StopTheMadness @bugfud

When Russian oligarchs pay for American oligarchs’ weddings, it’s a very sweet and romantic gesture, but we know who’s really getting married. The Trump government is drowning in Putin-style corruption and authoritarianism, Putin is slaughtering Ukrainians in his filthy war, young Americans can’t afford groceries or find jobs and the Trump family is pocketing billions of dollars in crypto tribute and payoffs. Let the oligarchs marry—the American people want a divorce from all of them.

ProPublica @propublica

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New: Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses at Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish wedding, including renting out a private island and paying for the fireworks show. propub.li/4xTBcxt

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We’re back in DC after five weeks away—and what are Republicans focused on? Gutting environmental protections for one of the most endangered species on Earth: right whales. Nothing to end the war. Nothing to help lower costs. Nothing to fix our broken health care system. Just more cruelty. There are only 380 of these whales left on planet earth. Disgraceful. I’m a HELL NO!

Family rips GOP for exploiting a fatal I-71 crash - including unauthorized use of personal family video - to attack Dem ex-Sen Sherrod Brown: "Our grief is not raw material for a campaign, and their images are not public property to repurpose for anyone's advantage"

Columbus Dispatch @DispatchAlerts

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An Ohio family devastated by a deadly I-71 crash is demanding a political ad tied to the U.S. Senate race be taken down, saying their grief is not a campaign tool. dispatch.com/story/news/pol…

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The world is suffering from a failure of imagination when it comes to the scope and scale of the ambition of Musk/Thiel and Putin/Xi. Your assumptions are their advantage.

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@EWErickson Ask yourself this...why do they *need* so many data centers? There are over 200 in Ohio right now, with more to be built. Most try to hide the fact that they are also linked to the gov.

"The larger story here is what these white supremacist MAGA Republicans were trying to cover up with this deflection strategy. Libertarian crackpot and fake science fan Rand Paul led this attack, ostensibly designed to sweep the headlines away from dead and dying Americans in Iran, the price of food and rent, and the allegations that Trump was raping children. But the real goal was even more monstrous. Here’s what really happened that they don’t want you to remember: Throughout January and February of 2020, Covid was limited to a few clusters here in the US, all in Blue state cities that were major air hubs like Seattle and New York. March 2020 was the month when things went to hell here. On March 5th there were 129 known cases and only 11 deaths in the US: just 33 days later, hospitals were using refrigerated trucks as morgues and over 10,000 Americans were dead of Covid. Fear ran through communities and stalked our homes because nobody yet knew for sure how this disease was transmitted or how deadly it would become. We were washing our groceries with bleach after picking them up at the store’s parking lot from people wearing masks, goggles, and gloves. We bought up all the air filters in the country. We worked from home when we could. We isolated ourselves from other people as much as was humanly possible. In March and early April, serious Covid outbreaks were showing up across the Northeast and Trump — who had two years earlier shut down both of the two federal pandemic task forces Obama had put into place after the Ebola scare — charged his son-in-law, nepo-baby slumlord Jared Kushner, with responding to the crisis. At Fauci’s suggestion, Trump’s official emergency declaration came on March 13th, and most of the country shut down during the following week. The skies and highways fell silent, the Dow collapsed, and millions of Americans were laid off, but saving lives was, as Dr. Fauci pointed out, the number one consideration. Jared Kushner put together a task force of preppie 30-something white men he knew from college to coordinate getting Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) from Trump buddies and companies close to Republican members of Congress into hospitals. They even had a plan for the Post Office to distribute 650 million masks — 5 to every American household — to slow the pandemic. But then came April 7th, just one month later, when the New York Times ran a front-page story with the headline: Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States. It was followed the day later with the all-caps headline across the top of the front page: BLACK AMERICANS BEAR THE BRUNT AS DEATHS CLIMB. Particularly if they were Black or Hispanic, as were the majority of these “essential” workers, particularly in meat packing. The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, July 10, 2020, found that among 9,919 cases in 21 states with reported race and ethnicity, 87% of all Covid deaths occurred among racial and ethnic minority workers. Brit Hume joined Tucker’s show and, using his gravitas as Fox’s “real news guy,” intoned, in response to the report that mostly Black and Hispanic people were dying: “The disease turned out not to be quite as dangerous as we thought.” Fully 12,677 Americans were dead by that April day, but now that Trump and the rightwing media knew that most of the non-elderly dying people were and would be Black and Hispanic, priorities were suddenly very, very different. Now it was time to quit talking about people dying and start talking about getting those Black and Hispanic people back to work, even if it meant exposing them to a deadly disease!" The Cover-Up Has Begun: First They Put Fauci on Trial, Then They Put History on Trial open.substack.com/pub/thomhartma…

They tell you Flock cameras are there to fight crime. So I pulled the actual police logs from my new favorite website (haveibeenflocked . com). 233 million searches that they have been able to get via FOIA requests and here's what "fighting crime" actually looks like: > 84% had no case number at all > The most common reason a cop typed in the box? Blank, nothing > Only about 9% were even tagged as a real crime. > "Test" and "training" show up as reasons, run on real people's cars > The FBI and Homeland Security were wired into local camera networks your town never signed off on. So what is Flock? FLOCK: 100,000+ plate cameras bolted to poles across America. They read your plate everywhere you drive and never forget. NOVA: Flock's AI that turns your plate into you. Your name, address, family, everyone you know, in seconds, no warrant. SIGNALTRACE: a competitor's tool that tracks the Bluetooth off your phone, your AirPods, your watch. Doesn't even need your plate. Then I followed the money and the lead investor behind Flock also funds an Israeli company that can hack cameras and change the footage. Another lead investor backs a 911 app that flips on your phone's camera and mic. Trace it all the way back and you hit a former Israeli prime minister and Jeffrey Epstein's money. Full article with photos and receipts is on my Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!

It’s a straight forward question, ‘Where is the unaccounted for money from Venezuela?’ The words I think he’s looking for is, ‘Into my bank account.’ Instead we get a Trumpian word salad. Just sayin’ 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZN8Joo4wK/

Ohioans got a big win this week when the Ohio EPA changed direction on data center water quality. Back in March, we asked you all to raise your voices and over 7,000 of you did just that. This week, we explain and say thank you. Don't let this be our last victory.

Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) long maintained he wasn't impaired during a 2011 crash. But newly obtained toxicology reports reveal he had MDMA and Klonopin in his system. It's part of a 2,000-page trove of records we obtained about Miller, who is currently running for a third term. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

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New Mexico says US Justice Dept hindering probe of former Epstein ranch reut.rs/4vTY7Yh reut.rs/4vTY7Yh

🚨BREAKING: Want to hate Flock more? They have a little-known “public safety data platform” called Nova, which combines their mass-surveilled footage with YOUR PERSONAL INFO from people search sites that are commonly used to dox & swat. But it gets EVEN WORSE...

As I have been saying for years, and was summarily dismissed by several so-called left-wing media outlets, Peter Thiel of Palantir is planning to build several private city-states run by a CEO, replacing social governance and collective sovereignty with corporate governance and corporate sovereignty. The UK duopoly's nationwide rollout of deregulated free zones immediately after Brexit is already carving up the UK into patchworks of corporate sovereignties. The British public was not meant to know this as secondary legislation bypassed Parliamentary debate, public consultation, and notification of the press. Palantir has 35 contracts with key UK public institutions. The head of the UK branch is Louis Mosley, grandson of British fascist Oswald Mosley. Palantir's Alex Karp head-hunted Louis Mosely and quoted his grandfather's fascist speeches during the interview, which called for Britain to seek peace with Nazi Germany. There are 48 SEZs and 8 Freeports in England, 18 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Scotland, and 8 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Wales. In January 2025 Keir Starmer launched AI Growth Zones, which provides the digital layer of free zones. Reminder Freeports, SEZs, AI Growth Zones are by their very nature expansionist projects, which just so happen to culminate in free/charter cities. William Rees-Mogg was the father of Jacob Rees-Mogg. He co-wrote the 1997 book The Sovereign Individual - How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State, which predicts that the Information Age will destroy the nation-state and give rise to a new elite class of wealthy, liberated individuals. It's all going to plan. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zHI3CA…

Vast crowd celebrates Bicentennial Day on National Mall, Washington DC, 1976:

A young woman named MacKenzie Tuttle graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. One of her professors was Toni Morrison, who later described her as one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught. After graduation, MacKenzie took a job at the New York investment firm D. E. Shaw. There she met a colleague named Jeff Bezos, who had an ambitious idea: selling books on the internet. She didn’t laugh at the idea. They married in 1993, and the following year drove across the country to the Seattle area to build what would become Amazon. In the beginning, there was no global empire. There was a garage. MacKenzie handled accounting, wrote business materials, answered customer emails and phone calls, and packed orders alongside Jeff. Like many startups, everyone did whatever needed to be done. As Amazon grew, MacKenzie stepped away from day-to-day operations to raise their four children while continuing to pursue her own passion for writing. Her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, won the American Book Award. She later published a second novel and quietly built a respected literary career. Meanwhile, the story of Amazon became one of the most famous business stories ever told. Jeff Bezos became one of the world’s most recognizable entrepreneurs. MacKenzie’s role was rarely part of the public narrative. She never seemed interested in changing that. What many people don’t know is that she also knew financial hardship. Her family filed for bankruptcy while she was still a student, and she has spoken about the kindness of people who helped her through difficult times—acts of generosity she never forgot. In 2019, after her divorce, MacKenzie Scott received approximately 4% of Amazon’s shares. Almost immediately, she made a decision that surprised the world. She signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate the majority of her wealth during her lifetime. Then she did something even more unusual. Instead of building a massive public foundation or attaching her name to buildings, she began giving away billions of dollars through large, unrestricted grants. Universities. Food banks. Housing organizations. Rural communities. Women’s health initiatives. Tribal colleges. Climate organizations. Small nonprofits that had never imagined receiving gifts of that size. Many recipients reportedly thought the phone calls were scams. They weren’t. Since 2019, MacKenzie Scott has donated tens of billions of dollars to thousands of organizations, making her one of the most significant philanthropists of the modern era. Despite giving away enormous sums, her fortune has remained substantial because of Amazon’s continued growth. The woman who once packed Amazon’s first orders is now helping fund opportunities for millions of people she will probably never meet. She never asked for buildings in her name. She never demanded headlines. Sometimes the greatest legacy isn’t the company you help build. It’s what you choose to do with the success that follows.

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New details (vivid examples) on a Russian cybercrime spree hitting major law firms across the US — hackers outsourcing burglary: ~ $100M in ransoms paid in 6 months, per 1 estimate; Hackers have offered $500 to people to show up to law firms & plug in USB sticks 1/4 (link below)