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Trump's second term shows how much a few moderate people in his first administration reigned in his excessive greed and destruction. There are no guardrails up this time around.

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Trump Media & Technology Group enters deal with Crypto. com (which has 140 million customers) and Yorkville America Digital to market investment products to retail investors through exchange-traded funds. On March 27 the SEC ended an investigation into Crypto. com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

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How it started How it’s going Tim Pool in the White House Press Briefing Room edition

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Trump Tower Moscow, Rare Earths and Geopolitical Perks: How the Kremlin Plans to Bait Trump Into a Grand Bargain, by Pyotr Kozlov Rosatom, Rosneft, Polyus Gold, Rusal have presented projects to entice Trump - one idea is a Trump Tower in Moscow City www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/21/t...

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NEW: an SEC filing reveals that over 20% of Dominari Holdings common stock is owned by 5 Trump Org execs – including Don Jr. & Eric Trump - the two own 2.9M shares worth $13.4M Reporting on the recent Trump family and Trump Org partnership with Dominari, my latest: newstracs.com/don-jr-and-e...

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“But it is still essential to follow the money and to report on the business connections and network around Trump and his family – especially new business partnerships like Dominari Holdings.” 💯

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NEW: an SEC filing reveals that over 20% of Dominari Holdings common stock is owned by 5 Trump Org execs – including Don Jr. & Eric Trump - the two own 2.9M shares worth $13.4M Reporting on the recent Trump family and Trump Org partnership with Dominari, my latest: newstracs.com/don-jr-and-e...

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Went on @60minutes.bsky.social to talk to Bill Whitaker about H5N1. As Kamran Khan from Bluedot told Bill, we don’t know if or when this virus might acquire pandemic capabilities, but it can. And if it does, as I told Bill, that will be worse than COVID. Much worse. www.cbsnews.com/news/bird-fl...

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Scoop: Trump’s special envoy for Russia Steve Witkoff has a serious conflict of interest: business dealings with a man sanctioned by Ukraine as a threat to its national security. Len Blavatnik is a longtime business partner of Witkoff’s, and made his money in post-Soviet Russia.

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New: "Don Jr. And Eric Trump Landed $3 Million In Stock For Joining Firm’s Advisory Board That Had Little Public Presence Before Their Appointment" me, for @forbes.com

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice. He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama. It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.

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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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New - House Speaker Mike Johnson's record Q1 fundraising haul was powered by six-figure checks from billionaire fossil fuel and finance industry donors. Also reappearing with large GOP donations: Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir, and CEO Alex Karp.

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The IRS will be on its fifth Commissioner since January. It turns out that the new acting Commissioner, announced 2 days ago, was selected by Musk. Bessent, the Treasury Secretary who oversees IRS, was not told. He persuaded Trump to reverse the decision. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...

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With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

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NEW: A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the normal contracting safeguards,” one expert said. By @chrisbing.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

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as we keep getting reports like this, it's still unclear how many Americans are affected because DHS has not provided numbers on citizens detained by immigration authorities and isn't answering Congressional inquiries about them www.propublica.org/article/more...

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Our DOGE tracker is updated with a whole slew of new names, and now you can filter by agency to see which of the DOGErs have been where. Great work by @williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social, @kirstenberg.bsky.social and others! projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by @josephcox.bsky.social show the company did a recent sprint to build a tool that helps ICE find the physical locations of people who have been marked for deportation. www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

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A Disgraced Hunter Biden Informant Had Ties to Trump Social Media Bid - Alexander Smirnov, whose case is now under review by Trump’s Justice Dept, had stake in firm that lost out to Truth Social in rush to launch a Trump-branded platform, by @jsweetli.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Trump supporter Erik Prince reaches deal with Congo to help secure mineral wealth Prince agreed to help Democratic Republic of Congo secure and tax its mineral wealth - as Trump admin explores deal on minerals and security partnership HT @denbib.bsky.social www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/...

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My latest —

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Four Russian journalists have been convicted of extremism and jailed for working with an anti-corruption group founded by the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, highlighting the perils of independent journalism amid an intensified Kremlin crackdown on freedom of expression.

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Trump’s World Liberty Signs Crypto Deal With DWF Labs Crypto trading house DWF Labs bought $25 million worth of World Liberty’s WLFI tokens in a “strategic private transaction” Dubai-based DWF is run by Andrei Grachev, former CEO of Russian crypto exchange Huobi finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-w...

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Chapter, a Medicare startup with links to Vance, Thiel and Ramaswamy, just raised a round at $1.5B valuation

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The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

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Trump’s World Liberty Signs Crypto Deal With DWF Labs Crypto trading house DWF Labs bought $25 million worth of World Liberty’s WLFI tokens in a “strategic private transaction” Dubai-based DWF is run by Andrei Grachev, former CEO of Russian crypto exchange Huobi finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-w...

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thought i was writing a story about an app that pays crypto bounties for reporting undocumented immigrants. but i was actually writing a story about something worse: a crypto pump-and-dump disguised as an app that pays crypto bounties for reporting immigrants www.theverge.com/tech/650015/...

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Erik Prince is in the thick of US-El Salvador prison discussions His proposal includes a letter from the Justice Minister that says Prince, through 2USV, LLC, is a “trade agent” to “reach an agreement on the use of El Salvador’s prisons to house foreign criminals.” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Don Jr and Lara Trump have taken a stake in right-wing Christian radio network Salem Media Group - sending shares up 150-200% today Salem said it acquired 30% of Don Jr's mobile new aggregation app MxM News and he agreed to promote Salem, Lara hosts a show on Salem www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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New: Trump met with Bukele at the White House today. What didn’t make the readout? A $1.5M foreign lobbying blitz bankrolled by El Salvador’s government to win over Trump’s inner circle. I followed the money: www.influencebrief.com/p/the-15-mil...

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Erik Prince is in the thick of US-El Salvador prison discussions His proposal includes a letter from the Justice Minister that says Prince, through 2USV, LLC, is a “trade agent” to “reach an agreement on the use of El Salvador’s prisons to house foreign criminals.” www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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SCOOP: HHS has been gutted leaving critical health systems in danger of collapsing overnight. And no one's in charge: “Those in charge are AWOL. I’m doing nothing productive. This ship has no captain whatsoever, and I’m playing in the band while the Titanic sinks.” www.wired.com/story/depart...

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

This administration’s chaos is tearing families apart, including this 19-year-old from the Bronx who was sent to prison in El Salvador and taken away from his father. All those sent to this dangerous prison without due process must be released. Now.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

Hope everyone with HBO sees these 2 new films- real life thrillers on how Dark Money took over America, setting the stage for Trump: news.wjct.org/2025-04-14/w...

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The US has blocked a G7 statement to condemn Russia for its Palm Sunday missile attack on Ukraine's city of Sumy, which killed at least 35 people and injured over 100, including children. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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““Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because...of regulations.This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods, the water that you drink, how you get to work safely and whether you’re safe in your workplace.”

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AGAIN: the kidnapping of students who engaged in protected speech or protest is THE ISSUE that should united universities, including and especially Columbia. It's immoral and illegal, it threatens their mission and their bottom line, and it harms US national security. UNIVERSITIES SHOULD SUE NOW!

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments