ICYMI the Trump admin is canceling accountability for corporate predators that cheat consumers, exploit workers & illegally abuse their power at home & abroad.

Trump has dramatically retreated from enforcement against corporate crime & lawbreaking after just one year in office. Federal agencies canceled and froze enforcement actions against 159 alleged corporate lawbreakers. What happened to Trump being tough on crime?

ICYMI the Trump admin is canceling accountability for corporate predators that cheat consumers, exploit workers & illegally abuse their power at home & abroad.

The "law enforcement" claims the White House uses as pretext for authoritarian anti-immigrant crackdowns, city occupations, and imperial resource seizures abroad lose all credibility when cast against the lawlessness Trump allows for the pursuit of corporate profits.

NEW @publiccitizen.bsky.social report: Trump canceled or froze 159 enforcement actions vs 166 alleged corporate lawbreakers over the past year. 1/3 of the corps have Trump admin ties such as ballroom donations. They avoided paying $3.1B in penalties. Full report: www.citizen.org/article/canc...

I've thought for years that the T–– administrations will be forever known for their chaos, but now I'm wondering if their corruption won't out-do even the uncertainty of what the next day will bring. THREE-POINT-ONE BILLION dollars in unpaid penalties. How many [your choice] would $3.1B have bought?

The "law enforcement" claims the White House uses as pretext for authoritarian anti-immigrant crackdowns, city occupations, and imperial resource seizures abroad lose all credibility when cast against the lawlessness Trump allows for the pursuit of corporate profits.

The giant corporations that have been ripping everybody off and making life unaffordable are getting let out of jail free by Trump. Maybe not free — a small donation for Trump’s gold-plated ballroom is always appreciated.

NEW @publiccitizen.bsky.social report: Trump canceled or froze 159 enforcement actions vs 166 alleged corporate lawbreakers over the past year. 1/3 of the corps have Trump admin ties such as ballroom donations. They avoided paying $3.1B in penalties. Full report: www.citizen.org/article/canc...

man, why do these goddamn Instagram skeletons get me all emotional every single time 😭

Tonight in Providence!

Tonight in Providence!

Meanwhile, the rest of America struggled to put food on the table, keep the lights on, and pay for health care. The system is rigged.

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This is a DOJ email that references campaign finance cases with "POTUS ties." POTUS is Trump. The "GEP" case referenced below is likely the Parnas/Fruman case. I only recognize it because I wrote about it in my third book, Corporatocracy. #doj #epstein files 👀💵🗳️⚖️ www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I think Marceline likes her Christmas present

This is the beginning of the Trump FTC’s retreat from enforcement against AI corporations—in this case, one that allegedly facilitated generation of “false & deceptive written content for reviews”—claiming enforcement “unduly burdens innovation”

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A @publiccitizen.bsky.social report by @rickclaypool.bsky.social details more than $1 billion in spending by Big Tech firms to secure political advantages www.citizen.org/article/robo...

🚨 BREAKING: We filed SEVEN new lawsuits against OpenAI and Sam Altman in California state courts, alongside Social Media Victims Law Center. The suits allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and a variety of product liability, consumer protection, and negligence claims. 🧵

The 24 corporations funding Trump's ballroom have received $279 billion in government contracts in the past 5 years. Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions. These are not random donations. It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.

It makes me very happy to know my book 📖 Corporatocracy is available through the @nycplan.org web.nypl.org/research/res... 📚

On Oct. 29, I'll be at Busboys and Poets in DC where I'm talking with Daniel Greene, Corey Frayer, and Sandeep Vaheesan about how MAGA and the tech right found common cause, DOGE, and this whole democracy business. www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...

i won

I'm more of a slime mold fan, but I do love and appreciate mushrooms adding to the ambience of this season. #NationalMushroomDay

going to a thing with a costume contest tonight, I’m probably gonna win

my kid found me a birthday present

the RI Mycological Society made this to promote an event where I’ll be tabling at Borders Farm Saturday 10/18 10am-noon

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

gonna get extremely middle aged this weekend

if you want a picture of the future, imagine a human face staring at their rebooting device, forever

Finished a book by @rickclaypool.bsky.social and eating something that looks like it came from the book.

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Finally reading Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War by @rickclaypool.bsky.social I mean this in the best way: if you ever wished for more of the MTV 80s animation block called Liquid Television, this is the literary equivalent. It reminds me to be more weird and pursue awesomeness.

now is the time of monsters xraylitmag.com/underground-...

xraylitmag.com/underground-... Great set of recommendations. Honored my little debut novella made the list.

a little treat for you freaks

Outside Dupont north metro

In this video, our slime mold hero heads toward the honey to eat up all the glucose, then sets up shop farming microbes in yogurt town!

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Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech 🔗 www.404media.co/trump-has-dr...

My new @publiccitizen.bsky.social report exposes the Trump admin’s retreat from federal enforcement against lawbreaking by Big Tech corporations. Below is a thread of the most important findings. Click the link to read the full report 👇 (1/23)

🚨 New findings on Big Tech's regulatory erasures, especially with regard to crypto and labor (Upwork, ScaleAI). And incredible documenting of Uber's footprints in this assault: I didn't know Uber's co-founder was involved in hiring for DOGE.

Data is from @publiccitizen.bsky.social

Just how little tech enforcement has the second Trump admin been doing? It’s actually quite astounding when you look at the numbers. Good time to be a crypto company facing pre-Trump 2.0 legal action (exclu from a Public Citizen report, appearing first in Inner Loop): www.wired.com/story/james-...

A new report from @publiccitizen.bsky.social on how the Trump administration has ended enforcement actions and investigations — many against technology companies that have spent more than a billion dollars on lobbying, campaign contributions, and payments to Trump businesses.

New @publiccitizen.bsky.social report: The Trump admin is deleting enforcement against Big Tech lawbreaking amidst the industry's BILLION-dollar influence efforts. Turns out in Trump's techno-swamp, tech insiders are immune & "tough on crime" rhetoric is just for punishing the poor.

John Oliver’s latest show was about corporate crime and cited @publiccitizen.bsky.social’s Corporate Enforcement Tracker www.citizen.org/article/corp...

John Oliver dug up old footage of Trump defending corruption on TV. He also issued the first-ever corporate pardon to BitMEX, "which had been sentenced to a $100 million fine for violating an anti-money laundering law."

John Oliver’s latest show was about corporate crime and cited @publiccitizen.bsky.social’s Corporate Enforcement Tracker www.citizen.org/article/corp...