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Here's my report from last week's big Bitcoin conference in Vegas, where crypto's future was about MAGA and corporate balance sheets. www.businessinsider.com/trump-billio...

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Big Balls is a full-time government employee now ANOTHER scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

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“They created Israel and because of their guilt, they allowed Israel to violate every law on the book.” Journalist Rula Jebreal joins @naomiaklein.bsky.social to discuss how Europe’s historical guilt over antisemitism has led Western countries to consistently avoid holding Israel accountable.

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Four Democratic members of the SJC - Blumenthal, Hirono, Padilla, and Booker - didn't even bother to show up. Booker! Trump is shoving Emil Bove down Booker's throat, and he can't show up? Is he too busy hawking his new book? What a complete failure to meet the moment.

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Folks run ICE, FBI, and cops off the streets of Minneapolis

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I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.

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In which I get to profile Christo (gift link). The Man Putin Couldn’t Kill www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

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Wake up America youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...

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@kevinmkruse.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social So this murder seems to have been the end result of a targeted anti gay campaign that included burning down their home and killing a pet while San Antonio police refused to intervene

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We saw this same “admit the crime after participating in the crime” move with the flagrantly illegal invasion of Iraq, its torture program & the banking collapse. Other versions include “I was lied to” & “it’s time to look forward, not backwards.” In the words of Ghandi “fck these motherfckers.”

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The One Big Beautiful Bill is the most critical piece of legislation in a generation, affecting everything in domestic policy. We're going to track it until it reaches its conclusion, whatever that may be. We're doing a pop-up newsletter called Trump's Beautiful Disaster. Here's the first edition:

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“Thousands of newly obtained documents show” that the founders of Clearview AI—which is backed by Peter Thiel—“always intended to target immigrants & the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump admin.” This is incredible reporting by @lukeobrien.bsky.social, 4/2025 1/

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Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

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It is well documented that Israel is targeting & shooting kids as young as 18 months in the head, and our most prestigious universities are still banning students from commencement for asking that schools … simply not materially support shooting kids in the head www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Trump administration lawyers are arguing that the Library of Congress doesn’t belong to Congress — the latest move to erase the traditional lines that separate the branches of government.

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Trump dismantles a 164-year-old history project. #TrumpWarOnKnowledge www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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ICE raided a popular restaurant in a San Diego neighborhood. About 3 dozen agents, some in full tactical gear, arrested restaurant workers while patrons were enjoying dinner. The ICE agents didn't expect a resounding rejection by neighbors & patrons. The community spontaneously protested.

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This will happen in every city, every town, every corner if ICE is continued to have full jurisdiction without any limits on their use of force

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I remember the first time my dad asked me to punch him in the face. Me and my 27 brothers (no sisters) and their 26 moms were there with me and dad. All 55 of us were just wrasslin. "Let me have it," dad said. He had been awake since 1991, because of the drugs and blackmail. Weeks later he died.

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This from @annamerlan.bsky.social lays bare the long-term damage that Musk/Trump/DOGE are doing right now "What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Dept official about the damage done by Trump and Musk abandoning America's humanitarian aid commitments.

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I'm really pleased with how our Golden Age of Scams series turned out, you can read all of the stories here. Learn about the growth industries in separating people from their money, which could be the beginnings of the next financial crisis. prospect.org/topics/golde...

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“The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. “If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us." https://theatln.tc/HxwwbaTF

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I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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At crypto conf - the VP and a Senator featured prominently with Ulbricht who was convicted of aiding money laundering for fentanyl traffickers 16 Democrats supporting Trump crypto bill are undermining their party's ability to call this out! @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @markwarner.bsky.social

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I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

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The craft beer market, like its consumers, is "maturing." The latest in my series of stories tracking the decline of products I liked in my 20s. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

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This seat is open because asshole Democrats in the Senate wouldn’t confirm Biden’s pick for the 3rd Circuit because Biden’s pick was Muslim and did pro bono work for Muslim clients.

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Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives. By Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o... M. Gessen is right. Humans try very hard, subconsciously, to normalize whatever situations we find ourselves in. We shouldn’t do this right now.

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The Trump admin is pushing its "Make America Healthy Again" agenda. And yet, it has ended a USDA program that tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, healthy, locally-produced food. Such critical reporting @maryhudetz.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trib...

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This👏is👏sick. The fact that the world and ESP the US is sitting back and passively watching is amoral. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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This article is🔥🔥🔥 also, terrifying and a waking nightmare: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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