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elan, to random
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I am loving this wholesale attack on Musk's X by continuing to call it Twitter.

I've been sucked into listening to cable news all day every day as background noise for the past 10 weeks.

Well, very rarely do people call it X.

This breakdown feels right about what people call it:

97% Twitter
2% X, the company formerly known as Twitter
1% X

Npars01,
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@elan

Dead naming the corporations that promote anti-democracy movements ...hmm.

Do we start calling it Facebook instead of Meta?

emptywheel, to random
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"Swept Up!" The Russian Payments that Led to Trump's Felony Conviction

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/02/swept-up-the-russian-payments-that-led-to-trumps-felony-conviction/

Npars01,
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Npars01,
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@Runyan50 @emptywheel @KimPerales

Voting demonstrates that "errors" by the electorate are fixable & temporary.

Mueller's investigation was precluded from following the money by Bill Barr. That has changed under Jack Smith's leadership.

Jack Smith has experience with the flows of money that support international organized crime & the human rights abuses that follow backsliding democracies turned mafia states.

The GOP is a component of international crime now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(lawyer)

GottaLaff, to random
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Neighbors say Alitos used security detail car to threaten them after dispute

Emily Baden says after a disagreement over political lawn signs with the US supreme court justice’s wife, a black car began parking at her mother’s home
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/31/samuel-alito-flag-neighbor-interview?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Npars01,
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@GottaLaff

So that's why Republicans rushed through legislation to provide security for the Supreme Court, but not election workers.

The Alito's wanted to play "Lawn Sign War" with their neighbors using taxpayer-funded security services.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/14/congress-supreme-court-security/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congress-passes-bill-provide-security-supreme-court-justices/story?id=85371132

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/politics/supreme-court-security-justices-house-legislation/index.html

EALS_Director, to random
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Rich people like the Tesla baby keep saying "if it can happen to Trump, it can happen to you." What they really mean is it can happen to them. The rest of us knew it could happen to us long before Trump got indicted. They are just scared now.

Npars01,
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@kotaro @EALS_Director

"Elon Musk knows which billionaires are funding a fascist movement, and which ones funded the Jan 6 coup attempt.

He's telling Uihlein that he better start flooding GOP campaign coffers with cash or the FBI will be knocking on his door.

He's warning Erik Prince he better initiate more meetings in the Seychelles with his Kremlin back channel ASAP.

He's telling Kushner that he'll never get that nuclear tech for the Saudi Royals so ...
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Npars01,
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...they better start manipulating oil prices now

...telling Wynn, Bigelow, Adelson, Ruffin that their casino money laundering might be over

...telling Paul Singer, Ken Griffin, & Schwarzman that their straw donor scheme is at risk

...telling Harlan Crow, Koch, & Barre Seid that their corrupt Supreme Court Justices might be in jeopardy

Musk is telling Jeff Yass that he might not get his tax cuts

... telling Tim Dunn & the Wilks that their theocratic public education plans are at risk"

selzero, to random
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It should be no surprise to anyone that criminals roll in gangs.

Npars01,
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Npars01,
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@selzero

Billionaires associated with Chinese intelligence services...
Guo Wengui helped Trump get elected.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65019134

Billionaires associated with Russian intelligence
Oleg Deripaska helped get McConnell, Rand Paul, and Trump get elected & got investigations quashed
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/08/03/gop-campaigns-took-7-35-million-from-oligarch-linked-to-russia/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/nyregion/fb-indictment-mcgonigal-deripaska.html

Billionaires associated with a murderous Saudi prince. Princes funding election interference AI with Larry Ellison.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund.html
https://www.oracle.com/jo/news/announcement/oracle-will-train-saudi-nationals-in-artificial-intelligence-and-other-latest-digital-technologies-2023-12-14/

junesim63, to random
@junesim63@mstdn.social avatar

Spare a thought for the brave jurors in the Trump trial today. Trump is a vindictive narcissist.

Npars01,
@Npars01@mstdn.social avatar

@junesim63

Republican megadonors are vindictive too. And they're drowning GOP coffers in cash.

https://newrepublic.com/post/182071/trump-revenge-lawsuits-hush-money-january-6

I hope the jurors have security available.

Free_Press, (edited ) to mastodon
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BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Donald J. Trump GUILTY ON ALL 34 FELONY COUNTS!!!!

Trump is a CONVICTED FELON!

Npars01, (edited )
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GottaLaff, to Texas
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

#Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets

Ken #Paxton has repeatedly used laws that are supposed to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and LGBTQ+ groups.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/30/ken-paxton-texas-ag-political-targets-health-care-lgbtq

Npars01,
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GottaLaff, to random
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Npars01,
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@GottaLaff

I hope Raskin succeeds but the billionaires who bought themselves a Supreme Court are unlikely to permit Alito & Thomas to recuse.
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/

The funders of public corruption will insist Alito & Thomas remain, a corrupt partisan Justice is just too useful to give up.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/30/supreme-court-leonard-leo-dark-money

Reputation be damned, the GOP's megadonors want to keep frying the planet & want their next coup attempt to succeed.

https://www.acslaw.org/analysis/reports/dark-money/

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus

ProPublica, to Texas
@ProPublica@newsie.social avatar

#Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue #Political Targets

Paxton has repeatedly used #laws that are supposed to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including #hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and #LGBTQ+ groups.

#News #Law #CriminalJustice

https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-consumer-protection-laws-political-targets

Npars01,
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Npars01,
@Npars01@mstdn.social avatar

@ProPublica

Ken Paxton is being bribed to advance the aims of fossil fuel donors like Tim Dunn, Farris Wilks and Dan Wilks.

https://www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-tppf-right-wing-donors/

Unsurprisingly, these men belong to a Christian religious sect that believes women have no role in public life, not even voting.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/billionaire-tim-dunn-runs-texas/

Reproductive medical care is how they plan on disenfranchising women voters.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/texas-far-right-politics-invs/index.html

avirr, to random
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Npars01,
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knittingknots2, to random
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No Tory MPs voted positively on climate issues since party took power, study finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/28/no-tory-mps-voted-positively-on-climate-issues-since-party-took-power-study-finds

Npars01,
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GeePawHill, to random
@GeePawHill@mastodon.social avatar

I remember when I trusted the CDC.

I didn't trust them to always be right. Science is damned hard when events are breaking.

I did trust them to always do their best.

Those days are as gone as my youthful enthusiasm for ELO.

Wear a fucking mask, and fuck the fucking CDC, and if you work for the CDC, baby you brought this on yourself.

Npars01,
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w7voa, to random
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Politico - A pervasive sense of fear has settled in at the highest levels of the Democratic Party over President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, even among officeholders and strategists who had previously expressed confidence about the coming battle with Donald Trump. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/democrats-freakout-over-biden-00160047?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=c00999ed-95f4-4bf4-ac82-11dc95f6dc6a&nlid=630318

Npars01,
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GottaLaff, to random
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😆🤦🏻‍♀️Just hours after asked libertarians for their party's nomination and votes, the party chair said he never submitted the appropriate paperwork to actually be considered at the party's nominating convention. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-doesnt-submit-paperwork-libertarian-party-nomination-soliciting-rcna154132
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-doesnt-submit-paperwork-libertarian-party-nomination-soliciting-rcna154132

Npars01,
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augieray, to random
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More evidence that the US is beginning a new surge (that will hopefully be mitigated by summer weather and outdoor activities):

The positive rate of testing is rising for the first time in 5 months. The rise is small, but it's a change in trend.

The CDC shows positive rate rising from 3.1% to 3.4% after falling from 13.1% in December. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_testpositivity_00

Walgreens dashboard inflates the positive rate, but it's also rising for the first time in five months: https://www.walgreens.com/healthcare-solutions/covid-19-index

Npars01,
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@augieray

Wondering how long the international community will tolerate America being a covid super-spreader.

Travel to and from China was restricted by several nations for over a year because of their irresponsible initial response to covid.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/19/wuhan-how-the-covid-19-outbreak-in-china-spiraled-out-of-control-dali-l-yang-wuhan-a-documentary-novel-liao-yiwu-reviews
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51364382

As we all know, an authoritarian response to a covid pandemic does not make a covid pandemic go away.

Republicans are authoritarians. The USA has states run like China, and states run like democracies.

GossiTheDog, to random
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

Npars01,
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Npars01,
@Npars01@mstdn.social avatar

@GossiTheDog

Saudi Arabia had been flooding American tech companies with cash since 2018.

Twitter was just one example of anti-democracy oil oligarchs hijacking tech.

Kushner's $2 billion in Saudi sovereign funds isn't buying beach-front condos in Gaza, it's being spent on torpedoing tech brands like Microsoft.

Google, Apple, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft, all had MBS visit in 2018. The investments continued after the Khassoghi murder & its accelerated in recent months.
https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/5/1/23702451/silicon-valley-saudi-money-khashoggi

tofugolem, to random
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Long ago, the US military was organized mostly by branches, and they were set against each other so that none of them would challenge the civilian leadership (the founding fathers were paranoid about them taking over).

Some time ago, there was a major reorganization by region. Each command is responsible for a different region and is made up of all of the branches.

My father was stationed at MacDill AFB when the RDJTF became Centcomm (Middle East & North Africa).

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Npars01,
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@tofugolem

Imagine a future where oil prices stop being a king-maker.

If oil is replaced by renewables, can continue to buy Supreme Court Justices?

If oil is replaced by renewables, can AIPAC fund anti-democracy candidates in elections?

If oil is replaced by renewables, can MBS continue to murder Washington Post journalists & be forgiven?

If oil is replaced by renewables, Netanyahu's Gaza genocide over marine natural gas fields becomes less profitable.

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cynblogger, to random
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Npars01,
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@skydog @CindyS @cynblogger

Anti-democracy propaganda gets voters accustomed to being sidelined and made irrelevant.

Republican voters are so used to being ignored that they don't notice that corporations and megadonors are picking the VP, and not delegates.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/08/donald-trump-vp-corporate-leaders-and-wealthy-donors-want-a-say-.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/gop-vp-hopefuls-congress-trump-rcna149870

Npars01,
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@palin

The sale of assets between Republican donors isn't for financial support, it's for extortion & bribery.

It's for payoffs & kickbacks. It's a vehicle for tax evasion.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/10/rupert-murdoch-buys-montana-cattle-ranch-koch-brothers
Paper "sales" are often used in money laundering.

It's used to keep assets out of the hands of bankruptcy trustees or to thwart the payment of legal settlements.

Offshoring assets to foreign buyers is a common gambit.

It's the purchase of future "favors" & compensation for past "favors".

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