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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

almost forgot since I was up late celebrating lefty wins in Pvd 😅 the 10-year anniversary edition of LEECH GIRL LIVES is out TODAY TYSM @nmamatas.bsky.social for the killer intro & @spaceboybooks.bsky.social for helping me share my weirdo vision of the shitty future bookshop.org/p/books/leec...

a photo of the author with the book on his face

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's 40% more than in the 2024 presidential cycle (the previous record breaker) and over ONE THIRD of federal corporate spending disclosed to the FEC since 2010's Citizens United ruling. Half of it is coming from Crypto, online betting, and Big Tech

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

NEW @publiccitizen.bsky.social report: Corporate money in the 2026 midterms has surged to $650 million. www.citizen.org/article/corp...

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

good morning to everyone except Charles Koch

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

NecronomiCon night one -- kickin it in Pvd with @geoliminal.bsky.social!!

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The biggest beneficiary of corporate contributions behind the corporate supremacist super PACs is the Trump-backing MAGA Inc., having received $120.6 million in corporate contributions during the 2026 cycle.

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The top corporate donors in these sectors backing corporate supremacist super PACs are familiar characters to anyone following money in politics: a16z, Ripple, Crypto .com, Coinbase, etc

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The spending coincides with the rise of *corporate supremacist super PACs.* These are set up not to advance either major party or any candidate, but solely to push the interests of specific corporate sectors. Crypto, AI & online betting super PACs are driving the trend

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

NEW @publiccitizen.bsky.social report: Corporations have already spent $517 million on the 2026 midterms. That's more corporate money than any previous election cycle -- and nearly 1/3 of all corporate political spending since Citizens United www.citizen.org/article/corp...

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

cointelegraph asked me about crypto and AI super PACs and I kind of unloaded 😂https://www.tradingview.com/news/cointelegraph:ab6436d34094b:0-crypto-and-ai-could-be-dirty-words-on-2026-midterm-campaign-trail/

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Every year, across multiple administrations, across both parties, the DOJ has announced over and over again that "individual accountability" is their priority when prosecuting corporate crime. And every year, they failed to prosecute the Sacklers. What a disgrace. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/p...

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

so long and no thanks for all the slop

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

this meme is going around mushroom foraging groups so here’s my @publiccitizen.bsky.social report on the same subject www.citizen.org/news/mushroo...

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

why does the ridiculous RFK govt nutrition website look like Cards Against Humanity

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"nobody has any idea how to measure corporate power" yeah, sure, ok...

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

NEW @publiccitizen.bsky.social report: Trump canceled or froze 159 enforcement actions vs 166 alleged corporate lawbreakers over the past year. 1/3 of the corps have Trump admin ties such as ballroom donations. They avoided paying $3.1B in penalties. Full report: www.citizen.org/article/canc...

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

man, why do these goddamn Instagram skeletons get me all emotional every single time 😭

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I think Marceline likes her Christmas present

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My August @publiccitizen.bsky.social on the Trump admin’s retreat from enforcement against Big Tech warned this was coming. AI businesses that could benefit include OpenAI, Meta, & Snap.

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is the beginning of the Trump FTC’s retreat from enforcement against AI corporations—in this case, one that allegedly facilitated generation of “false & deceptive written content for reviews”—claiming enforcement “unduly burdens innovation”

Screen shot of FTC press release with the headline, "FTC Reopens and Sets Aside Rytr Final Order in Response to the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan"

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

going to a thing with a costume contest tonight, I’m probably gonna win

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

my kid found me a birthday present

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

the RI Mycological Society made this to promote an event where I’ll be tabling at Borders Farm Saturday 10/18 10am-noon

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

now is the time of monsters xraylitmag.com/underground-...

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

No agency has been the target of the Trump admin’s deregulatory wrath like the CFPB. Acting director Russ Vought went so far as to accuse the agency of engaging in the “weaponization” of consumer protection -- familiar anti-enforcement rhetoric. 20/23

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

On the fintech side, Trump inherited at least 58 CFPB cases from Biden, including 17 against fintech corporations. 11 of these have already been halted or dismissed. 19/23

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Trump signed what appears to be the first-ever full presidential pardon for a corporation – the crypto business BitMEX – allowing it avoid paying the $100M penalty it was sentenced to pay for financial crimes. 17/23

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Trump’s Dept. of Labor has already abruptly withdrawn an investigation into allegations of illegal labor practices at ScaleAI, which gave $125K to Trump’s inauguration and is where White House Office of Science & Technology Policy director Michael Kratsios was formerly an executive (15/23)

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The Trump White House’s AI Action Plan specifically targets FTC enforcement that could “unduly burden AI innovation” Corporations facing FTC enforcement over AI concerns include OpenAI, Microsoft, and Snap. (14/23)

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Antitrust cases against Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia – all of which are going out of their way to ingratiate themselves to Trump – are important cases to follow going forward. (12/23)

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

However, while the Google and Meta anti-monopoly cases proceed, lax merger enforcement has apparently returned. Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Juniper Networks is a particularly remarkable instance of industry consolidation Trump’s DOJ has allowed (11/23 )

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Tech corporations facing enforcement, their executives, and their investors have spent $1.2 BILLION during the 2024 elections and since Trump’s election. Musk and his companies alone spent over $350 million, about a 1/3 of the tech influence spending. (6/23)

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Elon Musk’s corporations – The Boring Company, Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, X, and xAI – face at least 19 separate sets of allegations from at least nine federal agencies. Many have already been dropped or sidelined. (5/23)

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Tech corporations benefiting from halted or withdrawn federal enforcement include eBay, Meta, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and numerous cryptocurrency and financial technology corporations. (3/23)

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Trump's DOJ dropped Toyota's bribery investigation a week after announcing its weakened enforcement policy. In May, Trump's CFPB scrapped a Toyota consent decree, sparing the corporation from paying $40 million in refunds. Quite the return on Toyota's $1 million inaugural gift!

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Overjoyed to report one of my favorite slime molds reappeared today after I haven’t seen it for about 3 years. Delighted to see you again, old friend

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Among the corporations that stand to benefit from dropped Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations are Pfizer and Toyota, both of which donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration.

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Trump's DOJ just announced American corporations that engage in criminal bribery schemes abroad will no longer be prosecuted. These authoritarians are simultaneously legalizing corporate crime while cheering the use of unrestrained excessive force against immigrants. www.justice.gov/dag/media/14...

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Thank you! It must have fruited in the middle of a critter path

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Some spectacular myxomycete (slime mold) observations from the past weekend

Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa & Physarum sp. (I think)

Fuligo septica with adorable footprints (chipmunk? vole? mouse?)

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

There is an administration-wide push to stop prosecuting corporate lawbreaking. But corruption is a factor, no doubt

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It's official. Trump's DOJ turned Boeing's guilty plea for breaching the deal to clean up its act after the deadly 737 Max crashes into a non-prosecution agreement. Boeing, perpetrator of one of the deadliest corporate crimes in history, basically walks away with a clean slate.

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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Trump's SEC has backed out of its case against Binance. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the Trump family considering a business deal with the crypto corporation. This marks the 17th crypto enforcement action the administration has dropped, and the 76th overall.

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