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Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has reported to federal prison to begin 11-year sentence With the Trump administration rolling back enforcement of anti-corruption laws, could politicians being imprisoned for corruption be part of a 'bygone era,' as one watchdog group says?

I'm glad Menendez was forced out & now faces the legal consequences of his corruption & treason. But I don't understand a system in which this happens, while the Republican President of the United States commits the same crimes, on a level orders of magnitude worse, & faces no consequences at all.

Is the DOJ Subsidizing Insurrection? Your tax dollars could be flowing to white nationalists and conspiracy theorists

Is the Trump admin using your tax $$$ to fund insurrectionists and election deniers? $5M to Ashli Babbitt’s family from the DOJ and now a $100M proud boys lawsuit… This is an end around congress. Think a “Capitol Insurrectionist Compensation Fund” would pass?

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We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social

Did UnitedHealth Exploitation Result in Yet Another Preventable Death? 22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht's asthma medicine abruptly jumped from $55 to $700—unable to get the medicine he needed, he died 5 days later

22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht's asthma medicine abruptly jumped from $55 to $700. Unable to get the medicine he needed, he left without it.

Cole suffered an asthma attack and died 5 days later. His inhaler was empty & his insurance corp was UnitedHealth.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/did-united...

this is excellent — straight talk from a meteorologist who spells out in clear terms what effect all these senseless cuts are having

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had proposed this, the GOP would be in the streets with pitchforks and
torches.

I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents.

“It’s one thing for me to talk about oligarchy as an abstraction,” Bernie Sanders told @eosnos.bsky.social. “Trump has made it clear. He has said it loudly and clearly: we are a government of billionaires.”

Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox.

“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.

Russia’s New Weapon: Child 'Suicide Bombers' Moscow’s intelligence services are recruiting civilians, including the young and vulnerable, to carry remotely detonated explosives

Old enough to remember when America opposed this sort of thing.

A gang leader released by Bukele reveals his pacts with the government of El Salvador In an interview with ‘El Faro,’ Charli, leader of a faction of Barrio 18, details how the rapprochement with the president’s circle began

english.elpais.com/internationa... This would confirm that the USG returned a gang leader to El Salvador to help Bukele cover up his help to MS13. He also confirms the Treasury knew this. That would mean the USG literally assisted MS13, a named US terrorist group.

Tesla sales for April continue to sink in Europe…. All sales for the first 4 months of the year across Europe now the same as 2 weeks of sales in China.

The Corporate Crusade Of Trump’s Top Retirement Cop Potential pension chief Daniel Aronowitz wants to give retirement fund managers a free pass for price-gouging workers and bungling their savings — and his company stands to profit from it.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s pick to oversee Americans’ retirement savings pressed to block retiree lawsuits aiming to stop corporations from looting workers' 401ks, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.

His firm could profit off a regulatory rollback. www.levernews.com/the-corporat...

Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion President Donald Trump and his family are deeply involved in the world of cryptocurrency as his administration seeks to deregulate the industry.

Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion

Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion President Donald Trump and his family are deeply involved in the world of cryptocurrency as his administration seeks to deregulate the industry.

The largest act of corruption in the history of the presidency. $2 billion investment in the Trump’s meme coin by a foreign government. Who else besides his family is involved? Witkoff’s son- you know, the person leading negotiations with Russia and Iran…

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

In case anyone is wondering

Nails it….

'Let that sink in': Ex-GOP lawmaker slams Cabinet member for following 'Trump off a cliff' “Let’s be clear: [the war in Ukraine] would end tomorrow if Russia just… you know…stopped firing. That’s not speculation — it’s fact," Adam Kinzinger penned in a new substack.The former GOP Congressma...

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SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.

While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.

Hello?

I don’t understand the sudden push for Kamala Harris.

1. She and her team knew about Biden’s decline and said nothing. They were complicit.

2. She ran against Trump and lost.

3. She has been largely silent about what’s happening since the election.

Why does anyone think she’s the answer?

U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records The U.S. sent 238 Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran mega-prison. The Trump administration says they're all gang members, but 60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75 percent of them.

60 Minutes“could not find criminal records” for 75% of the 238 men the Trump admin sent to a Salvadoran prison. Of the 22% that had records, the “vast majority are for non-violent offenses.” Trump admin still insists they’re “terrorists.”

www.cbsnews.com/news/what-re...

This is what corruption looks like.

NY's Economic Sovereignty: Raiffeisen's Actions Demand Investigation to Assert New York’s Constitutional Authority and Protect the Rule of Law Attorney General Letitia James must act swiftly and decisively

Please read our latest Substack post about how NY State has the agency and authority to defend the rule of law and underscore NY Stat’s commitment to a free and transparent financial system. dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/nys-econom...

Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.

The White House has no need for a Starlink data uplink. In a country that still respected the rule of law, this wouldn’t be described as anything other than using the White House to advertise Starlink. Your tax dollars are supplementing SpaceX’s ad budget www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

Andrew Duncan, Co-founder of R.T. Weatherman Foundation: "For Freedom" speech YouTube video by RTWF

Fantastic speech by Andrew Duncan. www.youtube.com/watch?si=miG...

New Treasury Rule Opens U.S. Financial Borders, Provides Secrecy to Fentanyl Traffickers and Other Criminals - Transparency International

Today’s Treasury decision opens the US for business by criminals—fentanyl traffickers, human traffickers, terrorist organizations, corrupt officials— just set up a shell company for their criminal operations anywhere in the US and they are guaranteed secrecy.

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Opinion: It’s time to ban Congress members from trading stocks | CNN Business The Ban Conflicted Trading Act would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks or similar investments and prohibit them from serving on corporate boards while in office.

For years, I’ve advocated for a stock trading ban for members of Congress. Lawmakers should serve the public, not profit from their positions. Banning stock trading would help restore trust and ensure elected officials work for you—not their own financial gain.

This is how our government has been corrupted: 

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 
3) Donors make a huge profit. 
4) Repeat.

For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.

Welcome to The Dekleptocracy Project's Substack Where We Do Things Other Than Yell at Old People in Washington

Follow us (and share) on our new Substack where we’ll be identifying the corruption driving Trump’s policies and concrete steps Americans can take to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/deklepto...

No. The Ukrainian Army is not surrounded. Anyone that can read a map can see that. If Trump actually believes this, it’s clear that he’s just mainlining Putin propaganda. If he doesn’t believe it, he’s participating in that propaganda.