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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Its hard for me to see these types of articles & not think a commissioned consulting agency recently concluded a meeting w/ a PE firm to go over average consumer sentiment & opinions on PE. #privateequity

Headline from Business Insider: "Blackstone transformed Jersey Mike's. Now it's giving employees a bite of the $7 billion IPO."

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

So the official patsy for the whole holding national security records scandal has been chosen.

"Former Trump adviser John Bolton to plead guilty to retaining national security information" NBC News

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It was disproven back in 2013 after they gutted pre-clearance & within hours those former pre-clearance states started drafted voting restrictions. The conservatives on the coirt swear their originalist readings is all that matters & that the objective reality your eyeballs see holds no bearing.

"States Have Added Nearly 100 Restrictive Laws Since SCOTUS Gutted the Voting Rights Act 10 Years Ago"

Many of the new laws are in states with a history of racial voting discrimination.

By Jasleen Singh and Sara Carter

From The Brennan Center

BaptistNews.Com

"The Supreme Court is betting on America's amnesia"

OPINION STUART C. LORD | MAY 6, 2026

The U.S. Supreme Court's latest voting rights ruling is dangerous not only for what it does legally, but for what it reveals nationally. It reveals how much historical amnesia now exists in the American bloodstream.

A nation that still viscerally remembered Selma, literacy tests, courthouse registrars turning Black citizens away, poll taxes and the humiliation of being told that citizenship did not entitle you to political power would not treat the dismantling of voting protections as a sterile legal adjustment. It would recognize it for what it is: Democratic regression wrapped in judicial language.

New York Times / The Opinion Pages

EDITORIAL

"North Carolina's Voting Restrictions Struck Down as Racist"

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

JULY 29. 2016

By Hanna Barczyk

The scurrilous attempt by North Carolina Republicans to suppress the rising power of black voters was struck down on Friday by a federal appeals court that concluded that the state's voting strictures "target African- Americans with almost surgical precision."

The decision means that the voting power of black citizens in the important swing state will not be hobbled in November by a repressive 2013 law that the court found was steeped in blatant racism, in violation of the Constitution. "Because of race, the Legislature enacted one of the largest restrictions of the franchise in modern North Carolina history," the court ruled.

The court, in finding that the law was designed as a deliberate tool to reduce the African-American vote, is the latest to beat back attempts by Republican statehouses to interfere with minority and new voters.

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

We don't need 100% of America to be angered and activated by this, anywhere around 3 to 5% would be enough. Think we can find roughly 10 million people or more to get pissed off over this?

Fortune article headline: Scott Bessent has 'got a feeling' that $175 billion raised under the IEEPA is lost to the American people for good

Approximately 47.9 million people in the U.S. lived in food-insecure households in 2024, representing about 1 in 7 households (13.7%) struggling to afford adequate food. This includes roughly 14.1 million children. Additionally, about 5.4% of households (7.2 million) experienced "very low food security," where food intake was reduced and normal eating patterns disrupted.

Approximately 22.6 million renter households, or 50% of all renters, were cost-burdened in 2023, meaning they spent more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. This marks a record high for the third consecutive year, driven by rapid rent increases and stagnant income growth. Roughly 12 million of these households are severely cost-burdened, spending over half their income on

housing.

streetlightnews.org

For the third year in a row, a record number of renters can't afford their...

Jun 30, 2025 - According to the American Community Survey, 22.6 million renters, or 50% of tenants, couldn't afford their housing costs in 2023. This is the...

CNN

Half of US tenants can't afford to pay their rent. Here's what's ahead

Jan 30, 2024 - However, median rent is still $309 higher than the same time in 2019, before the pandemic. That's a 22% increase. And people have been feeling ...

Joint Center for Housing Studies https://www.jchs.harvard.edu

New Report Shows Rent Is Unaffordable for Half of Renters as...

Jan 25, 2024 - The number of renter households spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent and utilities rose by 2 million in just three..

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If the British monarchy isn't dissolved this decade, let alone this year I will be shocked.

The Guardian: UK news

Andrew Mountbatten- Windsor charged massages to taxpayer while trade envoy, say reports

Former senior civil servants say culture of deference meant excessive expenses claims were waved through

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

If there is any political group with any sense & minimal leftist values, they'd reach out to PC gamers right now & build a movement to reinvigorate anti-trust & force it as a campaign platform. I paid over $200 for each of these. A week later they were worth over $700ea. This needs to be stopped.

Post from Twitter: "Newsis: Nvidia and AMD to significantly increase GPU prices starting next month. Describes RTX 5090 increasing from $2000 to $5000

"Both companies are reportedly planning to continue raising GPU prices every month going forward. It's highly likely that the price increases will extend across their entire product lineup, encompassing not only consumer GPUs but also GPUs for Al data centers and servers."

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

And the continuing absence of any real plan to tackle the lack of housing that fuels the affordable housing issue:

From a Twitter post from The White House: "A lot of young people are saying, 'housing is way too expensive.' Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who are taking houses that ought, by right, go to American citizens..." And " I know that there are a lot of people out there saying things that 'things are expensive'. We have to remember, they're expensive because we inherited this terrible inflation crisis from the Biden administration" - Vice President JD Vance

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

To the Fascists and Vichy Dems right now....

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

So now we're directly bribing the military through private, anonymous donors.

"CNN

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump 'friend' to pay military members

By Adam Cancryn

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This inspired me to look up how old the "Millennials", "avocado toast" "fancy coffee" is why we 'cant afford homes' cliche is. Turns out its only from abt 2017 & stemmed from some property developer CEO from Australia. Congrats Gen Z, "the problem" is reheating the same leftovers on you.

"Wealth:
Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises

By Orianna Rosa Royle"

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Do you need further examples of how disconnected the absurdly wealthy are in this country when they cannot even comprehend your existence and that it's written as an "epiphany" when they get the tiniest peek into it? fortune.com/2025/09/30/f...

Ford CEO on his ‘epiphany’ after talking to his Gen Z factory workers: They were saying they ‘had to have three jobs’
By Nick Lichtenberg
September 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM EDT

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Proving the man's touring strategy correct.

"ICE officers to attend Super Bowl after Bad Bunny announcement, says Lewandowski

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will attend the 2026 Super Bowl, where Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny is set to headline the halftime show, according to Corey Lewandowski, an adviser at the Department of Homeland Security.

There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” Lewandowski said Wednesday on “The Benny Show.”

Last month, Bad Bunny told i-D Magazine that he is not performing in the U.S. during his forthcoming world tour due to, in part, concerns over ICE raids at his concerts.

“But there was the issue of — like, f‑‑‑ing ICE could be outside [my concerts]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about,” the artist told the magazine.

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

"What am I? Chopped liver?" George Lincoln Rockwell probably.

George Lincoln Rockwell and cohorts at a meeting of the Nation of Islam meeting in 1962

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We're almost there... After that it's Electro Gonorrhea: The Noisy Killer.

Computer screen with "Downloading Lucy Liu" and a completion bar.

Lucy Liu's image being applied over a blank robot.

Computer screen reading "LUCY LIU DOWNLOAD COMPLETE"

Completed Lucy Liu bot standing in front of Phillip J Fry who is standing a gasp in front of her.

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Is, is this how we're saying "poor" now? And yes, the writer worked in finance.

5 clothing items that instantly make you look lower middle class
Avery White / Aug 27, 2025

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

If you are a public figure or public facing entity who is being targeted by Trump or his appointees as a distraction from the entire Epstein debacle, be a King and have your only public response be this:

Bernice King's tweet: a picture of her father, MLK Jr. looking at the camera, with the tweet saying "Now, do the Epstein files."

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Meanwhile look who's decided to offer themselves up as the dictionary definition of oligarchy. So many centrists to choose from.

Bill Ackman pledges to bankroll any NYC mayoral candidate capable of defeating Zohran Mamdani

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Skip their indoctrination to immerse yourself in our's.

Business Insider: Palantir wants to poach top high school grads with a new anti-college internship: 'Skip the debt. Skip the indoctrination.'

Peter Gregory form Season 1 of Silicon Valley railing against colleges at a TED Talk

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

"A president who orders his officials not to comply w/ court orders would be creating a constitutional crisis." Or a president who allows his officials to ignore court orders is getting the same result.

It's not the first time Vance has floated defying court orders. During a 2021 interview on the podcast Jack Murphy Live as a Senate candidate, Vance said he would advise Trump to "fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people." He added: "When the courts stop you, stand before the country, like Andrew Jackson did, and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"

Vance defended his comments in a 2022 exchange with NBC News.

Greene pointed out that others in Trump's orbit, including Musk, have floated ignoring court orders.

On Saturday, Musk reposted a post on X from a user who wrote, "I don’t like the precedent it sets when you defy a judicial ruling, but I’m just wondering what other options are these judges leaving us."

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I'm just gonna keep collecting these headlines like Petty Pokemon cards.

OpenAI Claims DeepSeek Stole It's Intellectual Property to Train Their AI Model

Takes one to know one

Theodore McKenzie
Head of Content
Published 29 January 2025

Ars Technica

deep irony

I agree with OpenAI: You shouldn’t use other peoples’ work without permission

Op-ed: OpenAI says DeepSeek used its data improperly. That must be frustrating!

Andrew Cunningham – Jan 30, 2025 12:55 PM

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I love these headlines just cutting through the BS.

Column: OpenAI accuses China of stealing its content, the same accusation that authors have made against OpenAI

By Michael Hiltzik
Business Columnist

OpenAI suddenly thinks intellectual property theft is not cool, actually, amid DeepSeek's rise.

By Kris Holt
Contributing Reporter

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Not to give too much away but my family hails from a country that had a dictator & had family exiled. Pay very close attention to ur very young children. The times going forward will be their foundational memories & you have to do your hardest to instill (& protect) decency & empathy in them

"What is the significance of this quote from In the Time of the Butterflies?
"Maybe because I was used to the Good Shepherd and Trujillo side by side in the old house, I caught myself praying a little greeting as I walked by."
Quick answer:

This quote highlights Patria's internal conflict and the pervasive influence of Trujillo's regime. Growing up with Trujillo's portrait next to Jesus' in her home, Patria equates the dictator's presence with religious reverence. Her involuntary prayer signifies how deeply Trujillo's authority is ingrained in her psyche. Despite her disdain, Patria prays to Trujillo out of desperation, reflecting her ingrained religious habits and illustrating the oppressive power of his dictatorship."

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This whole part made me want to eat my teeth.

The committee believed the Justice Department was unhelpful in its investigation.
Initially, after it was revealed in 2021 that Mr. Gaetz was under federal investigation, the Justice Department told the panel to stand down as it completed its inquiry — a request the committee complied with.
In 2023, Mr. Gaetz announced that the department had decided not to charge him, leading the committee to restart its inquiry.
But, at that point, the Justice Department refused to respond to the committee, according to the committee.
The committee said that “after three months without a response despite repeated follow up,” it filed Freedom of Information Act requests with Justice Department offices, “which to date have not been adequately processed.”
“The committee continued to reach out to D.O.J. throughout 2023, having still not received a substantive response to its request for information,” the committee said.
The committee said it received its first correspondence from the Justice Department in January 2024.
“At that time, D.O.J. provided no substantive response or explanation for its delay,” the report said.
But the department told the committee it does not give nonpublic information about investigations that do not result in anyone being charged.
The committee said this stance by the Justice Department is “inconsistent with D.O.J.’s historical conduct with respect to the Committee and its unique role in upholding the integrity of the House.”
“D.O.J.’s initial deferral request and subsequent lack of cooperation with the committee’s review caused significant delays in the investigation,” the report said.

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Of course comments from the super-surveillance CEO are turned off.

Screengrab of YouTube video of discussion with CEO of Palantir, Alex Karp's new book The Technological Republic with Stanley Druckenmiller during JPMorgan’s Asset Managers CEO Forum. Comments have been turned off.

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

OMG! They released her without any charges!!!!!

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The corporate owned media will get you back on those dang culture wars by God!:

Article titled " Healthcare uproar Sparks new legislation in Congress" with a photo of Rep. Ritchie Torres (NY-D) at the U.S. Capitol

Highlighted part of the article " with some on the left celebrating Thompson's death"

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I think they pulled the article. I just get a 404 error on Forbes.

Forbes article titled "The Dark Reaction To The CEO Shooter, Analyzed"

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The Rev Doctor alluded to your point in regards to civil rights. Negative peace: closed door violence being preferred over Positive Peace aka the messy & inconvenient work of justice. Hmmm, almost like the civil rights & access to healthcare have some underlying relation….

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. , LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL (1963)
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice”

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Malice in Blunderland @olgraymaher.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

This is what happens when the original insurrectionists don't suffer consequences: Pot, kettle...

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