LuckyKatAZ

[Everett Stern @EverettStern1]

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,

On October 14th I wrote to you about Bank of America @BankofAmerica.

You did not answer. 3.6 million Americans did.

I want to tell you what that looked like from where I sit, because I do not think Washington understands it yet. The messages did not come from one side. They came from Republicans and Democrats, from veterans and nurses and small business owners, from people who have not agreed with each other about anything in a decade. They all said a version of the same sentence. We have had enough.

That is what a national security issue looks like when it finally breaks through. It does not pick a party. It belongs to everyone who has a kid, a bank account, or a flag on the porch.

So let me be plain about my concern. I am worried that nothing is going to happen. The fine has been announced. The press cycle is already turning. In a few weeks the number will be forgotten and the bank will be back to business. I have watched this exact sequence play out before, and I am writing to you now, while there is still a window, because once that window closes it does not reopen.

I am also widening this letter, because Treasury does not act alone.

To the Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept and to FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash:

Director Patel, you were not in the chair when this happened, so I want you to hear it from me directly. In 2011 I walked into the FBI with everything I had on HSBC. Not a tip. Boxes. Names, account numbers, transaction records, internal emails. Agents worked that evidence for over a year. I trusted them, and I still believe they wanted to do their jobs.

Then the settlement was announced. $1.9 billion. I called the agents and asked the only question that mattered. When do you raid the building and when are the arrests?

Their answer was four words. Our hands are tied.

I have thought about those four words every day since. Not because the agents failed me. Because somebody above them decided that a bank was too important to treat like a defendant. That decision was made quietly, by people whose names I will never know, and it has been made again every time since. Director Patel, you now have the authority to make a different one.

I remember the words carved into the stone outside the federal building in Philadelphia the day I walked in to report @HSBC: justice is the defense of our liberty. I believed that. I still want to. But a justice system that handcuffs a dealer on the corner and sends a bank a bill is not defending anyone’s liberty. It is choosing whose liberty counts.

To Brian Moynihan, Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America @BankofAmerica:

Mr. Moynihan, your bank just agreed to pay $1.2 billion for failures that regulators called willful. I have a few questions, and the 3.6 million people reading this would like the answers too.

Who was fired?

Not reassigned. Not retired early with a package. Fired, by name, for the conduct the government described.

What has actually changed in your anti money laundering program? Not the budget line. Not the consultant’s slide deck. What is different today about how an alert gets cleared and who is allowed to say stop?

Were there any consequences inside the building at all? Or did this land the way it landed at HSBC bank, as a line item?

And how much is your bonus this year?

I ask because I know what it costs a compliance officer to raise his hand inside a bank like yours. I would like to know what it cost anyone at the top. Do you even care? I am asking sincerely. I would like to be wrong.

Here is what I did about all of this, and why it matters to this letter. After the government declined to help me or any of the whistleblowers I have met since, I built the thing I wished had existed. Tactical Rabbit is a private intelligence agency. We find the truth, we prove it, and we put it in the hands of people who will act on it. I made a decision a long time ago that if the government would not stop the next HSBC, I would.

So to anyone inside a bank reading this who is looking at something they know is wrong: if your bank will not act, and the government will not act, come to me. I will get the truth to the public. That is not a threat. It is a promise I have already kept once.

Mr. Secretary, Director Patel, the Department of Justice, and Mr. Moynihan: four addresses, one question. Will anyone be held accountable?

Not fined. Not suspended. Not asked to attend training. Accountable.

Please end the cycle of too big to jail. I will not stop until there is change, and neither will the millions of Americans standing behind this letter. Answer them.

We need a banker in jail.

Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder, Tactical Rabbit

[LuckyKatAZ @LuckyAZKat]

@KeriA1776again

[Everett Stern @EverettStern1]

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,

My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.

The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.

I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.

I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.

Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.

Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.

Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.

A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.

This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.

There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.

Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.

I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.

This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.

Three things would change the math overnight.

Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.

End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.

And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.

Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.

I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.

Respectfully,

Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

[Andrew Thomas the Bold @SummerbrookCEO]

It’s wonderful to join the X community and the fray once again!
I’ve been a part of politics, conservative writing and thought, and now filmmaking for many years. It’s terrific to reach out to you at last through X.
I look forward to reconnecting with the many patriots in Arizona. There, when I ran one of the nation’s largest prosecutor’s offices, I’m proud to say we actually STOPPED illegal immigration.
I’m now in Texas, where my movie company is based. We’re shaking up woke Hollywood with great feature films, and you can check out our movies on streaming platforms worldwide. We have 3 new movies coming out soon.
Here on X, I’ll keep challenging the Left as I always have with a steady barrage of thoughts out of season. Please follow me—I look forward to connecting. ⚔️

[LuckyKatAZ @LuckyAZKat]

@KeriA1776again AMEN!!!!

[Patriot Network @usmidino]

QUIT YOUR BITCHING!!!!!!
Grandpa didn’t have a $90 month internet bill, a $130 phone bill, seven app subscriptions at $72 month, an Amazon addiction for $200 month, he didn’t have Netflix, Paramount or HBO for another $112 month and his haircuts didn’t need a ‘stylist’!

I’m worn out hearing people moan, “Our grandparents could buy a house on one paycheck, but now we can’t even afford rent on two!”
Yeah, maybe because Grandma wasn’t dropping half her income on $14 iced lattes and avocado toast shaped like art projects. Back then, if they wanted coffee, they boiled it at home in a dented pot. It tasted like burnt rubber and regret — but it woke you up and cleaned your pipes.

And Grandma wasn’t “out to brunch.” You think she had time for mimosas and hashtags? She was making something called whatever’s left in the fridge and feeding six people with it.
Don’t even start with Uber Eats. You think Grandpa was out here paying $38 to have a burger delivered three blocks away? Please. He grilled mystery meat on a rusted barbecue, and everyone called it dinner.

Now people cry about being broke while sitting in a house full of gadgets. Two SUVs in the driveway, six streaming services, three air fryers, and matching tattoos that cost more than their light bill. You think Grandpa had a tattoo? He did. It said “Korea, 1951,” and it came with trauma, not Instagram likes.

And the kids—Lord help us. “We can’t make ends meet, but Brayden needs the new iPhone!” No, he doesn’t. You’re handing an $1100 device to a child who still eats crayons and forgets to flush.
When we were kids, there was one phone. It hung on the wall like a family relic. The cord stretched just far enough for you to whisper secrets before someone yelled, “Get off, I need to make a call!” And guess what? We lived.

The TV? One. In the living room. With three channels and a dial that clicked like a safe. And if Dad wanted to watch bowling, you were a fan of bowling, end of story.

Now there’s a flat screen in every room, the baby’s got an iPad, the dog’s got a camera, and everyone’s wondering why they can’t afford rent.
Because you’re living like rock stars on retail salaries, that’s why.

Grandpa wasn’t leasing Teslas or buying $12 smoothies called “Green Zen Awakening.” He drove a truck that coughed smoke, rattled like a storm, and smelled like oil and hard work.
They lived within their means. Whatever Grandpa brought home on Friday — that’s what they had. They weren’t keeping up with the Joneses; they were keeping the lights on.

So yeah, Grandpa bought a house on one salary. But he also didn’t have a gym membership, three delivery apps, and emotional support crystals on his nightstand. His only support system was Grandma, who told him to quit whining and mow the yard.

Nowadays, everyone’s broke, anxious, and “manifesting abundance” while ordering tacos on DoorDash for the fourth time this week.
It’s not the economy — it’s the lifestyle.
Wake up, turn off your subscriptions, make your own coffee, and maybe—just maybe—you’ll smell the truth.

It’s truth....God is Good, God is Great, I thank HIM for this day and everything I have!!

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

After almost two DECADES without a new copper source anywhere in the U.S., the Florence Copper Mine in Arizona is now open and will produce TENS OF MILLIONS of pounds of copper PER YEAR and create HUNDREDS of good-paying jobs to the community. It was great to be there in person yesterday to celebrate the mine’s opening—a HUGE win for Arizona’s economy and its environment.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Promise made. Promise kept.

By tomorrow, 25 million American children will have our gift of $250 in their accounts.

$6.25 billion. Invested in kids. Compounding for decades.

If you have a child under 18, claim their account and see how much is in there now.

$250 is only the beginning. 🇺🇸

[Imam of Peace @Imamofpeace]

A Statement of Conscience on October 7

I will not start by saying ‘as a Muslim’ or ‘as an imam’, but as a human being.

On October 7, over 1,200 innocent people were killed in a single day. Families were shot in their homes. Young people out dancing were hunted across open fields. Over 250 people, including children and the elderly, were dragged into Gaza as hostages. I think of a mother hiding in a safe room with her baby’s mouth covered. I think of a father listening as the line went quiet. I think of families who waited month after month for someone to come home, only to receive a coffin. I didn’t need my faith to recognize the evil of what happened. My heart told me first.

But I’m a Muslim and an imam, and I owe the world one honest sentence: what was done that day was a crime against God. God teaches that whoever kills one innocent soul, it is as if he had killed all humanity.

This day has an author: Yahya Sinwar. He planned it, ordered it, and knew what would follow. Every death of that day and war he started rests on him and Hamas leaders who sat in tunnels and foreign hotels and called slaughter a victory. It rests on every Palestinian leader who cheered, excused, handed out sweets, or said nothing. They chose this. They own it.

But Sinwar did not invent himself. He was the fruit of a tree planted almost a century ago by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas named itself in its founding charter as the Brotherhood’s branch in Palestine. The Brotherhood’s poison is slow. It arrives through study circles, youth camps, charity boxes, and kind words to lonely young men. Drop by drop, it teaches him that his religion is a political party, his neighbour is his enemy, the Jew is the cause of his sorrow, and God is pleased by rage. By the time the gun arrives, the soul is already taken.

I have seen this poison in mosques where sermons became rallies and young men could recite slogans but not sit still for a verse on mercy. Every people that let the Brotherhood in has paid in blood and ruined generations. It has never built anything it did not first set on fire.

Behind Hamas stands another hand: the IRGC. It was the IRGC’s money, weapons, and training that turned a hateful idea into an army. One calls itself Sunni and the other Shia, and they may curse each other’s creeds, but they are united in what they worship. It is not God. It is power. The same IRGC that armed the killers of October 7 shoots Iranian girls for showing their hair, hangs young men for asking to be free, and has left graves from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut. They speak in God’s name. So did Pharaoh speak in the name of heaven.

So let me say this clearly. Hamas and the IRGC are not merely enemies of Islam. That would be too small a charge, as if their crime were only against us. They are enemies of God. God is the Giver of life, yet they deal in death. God calls Himself the Most Merciful, yet they have made cruelty a sacrament. God honoured the children of Adam, yet they look at a child and see a target or a shield. To murder what God created and sign His name to it is the oldest blasphemy.

And we Muslims have been too quiet. Some of us were afraid. Some told ourselves it was not our business. Some, God forgive them, felt something other than horror that morning and never confessed it. Silence was the soil this poison grew in. I will not add to it.

So on this anniversary, let us say plainly what our scripture already says. The Jews are not our enemies. They are our cousins in Abraham, and their dead were created by the same God who created us. Today belongs to them: the murdered, the hostages, and families who still set a place at the table. To them I say: I am sorry for what was done to you by men who used the words of my prayers. You’re not alone in your grief or remembrance.

The enemies of God are those who murder in His name. We know their names. It is time we said them from our own pulpits, in our own voices, before they speak for us again.

Imam Tawhidi

[Rachel Alexander @Rach_IC]

🚨🚨🚨🚨Have updated my list of how to vote on the judges to include Pima County Superior Court. Three to vote no on there. Will get to smaller counties, the AZ Supreme Court and the AZ Court of Appeals next. I changed the color coding to grades to accommodate colorblind folks.

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[Svetlana Lokhova @RealSLokhova]

I am delighted to announce that I will be a guest on my hero @EagleEdMartin's new show next week!

We will be discussing my new book, THE GRAND CONSPIRACY: How Obama Weaponized the Deep State to Destroy Donald Trump OUT NOW https://t.co/zs9Vzr51Ra

[John Eastman @DrJohnEastman]

Amazing night on Saturday, Jan. 4, as President Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni joined us at Mar-A-Lago for the world premiere of The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice, which everyone can watch at https://t.co/F7D83NW1kZ

[LuckyKatAZ @LuckyAZKat]

@NewEmergingKing Amen!

[Bishop Joseph Strickland @ Pillars of Faith @BishStrick]

I once again encourage you to join us at Pillars of Faith https://t.co/qaEoweByXz as we study Sacrosanctum Concilium and the book of Genesis. We are looking at both through the eyes of Tradition. Let us honestly acknowledge where we have wandered.

[LuckyKatAZ @LuckyAZKat]

@shipwreckedcrew 😪

[King Randall, I. @NewEmergingKing]

You can donate to our program at https://t.co/wtZ7GuQ865 ❤️

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

Over on FB, I just posted an incredibly insightful graphic comparison showing why gas and diesel don't come down as fast as the price of crude. It isn't what most people think.

Total global oil production since 1970 is up 113%. (And U.S. production has nearly tripled since 2008.)

Yet the total number of US refineries in 2026 is 130, down from 319 in 1980. During that time, demand for gasoline has increased significantly because our population grew by an additional 100 million people.

You can pump all the crude oil you want, but if you can’t convert it into gasoline and diesel, it doesn’t matter, at least not for gas prices.

Why did this happen? Because blue states closed refineries to move toward stupid "Net Zero" and "Green New Deal" goals. And Democrat Presidents from Carter to Biden imposed restrictions on refinery construction so draconian that no one could afford to build...if they could even get a permit.

But sure, blame Trump, the first President to actually do something about it. Instead, elect the people who TOLD YOU they wanted to "ban fossil fuels" and push the price of gas over $10/gal., and then relentlessly implemented policies to get us as far in that direction as they could.

[John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen]

They want a White House badge after this record.

What CNN, MS NOW, and Politico pushed that was a lie:
1. Benghazi was a protest over a YouTube video.
There was no protest. It was a planned terrorist attack.
2. Nobody told the team to stand down.
We were told to stand down. Not wait. Stand down. Two men are dead because of that delay.
3. Jussie Smollett got beaten by MAGA attackers in Chicago.
He paid two men he knew to stage it.
4. Hunter Biden’s laptop (Got me removed from twitter) was Russian disinformation.
It was his laptop. The FBI authenticated it.
5. The COVID lab leak was a conspiracy / Trump talking point.
It was a live origin theory. The FBI later called it likely.
6. The 2020 riots were “mostly peaceful.”
Cities burned. People died. That was not a vigil.
7. Officer Sicknick was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher on January 6.
The medical examiner said strokes. No blunt-force trauma.
8. An ICE doctor was a “uterus collector” doing mass forced hysterectomies.
A judge called that verifiably false. They settled the lawsuit.
9. A Navy vet running Afghanistan extractions was a black-market profiteer.
A jury found CNN defamed him and awarded $5 million.
10. Covington Catholic kids in MAGA hats started a racist mob.
Full video showed otherwise. CNN settled with Nick Sandmann.
11. Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people.”
He said he was not talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists and they should be condemned totally. They cut the next sentence and ran the smear for years.
12. Trump told Americans to inject bleach.
He asked if UV light or disinfectant that kills the virus on surfaces should be studied. He did not write a Lysol prescription.
13. Trump promised a “bloodbath” meaning civil war.
The line sat inside a tariff speech about Chinese cars and the U.S. auto industry. They stripped the context and sold the word.

A right is not a press pass. A press pass is a privilege.

Where was this free-speech act when Americans were getting throttled on Twitter, Facebook, and Google?

In 2020 the FBI spent months warning platforms about a coming “hack and leak.” Twitter blocked the laptop story. Facebook buried it.

In 2021 the Biden White House pressed Facebook for months to police COVID posts, including jokes. Zuckerberg later said both were wrong. These same outlets ignored it. Some helped sell the laptop as Russian disinfo. They did not treat that as a First Amendment emergency.

But Losing the badge did!

News is supposed to be as accurate as it can be. When it pushes lies and a narrative instead of facts, it should lose credibility and it should lose airtime. Period!

This is a short list off an extremely long one. That is the point. They do not care about the truth and they do not care what it does to this country. They care about views, clicks, and likes.
That is not journalism, it is the problem and it is one of the biggest problems America has.

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

I’m at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The museum was originally a school in the middle of the city that was converted into a notorious torture prison by the communist Khmer Rouge in 1976.

The Khmer Rouge pursued a radical communist revolution in which private property and money were abolished. Families were forcibly broken up, and millions of people were forced into hard labor and work collectives.

Those labeled enemies of the revolution were imprisoned and killed. Their family members were not spared. Spouses and children were also killed to prevent surviving relatives from seeking revenge.

Some 18,000 people passed through this one prison, where prisoners were brutally tortured to make forced “confessions.” Those who didn’t die at the prison were taken to the countryside to be executed. Rather than use limited ammunition, communist executioners frequently killed people with farming tools and other blunt instruments by bashing them on the head and face. Young children were simply beaten on a tree to death.

I saw many, many skulls of victims that had been cracked and smashed in.

This is video of some of the original jail cells at the prison. (There were other similar prisons all over the country.) The exterior corridors of this building still have the original barbed wire installed by the Khmer Rouge from top to bottom. It was used to prevent prisoners from escaping or attempting s—icide.

These historical evils of the violent left have been scrubbed from history in western countries.

Support my journalism at https://t.co/eruxyD69G9.

[Dr. Maike Hickson @HicksonMaike]

I believe that my late husband, Dr Robert Hickson, was from early on alerted about what happened after Vatican II because he learned as a cadet at West Point around 1963 about the warning letter from Abbe Berto who served Archbishop Lefebvre.
I recommend everybody reads it.

[Rachel Alexander @Rach_IC]

🚨🚨🚨🚨Here is one of the most important articles I have ever written IMHO. We are at a crossroads. Will the Supreme Court step in and stop the #Barfare and #Lawfare or will it sidestep it to allow it to continue? If the left is allowed to take out the right's top constitutional lawyer @DrJohnEastman merely for helping out Trump with legal issues regarding the corrupt 2020 election, they will have set a precedent to destroy ALL conservative attorneys.

I always say that every conservative election attorney I know in Arizona has been disciplined, is in the process of being disciplined, or is facing bar complaints. If John Eastman’s disbarment is allowed to stand, no lawyer will dare to take on these important cases anymore.

https://t.co/VBR9cWmVeY

[John “TIG” Tiegen @TigTiegen]

12 DAYS OF BENGHAZI: DAY 12 PART 1

ACCOUNTABILITY

Even with everything we know now, It’s a fact nobody inside the State Department, Department of Defense, or CIA will ever be held accountable for the catastrophic failures that left Americans exposed and cost lives.

Except for the ones that expose it and tell the truth like Tanto, Jake, Boon, Oz and myself did.

That is the reality of Benghazi.

People were reassigned, reinstated, promoted, retired, protected, or allowed to disappear back into the system. Four Americans were dead, and the institutions responsible kept moving.

And this is not just about Benghazi.

Our government has failed Americans before, and it has failed Americans since. Different administrations. Different agencies. Different crises. Same pattern.

Warnings are missed and ignored.

Bad decisions are made.

People die.

Then the investigations start, everybody protects their own, and meaningful accountability disappears.

September 11, 2001.

Benghazi 9/11/2012

Abbey Gate.

Mogadishu.

The USS Cole.

Hurricane Katrina.

COVID.
That’s a short list!

Different events. Different failures. Different agencies.

But the same question keeps coming back:

WHO IS ACTUALLY HELD ACCOUNTABLE WHEN GOVERNMENT FAILURE COSTS AMERICAN LIVES?

If your incompetence or dereliction of duty costs American lives, there should be real consequences.

If you accept a position where Americans depend on your judgment, preparation, and decisions for their lives, then you accept the responsibility that comes with that job.

You do not get to take the title, the authority, the salary, and the power, then hide behind bureaucracy when your failures get people killed.

And when the evidence proves criminal negligence, willful dereliction of duty, corruption, or deliberate misconduct, the people responsible should be prosecuted.

If convicted, they should go to prison!

If you cannot handle that responsibility, do not take the fucking job.

Because if nobody is ever held accountable, why should anyone believe the system will ever fix itself?

#12DaysOfBenghazi #Benghazi #Accountability #NeverForget #HonorTheFallen