President Donald Trump has given Elon Musk sweeping authority to overhaul the U.S. government bureaucracy and its operations around the globe.
ProPublica confirmed the identities and roles of more than 20 key people affiliated with Musk.
President Donald Trump has given Elon Musk sweeping authority to overhaul the U.S. government bureaucracy and its operations around the globe.
ProPublica confirmed the identities and roles of more than 20 key people affiliated with Musk.
We’re very proud to announce that we’ve worked with @tchambers & team to build a new membership-only group on the Fediverse!
@KamalaHarrisWin is a group dedicated to organising and discussing Harris’s 2024 campaign. With better moderation controls the people there can focus on what matters, like protecting democracy, rather than having to fight through trolls and bots.
We hope the members are enjoying it! 🥥🌴
Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $115 million to influence US elections this cycle, and they’re just getting started. We need to closely watch how cryptocurrency companies are influencing US politics. https://www.citationneeded.news/2024-cryptocurrency-election-spending/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #newsletter #CitationNeeded #superPACs #USpolitics #lobbying
Newsletter: The crypto industry jumps on the Trump train, and other recent events in the crypto world.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-60/
#newsletter #cryptocurrency #crypto #CitationNeeded #USPolitics
How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the crypto lobby, and some new regulatory actions. Catch up in my latest newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-61/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeeded #newsletter #USpolitics
An extra long newsletter today, because things have been about as wacky in crypto as everywhere else. Featured: Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) industry CEO has a meltdown, and an exchange suffers a nine-figure hack.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-62/
SCOOP: Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million donation to the Fairshake cryptocurrency super PAC, made while they were in active negotiations for a federal government contract.
https://www.citationneeded.news/coinbase-campaign-finance-violation/
#CitationNeeded #Fairshake #Coinbase #USpolitics #USpol #crypto #cryptocurrency
The cryptocurrency industry has been working overtime to sell a story: that there is a large contingent of voters voting based on candidates’ crypto policy stances. The problem is, it’s a story that does not seem to be well supported by data.
https://www.citationneeded.news/when-did-cryptocurrency-become-a-voter-issue/
Last week, Public Citizen’s Rick Claypool and I filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission based on my research into apparent campaign finance violations by the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange.
Read the full complaint and my updated article.
Complaint: https://www.citizen.org/article/coinbase-fec-complaint/
Updated article: https://www.citationneeded.news/coinbase-campaign-finance-violation/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #Coinbase #Fairshake #USpol #USpolitics
Did you see that President Joe Biden joined the fediverse this week? Here are some interesting U.S. politics accounts to follow:
President Biden: @potus
Anti-Trump activist George Conway: @gtconway3
Independent journalist Judd Legum: @realjuddlegum
Political scientist Ian Bremmer: @ianbremmer
Politics writer Jason Sattler: @lolgop
And some Magazines from @Flipboard and our publisher partners:
2024 Elections from Axios: @2024-elections-AxiosNews
Politics from Semafor: @politics-Semafor
Joe Biden from Axios: @joe-biden-AxiosNews
Politics from The Christian Science Monitor: @politics-csmonitor
Abortion from the Flipboard Politics Desk: @abortion-ElectionCentral
Immigration from the Flipboard Politics Desk: @immigration-ElectionCentral
#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Of Tech Bros And Trumpers
The reason so many Silicon Valley billionaires suddenly decided to back #DonaldTrump is not the mystery the media is making it out to be.
tl;dr The billionaires backing #Trump are crypto bros and they want to continue profiting from committing various kinds of crimes.
This is a "follow the money" deep dive into how some of these bros profit by investing in companies like #Uniswap that create excellent tools for #NorthKorea to launder stolen money with a passing explanation of how #Coinbase facilitates the overall system.
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https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers
#a16z #MarcAndreessen #SequoiaCapital #BenHorowitz #crypto #COIN #Cryptocurrency #AndreessenHorowitz #ethereum #Sunswap #SwftSwap #LazarusGroup #moneylaundering #FinReg #FinCEN #sanctions #CryptoLobby #USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #politics #CraftVentures #GOP #TheNerdReich
re: #InfluencerGate
even if tim pool and benny johnson were just morons who had no idea they had become #russian assets (doubtful) the indictment is pretty clear that lauren chen is 100% a russian asset.
she's appeared on a who's who of right wing media: Fox News, BlazeTV, RT, OANN, #Newsmax, The Daily Wire, Rebel Media, #PragerU and The Rubin Report.
an interesting twist is that recently #LaurenChen had kind of gone batshit anti-trump. she also had a big "repeal the 19th amendment" phase. some folks are claiming that means she was a plant to damage the right. all i can think of is that KGB quote "our brand is chaos".
worth at least seeing Chen's anti-trump tweets: https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1831453510438998498
(screenshots from: https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1831433336293880183)
#Russia #Russian #propaganda #uspol #freespeech #Uspolitics #Election2024 #2024Election #Republicans #TenetMedia #BennyJohnson #Ukraine #TimPool #LaurenSouthern #DaveRubin #FoxNews #OANN #RT #Newsmax #RebelMedia #LaurenChen #TenetMedia
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Trump's Transition Team Is Tethered To Thievery (And Worse)
How is it that money managed by the chair of Trump's transition team keeps showing up in the hands of drug cartels, terrorists, and fraudsters?
This is a "follow the money" deep dive into how Howard Lutnick manages roughly $100 billion for #Tether. Together they've created an offshore legal fiction by which neither bears any responsibility if that money ends up in the hands of sanctioned countries like #Iran or #NorthKorea or international criminal organizations like #PigButchering frauds and weapons markets.
Which is exactly where it ends up pretty much constantly.
For bonus points $40 billion of those dollars came from Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX.
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https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #TenetMedia #Election2024 #2024Election #cantorfitzgerald #HowardLutnick #USDT #Terrorism #fraud #scams #Russia #Theft #cartels #DonaldTrump #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin
Leaked Files from Putin’s Troll Factory: How Russia Manipulated European Elections
https://vsquare.org/leaked-files-putin-troll-factory-russia-european-elections-factory-of-fakes/
#Russia #Putin #VladimirPutin #Europe #EU #Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #TenetMedia #Germany #AfD #Deutschland #Italy #France #ViktorOrbán #Orban #Ukraine #UkraineWar
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
#News #Militia #Jan6 #Insurrection #Trump #USPolitics #Journalism
Gretchen Whitmer’s Chance for Wide-Ranging Legacy Derailed by Botched Legislative Session
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Michigan Democrats controlled all three branches of government, but party infighting and moderate policy decisions resulted in what some have dubbed “one of the least productive legislative sessions in history.”
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
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Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Department.
#News #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics #HumanRights #Government
The Second Trump White House Could Drastically Reshape Infectious Disease Research. Here’s What’s at Stake.
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Donald Trump’s pick to lead the federal health agency has vowed to replace hundreds of staffers and shift research away from infectious diseases and vaccines. Such an overhaul could imperil the development of life-saving treatments, experts warn.
#News #Trump #Government #USPolitics #Health #Research #Vaccine
If a bill that would ban almost all abortions moves to the South Carolina Senate, not a single Republican debating or voting on the restrictions will be a woman.
#News #SouthCarolina #USPolitics #Government #Women #Abortion #Election
The DOJ has been investigating Texas AG Ken Paxton since 2020 on allegations that he misused his position to help a political donor. Under Trump, a Paxton ally, the yearslong investigation could come to an end.
This Icebreaker Has Design Problems and a History of Failure. It’s America’s Latest Military Vessel.
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The builder of the icebreaker Aiviq has given more than $7 million to political campaigns, parties and committees since 2012. Under pressure from Congress, the Coast Guard purchased the vessel late last year.
As we enter a new phase in American politics, we’re reaffirming our commitment to facts, journalism and open discourse. Our values have not changed.
Our managing editor @csullivan explains more.
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboards-commitment-to-facts-for-a-new-political-era/
#USPolitics #Trump #TrumpAdministration #Flipboard #USNews #Misinformation #Disinformation #Facts
The people who are now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two have links to the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025.
Noah Peters is the author of the OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell’s January 27 memo (archive) providing guidance on the “Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce” executive order, which is being described as the “Schedule F” order because it effectively reinstates that policy under a new name (“Schedule Policy/Career”). Peters also authored the January 20 memo (archive) from Ezell, which exploits loopholes to bypass limits on political appointments. Both of these memos are clear steps towards achieving a primary goal of Project 2025: to expand President Trump’s power, and to replace career civil servants with Trump loyalists.
As far back as 2023, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 was recommending Peters for a position in Trump’s second administration. Peters had previously been appointed by Trump in 2019 as the Solicitor at the Federal Labor Relations Authority, where he “aided and defended Trump appointees’ anti-union FLRA policies that went against decades of the agency’s own precedents” according to Court Accountability Action and State Democracy Defenders Action.4 Peters returned to private practice in 2022, but recently quietly updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect a new title of “Senior Advisor” to the Office of Personnel Management. This appointment does not appear to have been announced anywhere else.
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Haymarket Books has made 10 key antifascist ebooks #free to download.
“Wherever each of us live, work, and are in community: the time is now to build power and fight back, together.”
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-ten-free-ebooks-for-getting-free