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tend2wobble

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wallace&evans on xitter since 2008 but no more.
Shun any and all Trump traitors

Women! Recognize that the only person who has a right to your body or biological functions is you! No other person or state has the right to infringe on your physical sovereignty. To not recognize and defend this sovereignty is to be yoked.
Female humans are due the same rights to #autonomy and #selfdetermination as males.
#news #USPols #ERA #privacy #womenshealth WOMEN AS VESSELS ARE VASSALS

tend2wobble 7h ago

GaryRLundberg 9h ago

@tend2wobble @LaNaehForaday

🤣😂🤣😂

Plus, his paranoid malignant narcissist psychopathology born and bred into him by family pathologies.

tend2wobble 7h ago

Did you know? A large part of the Education Department’s job is enforcing regulations and providing funding and services that states cannot or refuse to. — Anyone claiming states will do what the Department of Education does is blatantly lying to your face.

tend2wobble 9h ago

Alt Alt National Park Service 10h ago

Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired Joseph Tirrell, the Justice Department’s senior ethics attorney, a military veteran who spent nearly two decades serving his country in and out of uniform.
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3ltxg46q37s2m
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#AltNPS #Coup #Activism #NationalParkService #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump

Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social)

Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired Joseph Tirrell, the Justice Department’s senior ethics attorney, a military veteran who spent nearly two decades serving his country in and out of uniform.

Bluesky Social

tend2wobble 9h ago

Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!10h ago

These people are really disgusting.

#disabled #wages

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/subminimum-wage-trump-just-made-it-ok-to-continue-paying-disabled-workers-peanuts/

Trump just made It OK to continue paying disabled workers peanuts

In many states, the push to end the subminimum wage continues.

Mother Jones

tend2wobble 9h ago

@GottaLaff 10h ago

Click on the thread. 👇🏼

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:trqqcu6a3xwkmserqrohveu5/post/3ltxgk5t2hk22

tend2wobble 9h ago

@GottaLaff 12h ago

"This administration wants to encourage Americans to take control of their health.." So we're going to prevent you from getting health care, from getting vaccinated, and from having clean water and air to breathe.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3ltx5iwtd5224

tend2wobble 9h ago

Roger Moore 12h ago

@gottalaff.bsky.social
Where "take control of [your] health" means "you're to blame if you get sick". That is the core message of people like RFK Jr. They treat health as a form of virtue: if you're healthy, it's because you took good care of yourself, and if you're sick it's because you failed somehow. It's an incredibly toxic attitude.

tend2wobble 9h ago

JEmphatically 12h ago

Alberta has more cases of measles than ALL of the US. That is astounding.

Danielle Smith and the UCP are banning books instead of actually protecting kids from real, physical harm.

😡 #ableg #Alberta #cdnpoli #measles

tend2wobble 9h ago

From Steve Schmidt:
Save America Movement Inc — Donate via ActBlue

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tend2wobble 10h ago

Let us remember who we are - The Warning with Steve Schmidt

https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/let-us-remember-who-we-are

Let us remember who we are

Trump’s cause is the antithesis of the American cause

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

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The Icarian 6d ago

Kierkegaanks regretfully 6d ago

@theicarian well they brexited too

@theicarian and the USA got Trump 1

Steve Thompson PhD 6d ago

There were some important fallout, but the story did for the most part evaporate.

Mike Taylor 🦕6d ago

@theicarian Not to argue the core point of this post, but who was murdered? Bastian Obermayer, who broke the news, is still alive; "John Doe", who supplied the information, remains anonymous, so far as I can gather.

Annelies Kamran, Ph.D.6d ago

@mike @theicarian it's referring to Galizia's murder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia - Wikipedia

Mike Taylor 🦕6d ago

@akamran @theicarian Thank you.

@mike @akamran @theicarian The Danish government bought a copy of the data so they could go after tax evaders. Don't know what happened after that.

Corpomancer 6d ago

@mansr @mike @akamran @theicarian

As per: 06. January 2025
"No charges from Panama Papers’ purchase."

"This purchase ultimately led to invoices totaling over 430 million kroner, which they expect to be largely paid."

Source: https://danishnews.ritzau.com/article/6d0eb1a6-ada7-42d8-bad9-5895e78036dd4

No charges from Panama Papers' purchase - Ritzau - Danish News in English

The Danish Tax Authority (Skat) acquired the Panama Papers in 2016, which has not resulted in any criminal charges so far, with only a few administrative

Ritzau News

Annelies Kamran, Ph.D.6d ago

@corpomancer @mansr @mike @theicarian ☹️

@akamran @corpomancer @mike @theicarian Sounds like they did what they could with the information and got a good return on the investment. Disappointing that they couldn't bring criminal charges of course.

Mike Taylor 🦕6d ago

@mansr @akamran @corpomancer @theicarian Better than nothing, but 430M DKR is not a lot of money in terms of what's in play here.

@mike @akamran @corpomancer @theicarian Probably because most of the tax evasion is perfectly legal, unfortunately.

Mike Taylor 🦕6d ago

@mansr @akamran @corpomancer @theicarian I believe that tax evasion is illegal by default; tax *avoidance* is legal, and it is the job of tax lawyers to help their clients maximise avoidance while avoiding evasion.

@mike @akamran @corpomancer @theicarian I think you're right about that. Nomenclature aside, the problem is that if you can afford to hire a few accountants and pay some setup fees for shell companies or whatever, you can legally dodge almost any amount in tax. In other words, if you make enough money that you could easily afford the taxes, you don't have to pay them. Really quite disgusting.

Mike Taylor 🦕6d ago

@mansr @akamran @corpomancer @theicarian I very much agree.

@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE 6d ago

@theicarian there were some more changes. One corporate wealth avoidance consultant got out of the business, and now has to put up with being the Premier of Nova Scotia.

@theicarian Wow. I didn't even realize she was murdered.

@theicarian Malta responsible for assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, inquiry finds

https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/malta-responsible-for-assassination-of-journalist-daphne-caruana-galizia-inquiry-finds/

Malta responsible for assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, inquiry finds - ICIJ

The government created an “atmosphere of impunity” and failed to protect Galizia from threats over her writing on political corruption and organized crime, the inquiry said.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Vengeur Masqué 5d ago

@robchapman @theicarian Has anybody been arrested or judged for her murder?

Everyone except for the person that is alleged to have masterminded it.
https://rsf.org/en/malta-after-new-conviction-murder-daphne-caruana-galizia-rsf-calls-full-justice-and-strong-measures
@theicarian

Malta: after a new conviction for the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, RSF calls for full justice and strong measures to protect journalists

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Maltese authorities to ramp up efforts toward convicting the mastermind and to implement the press freedom recommendations resulting from the public inquiry that followed the murder.

Maximilian Overdraft, Esq. ES 6d ago

@theicarian "Nothing was done" because no one and no institution took public action to even update their tax code. And when the Biden administration started to enforce the law on the wealthy, those kajillionaire tax cheats made sure the IRS became salted earth as to future enforcement.

Discreet Elite 6d ago

@theicarian we member

crazyeddie 6d ago

@theicarian Estonian e-residency lets you open a business in Estonia.

@theicarian Well that's because the Panama Papers were less about exposing American oligarchs and more about unveiling how Russia was circumventing US sanctions in Europe specifically so the US could weaken Putin. The rest was window dressing.

The ICIJ is a US government carveout. Why would it ever bite the hand that feeds it?

@theicarian The US Republicans also defunded their IRS ...

MostlyTato 6d ago

@theicarian
Nothing to see here, move along, move along...not you, you bastard you are for it!

Venc Dvorak 6d ago

@theicarian Was it legal or not?

canleaf08 ⌘ ✅6d ago

@VencDvorak @theicarian Tax breaks and "investment visa" should be illegal.

Venc Dvorak 5d ago

@canleaf @theicarian Should and "is" or "was" are quite different states of things.

If it was legal you are out of luck. Untill the moment when the law is altered.

canleaf08 ⌘ ✅5d ago

@VencDvorak @theicarian What are the Panama papers about? The biggest tax evasion schemes. Zillions of lettre box companies. Foundations. Non profits. It is illegal.

canleaf08 ⌘ ✅5d ago

@VencDvorak @theicarian The rich are fooling you. They take away your home. They take away the job you love. They steal your wage. They mandate that trans people are hated. They make peoples voting against their interest. Covid was "finished" by rich people.

Venc Dvorak 3d ago

@canleaf @theicarian Strange kind of thinking. It's like a conspiracy theory of some very special kind.

canleaf08 ⌘ ✅3d ago

@VencDvorak @theicarian Benko, a rich German commercial real estate tycoon asked the Merkel government in 2021 to end mandates.

Delta Airlines’ CEO Ed Bastian asked the government to drop the mask mandates in aircrafts.

Why are there no more articles about the risks of long covid? Because rich purse only funds anti wfh propaganda. How loneliness is unhealthy. Thanks to rich purses we kicked the public health care.

@theicarian Yes, a journalist who worked on the Panama Papers investigation was murdered with a car bomb.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist, was killed by a car bomb on October 16, 2017. She was a prominent investigative journalist in Malta and had reported extensively on corruption, including stories related to the Panama Papers. Her murder sparked international outrage and investigations.

Pēteris Krišjānis 6d ago

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @theicarian thank you for reminder 😢

Justin Derrick 6d ago

@theicarian This is nearly 5 years out of date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers#Allegations,_reactions,_and_investigations

Panama Papers - Wikipedia

@theicarian This viral post does not seem to be true. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/07/fact-check-journalist-killed-bomb-not-part-panama-papers-probe/6018595001/

Fact check: Independent journalist killed by car bomb in Malta didn't help break Panama Papers story

Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta was killed after she published an independent exposé about the country's leader and aides.

USA TODAY

Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog 6d ago

Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia (née Vella; 26 August 1964 – 16 October 2017) was a Maltese writer, journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist, who reported on political events in Malta. She was known internationally for her investigation of the Panama Papers and subsequent assassination by a car bomb. Caruana Galizia focused on investigative journalism, reporting on government corruption, nepotism, patronage, and allegations of money laundering,[1] links between Malta's online gambling industry and organized crime,[2] Malta's citizenship-by-investment scheme, and payments from the government of Azerbaijan.[3] Caruana Galizia's national and international reputation was built on her regular reporting of misconduct by Maltese politicians and politically exposed persons.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia - Wikipedia

Quinn Comendant 6d ago

@theicarian The Panama Papers led to:

- Over 82 countries launched investigations based on the revelations.
- By 2021, governments had recovered more than $1.36 billion in back taxes and penalties. https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/panama-papers-revenue-recovery-reaches-1-36-billion-as-investigations-continue/
- Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson resigned.
- Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office.
- Multiple countries implemented stricter financial transparency laws.
- The European Union created blacklists of tax havens.

Panama Papers revenue recovery reaches $1.36 billion as investigations continue - ICIJ

Five years after the Panama Papers were first published, authorities are still clawing back lost tax dollars and prosecuting wrongdoers exposed by the global investigation.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

millennial falcon 5d ago

@com @theicarian what an excellent and welcome correction, merci QC.

@com @theicarian $1.36 billion is a piddling amount when you consider the scale of tax avoidance by the mega-rich.

Not🐧A🐧Convicted🐧Felon 5d ago

@com @theicarian Still the tip of the (rapidly melting) iceberg.

Lily Star 4d ago

@com @theicarian ... and then they murdered the reporter.

Jigme Datse 4d ago

@com @theicarian Being in Canada, and having evidence (not strong enough to say that this is verifiably true) people caught up in these investigations were in many cases "avoiding" paying amounts of taxes such as $50. Often, the "reason" that the problem existed was low quality "tax preparators.". May be technically accountants. So... The "Hey our government is doing a great job here..." It's a good idea to look at the details of the "great job" being done. The reports you are talking about are the governments stating them, not reports that are based on those who were affected by these actions reporting the actions.

overflo 🦐6d ago

@theicarian
cum-ex

Never forget.

@theicarian Don't forget Brexit!

Rasmus Lindegaard 5d ago

@theicarian tax the rich, damn it!

@theicarian That's kleptocracy.

Lincoln Pines 2d ago

@theicarian And! Some of our leaders and most influential celebrities had a spotlight on them, and people's response was to...shrug and go their merry way. No outrage. No calls for justice. These leaders were actually rewarded.

HandyAuntJo 2d ago

@theicarian
OK, I don't recall the car bomb part, but I do remember the info release.