SW
@sc0ttw.bsky.social
Attorney, exec, anti-corruption and whistleblower advocate. Board member @dekleptocracy.bsky.social and @warcontractors.bsky.social.
I’m an attorney, with my own practice. Last 2 years I’ve purchased health insurance through Georgia’s marketplace; no credits or subsidies. Just checked the price for next year: 50% increase for 2026! 50%!!!Cheapest bronze plan is about $900/month. Silver plans over $1200 (which mine was). Insane!
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I’m an attorney, with my own practice. Last 2 years I’ve purchased health insurance through Georgia’s marketplace; no credits or subsidies. Just checked the price for next year: 50% increase for 2026! 50%!!!Cheapest bronze plan is about $900/month. Silver plans over $1200 (which mine was). Insane!
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I'm glad Menendez was forced out & now faces the legal consequences of his corruption & treason. But I don't understand a system in which this happens, while the Republican President of the United States commits the same crimes, on a level orders of magnitude worse, & faces no consequences at all.
Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has reported to federal prison to begin 11-year sentence
With the Trump administration rolling back enforcement of anti-corruption laws, could politicians being imprisoned for corruption be part of a 'bygone era,' as one watchdog group says?
www.phillyvoice.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I'm glad Menendez was forced out & now faces the legal consequences of his corruption & treason. But I don't understand a system in which this happens, while the Republican President of the United States commits the same crimes, on a level orders of magnitude worse, & faces no consequences at all.
Is the Trump admin using your tax $$$ to fund insurrectionists and election deniers? $5M to Ashli Babbitt’s family from the DOJ and now a $100M proud boys lawsuit… This is an end around congress. Think a “Capitol Insurrectionist Compensation Fund” would pass?
open.substack.com/pub/deklepto...
open.substack.com/pub/deklepto...
Is the DOJ Subsidizing Insurrection?
Your tax dollars could be flowing to white nationalists and conspiracy theorists
open.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Is the Trump admin using your tax $$$ to fund insurrectionists and election deniers? $5M to Ashli Babbitt’s family from the DOJ and now a $100M proud boys lawsuit… This is an end around congress. Think a “Capitol Insurrectionist Compensation Fund” would pass?
open.substack.com/pub/deklepto...
open.substack.com/pub/deklepto...
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We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We need to stand up for @terrymoranabc.bsky.social
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22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht's asthma medicine abruptly jumped from $55 to $700. Unable to get the medicine he needed, he left without it.
Cole suffered an asthma attack and died 5 days later. His inhaler was empty & his insurance corp was UnitedHealth.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/did-united...
Cole suffered an asthma attack and died 5 days later. His inhaler was empty & his insurance corp was UnitedHealth.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/did-united...
Did UnitedHealth Exploitation Result in Yet Another Preventable Death?
22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht's asthma medicine abruptly jumped from $55 to $700—unable to get the medicine he needed, he died 5 days later
www.qasimrashid.com
June 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht's asthma medicine abruptly jumped from $55 to $700. Unable to get the medicine he needed, he left without it.
Cole suffered an asthma attack and died 5 days later. His inhaler was empty & his insurance corp was UnitedHealth.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/did-united...
Cole suffered an asthma attack and died 5 days later. His inhaler was empty & his insurance corp was UnitedHealth.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/did-united...
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this is excellent — straight talk from a meteorologist who spells out in clear terms what effect all these senseless cuts are having
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 5:58 AM
this is excellent — straight talk from a meteorologist who spells out in clear terms what effect all these senseless cuts are having
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If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had proposed this, the GOP would be in the streets with pitchforks and
torches.
I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
torches.
I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had proposed this, the GOP would be in the streets with pitchforks and
torches.
I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
torches.
I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
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“It’s one thing for me to talk about oligarchy as an abstraction,” Bernie Sanders told @eosnos.bsky.social. “Trump has made it clear. He has said it loudly and clearly: we are a government of billionaires.”
Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder
The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents.
nyer.cm
June 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“It’s one thing for me to talk about oligarchy as an abstraction,” Bernie Sanders told @eosnos.bsky.social. “Trump has made it clear. He has said it loudly and clearly: we are a government of billionaires.”
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Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
May 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
“In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.
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Old enough to remember when America opposed this sort of thing.
Russia’s New Weapon: Child 'Suicide Bombers'
Moscow’s intelligence services are recruiting civilians, including the young and vulnerable, to carry remotely detonated explosives
buff.ly
May 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Old enough to remember when America opposed this sort of thing.
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english.elpais.com/internationa... This would confirm that the USG returned a gang leader to El Salvador to help Bukele cover up his help to MS13. He also confirms the Treasury knew this. That would mean the USG literally assisted MS13, a named US terrorist group.
A gang leader released by Bukele reveals his pacts with the government of El Salvador
In an interview with ‘El Faro,’ Charli, leader of a faction of Barrio 18, details how the rapprochement with the president’s circle began
english.elpais.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
english.elpais.com/internationa... This would confirm that the USG returned a gang leader to El Salvador to help Bukele cover up his help to MS13. He also confirms the Treasury knew this. That would mean the USG literally assisted MS13, a named US terrorist group.
Tesla sales for April continue to sink in Europe…. All sales for the first 4 months of the year across Europe now the same as 2 weeks of sales in China.
Elon Musk’s European crisis deepens—initial April sales numbers prove devastating for Tesla buff.ly/ZdknFhX
Elon Musk’s European crisis deepens—initial April sales numbers prove devastating for Tesla
Four key EV friendly European markets reported high double-digit drops in Tesla volumes in April with only Norway showing some improvement.
buff.ly
May 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Tesla sales for April continue to sink in Europe…. All sales for the first 4 months of the year across Europe now the same as 2 weeks of sales in China.
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s pick to oversee Americans’ retirement savings pressed to block retiree lawsuits aiming to stop corporations from looting workers' 401ks, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
His firm could profit off a regulatory rollback. www.levernews.com/the-corporat...
His firm could profit off a regulatory rollback. www.levernews.com/the-corporat...
The Corporate Crusade Of Trump’s Top Retirement Cop
Potential pension chief Daniel Aronowitz wants to give retirement fund managers a free pass for price-gouging workers and bungling their savings — and his company stands to profit from it.
www.levernews.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s pick to oversee Americans’ retirement savings pressed to block retiree lawsuits aiming to stop corporations from looting workers' 401ks, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
His firm could profit off a regulatory rollback. www.levernews.com/the-corporat...
His firm could profit off a regulatory rollback. www.levernews.com/the-corporat...
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Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion
Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion
President Donald Trump and his family are deeply involved in the world of cryptocurrency as his administration seeks to deregulate the industry.
buff.ly
May 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion
The largest act of corruption in the history of the presidency. $2 billion investment in the Trump’s meme coin by a foreign government. Who else besides his family is involved? Witkoff’s son- you know, the person leading negotiations with Russia and Iran…
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion
President Donald Trump and his family are deeply involved in the world of cryptocurrency as his administration seeks to deregulate the industry.
www.rollingstone.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The largest act of corruption in the history of the presidency. $2 billion investment in the Trump’s meme coin by a foreign government. Who else besides his family is involved? Witkoff’s son- you know, the person leading negotiations with Russia and Iran…
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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In case anyone is wondering
April 20, 2025 at 3:48 AM
In case anyone is wondering
Nails it….
R.I.P. America the superpower. Whatever the factors slowly driving our decline over the past several decades, they have been dramatically, shockingly, and profoundly dangerously accelerated by the actions of this administration. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
The American Century Ended Gradually and then Suddenly
R.I.P America the Superpower
open.substack.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Nails it….
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SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
I don’t understand the sudden push for Kamala Harris.
1. She and her team knew about Biden’s decline and said nothing. They were complicit.
2. She ran against Trump and lost.
3. She has been largely silent about what’s happening since the election.
Why does anyone think she’s the answer?
1. She and her team knew about Biden’s decline and said nothing. They were complicit.
2. She ran against Trump and lost.
3. She has been largely silent about what’s happening since the election.
Why does anyone think she’s the answer?
April 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I don’t understand the sudden push for Kamala Harris.
1. She and her team knew about Biden’s decline and said nothing. They were complicit.
2. She ran against Trump and lost.
3. She has been largely silent about what’s happening since the election.
Why does anyone think she’s the answer?
1. She and her team knew about Biden’s decline and said nothing. They were complicit.
2. She ran against Trump and lost.
3. She has been largely silent about what’s happening since the election.
Why does anyone think she’s the answer?
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60 Minutes“could not find criminal records” for 75% of the 238 men the Trump admin sent to a Salvadoran prison. Of the 22% that had records, the “vast majority are for non-violent offenses.” Trump admin still insists they’re “terrorists.”
www.cbsnews.com/news/what-re...
www.cbsnews.com/news/what-re...
U.S. sent 238 migrants to Salvadoran mega-prison; documents indicate most have no apparent criminal records
The U.S. sent 238 Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran mega-prison. The Trump administration says they're all gang members, but 60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75 percent of them.
www.cbsnews.com
April 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
60 Minutes“could not find criminal records” for 75% of the 238 men the Trump admin sent to a Salvadoran prison. Of the 22% that had records, the “vast majority are for non-violent offenses.” Trump admin still insists they’re “terrorists.”
www.cbsnews.com/news/what-re...
www.cbsnews.com/news/what-re...
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This is what corruption looks like.
March 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This is what corruption looks like.
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Please read our latest Substack post about how NY State has the agency and authority to defend the rule of law and underscore NY Stat’s commitment to a free and transparent financial system. dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/nys-econom...
NY's Economic Sovereignty: Raiffeisen's Actions Demand Investigation to Assert New York’s Constitutional Authority and Protect the Rule of Law
Attorney General Letitia James must act swiftly and decisively
dekleptocracy.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Please read our latest Substack post about how NY State has the agency and authority to defend the rule of law and underscore NY Stat’s commitment to a free and transparent financial system. dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/nys-econom...
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The White House has no need for a Starlink data uplink. In a country that still respected the rule of law, this wouldn’t be described as anything other than using the White House to advertise Starlink. Your tax dollars are supplementing SpaceX’s ad budget www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The White House has no need for a Starlink data uplink. In a country that still respected the rule of law, this wouldn’t be described as anything other than using the White House to advertise Starlink. Your tax dollars are supplementing SpaceX’s ad budget www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...