By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026Rather than going to jail, DeVos and Van Andel became morbidly wealthy, and they used some of their stolen money to found and fund the Heritage Foundation (yes, *that* Heritage Foundation). 16/ 514931
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026The political class running America are pyramid scheme swindlers, funded by pyramid scheme money. They're running a big con on all of us. 17/ 417543
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026That's true of the Trumps, who've excreted a diarrhoeic slurry of shitcoins that have made them billions - and lost billions for their "investors": www.citationneeded.news/issue-106/ 18/citationneeded.newsIssue 106 – A tremendous birthday presentThe crypto industry spent the spring buying primaries, an octagon at the White House, and — they hope — a market-structure bill by the Fourth of July. 1863
Pyperkub @pyperkub.bsky.social · 22/06/2026~$3 Trillion in just the past 12 months... www.jec.senate.gov/public/vendo... 083
brian @unlikely.ca · 20/06/2026Swindlers, yes! I feel the average citizen could be inoculated against the worst abuses of the political and business class by somehow reintroducing the formerly widespread cultural understanding of the prevalence of swindlers. The term itself is barely used, but so widely applicable. 0212
