Thomas Volscho
@TVolschoInvestigative journalist and full-time Sociology professor at CUNY / College of Staten Island. Tips welcome via DM, email.
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Records show Jeffrey Epstein’s requests for multiple passports, travels to Africa and Middle East abcnews.go.com/US/records-sho… @JamesHillABC
Breaking: Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration for AG
Generally Unaccepted Accounting Principles. That bodes well. The stunning amount of kleptocratic behavior likely on the forefront. Imagine building your net worth from forgiven liabilities? Essentially your bankers were forced to make you rich. Amazing stuff.
US allows a lame duck President, too old to run again to escalate the Ukraine war by permitting long-range missiles that risk nuclear war with Russia. Makes Dems the "pro-war party" that will lose more elections. And if Trump now ends the Ukraine war? Is Biden blind too?
The world really is changing. 10 or 20 years ago it would have been unthinkable to see establishment outlets like Foreign Policy and the New York Times saying "wow Noam Chomsky and Bernie Sanders sure do know what they're talking about."
Who owns Bluesky? Turns out that between 25% and 50% of the capitalization of Blockchain Capital, LLC - which just invested $15 million in Bluesky - is owned by Brock Jeffrey Pierce, who has quite an interesting resume: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Pie… @davetroy
The “Latino” vote (Raul Perez linked me to this on another platform). Trump’s majority (by vote intention) was specific to Cuban-Americans. Not necessarily a surprise.
Good points under normal circumstances. But as the rule of law is compromised, when it does not benefit the ruling class, it does not matter. Matt Gaetz will quash as AG…if it is even formally raised.
This is a federal office subject to the financial conflict of interest statute, 18 U.S.C. Section 208. They will both have to divest conflicting financial interests or risk violating a criminal statute. cnn.com/2024/11/12/pol…
Look for mass resignations before the end of the year by high level civil servants marked for expulsion by Trump's hatchet men. Political appointees and federal prosecutors will resign as a matter of practice with an incoming Administration of the other Party. But the departure…
The Democratic party of the 1930s died around 1979 when they decided to start begging for corporate money -- shortly after the explosion of corporate PACs.
The Democrats lost this election because they ignored the justified anger of working class America and became the defenders of a rigged economy and political system. @GlobeOpinion bostonglobe.com/2024/11/10/opi…
BREAKING: Special counsel’s office asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to pause outstanding deadlines in Trump’s 2020 election interference case, citing “unprecedented circumstance” of the criminal defendant’s election as president of the United States.
Fresh out of federal custody and back into the fray.
Bannon: Folks, if we had lost on Tuesday, Donald Trump was going to spend the rest of his life in federal prison—10 or 20 years, to die in prison. That was the stakes. Didn’t quite work out, did it, folks? Didn’t quite work out.
Forecast did well
Ray Fair's pure economic (inflation growth incumbency) forecast of the presidential popular vote yields a (two party share) prediction of 49.6% if Biden does not run and 51.7% if he does run. That is using the latest estimates of growth and inflation released in April.
Tim Walz—remember him?—lost his home county to Trump. Biden won it handily in 2020.
If the U.S. puts a tariff on coffee, sugar, etc? So does that mean Starbucks will charge $25-$30 for a latte? Wouldn't that be inflationary?
Oligarchs’ tea party
Why are billionaires lining up behind Republicans? Because their wealth has doubled since the GOP enacted Trump's tax cuts for the rich. They want even more tax breaks, of course. But they also know that the more Trump tears down democracy, the safer the oligarchy becomes.
Not a shocker but tapes provide the detailed assessment of Trump by the late Epstein.
Holy shit. Trump is screwed. thedailybeast.com/listen-to-the-…
There is a good chance his defense thus far will fall flat on its face. The strategy of his attorneys will shift to intensive attacks on the witness/victims.
A federal grand jury in New York will be hearing new evidence in the case against Sean “Diddy” Combs. NewsNation has confirmed that a grand jury will be hearing new testimony from a male regarding Combs’ investigation. newsnationnow.com/crime/grand-ju…
Obfuscation.
The announcement that the Star-Ledger will stop printing obscured the fact that they're simply killing it off. All that was left of the S-L for the past ~10 years was the print copy and a handful of staff. Now they're ceasing printing and laying all the employees off. The end.
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