive of Trump, could significantly aid her in evaluating Trump’s requests for dismissal. One brief argues that the National Archives’ referral to the Department of Justice was lacking, while the other challenges the legitimacy of Jack Smith’s appointment.

Almost as if Trump is some kind of mob boss or something. Trump endorsed Republican Congressional Candidate Dan Rodimer, who has now been arrested for murder. MAGA is literally the party of mugshots. Trump, Rodimer, Gaetz, every member of the Boebert clan.

Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad? Because that’s what the publisher wants.

Big Tech firms beat lawsuit from child laborers forced to work in cobalt mines
Buying cobalt doesn’t make US firms liable for abuses in DR Congo, court rules.

How Hackers Dox Doctors to Order Mountains of Oxy and Adderall
New from 404 Media: hackers are doxing doctors, gaining access to drug ordering platforms then buying (and selling) massive quantities of oxy, Adderall, more. Not just series of breaches across industry, but fundamental undermining of prescription system

Trump’s ex-doctor, Ronny Jackson,… demoted by Navy for inappropriate behavior in White House
Turns out Ronny Jackson, the drunken hack who went down in flames for handing out pills like candy in the White House, was handing out Ambien, fentanyl, morphine & ketamine like candy in the White House – but please go on about Hunter Biden’s struggles with addiction.
The White House has its own pharmacy—and, boy, was it shady under Trump
It wasted $750K during the Trump years and freely handed out Ambien and Provigil. Of course WE paid for all of this.
I want to know the names of who were receiving the drugs
@RonnyJacksonTX was distributing…
Especially the Ketamine, which is used as a sex drug like ecstasy and meth
Ketamine has also been used to facilitate sexual assault.
For those that dont know, its a cat tranquilizer.
The activities of the trump White House pharmacy raise a flotilla of red flags. There is not one aspect of this government trump and his crony crime crew didn’t defile not one
Under Trump the White House Medical Unit was a pill-mill. Thousands of ambien & provigil per month.
Worse, for a clinic that doesn’t typically do procedures w/ moderate sedation they sure are they ordering prodigious quantities of morphine, fentanyl, versed, & ketamine…? The AG report was largely concerned with the enormous cost of prescribing these non-genetic meds.
It’s worth pointing out that dispensing prescription meds without documentation is malpractice. In the case of controlled substances it’s also likely a crime.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-white-house-has-its-own-pharmacy-and-boy-was-it-shady-under-trump/
Trump’s WH Medial Unit handed out sleeping pills, uppers, and a variety of highly addictive opioids like candy (w/almost NO oversight) and how this isn’t an ALL CAPS scandal is beyond me. The DoD IG report is shocking
https://media.defense.gov/2024/Jan/09/2003373440/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2024-044_REDACTED%20SECURE.PDF

Here’s conclusive proof that the Court “is treating the presidential candidate of the party that appointed six of the nine justices with special favor” in light of how it treats literally EVERY OTHER criminal defendant. Undeniable as well as inexcusable
Why Is Trump Getting Special Treatment From the Supreme Court?
The justices are handling Trump’s case far differently than most criminal defendants.

Why Is the FBI Interested in New World Mall, Eric Adams’ Favorite Shopping Center?
“The Queens mall, raided by federal authorities along w/ homes owned by Asian affairs dir Winnie Greco, has been a major source of funds for Adams’ political ambitions.”

When he clinches the GOP nomination, the ex-president—currently under indictment for taking, hiding, and refusing to return classified docs—will have access to that info again, writes Mark Herrmann.

MONEY

X’s new voice calling feature leaks your IP address by default. Threat actors can obtain any user’s IP address just by initiating a call. X enabled the feature for all accounts last week.
To fix: Settings ➡️ Privacy & Security ➡️ Direct Messages ➡️ Enhanced Call Privacy

One of the richest men in the 1920s was Andrew Mellon — an early prophet of “trickle-down” economics.
His grandson, Timothy Mellon, is bankrolling Trump’s reelection.
Timothy uses his platform to rage against social programs.
This is how dynastic wealth works.
Wealth tax now.

If you paid $2.50 for a pack of gum at Target, you paid more to Target than it paid in taxes in 2022 while it made over $2 billion in profits and paid its CEO over $34 million in compensation. This is what a corrupt and rigged tax code looks like.

Why are things expensive?
4 companies control 55% to 85% of the meat market.
4 airlines control 80% of air travel.
3 companies control 92% of the soda market.
3 companies control 73% of the cereal market.
Why don’t I hear about it?
6 companies control 90% of the news.

Here’s Elon Musk’s brother outing them as being in the US illegally when they started their first business in California and applying for bank loans. Elon, then, nervously interrupts. He explains their immigration status at the time as a “grey area”. #ApartheidCylde
“We were illegal immigrants”
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1761451086202970112/vid/avc1/458×270/rV5MmcTToxnxjH8P.mp4

BREAKING: House Democrats have launched a probe into Elon Musk’s SpaceX, scrutinizing the firm’s measures to ensure that Russia cannot use its Starlink satellite internet service in the conflict against Ukraine.

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ECP NetHappenings Only the Baddest Boys

Ever wondered how much your online activity influences your political viewpoint?

MSNBC has been taken over by Republicans, the same way that Xitter has. The big 3 Cable News networks are all PR mouth pieces for corporate interests and simply not reliable as “news”. The idea that there was ever a “liberal media” was always a farce.

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ELMO, KISSINGER, SUMMERS SANTOS, NETANYAHU, TRUMP, GENSLER

ONLY THE BADDEST

BIDEN  WILL WIN THIS ELECTION

This is *huge*: The Biden administration just unveiled a new plan that requires ALL 9 million lead pipes to be replaced within 10 years, the strictest standard on lead in drinking water ever. This will improve the lives of so many people now —& future generations. Amazing news.
How it will be paid for: “The rule would require the nation’s utilities to absorb most of that cost…$15 billion is available from the 2021 infrastructure law t…The E.P.A. estimates that its proposal would generate $9.8 billion-$34.8 billion in economic benefits each year.”
Bottom line: This is a big deal. It matters for millions across the nation who don’t have access to clean drinking water. It matters for people whose lives have been infected by lead. This is Joe Biden seeing them & improving their lives. Spread the word.

Republicans: we have the freedom to use lead pipes if we want!

BADDEST BOY ELMO Looks like one of these.

1 blue eye 1 brown eye Andrew Ross Sorkin @andrewrsorkin
@NYTimes Columnist/Editor & @SquawkCNBC Co-Anchor

“Jonathan, the only reason I’m here is because you’re a friend.” “…I’m Andrew.”

Elmo looks more and more like a Batman villain every day.

Interviews anti-semite Elmo Musk after he supports / agrees with the antisemitic thoughts of an rando twitter user then all the advertising money quits him giving his PR lady a heart attack so he is sent on the Netenyahu apology tour only to come back for Andrews PR squackbox clickbate advertising etravaganza where Elmo let’s loose with a hearty “Fuck You”  10 times to assure all the advertisers he won’t care about security for the nation. He is an entitled South African racist who runs monopolies and is in this for the money, control, and period. Elmo is a greedy piece of racist white trash, who hates unions and everything democrats stand for. He is a South African Rethuglican who doesn’t want to pay a fair wage or his taxes.

Elon Musk responds to companies that pulled ads from X:
‘Go f*ck yourself’
X CEO and former advertising executive Linda Yaccarino reportedly sat “stone-faced” during the tirade.

Elon Musk Causes MELTDOWN:
“They Can Go F**k Themselves”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGyNQVaeI18

Amazing. Looking at the interviewer, then the crowd, then the interviewer, then the crowd.
Begging for the applause.
Where is it? Why is it not?
Someone?
My validation?
Why do you not applaud?

Starting at 0:14 there’s an entire six seconds of dead ass silence as the applause he was obviously expecting never comes. It’s the longest six seconds I’ve ever experienced. His face when he realizes it isn’t happening. An absolute master stroke, sir. You’ve done it again.

Squirming around in his chair HE CAN’T SAY FREE SPEECH because he wants to make money on what is supposed to be FREE SPEECH.
This idiot can’t have it both ways can he, no no no no no!
He isn’t running a newspaper he isn’t a journalist
He is so so stupid – stupid about people – he can’t win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ONkgNTbZRI

Actually watching this all the way through and it’s kind of… disturbing? Something is clearly going on with this guy. He knows he is killing the company not the advertisers. ELON killed the company – and is in total denial about it – and is willing to let the company to fail and blame everyone except himself, and the “Judge” is the public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_M_uvDChJQ

FYI Elmo fired lots of staff in charge of privacy and security then also stopped paying rent to the office building months ago now drives the stock into the ground – what could be a good business explanation for this?

Ugh Oh Consumer Reports: EVs are significantly less reliable than
conventionally powered cars

BADDEST BOY KISSINGER IS DEAD! 11/30/23

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior

Good riddance to the war criminal, Henry Kissinger.
Now that Kissinger is dead let’s move on to why Biden is hiring his heirs….
Why Biden announced the appointment of Elliott Abrams — the infamous genocide abetting war criminal– three months before Oct 7?
Abrams served in the Reagan, Bush II, and Trump administrations and has a VERY long history of abetting war crimes including mass torture, murder and rape. He was indicted for Iran-Contra and became an architect of the Iraq War. His goal in life has been war with Iran. The Gaza Bombshell
More on Elliott Abrams, Hamas, and “Iran-Contra 2”, from a 2008 article

Robert Reich Friends, Henry Kissinger has died, at the age of 100.
When a former high government official as well known as Kissinger passes, the conventional response is to say nice things about what they accomplished. I’m sorry but I cannot. In my humble opinion, Kissinger should have been considered a war criminal.

BADDEST BOY LARRY SUMMERS

Larry Summers + A.I. = Skynet Jeff Epstein
I am excited and honored to have just been named as an independent director of @OpenAI. I look forward to working with board colleagues and the OpenAI team to advance OpenAI’s extraordinarily important mission.

BADDEST BOY George SANTOS is likely going down

but I think he’s pointing out the HYPOCRISY of republicans for trying to expel him, but made ZERO attempts to remove: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, & other heathens who should’ve been expelled a long time ago. George Santos will be expelled on Friday.

BADDEST BOY Benjamin Netanyahu

All eyes are now on when retired Israeli general Benny Gantz is going to make his move against PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Why Netanyahu is covering for Elon Musk.

BADDEST BOY TRUMP

Court monitor catches Trump quietly moving $40 million in violation of judge’s order: report

Orange Jesus  and his co-defendants agreed to enhanced monitoring after failing to disclose big transfers

Robert De Niro appears to blame Apple for cutting the anti-Trump
comments out of his awards speech — so he reads them from his phone
instead.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-de-niro-claims-trump-remarks-were-slashed-at-awards-night

BADDEST BOY GENSLER

SEC Set For Mass Bitcoin ETF Approval on Jan 10:
Analysts
Seyffart and colleague Eric Balchunas interpret these twin delays as a strategic move by the regulator to position all applicants for potential approval by the January 10, 2024 deadline.

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#CLIMATE

July 3 was hottest day ever recorded across Planet Earth. Monday, July 3rd was the hottest day ever recorded on Planet Earth. A record that lasted until…… …..Tuesday, July 4th. Totally unprecedented and terrifying. It will get worse. The fossil fuel industry is to blame.

“Around the country, utility companies are using their outsize political power to slow down the clean energy transition — and they are likely using your money to do it,” writes @DavidPomerantz
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/opinion/utility-bills-clean-energy.html

#PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The number of U.S. 13-year-olds who never read for fun has nearly quadrupled.

TIP 43% of white students admitted to Harvard are legacy, athletes, or related to donors or staff. 86% admit rate for athletes.

#Pennsylvania already enables $340 million for private school vouchers. No accountability means: we don’t know if students receive a quality education or if educational outcomes are boosted. INVEST IN #PAPUBLICSCHOOLS.

BETSY DEVOSS AND HER BROTHER ERIK PRINCE  founder of mercenary Blackwater USA are Nazis who aim to privatize public education and the business of war. They are not Patriots.
They are Evangelical, White Nationalists, Republican Fascists.
#NeverForget they are Traitors who want to end Democracy.
#FreshResists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h7AoQ2xyV0

Governor Whitmer stood up to the DeVos billionaire crew, rejected vouchers, and got a great budget for students. Please do this for PA
@GovernorShapiro ! @PaHouseDems

NC LT Gov Mark Robinson AND moms for Liberty SUPPORT THE DICTATORS like Hitler

Expose the big money corruption in the ultra wealthy groups pushed by KOCHS ETC. like #MomsforFacisim trying to turn the country over to a few billionaires !

Moms for Liberty has been called Klanned Karenhood, twatzis, Ku Klux Karens, Moms for Hitler, and Asshøles with Casseroles. It’s very important for @Moms4Liberty to realize two things here.
1) They are the Nazis.
2) America already beat the Nazis, and we’ll do it again.

At Moms for Liberty‘s Philadelphia event, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) says dictators like Hitler, Stalin and Mao are being taken out of context and promotes reading their writings. 2 weeks ago Mark Robinson endorsed Donald Trump for president. This explains a lot.
“…It is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes.”

“MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature on Wednesday voted to stop Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ administration from requiring seventh graders to be vaccinated against meningitis.”

Public funds should go to public schools.

Stop Republicans from continuing to cheat their way into unchecked power.

Pa. House identifies a way to pass a state budget without implementing a voucher plan

#StopVouchers #DeVosPlan4PA #FundPAPublicSchools #PASchoolsWork #PABudget @SenWilliamsPA
Lindsey Williams @LindseyForPA
PA State Senator (District 38) who loves using her law degree & communications skills to fight for working families. She/her. Official
@SenWilliamsPA https://lindseyforpa.com/

PA @senatorlaughlin voted against teachers, against public schools, and against our kids.
He supported a voucher plan hatched by Betsy DeVos and right wing special interests that would divert dollars from our public schools and hand them out to private ones.
This right wing cabal conspired to rob our public schools of desperately needed funding – and @SenRobinsonPA voted with them.
The #BetsyDevosPlan4PA is wrong for our schools.

#schoolvouchers #PAgov #PAleg #OhioEd #nced @GovernorShapiro @PaHouseDems @PaSenateDems TAKE NOTE
School vouchers hurt vulnerable students. Full stop. Please focus on supporting the public school students who are counting on you and abandon billionaire-backed voucher schemes.
Arizona school voucher program growth explodes to $900 million for the upcoming school year
The projected costs are nearly 1,400% more than initial estimates. Universal vouchers are the end game for the DeVos billionaire crowd. If you open the door, they will not stop pressuring you until EVERY student is eligible for a voucher in PA. Look to AZ for what will happen.

After gutting affirmative action, Republicans target minority scholarships

Moms for Liberty’s focus on school races nationwide sets up political clash with teachers unions

Republicans are saying that misinformation and hateful speech needs to be protected so they can use it for political purposes?

“Don’t be afraid to go into the library and read every book!” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Central York SD did the right thing in returning banned books to its HS library & settling on a compromise that gives parents the option to restrict their own child’s access [not everyone’s]. Thanks largely to student protesters! @CBSDSchools @PennridgeSD

#CAPITALISM

Green Stamps were a commodity right?

David Z. Morris @davidzmorris Jun 30
I’m reading BLOCKCHAIN RADICALS: HOW CAPITALISM RUINED CRYPTO AND HOW TO FIX IT  by @TBSocialist (Out in August, review soon)
And reader, I was not prepared to learn that the phrase “the tragedy of the commons” was coined by a white supremacist because he assumed people of color were incompetent.
“The truth is that the story of the “tragedy of the commons”, commonly used to justify the need for capitalist markets and push for neoliberal economic policy, was one made up by the conservative American ecologist Garrett James Hardin. JHardin later retracted his original thesis in response to evidence of historical and existing commons, stating that “The Tragedy of the Unmanaged Common” would have been a better title, but the damage had already been done. What’s also problematic is that Garrett was vocal about his white nationalist, hard-line anti-immigrant and pro-eugenics views. There seems to be a noticeable connection between ideological support for neoliberalism and anti-democratic tendencies with a reactive belief that humans can’t manage a commons.”

“African Americans make up 16.8 percent of the military but only 12.4 percent of the U.S. population.” One odd, surprising, and important facet of the chief justice’s opinion: He explicitly exempts military academies from his new ban on race-conscious admissions “in light of the potentially distinct interests” they may present. supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf

A reminder that Robert F Kennedy Jr is a propagandist chaos agent hired by treasonous felon Steve Bannon and has allied himself with traitors Michael Flynn and Roger Stone. He’s in no way a Democrat.

ACLU “The Court’s ruling does not prohibit universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected their life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise. Colleges can still consider race as long as they do so in this manner.”

Kurt Vonnegut on the American dream
“Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no loaws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.

CHILD LABOR LAWS

How does this not amount to a string of states admitting that their economies are so fucked up they need child labor to maintain standards of living, and/or that their economies are overindexed on jobs that *can be done by children*?

Iowa’s new child labor law just went into effect. 14 year-olds can now work in meat coolers, 15 year-olds can join assembly lines, and 16 year-olds can serve alcohol. This rollback is part of a coordinated effort in conservative states to dilute national child labor laws.

A major child labor rollback goes into effect in Iowa this weekend.
14 year-olds are now allowed to work in meat coolers, 15 year-olds can join assembly lines and 16 year-olds can serve alcohol.
In a few weeks, similar rollbacks take effect in Arkansas.

Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid

Kevin McCarthy has endorsed a
“GOP study group” to find ways to end Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.

The new gilded age
Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county Report • By Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price • July 19, 2018

Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says

Paper looks at fiscal policies in 18 countries over 50 years Governments shouldn’t worry about taxes on rich, author says!!!

America is living on Borrowed Money Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) @froomkin The once-liberal NYT editorial board is calling for cuts to Social Security and Medicare in a sad and misguided attempt to be seen as Serious. ⁦@AGSNYT is an elitist before anything else.

Dan Whitfield@DanWhitCongress Jul 4
When the super rich didn’t want to give people another stimulus during the worldwide pandemic their excuse was that people would put it in the bank and not spend it back into the economy.

MONITEAU
When poor people make more money, they spend it and stimulate economy.
When rich people make more money, they hoard it in offshore accounts and remove that money from circulation.
It’s not that hard to realize that tax cuts for the wealthy do not help the economy.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could preempt Congress from ever instituting a federal wealth tax

After a nudge from billionaires’ think tank, justices agreed to hear a case designed to preemptively block a wealth tax. Another lucrative gift for conservative justices’ billionaire benefactors and the super rich.

Harvard prof, WWI German saboteur & terrorist, Eric Muenter poisoned his wife, and then things got weird. How weird?
On July 3, 1915, an assassin, Eric Muenter, entered JP Morgan’s Long Island mansion and shot him twice. This was ostensibly to bring about an embargo on arms, and in protest of his profiteering from war. Morgan, however, quickly recovered from his wounds.

Twitter Payments LLC, just got its first money transmitter license.
Google has removed the vast majority of Twitter links from their search results… Elon’s decision to block the Google “bot” from crawling their site is reportedly to blame.  Twitter will now be invisible on the world’s largest search engine

 

All of the spot #Bitcoin ETF filings have been resubmitted The ball is back in the SEC’s court

FTX’s Bankruptcy Fees Already Topped $200M, Court Examiner Says
Transforming a ‘smoldering heap of wreckage’ can cost good money, Katherine Stadler said.

The Into the spaghettiverse Second FTX Asset Recovery Report Is Packed With Bombshells
New claims put Sam Bankman-Fried and his friends even closer to the center of a brazen conspiracy. Highlights of this mess include the claim that $20 million of FTX customer funds went to Guarding Against Pandemics (GAP), a quote-unquote “nonprofit” run by Gabe Bankman-Fried, Sam’s brother. This deepens existing questions about the Bankman-Fried family’s knowledge of and participation in the fraud.

Ripple to Sell XRP Escrow to Pay for Lawsuit?– David Schwartz, Consensus 2017 (3-years before the lawsuit)
#XRP #Ripple #david #schwartz #consensus #bitcoin #lawsuit #SEC
“Our decision to put 54B #XRP into escrow and what was behind that, and whether we use that, for example, to fund the lawsuit…if we were threatened and had to draw on that, we certainly would.” David Schwartz 2017

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FIND / ADD / EDIT YOUR K12 SCHOOL INFORMATION Search school name, address, city, state, or zip code.
You can also share the unique features of your school.
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Ransomware criminals are dumping kids’ private files online after school hacks “Not until Feb did district officials disclose the breach’s full dimensions, noting the complexity of notifying victims with exposed files up to 3 decades old.” “Truth is, they didn’t notify us about anything,” said a mother whose son’s case file has 80 documents.
All that stuff that went down on our “permanent records” is eventually going to be leaked.
The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts.
“Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an ex-abuser at a school in Minneapolis. Other victims talked about wetting the bed or crying themselves to sleep. Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom. Other exposed data included medical records, discrimination complaints, Social Security numbers and contact information of district employees.

WOW. Signal CEO @mer__edith calls out doublespeak on UK #OnlineSafetyBill.
On @Channel4News talking about the UK Online Safety Bill’s mass surveillance provision. Pols wanting to regulate tech are instead promoting tech snake oil—doesn’t matter if it’s a backdoor, frontdoor or door that uses hashing: there’s no safe+private way to scan all our messages.

She’s right. Dictators around the world are waiting for the UK to set the *wrong* example.
https://www.channel4.com/news/online-safety-bill-debate-could-it-lead-to-unprecedented-paradigm-shifting-surveillance

TRUMP

People still have no idea how big of an idiot Trump is and was.

A group of Secret Service  joined in the MAGA plot of criminal sedition to help Trump overthrow the government and deleted their text messages to cover it up which should result in them going to prison too.

Donald had to increase the percentage of money going from his PAC to his legal bills by a factor of 10. He couldn’t get a loan to pay E Jean. Truth social now owes the SEC $18M. He owes $1M in sanctions fees. And almost a BILLION is coming due in other loans loans. Lulz.

Republicans are increasingly going after all vaccines including protecting kids from meningitis and even chicken pox.

America First was about racism, and violence in the 1930’s, and that’s what it’s about today.
That is why Trump chose it. He is a racist. His followers are racists. Republicans who kiss his ass in Congress are racists.
They don’t like it when we speak truth to power.

TAX ALL THE CHURCHES TO PAY FOR UIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. IT’S WHAT GOD WOULD HAVE WANTED.

Charges against Trump are open and shut

Trump’s “peril is extreme”: Former federal prosecutor on the historic Mar a-Lago indictment

Charges against Trump almost “open and shut,” says Dennis Aftergut — and prosecutors will ask for prison time.

They will ask for prison time.

They will ask for prison time all they want …..

All that is going to happen is the Feds will cut a deal.
They will allow Trump to walk . They will make Trump swear he won’t run for any office again for the rest of his life. Exactly like they did with Spiro Agnew in 1973

ex: After months of maintaining his innocence, Agnew pleaded no contest to a single felony charge of tax evasion and resigned from office with a promise to never run again.

Will Justice be served? No.