#HowardLutnick is claiming he has sold 1,000 permanent US residence permits for $5 million each (Trump's "Gold Cards") to the world's wealthiest kleptocrats, oligarchs, and crypto bros (though he doesn't describe them that way).

note that these people will be able to live in the US but (unlike US citizens) will not have to pay taxes on their foreign income.

you should expect america's billionaires to start "emigrating" to other countries and "coming back" as Gold Card holders for tax reasons.

"I'm an American software developer and the 'broligarchs' don't speak for me".

Wherein I pour my heart out, agonize over every word, and hope I'm not misunderstood.

https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope

No less than 76 #Democrats just voted with Republicans to overturn the #IRS's "defi broker rule" which would have required crypto firms like #MarcAndreessen's #Uniswap to collect information on their users and in so doing discourage the use of these platforms for #moneylaundering by criminals and rogue nuclear states (#NorthKorea *loves* Uniswap) and by the very wealthy to avoid paying #taxes.

The new wave of #memecoin scams like #TrumpCoin are also all facilitated/perpetrated by these decentralized trading platforms.

If any of these people are your representative you should do what you can to make sure they are primaried because they are not representing your interests. At a minimum call them and yell at them (this works better than most people think!)

The corruption of the US government by #crypto bros is extremely bipartisan.

* Full roll call of vote: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202571

Trump's language about an "illegal and collusive" boycott of Tesla echoes #DOGE broligarch #MarcAndreessen's language about an "orchestrated advertiser boycott" of #X.

The plan is pretty obviously to compel people to give #broligarchs like #ElonMusk and Marc Andreessen money.

New paper from #Yale and the #FederalReserve blames the 2023 banking crisis on (you guessed it) #crypto and Nerd Reich #VCs.

> "A clearer commonality between the six banks [that failed], the paper argues, is their exposure to risky depositor bases that other banks shied away from: #crypto firms and [tech] venture capitalists."

* American Banker: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/new-paper-hangs-march-2023-failures-on-business-model-risks
* Paper: https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/working-papers/2025/2025-04

Hi!

Dow, down 2% today, 5.5% in the last month, it was 8.8% lower a year ago. Another month+ at this rate: #BigHands will wipe out a year of #Dow growth.

Will #capitalists & #oligarchs (not the #broligarchs ) step in?

#nasdaq down 4% today alone, 11% over the last month, now only up 9 points in the last year. Less than a month more will wipe that.

#sp500 2.7%, 7.2%, now up only 9.7% over 12 months.

American capitalists: end that #fascism! Don't be a idiot.

live look at #a16z’s #MarcAndreessen after killing off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (#CFPB), making sure americans will be paying extortionate junk fees and usurious interest rates on payday loans in addition to having zero protection from crypto scams:

pardoned january 6th brownshirts have apparently started reading #CurtisYarvin (“america needs a dictator - sorry, i mean 'CEO' - because democracy has failed” is the core of Yarvin’s reactionary position and it’s shared by a lot of the nerd reich like #PeterThiel, #MarcAndreessen, and #ElonMusk)

https://x.com/JohnStrandUSA/status/1891493061667987849

#America is going to be suffering a #braindrain. The cutting of funding to important #science and #medicalresearch is monumentally stupid. Instead, they're going to throw money at the #broligarchs and wow, is that even more idiotic. #AI isn't going to prop up the entire economy of the #UnitedStates. Where do these #project2025 people think all these out of work #scientists are going to go? They sure as hell won't be hanging around the #US. The #world will have the pick of the best and brightest the US has to offer.

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, one of the world's most important resources when it comes to digging up information about #kleptocrats all over the world, lost 29% of its budget due to #ElonMusk's attacks on #USAID .

There are few better causes you could donate to where your money would go anywhere near as far as it would with OCCRP (journalists in Moldova are kinda cheap in the scheme of things).

https://membership.occrp.org/stand-with-occrp/

Thot before sleep: what do the #broligarchs know about the #economics of #depopulation that every european country and japan have not figured out?

Because depopulation seems to be the goal.

Am guessing answers lie in: robotics and a i to substitute for pesky workers, bs stores of value like crypto. Control of clean air water soils for a few.

That is your dystopian writing prompt.

oh look #JackDorsey's crypto friendly financial transactions company Block (FKA "Square", owns #CashApp, among others) just got hit with an $80 million fine for facilitating #moneylaundering

this is my shocked face

How do you explain to a CEO that artists want the process and the struggle? That the process is almost always the main reason to make art?

You don't, they're only selling a product to posers who want to have finished "works of art" without having to feel anything to "make" them.

https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/113821937586265154

owner of the #LATimes just invited the king of the crypto bros #MarcAndreessen, a man whose VC fund #a16z has backed innumerable scams in all shades of fraud (see: #Yotta and #Synapse most recently) in addition to companies that facilitate incredible amounts of Russian #moneylaundering to join the editorial board.

#KleptocracyIsComing

tweet: https://x.com/DrPatSoonShiong/status/1878263014497059135
more on a16z: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers

andreessen spewed so many outright lies on #JoeRogan a few weeks ago that it kind of spawned an entire cottage industry of line by line takedowns of his bullshit: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113603397835078618

seems like the kind of guy #journalism needs right now

Interesting article by @timothysnyder.bsky.social - read it. Several historical analogies are presented. In the last one, trmp is Yeltsin, and vance is Putin. #PresidentMusk #Broligarchs