Richard Dien Winfield

How SpaceX Is Structured to Favor Elon Musk nytimes.com/2026/05/26/tec… via @NYTimes Don’t be a sucker and buy shares in Space X. Its IPO gives Musk total control thru shares he doesn’t yet own, has no independent board of directors, and lets him determine his own compensation. Scam!

Your Questions About Nicholas Kristof’s Column on Palestinians and Sexual Assault nytimes.com/2026/05/21/opi… via @NYTOpinion Anyone doubting Kristof’s report on sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli detention should read this response.

nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/… via @NYTimes Gabbard is an unprincipled opportunist who has made a fortune peddling fascist propaganda abjectly promoting Syria’s Assad, Putin, & Trump. Her role in seizing election ballots in Georgia is another of her perversions of National Intelligence.

Stephen Colbert Went Out His Way: Through a Wormhole nytimes.com/2026/05/22/art… via @NYTimes Stephen Colbert’s final show will prove to be a comedic triumph if we now say farewell to CBS until the Ellisons’ fascist friendly stranglehold on our media is broken.Bye CBS, hello Colbert.

Blanche Defends $1.8 Billion Fund as Skepticism Mounts nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/… via @NYTimes Trump’s compensation fund is brazen looting of our tax payments by a fascist felon to enrich fascist criminals. Our attorney general is an accessory to this thievery.

The degree to which this @POTUS is shamelessly milking his position for every dollar he and his family can take is remarkable. Now he appears to be sidestepping the courts to set up a direct transfer of $$ from the treasury to him! nytimes.com/live/2026/05/1… via @NYTimes

To be clear: Trump didn’t “settle” with the IRS. He controls the IRS and DOJ He’s stealing $1.8 billion from taxpayers and laundering it to his political allies with no actual oversight. This is a heist.

President Trump's Iran war is pushing 45 million more people into hunger, particularly Africa, because of rising transport costs. It may turn out that the war will kill more children in Africa, through malnutrition, than in Iran. Thanks to @WFP for fighting to feed the hungry.

In case you've forgotten, here are some of the things learned from the Trump tax returns leaked by a government contractor in 2020: In 10 of the 15 years before Trump won the presidency, Trump paid no federal income tax. In 2016 and 2017, he paid $750. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Ebola has broken out in DR Congo and Uganda, reaching the capitals, and @WHO has declared this a global health emergency. I traveled along the Congo/Uganda border last year, and the public health structure--especially community health workers--was being dismantled because of President Trump's demolition of USAID. This Ebola outbreak will also be harder to address because it involves the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is no vaccine or approved therapy and for which even testing is complicated. And Trump has also withdrawn the US from @who, limiting the world's ability to work together to fight the virus. Uganda has a decent health system, but Congo's is a disaster and is complicated by war in Eastern Congo. Large numbers of Congolese are in camps in southwestern Uganda, and the US aid cuts mean that UN agencies are able to offer them less support so that the refugees increasingly are on their own and traveling more in search of food. If the Ebola spreads more broadly, then the cost in lives and money could be considerable -- so it's important to act early to contain it. I hope Trump will reconsider his moves, work with WHO, and dispatch assistance to the Uganda/Congo border area. nytimes.com/2026/05/17/wor…

This is flying under the radar, but Trump's cronies have started their own organization to plan 250th anniversary events. Not only is their "Freedom 250" receiving taxpayer funds, it's also soliciting big donations from corporations in exchange for face time with Trump. Everything is for sale.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has one of the few labs in the world which can study Ebola virus. In March 2025 RFK Jr had it shut down. We now have a huge Ebola outbreak on our hands. What a foolish move

@Glenn_Diesen Not NATO but Ukraine is attacking Russia in self-defense. If Ukraine were a member of NATO, Putin would never have invaded it.

After today's attack on Moscow, I am convinced that a Russian retaliation against NATO is coming: - Ukraine has the right to strike Russia, but this was also a NATO attack. Russia has now every right to strike NATO. Absolute madness.

Alligator Alcatraz is closing after one year and wasting $1B to house 1400 immigrants. That's an eye-popping $714,285 per occupant. Everything this administration does is filled with fraud and waste. wlrn.org/2026-05-14/des…

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi… via @NYTOpinion “Do I believe it happens?” asks Ehud Olmert (Israel’s former Prime Minister). “Definitely.” Read for yourself.

We haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of just how corrupt our entire political system is.

What kind of "successful" real estate developer demolishes a building without a permit, and without having the funds secured for the new building - and then tries to get the public to pay for it.

No administration has harmed the US so effectively in so many ways as the Trump administration. Why is it allowed to damage the US in so many ways?