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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Corporate b.s.: Maxwell House coffee officially changed name to Maxwell Apartment 🤔<br><a href="https://www.salon.com/2025/10/02/maxwell-house-coffee-has-officially-changed-its-name" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">salon.com/2025/10/02/maxwell-h</span><span class="invisible">ouse-coffee-has-officially-changed-its-name</span></a></p><p>The coffee giant is revamping its brand name for the first time in 133 years<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaxwellHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaxwellHouse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inflation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greedflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greedflation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shrinkflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shrinkflation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>propaganda</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoodSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/affordability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>affordability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrivateEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrivateEquity</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticSocialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a></p>
OccuWorld<p>Respect the Amazon</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBaGHa2hJkw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=LBaGHa2hJkw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>On this Amazon Day 5th September, a breathtaking animated short takes us into the Amazon rainforest, paradise is shattered when a mechanical army of bulldozers and chainsaws tears through ancient trees, replacing vibrant life with smoke, fire, and profit. </p><p><a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/AmazonDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonDay</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/BatistaBrothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BatistaBrothers</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/RiseUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RiseUp</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/StopTheMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheMachine</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"three and a half Billion dollars in Presidential profits—even though my accounting is necessarily approximate—is a dizzying sum... </p><p>Trump’s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> resembles that of an Arab monarch: he treats his <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/public" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>public</span></a> office as personal property, as an asset that is his to exploit as if he owned it. Kalman said, “One of the differences between a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/monarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monarchy</span></a> and a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> is that the President should not start to view the Presidency as his personal fiefdom.”</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>
CassandraVert<p>I just saw an ad for a gold Trump Commemorative Coin embossed with the scene at the staged shooting. The narrator was speaking from the passenger seat of a car. The ad didn't give the price; you had to click through to get that.<br><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/grift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grift</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/tawdry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tawdry</span></a></p>
Miss Gayle<p>For-Profit "healthcare" at work...</p><p>For some odd reason this was not in the news here in Central Ky. </p><p>Wonder why?</p><p>Link: <a href="https://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-kentucky/kentucky-man-suffers-from-ptsd-after-waking-up-during-organ-harvesting-procedure?ICID=ref_fark" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wcpo.com/news/state/state-kent</span><span class="invisible">ucky/kentucky-man-suffers-from-ptsd-after-waking-up-during-organ-harvesting-procedure?ICID=ref_fark</span></a></p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Kentucky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kentucky</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/PredatoryCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PredatoryCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/RedStateHellhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedStateHellhole</span></a></p>
Craig Duncan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@carnage4life" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>carnage4life</span></a></span> </p><p>"AI infrastructure wave" = selling resources for bloated computing up-selling. Like selling consumables for printers just on a larger scale. </p><p>This makes business sense for infrastructure capitalists in the short term: the hype train drives all this FOMO corporate upscaling. The simultaneous layoffs in the same period create a short term profit signal to drown out the disappointments.</p><p>In the meantime none of it is really necessary. Vapourware ? I raise you "Aerated Investment"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/consumermaniupulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consumermaniupulation</span></a></p>
Adrian Lenardic<p>Nature has become the most hyporcritical for-profit publisher on the planet. They have never been about the idea that writting is thinking. They have long promoted that writting is to get them more papers more efficiently so they turn more profit. Corporate public relations is designed to sell the customer on the corporation and thats what this is. </p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-025-00323-4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s44222-025</span><span class="invisible">-00323-4</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicpublishing</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Federal</span></a> officials are barred from making decisions that benefit the business holdings of themselves or their spouses, but that prohibition does not extend to assets held by their adult children, acc/to Richard Painter, who served as the chief White House <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> lawyer during Republican George W. Bush’s admin.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BudgetCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BudgetCuts</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MassLayoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassLayoffs</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Privatizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privatizing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a> agencies has long been an aim of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a>. During <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s first presidency, he signed a bill that utilized more private weather data. And <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a>, a proposed blueprint for Trump’s 2nd presidency that was co-authored by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OMB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OMB</span></a> director <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a>, calls for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NOAA</span></a> to be broken up &amp; for the weather service to “fully commercialize its forecasting operations.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BudgetCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BudgetCuts</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MassLayoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassLayoffs</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privatizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privatizing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weather</span></a> forecasts</p><p>As <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/commerce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commerce</span></a> secy, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HowardLutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowardLutnick</span></a> oversees the US govt’s vast efforts to monitor &amp; predict the weather.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/broligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BudgetCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BudgetCuts</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MassLayoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassLayoffs</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NWS</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NOAA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NaturalDisasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalDisasters</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flooding</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-lutnick-weather-service-privatization-conflicts-9892de853c283468e6fb970cfd898d96" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/trump-lutni</span><span class="invisible">ck-weather-service-privatization-conflicts-9892de853c283468e6fb970cfd898d96</span></a></p>
Wen<p>Like Father like Son. Grifters and liars, both significantly enriched by it as well</p><p>'If there’s one family that hasn’t profited off politics, it’s the Trump family,’ president’s son says in an interview’</p><p>Even someone this thick can not belie the words that come out of his arse surely? The smirk gives him away.</p><p><a href="https://archive.is/20250627082728/https://www.ft.com/content/4fdac31f-e2ba-4635-ad9c-72299edce912#selection-1897.1-1897.118" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/20250627082728/http</span><span class="invisible">s://www.ft.com/content/4fdac31f-e2ba-4635-ad9c-72299edce912#selection-1897.1-1897.118</span></a> (archive)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Tump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Grifring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grifring</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lying</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PumpAndDump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PumpAndDump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/IllGottenGains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IllGottenGains</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Interview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Interview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The filing also discloses details of a *<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a>* [personsal enrichment scheme] agreement inked w/the Trump admin, which gives <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> the personal authority to name a board member as well as a non-economic golden share.</p><p>The golden share gives the US govt veto authority over a raft of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporate</span></a> decisions, from idling plants to cutting production capacity &amp; moving jobs overseas, as previewed in a weekend social media post by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Commerce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commerce</span></a> Secy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HowardLutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HowardLutnick</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Emoluments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emoluments</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NipponSteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NipponSteel</span></a> acquisition of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USSteel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSteel</span></a> closed, with big role for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Emoluments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emoluments</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/securities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>securities</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SEC</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ImpeachTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImpeachTrump</span></a> </p><p>Nippon Steel's $14.9 billion acquisition of US Steel closed on Wed, the companies said, confirming an unusual degree of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> for the Trump admin after the Japanese company's 18-month struggle to close the purchase.</p><p>Under the deal terms, Nippon bought 100% of US Steel shares at $55 per share, as it first laid out in its Dec 2023….</p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/nippon-steels-acquisition-us-steel-closes-with-big-role-trump-2025-06-18/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/sustainability/boa</span><span class="invisible">rds-policy-regulation/nippon-steels-acquisition-us-steel-closes-with-big-role-trump-2025-06-18/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>[<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> loosening of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cryptocurrency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cryptocurrency</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regulations</span></a>] has coincided w/Trump’s family’s rapid expansion into the industry, which has made <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> into a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crypto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crypto</span></a> dealer who stands to make huge sums of money from it.</p><p>In a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a> stmnt released before the final vote, WH ofcls wrote that the bill “removes <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/regulatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regulatory</span></a> uncertainty that has hindered *innovation &amp; competitiveness* [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MoneyLaundering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoneyLaundering</span></a>] in the digital assets sector.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a></p>
Wen<p>Debt is crushing the developing world</p><p>A reminder and something that has been ignore by many in the West, most governments willing to turn a blind eye to the plundering of already poor countries by the companies that they regulate.</p><p><a href="http://archive.today/2025.06.02-041422/https://www.ft.com/content/29a0f7fa-1871-4012-a730-48717fc61ecb" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.today/2025.06.02-04142</span><span class="invisible">2/https://www.ft.com/content/29a0f7fa-1871-4012-a730-48717fc61ecb</span></a> (archive)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Debt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DevelopingWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DevelopingWorld</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Theft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Theft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Misery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Misery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Stiglitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stiglitz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FT</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s latest enterprise is being developed by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dubai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dubai</span></a> real estate company <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DarGlobal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarGlobal</span></a> &amp; will be the first Trump International Hotel in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a>.</p><p>…The advertised “golden visa” does not specify which country it is for, but in Feb Trump announced the concept of selling a "<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GoldCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoldCard</span></a>" <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/visa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visa</span></a> for $5M potentially offering <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealthy</span></a> buyers residency in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> &amp; granting them a pathway to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/citizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citizenship</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Emoluments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emoluments</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FARA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FARA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Emoluments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emoluments</span></a> Schlemoluments</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is set to expand his property <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>empire</span></a> into <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dubai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dubai</span></a> - with a new 80 story skyscraper.</p><p>Plans have been unveiled for Trump Hotel &amp; Residences Dubai in the heart of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UAE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UAE</span></a>, measuring almost 1,150 feet with a swimming pool at the top. Prices for 2-bed apartments start at $1M &amp; the website for the property offers free 10 year ‘golden visas’.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <br>h/t <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@maddad" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>maddad</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/new-trump-tower-dubai-uae-b2743611.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">independent.co.uk/news/world/a</span><span class="invisible">mericas/us-politics/new-trump-tower-dubai-uae-b2743611.html</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>While <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s many merchandising opportunities have been difficult to keep up with, this endeavor was arguably the most outrageous—partly because of the rather obvious <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConflictOfInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConflictOfInterest</span></a> related to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SEC</span></a> &amp; partly because of the brazenness of Trump’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profiteering</span></a>.</p><p>The CLC’s Adav Noti explained, “It is literally cashing in on the presidency—creating a financial instrument so people can transfer money to the president’s family in connection with his office. It is beyond unprecedented.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p>“If there’s one thing we learned from the pandemic supply-chain shocks, it’s that corporate CEOs never let an emergency go to waste. Bosses, knowing that you’d been warned to expect higher prices, went ahead and jacked up their prices way over inflation, blaming it on covid, on stimulus checks, on Biden, on the phase of the moon. Blaming it on anything — except greed. That’s why we called it “excuseflation””</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GreedFlation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreedFlation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Profiteering</span></a></p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/21/trumpflation/#andrew-ferguson" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/04/21/tru</span><span class="invisible">mpflation/#andrew-ferguson</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>As <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EggPrices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EggPrices</span></a> soared, so did producer <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/profits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profits</span></a><br>
A <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USDA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USDA</span></a> program doled out hundreds of millions in relief payments to big egg companies, even as the largest earned record profits.</p><p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AvianInfluenza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AvianInfluenza</span></a> outbreak has had far-reaching consequences: &gt;120M hens have been slaughtered &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/egg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>egg</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/prices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prices</span></a> have risen to record levels. In his address to Congress, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> called the situation “out of control.”<br>
Yet for some <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporate</span></a> companies, these are good times.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BirdFlu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirdFlu</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Profiteering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Profiteering</span></a><br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/08/egg-prices-profit-increase-cal-maine/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/business/20</span><span class="invisible">25/04/08/egg-prices-profit-increase-cal-maine/</span></a></p>
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