I’m guessing Trump hasn’t seen this:
Month: February 2022
The Kleptocrats Next Door. The United States has a dirty-money problem.
Delaware, Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyomingânice, normal American states, full of nice, normal Americansâhave created financial instruments that nameless investors can use to hide their money from the world
Why doesnât the U.S., instead of abetting the elaborate arrangements, exert its leverage to help change the rules and eradicate the system? Part of the answer is obvious. Powerful people benefit from it, and they are intent on keeping it in place.
Anonymous purchases of Trump properties skyrocketed once he became the Republican nominee for president. As Michel writes, âWe have no idea who the vast majority of these purchasers were, or where they came from, or where they got their money, or what they wantedâor how they impacted American policy.â
US Far Right Adoreâs Vladimir Putinâs Christian Nationalism More Than Freedom and Democracy
“Putinâs government has been a key ally of American Christianâ right groups who happily partner with the worldâs most repressive regimes in order to promote âtraditionalâ views of family, sexuality, and gender, as well as to try to prevent and reverse international recognition of reproductive rights or the equality of LGBTQ people.”
COVID deaths per state, dynamically graphed by time
Blinky blinky. Hmm, there seems to be a lot of Republican red in this graph:
Covid-19 Wastewater Monitoring in the U.S.
It turns out that sampling poop is a really good way to detect COVID-19 in the community:
https://biobot.io/data/
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