Ben McKenzie

“The company agreed to plead guilty to violating U.S. money laundering laws in February, shortly before Mr. Cuomo entered the race. It has not disclosed what it was paying Mr. Cuomo.”

Cuomo Earned Almost $5 Million From Consulting in 2024, Returns Show

In case you needed another reason not to vote for this loser, OKX is now an admit money launderer. “One was OKX, an offshore cryptocurrency exchange that hired the former governor in 2024 as it came under scrutiny by the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors for operating illegally in the United States.”

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Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over?

Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen.

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Genuinely hilarious

Very bad

:)

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UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

The White House photographed from the driveway between it and the Treasury building, with the facade of the East Wing gutted. I don’t think the caretakers of the property pulled all the proper permits before starting work!

Behold: Republican permitting reform.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.

Please pay attention to this. It’s dirty as hell. 👇

lol

No Kings rally in BK ❤️

Wahoo wah motherf#*cker

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Will do

Thank you Joseph!

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Had the privilege of seeing 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money' at its US premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival yesterday, and the honor of speaking with director @benmckenzie.bsky.social after the screening. You need to see this incredible documentary!
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Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.

The Golden Age of Transnational Repression | Journal of Democracy Authoritarian regimes are targeting exiles and diaspora communities in more places than ever before. Activists, journalists, and regular people living abroad must watch their backs…

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An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo driving a train.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo working on the outside of a building.

An AI generated image of Andrew Cuomo on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI.

Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

David Cross folks.

Fair

*latter*

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You are praising a conman in your own party while simultaneously saying you will fight the conman in The White House. The former is why no one believes you on the later.

They're going to use the Comey case to break the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, just like they used the Adams case to break the office in the Southern District of New York.

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

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Barstool's Kirk Minihane called the extreme right "the biggest group of pussies that has ever existed in America"

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to him today about that and much more.