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Good morning from the Eastern District of New York, where the government is set to make its rebuttal closing argument in the fraud trial of former Safemoon chief executive Braden John Karony. Jury deliberations are expected to begin this afternoon.

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Joe Kent, top aide to DNI Tulsi Gabbard, ordered rewriting to an intel analysis re Venezuela & TDA so the doc could not be "used against" Trump, adding to concerns about politicizing intel. More emails also emerging. @julianbarnes.bsky.social Maggie Haberman & me. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...

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BREAKING: The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after congressional Republicans recommended that he be charged with lying over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a person familiar with the matter said.

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Pretty clearly the Trump admin betting on Cuomo to win so they can blackmail him

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If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.

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Former Safemoon chief Braden John Karony lied to investors about his use of the firm’s liquidity pool tokens, prosecutors said at the close of his fraud trial, while the defense said the evidence was a mess and the claims were taken out of context. www.mlex.com/mlex/article...

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Good morning from the Eastern District of New York, where the prosecution and defense are expected to make their closing arguments in the fraud trial of former Safemoon chief executive Braden John Karony.

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the DOJ is literally arresting Democratic members of Congress and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

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A friend and mentor of former Safemoon chief executive Braden John Karony took the stand as the defense began to make it case in his fraud trial. www.mlex.com/mlex/article...

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their lawyer has also been disappeared now? uh holy shit

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Trump is considering nominating Emil Bove to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit With @glennthrush.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/u...

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Good morning from the Eastern District of New York, where the government is expected to rest and the defense will begin making its case in the fraud trial of former Safemoon chief executive Braden John Karony.

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He finally owns up to his final solution.

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lmao did they really name this horse journalism why would you curse a horse like that

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[sees that a ship's masts are like 20 feet above the clearance of the bridge] well there's your problem right there

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The best sports book I’ve ever read. Nothing else comes even close

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Jalen’s dad was on the squad last time we were this deep in the mix

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The New York Knicks beat the Boston Celtics in Game 6, 119-81, and advance to the Eastern Conference finals against Indiana.

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Time to remember www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvIn...

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You have never seen a social media post about the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals before tonight

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Reminder, the New York Knicks have not lost a playoff series since Tracy Morgan vomited on the court at Madison Square Garden

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HIT MY MUSIC youtu.be/PSCdq1s5ekI?...

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The New York Knicks advance to the Eastern Conference Finals! #NBAPlayoffs presented by Google

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The Merry Drinker, by Frans Hals, 1629

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#newyorkforever

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GO NEW YORK GO NEW YORK GO

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#lfgm

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My god. What an abomination. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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the Trump crypto bill a critical mass of Senate Dems are set to sign off on is getting even worse. foreign stablecoins from companies refusing to comply with US legal orders regarding terrorism or drug trafficking will be allowed to circulate domestically: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

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DOJ is conducting a criminal investigation into whether Live Nation and AEG illegally colluded in their concert refund policies at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Live Nation confirmed as it denied any wrongdoing. www.billboard.com/pro/live-nat...

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Democratic New York state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would bar law firms in the state from requiring employees to do free legal work performed as part of an agreement the firm made with the Trump administration.

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The Golden State Valkyries are the first WNBA team to sell 10,000 season tickets. Leading the charge is President Jess Smith, who turned Angel City FC into an overnight success

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The Trump administration has settled on One Weird Trick to avoid judicial review: Kill nationwide injunctions, refuse to respect lower court rulings, and keep cases away from the Supreme Court indefinitely. Oddly, it was Kagan and BARRETT who hammered this yesterday. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Federal appeals court judges in Washington wrestled Friday with the extent to which they could instruct the Trump administration to operate the government's consumer finance watchdog agency, which the White House this year has sought to decimate if not shut down entirely.

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New from Julian Barnes, Maggie Haberman and me: Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang The move followed a disclosure that intelligence agencies disagree with a key factual claim Trump made to invoke a wartime deportation law. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

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NEW from me — ICE is actively searching for job candidates with backgrounds in construction management and engineering via a third party recruitment agency. This comes on the heels of the @aclu.org uncovering ICE's plan to expand their detention facilities in 10 states. My report:

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Hackers linked to a notorious cybercriminal group have conducted cyberattacks on multiple US retail companies in the last 10 days, prompting the FBI to step up cyber-intelligence briefings for major companies in the sector, three sources say: cnn.it/44BDwNQ

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For "One First," I took a deeper dive into Friday afternoon's very significant #SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act ruling—including why it effectively freezes AEA removals for the foreseeable future and its (much) broader potential impact on all attempts to bring nationwide challenges to Trump policies:

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After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%. So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.

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NEWS: The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow against the Trump administration's attempt to send Venezuelans it says are gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador, saying the detainees must have a proper chance to raise legal objections: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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Breaking news: The US has been stripped of its top-notch triple-a credit rating by Moody’s on concerns about rising levels of government debt www.ft.com/content/e456...

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