They canceled the Minneapolis LEGO Robotics tournament over general safety concerns.

joblakely@mastodon.social

@epicdemiologist @inthehands
They definitely don’t want us to have nice things. They are absolute sadists. An entire regime of them. I’m so sad and disappointed for the kids. It’s a big thing. Hope & Joy are big things. #fuckICE

arisummerland@beige.party

@inthehands I really feel for the kids, but it's probably for the best considering the current situation there. This is why we can't have nice things. Fascists ruin everything!

stiller_leser@mastodon.social

@inthehands Terribly sorry to hear that but als genuinely curious: I thought Lego killed it all?

npars01@mstdn.social

@inthehands

Reminder that these Nazis have same kind of financial backers as last time...

Looted national treasuries laundered to fund fascism.
Jean Ziegler "The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead"

Annie Jacobsen "Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America"

James Pool "Hitler and His Secret Partners"

James Pool "Who Financed Hitler: The Secret Funding of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1919-1933"

https://jacobin.com/2022/06/nazi-billionaires-capitalism-hitler-book-review

https://nationalpost.com/news/how-six-months-before-the-second-world-war-britain-gave-hitler-9-million-in-gold-that-belonged-to-another-country

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npars01@mstdn.social

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1. SpaceX $288,723,409
2. Miriam Adelson Clinic $146,881,700
3. Uline Inc $146,027,201
4. Citadel LLC $108,669,316
5. Susquehanna International Group $101,468,362
6. Andreessen Horowitz $89,036,553
7. Empower Parents PAC $82,500,000
8. Coinbase $79,008,020
9. Elliott Management $68,846,510
10. Securing American Greatness $67,558,284
11. Senate Leadership Fund $67,445,300
12. Club for Growth $59,846,594
13. Koch Inc $49,092,685
14. Blackstone Group $48,609,890

Henry Ford donated to Hitler

npars01@mstdn.social

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15. Stand Together Chamber of Commerce $44,801,948
16. Restoration PAC $41,168,363
17. Crownquest Operating $35,752,512
18. Bigelow Aerospace $34,991,590
19. Building America's Future $33,670,000
20. Stephens Inc $27,343,518
21. British American Tobacco $26,175,838
22. American Prosperity Alliance $22,549,000
23. Manzanita Management Group $22,159,143
24. America First Action/America First Policies $21,724,798
25. Mountaire Corp $21,375,080

Standard Oil funded fascism too

npars01@mstdn.social

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26. Reyes Holdings $21,192,607
27. Energy Transfer LP $19,321,695
28. Hendricks Holding Co $19,306,538

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/top-organizations

Thanks to Koch Network & Citizens United, anyone can buy an American election for a crook now.

1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284
6. Jeff Yass $101,128,680
7. Paul E. Singer $66,800,800
8. Marc Andreessen $42,365,113
9. Stephen Schwarzman $40,202,039

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10. Timothy Dunn $35,780,200
11. Rob Bigelow $34,991,500
12. Diane Hendricks $33,165,417
13. JJ Ricketts $32,273,650
14. Shirley W. Ryan $32,198,116
15. Warren A. Stephens $25,895,650
16. Laura Perlmutter $25,344,890
17. Vince & Linda McMahon $23,961,659
18. Ronnie & Nina Cameron $21,372,500
19. Jan Koum $20,855,091
20. Thomas Klingenstein $17,410,263
21. Rob Walton $17,572,601
22. Janet J. Duchossois $16,306,033
23. Howard W. Lutnick $16,503,667
24. Kelcy L. Warren $16,151,105

npars01@mstdn.social

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25. Walter W. Jr. Buckley $15,522,500
26. Thomas Peterffy $14,305,900
27. Anthony Pratt $14,000,000
28. Sherrilyn Fisher $13,299,894
29. David Millstone $13,413,486
30. Lynne Walton $13,037,750
31. Charles Schwab $12,801,600
32. Stephen Wynn $12,518,750
33. Anthony Lomangino $9,529,705
34. J. Christopher Reyes $9,536,425
35. Jay Winters Faison $9,084,324
36. James Davis $8,497,854
37. John W. Childs $8,694,286
38. Patricia Duggan $8,446,099
39. Richard G. Haworth $7,500,800

npars01@mstdn.social

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40. Marc J. Rowan $8,721,299
41. Jeffrey & Loeffler Specher $7,052,013
42. John L. III Nau $7,030,556
43. Shannon V. Addison $6,757,065
44. Robert H. Book $6,986,387
45. Susan Fox $6,687,414
46. Patricia Perkins-Leone $6,606,600
47. Jeffrey Hildebrand $6,508,389
48. Bernard Marcus $9,397,150
49. Steve Brodie $6,481,298
50. Daniel Newlin $6,063,928
51. Trevor D. Rees-Jones $5,765,124
52. Sarah Perot $5,643,416
53. Harold C. Simmons $5,596,530
54. Kelly Navarro $5,373,100

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55. Alice Walton $10,248,000
56. Rob Granieri $5,587,899

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors

If Russian oligarchs can be sanctioned for the invasion of Ukraine, these oligarchs can be sanctioned for fascism.

inthehands@hachyderm.io

@stiller_leser this is a local thing, no official support from Lego that I’m aware of

mossyrua@mastodon.ie

@Npars01

Do any of these folks donate to current scotus menbers??

sstrader@masto.ai

@inthehands Step 1: Make life unliveable where your enemies live, 2: watch quality of life degrade until the moment when you can forcibly intervene for control to "save those who are suffering", 3: forcibly intervene for control to "save those who are suffering".

npars01@mstdn.social

@mossyrua

Yup. Koch Network arranges 'speaking engagements', vacations, expensive dinners, real estate ventures, insider trading, jobs for spouses, tuition, book deals, etc for SCOTUS.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/09/alitos-financial-disclosure-shows-teaching-income-speaking-engagements-and-stock-ownership/

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/09/new-filings-reveal-more-luxury-trips-and-opaque-payments-to-clarence-thomas-wife-ginni/

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/05/inside-the-consulting-firm-run-by-ginni-thomas-wife-of-supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/25/neil-gorsuch-us-supreme-court-property-deal

https://thecurrentga.org/2023/04/13/billionaire-harlan-crow-bought-savannah-property-from-clarence-thomas-the-justice-didnt-disclose-the-deal/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/politics/supreme-court-financial-disclosures.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/neil-gorsuch-real-estate-transaction-scotus-reform

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/ginni-thomas-leonard-leo-payments

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2023/10/26/clarence-thomas-leonard-leo-supreme-court-ethics-nancy-gertner

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/us/john-roberts-jane-sullivan-roberts.html