Every single action for them comes down to fealty to their dictator. Morality and decency and “rule of law” are for losers and betas. There is no question of law, only whether dear leader is served or not.

Yes, they will expire soon. Guess what doesnt expire. Tax cuts for the 1%. Way to gaslight, princess

Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order, turning America into a Russian ally, @RadioFreeTom argues: theatln.tc/ZkAeQt3l

Judges love to be bullied no?

A Brief History of Rigged Elections. For 250 years American elections were fine. People who won, won, people who lost, conceded. No whining or crying. In 2016 Trump won. Hillary Clinton didn't whine. She conceded like a true American. But then in 2020 something happened. For the first time in our history, a presidential nominee who lost, Donald Trump, refused to concede. He cried, caused an insurrection, and had to be dragged out of the White House by his cankles. Cut to 2024. Trump wins. Again, no whining by Kamala Harris. She concedes like a true American. Now we're 16 days from midterms. And Donald is whining already. Blaming illegals, ID laws, mail-in-ballots, voting machines, dead people, Antifa, and socialists. He's right. We do have a rigging problem. It's called Donald Trump. Our system worked great for every election at every level for 250 years... Until jelly donut took office.

This all day.

How many times, America?

I am the Director of Event Processor Calibration at Bank of America, and for most of my career the most important number in American banking was 20. I picked it. 20 points inside 13 months, and a human being would finally look at you. The consent order calls my method "stakeholder judgment." I was the stakeholder. I still have the judgment. Here is how it actually works. Every day the bank's software flags transactions that might be money laundering: cash kept just under reporting limits, wires to risky places. Each flag is an alert. Twice every weekday, the Event Processor reads the alerts. It does not investigate them. It gives each alert a weight between 0 and 20, pools the alerts by customer into an Event Group, and waits. If the group reaches 20 points before its oldest alert turns 13 months old, it becomes a case. If it doesn't, the old alerts retire. Retirement is my favorite word in the system. It sounds like a cake and a watch. Once someone reviews a case and decides it's suspicious, a 30-day clock starts to file a Suspicious Activity Report, the report that tells the government. An alert that never becomes a case never starts a clock. Other people race the clock. I keep it in the box. The weights live in a file called EP_RiskWeights_MASTER_stakeholder_v31.xlsx. Hundreds of rows. ATM Large Cash Deposit: 1 point. In April 2019 an internal Performance Analysis told me that factor turned into an actual SAR 56.75% of the time. I left it at 1. A 1 is modest. A 1 doesn't show off at parties. High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area: 1 point. For weighting purposes, it is an area. Some factors fire at the group level and count once, no matter how often they fire. A large aggregated wire alert can go off all year and contribute exactly 1 point. My kitchen smoke detector has run on the same principle since 2019. It chirps every 40 seconds. 1 point. Dana Whitlock runs Investigations Capacity Planning. Her whiteboard has one number on it: the investigators we have. The Event Processor was born in 2010 partly because there were not enough investigators to work all of the alerts, and the threshold and Dana's whiteboard have been best friends ever since. When Dana erases a name, I go looking for a weight to lower. Late 2021, Conference Room 22F, a deck titled Project Lighter Touch. I lowered 106 weights and raised 17. Net, minus 187 points. About 8,200 fewer cases to staff. Under the estimate of SARs we would lose, I typed one word, "permissible," in 14-point Calibri. I did not explain how permissibility was determined. Explaining is a form of documentation, and documentation is a form of evidence. Marcus Feld in Model Validation is the only person who has ever hurt me. In 2022 and early 2023 he tested the groups just under my line. Event Groups scoring 16 to 19 turned into SARs 38% to 45% of the time. The groups at 20 to 24, the ones we actually investigated, yielded 33% to 34%. My rejects were outperforming my picks. Marcus called my weights "counterintuitive." He proposed a different threshold that would "uncover more SARs." It was declined over the "practical concern of pushing too many below-the-line event groups to cases." Dana's whiteboard does not have room for more SARs. I bought Marcus a succulent. In 2023 another test found an 18% SAR yield below my line. Leadership had it done again. The second test blamed "investigator inexperience and biased sample selection" and came back "confident that EP is working as intended." Two tests. One answer. The answer we already had. My smoke detector has been reported by my wife in March 2020, June 2020 and about once a month since. Each report retires after 13 months. The group has never reached 20. Now the part I am proudest of. The best analyst I ever worked with was the federal government. Ike runs Promotion Intake on the 4th floor. A grand jury subpoena, a seizure warrant or a law-enforcement request skips the points entirely and "auto-promotes" straight to a case. Ike stamps each one AUTO-PROMOTE with a red rubber stamp and posts a party popper in a Slack channel called promotion-events. By 2023 nearly half of our investigations started that way, counting other banks' requests and the odd employee tip. The government works for free, never asks for headcount and shows up with a grand jury. Our customer risk ratings, in the order's words, "directly correlate[d] with the Bank receiving subpoenas." That is a very efficient way to be right. Treasury later said we "effectively outsourced to third parties a substantial portion of its proactive detection." Outsourced is a strong word. I prefer partnered. Money orders were my quietest product. Our systems "did not distinguish between types of negotiable instruments." Sequential numbers, round dollars, little stacks totaling between $2,900 and $3,000, which is precisely where you stand when $3,000 is the point where someone has to write down your ID. I did not weight them low. I did not weight them. Zero is the purest form of stakeholder judgment. December 2023, the regulators engaged, and my line came down to 10 or 12 points. The window shrank from 13 months to 4. The lookback found about 8,900 SARs we should have filed, roughly $4 billion of activity, sitting below my 20 the whole time. To work at the new line, the bank estimated 16,000 more investigations a month, 750 more staff and 800 consultants. The backlog peaked at nearly 200,000 cases. Dana now has three whiteboards. She has started talking to them. Then the FinCEN consent order arrived, and on page 64 it reviewed my work. It said the Bank had "likely saved hundreds of millions of dollars in compliance-related expenditures." Nobody at this bank has ever written a better sentence about me. I had it framed. It hangs over my monitor, beside the counter that tracks my personal KPI, Cases Not Opened. The order also defines willful as "reckless disregard or willful blindness." I have never been blind. I can see 19 perfectly. October, 22F, the earnings call on the wall screen. The penalty was $1.2 billion. FinCEN credited the $750 million we paid the OCC, so the cash that went to FinCEN was $450 million. In the same quarter we spent $6.0 billion buying back our own stock, 5 times the penalty. I don't run buybacks. I respect any number that clears its threshold. Our spokesperson said, "We have invested billions of dollars in technology and dedicated thousands of employees to combat financial crime." By the bank's own estimate, it needed 750 more of them to read what my 20 had been keeping quiet. Our CEO said, "we've resolved the government discussion in the AML area." The OCC, the day before, wrote that "the Bank's BSA/AML program remains deficient." Resolved is about the discussion. Deficient is about the program. Different Event Groups. They never pool. On Friday I was named Head of Threshold Strategy for the remediation. The FinCEN order asks the lookback to consider "super intelligence models." Someone has to tell the super intelligence how many points a thing needs before it may notice. They asked how I would choose the number. I said the same way I chose the last one. They wrote it down as experience. At home, the smoke detector is still chirping. 1 point, group level, every 40 seconds since 2019. I have never once smelled smoke.

Looks like everything’s fine.

Another Russian ballistic missile attack came in several waves overnight, and once again, there was no early warning from our partners. They again targeted energy facilities and infrastructure, but a medical clinic, a school, a metro station, and ordinary residential buildings were also damaged. In total, the Russians launched 16 ballistic missiles in a deliberate attack on Kyiv and the Kyiv region. The Russians also launched more than 200 drones of various types, including jet-powered “shaheds,” with attacks spanning from the Kharkiv and Dnipro regions to the Volyn, Rivne, and Odesa regions. Sadly, there are casualties. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Those who were injured are receiving assistance. Overnight and this morning, Russia attacked energy facilities in the Vinnytsia, Volyn, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Ternopil, Odesa, and Rivne regions. In this one night alone, more than 10 energy infrastructure facilities were damaged, and the lights went out for at least 550,000 families. Repair crews are working at the sites. Ukraine never wanted this war, and we have welcomed literally EVERY attempt by our partners to bring this war to a dignified end. We have responded positively to EVERY ceasefire proposal. Russia's response, time and again, has been ballistic missiles, “shaheds,” and killings. Putin not only doesn't want to end this war – he doesn't even want to take any steps toward de-escalation. EVERY ONE of our partners has experienced this firsthand when they heard Russia's refusals. And it is crucial to call things what they are. To call the aggressor an aggressor and help Ukraine defend lives. When deliveries of missiles for Ukraine's air defense are blocked while Russia is granted relief or delays in sanctions, this is, unfortunately, a denial of reality on the part of our partners. The reality is that the war continues, and it continues solely because of Russian strikes and Russia's desire to drag this war out. I thank everyone who recognizes this reality and helps Ukraine!

BREAKING: Ukraine has carried out the world’s first medical evacuation of a human via a drone from the battlefield the 30th mechanised brigade of Ukraine managed to save their injured comrade from a minefield. Just absolutely insane.

How come nobody is asking Dr. Oz to renounce the Muslim Brotherhood?

Trump is a traitor to the free world. Anti-NATO. Anti-Canada. Anti-Ukraine. Pro-Putin. Russian oligarchs paid for Donald Jr Wedding. Criminal but not surprising. Trump is a lame duck and midterms essential for shutting down his insanity. Ukraine needs to do what it deems necessary.

This is what it looks like when a government ignores the will of the people, in favor of greed and corruption. The Albania Supreme Court is allowing Jared Kushner and his billionaire friends to DESTROY and develop protected wetlands for hotels, villas, and a casino on the protected Sazan Island. This is exactly what's happening in America right now all across our national parks and protected lands, and REPUBLICANS ARE SILENT. Vote with vengeance. ✊🌲🌊

Notice how Tommy wasn't punched in the face and dragged out of El-Sayed's political event.....

June 18: 🇺🇸Trump buys up to $500K in Boeing stock. Same day Boeing gets $880M US Navy contract. June 24: 🇺🇸Trump buys up to $250K in Palantir stock. Same day Palantir gets $45.8M government contract. In any functioning democracy, this would be called massive corruption and he would have faced at least 2 years in jail.

Make no mistake, Trump started a war with Iran that screwed up oil prices worldwide then blamed Ukraine because that was easier than admitting he was wrong.

Trump ran on tax cuts. But his economic policies have driven up taxes and costs for all but the wealthiest 1% of Americans, a think tank reports. usatoday.com/story/money/per…

JD, have you considered opening your eyes? Perhaps starting with your boss's own financial disclosures? Reuters reported that Trump disclosed more than $1.4 billion in income from his family's cryptocurrency ventures in 2025. His businesses also collected millions from international licensing deals. But you've never seen evidence that Trump has enriched himself? That's remarkable, JD. Most people would have to sustain a fairly serious head injury to overlook that much money. And nobody needs to prove that every dollar was illegally obtained to recognize the extraordinary conflicts of interest created when a sitting president promotes industries in which his family has enormous financial stakes. You're the Vice President of the United States. Your job isn't to pretend the evidence disappears when you close your eyes. At some point, JD, the distinction between being genuinely uninformed and being deliberately dishonest becomes entirely academic. Either way, you're spectacularly unqualified to lecture anyone about corruption.

🚨 BREAKING: New reporting CONFIRMS that Trump’s policies raised taxes for all Americans except the top 1%.