@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Is that true, that “ a handful of billionaires own about 80% of all stocks, it’s just an inside game of their manipulating stock prices”? 🤔
Terrifying!
#USPol #InsiderTrading #corruption #briberyAndCorruption #NoConsequences

@jerry

@wdlindsy
But isn’t part of the issue that the US knows it will not be receiving any missiles & drone strikes itself? It’s as Pete #Kegsbreath says: they prefer to only attack when they think the other side is already down & out…

#noConsequences

@paul
The one I watched was a creepy weirdo who refused to answer a simple question on his personal understanding of DEI - I guess he couldn’t bring himself to say the words but he also acted as if there would be no consequence to him either. He was like something GenAI might have created: not-quite-human creepy weird.

#creepy #weirdo #noConsequences #DEI #DOGE

@impossibleibex
Ego so big he thinks there will be no consequences to himself for refusing to answer the question. Either that or AI LLM chatbots have already addled his brain.
#Ego #noConsequences #USPol #DEI

@dangillmor

The Gatekeeper and the Billionaire: Peggy Siegal and the Epstein Files

By the mid‑2010s, Peggy Siegal was one of Hollywood’s most powerful unseen hands — the publicist with the golden rolodex, the connector of filmmakers, stars, and tastemakers. Her curated events, breakfasts, and screenings were so influential that studios once hired her to kick‑start Emmy and Oscar campaigns.But when Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal past resurfaced in the public eye and millions of pages of internal emails were released, Siegal’s name became a lightning rod — not because she was charge

Ian Kydd Miller
Karen Mulder and the Architecture of Disbelief

Karen Mulder was not the first woman the fashion industry elevated and then abandoned. She was simply one of the most instructive.In the early 1990s, Mulder embodied the supermodel ideal at its commercial peak: tall, blonde, icy, flawless. She walked for Versace, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent. She appeared on Vogue covers and became a Victoria’s Secret Angel. She was not marginal. She was central—profitable, visible, and carefully styled as invulnerable.What the industry sold was perfection. What i

Ian Kydd Miller

So Marilyn Manson, Arcade Fire, and Ryan Adams are all touring again (not together, though the Monsters of Assault & Abuse Tour would be fitting) and people are going to see them?

#NoConsequences

@pippa

Also wanting to & waiting to find out… because it seems like TokyoByBike https://aus.social/@tokyobybike@famichiki.jp says:

“There are literally no consequences for this administration. They’ve proven they can get away with anything and there is nobody who can stand in their way.

Only a military coup or massive uprising of the population can end this now.”

Are there any other alternatives? 😐

#uspol #uspol2025 #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses #NoConsequences

Aus.Social

And just like that felon Trump gets off Scott-free without any. consequences. Once again this is not justice, this is not honourable; this is a mockery of the legal system

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/19/trump-sentencing-hush-money-case-adjourned/76190286007/

#Crime #Trump #NoConsequences

Donald Trump's Nov. 26 sentencing in New York hush money case cancelled

President-elect Donald Trump's scheduled Nov. 26 sentencing hearing has been adjourned as a New York judge weighs next steps following the election.

USA TODAY