🚨NEW: President Trump’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, quietly raised over $50 million through private token sales—
likely sending tens of millions to him and his family.
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I found a #youtube video that was 47 minutes long and titled "Why Everything Feels Like a Scam Now" and I thought -
Well it is, cuz that's what poorly regulated #capitalism does after a while, and I just saved myself 47 minutes.
I have an account on #truthsocial to check in on the madness. #Trump is being absolutely shredded by his followers re: Epstein. Although the stupid is painfully strong, and there is a lot of conspiracy garbage, it is very refreshing to see them bucking Trump for once. And doing it clearly, and in numbers. All the top comments on his most recent "truth" are angry supporters.
Wise words from Timothy Snyder: "Whatever they say, the people who start wars are often thinking chiefly about domestic politics."
Madman #politics: "He’d already been having a rough few weeks: adverse reactions to his mass deportations & step-by-step imposition of martial law, the slow crumbling of his foolhardy tariff regime, growing opposition to his "big beautiful bill." & now this. Anyone could see it was more than a man, esp. a narcissist, could take."
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/22/with-strikes-on-iran-has-chosen-a-path-of-insanity/
During the California farm raids, ICE attacked a person in wheelchair.
Proving once again that they’re no more than modern day Brownshirt bullies.
A canister of tear gas had been thrown at the disabled man and landed underneath his wheelchair, making it difficult for him to move.
Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy from California State University Channel Islands, tried to defend the man in the wheelchair.
He was reportedly piled on by multiracial IVE agents, tackled and arrested.
His crime? Trying to protect a disabled immigrant.
We just keep sinking to new lows.
I want to say thank you to professor Caravello for doing the right thing and standing up for someone who’s was unfairly put in harms way.
He’s a hero.
40% of public radio stations serve rural news deserts—areas already drowning in Fox propaganda.
Yet the GOP just cut $9 billion from already-approved funding. The House passed it (216-213), the Senate forced it through (51-48), and sent it to Trump—all in hours.
The kicker? This money was just allocated days ago in the reconciliation bill. They passed one bill to fund it, then another to gut it.
Republicans know *exactly* what they’re doing.
#uspol
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trumps-cuts-npr-pbs-foreign-aid-pass-congress-rcna219296
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I'm about as strategic a voter as they come ... in general elections. If it's down to two evils, I'm there, every single time, first in line to vote for the lesser one.
But I will scream until my dying day that primaries just aren't for that. Primaries are about preference. They're for picking the one you like best. That's why I love giant primaries with a dozen candidates and ranked choice voting. It's my favorite kind of democracy. It's both effective and sincerely fun for me.
So if you're in New York City, a city I love but don't vote in, please vote your preference, not what someone else tells you is smart or strategic. Vote your values and don't believe them when they say you have to compromise. Not yet. And please, please, don't rank Cuomo.
Mr. President, is the ceasefire in the room with us?
“The launches came after 4 a.m. local time in Tehran, the time Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would stop its attacks if Israel ended their airstrikes.”
First time I've heard of Zohran Mamdani, he sounds great. The left needs inspiring candidates like this.
#USpol #NewYork https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/23/zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-socialist-western-left-learn-much-playbook
I went out on my usual walk earlier tonight, but instead of taking photos or listening to an audiobook or podcast I just looked around and thought about things. More or less like this.
https://buttondown.com/talking-to-myself/archive/rewilding-in-the-uspol/
"It's interesting to me how clearly this isn't a choice for her. She doesn't waver."
As a bonus on my Patreon, I shared excerpts from my recent interview with an #Austin mother of a #trans teen girl:
(this one is totally free, no login needed)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-interview-133908707
#LGBTQIA+ #politics #USpol #news #healthcare #health #MentalHealth #transgender #SCOTUS #Republicans #fascism #news #Texas
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Really enjoy the entire world having to worry about the minute-to-minute emotional state of a 79-year old narcissistic rapist and fraudster. It really brings home how effective constitutional democracy actually is.
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We are under seige in #LA:
A suspected fed. agent is seen exiting a Dodge Charger @ an intersection & pointing his gun @ members of the public. Acc. to #Pasadena officials, the vehicle's license plate is a "cold plate," or untraceable, which is typically used by law enforcement in undercover criminal operations. "One question is this a law enforcement agent or someone pretending to be a law enforcement agent, & there is no good answer" (Mayor Gordo).
https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-masked-immigration-agents-sow-100000525.html
Report: Danish shipping giant Maersk will divest from companies linked to Israel’s illegal settlements after a sustained pressure campaign by activists.
"Compliance with international law and basic human rights is not optional. Doing business with Israel’s illegal settlements is no longer viable.”
#Palestinian Youth Movement
The group is now calling for Maersk to stop transporting F-35 fighter jet parts.
#Maersk #illegalSettlements #USPol #EuroPol #UKPol #Protests .
Federal agents thought they could stay at LA-area hotels. Communities are trying to make sure they can’t
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/federal-agents-stay-at-la-area-hotels/ #USpol #Resistance
This is personal: "Appointing the 4 Horseman of the Scientific Apocalypse — RFK Jr. as Sec of #HHS, Dr. Oz to run Medicare & Medicaid services, Dr. Makary as head of the #FDA & Dr. Bhattacharya to run# NIH — has signaled the end of any serious approach to biomedical #science & public health by the federal govt. Together & separately, they have taken a wrecking ball to our august scientific institutions that were previously considered to be the best in the world."
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/16/donald-trump-goes-nuclear-in-the-gops-war-on-science/
Yesterday, in the fearlessly political email from Penzeys — the only place I buy spices now:
It’s been 10 years since he launched his political career with “Mexicans are rapists & murderers." Republicans at the time claimed he wasn’t racist, it was just that he was trying to protect us from the worst of the worst.
Now that the Republicans in Congress & on the Supreme Court have ruled him beyond the bounds of any law, it’s not the worst of the worst he’s rounding up, it's just moms at chemo treatments, kids at little league practice, & pretty much anyone who is an essential worker. Seems it was just racism all along.
As is our way, to bring attention to 10 years of Republican racism that the President, Congress, & the Supreme Court are not even trying to hide anymore, free $17.95 Mexican Vanilla Extract with $10 purchase & showing this email or the printed-out coupon from below in our stores or by using the code GOOD at checkout online at penzeys.com.
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'Not going to tell you,' Bondi flips out & refuses to answer after being pressed by Sen Merkley.
On Trump's #crypto scheme, AG Bondi became angry & refused to answer Qs on whether foreign influence is affecting decisions being made by Trump.
"Many folks who attended this dinner were buying those claims bc they wanted to influence policy." He listed suspicious foreign characters at the dinner. “Don't you think the American people have a right to know?"
#Corruption #USPol
https://www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-2672435040/
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National #Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary (And Also HUD Office)
“There appears to be no plan for where the NSF staff will go.” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/national-science-foundation-to-be-requisitioned-as-mansion-for-hud-secretary-and-also-hud-office #uspol
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Report: ICC threatened over arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant
A lawyer linked to Netanyahu told Karim Khan that if arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant were not withdrawn, he & the ICC would be "destroyed".
Nicholas Kaufman, told Khan (chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court) that he had spoken to Netanyahu’s legal advisor about the matter.
Note: Kaufman also represents Duterte.
#KarimKahn #ICC #USPol #EuroPol #ArrestWarrants #GazaGenocide .
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte: “After significant studying, and in keeping with President Trump’s vision to make the United States the crypto capital of the world, today I ordered the Great Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prepare their businesses to count cryptocurrency as an asset for a mortgage”
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #US politics
Calling people "bad" and "trouble makers" who don't agree with the state is something said by Vladdick Putin, Kim Jong-un, Adolf Hitler
but also by Donald Trump.
That alone should say enough
Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.
Earlier this month, immigration authorities gave 55 year old Sae Joon Park an ultimatum: Leave voluntarily or face detention and deportation.
When 20-year-old Park finished basic training, he was deployed to Panama — unaware that he would soon be part of the 1989 U.S. invasion known as Operation Just Cause to topple Manuel Noriega's regime. Park was shot twice. #deportation #immigration #USPol #army #veteran
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g-s1-74036/trump-ice-self-deportation-army-veteran-hawaii
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Is what's happening at home now the same as what we've been doing to others out in the world?