Worth noting … the feds are coming for archival sites.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to unmask the operator of Archive.is, also known as Archive.today, a website that saves snapshots of webpages and is commonly used to bypass news paywalls.
The FBI sent a subpoena to domain registrar Tucows, seeking “subscriber information on [the] customer behind archive.today” in connection with “a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI.” The subpoena tells Tucows that “your company is required to furnish this information.”
The subpoena is supposed to be secret, but the Archive.today X account posted the document on October 30, the same day the subpoena was issued. The X post contained a link to the PDF and the word “canary.”
“If you refuse to obey this subpoena, the United States Attorney General may invoke the aid of a United States District Court to compel compliance. Your failure to obey the resulting court order may be punished as contempt,” the document said. It gave a deadline of November 29.
Honestly, I don’t know if we’ll find out what the real bribe amounts are until some people’s memoirs are published after they die or are out of the rat race in the US. It’s too soon.
Million dollar dinners are a thing though that have hit the news multiple times this year. Who knows how much it costs to kiss the ring in reality, but you can bet your ass all these rich crooks getting pardons in the news right now have paid up… and the ones who have paid for those dinners seem to have the government on their side, so long as they do not say anything negative about the administration.