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Aside from the continued #coverup of #TrumpEpsteinFiles, #corruption, & a record-setting #SOTU #lie- fest...

Reports of a new #ExecutiveDisorder draft to cancel elections due to a (2020 #election - based) "national emergency"

> BREAKING: Trump White House staffer gets EXPOSED as the man secretly operating a shockingly racist MAGA account with nearly 300,000 followers.

https://x.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/2026781032809124022?s=20

👉 #HatchAct
#propaganda #disinformation
#Epstein #emoluments #truth #accountability #Bondi #cult

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Michael Fenichel

@drmike@mastodon.social · 21 hours ago

Aside from the continued #coverup of #TrumpEpsteinFiles, #corruption, & a record-setting #SOTU #lie- fest...

Reports of a new #ExecutiveDisorder draft to cancel elections due to a (2020 #election - based) "national emergency"

> BREAKING: Trump White House staffer gets EXPOSED as the man secretly operating a shockingly racist MAGA account with nearly 300,000 followers.

https://x.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/2026781032809124022?s=20

👉 #HatchAct
#propaganda #disinformation
#Epstein #emoluments #truth #accountability #Bondi #cult

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · yesterday

Getting convicted of #bribery in the #US requires some serious effort—take fmr Democratic Sen #BobMenendez of NJ, who was convicted of selling influence on behalf of local businesses & the country of Egypt after being caught with gold bars in his house. When #Trump first took office, he paused enforcement of foreign bribery cases entirely—but there are some signs that he intends to revive such prosecutions as a #weapon against his enemies, in the mold of the Hungarian #strongman Victor #Orbán.

https://masto.ai/tags/Orb%C3%A1n

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · yesterday

Such erosion of anti- #corruption #law has often been a bipartisan project. In 2016, the #bribery conviction of fmr VA Gov Bob McDonnell for receiving gifts from donors was overturned unanimously by #SCOTUS. Since then, the #JohnRoberts Court has slowly dismantled anti-corruption law. In 2024, it decided in Snyder v. United States that federal law does not bar receiving “gratuities” given after the fact for “official acts.”

#US #accountability #power #plutocracy

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · yesterday

After that, #Congress decided in bipartisan fashion that it had had enough of special counsels sniffing around the #ExecutiveBranch. Barack #Obama pledged to look forward & not backwards, not only closing the door on prosecutions for executive lawbreaking but also failing to hold accountable those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis & the ensuing #GreatRecession.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · yesterday

While #Congress & the presidency have been working hard to raise the #ExecutiveBranch above the #law, #SCOTUS has done its part to ensure that laws against #bribery & #corruption are near-unenforceable. With a series of rulings on #CampaignFinance, the #JohnRoberts Court has ensured that the #rich can try to buy #elections without formally breaking the law. As a result, #politicians are #indebted to a few hundred #billionaires who drop unholy amounts of cash every #election cycle.

#US #power

Arnav Kumar

@arnav@fosstodon.org · yesterday

Cartoon by Satish Acharya:
https://x.com/satishacharya/status/2026861285456097469

Context:
https://bbc.com/news/articles/c627l7zexr8o

#India #Judiciary #Corruption

A cartoon showing an enthusiastic kid wearing a school bag with a book in hand running to tell his dad "Papa, Corruption Removed!" who's sitting on a sofa watching news on the TV. The TV screen says "'Corruption in Judiciary' in NCERT Text Book". His dad looks pleasantly surprised and asks, "From the Judiciary?", to which the kid replies, "No! From the Text Book!".

NCERT: India's Supreme Court bans textbook for referring to judicial corruption

The Supreme Court intervened after the textbook listed corruption among the "challenges" facing the judiciary.

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Adrian Morales

@adrianmorales@ieji.de · yesterday

Did you know that the United States has been added to the list of Enemies of the Internet?

It's a group of countries with the highest level of Internet censorship and surveillance.

#US #Corruption #Capitalism #CorporateGreed #Hypocrisy #DirtyPoliticians #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Nazi #Fascism #Censorship #Surveillance #Online #BigTech

Adrian Morales

@adrianmorales@ieji.de · yesterday

Did you know that the United States has been added to the list of Enemies of the Internet?

It's a group of countries with the highest level of Internet censorship and surveillance.

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Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · 2 days ago

"Mandelson’s lawyers, Mishcon de Reya"

I wonder where we've heard of Mishcon de Reya before? Are they a very reputable law firm, I wonder? Oh, yes, the money-laundering specialists involved in the persecution of Maltese anti-corruption campaigner Daphne Caruana Galizia, before her murder.

Lovely people.

#Mandelson
#Corruption
#UKLabour
#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/25/commons-speaker-says-he-passed-information-to-met-that-peter-mandelson-planned-to-flee-uk

the Guardian

Met apologises to Commons speaker for sharing tipoff with Mandelson’s lawyers

Exclusive: Police meet Lindsay Hoyle to explain error after Hoyle shared tip that Mandelson planned to flee UK

Simon Brooke

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · 2 days ago

"Mandelson’s lawyers, Mishcon de Reya"

Lovely people.

#Mandelson
#Corruption
#UKLabour
#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/25/commons-speaker-says-he-passed-information-to-met-that-peter-mandelson-planned-to-flee-uk

the Guardian

Met apologises to Commons speaker for sharing tipoff with Mandelson’s lawyers

Exclusive: Police meet Lindsay Hoyle to explain error after Hoyle shared tip that Mandelson planned to flee UK

Jude🇵🇸

@sister_ratched@toot.community · 3 days ago

@luciedigitalni Pocock told us tonight that Labor had spent 15 months and nearly $300,000 handpicking a dozen experts to sit on a panel to look at safeguards and opportunities around AI..... then cancelled the whole thing! He had no idea why. Sigh...

Su_G

@Su_G@aus.social · 2 days ago

@sister_ratched @luciedigitalni
Ok…. Now it makes sense… what Prof Toby Walsh was saying in his address to the National Press Club yesterday. He was really pissed off & basically said he no longer felt constrained & would give advice in public in future (ie not in private to govt). Also explains Albo’s seemingly gratuitous badmouthing of Pocock. I suppose a ‘donation’ is about to fall off some big-tech AI-pusher’s truck & into party coffers…

ABC cited Walsh: "Big tech has embraced lobbying in Washington, London, Brussels and now here in Canberra," he said.

"In the last election the big tech sector donated more to the political parties than mining did. That should tell us something."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-25/ai-regulation-toby-walsh-national-press-club-warning/106384688

#AI #unregulatedAI #AIHarms #TobyWalsh #AUSPol #bigTech #politicalDonations #corruption #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

AI expert warns Australia is unprepared for 'supercharged' harms

Renowned AI expert Toby Walsh has used a National Press Club address to warn the Australian government about what he argues are inadequate approaches to regulating the technology.

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 2 days ago

“He’s enriching himself, his family, his friends. The scale of the #corruption is unprecedented,” #Spanberger said, before ticking through details. “There’s the #CoverUp of the #EpsteinFiles, the #crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes & billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name & face on buildings all over our nation’s capital. This is not what our founders envisioned.”

#Trump #SOTU #USpol

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 2 days ago

#Spanberger called Trump’s #tariffs a “massive tax hike on you & your family,” & argued that congressional #Republicans were making life more #expensive & “making it more difficult to see a #doctor” while driving up the costs of #energy & #housing.

And she said that while Trump’s policies were hurting “regular Americans,” they were helping himself & his allies.

#Trump #SOTU #USpol

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 2 days ago

#Trump #SOTU #USpol

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DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 3 days ago

Interview: U.K. Arrests Ex-Prince. Where is the Accountability in US?

British police released former Prince Andrew on Thursday. The police investigation is continuing, so far only into his actions as a UK trade envoy.

Authorities did not reference abuse allegations against Mountbatten, who settled a lawsuit with Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2022.

Carole Cadwalladr

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/20/carole_cadwalladr

#USPol #UKPol #EUPol #EpsteinFiles #AndrewMountbatten #VirginiaGiuffre #corruption .

Democracy Now!

Carole Cadwalladr on Epstein Fallout: As U.K. Arrests Ex-Prince, Where is the Accountability in U.S.?

British police released former Prince Andrew on Thursday after 11 hours in custody, with his shocking arrest earlier in the day making him the first senior British royal to be arrested in nearly 400 years. Police are probing his connections to the deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and whether he shared classified government information with him while serving as a U.K. trade representative from 2001 to 2011. King Charles’ brother, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor after being stripped of his royal title, is the most high-profile figure in the U.K. to be implicated in a widening scandal over ties to Epstein, who died in a New York jail in 2019 awaiting trial on sex trafficking. Authorities did not reference sexual abuse allegations against Mountbatten-Windsor or Epstein’s sex trafficking case; Mountbatten-Windsor settled a lawsuit with Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2022 and has denied all wrongdoing. Investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr says this week’s arrest feels like a “rupture” in British society because the royals are seen as “sacrosanct” and rarely subjected to such treatment. “And in America, what are we seeing? We’re seeing this sort of culture of complete impunity, where it appears the law is not equal, where there are people who are above it.”

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OCCRP

@occrp@federated.press · 3 days ago

Europe Files First War Crimes Charges Four Years After Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/europe-files-first-war-crimes-charges-four-years-after-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#crime #corruption #news

OCCRP

Europe Files First War Crimes Charges Four Years After Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine

European and Ukrainian authorities have filed the first charges in connection with crimes committed during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with trial proceedings now under way. UN experts warn the conflict continues to fuel human rights abuses inside occupied areas and within Russia.

DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 3 days ago

Interview: U.K. Arrests Ex-Prince. Where is the Accountability in US?

British police released former Prince Andrew on Thursday. The police investigation is continuing, so far only into his actions as a UK trade envoy.

Authorities did not reference abuse allegations against Mountbatten, who settled a lawsuit with Epstein survivor Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2022.

Carole Cadwalladr

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/20/carole_cadwalladr

#USPol #UKPol #EUPol #EpsteinFiles #AndrewMountbatten #VirginiaGiuffre #corruption .

Democracy Now!

Carole Cadwalladr on Epstein Fallout: As U.K. Arrests Ex-Prince, Where is the Accountability in U.S.?

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Kim Perales

@KimPerales@toad.social · 3 days ago

“Filing this under "Law and Order":🚨Trump’s immigration crackdown forces federal judges to dismiss criminal cases, including one involving the Sinaloa Cartel.”

He’s also pardoned and given clemency to drug kingpins, traffickers, gangsters. a narco-state president…
#Fraud #Corruption #Lies #TrumpRegime #DOJ #Protest #USPol
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-24/aggressive-immigration-enforcement-opens-way-for-federal-criminal-defendants-to-avoid-justice

Los Angeles Times

Trump’s immigration crackdown forces federal judges to dismiss criminal cases, including one involving the Sinaloa cartel

In recent months, federal judges have dismissed criminal indictments against defendants held in immigration detention, citing issues with clients being able to access lawyers and other concerns.

Kim Perales

@KimPerales@toad.social · 3 days ago

“Filing this under "Law and Order":🚨Trump’s immigration crackdown forces federal judges to dismiss criminal cases, including one involving the Sinaloa Cartel.”

Los Angeles Times

Trump’s immigration crackdown forces federal judges to dismiss criminal cases, including one involving the Sinaloa cartel

In recent months, federal judges have dismissed criminal indictments against defendants held in immigration detention, citing issues with clients being able to access lawyers and other concerns.