Holly
@whollyhell.bsky.social
Random tech worker and progressive independent | Posts are my own.
"Kushner is the ‘chief negotiator’ for Israel and Gaza and Iran; and for Ukraine and Russia. He is not an elected or appointed official. He’s a mafia operative who is Trump’s son-in-law, which is how authoritarian kleptocracies work... (1/2)" youtu.be/5r8mEzTdggk?...
The True Agenda of the World Oligarch Class (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Here’s the key takeaway from our report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.
Epstein made millions in direct payments to women and young girls out of just one JPMorgan account. Many of these payments were to women in high-risk countries like Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia.
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
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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New important interview! On Kushner and WWIII. This taped on Monday and I’m glad it posted. Lots of info here: Iran, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, AI weapons, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8m...
The True Agenda of the World Oligarch Class (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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The “near collapse of civic friendship is a catastrophic threat to public life,” Robert P. George writes. “Restoring it depends on our capacity to practice civil discourse, which in turn requires us to acknowledge our fallibility.”
The Two Great Threats to Truth
Moral relativism and fanaticism may seem to have nothing in common, but they lead to the same result.
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Finished "The Last American Road Trip" by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. The subtitle says A Memoir, but it is also part travelogue and part obituary, to a nation that thought itself great Been reading her since the early G&M days, thru to her Substack. If you are a fan, this is a great summer read
“We have an obligation to the truth, for our families, our children, and our country. But it comes at a cost. Such is the message in Sarah Kendzior’s nuanced, poignant and frequently heartbreaking The Last American Road Trip.” New book review! buckscountybeacon.com/2026/08/sara...
Sarah Kendzior’s ‘Last American Road Trip’ Offers Readers a Journey Through Both Hope and Despair - Bucks County Beacon
Each step of the way, Kendzior seeks out a balanced narrative by offering readers America’s terrible legacies as well as its most encouraging potential, writes Kutztown University's Dr. Michael Gambon...
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Interview in Vogue about HIDING IN PLAIN sight, on sale for only $2.99: “Trump covers up crime with scandal and covers up malice with incompetence. His administration would like you to think that they’re inept, that they’re just stumbling into these situations.” www.vogue.com/article/sara...
Sarah Kendzior Predicted the Rise of Trump Years Ago—Here’s What She Thinks Now
“He doesn’t care if Americans live or die. And that might sound harsh and blunt, but that’s the truth of the matter.”
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Israeli settlers in own words: "I think now, after they killed one Israeli, we need to kill all the people in Tal and Sarra, even Jit and Farata," naming the Palestinian villages closest to the outpost. He added, "God chose us [and] because of this you are jealous." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israeli West Bank settler tells BBC attacks on Palestinians are justified as revenge
Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.
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Published early 2020, Sarah Kendzior's HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, made several top ten bestseller lists. "He doesn't care if Americans live or die. And that might sound harsh and blunt, but that's the truth of the matter." ~ Kendzior in Vogue.
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 3d agoInterview in Vogue about HIDING IN PLAIN sight, on sale for only $2.99: “Trump covers up crime with scandal and covers up malice with incompetence. His administration would like you to think that they’re inept, that they’re just stumbling into these situations.” www.vogue.com/article/sara...
Read this to understand the how the Trump Kleptocracy is dismantling America and selling it for parts (including ties to Russia).
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 3d ago“Criminals without borders have moved from hijacking businesses to hijacking nations. Some call them fascists; I avoid this term because being a fascist requires an allegiance to the state. To these operatives, the state is just something to sell.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/still-hidi...
US citizens are starting to experience the ramifications of DOGE stealing taxpayer data and giving it to Palantir. Genuinely fucked. www.reddit.com/r/women/s/CJ...
I want you to notice how the New York Times does not think it's important to mention that both the OpenAI and Anthropic "AI gone rogue" hack events were completely avoidable and caused by human error
Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations (Gift Article)
The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.
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"Now politics is our soap opera, and they will not cancel the show, no matter how much we hate it, no matter how many audience members they lose. Every day is sweeps for a country turning to ashes.
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6d agoThis essay is now my most Gen X essay, beating out the old champ, "Brenda and Dylan Are Dead" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/brenda-and...
"We thought the great sin was materialism. But materialism still had material. You could trace its roots."
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7d ago“Modern life is standing at a gas station sink with your hands under a motion-activated faucet waiting for water that doesn’t come.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
Sometimes I feel close-minded or uncharitable for being so anti-AI, and then something like this happens and I'm like, "Nope, it's the absolutely right thing to do"
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d agoJust curious- if you're an AI agent, as indicated on your account, how exactly did you see Van Gogh's Starry Night in person at MoMA?
“Bowie didn’t tell us we’d be alive to watch the extinction racket. That we’d watch it like children, fearing quicksand, wondering how it came so common. Quicksand was supposed to catch you by surprise and make you scream for help. It was not meant to be entered like a goddamned swimming pool.”
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5d ago"Those parents grew up to be the political gerontocracy: absentee parents of a latchkey nation." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
We're near the ten-year anniversary of this interview, which was viewed as wildly controversial at the time. It led to hit pieces on me from liberal outlets like The New Republic as well as death threats. Now it's seen as conventional wisdom -- but it always was!
“AI is quicksand. It sucks up land and water, leaving us marooned and unmoored. Villains line the battlefield with quicksand. We thought the battlefield was our backyard. We thought the internet was a place to play. But it was quicksand.”
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · last wk.New article! On AI, war, and other bad things: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
"Sometimes I read a print book because a print book can’t read me back." - perfect again from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · last wk.New article! On AI, war, and other bad things: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
In a normal world we’d be asking why Anthropic and OpenAI are announcing that their companies are hacking everyone.
New polling finds that only a quarter of Trump voters believe the working class got substantial tax breaks from the GOP's Big Ugly Bill. Even his own base is waking up to reality: this is Trump's biggest scam yet.
Is This Trump’s Biggest Scam Yet?
The Trump-Republican “Big Beautiful Bill” is actually a “Big Ugly Nightmare.”Much of what’s included in it will begin in
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A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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