The Government came into office promising action on MPs' second jobs, ...

... but so far nothing has been done.

We are calling on the #Government to provide a clear update on what it will do to address #MPs' second #jobs, and when it will take action.

Delivering on this promise will help restore trust in our politics and in our elected politicians.

#Petition:

secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/…

#corruption #DemocracyNOW #backhanders #greed

Thin-sliced: Ron #DeathSantis stole money earmarked to feed children and worked through his wife's corrupt "non-profit'...
And the 'only crime' was revealing this fraud, whoever leaked the #truth to the people of #Florida

Article:

DeSantis: ‘The only crime’ connected to Hope Florida was leaked grand jury report

Surprised? After he diverted bigly #TrumpVirus money to use for contracts to buddies and self/foundation(s)...
Sound familiar? Next to Sir and his #MoneyLaundering #CrimeFamily, nobody knows #corruption like #FL's Ron #DeSantis

What hasn’t been reported is the stake is being purchased from a private equity fund run by #Australia #billionaire #MichaelDorrell, who owns a mansion on a private island near #MarALago & has boasted of socializing with Trump’s inner circle. Dorrell personally gave $926,300 to the #Trump Vance Inaugural Cmte 2 wks after Trump was elected for a 2nd term in late 2024 & another $73,700 a few weeks later, acc/to federal filings. (Dorrell also has US citizenship.)​

#law #corruption #TaxpayersMoney

Water company boss has an idea

• British #Comedy Guide [short video]

Yet another #water #contamination issue... but the water company has a plan.

comedy.co.uk/online/videos/285…

#Spicer #sewage #ClearWater #corruption #contaminated #MichaelSpicer #humour

$900 million from a canceled #wind deal will benefit a #Trump donor

Government #settlement money is going to a Trump neighbor’s private equity fund.

The Trump admin’s latest deal to cancel offshore wind projects & boost #FossilFuel #energy development instead is generating a huge payday for one of Trump’s million-dollar donors.

#law #corruption #TaxpayersMoney #ClimateSolutions #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
washingtonpost.com/business/20…

Germany’s AfD Party plans segregated education for refugee children and the disabled.

yahoo.com/news/politics/articl…

#news #politics #germany #afd #ethics #corruption #hate #racism

Gut so! Bitte gehen Sie morgen in diesen Geschäften einkaufen. Ohne Zuwanderung wird die Wirtschaft von Sachsenhalle zu schrumpfen beginnen.

tagesschau.de/inland/gesellsch…

#politics #politician #news #globalnews #conflict #internationalnews #wahl #afd #magdeburg #conservatives #JDVance #europe #eu #climate #climatechange #deutschland #sachsenanhalt #democracy #humanrights #rights #inequality #corruption

Has anyone explicitly compared the deliberate restucturing of the legislative and built environment that supported #motornormativity and the present day efforts to enforce the use of LLMs? I suspect those pushing LLMs are well aware of opium and tobacco as business models (state sponsored dependency) but the enforced transformation of work and public spaces (and the erasure of competing solutions - cycling, trams), the attack on environmental regulations and public health concerns-- this feels like the enforced transition to cars is also a model for them.

@emilymbender or others - is this well trodden and I just missed the references?

#policy #publichealth #waroncars #llm #corruption

Ban second jobs for #UK MPs

Ban MPs from having a second job. Being an #MP should be a full-time job, where they focus on the people they were elected to represent, not whoever is lining their pockets.

Why is this important?

• MPs should work for us, not for a second paycheck
• Being an MP should be a full-time job

Yet a small number of MPs are earning tens of thousands from outside work, precious time that should be spent representing their #constituents

Sign:

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ban-s…

#DemocracyNOW #Greed #Backhanders #corruption #petition

Friends of the Devil

#SCOTUS #TrumpVirus #King #BrainSpurs #corruption #evil #sedition #coverup #sanewashing #fascism #elections

Elections? What Elections? Constitution?

xcancel.com/DianaCialino/statu…

#TrumpVirus #SCOTUS #voting #election #tampering #integrity #corruption

Here it is, the part I haven't seen highlighted yet. 👏

Ontario Premier Doug Ford: "I don't respond to a dictator like Trump,"

Aside from "not going to be bullied", Ford rightly points out the absurdity of economic bullying/ranting by "the #King of #Bankruptcy. From casino$ to airline$ to ca$h-based "organizations"... #FollowTheMoney #TrumpEpsteinFiles #emoluments #corruption

Sir #TrumpVirus is "actually tariffing his own people .... Don't vote for a person who's going to kill your jobs."
"Your own people, President Trump, don't even like you" - and he will be campaigning with #truth from now unitl #elections

#TeamCanada #DougFord

Babies died, but no biggie. $500,000 donation to one of Trumps many slush funds will make it all go away.

#uspol #uspolitics #corruption

wsj.com/us-news/law/the-baby-f…

Happy weekend!

I think I've just 'figured it out' (or seen a history article from the future). Can hep possibly do more? TBC...

#TrumpVirus Plague

Season 1: "Fake virus" + "Building the best wall, and Mexico will pay for it".
Season 2: Canceling #history truth, #retribution, #emoluments, & the best #ballroom "you won't pay a dollar" for.

Other key words: #corruption #malignant #narcissism #sedition #Kleptocracy #conspiracy #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup

Meanwhile..

Vapid depravity': Rudy Giuliani ordered to prepare for 'sordid' sex trial

#Vapid #Depravity - seems like the key words for the whole #TrumpVirus / #GQP / #Kleptocracy #cult
But Rudy, like Sir, is special. Perfect vapid depravity. Like so many stars of the #TrumpEpsteinFiles and Cabinet of #Corruption

Well well.... Let's see all the #TrumpVirus fit to print - or maybe unfit among some of the #sanewashing #media.

Threatening Friends and Courting Enemies in Trump’s ‘Upside-Down World’

The president’s hostility to allies like Oman, Canada and South Korea, and his affection for adversaries like North Korea, may still shock some. But it comes as little surprise after a decade of upheaval.

✓ #BrainSpurs #MalignantNarcissism #Cognition

Once again, President Trump is threatening his country’s own partners with everything from tariffs to bombs. Once again, he is fawning over a nuclear-armed tyrant deemed to be one of the biggest dangers to U.S. security. And once again, the world is left trying to make sense of a United States that has upended the world order that it established eight decades ago.

Gift article, from the ("failing") New York Times
Seems very interesting, for the #psychology and the #ContextAndPerspective
re: " #politics " - or rationale. Is there #strategy ? #Diplomacy ?
The 'policy' of the USA appears to all sentient observers, to be #madness & #corruption

Happily/hopefully.... Something from the good news / Thanks be to G-d department

Republicans Sold It By One Vote. Walz Took It Back.

Plus: 16 former DOJ lawyers turned on their old department, and a town of 7,500 beat Big Tech

Close call. Vigilance and open eyes / attention to #truth still required. But here was disaster averted...

Developers proposed six data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, a town of around 7,500 people. The project would include 51 warehouse buildings spread across 1,500 acres, including an 18-building complex next to the ballfields at Staback Park.

The Boundary Waters is the most visited wilderness in America, and the Ojibwe have depended on that water for generations....
In 2023, Biden’s Interior Department issued a twenty-year mining ban in the area. In April, the GOP Senate ripped the protections away with a single vote, 50 to 49. Trump signed it eleven days later.

#DataCenters #DOJ #Copper #environment #JoshShapiro #TimWalz #Archbald #TwinMeadows #TrumpVirus #GQP #corruption

corruption that used to quiet is now shamelessly displayed

substack.com/@thomaskarat/note…
#truth #corruption #capitalism #economy

Whether it's a🚨corrupt campaign FIN system, unprec income & wealth #inequality, a broken & expensive HC system, the enormous threats posed by AI or an immoral & destructive foreign policy, #progressives⚡are talking about the real issues facing working families +providing real solutions.🚨Estab #Democrats are not.

Polls show the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is rigged *60%➡️live paychk to paychk.
Schumer/Jeffries:📤‼️
#Corruption #USPol
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

toad.social/@KimPerales/117116… KimPerales@toad.social - "Another sale🚨of private prisons to #DHS just went through.🚨On taxpayer dime. Trump owns private prisons and will benefit here. No major media company is covering this story.🚨Private prisons plan to sell even more facilities to the government."

And the #TrumpRegime, by owning the facilities, is able to more effectively hide the atrocities from #oversight, and thus the public, that #ICE is committing inside the #DeathCamps.

#Corruption #Detention #USPol
trumpportfoliotracker.substack…

“Though Mr. Kushner does not hold an official #US government position, Mr. #Trump has tapped him, alongside real estate developer [🤦🏼‍♀️] #SteveWitkoff, to lead #diplomacy on matters as diverse as #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine & the #Israel - #Hamas war.”

Bang up job so far idiots. There’s a reason for career diplomats — they know what they’re doing.

#USpol #idiocracy #geopolitics #SelfDealing #corruption #Gaza #Palestinians #HumanitarianCrisis #JaredKushner #Putin #Netanyahu #WarCrimes

This guy DOES NOT WORK FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT & therefore has no #oversight or #guardrails & no obligation to the people of the #US

#JaredKushner Meets With #Hamas to Advance Trump’s #Gaza “Plan”

#Trump’s son-in-law met the #Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see #Israel PM Benjamin #Netanyahu.

#USpol #geopolitics #SelfEnrichment #SelfDealing #corruption #MiddleEast
nytimes.com/2026/08/16/world/m…

#DrainTheSwamp

Drained science & education from OUR government, drained away tax dollars for the #TrumpVirus #Kleptocracy, drained away #justice for #TrumpEpsteinFiles survivors, adequate conditions for sailors serving the country, #truth, #justice, and "liberty for all".

Sir Stable Genius ... He IS the swamp!

#truth #corruption #emoluments #grift

Tapes Hidden in an Ice Cream Box Lay Bare a Maltese Journalist’s Assassination

occrp.org/en/news/tapes-hidden…

#crime #corruption #news

In #stupid things Kentuckians do. . .

> 'Enormous subsidies': Tax breaks for Kentucky data centers raise alarm
archive.ph/d7dbf (unlocked)

#BadEconomy #FollowTheMoney #corruption #AISlop #sloperator #cogsucker #KentuckyProud

The theme song for Sir #TrumpVirus the #MoneyLaundering #King and his bevy of #coverup crew, like #ToddBlanche & #GQP

"Just a little while... " Right, Todd...

Reminded of an old Savoy Brown song, perhaps more fitting for 2-Keg Hegseth or Google-eyes Patel, but still... a theme song.

Just a little more time/wine...

#drunkard #liars #Hegseth #Patel #ToddBlanche #TrumpVirus #alcoholism #music #SavoyBrown #wine #whine #corruption

Progress Note from Katie Phang on her #law suit against the #TrumpVIrus / #ToddBlanche #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup

AG Blanche BLASTED In NEW FILING Ahead of MAJOR HEARING In MY Lawsuit!!

Delay is the name of the game for Todd Blanche in my lawsuit. But, my latest filing on the eve of a big in-person hearing tomorrow is designed to blast Blanche into compliance.

I walk through the brief & explain why this Status Hearing is a huge inflection point.

"I'm never going to let moss grow on a rolling stone".... - #KatiePhang

#Truth #justice #EpsteinVictims #TrumpVictims #obstruction #corruption #plutocracy #ethics #CPL

Great street art - says it all

Vote Binface
Dump Farage

#farage #nigelfarage #richardtice #reform #reformuk #restore #clacton #clactononsea #essex #countbinface #binface #votebinface #elections #elections #byelection #buyelection #politics #ukpol #ukpolitics #uk #britain #greatbritain #england #rightwing #farright #corruption #dishonesty #sleaze #grift #grifter #moneylaundering #donation #donations #crypto #nazi #nazis #fascism #migrants #migration #immigration

Worth quoting from his insightful Aug 11 post @pluralistic:

"The Trump administration is the most unpopular in more than a century. Trump has stolen more money in office than any president in history. Trump presides over spiraling greedflation and collapsing buying power. The Trump administration has also presided over a titanic increase in state-aligned, privatized surveillance. The Trump years are the Flock years:

newrepublic.com/article/206992…

The Trump years are the Palantir years:

nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technol…

The Trump years are the facial recognition years:

aclu.org/news/privacy-technolo…

1/2

pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tra…

#Trump #GOP #Corruption #Congress #Greedflation #Pluralistic

Also worth noting from his @pluralistic post:

"Trump's authoritarianism is a function of his misrule, and his misrule is enabled by his authoritarianism. The more he steals, the more he destroys with wars of choice, and incoherent tariff policies, and official pronouncements linking autism and vaccinations, the more he needs spy cameras, internet surveillance, vehicle tracking, and facial recognition. Every time Trump talks about a third term in office, or canceling elections, or suppressing the vote, he creates demand for mass surveillance to catch and imprison the people this drives into the streets. The more mass surveillance there is, the safer it is for him to commit unpopular, corrupt acts. It's the world's worst self-licking ice-cream cone.

It's not just Trump, of course. Trump is the vanguard of a movement of orifice lottery winners whose delight in stealing, cheating, maiming and despoiling gives rise to political instability and requires them to divert some of their yacht money to mercenaries:

theintercept.com/2026/06/25/po…

2/2

pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tra…

#Trump #GOP #Corruption #Congress #Greedflation #Pluralistic

#WFP to extend #Palantir contract despite concerns raised in leaked audit

The #UN's World #Food Programme is finalizing a five-year renewal of its contract with US data software firm Palantir despite “key privacy concerns” raised in a leaked 2025 internal audit.

The audit, seen by PassBlue and #FRANCE 24, reveals UN misgivings about allowing Palantir to process data for the world’s largest humanitarian supply chain

france24.com/en/americas/20260…

#corruption #BigData #BoycottUSA #privacy #PalantirWarCrimes

#TrumpVirus isn't cool?

Trump isn’t cool anymore —and it’s costing these billionaires millions

But but... he eats all the best #WordSalad & spews it out so explosively!
A stable genius w/ all the best words, reflected in his terrific #cognitive pool. Perfect, really.

Were this true at significant scale, it would be great to see the #MAGA bubble burst, or at least become vastly less profitable.
But the Ellisons still assume they'll have CNN in the bag soon, and maybe stop bleeding money.

If not, eh... a few million here or there... pocket change in this land of #Billionaire Bros, #corruption, and #lawlessness for fun & profit.

#Plutocracy is riding high. #TaxtheRich is still just a meme.