A bribery attempt : "10€ if you cite me"
Never got that before, and most likely just a phishing atempt.
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A bribery attempt : "10€ if you cite me"
Never got that before, and most likely just a phishing atempt.
A bribery attempt : "10€ if you cite me"
Never got that before, and most likely just a phishing atempt.
#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction
#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/
Then there’s the #tech companies — #Google, #Apple, #Microsoft, #Amazon, & #Meta.
The tech companies themselves have been awfully quiet about the project they’re helping to underwrite. Just to make sure they hadn’t missed it, MJ sent a photo of the demolished #EastWing — & requests for comment — to representatives of all of these companies. A Microsoft spox confirmed the company had made a contribution but offered no further comment. None of the others responded.
But #BigTech’s donations for #Trump’s pet cause come at a time when the industry’s giants have a lot riding on their relationships with the #WhiteHouse. In a marked shift from Trump’s first term, #tech leaders have spent most of the last 12 months singing the president’s praises as they navigate #antitrust cases, #tariffs, & #regulatory hurdles; fight for #contracts; & push for #policies that benefit their bottom lines.
The list of donors released by the #WhiteHouse includes the usual deep-pocketed #Republicans, such as #casino magnate #MiriamAdelson & private-equity mogul #StephenSchwarzman, but also a host of companies whose leaders have huge incentives to maintain good relations with an often vindictive head of state. They include #telecom giants & the #railroad giant Union-Pacific—which needs the #Trump admin’s sign-off on a proposed $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern.
Then there’s the #tech companies — #Google, #Apple, #Microsoft, #Amazon, & #Meta.
The tech companies themselves have been awfully quiet about the project they’re helping to underwrite. Just to make sure they hadn’t missed it, MJ sent a photo of the demolished #EastWing — & requests for comment — to representatives of all of these companies. A Microsoft spox confirmed the company had made a contribution but offered no further comment. None of the others responded.
#Trump is finishing what the British started. Despite promises that the #WhiteHouse would be unaffected by the addition of a $230 million #ballroom, the #historic #EastWing has in fact been demolished. The images of the site are so jarring that the #Treasury Department has reportedly ordered its employees to stop taking photos of it.
…If the destruction of the #EastWing is a shock, the #money that’s paying for it might be even more of a #scandal. The #WhiteHouse, eager to assure Americans that their tax dollars have not been diverted for a #vanity project, has emphasized that the #ballroom is being financed by individuals & major #corporations. Instead of going through a process to obtain & disburse federal funds, #Trump simply asked companies his admin is supposed to be #regulating to write checks [ #bribery / #extortion].
#BigTech Helped Bankroll the #EastWing Destruction
#Meta, #Amazon, #Microsoft, #Apple, & #Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the #Trump admin. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
#TechBros #plutocracy #billionaires #corporations #corruption #bribery #extortion #law #antitrust #regulations #AI #energy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/white-house-east-wing-destruction-google-meta-apple-microsoft-amazone/
“Trump has repeatedly said that work on the ballroom is privately funded by himself and donors and will cost nothing to taxpayers.”
Yeah, CNN, that’s how bribes work. If taxpayers paid for the renovation, it wouldn’t be a bribe.
Every name on this list should be shunned and shamed.
#kakistocracy #bribery #complicit
“White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/ballroom-donors-white-house-trump
“Trump has repeatedly said that work on the ballroom is privately funded by himself and donors and will cost nothing to taxpayers.”
Yeah, CNN, that’s how bribes work. If taxpayers paid for the renovation, it wouldn’t be a bribe.
Every name on this list should be shunned and shamed.
#kakistocracy #bribery #complicit
“White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/ballroom-donors-white-house-trump
Ooooh, okay, it's a bribery scheme.
#uspol #uspolitics #corruption #trump #H1B #visa #bribery #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA
Ooooh, okay, it's a bribery scheme.
#uspol #uspolitics #corruption #trump #H1B #visa #bribery #FuckTrump #FuckMAGA
the head of ICE getting filmed accepting $50,000 in what appeared to be cash bribes from undercover agents is the least surprising news ever
> "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources."
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568
#FBI #TomHoman #ICE #uspol #uspolitics #corruption #KleptocracyIsComing #immigration #deportation #deported #deportations
2/ #broligarchs weighing in to explain that the new standard for running the largest and most powerful law enforcement agency in the united states is now "innocent until proven guilty"
it's possible #TomHoman didn't even commit a crime here, esp. if he didn't direct any contracts once in office, but even more broadly because #SCOTUS has more or less legalized #bribery in the united states (9-0 decision IIRC - look it up)
but it says a lot about Jason Calacanis and the other "besties" in the nerd reich that the think the kind of person who would accept $50k in cash from people under the impression they were paying a bribe should run law enforcement.
https://x.com/Jason/status/1969515386971251144
#jasonCalacanis #AllInPodcast #Chamath #tomHoman #uspol #uspoiitics
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from #Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Follow the money flow!
#RuleOfLaw#Trump#Corruption#Bribery#IRS#TaxEvasion#Lawlessness#AbuseOfOffice#AbuseOfPower#UnseatTheTrumpRegime#Racketeering#Coercion#Extortion#Terrorism#Robbery#RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity#StrongerTogether#WeThePeople#USPol#USPolitics
Worth a read re minimal FEMA response to Texas flooding. https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-response-deadly-texas-floods-delayed-deficient-noem
#EmergencyManagement#FEMA#DeadbeatTrump#ObstructionOfUSGovernment#WreckingAmerica#Trump#Corruption#Bribery#FossilFuelsIndustries#UnseatTheTrumpRegime#AbuseOfPower#NationalSecurityThreat
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