Word of the day is "ethics." -- used to be something we expected leaders to at least *say* they valued.

See also, impropriety (appearance of) -- something to be avoided in public life.

Also 'illegal lottery' ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg78ljxn8g7o

Would someone please take this pr!€( in front of a grand jury and seek an indictment? Whether election fraud or illegal lottery, there's a prima facie case here, surely. Enough is enough.

#musk #electionfraud #impropriety #ethics #equalitybeforethelaw

🇺🇸 American Candidate: Donald Trump 🐘
Source: https://linktr.ee/CelebrityBiopics

💍 Marrying Ivana Zelníčková in 1977 🇨🇿, Trump seemed to have it all. But his 🌎 world would soon come 📉 crashing down when a scandalous affair came to 🔦 light.

#ivana #ivanka #american #americafirst #crashing #scandal #controversy #controversial #impropriety #sensational #uproar #embarrassing #indiscretion #wrongdoing

Trump Media & Technology Group and its merger partner, Digital World Acquisition,
have both been rocked by legal warfare.

Their leaders, past and present, have traded heated accusations of #deception and #impropriety across
💥four lawsuits in three states. 💥

After Trump was booted from Twitter following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection,
👉three men played pivotal roles in building and promoting Trump Media as an online challenger against the “cancel culture” of Big Tech:

🔸#Andy #Litinsky and 🔸#Wes #Moss, former “Apprentice” contestants who co-founded and launched Truth Social;
and 🔸#Patrick #Orlando, who as chief executive of Digital World, a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, offered Trump’s company a path to investor cash.

🔥But all three are now leading a rebellion of their own, confronting and potentially imperiling a trophy of Trump’s post-presidential ambitions.

Their lawsuits call into question how Trump Media’s shares will be distributed, and a legal victory could chip away at Trump’s equity during a time when he is facing a cash crunch.

And the cases threaten to erode Trump’s grasp on a stake in the post-merger company potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars
— a possible financial lifeline, given that he owes more than $500 million in legal fines.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/21/truth-social-trump-merger-lawsuits/

#Devin #Nunes #Trump #Jr #Robert #Lighthizer #Linda #McMahon #DJT

“Like clockwork, Thomas’ leisure activities have been underwritten by benefactors who share the ideology that drives his jurisprudence.”
#supremecourt #thomas #ethics #impropriety
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court

Why #LaurenBoebert & her #ilk are so #obsessed wtih #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQ

Her words are #emblematic of how #Republicans have decided that calling #LGBTQ+ people “#groomers” and “#pedophiles” should #deflect attention from the #sexual #impropriety committed by people they like.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #RepublicanParty #Colorado #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/why-lauren-boebert-her-ilk-are-so-obsessed-wtih-lgbtq-people/

Second #request for #anonymity in #UW #sorority #lawsuit #rejected

"#Plaintiffs have chosen to level #accusations of #impropriety against #Defendants,” the judge concluded. “They must now shoulder the burden of those accusations and walk in the public eye. Balancing the #publicinterest against Plaintiffs’ showings of personal physical harm, I arrive where I landed last week: this is not one of those few exceptional cases involving a real #danger of #physicalharm.”

https://www.thesheridanpress.com/news/regional-news/second-request-for-anonymity-in-uw-sorority-lawsuit-rejected/article_9e1ecb2c-de0a-11ed-a1fd-57e0b6dae5ee.html

What troubles me even more than the #impropriety of the #influence peddling #Justice #Thomas accepts, is that the rest of the justices have never, ever, to my knowledge made a stink about it. Zip. Zero. Nada.

This impresses me as a #systemic problem. A #cabal of #elite enthusiastically turning their heads to the improprieties of their fellows, to preserve the #privilege they are all benefitting from.

If the one is implicated, all must be implicated, if we are to see any chance at #reform. Because, as concerns the #SupremeCourt, change can only come from the top.

So, please. Don’t look down your nose at Clarence Thomas, while ignoring the fact that the other justices are not only enabling his behavior, but most likely partaking in it to varying degrees as well.

Be loud. Hold them all to account.
#FightBack
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow Wow. These all seem like such nice undeclared #gifts. I’m sure it was all harmless and that over the past 20 years it influenced no decisions whatsoever and that any appearance of #impropriety is purely in the eye of the beholder, right?
#SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #ProPublica