@kilroy_was_here @thomas_klopf
Now I'm back to sitting back and collecting baksheesh for people wanting to see pictures of other people's plumbing, in the iron-and-copper-and-PVC sense. It's an ever-dwindling source of revenue nowadays, given ad blockers and public tendency to stay placidly within walled gardens. But the baksheesh continues to trickle in, and that, you see, is an ongoing source of Slack
#Baksheesh #Slack

@AAKL

Exactly, and with specificity, what #FederalGovernment account will this $100.000.00 per employee be deposited in?

Oh

The #Trump #NationalLibrary fund

Thought as much...

#DHS #Shakedown #Baksheesh

cc @AssociatedPress

@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com

Exactly, and with specificity, what #FederalGovernment account will this $100.000.00 per employee be deposited in?

Oh

The #Trump #NationalLibrary fund

Thought as much...

#DHS #Shakedown #Baksheesh

#Boycott #baksheesh

Who's paying for the White House ballroom and what's in it for them - CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-white-house-ballroom-donor-names/

Who's paying for the White House ballroom and what's in it for them

President Trump has so far raised $200 million for a new White House ballroom from some of the nation's biggest companies.

#DOJ finally files #ADA accomodation case in #SanFrancisco against #Uber that most govt entities have ignored and sat on for well over a decade...

In the complaint, the US Dept. of Justice
claimed that Uber drivers “routinely refuse to serve individuals with disabilities, including individuals who travel with #ServiceAnimals or who use stowable #Wheelchairs."

The complaint also alleged that drivers oft
“insult and demean people with disabilities or ask them inappropriate questions.”

Travis Kalanick debuted so-called #rideshare car & limo service in San Francisco in 2010 claiming it was "revolutionary" idea and unlike regulated #taxis, the #WallStUnicorn has never been in compliance with #disability accomodations since, yet finally gets challenged in 2025 under #Drumpf administration enforcement effort...

Perhaps some #DJT #baksheesh will be forthcoming.to forestall case?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/uber-doj-lawsuit-disabilities-discrimination.html

Over 160 indigent Bangladeshi would-be #guestworkers arrive back home in #Dhaka after terrible extortion experience seekng employment in #Libya.

They reported being held captive, extorted by traffickers who demanded large sums of #baksheesh from their families in #Bangladesh in exchange for their release.

https://www.voice7news.tv/national/news/21125

162 Bangladeshi Trafficking Victims Return from Libya After Mafia Ordeal | Voice7 News

A group of 162 Bangladeshi nationals, who had been trapped and tortured by human trafficking mafias in Libya, have returned home. The flight carrying the victims landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka at around 7:30 am on Wednesday morning.

Voice7 News

@Nonilex

Let's take a deep, cleansing breath and call this #LuxuryJet from #Qatar exactly what it is:

#Baksheesh

"Baksheesh (from Persian: بخشش bakhshesh[1]) ... and certain forms of political corruption and bribery in the Middle East and South Asia. "

These are Arabians

They know exactly who #Trump is

They know exactly what they are doing

They know exactly what they're going to get -- for starters

Trump does not

Trump gets played for the fool he is -- once again

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baksheesh

#AirForceOne #Law #Corruption #EmolumentsClause #USConstitution #Boeing747

Baksheesh - Wikipedia

Someone recently bought "Tactical Specialty Pursuit Covert Work Gloves" after clicking on an Amazon ad for something else on one of my sites. That's #EagleTactical level nomenclature of fragile belligerence. And #baksheesh for me, the important part.

#FBI raids home of #SanLeandro #CityCouncil member and #SheetMetalWorkers #union member who got into fight at election forum last fall . Bureau refused to say whether Azevedo targeted because one of several local #Democrat political officials who attended a #Vietnam junket sponsored by heavy political #baksheesh donors #Duong Family, owners of #Oakland’s recycling contractor #CaliforniaWasteSolutions

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/15/fbi-raids-san-leandro-councilmans-home/

FBI raids San Leandro councilman’s home

The FBI wouldn’t say whether the probe was connected to a massive ongoing corruption investigation, but Bryan Azevedo was one of several local officials who attended a trip to Vietnam with ta…

East Bay Times