Every single crypto industry-backed candidate won their race.

Corruption wins again. We must work to elect ethical politicians, & for a govt that won't profiteer & compromise everything. It won't be easy.

#Crypto facilitates corruption, scams, money laundering, treason, fraud, trafficking...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-08/crypto-s-135-million-campaign-is-undefeated-in-48-races-so-far 

 JD Vance: “Democratic opponents pose ‘bigger threat' than Russia and China.” Vance, who’d soon succeed #TFG, if he wins, would also rule America as a fascist. “Listen to what he is saying. In the Fascist tradition, Vance considers the democratic political opposition of his own country an enemy force to be defeated. Ending US democracy is a win for foreign autocracy, and he makes sure Russia and China know his allegiances.” -R Ben-Ghiat #USPol #GOPFascists https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/vance-current-u-s-leadership-is-a-way-bigger-threat-than-any-foreign-threat-222772293910 

 #Crypto has no socially redeeming reason to exist. It's actually useful for is buying things on the internet that're illegal -not the sort of thing that causes big banks & investment firms & institutional$ managers to flock to something -or a currency. It's a digital bauble that speculators speculate on. Does the overseer of our nat. currency need to promote this made up form of money that proclaims that's goal is to displace our nat. currency?
*A nat. sec. threat.
#USPol https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/crypto-as-a-political-characteristic 

 Sad, there were only 11 Senators that voted for in favor of the resolution:  The Senate rejected a resolution from Senator Sanders to require the State Dept to write a report detailing any human rights violations stemming from the use of US equipment & military funding in conjunction with Israel’s bombardment of Gaza since the #Oct7 attacks.  #IsraelHamasWar #WarCrimes #IHL #HumanRights https://prospect.org/world/2024-01-17-attempt-congress-to-do-something-on-foreign-policy-israel-gaza-fa/ 

 Prescient or planned?: “Declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire”-this gamebook was given to #Musk. He appears to have implemented it: Steps *Blame the platform for its users (and the ADL) *Coordinated pressure campaign *Exodus of Bluechecks *Deplatforming. The article was published by a RW blogger, Darren Beattie, a former Trump WH speechwriter. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490 

 More #greenwashing, we need to be aware of the deceit & expose the companies that're repsonsible: Plastic recycling is a con: New investigation finds US plastic drop-off program 12,000 retail locations and 500 brands in the US has been putting packaging into landfills. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-09-29/us-store-drop-off-plastic-recycling-often-ends-up-in-landfills?leadSource=uverify%20wall 

 Listen to the experts: The best masks to protect you from anti-maskers: While #Covid rates have been increasing throughout much of the country, the message from public health & political leaders has become one of minimizing & denial. We know that high-quality masks😷work to prevent infection. But because of the rampant disinformation, lies, RW provocateurs…. https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2023/09/30/these-are-the-best-masks-to-protect-you-from-anti-maskers/ 

 This 17 year-old North Carolinian has more wisdom than every NC GOP lawmaker. #GOPLies #GOPFascists  Watch:  https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1707408590841991168/pu/vid/avc1/652x360/2xGTDiLgI54yVctu.mp4?tag=12. 

 Finally, a few journalists have changed their reporting, from being #TFG’s apologists, to calling him indecent & toxic.   Terry Moran, ABC News: Trump’s charisma rests in this: He invites every one of us to liberate the worst version of ourselves from the shackles of decency and convention; to let the id trample our ethics. 

Gleefully.

It’s an intoxicating and irresistible opportunity for tens of millions of Americans. 

 In one of the most dangerous states for gun violence, the ingrained🔫culture, unrestricted access of🔫 s, & proliferation of🔫s in the hands of residents (some are: unstable, careless, seek vigilante justice, believe the ‘stand your ground law’ is a license to maim or kill…) will lead to even more carnage in Texas: Many Texans use guns as the solution to the problem, not the problem itself. In TX, guns are everywhere, whether concealed or in the open🚨. #ItsTheGuns #GunReform https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/26/texas-guns-open-concealed-carry-laws/ 

 Price-fixing by the notorious big meat processors: The Antitrust Division is suing over price-fixing of chicken, turkey, & pork products. 90% of the market is unlawfully inflated. Big meat processors were deliberating exporting meat at a loss to restrict domestic supply & keep prices up in America. “We continue to chase all the export opportunities we can find to keep excess product off the US market.” 

#Antitrust #CorporateGreed https://www.justice.gov/  d9/2023-09/agri_stats_complaint.pdf 

 Republicans haven’t just been giving their wealthy donors tax breaks, they’ve allowed them to avoid (evade) taxation for years, esp. during #TFG’s admin (TSY Sec Mnuchin, complicit IRS COM…) Thanks to Sen Wyden, who exposed the corruption, Americans now know: Nearly 1,000 tax filers who earn >$1M per year have still not filed federal tax returns for at least one year from 2017-2020. #GOPCorruption https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/28/wealthy-tax-avoidance-ron-wyden-data/ 

 New valuable Information on #LongCovid & #Covid from Dr Celine Grounder, watch: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/long-covid-cdc-9-million-americans/ 

 The majority of Democratic Senators have now called on Menendez to resign:

FETTERMAN
BROWN
TESTER
WELCH
WARREN
HEINRICH
CASEY
ROSEN
KELLY
BOOKER
BALDWIN
BENNET
KLOBUCHAR
GILLIBRAND
HIRONO
MARKEY
HASSAN
WARNOCK
PETERS
SANDERS
BLUMENTHAL
MURPHY
DUCKWORTH
HICKENLOOPER
STABENOW
OSSOFF 

 #TFG won't stop, even if another person is injured or dies bc of his incitement of violence against his 'enemies'. Will it take a high profile person who's been threatened with violence by #TFG to get him thrown in jail? America has succumbed to the #GOPDealthCult. 

"Very troubling." Fulton Co DA Willis said her daughters, her father & her ex-husband had have their private information posted online. Some of those posts included racial slurs, others suggested violence🚨. 

https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/fulton-da-prosecuting-trump-young-thug-says-her-family-has-been-threatened/QJZMKODGUJHWBGSBIMSPV3WDEM/ 

 "High risk people are sitting ducks in “virus soups🦠”. Facing a potential wave of coronavirus infections this fall & winter, relatively few hospitals — mostly in NY, MA & CA -have restored mask mandates😷for patients & staff members. The vast majority elsewhere in US have not, & almost none require them for visitors. This is wrong. +The CDC gov’s HICPAC committee is also wrong to water down mask standards in draft guidelines"🚨. -Eric F Ding #Covid #Masks #CDC #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/health/hospitals-masking-mandates.html 

 Let's keep'em stupid so they'll vote for us & make the poor & POC suffer: HSE Republicans' spending bills: 25% of all the savings their bills would achieve comes from cutting a program that provides funding for low-income schools, known as Title I EDU grants *want to cut it by nearly 80%, saving $14.7B. Democrats have warned that Rs’ proposed cuts could cost up to 224K teachers their jobs, & teachers unions have mobilized to lobby against them. #PublicSchools #GOPSabotage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/26/inside-spending-cuts-house-republicans-are-fighting/ 

 RW courts are decimating America. There are no appeals to book ratings: A 3-judge panel of the #5thCircuitCourt allows TX's book-ban law to go into effect, issuing an administrative stay of the disrict court ruling enjoining enforcement of the law. The court gave no reasoning for its order *remarkable given: the law has never been allowed to go into effect, so the order -although posed as merely administrative -is a ruling -at least temporarily -changing the status of state law.
-Chris Geidner

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 Damning article on #Musk, who remains a significant national security threat to the US & #Ukraine, from the eminent scholar, Professor Timothy Snyder: Musk’s actions have increased the chances of nuclear war & also extended the conventional war. Everything Musk thought he was making better, he made worse… Since then he’s doubled down, spreading the very Russian propaganda that made him a dupe, & moving closer to a common fascist position with Putin. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/17/elon-musk-likes-to-think-he-saved-us-from-armageddon-hes-just-brought-it-closer 

 Exasperating & deeply concerning, nearly every news outlet is downplaying #Covid. Hospitalizations are up, the young & old are being admitted & long Covid & repeated reinfections are leading to long Covid, damage to organs & weakened immune systems. Please continue to amplify the truth about this disabling &  lethal virus. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-symptoms-mild-follow-pattern-doctors-say-rcna105090 

 #Musk uses his platform to champion Nazi, libertarian & Republican views: 

After members of the UAW walked off the job at midnight, X stripped the union of its account verification w/o notice. The move by Elon Musk, owner of the microblogging platform he's attempting to rechristen from Twitter to X, followed the union’s decision to strike the Big Three automakers on Thurs night after the car cos. refused to ink a new contract with their unionized workers. #UnionStrong https://theintercept.com/2023/09/15/uaw-strike-twitter-verification-elon-musk/ 

 "New Study Shows Impacts of Cutting Meat and Dairy Consumption in Half."
Most Americans would also be healthier if they cut their consumption of meat & dairy. This proposition is more palatable for many ppl than going vegan: Such a dietary shift could also lead to a 31% reduction in AG GHG emissions by 2050, the study found *the equivalent of not burning 1.8T lbs. of coal/year b/w 2020-50. 

#ClimateCrisis 
#ClimateSolutions 
#ClimateSmart 

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/09/meat-dairy-consumption-farming-livestock-climate-emissions/ 

 Good, #Musk is one of America's greatest national security threats: 

The Senate Armed Services Committee is probing national-security issues raised by Elon Musk’s decision not to extend the private Starlink satellite network to aid a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships near the Crimean coast.

Chairman Jack Reed said in a statement Thursday the reports on the use of Starlink exposed “serious national-security liability issues & the committee is engaged on this issue.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-14/elon-musk-s-denial-of-ukraine-s-starlink-request-prompts-senate-query?sref=fjrBr5qu#xj4y7vzkg 

 The 'Help Libya Flood Victims' fund goes to six established non-profit organizations, you can choose one or split among multiple non-profits. Please consider donating to the thousands of Libyans who are grieving & have been left with nothing: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/13/world/how-to-help-libya-flood-victims

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 One of the leaders of the #GOPDeathCult is promoting a bill that bans mask mandates. He literally wants to infect & kill ppl in the midst of a Covid surge *he epitomizes the Republican party: Vance's bill prohibits govt from forcing you to wear a mask on planes/public transit/in public schools for the next 15 mos. +blocks taxpayer$ to enforce the mandates. #VoteBlue2024 to save lives. Biden admin/CDC aren't doing enough to mitigate #Covid, but they're advocating boosters. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/must-stop-mask-mandates-before-biden-democrats-force-them-again-heres-how 

 Texas is as corrupt as the #crypto IDU. Bitcoin miner Riot raked in $31.7M in energy credits from TX power grid operator ERCOT. In an Aug. heat wave, Riot voluntarily curtailed its energy consumption to take advantage of credits avail. by limiting use -benefiting from an alt. source of income at a time when losses: mounting * losing so much$ -counting on energy credits from selling power back to the TX grid to keep its costs under control. #CorruptGOP #CorporateCorruption https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/texas-paid-bitcoin-miner-riot-31point7-million-to-shut-down-in-august.html