Ricardo Moreno

3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or tw

Last week:

-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"

We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

On this day in 1956, as Soviet tanks took the streets of Budapest, the brave people of Hungary rose up in defiance of oppression and foreign domination.

As Hungary remembers the heroes of the 1956 Revolution, let us also commemorate those who fight today for their freedom and their independence.🇭🇺

Guess what? Trump and Big Tech are rewriting global trade rules in secret.

Here’s what’s at stake. 🔍

Verification, Deliberation, Accountability: A new framework for tackling epistemic collapse and renewing democracy Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank. We produce original research, publish innovative thinkers and host thought-provoking events.

🧵 Across the world, democracy isn’t just under pressure, it’s facing epistemic collapse: a breakdown in the shared ability to know what’s true, to reason together and to hold power to account.

A new guest paper by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @drnataliemartin.bsky.social explores how to fix it.

This guy is the best bullshitter ever. By far - The Best. Besides the presidency is there an award for this? Like the bullshit awards or something ?

a man is wearing a black jacket and a necklace and has the words think about it on his face . ALT: a man is wearing a black jacket and a necklace and has the words think about it on his face .

At $1 million per seat he’s going to make a sh!t load of money there.

Everyone follow @verified.pds.mmatt.net - it tracks all the U.S. government accounts signing up and there are several.

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.

Block on sight.

Protect your digital space.

Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.

The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

Click subscribe and block them all at once.
bsky.app/profile/eva....

Putin did colossal damage by treating the retard in the white house as a retard. He should have played it cool. Now russians will face the power of TACO 🌮

not really

Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

Cartoon by John Deering.

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#noKings
#50501

ICE agents body-slam an unarmed U.S. citizen on a public sidewalk. “Stop! He’s not doing anything!” a woman shouts. “You’re next!” the agent warns... just 3 blocks from where agents shot a woman hours earlier.

"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

"We've been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies." - Macron defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

JFC

🚨The Russian asset in the White House & his regime just visually catalogued every single flag officer in our military, and televised it across the globe.

If that does not raise massive alarm bells for you, then you are woefully fucking stupid.

By now everyone should already know and take backup measures - You can not count with the Americans.

Trump: "I'm gonna be meeting with generals and admirals and with leaders, and if I don't like somebody, I'm gonna fire them right on the spot."

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

🇩🇪 Merz said that talks about peaceful life in Germany are over.

He explained that due to the increase in the number of hybrid attacks on critical infrastructure and cyber networks, the country has ceased to live in peaceful conditions.

They tried to “fix” Brasil but bolsonaro got busted