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  End of Summer Sale: For a limited time, you can lock in 30% off when you upgrade— just $1.05 a week !—Never miss an unfiltered, deep-dive political analysis from the sharpest strategists in the game when you upgrade today. Kash Patel Isn't Bad at His Job. He's Doing Exactly What He Was Hired to Do. Lowered standards, scuttled alliances, and looking the other way: inside the law enforcement doctrine of Trump II. Edwin Eisendrath Sep 26 Edwin Eisendrath is the former CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Alderman who hosts It's The Democracy Stupid on Lincoln Square and a weekly radio show on WCPT820AM/ Heartland Signal  Subscribe to his Substack Kash Patel had a week. In Senate hearings, he had to admit to lowering the recruitment and hiring standards for the FBI. One of those standards? Bestiality. He dropped the prohibition on hiring candidates who committed bestiality. Now, frankly, I’m not sure if I care that someone wants to have sex with an animal. But Patel’s...

  We Investigated The Criminals Who Bought Trump: What We Found Will Shock You A billionaire put $75 million into the Trump family crypto company. His SEC probe was dropped. Binance helped them make a crypto coin and facilitated a $2 billion deal. The founder was pardoned. The Trumps are using crypto to enable brazen corruption at the highest level. ----- More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom whose mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means: We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective. We attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions. We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power. And we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems. Donald Trump claims to be tough on crime, but he’s pardoning crypto criminals in what appears to be a massive pay-to-pardon scheme. In October 2024, just ...

  The biggest Ponzi scheme in history Robert Reich Mar 6 Friends, I remain optimistic about the longer term, but I still awaken each morning with a sense of dread. I’m sure some of you do, too. Start with Elon Musk’s bonkers comment that Social Security is “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.” In a Ponzi scheme, a con artist lures investors into a fake investment project, pockets the cash, and then gets new “investors” to funnel their cash to the earlier investors — until there are no new recruits and the whole thing collapses. The last ones in are suckers left holding worthless bags. Social Security is  not  a Ponzi scheme. It’s a high-functioning, universal, and exceptionally efficient part of the American social safety net — the  opposite  of a Ponzi scheme. Which is why the overwhelming majority of Americans   oppose cutting it . Social Security is a simple “pay as you go” program. Current workers, via the payroll tax, fund payouts for retirees and di...

  SUBSCRIBE TO  THIS NEWSLETTER First Donald Trump Purloins Top Secret Documents; Now Morgan Stanley Allows Its Clients’ Social Security Numbers to Get Auctioned on Hard Drives By  Pam Martens:  September 21, 2022 ~ James Gorman, Chairman and CEO, Morgan Stanley Yesterday, Gurbir Grewal, the Director of Enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission, said that the manner in which Wall Street mega bank, Morgan Stanley, had allowed the personal information of its clients to be auctioned off online on hard drives was “astonishing.” Grewal is not someone who can be easily astonished. Grewal came to the SEC from his post as Attorney General of New Jersey. Before that he had been the Bergen County Prosecutor. Prior to that he held various positions in the Justice Department’s U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, including his last position there as Chief of the Economic Crimes Unit. Exactly what was it that astonished Grewal? According to the...

  SUBSCRIBE TO THIS NEWSLETTER: Trump Administration Prosecutor Charges in New Book that Justice Department Was Corrupted by Trump and Attorney General William Barr By  Pam Martens and Russ Martens : September 13, 2022 ~ Geoffrey Berman, Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Two new nonfiction books are being released today. Bestselling author and anthropologist Sarah Kendzior’s book,  They Knew , describes Donald Trump as a “transnational career criminal.” The book from the former top federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York under the Trump Justice Department, Geoffrey Berman, a Republican, reinforces Kendzior’s thesis with the revelation that Trump’s Justice Department was weaponized “to aid the President’s friends and punish his enemies,” both foreign and domestic. One of the most outrageous demands from the Justice Department, writes Berman, was “pressure to pursue baseless criminal charges against John Kerry, who had served in the ...