UPDATE: Following my report in popular.info yesterday, @Amazon has stopped hosting a fundraising page for Gab, a fringe social media site that caters of white supremacists buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanma…
@amazon This is the power of independent, accountability journalism.
It's why Popular Information has no advertisers and no wealthy donors.
Amazon is an $875 billion company, but reporting can still make a difference
ALSO: As I reported today in popular.info the Republican candidate for North Carolina's 9th district (Special Election September 10) is an INVESTOR in Gab
BTW: I learned of @Amazon hosting Gab through a tip by one of my readers. Then confirmed it after I put out an open call for people familiar with how AWS worked. This is people-powered journalism.
3. Right now, stablecoins are kind of the wild west. money laundering, scams, sanctions evasion, and other illicit activities.
USD1 also offers the opportunity to curry favor with Trump.
Trump's company earns fees every time USD1 is used.
MGX, an investment firm owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates, used USD1 to make a $2 billion investment in the crypto trading platform Binance.
1. Trump and his Republican allies say their budget cuts are targeted at waste, fraud, and abuse
But Trump's new 1,223-page budget proposal, quietly released on Friday afternoon, reveals the real target:
Poor children
2. The Trump administration is reducing funding that helps pregnant women, children, and breastfeeding mothers who are nutritionally at risk afford fruits and vegetables.
3. The monthly benefit for fruits and vegetables for pregnant mothers goes from $54 to $13. For young kids: $27 to $10.
The administration's budget document provides no justification for these cuts. But it impacts millions of infants and children under five. Previously, WIC has enjoyed bipartisan support. In the 50 years since the program was started, its funding has never been reduced.
1. @Verizon's CEO @hansvestberg said the company was "fiercely committed to diversity and inclusion across all spectrums because it makes us and the world better."
THAT WAS A LIE.
The company abruptly ended all its DEI efforts last week in exchange for the Trump administration approving a merger.
2. In a letter to FCC chair Brendan Carr, Verizon said it was "ending its DEI-related policies…effective immediately."
The company said it would eliminate all positions related to DEI, scrub DEI from its website, and end "workplace diversity goals"
3. Even the June 6, 2020 speech by @Verizon CEO @hansvestberg, where he declares that the company is "fiercely committed" to DEI has been scrubbed from the website.
1. In 2018, many CEOs boycotted Saudi Arabia's investment conference in protest of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
Since then, US intel concluded the murder was ordered by Saudi Crown Prince MBS
Yesterday, many of those SAME CEOs traveled to Saudi Arabia to lunch with Trump and MBS
Let's name names
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2. In 2018, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said: "I'm very troubled by the reports... about Jamal Khashoggi...unless a substantially different set of facts emerges, I won't be attending"
3. Qatar is also home to Al-Udeid Air Base, "the largest U.S. military facility in the Middle East" with about 13,000 American troops. The presence of the base serves as a security umbrella for the country and enhances its diplomatic stature in the region.