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Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
10 things Republicans have done in the last 10 days 🧵
1. DHS deported Brian Morales, a UNITED STATES CITIZEN born in Denver, after multiple officers refused to investigate his claim of citizenship. None of these officers will be charged
Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
I helped pass this law in 2020. It's purpose is to prevent drug traffickers, Russian & Chinese kleptocrats, and other international criminals from setting up anonymously owned companies to hide their money in the US. Trump's Treasury Dept. is doing this to help criminals. 1/
Today, @FinCENnews issued a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information. FinCEN today also announced that it will delete previously reported information by U.S. persons from the beneficial ownership information database.
Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
Independent analyses estimate that your actions to dismantle USAID and drastically reduce lifesaving foreign aid have already killed 700,000 people. Here are some of those people. 🧵xitter.cf/elonmusk/status/206944…
All DOGE required was contact information of the recipients to confirm that funding was not fraudulent. No validated medical funding was stopped.
Anything that appeared to be legitimate lifesaving funding continued and is now administered by the State Department.
If anyone had actually died as a result of DOGE, their names would be worldwide headline news!
On the other hand, USAID did help fund the Wuhan Virology Institute, which caused the deaths of millions, and the revolution that started the Russia-Ukraine war.
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“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health” reuters.com/sustainability/b…
Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
The folks at @bellingcat created this helpful visualization showing the locations of the ICE vehicles and personnel in relation to Renee Nicole Good’s car, using imagery of the shooting. They posted on the other site but not here.
Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
“Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
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Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
Oh my God. All these criminals are simply going to loot the Treasury through made-up lawsuits. And now Senators are in on it too. And nobody cares.
NEW: DOJ has been in settlement talks with Michael Flynn -- Trump's first national security adviser seeking $50M for his prosecution by ex-special counsel Robert Mueller -- and Stefan Passantino, a Trump I White House lawyer who accused the House Jan. 6 committee of privacy violations, court records show
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Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale AI cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention. It has significant implications for cybersecurity in the age of AI agents.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/disruptin…
Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt.
This is simply false. UN data show solar 8x cleaner than gas, 19x than coal per kWh. Solar repays CO2 in 4months.
Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
The entire State Dept office of multilateral nuclear affairs was dismissed last week, Alexandra Bell tells @CFR_org.
“These were people responsible for efforts to ban explosive nuclear testing, the production of weapons grade material, people working on nuclear disarmament verification, experts that simply cannot be replaced.”
Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
Trump has never seen a wind farm in China because he's an incurious narcissist who ignores all information that contradicts his biases. The Gansu wind farm is the largest onshore wind farm in the world, with 7000 turbines. China is the global leader in installed wind capacity.
TRUMP: And we are putting up wind. It does not work, aside from ruining our fields and valleys and killing all the birds. Being very weak and expensive, all made in China. I have never seen a wind farm in China. Why is that?
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China is the global leader in wind energy, with the largest installed capacity of wind power worldwide, including extensive onshore and offshore wind farms.
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Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
Shocking how bad this bill is:
- 17 million would lose health care
- 30% higher electricity costs
- Millions of manufacturing and construction jobs destroyed
- Biggest ever cut in food assistance for families, kids, veterans
- $4 trillion in deficits
- $1 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires & billionaires
People should be on the phones, in the streets, and telling everyone who’ll listen
Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
Just so non-traders understand the bombshell here:
Right before the S&P 500 (SPY) suddenly spiked, someone bought a huge number of call options — bets that the index would go up that same day. These were zero-day options, meaning they expire worthless by the end of the day unless SPY rises quickly. At the time, they were almost worthless.
Then SPY shot up. Those dirt-cheap options exploded in value. A $100K bet turned into $21 million in minutes.
That green spike before the jump is not luck. It’s foreknowledge. Someone knew exactly what was about to happen.
Someone’s going to prison.
Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
I am all for cutting gov costs, then and now. I'm even more for efficiency
I would have a plan. Ready Fire Aim is not a plan.
Cutting programs without knowing if they would have saved taxpayers more than they cost, or saved lives, is a mistake
Tariffs, cutting programs, agencies and employees ALL AT ONCE, without doing an analysis of the impact on city, towns and states they impact, is going to backfire big time
Some cities have 9 pct or more of their employment as federal workers. Colleges losing millions in funding. Gov contractors and grant recipients having to close their businesses and lay off everyone.
Repeated in city after city. Town after town
What do you think the economic impact on their tax base is ? What do you think happens to home values ? What services will they have to end ?
What about the local businesses ? How many people will lose their jobs and homes because this was done ALL AT ONCE
Cut federal government bloat in an organized fashion and it's great.
Ready Fire Aim and the uncertainty it creates is a huge mistake
Nils Klinkenberg retweeted
A lot of people know deep down that the Trump Admin is behaving shamefully with regard to Ukraine, but don't want to admit, even to themselves, that America is being dishonorable, so they fixate on matters of no consequence, like Zelensky's manners, to distract their consciences