Subodh Chandra

Idiocracy.

What a reckless CEO.

When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

And then just watch and wait as the Supreme Court says that when blue states do it, it is wrong, but does nothing about red states doing it. The Supreme Court has made it pretty clear that there is no rule of law left.

If you're a Harvard grad, please call the president's office and tell him you expect him to hold firm and cut ZERO "deals" with Trump. (617) 495-1502

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Sickening. No taste. No class. No respect.

Scientists Discover Gene Responsible For Eating Whole Goddamn Bag Of Chips

Scientists Discover Gene Responsible For Eating Whole Goddamn Bag Of Chips theonion.com/scienti...

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds

Gift link. Fascinating and sad. A piece of colonial history I didn't know. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...

They’re coming after cities, universities, professional bureaucrats, and markets. They want to flatten all countervailing institutional power that may exist outside of the executive in order to remake America into their single image.

The truth is whatever Dear Leader says.

EXCLUSIVE: Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell's Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas According to sources, you can't move someone with a Public Safety Factor (PSF) designation - which Maxwell had - without waiving it. That's what happened here.

“The reason for the move is listed as a “lesser security transfer” (code 308), which is completely inappropriate for inmates who are in the early stages of serving their sentences. ‘This is such obvious corruption. I have never seen this before.’”

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Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.

Molly Ivins's quote about Dan Quayle applies equally well to Trump: “If you put that man’s brain in a bumblebee, it would fly backwards.”

When we say “never forget,” we usually are rightly referring to the Holocaust. Soon we will also be referring to who was on the right side of history now.

And publicly stated on multiple occasions that he is sexually attracted to his own daughter.

MAGA went from wanting the death penalty for child rapists to being apologists for sending them to do their time in a minimum security club fed.

All for their hero. Maxwell can hurt Trump, so she gets what she wants. And none of them will say a word about it.

I can tell I’m going to run out of gift links quickly this month.

Judges Keep Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Arrests, in Setback for Trump Agenda

Gift link: Federal Appeals Court Judges Affirm Restrictions on Blatantly Racist, Xenophobic L.A. Immigration Arrests, in Setback for Racist, Xenophobic Trump Agenda. (Sometimes you have to edit a @nytimes.com headline for accuracy.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

‘Can We Extradite Him?’ How U.S. Officials Grappled With the Release of a Triple Murderer

This people are so damned incompetent. They secured the release of a man convicted of three brutal murders to bring him to us. And then they kind of tried to cover it up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

Thank you.

Thank you, @aclu.org. If there's one thing that defies all sense it's arresting people who are submitting themselves to the justice system and due process, prepared to accept the results.

Of all the places for ICE to illegally be, the immigration courts are the WORST. The people at those courts ARE DOING THINGS THE LEGAL WAY, like the GOPers say they want. They got here. They spoke to who they were told to speak to. They obeyed their NTAs. ICE does NOT get to arrest them for it!!!

Fascism. Bigotry. All rolled into one.

Ohio Board of Professional Conduct recommends two-year suspension for Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze for repeated misconduct and dishonesty | Chandra Law Firm | 216-578-1700 | Berkeley | San Diego | Clev... Ohio Board of Professional Conduct recommends two-year suspension for Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze for repeated misconduct and dishonesty; Semary's Cuyahoga County employment retaliation lawsuit almost...

Ohio Board of Professional Conduct recommends two-year suspension for Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze for repeated misconduct & dishonesty. Findings corroborate some of former judicial assistant Georgeanna Semary's civil-rights suit allegations. #EmploymentRetaliation

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Lord, have mercy. 💯

And convicted of 34 felonies. And found liable for sexual assault.

When Trump uses $1 billion of our hard-earned money to buy himself a gold-plated gift, he reminds us all of how he has shredded the Constitution’s two Emoluments Clauses, which he violated from the first day of his first term.

This is righteous and correct. Government lawyers should not knowingly violate the Constitution. It is an abuse of power.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.

Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.