...billionaire Paul Singer's recent purchase of CITGO...
Both @ryangrim & @RepThomasMassie point to right-wing pro-Israel billionaire Paul Singer’s recent purchase of CITGO as motivation for their takeover of Venezuelan oil, as he stands to make billions on a distressed asset a judge forced into his hands.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/business/2025/12/02/537526/judge-approves-sale-of-citgo-to-amber-energy/
Both @ryangrim & @RepThomasMassie point to right-wing pro-Israel billionaire Paul Singer’s recent purchase of CITGO as motivation for their takeover of Venezuelan oil, as he stands to make billions on a distressed asset a judge forced into his hands.
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2026-01-05T04:58:03.234Z
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
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https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
"Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.
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Singer was more than a fellow angler. He flew Alito to Alaska on a private jet. If the justice chartered the plane himself, the cost could have exceeded $100,000 one way.
In the years that followed, Singer’s hedge fund came before the court at least 10 times in cases where his role was often covered by the legal press and mainstream media. In 2014, the court agreed to resolve a key issue in a decade-long battle between Singer’s hedge fund and the nation of Argentina. Alito did not recuse himself from the case and voted with the 7-1 majority in Singer’s favor. The hedge fund was ultimately paid $2.4 billion.
Alito did not report the 2008 fishing trip on his annual financial disclosures. By failing to disclose the private jet flight Singer provided, Alito appears to have violated a federal law that requires justices to disclose most gifts, according to ethics law experts.".... (more)
of funding right wing disinfo infiltration of Occupy Wall Street. Though I have to confirm that. Saw it on Business Insider I think.
Given the fate of Occupy Wall Street, that wouldn’t surprise me.
The infiltration of leftist movements by spooks and right wing plants has been on my mind a lot. But it is one of many different worries on my mind as I draft a final series of posts for the Activist HQ to temporarily mark a status assessment on reality as it stands, so I can go work on my own work. It is 2026 and I still feel like a damn (by now even more unpopular) human research subject 
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Is that the “delta smelt” in your icon littlemisssmartypants?
Fish have funny faces 
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(not social media hug ;-/..the only kind I can give except it is online rather than off 
..well okay…if I gave hugs except hesitantly ;-/ ). The internet can get confusing so smiley overload is a given ;-/.
But I am smiling.. you are sweet
. I am feeling a little Biblical these days (have to ;-/…it is for the common good) so when I see anyone who is sweet I am reminded of people other than the people I am in hot pursuit of.Stay encouraged. ❤️
