@jeffowski

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Action_Task_Force

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_financing

When does the flow of money to the far right from foreign billionaires get classified as threat funding?

Thiel retains his American, Maltese, & New Zealand citizenships & continues to fund democracy-destroying activities in the G7.

The billionaire war on democracy & climate action comes in many forms.

Orchestrating a global financial collapse is one method
https://www.ft.com/content/7ecdff9f-4f3a-40dd-b984-9860097dd083
https://archive.is/XcIr3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_bond

@mcnado

Billionaires fund malign influence campaigns to promote Irrational fear-mongering. Just another element of "Terror Management" divide & conquer strategy.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-is-the-gop-escalating-attacks-on-trans-rights-experts-say-the-goal-is-to-make-sure-evangelicals-vote
It's a cynical ploy to turn out the evangelical vote.

Malign influence narratives against POC, women, seniors, immigrants, LGBTQ, Muslims, Jewish -- bigotry in America is how to get an electorate to vote against their own self-interest

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/social-media-terrorism/

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/31/nx-s1-5690124/ice-alex-pretti-immigration-unproven-claims-dhs-enforcement-arrests

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/disinformation-and-digital-media-as-a-challenge-for-democracy/disinformation-and-fear-propaganda-as-justification-for-the-war-on-terror-during-george-w-bushs-presidency/

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... & careers, from beyond the grave. For decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/cordelia-scaife-may-anti-immigration.html

It's to preserve their dynastic wealth with a side of class warfare, eugenics, & bigotry.

https://popular.info/p/charles-kochs-5-billion-tax-loophole

All these judicial nominees were groomed from law school onwards by Koch Network.

They have every right to be scared stiff of these dynasties.

They only have to spend $1.6 billion in Irish tax evasion, and they can erase the civil rights of 50% of the American population.

https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid

@georgetakei

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/01/02/feature/conquerors-of-the-courts/

These judges aren't necessarily afraid of Trump, an old goat fading fast.

They're terrified of the billionaires behind MAGA fascism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Foundation

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donor-profile-foster-friess/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaife_Foundations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelson_Foundations

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donor-profile-harold-simmons/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Coors_Foundation

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/387171837

The Epstein Class have left behind decades-long trust funds to mess with elections, ...

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@DemocracyMattersALot

Few US citizens, never mind migrants, can afford the legal fees if they're caught up in an ICE raid.

Detention facilities are indifferent to bycatch. They detain everyone without trial just to profit Trump donors. Geo Corp. CoreCivic.
https://prospect.org/2026/02/12/ice-immigration-prison-geo-group-trump/

https://inthesetimes.com/article/ice-immigration-customs-enforcement-private-prisons-geo-group-corecivic

https://theappeal.org/ice-geo-group-corecivic-profits/

Recommendation: avoid employment where ICE raids are common on paydays.

Koch Poultry
https://ncnewsline.com/briefs/a-disturbing-fact-you-may-not-have-heard-about-the-mississippi-ice-raids/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/us/ice-raids-mississippi.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/11/20/chicken-plants-paid-workers-below-minimum-wage-hired-a-child-labor-department-says/

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@rvps2001

Go after Russian oil revenues that fund the war on Ukraine.

Starve Putin's invasion.

@TCatInReality @EUCommission

Fair points.

The problem is that Meta, Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Palantir are squabbling to privatize age verification in American hands.

Does anyone trust these Trump donors with confidential information?

As the fiasco with Musk's DOGE proved, these folks don't adopt even rudimentary precautions to prevent data theft.

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-social-security-privacy

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5821106-social-security-data-theft/

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/privacy-under-siege-doges-one-big-beautiful-database/

The state surveillance platform these dopes want is international.

@EUCommission

Age verification is a truly terrible idea.

It doesn't protect children.

It shields American tech companies from lawsuits when they are negligent in their duty to public safety.

These are laws that will enrich Meta and Google.

@aral @wroof

#PrinceBonesaw locked up 200 people in the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, killed & tortured them using US intelligence he got from Kushner in 2017.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/19/saudi-accounts-emerge-of-ritz-carlton-night-of-the-beating

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-corruption-purge.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast/how-saudi-royal-crushed-his-rivals-shakedown-ritz-carlton-n930396

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-senior-saudi-figures-tortured-and-beaten-purge

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/16/jared-kushner-trump-saudi-khashoggi-mbs

https://www.businessinsider.com/kushner-tells-trump-to-back-saudi-until-khashoggi-outrage-ends-report-2018-10

https://www.vickywardinvestigates.com/p/exclusive-the-real-reason-jared-kushner

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8966175/How-Saudi-princes-tortured-blackmailed-2017-purge.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/11/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-corruption-mohammed-bin-salman.html

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/timeline-the-rise-of-saudi-arabias-prince-mohammed-bin-salman/

https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/saudi-arabia-the-story-of-the-missing-and-the-executed/

https://menarights.org/en/articles/beaten-mbs-and-disappeared-case-sulaiman-al-dowaish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Salman

@aral

https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4

https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2018/04/07/Saudi-Crown-Prince-discusses-joint-projects-with-Apple-s-Tim-Cook-

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

When a corporation takes investment from #PrinceBonesaw , that corporation does business the way the Saudis do business.
Corruptly. Murderously.

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693994447/apple-google-criticized-for-carrying-app-that-lets-saudi-men-track-their-wives

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/20/trump-absolves-mbs-of-khashoggi-killing-and-shames-all-of-us/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/21/amazon-boss-jeff-bezoss-phone-hacked-by-saudi-crown-prince

https://www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-ai-deal

https://www.nationalmemo.com/kushner-trump-saudi

@greenpeace

Renewable energy provides a nation with agency, autonomy, sovereignty, and the ability to say what Spain says to Trump. No.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/04/pedro-sanchez-donald-trump-threat-cut-off-trade-spain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-16/spain-s-sanchez-says-trump-s-war-on-iran-undermines-global-order

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93wwq1n542o

(Spain is an energy exporter now & can punch above its weight class.)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2026/04/07/trump-remarks-pushing-europe-to-security-alternatives-spain-says/89498857007/

@stefan @peter @inthehands

Part of the malaise striking the tech industry is the awareness that AI is a ubiquitous state surveillance platform.

It's like working for the East German Stasi in its waning days. The narcs & informers freaked out because their grift is ending.

The fossil fuel industry funds AI, not just for any of its stated reasons, but also for ending any nation ditching their toxic products.

Trump's oligarchs want to identify dissenters & opponents like ...

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.... their phantom "antifa" but also to oppose non-criminal conduct, unrelated to national security.

Trends like people taking free public transit & ditching their gas guzzlers. WFH.

Things like identifying every person posting against the fossil fuel industry's shills, Trump, Orban, Putin, and #PrinceBonesaw using age verification scams.

Hackers stole 10 petabytes of data from a Chinese supercomputer lab recently.

The only reason to collect that much data is economic cyberwarfare.

@inthehands

The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.

https://professionalsoutherner.com/2025/03/04/the-problem-of-the-hero/

People waiting around being miserable, suffering, and dying, waiting for the cavalry to arrive, or a small group of superheroes, or a lone man coming to the rescue.

It portrays Americans as a passive people letting others step forward & do the hard stuff.

Perlmutter, a major GOP donor, is the former owner of several movie franchises like the Marvel Universe.

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@gtsadmin @ramsey @iaruffell @ammdias

There is no fate but what we make.

Linux will not be subsumed into Meta's plans for state surveillance.

Why?
Linux people ascribe to John Oliver's credo...

@iaruffell @ammdias

My guess?

Linux developers may have patrons that they don't want to irritate.

My observation is that swift unemployment in a day job follows when a FOSS developer fails to fall in line.

@ tante@ tldr.nettime.org is just one example I can cite.

Age verification is getting unprecedented levels of support from funded mass malign influence campaigns.

@iaruffell @ammdias

These age-verification laws are getting promoted by Meta, in their ongoing efforts to evade culpability for content moderation & to eliminate privacy as a civil right.
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

https://fortune.com/2026/03/02/social-media-companies-age-verification-addiction-privacy-concerns/

https://thedeepdive.ca/who-pushes-age-verification-bills/

Meta never abided by child protection laws before. Why now?
https://archive.is/ZyajL

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/18/reddit-user-uncovers-meta-2b-lobbying-age-verification-xcxwbn/

They want to be able to sell ads adjacent to CSAM content for the Epstein Class & not face the type of repercussions ...

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@wdlindsy

Daily Kos keeps an ongoing list of GOP pervs.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/25/2350436/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-58

@DeliaChristina

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"The adult mindset of a resentful adolescent boy, with maladaptive social skills, who was rejected in high school.

Perpetually trying to fix the ego boo-boo's of the past."

Hey Alex Karp, Elon Musk, & Peter Thiel, the ghosts of the past aren't laid to rest by funding a fascist movement.

These feelings of inadequacy need self-awareness, therapy, and self-reflection.

Try that instead of ginning up a nuclear WW3.

@evacide

Isn't it strange that corporations that are actively trying to end all civil rights to privacy, up to & including creepy "Bedrooms & Bathrooms" voyeurism...

...yet refuse to disclose who they finance in a fascist movement
Dark Money is killing democracy

...yet refuse to acknowledge their complicity in the Epstein Files

...yet refuse to divulge their contact with foreign despots

...yet decline to release internal memos about teen suicidal ideation

... yet hide investors identities