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⬜️🟦⬜️ Anglo-Saxon Cat; liberal utilitarian; anti-conservatist; anti-trumpist. My blog: https://aquabiografie.water.blog/ I use private messages it for really important needs, thatʼs why Iʼll block importunate spammers.
The war in Iran has shown that Trump’s inability to perceive reality has become truly dangerous. Iran is a disaster, but Trump’s irrationality could create other, even more perilous situations. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.
theatlantic.com
Without pressure on Russia, without dismantling its aggressive potential, and without real security guarantees from Russia, it is simply impossible to imagine that the world will be able to coexist with this evil.
❗️Zelensky: Today, many were shocked by another video of the Russian drone safari against people in Kherson. The man was injured by the explosion. The world must see this. It must see every fact that Russia has gone mad, and every fact that the Russian military enjoys killing and mocking people.
The judge's sentencing remarks when this man was jailed for antisemitic harassment of Luciana Berger are absolutely horrifying www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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I did assume that this was a case of a local organisation having totally lost the plot, but Kemi Badenoch is now forcefully and explicitly defending the selection of a former neo-Nazi with a significant criminal history as a candidate. Crackers and terrifying.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · yesterdayKemi Badenoch certainly seems to be advancing with her agenda to turn the Conservatives into Reform.
also based on his current online output, I struggle to believe he's a sincerely reformed character rather than 'still an arsehole in a less immediately arrestable way' bsky.app/profile/stej...
Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · yesterday(Particularly not when he now does AI rap videos and is described by The Times as "the Banksy of politics". Just look at this shit)
of course redemption should always be possible, but it can't always be easy, and it can't always look like 'getting to act as if the awful things you did never happened'
excerpts of these remarks should be read out to every Tory being interviewed while this guy remains an approved party candidate
Ian Rennie@theangelremiel.bsky.social · yesterdayThe judge's sentencing remarks when this man was jailed for antisemitic harassment of Luciana Berger are absolutely horrifying www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
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Hugh Brechin@hughrbrechin.bsky.social · yesterdayexcerpts of these remarks should be read out to every Tory being interviewed while this guy remains an approved party candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, British Conservative ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_...
Joshua Bonehill-Paine - Wikipedia
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Hugh Brechin@hughrbrechin.bsky.social · yesterdayexcerpts of these remarks should be read out to every Tory being interviewed while this guy remains an approved party candidate
A campaign endorsing Haley Stevens, a Michigan Dem Senate candidate, is being run today by 9 India-based content-farm accounts on X and amplified by an engagement-for-hire network seen in other, completely unrelated campaigns. Primaries for this race are scheduled for today, Aug 4.
BREAKING: Russian state has started a campaign targeting the upcoming 2027 presidential elections in France. Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot network posted a series of fake videos and magazine covers on X/Twitter today smearing Gabriel Attal, a candidate endorsed by Emmanuel Macron's party.
Wyden’s staff reviewed SARs showing that Deutsche Bank retroactively flagged $250 million in suspicious wire transfers flowing in and out of Epstein’s account after he was arrested on sex-trafficking charges in July 2019
Each of the three banks ultimately filed such notices — known as “suspicious activity reports,” or SARs — about Epstein, but most were filed only retroactively, after the disgraced financier was arrested on federal sex-trafficking charges in July 2019, the report notes.
Federal law requires banks to notify the Treasury’s financial-crime division within 60 days of detecting suspicious transactions, such as those that bear hallmarks of money laundering or financial crimes.
His proposed bill would require greater accountability for wealth management executives, including annual certifications from senior bank officials that ultra-high-net-worth clients have undergone proper monitoring and “enhanced due diligence.”
Wyden intends to introduce legislation that would impose tougher penalties on banks and individual bankers who fail to swiftly report suspicious activity involving high-risk clients, according to the report.
A spokesperson for CBS News confirmed that Alfonsi had interviewed Wyden for a potential segment in March, but said the full story did not come together for airing during the 60 Minutes season that concluded in May. The spokesperson would not comment on any plans for the program’s next season.
Two months later, CBS News fired Alfonsi after she publicly criticized CBS News leadership and editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s editorial decisions involving a different segment she reported. Neither the Wyden interview nor the broader Epstein story has aired
The report also says Wyden was interviewed about his investigation in March by then-60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi for a segment the news program was reporting about Wall Street banks’ and the US Virgin Islands government’s relationship with Epstein.
The report details what it describes as gaps in the banks’ reporting to authorities — along with similar, previously published info about JPMorgan. It alleges top officials at each bank facilitated Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation by disregarding his suspicious financial dealings
(@wyden.senate.gov's office shared a copy of the report exclusively with @bloomberg.com)
These allegations, based on reviews of nonpublic records held by the Treasury Dept, are detailed in Wyden’s report, “Looking the Other Way: How Wall Street Banks Enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex Trafficking.” The document describes Wyden's multi-year investigation into Epstein’s financial network.
Bank of America didn't promptly report millions of dollars in suspicious Epstein-related transactions connected to billionaire Leon Black, including "two unusual wires" & others that did “not have a verifiable business purpose” and “no apparent economic, business or lawful purpose”
NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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3). Aug. 4, 2026 [1] www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do... [2] @npr.org www.npr.org/2026/08/04/n....
Senate Democrats say banks turned blind eye to suspicious moves by Jeffrey Epstein
A report from Senate Democrats accuses big banks of failing to report suspicious money transfers made by Jeffrey Epstein until after his arrest in 2019.
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