Very Bolshevik.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC
1/31: Crash in Philly
2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle
2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska
2/10: Crash in Scottsdale
2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego
2/16: Crash in Covington, GA

7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

#Trump #Musk #MAGA #ItsACult #Hitler #Dominionism #TheFourthReich #Project2025 #TechBros #Nationalism #AmericaFirstPolicyInstitute #Plutocracy #Kakistocracy #Godfather #Corruption #Populism

Trump just made bribing politicians legal again.

⏬ Bluesky article thread (3 min) with extra links 📖

I gotta admit: “Extreme right wing Prime Minister of Israel defends world’s richest cringiest billionaire after he made Hitler salute at Trump inauguration” was not on my bingo card: www.jewishnews.co.uk/netanyahu-cl...

About the TikTok ban: youtu.be/iOtvYL3nxe8

Stock shares are as good as cash in the bank.

New satellite images from Maxar Technologies are giving the best view yet of just how many buildings are on fire in the Palisades and Eaton wildfires in Los Angeles.
The images were taken at 10:45 a.m. PT, during a time of significant cloud cover across the Los Angeles area.

How are people still using these vile social platforms? How? I wonder the same about Twitter daily. I thought for some leaving their hometowns or their countries was hard, but to delete one app and install another one? How is that hard? Why are people so slow to move, to react? Just why?

5. Legal Framework Violations
- Multiple breaches of electoral legislation
- Violation of Law 370/2004 requirements
- Non-compliance with campaign transparency regulations
- Circumvention of electoral advertising rules

4. Transparency Failures
- Campaign materials lacked required electoral publicity markings
- Hidden sponsorship of political advertising
- Undisclosed funding sources for online campaign activities
- Non-transparent use of targeting techniques

3. Equal Opportunity Violations
- Created demonstrable inequality between candidates
- One candidate received preferential treatment on SM platforms
- Other candidates' online exposure was directly and proportionally reduced
- Violated constitutional principle of equal opportunity in elections

2. Digital Manipulation Issues
- it was not just „messaging on TikTok” but systematic exploitation of SM algorithms
- Failure to properly label electoral materials as required by law
- digital targeting technologies to manipulate voter behaviour
- Non-transparent use of AI in campaign operations

from Marius Comper, Intl Editor at NewsNow.co.uk: a summary of the key violations cited by the Court: 1. Campaign Finance Violations: The candidate reported 0 lei in campaign spending while conducting extensive promotional activities -violates transparency requirements and campaign finance laws

"As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the [Washington] Post." anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...