Posts by Christopher Lee Donovan
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It’s not uncommon for foreigners to buy U.S. stock through a vehicle in the Cayman Islands, often to save money on taxes. But experts said it was strange for the party on the other side of a deal — the U.S. company — to prefer such an arrangement.
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The image is a screenshot of a post on X by a user named Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg ). The post reads: "Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that."
Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121
The Trump administration wants to shut down all of Social Security over a ruling blocking 11 DOGE workers from sticking their fingers in your private data.
11 DOGE workers. 73 million Americans.
This is illegal. If it happens, will force millions of seniors into poverty.
Vivian Wilson (@thevivllainous.bsky.social) is extremely online; unlike Elon Musk, her father, she’s really good at it. “Most of [the right] have the charisma of a soaking bathrobe. I mean, it's not my fault that most of them don't know how to be funny. It's not that hard.” ⤵️
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific.
If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
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Juraj Krajčík subscribed to at least 49 extremist Telegram chats and channels, many of them nodes in the Terrorgram network, before he killed two people at an LGBTQ+ bar. @propublica.org @acthompson.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/tele...
“I’d like to see him (Trump) sifting through spiny naiad in 120-degree weather looking for parasitic snails. He’s the one that goes golfing on the government dime. I don’t even know how to golf.” - Riley Rackliffe, aquatic ecologist at Lake Mead.
SCOTUS may have ordered the government not to stiff its contractors.
But as @pemalevy.bsky.social warns, the decision also clearly showed that four of the justices fully believe that Trump and Musk should be able to unilaterally turn off congressionally-mandated spending.
NEW: On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
Some federal workers are going back to work.
The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back.
Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired.
The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.
The stakes are just too high.
President Trump's orders and rhetoric are intended to chill dissent and censor views he dislikes.
Let's be clear: the government can't threaten funding to universities for simply doing their job to foster an environment of free speech and free inquiry.
The numbers get worse for these guys if you create a fake GDP along these lines. What happened here is Elon and Trump crashed the economy in less than two months and Elon’s now whining about macro indicators to cover his ass like a little bitch.
theyre gonna wind up running the Department of Women
We need a web 5.0
Skip past the 3.0 and resultant 4.0 capitalist bullshit
Get back to indexing by hand
Information by people for people
Mr Fish
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.