Tootfinder

Dozens of former US Department of Justice attorneys have now gone on record to describe the unprecedented corruption of federal law enforcement taking place during Donald Trump’s second term.
In a lengthy story published on Sunday by the New York Times,
the former DOJ attorneys described rampant politicization of prosecutions,
directives to dig up evidence on Trump’s political foes,
and orders to drop investigations into potential terrorist plots and white-collar crime…

‘Americans Should Be Enraged’: Reports Expose Unprecedented Corruption at Trump DOJ | Common Dreams
Former DOJ attorneys detail unprecedented corruption under Trump's second term. Politicization, pardons, and misuse of power exposed.

VisMoDAl: Visual Analytics for Evaluating and Improving Corruption Robustness of Vision-Language Models
Huanchen Wang, Wencheng Zhang, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhicong Lu, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14571

VisMoDAl: Visual Analytics for Evaluating and Improving Corruption Robustness of Vision-Language Models
Vision-language (VL) models have shown transformative potential across various critical domains due to their capability to comprehend multi-modal information. However, their performance frequently degrades under distribution shifts, making it crucial to assess and improve robustness against real-world data corruption encountered in practical applications. While advancements in VL benchmark datasets and data augmentation (DA) have contributed to robustness evaluation and improvement, there remai…

https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=197518
Crazy times in South Korean cyber.

Police Raid KT Offices in Data Breach Investigation
The police raided KT’s offices in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province as part of an investigation into a recent data breach at the mobile carrier.The anti-corruption and economic ...

From the United States of Absurdistan: a Trump family member 'slamming' someone else for corruption. 🤡
https://kyivindependent.com/son-of-president-who-shut-down-us-corruption-watchdogs-slams-ukraine-for-corruption/

Son of president who shut down US corruption watchdogs slams Ukraine for corruption
Donald Trump Jr. warned on Dec. 7 that his father may walk away from Ukraine, parroting Kremlin propaganda about corruption in Kyiv driving Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.

🙈 Corruption: When norms upstage the law
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/how-corruption-interplays-with-social-norms

Corruption: When norms upstage the law
People with good motives may engage in bribery and worse depending on what society expects of them. A political scientist explains.

Biggest corruption scandal of Zelensky’s presidency is in his own ranks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/biggest-corruption-scandal-of-zelenskys.html

Tell your MP - We need a royal Epstein investigation
After fifteen years of accusations of sexual offences and corruption, still the royals and politicians won't take serious action against #PrinceAndrew.
https://www.

We're all really used to an FBI that is incredibly evil, but generally pretty competent. They have no problem using child sex offenders to infiltrate groups of clowns. They have no problem trying to convince civil rights leaders to commit suicide. They have no problem with sowing confusion within leftists groups and trying to get them to kill each other. They've always been radically anti-left, but they've also always been competent.
Fabricating evidence in a really obvious way would always have been off the table because they wouldn't be willing to throw a case. But those competent people have been pushed out of the FBI. It's now Kash Patel's clown show. It serves the whims of the regime above all else. It will sacrifice decades of hard built trust for a quick win, because no one involved is competent enough to understand the consequences of such actions.
In the past, they may have used torture to elicit a confession. They may have entrapped people. They could have deleted exonerating evidence, but they would probably not have just completely manufactured obviously fake evidence just to forward the regime's narrative. I don't think that we've seen anything like this, at the very least in our lifetimes.
We have to foster a new level of skepticism, far beyond what we have been used to... and this is especially true of Liberals, who still don't understand the level of corruption and incompetence in local law enforcement today.
#USPol #CharlieKirk

Trump’s efforts to disband programs that promote democracy abroad
and to downplay allegations of corruption and human rights abuses in other countries
took on an added dimension this week
when he appeared before Israel’s parliament and called for pardoning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The request to dismiss corruption charges was the latest in a long line of actions reversing America’s long-standing posture as an exporter of democratic values.

Trump’s pardon proposals go global despite allies’ corruption charges
Trump has upended American presidents’ tradition of promoting the rule of law and democracy overseas.

NFLPA lawyer sues union for alleged retaliation https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47348281/attorney-says-nflpa-leaders-punished-exposing-alleged-wrongdoing

Highly likely this is just right wing lawfare.
Bolivia arrests ex-President Luis Arce in corruption investigation | Corruption News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/bolivia-arrests-ex-p…

Bolivia arrests ex-President Luis Arce in corruption investigation
Arce is in custody as part of a probe into alleged financial misconduct while he was economy minister, government says.

"Narcoterrorist" is not simply corruption of language, it is corruption of thought. Terrorists seek attention for political ends. Narcotics traffickers seek secrecy and personal gain. They're not even in the same galaxy.

New report exposes massive corruption in Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ-cgjrXnhQ

"Inside the ‘industrial-scale’ Trump pardon machine"
#Trump #corruption #autocracy #pardons

#MullvadVPN presents #AndThen?
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then

Suspects in Energoatom corruption scheme funded luxury houses for ex-deputy prime minister, journalists say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/suspects-in-energoatom-corruption-scheme.html

Amid systemic corruption, Amazon countries struggle to fight environmental crime https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/amid-systemic-corruption-amazon-countries-struggle-to-fight-environmental-crime/

Amid systemic corruption, Amazon countries struggle to fight environmental crime
The most powerful individuals in courtrooms are the judges. Their leadership is essential for bringing any type of reform to fruition, be it an anti-corruption campaign or an ‘all-of-government’ drive to fight environmental crime. In the Andean Republics, their involvement in crimes of commission via bribery and extortion is a major source of judicial corruption. […]

Ignoring evil does not make it go away.
The world needs to wake up and stand against corruption, fascism, oligarchies and billionaires.
Giorgio is a singular point of truth from the frontlines in Ukraine.
Giorgio risks his life and shares the friend link to tell the world what is happening, and what is coming to their cities next.
Please support his work, share widely, and help the world stand up to the evil of greedy and horrid men.

«They tore them to pieces in front of me» – live from the European front of Zaporizhzhia
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

The president thinks his rule is absolute.
But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.
Grow our movement and join us.
The rally at Alameda Park will be followed by a march to De La Guerra Plaza
#SantaBarbara #nokings

No Kings 2 RallySanta Barbara
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our

Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/ukraine-fighting-corruption-trump/685162/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zYp6sqpNJyNGgDDno9WEOQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p44#a251207p44

Trump's Pardon Abuses Are a Means to Legalize Corruption https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-pardon-abuses-legalize-corruption-1235477609/

Trump Is Trying to Legalize Corruption by Abusing His Pardon Power
Donald Trump is abusing the Constitution and the president's pardon power to try to legalize corruption, letting a string of loyalists off the hook.

✊🏽 Nepal’s youth uprising explained: Decades of corruption reach a tipping point
https://globalvoices.org/2025/10/14/nepals-youth-uprising-explained-decades-of-corruption-reach-a-tipping-point/

Nepal’s youth uprising explained: Decades of corruption reach a tipping point
Will the protests launched in 2025 mark the beginning of a journey towards reform or simply be the latest chapter in Nepal’s long narrative of hope and disappointment?

Corruption investigation reveals link between defense company Fire Point, Zelensky's associate Mindich: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/corruption-investigation-reveals-link-between.html

ENQUETE. Corruption, favoritisme, décisions illégales... La Cour des comptes dénonce les dérives des chambres d'agriculture
https://www.franceinfo.fr/enquetes-francei

ENQUETE. Corruption, favoritisme, décisions illégales... La Cour des comptes dénonce les dérives des chambres
Dans un rapport que la cellule investigation de Radio France a pu consulter en exclusivité, la Cour des comptes pointe "irrégularités" et "dysfonctionnements" au sein des chambres d'agriculture françaises. L'État, maintes fois alerté, est accusé d'avoir trop souvent laissé faire.

Donald & Sons definitely are the most ideal useful idiots to Putin. https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/115680364064709092

DealStreetAsia: VC funding in Indonesian startups fell to just $80M in H1 2025 from $200M a year earlier, as startups face fallout from corruption scandals (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/asean-money/indonesian-s…

Indonesian startups face funding fallout from corruption scandals
Experts urge better governance and more hands-on investor oversight to revive ecosystem

Now we see why Trump wants AI companies to thrive. There's every chance that AI companies are motivated and committed to "funding" this fusion company.
Just one more stop in the AI "investment circle jerk".
#corruption #nuclear #energy #fusion #business #finance

"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!

"Despite the generally strong support for democracy, there was an equally strong desire for radical change, with more people in most countries thinking the system was rigged in favour of the rich and powerful rather than working for everyone."
What? Do ordinary mortals think the neoliberal cosnsenus has failed us? How can this be? Look at all the wonderful things the billionaires have developed for us!

It was ten years ago that the person in charge of protecting kids online in Europe was telling to me apologise to Lord whateverhisnameis from Facebook for saying they shouldn’t be in schools. (Spoiler alert: they were informed in no uncertain terms exactly where they could stuff their not-forthcoming apology.)
https://

Ukraine probes $100 million Energoatom corruption scheme amid raids, detentions, and minister’s suspension: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/ukraine-probes-million-energoatom-corruption.html

#Trump #corruption exposed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_q741QO_m0

Trump family is inflicting a new kind of Saudi-style 'royalism' on the US: experts - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-corruption-family-wealth/

❝The state became neither “free market” nor “socialist” — it became a patronage machine run by insiders.❞
EDIT: Posted the link for the first paragraphs, but man, that article goes off the rails later on. 🧵
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/04/state-capture-corruption-democracy

A BBC article and a BBC radio presenter say they won't quote Rutger Bregman calling Trump openly corrupt during the Reith Lecture, a line the BBC had removed (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov

Trump officially asks Israeli president to pardon Netanyahu (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/12/trump-netanyahu-pardon-letter-corruption-charges
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p109#a251112p109

👎🏿 Americans Are Mostly United Against 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑
#politics

Americans Are Mostly United Against Citizens United
When the Supreme Court issued the Citizens United decision, it allowed a torrent of unchecked dark money into political campaigning. Ordinary Americans of all political stripes have taken notice, and they overwhelmingly disapprove of the results.

Provably Mitigating Corruption, Overoptimization, and Verbosity Simultaneously in Offline and Online RLHF/DPO Alignment
Ziyi Chen, Junyi Li, Peiran Yu, Heng Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05526

Provably Mitigating Corruption, Overoptimization, and Verbosity Simultaneously in Offline and Online RLHF/DPO Alignment
Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and direct preference optimization (DPO) are important techniques to align large language models (LLM) with human preference. However, the quality of RLHF and DPO training is seriously compromised by \textit{\textbf{C}orrupted} preference, reward \textit{\textbf{O}veroptimization}, and bias towards \textit{\textbf{V}erbosity}. To our knowledge, most existing works tackle only one of these important issues, and the few other works require much co…

a big chunk of the #PurdueFortWayne 🐘 campus is closed right now while some Fox News host is visiting
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/869215/

Berlin, 1933.

The blueprint – How Lewis Powell’s confidential memo became the secret manifesto for corporate takeover.

The players – From Joseph Coors to Roger Ailes to Leonard Leo—and how they built a machine to dominate politics.

The turning point – The Citizens United case and how a speculative lawsuit became the legal scaffolding for unlimited dark money.

The threat today – Why disclosure laws are crumbling, how dark money came to dictate elections, and how the John…

MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America
A new book adapted from the award-winning podcast.

Add this to the list of reasons the TV licence needs to be abolished. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/27/bbc-donald-trump-corruption-line-removed-from-rutger-bregman-reith-lecture

Trump pardoned a TN Republican convicted on 17 charges of public corruption, sentenced to 3 years.
The reason? Trump says he was 'over-prosecuted'... despite the investigation starting during Trump's 1st term & the judge being Trump-appointed.
https:/…

RAID-0e: A Resilient Striping Array Architecture for Balanced Performance and Availability
Yanzhao Jia, Zhaobo Wu, Zheyi Cao, Shihao Ji, Xu Tianhao, Zihui Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12139

RAID-0e: A Resilient Striping Array Architecture for Balanced Performance and Availability
This paper introduces a novel disk array architecture, designated RAID-0e (Resilient Striping Array), designed to superimpose a low-overhead fault tolerance layer upon traditional RAID 0 (striping). By employing a logically and physically separate parity domain to protect a primary data domain, RAID-0e mitigates the risk of array-wide data loss from common, non-catastrophic media failures, such as isolated bad blocks, transient read errors, or sector-level corruption. The architecture is engine…

A corruption scandal may well end the war in Ukraine | Russia-Ukraine war | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/11/23/a-corruption-scandal-may-well-end-the-war-in-ukraine?traffic_source=rss

A corruption scandal may well end the war in Ukraine
A weakened Ukrainian president can now easily be turned into a scapegoat for defeat.

Everything is connected.
In Ukraine, innocents suffer because of US corruption, greed, and cruelty, while in the US, innocents suffer because of the Kremlin corruption, greed, and cruelty.
Anyone who tries to argue differently is simply an idiot who is useful to many evil causes.
The evidence is all around, if one only cares enough to look. Too many are complacent, which is the same as being complicit.
Giorgio reports from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine, providi…

There's only one thing #Russia really excels in, does really, really well, and exports with high eficacy.
Corruption.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Augustin Bousfield:
🎵 Love Corruption
#AugustinBousfield

In 2013, when #Montreal was deep into its corruption self-investigation, we almost ran out of asphalt.
We'd made a new rule that anyone named during the Charbonneau commission's corruption inquiry was disqualified from being a vendor/supplier for the city.
The hitch was that all of the asphalt suppliers were named. Yes, *all* of them.
So we had to decide “run out of pothole-p…

@… hey hast du diese geschichte mitbekommen? https://mastodon.cr.yp.to/@djb/115600386509585923
die nsa will reine pq und ist gegen hybride losungen wo …

Rage, panic, and a glimmer of hope in Ukraine as corruption scandal unfolds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/15/rage-panic-and-a-glimmer.html

“…Trump regime’s…cruelty, corruption, & criminality appears bottomless…just because they want to doesn’t mean they can…they’re trying to bluster & meme their way into…authoritarianism, relying on Americans…in business, media, academia…to appease threats…or do what…regime wants without being asked.
To defeat…push them beyond…limits. Say no to…demands, create friction in their plans, & while…take…threat seriously, don’t act like they have more power than they do.”

Kimmel and Comey Highlight the Trump Regime's Limitations
Their desire for authoritarian abuse is bottomless, their ability to carry it out is not

“History will not remember him as a king, or a savior. History will remember him as a small, ugly, sick man who happened to seize great power, who wielded it recklessly, and who left behind a trail of destruction, corruption and cowardice unmatched in American history.”
-- Rick Wilson

So, if you are having problems with random websites failing with #Firefox 144, it's very likely that it did corrupt your profile(s). Unfortunately, you will need to create a new one and start over...
This is the bug: https://

Trump Is Trying to Legalize Corruption by Abusing His Pardon Power (John Avlon/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-pardon-abuses-legalize-corruption-1235477609/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p128#a251204p128

Court chief comments on political pressure amid unprecedented challenges for anti-corruption institutions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/court-chief-comments-on-political.html

🪧 ‘There is so much corruption’: hundreds of thousands protest in Manila over missing flood funds
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/17/manila-philippines-corruption-protest-flood-funds

‘There is so much corruption’: hundreds of thousands protest in Manila over missing flood funds
Huge rally organised by megachurch whose members vote in a bloc could spell trouble for Philippine president

KBJ referring to a SCOTUS decision as "Calvinball jurisprudence" in her dissent was such a brilliant piece of, well, I'm going to call it marketing.
That phrase has popped up everywhere. I have seen so many people, ranging from pundits to regular folks, calling the Roberts' court Calvinball since then. It's so much more memorable and damning than anything else I've seen, and that includes the hour-long John Oliver segment exposing SCOTUS corruption.

Polish Prime Minister Tusk: Ukraine could lose Western support and the war if it tolerates corruption: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/15/polish-prime-minister-tusk-ukraine.html

Kristi Noem has hailed a more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration.
Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign,
bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret,
records and interviews show:
a Republican c…

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

Paramount's WBD bid is backfiring in DC; a Trump official says Paramount seems to "believe the worst possible tropes" about corruption in the administration (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025

Finger-pointing in Washington as Paramount goes hostile
The Ellisons “leaned into the stereotypes” of a politicized regulatory process in its aggressive pursuit of for Warner Bros.

#OnlyInBoston
Potential New #CityCouncil President In #Boston Caught On #BodyCam Politicking & Dropping Off Pizzas At Active

This idea of “state capture” — as opposed to corruption, bribery, propaganda, etc — seems to me a useful one. We can ask when and to what extent the machinery of the state itself •is• a patronage machine.
Take Enron as an example of something that is •not• state capture: there were corrupt politicians turning a blind eye, no doubt, but ultimately the state convicted people of accounting crimes and the market flushed the company down the toilet.
2/

Trump says he'll "be involved" in Netanyahu's corruption trial "to help him out" (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/03/trump-netanyahu-corruption-trial-60-minutes
http://www.memeorandum.com/251102/p87#a251102p87

Trump Pardons Former Tenn. House Speaker Convicted of Federal Corruption Charges | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-pardon-former-tennessee-house-speaker/2025/11/06/id/1233576/

Some people like to go on and on about corruption in Ukraine, but it is often more complicated than these people say.
The USA has had its tendrils in the Ukrainian corruption for a long time. The FBI even has an agent with their own office in one of the corruption agencies.
Giorgio is a hero reporting from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine. He share the friend link so the world has a better chance of discovering the truth.
Please support Ukraine and Giorgio's work by…

🫱🏽‍🫲🏿 How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
#politics

How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats
It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.

What to know about Netanyahu's request for a pardon in corruption trial (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/israel-netanyahu-trial-pardon-president-corruption-charges-f4dfb2e78c2b9ef265324d2d5bfa7518
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p58#a251130p58

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday asked the country’s president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges,
seeking to end a long-running trial that has bitterly divided the nation.
Netanyahu is the only sitting prime minister in Israeli history to stand trial,
after being charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases
accusing him of exchanging favors with wealthy political supporters.
He hasn’t been convi…

Israeli leader Netanyahu requests a pardon to end his ongoing corruption trial
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Israel's president for a pardon during his ongoing corruption trial. His office on Sunday confirmed the request was submitted to the president's legal department. The president's office called it an “extraordinary request” with “significant implications.” Netanyahu faces charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. But he hasn't been convicted. He denies the allegations and calls the trial a witch hunt. The request follows U…

Delyan Peevski, le puissant oligarque qui met les Bulgares dans la rue
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/12/04/delyan-peevski-le-puissant-oligarque-qui-met-les-bulgares-dans-la-rue_…

Delyan Peevski, le puissant oligarque qui met les Bulgares dans la rue
Visé par des sanctions américaines, ce chef d’un petit parti représentant les minorités turque et rom est accusé de tirer les ficelles du pouvoir dans un pays miné par la corruption. Alors que la Bulgarie doit rejoindre la zone euro le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2026, l’opposition réclame la démission du gouvernement, soutenu par M. Peevski.

Dude, come on. The author could have ended the piece at paragraph 9 by saying “This is the danger the USA now faces,” and they’d have a banger. Instead…yeesh. Can we not?
If they wanted to bring Israel into it, they could have focused on Netanyahu avoiding corruption charges. There’s an argument for “state capture” being a useful lens there. But no, the writer just had to go full “secret world order.”
6/

Son of president who shut down US corruption watchdogs slams Ukraine for corruption: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/son-of-president-who-shut.html

People in Moldova, choose for Europe, democracy and prosperity. Not for Russia, corruption and destruction.
#moldova #elections #europe

Trump’s brazen approach,
publicly flaunting his corruption,
awards him perverse credit for authenticity
and takes the sting out of scandals that used to be career-ending when uncovered by muckraking journalists.
“This is a dangerous notion that,
just because a president chooses to be corrupt in public openly,
it’s OK,” said Larry Sabato,
director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
“People say, well, if it were really corru…

'Bread and butter corruption': Senator suspects sinister plot behind Trump's pardon spree - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/chris-murphy-2674368117/

Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and his former top aide in the state legislature
just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges.

Glen Casada, 66, was sentenced in September to three years in federal prison on charges
related to a kickback and bribery arrangement involving the legislature’s state-funded constituent mailer program.
Cade Cothren, 38, previously Casada’s chief of staff, was also convicted of fraud…

Trump pardons former Tennessee House speaker, top aide awaiting prison
Trump has granted clemency in the opening year of his term to several former elected officials convicted on corruption-related charges.

Zelensky to impose sanctions against close associate following large-scale corruption probe, source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/zelensky-to-impose-sanctions-against.html

The Only Democrats Trump Likes... (William Kristol/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-only-democrats-trump-likes-corruption-pardon-cuellar-menendez-hegseth-bondi-patel-noem
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p44#a251204p44

Unprecedented grift & corruption, happening daily right in front of us
https://bsky.app/profile/mcopelov.bsky.social/post/3m2xx4652fc2a

For a guy who talks a lot about how much he hates drugs
— and is now floating it as a pretext for knocking off the odious Maduro regime
— Trump has developed a strange habit of giving pardons to drug dealers.
A day after his latest inauguration, Trump pardoned the founder of the Silk Road website, which was notorious as a dark web drug den.
This was followed by the strange commutation for the founder of the Gangster Disciples in Chicago, who flooded the Windy City wi…

Trump Is Trying to Legalize Corruption by Abusing His Pardon Power
The president has issued over 2,000 pardons since taking office, many to loyalists convicted of serious crimes

Ukrainian minister implicated in nuclear power corruption scandal suspended: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/12/ukrainian-minister-implicated-in-nuclear.html

Netanyahu's Pardon Request Borrows From Trump's Playbook (David M. Halbfinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/world/middleeast/netanyahu-pardon-corruption-israel-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5U8.r8Nu.n_OJUthMrAAx&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p51#a251201p51

Chaos envelopes Russia, but the cruelty is constant and growing.
With a mindset that defines existence in terms of opposition to the west, the rules of warfare and decency have been disowned.
Giorgio reports from the frontlines in Ukraine, the trenches of the war on democracy.
Trump won't allow US media to report truth - they all bent their knees to the pathetic monster.
Giorgio is not bound by Trump's corruption, he is an Italian hero who puts his life on the…

The White of Surrender, and The Black of Infamy
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

July arrests of two detectives launched a crackdown on anti-corruption institutions. Both are now released: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/10/july-arrests-of-two-detectives.html

Who is Timur Mindich, Zelensky's close associate at the center of a major corruption probe?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/who-is-timur-mindich-zelenskys.html

FBI shuts down corruption group, fires agents after they monitored GOP lawmakers (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/fbi-kash-patel-agents-fired
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p119#a251007p119

Common sense and history show that
donors will often use political parties as conduits
to evade limits on individual contributions,
increasing the risk of quid pro quo corruption.
#MoneyIsNotSpeech
https://c.im/@…

NABU raids properties tied to Zelensky’s ex-business partner Tymur Mindich amid expanding corruption probe: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/nabu-raids-properties-tied-to.html

David Sirota says that while the United States is now
“immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics,
it is the result of a decades long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system
and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable.
“This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat.”

Master Plan: David Sirota on Trump & the Decadeslong “Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning investigative podcast of the same name for The Lever. Sirota says that while the United States is now “immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics, it is the result of a decadeslong agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system and to essent…

Trump's Pardons Cover Every Conceivable Form of Corruption (Robert Tracinski/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-pardons-cover-every-conceivable
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p140#a251204p140

Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control,
a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption,
who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history.
The public is turning against him.
The opposition is motivated.
We can win & we have to win,
but we don't have the luxury of despair"

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

Trump to DOJ: Pay Up (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-doj-corruption-shakedown-unitary-executive/684655/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TsGkXCINo5nFsHJyZtr6bU8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p3#a251023p3

I really hate to play the “age card,” folks, but back in my day (2023 and 2024), I distinctly recall that a president with apparent mental infirmities was nigh unto scandalous.
For a press so dedicated to sanewashing the Trump administration’s open sewer of corruption, the kid gloves treatment still seems the order of the day.
This week, The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire published a lengthy exegesis of the “President Trump is increasingly isolated” variety, titled “The Bubble-Wrapp…

Hey, Does Anyone Want to Talk About Donald Trump’s Infirmities?
He’s clearly slipping, mentally and physically, but the political press suddenly finds it less newsworthy that we have a woefully aging president.

Ukrainian lawmaker exposed as leading criminal group, anti-corruption agencies say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/ukrainian-lawmaker-exposed-as-leading.html

Senator Murphy:
It’s pretty wild that the corruption is so brazen, is so transparent.
Vought sent out this tweet yesterday saying, I’m canceling energy projects in the following states, and listed the states.
And every single one of them is a state represented by two Democratic senators.
And the one Democratic senator who voted for the Republican continuing resolution
—that senator’s state wasn’t on the list.
So, you know, it’s just there for everybody to s…

Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Dark and Unnerving New Warning about Trump
The Democratic Senator has taken the lead in drawing attention to Trump’s authoritarianism. In an interview, he offers a stark new warning that should galvanize his fellow Democrats before it’s too late.

Alex Vindman here.
The Wall Street Journal broke the news that Trump’s chief negotiator,
Steve Witkoff,
met with Russian oligarchs about lucrative post-war business opportunities.
It’s clear:
Trump’s so-called “peace plan”
is a vehicle for appeasement and personal gain for those in and around the Trump Administration.
The objective isn't peace and stability for Ukraine — it’s money.
There’s no other way to look at this but as corruption at…

Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Court sentences former tax chief to 6 years in prison: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/ukraines-anticorruption-court-sentences-former.html

Court orders detention of Zelensky's fugitive associate in Ukraine's biggest corruption case: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/court-orders-detention-of-zelenskys.html

'Someone must be held accountable' — Ukraine’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor sounds alarm on justice delayed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/someone-must-be-held-accountable.html

Ukraine’s political system is bracing for a “mini-revolution”
as the county’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
is forced to adapt to life without
his closest adviser, chief enforcer and most loyal associate,
Andriy Yermak,
who resigned on Friday
after his apartment was searched
as part of a widening anti-corruption probe.
Yermak was widely believed to control a network of Telegram channels
that poured dirt on those who crossed him,
a…