clevertrousers.bsky.social

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@clevertrousers.bsky.social

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈USA needs a wealth tax. Our parties pit us against one another ardently supporting multinational corporations & tax haven abuse. Stop protecting wealthy kleptocrats. Beneficial Ownership Reporting closes tax loopholes; billionaires must pay their share

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Wow...apparently the ESA thinks it's ok to sell software online and then make it go poof ✨when upkeep doesn't suit you anymore. This is a one way street with no respect to the consumer. We own nothing sold digitally, yet we are bound by the DMCA. How is this fair? www.theesa.com/opinion-misg...

theesa.comOpinion: Misguided California bill would harm video game makers, playersAs seen in the Sacramento Bee June 9, 2026 By ESA President & CEO Stan Pierre-Louis Immersive, online video games […]
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How did Nippon Steel finally acquire U.S. Steel? Corporate documents filed with the SEC contain a section that literally name “Donald J. Trump”, granting him veto power over everything from plant closures to pricing strategies to executive compensation. 😳

techdirt.comCorporate Deal Making Made Easy: Just Give Donald Trump Personal Power To Approve All Strategic DecisionsHere’s a fun corporate governance puzzle for you. Suppose you’re a foreign company trying to buy an American steel producer. The previous administration blocked your deal. The current p…
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I cobbled together this synopsis of #projectrussia for anyone who's not got time to dig into the articles and podcasts: Between 2005 and 2010, a set of books called “Project Russia” was distributed to high-ranking officials in the Russian government and other influential thought leaders.

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I cobbled together this synopsis of #projectrussia for anyone who's not got time to dig into the articles and podcasts: Between 2005 and 2010, a set of books called “Project Russia” was distributed to high-ranking officials in the Russian government and other influential thought leaders.

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4. Intend to bring about a war over world views; insist their's has the moral authority while democracy is the anti-christ 5. U.S. dollar is a system of hegemony and will collapse ( and project Russia will then take over the U.S.) 6. Parallel society that will eventually take over the status quo

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I cobbled together this synopsis of #projectrussia for anyone who's not got time to dig into the articles and podcasts: Between 2005 and 2010, a set of books called “Project Russia” was distributed to high-ranking officials in the Russian government and other influential thought leaders.

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The over-arching purpose of Project Russia is to install a super-national autocracy (monarch of the world) run by a prince-monk (Elon Musk, Xi Jinping) and a court of elites. The authors believe that: 1. "the apotheosis of Western thought is realized in Hitler" 😳...

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Is anyone else following #projectrussia? Dave Troy (The Washington Spectator) has Podcast episodes and a great piece: washingtonspectator.org/project-russ...

washingtonspectator.org“Project Russia,” Reveals Putin’s Playbook | Washington SpectatorBetween 2005 and 2010, a set of books called “Project Russia” was distributed to high-ranking officials in the Russian government and other influential thought leaders. The books offered a detailed…
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Please use it. But as Corey Doctorow said, "Will they? I mean, it's the kind of tactic Mitch McConnell would have leapt at without even bothering to fully raise the lid of his sarcophagus." prospect.org/politics/202...

prospect.orgSenate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful BillThanks to a Republican vote to stop California from setting its own auto emissions, Democrats can challenge virtually any Trump administration action, and eat up time on the Senate floor.
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America 2.0 (Dave Troy) published an interesting article last month on Corey Booker's ties to Shmuley Boteach, Jared Kushner and his Chabad Backer: Charles Kushner... america2.news/is-cory-book...

america2.news“Is Cory Booker for real?” — Why Democrats Should Think Twice Before Betting on the Senator From New JerseyMany see Senator Cory Booker as presidential material — but his complex personal ties raise questions about his judgment.

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Victor Hale
@theradicalfederalist.substack.com

When Trade Becomes Treason: Why Every State Should Follow California’s Lead (1/12) █ Trump’s tariffs weren’t economic policy. They were sabotage. California just responded—by opening direct trade talks with foreign governments. Not fear. Not silence. Survival. Let’s break it down.

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Thanks, Schumer. Way to negotiate!

Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com

A nonpartisan analysis released Friday shows the budget resolution Republicans plan to adopt later this month would allow Congress to add up to $5.8 trillion to the deficit during the next decade. By @jennifershutt.bsky.social

coloradonewsline.comGOP budget would add an 'unprecedented' $5.8 trillion to the deficit, analysis finds • Colorado NewslineA nonpartisan analysis shows the budget resolution Republicans plan to adopt would allow Congress to add up to $5.8 trillion to the deficit.

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WIRED
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Replying to @wired.com

We’ve mapped out a non-exhaustive list of people affiliated with DOGE, including creating a searchable table with each member, their corporate history, and the agencies they’ve been connected to. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Why the drama? Trump shared his Nixon-shock plan with us before the election...devaluing the dollar is why the Wall Street financiers and Silicon Valley VCs elected him. (MAGAts had no idea, but I can't imagine it's easy to see much through Orange-tinted glasses in the eye of a shitstorm.)

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Replying to @australia.theguardian.com

Maybe should've stopped Putin infiltrating democracy when y'all had the chance... “This is what I was told he [Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko] reported back to Moscow: "We have crushed the British to their knees. They will not rise for a very long time.” ~Sergei Cristo

the-citizens.comONLINE EVENT! Behind the scenes of 'Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring', with Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Jukes, Sergei Cristo & special guests. - The CitizensCOMING SOON. From the team that brought you the chart topping podcast Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring, comes an online event and Q&A next month. Sign up below! Join us to hear about our investigat...
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"What if the maneuver is not about working-class industrial jobs or public debt at all. What if it is really best thought of as a grift, as wise-guy arbitrage, as play between devalued fiat currency, gold and Trump’s new bitcoin reserve?" ~Tooze; Chartbook

adamtooze.substack.comChartbook 363 Stockholm syndrome in Mar-a-Lago: The belief that "something must be done" and the sanewashing of economic policy in the age of TrumpFeast your eyes on this dear readers.
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The real reason Kamala lost the election is $$$ SECRECY. Corporate America wants tax havens; Trump promised to reverse the Corporate Transparency Act scheduled to go into effect 01/31/25. He did. FinCEN removed all "Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements" for U.S. Companies and U.S. Persons.

fincen.govFinCEN.govWASHINGTON––Today, FinCEN announced that it will not issue any fines or penalties or take any other enforcement actions against any companies based on any failure to file or update beneficial ownershi...
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For the past 100 years, international tax rules have been primarily determined by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), a small club of the world's richest countries & tax havens. This global tax system causes countries to lose over $483 BILLION in taxes every year.

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arrogantly walking out, urging others to do the same. The gambit backfired and he proceeded to walk out alone. Cooperation is essential to enforcing sovereign tax policies and safeguarding the interests of a country's working class. Sadly, neither US political party advocates for the working class.

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The US had enjoyed veto power at OECD; but now the US multinational corporations so well represented at Trump’s inauguration will realize that refusing US participation = no US interference; and the declared goals of the UN tax negotiations will soon make it a lot harder for them to cheat on tax.

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For the past 100 years, international tax rules have been primarily determined by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), a small club of the world's richest countries & tax havens. This global tax system causes countries to lose over $483 BILLION in taxes every year.

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Pres. Trump issued an XO (1st day back in office) rejecting “Pillar Two” of the OECD framework, an international initiative to reform how multinational enterprises (MNEs) are taxed, opening the possibility of imposing retaliatory taxes / tariffs against businesses of nations that implement the deal.

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The 15% global minimum tax is intended to curtail the 'race to the bottom' in which large multinational corporations vie to stow profits in no- or low-tax jurisdictions. But In February, negotiations at the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC) began with the US delegate

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Democracy Challenged
@democracychall.bsky.social

In 2017, an Irish subsidiary of the #CocaCola Company saw its intangible assets skyrocket from $87M to $25.7B, a staggering 29,250% increase! tinyurl.com/yfsafway #ireland #tax #profitshifting

tinyurl.comHow Ireland Became Coca-Cola’s Billion-Dollar Tax ShelterIn 2017, a little-known Irish subsidiary of The Coca-Cola Company reported an astonishing increase in its intangible assets. European Refreshments Unlimited Company (ERUC), based in Ireland, saw th…
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@lorifreshwater.bsky.social wondering if you saw this yet: TCE is Highly Toxic. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It. www.propublica.org/article/tce-...

propublica.orgTCE Is Linked to Heart Defects in Babies, Cancer and Parkinson’s. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It.The toxic substance, used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, has been linked to a host of serious health problems. A Biden-era ban on the chemical has faced multiple challenges since Trump took office...

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Democracy Docket
@democracydocket.com

NEW: The greatest threat to Trump’s authoritarian dream is not the courts — it is free and fair elections, @marcelias.bsky.social writes. The president's latest illegal executive order is a wake-up call for those who believe the danger of election subversion has passed.

democracydocket.comTrump’s Latest Executive Order is a Sham—and a WarningFrom Marc | The greatest threat to Donald Trump’s authoritarian dream is not the courts — it is free and fair elections.
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@davidshor.bsky.social Have you considered the possibility vote tabulators may have been compromised? 3 independent sources: 1.@electiontruth.bsky.social, a collaboration of cybersecurity, statisticians & data scientists dedicated to election analysis, highlighting potential election manipulation...

electiontruthalliance.orgElection Truth AllianceExplore the consequences of election fraud and the importance of safeguarding the voting process for a healthy democracy.
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3. Prof. Alex Halderman's post (Princeton's CITP blog) details a report prepared two years ago (with Prof. Drew Springall, Auburn University) as part of a long-running voting-rights lawsuit, Curling v. Raffensperger, explaining how attackers could exploit flaws to change votes / potentially affect

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election outcomes, including how technical and procedural protections could be defeated. CISA released a security advisory (June 2022); recommendations went unheeded. blog.citp.princeton.edu/2023/06/14/s...

blog.citp.princeton.eduSecurity Analysis of the Dominion ImageCast X - CITP BlogToday, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Georgia permitted the public release of Security Analysis of Georgia’s ImageCast X Ballot Marking Devices, a 96-page report that describe...
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@davidshor.bsky.social Have you considered the possibility vote tabulators may have been compromised? 3 independent sources: 1.@electiontruth.bsky.social, a collaboration of cybersecurity, statisticians & data scientists dedicated to election analysis, highlighting potential election manipulation...

electiontruthalliance.orgElection Truth AllianceExplore the consequences of election fraud and the importance of safeguarding the voting process for a healthy democracy.
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2. A letter sent (2024) to Kamala Harris by David Jefferson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), warned of potential election fraud. Dr. Jefferson created the Time Warp algo & Parallel Discrete Event Simulation. (PDES is fundamental to Cloud compute architectures to utilize/scale resources).

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Ina Hallström
@killedbyproxy.bsky.social

"The populist right is powered by scarcity. When there is not enough to go around, we look with suspicion on anyone who might take what we have. That suspicion is the fuel of Trump’s politics. (...) The answer to a politics of scarcity is a politics of abundance."

Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk (Gift Article)Right-wing populism thrives on scarcity. The answer is abundance. But a politics of abundance will work only if Democrats confront where their approach has failed.