#trinity group

[czerwonaczaszka]

Clock that stink Trinity!!! 🥱🥱👊👊🥰🥰

Bonus Spirit doing the k.o. for wifey 🥰🥰

Son would do the honors too but he’s a supporter of women’s businesses, he lets them do their thing 🤞

[trinitygroup]

💰 Dubai is making headlines as one of the world’s fastest-growing wealth management hubs!

📈 With $1.5 trillion in projected AUM by 2028 and global firms setting up in DIFC, it’s no surprise investors are moving fast.

#DubaiBusiness #FinancialBoom #WealthManagers #InvestInDubai #TrinityGroup

[arcanejude]

father!

THE PITT (2025-)

[thestarlotus]

dennis neglected hamster whitaker…

[kopiandproperty]

Trinity Group Launches Malaysia's First Gold Assurance Programme Sets New Standards in Malaysia's Property Market

Trinity Group Launches Malaysia’s First Gold Assurance Programme Sets New Standards in Malaysia’s Property Market Trinity Group proudly announces the launch of  its Gold Assurance Programme, becoming Malaysia’s first property developer to offer  unmatched assurance in the local real estate market.  Unmatched Assurance: A New Gold Standard  The Gold Assurance Programme introduces several key…

[kazifatagar]

Trinity Group Unveils Gold Assurance Programme

Kuala Lumpur, August 22, 2024 – Trinity Group has introduced Malaysia’s pioneering Gold Assurance Programme, redefining property assurances in the local real estate market. This groundbreaking initiative offers several key features that surpass industry norms, ensuring exceptional benefits for homebuyers and investors. Trinity Group: Enhanced Property Protections 36-Month Defects Liability…

[cupcakegalaxia]

The Trinity is a biblical concept in the Bible and saying it doesn't exist because you can't find the word for it in the Scriptures is the most surface level argument ever. This doubly goes for those who try to explain away Scripture which testifies of the Trinity being a biblical and a part of basic orthodox Christianity.

[anextrapart]

mohan: abbot and I are having a child santos: oh that's great congratul- mohan, slamming down adoption papers: it's you, sign here

[djkerr]

Love you, Patrick!

📷 @isacamillebriones IG stories

[akkivee]

FOOLS GOLD TL IS LIVE!!!! ENJOY THE BAT FLAVOURED ANGST!!!!!!

[czerwonaczaszka]

Khkfhdhshaha I forget about such gold mines of oc things in my gallery, this is still cracking me up

[angrybatart]

BIG NEW BLOOD FANART DUMP.

(Of stuff that isn't my best, but an attempt was made.)

There's, like, one more. But I hit the image limit. Again. 30 images my foot.

[arcanejude]

#family

THE PITT "7:00 P.M."

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[mostlysignssomeportents]

Greedflation, but for prisoners

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TOMORROW (Apr 21) in TORINO, then Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

Today in "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" news: The Appeal has published the first-ever survey of national prison commissary prices, revealing just how badly the prison profiteer system gouges American's all-time, world-record-beating prison population:

https://theappeal.org/locked-in-priced-out-how-much-prison-commissary-prices/

Like every aspect of the prison contracting system, prison commissaries – the stores where prisoners are able to buy food, sundries, toiletries and other items – are dominated by private equity funds that have bought out all the smaller players. Private equity deals always involve gigantic amounts of debt (typically, the first thing PE companies do after acquiring a company is to borrow heavily against it and then pay themselves a hefty dividend).

The need to service this debt drives PE companies to cut quality, squeeze suppliers, and raise prices. That's why PE loves to buy up the kinds of businesses you must spend your money at: dialysis clinics, long-term care facilities, funeral homes, and prison services.

Prisoners, after all, are a literal captive market. Unlike capitalist ventures, which involve the risk that a customer will take their business elsewhere, prison commissary providers have the most airtight of monopolies over prisoners' shopping.

Not that prisoners have a lot of money to spend. The 13th Amendment specifically allows for the enslavement of convicted criminals, and so even though many prisoners are subject to forced labor, they aren't necessarily paid for it:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch

Six states ban paying prisoners anything. North Carolina caps prisoners' pay at one dollar per day. Nationally, prisoners earn $0.52/hour, while producing $11b/year in goods and services:

https://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2024/0324bowman.html

So there's a double cruelty to prison commissary price-gouging. Prisoners earn far less than any other kind of worker, and they pay vastly inflated prices for the necessities of life. There's also a triple cruelty: prisoners' families – deprived of an incarcerated breadwinner's earnings – are called upon to make up the difference for jacked up commissary prices out of their own strained finances.

So what does prison profiteering look like, in dollars and sense? Here's the first-of-its-kind database tracking the costs of food, hygiene items and religious items in 46 states:

https://theappeal.org/commissary-database/

Prisoners rely heavily on commissaries for food. Prisons serve spoiled, inedible food, and often there isn't enough to go around – prisoners who rely on the food provided by their institutions literally starve. This is worst in prisons where private equity funds have taken over the cafeteria, which is inevitable accompanied by swingeing cuts to food quality and portions:

https://theappeal.org/prison-food-virginia-fluvanna-correctional-center/

So you have one private equity fund starving prisoners, and another that's gouging them on food. Or sometimes it's the same company. Keefe Group, owned by HIG Capital, provides commissaries to prisons whose cafeterias are managed by other HIG Capital portfolio companies like Trinity Services Group. HIG also owns the prison health-care company Wellpath – so if they give you food poisoning, they get paid twice.

Wellpath delivers "grossly inadequate healthcare":

https://theappeal.org/massachusetts-prisons-wellpath-dentures-teeth/

And Trinity serves "meager portions of inedible food":

https://theappeal.org/clayton-county-jail-sheriff-election/

When prison commissaries gouge on food, no part of the inventory is spared, even the cheapest items. In Florida, a packet of ramen costs $1.06, 300% more inside the prison than it does at the Target down the street:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24444312-fl_doc_combined_commissary_lists#document/p6/a2444049

America's prisoners aren't just hungry, they're also hot. The climate emergency is sending temperatures in America's largely un-air-conditioned prisons soaring to dangerous levels. Commissaries capitalize on this, too: an 8" fan costs $40 in Delaware's Sussex Correctional Institution. In Georgia, that fan goes for $32 (but prisoners are not paid for their labor in Georgia pens). And in scorching Texas, the commissary raised the price of water by 50% last summer:

https://www.tpr.org/criminal-justice/2023-07-20/texas-charges-prisoners-50-more-for-water-for-as-heat-wave-continues

Toiletries are also sold at prices that would make an airport gift-shop blush. Need denture adhesive? That's $12.28 in an Idaho pen, triple the retail price. 15% of America's prisoners are over 55. The Keefe Group – sister company to the "grossly inadequate" healthcare company Wellpath – operates that commissary. In Oregon, the commissary charges a 200% markup on hearing-aid batteries. Vermont charges a 500% markup on reading glasses. Imagine spending decades in prison: toothless, blind, and deaf.

Then there's the religious items. Bibles and Christmas cards are surprisingly reasonable, but a Qaran will run you $26 in Vermont, where a Bible is a mere $4.55. Kufi caps – which cost $3 or less in the free world – go for $12 in Indiana prisons. A Virginia prisoner needs to work for 8 hours to earn enough to buy a commissary Ramadan card (you can buy a Christmas card after three hours' labor).

Prison price-gougers are finally facing a comeuppance. California's new BASIC Act caps prison commissary markups at 35% (California commissaries used to charge 63-200% markups):

https://theappeal.org/price-gouging-in-california-prisons-newsom-signature/

Last year, Nevada banned any markup on hygiene items:

https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/82nd2023/Bill/10425/Overview

And prison tech monopolist Securus has been driven to the brink of bankruptcy, thanks to the activism of Worth Rises and its coalition partners:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/08/money-talks/

When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time. Prisons show us how businesses would treat us if they could get away with it.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/20/captive-market/#locked-in

[addie7]

unfinished drawings

I would like to know your opinions or something...

I dtk

I'm out of ideas.

[winter510]

I HAD THIS THOUGHT AT LIKE 4 AM LAST NIGHT AND FELT LIKE I WAS GOING CRAZY

Y’ALL SEE IT, TOO, RIGHT?

(These are ordered most similar to least similar lol)

Leader character, heavily traumatized, very reckless in the beginning, goggles, freckles, blue eyes, teal shirt

Second leader character, last one to join established group & needs a little time to settle in, wears purple (i think Nuru’s dress is actually blue, but the rest of her outfit is purple & the fandom seems to associate her w/ purple)

Hair shaved on both sides, glasses, romantic interest in one of the main characters

Pretty much the only similarity with these two is they’re both the youngest

ALSO, BOTH STORIES ARE GROUPS OF KIDS THAT ARE ALL SMART IN DIFFERENT WAYS (Vat7k gang being specialists in their scientific fields, Welcome To Ravenbrooks gang all being in the inventor’s club)

I feel a new au idea coming,,,,,,,,