Rahim S. Rajan

From around the world. 1st Gen, immigrant, entrepreneur, innovation, edtech, impact investing, loving the PNW. Also on BlueSky @bleuguy.bsky.social

[Rahim S. Rajan @bleuguy]

As a brown man living in America in 2019, I am free in this country because of the sacrifices and struggle of African Americans to realize their their freedoms and inalienable rights. This is a #fact. https://t.co/N7OHnjNAUj

[Paul Jacobs @PaulJacobsMedia]

I truly wish @PBS would hire the team that @60Minutes has fired, including those-soon-to-leave Scott Pelley etc. and create their own version of this iconic program. Ratings would be huge.
Good will would be even larger.

[Rahim S. Rajan @bleuguy]

There is no bottom or shame. Cripple and diminish the free press - right out of autocracy 101.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Rahim S. Rajan @bleuguy]

The data is right in front of us and I just hear crickets…

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Family wealth generated while holding office.

We are not angry enough about this.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

The White House looks like a Six Flags that closed because it got hit by a hurricane

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SHIT.

CNN just cited a New York Times estimate saying Trump has reportedly profited $1.4 BILLION from the presidency.

And the wildest part?

One panelist said Trump made MORE MONEY in the last year than in the rest of his life combined.

Think about that.

[Meacham @MeachamDr]

It’s like a meth family moved in….

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

MAGA hates Black political power so much they just canceled the election results in Alabama to erase another Black district from the map.

Voter suppression.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Completely unchecked corruption.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Allow me to be the first to congratulate the MAGA morons, who spent years howling about the $1.7B that Obama returned to Iran.

Your 4D chess master is handing Iran $300B, to open the Strait of Hormuz, that Obama kept open for free.

Brilliant!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning coup against Ken Paxton, the Houston Chronicle, one of the largest papers in Texas, just endorsed James Talarico. Let's go!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Samuel Alito’s son has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. The administration hid it.

No public resume, no LinkedIn, no mention on the Treasury website, outdated bar listings. Four former officials confirmed it.

The public was never told.

Here is why that matters.

Philip Alito served as an attorney-adviser in Treasury’s general counsel office, briefed on department matters across the board, while the Supreme Court took up a case in which the Treasury Department was a named defendant.

The department never disclosed the connection in court.

Justice Alito did not recuse.

The federal recusal law is plain. A justice must step aside in any case where his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

That is the test.

Not whether anyone can prove influence but whether a reasonable person looking at this would doubt it. A justice ruling on cases involving the very agency that employs his son fails that test on its face.

And Treasury sits at the center of many upcoming issues, including the fight over Trump’s $1.776 billion dollar fund to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. That fight could be headed to the Court too.

This is exactly why the honor system has failed.

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no enforceable code of conduct. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding code with real recusal review.

Congress holds the power of the purse.

We should use it.

https://t.co/t2aZrXpaoU

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Surprise!

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

Elect a clown, expect a circus. And boy, did we get one.

[𝓑ᥫ᭡ @quesadaaa_]

Zohran has fixed 100,000 potholes in NYC, secured $1.2 billion for childcare, closed a $12 billion budget gap, and plans to invest $122M in NYC public schools. Oddly, no Sharia law yet.

[Rahim S. Rajan @bleuguy]

@danpfeiffer Not dumb or naive. Corrupt and selfish. They never had fidelity to the constitution and its demand to put nation above party.

[Rahim S. Rajan @bleuguy]

Why are we tolerating such brazen corruption and incompetence? Why are we accepting such an abysmal state of affairs? Are we a truly failed state?

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Trump: “I have a contractor that built my pools, did an Olympic pool at my clubs. He can do the reflecting pool for $1.3M in less than 2 weeks.”

*A no bid contract and 6 weeks later, the budget is now $13.4M

Trump: “I don’t know the contractor. Never used them before.”

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

Called this in October

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

What about $1.776 billion?

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

A truly despicable, corrupt, un-American, rapist, wanna-be-authoritarian “man” is running the country and everyone enabling him should be ashamed.