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Congress House Speaker Mike Johnson says we should have sympathy because Congress isn’t paid enough — so we should “allow” insider trading just so they can take care of their families.
Fuck you, Mike Johnson, and every so-called “public servant” who thinks public service is a get-rich-quick scheme.
#Corruption #Government #Congress
This is us?
Yup, pretty much... art imitating (low) life, imitating the concept of a concept like "executive function"
And while The Boss is away trying to steal/deal magnets and microchips, stating directly he doesn't care about American consumers, the party no doubt continues, near the billion-dollar ballroom and Golden Arch of #TrumpVirus
"Like nobody's ever seen before - by a long shot". #Corruption #WarCrimes #treason #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup #grift #evil
The depth of the #Trump admin’s #criminal #corruption on display:
When #DOJ indicted India’s richest man in the final weeks of the #Biden admin, prosecutors described an “elaborate” #bribery scheme involving “corruption & #fraud at the expense of US investors.”
Now…the DOJ is planning to drop the charges altogether.
The reversal came after the Indian #billionaire, Gautam Adani, hired a new legal team led by Robert J. Giuffra Jr., one of Trump’s personal lawyers.
When #KashPatel visited Hawaii last summer, the #FBI took pains to note the director was not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau’s Honolulu field office & meetings with local law enforcement.
Left out of FBI’s news releases was an exclusive snorkeling excursion that Patel took….
#law #Trump #corruption #taxpayers #GovernmentSpending #SelfEnrichment
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Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga
Trump Mobile quietly rewrote its fine print to say the gold Trump phone may never be made, a year after taking $100 deposits
The terms and conditions said the preorder deposit gives people "a conditional opportunity" to buy the phone if the company makes it.Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez (Fortune)
How is this still a “whether” argument?
It is an undeniable #fact.
A #LIVGolf event at a #Trump property is renewing scrutiny over whether the president & his family are benefiting financially from his time in office
#kleptocracy #law #emoluments #PresidentialEthics #corruption #USpol #media #journalism #FourthEstate
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"John Roberts life’s work of repealing the 20th century is essentially complete. What is clear about him is that he is determined to use the Supreme Court to systematically dismantle every outrage against white supremacy and oligarchy that were passed by 20th century congresses and upheld by 20th century Supreme Court majorities:"
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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A Sunday Reid, updated: our corrupt, neoconfederate Supreme Court court is solidifying 'John Crow'
Chief Justice Roberts is repealing the 20th century to protect the corruption of Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and his own conservative majorityJoy-Ann Reid (Welcome to Joy's House!)
"The Court’s abuses of power now extend to any laws that would limit their goal of remaking the country by corrupt means.
So it all comes back to Court reform. The toxins and bacteria of the Court’s corruption spread into every tissue of American life."
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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Gene Weingarten notes that historians consider the Taney court the worst Supreme Court in US history. But:
"Now consider the John Roberts court. It is politically fractured. It has dispensed hell from day one, almost unfailingly enforcing a right-wing activist political agenda. It is absurdly partisan and morally corrupt."
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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Is This The Worst Supreme Court Ever?
Historians and legal experts are pretty much in agreement that the worst U.S.gene weingarten (The Gene Pool)
"It has ushered in a nearly constant descent into our darker past. ...
No Supreme Court in history has been so blatantly morally compromised — this is the first ones whose actions were stinky enough to lead to Congress creating a code of conduct for them."
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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"In effect this is the first time that a Supreme Court — the ultimate authority on what constitutes proper, legal, ethical conduct — required a nanny to police their own selves. Primly, deferentially, the code was declared 'voluntary' and 'non-binding.'"
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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"Much of this court’s corruption involves judges accepting favors and gifts from wealthy benefactors with matters that did — or might — come before them. This is a court that, it would seem, can be bought."
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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"This court has been a shameful court ... I used to argue before the Supreme Court and I read the opinion. It's shit. I mean, it's just bullshit. The whole thing is bullshit. …It is all politics and it is all — this notion of neutral justice is now,
for everybody to see, absolute bullshit."
~ Robert Reich
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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Is This the Shittiest Supreme Court in History? | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, May 2, 2026
With Heather Lofthouse and Yours Truly, Robert Reich (and special guest Ben McKenzie)Robert Reich
"Whatever we call it—Jim Crow 2.0, the John Roberts Jim Crow Era, or the John Crow Era—no person in America is more responsible for the return to the Jim Crow Era than John Roberts. The resurrection of the post-Civil War Jim Crow brand of racism is the crowning achievement of John Roberts’ life work" (continued in /9)
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
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Noting "Sam Alito’s corruption-drenched decision gutting the remains of the Voting Rights Act," Josh Marshall says,
"The corrupt majority has now doubled down not simply on the non-reviewability of gerrymandering but gerrymandering as a critical and fundamental right of states."
#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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The Court’s Corruption Seeps Into Every Tissue of American Life
We’re talking a lot today about gerrymandering and Court reform. I want to note one among many ways the two issues intersect. Democrats are consistent on…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"For all the effort that Supreme Court justices put into insisting they are not 'partisan hacks,' when the Court resolves awful democracy cases, elected Republicans have remarkably little trouble understanding what they are supposed to do, and how quickly they are supposed to act."
~ Jay Willis
#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
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The Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win Elections
The Supreme Court just issued a decision making it easier for lawmakers to racially gerrymander their states. Republicans are already racing to take advantage.Jay Willis (Balls & Strikes)
Robert Reich:
"I thought Alito was history’s worst supreme court justice. But Thomas has outdone him. "
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> The supreme court justice recently condemned an entire philosophy of government. How can we believe in his impartiality?
#SCOTUS #Thomas #Project2025 #TrumpVirus #corruption #justice #democracy #history #oligarchy
"Matthew Swindells was, until recently, a joint chair of four NHS trusts, having previously been deputy CEO of NHS England...
He was still the joint chair of those NHS trusts when Global Counsel recruited him as an adviser in 2019, and only stood down last month after the Financial Times revealed he had urged GPs to put practice data on Palantir’s platforms"
The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials
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The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials
The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk, write Charlie Young, Carole Cadwalladr and Ian…Charlie Young (The Nerve)
"Mr. Trump didn't just happen to America. He was elected, twice – the second time after attempting a coup. That alone should tell us that something fundamental has changed in American society, that it is so broken that one half of it could knowingly put a degenerate lunatic in the White House just to spite the other half."
~ Andrew Coyne
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #cruelty #immigrants
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Trump may be temporary. The damage he is doing isn’t
We don’t need to close off our trade and relationship with the U.S., but we do need to open up to the rest of the worldAndrew Coyne (The Globe and Mail)
Illicit🚨#crypto deals, pardons...
& #Trump’s projects🚨-his🏛️s to himself -also appear to be little more than st-sanctioned opps for graft. Collected:🚨100s of $Ms of from donors/lg corps for his prop ballroom, pres libr & arch.🚨10s of $Ms marked for the lib➡️unaccounted for.
$10B lawsuit agst the IRS, for damages, for leaking his tax returns to the pub➡️acc to a rpt,🚨ATTYs for Trump are in talks w the IRS to settle🚨-tantamount to pres looting of the TSY.
#Corruption #USPol
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"The Trump admin🚨really is gonna bail out -& take a poss equity stake in -Spirit Airlines."
S Lincicome
The Trump admin🚨is signalling that it'll place the blame for the collapse of #Spirit Airlines on Dems if last-ditch talks to save it end in failure -in talks with the fed govt about a pot mult$M TAXPAYER-FUNDED BAILOUT.
Many Americans can't pay their bills bc of Trump's stagflation from #tariffs, #IranWar... but he wants to bailout a failed airline‼️
#Corruption #USPol
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The Trump Administration is Already Pinning the Blame for the Demise of Spirit Airlines On Democrats
The Trump administration is already signalling that it will place the blame for the collapse of Spirit Airlines squarely at the feet of Democrats if last-ditch talks to save the beleaguered ultra-low-cost carrier end in failure.Mateusz Maszczynski (paddleyourownkanoo.com)
"Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, is leading U.S. diplomatic efforts with Iran while engaged in a lucrative, ongoing, multi-billion-dollar business relationship with the Saudi government. This brazenly corrupt arrangement is being completely ignored by most major media outlets."
~ Judd Legum
#JaredKushner #Trump #corruption #SaudiArabia #Iran #AffiinityPartners #media #ConflictofInterest
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The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal
As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
‘How could he say that?’ Veteran diplomats give Jared Kushner an 'F in diplomacy' #incompetence #nepotism #corruption #ForeignInfluence #Israel #puppet #UsefulIdiots #bribery #Netanyahu #Kushner #SaudiArabia www.alternet.org/trump-kushne...
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‘How could he say that?’ Veteran diplomats give Jared Kushner an 'F in diplomacy'
As the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran nears an end and the Trump Administration considers a second round of negotiations after the first attempt failed, experienced diplomats have told Time Magazine that they question whether American envoys “un…Nick Hilden (Alternet.org)
