Newsletter: Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat.
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Great headline.
Senate Passes Megabill as Murkowski Stays Bought
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-01-big-beautiful-bill-trump-murkowski/
#LisaMurkowardski #LisaMurkowski #Alaska #VoteHerOut #USPol #BigFuglyBill #BBB #RepublicansOwnItAll
This is well beyond Trump.
This is a kitchen sink wet dream of U.S. oligarchs who have been scheming for its passage for decades. It's a transformation of American society, democracy, economy, etc., and not for the better.
Then they're planning on letting the #ChristoFascist #Dominionists play the role of Kapo in the new #TechnoFeudalism
So...fun times. What are you doing to prepare?
#Resilience is an act of #Resistance
@redstateinsurgents
#trump #USPol #Billionaires #Oligarchs #Antifa #Antifascist #AntifaAF #TVAC
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All politics are local, so here are some things that might primarily be of interest to locals in #SomervilleMA but also others.
First, there was a mayoral candidate forum on Monday night. The video is now online. I think it's pretty representative of each candidate's style and positions, personally. You can watch that here (and you can adjust the speed, if that's your thing, fyi).
https://vimeo.com/1103544916?share=copy
#SomerPoli #MApoli #USpol (1/?)
Introducing the July/August 2025 issue of our magazine, with reporting from Sandy West on predatory adoption agencies, Chilton Tippin on international #politics and natural resources, and much more.
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#journalism #Texas #nonprofit #culture #news #USpol #environment #water #children
We shouldn't call it #AlligatorAlcatraz because that was a prison meant for people who committed horrific crimes.
Those migrants have not.
It's a concentration camp.
It's Alligator Auschwitz.
Also #auschwitz started with 2000 people capacity.
The Alligator version is twice as big.
Just published from my archives, an interview with KD Drackert, a local Long #Covid activist, #LGBTQIA+ performance artist and all-around fab person. They are a founder of our mask bloc/air filter lending library, Clear the Air ATX.
Read it: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lefts-forgotten-132515558
(Free! No Patreon login/membership necessary)
(📷Kit O'Connell, January 2024 at the @TexasObserver office)
#LongCovid #health #HumanRights #activism #Texas #Austin #politics #USpol #RFKJr #Trump #CovidIsNotOver #MutualAid
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The primary difference between the fascist government running America and the Nazis, is that the nazis tried to find the cheapest way to kill millions of people.
Our assholes are trying to figure out the ways to make the most money while doing the same.
This bill is a money-making eugenics plan, not a spending bill. #ThisIsFascism
Scientists and engineers ask questions that lead to discoveries we can’t yet imagine, sometimes even trillion-dollar breakthroughs. And yet today, we're systematically undercutting their work.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sheril/p/the-end-of-american-dominance?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #uspol #science
New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional #Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant #children fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
#immigration #politics #USpol #HumanRights #news #border #refugees
Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.
h/t @cryptadamist
![Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX
You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫
[AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette]
2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025](/proxy/post_attachment/778077/110868f579.png "Tweet screenshot: SunDog @SUNDOG_TRX
You never truly know who’s pulling the strings… 🤫
[AI-generated image of a corgi dog with a collar depicting the Tron logo, paws raised above the White House, with strings attached to the paws like a marionette]
2:30 AM Jul 24, 2025")
Nothing is more valuable than a clear-headed understanding of which particular lies are most likely to succeed in the present environment, and which are just evanescent byproducts of the generally mendacious atmosphere. Dodge the decoys, save the right kind of energy to counter the real blows. Turning up the heat in lamenting the current crisis risks mistaking a mere mirage for a more substantial threat.
I found this to be an excellent and orienting read for anyone concerned about the US right now.
While folks are understandably worried about this administration, which has already inflicted significant harms, it's important to stay level headed and aligned with the actual facts and truths. That's our primary defense against what's happening which, as Arendt argued in the 1970s, hinges on a process of defactualization. Shouting "fascism!" and drawing analogies with the Nazis, as this essay argues, is going too far, turning up the heat about a mirage. Much as we wish they'd do better--and they could do better--in point of fact we do still have a functioning judicial system and media ecosystem, and there are significant numbers of people, including politicians and judges, fully willing to challenge every lie the administration emits. As dangerous as these times are we are nowhere near as far along the authoritarian trajectory as shouting "fascism!" makes it sound, and we should really stop doing that. Doing so grants bluffs and bluster more power than it actually has, which is ultimately a form of surrender. We should recognize our own strength and save it for real threats.
This is one of many reasons why I relentlessly call BS on generative AI and the claims about it coming out of the technology sector. There is a defactualization process at work there that plays into the broader political one; some of the individuals enacting this defactualization in tech are personally involved in doing the same in the federal government. If you've been watching you probably know some of their names and the companies they came from. Generative AI is itself a defactualization machine; that's one of its primary appeals to this crew.
Dodge the decoys and save your energy for the real blows.
#USPol #HannahArendt #authoritarianism #despair #tech #dev #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM
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"Trump🚨isn't hiding his fascist dreams. In just the past 24 hrs:
*Threatened to deport US citizens “born in our country” *defines as “bad ppl."
*Vowed to investigate NYC’s Dem mayoral nominee Mamdani *if he’s in the US “illegally.”
*He'd look into whether Musk was legally in the US.
*Joyfully visited the new fascist spectacle: #AlligatorAlcatraz” +vowed to build even more such camps."
*He/Noem threatened to criminally prosecute CNN rptrs.
#Fascism #Citizenship #USPol https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-big-bill-gives-him-to-create
Is someone keeping a database of disappeared people?
We’re going to need one.
#BigFuglyBill #BBB #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
AOC: “I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.”
https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3lt3fvohzjc2q
#USPol #ConcentrationCamps #EthnicCleansing
Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill. These are not companies that supported the bill by donating to the politicians that voted for it (although most did that too). These are companies that endorsed the bill publicly and were featured on a White House webpage. People should know the companies that made this choice.
#BigFuglyBill #BBB #BigBillionaireBill #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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Since Republicans insist banning #trans people from bathrooms and locker rooms is necessary to protect #women, on Tuesday, a group of mostly cisgender women rallied at the Texas Capitol to oppose the latest iteration of the "bathroom bill."
https://www.patreon.com/posts/tu-lucha-es-mi-134939910
"I was fine with the rape and the fraud and the endless lies and the misogyny and the racism and the homophobia and the transphobia and the corruption and the police brutality and the caged babies and the terrorism and the attempted coup and the autocracy and the secret race police and the threats to invade neighbouring countries and the genocide, but now you’re telling me that this guy CHEATS AT GOLF?!” #USpol
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/golf/2025/07/28/donald-trump-us-president-on-video-cheating-at-golf/
I used to think (in my naivety) that a judge on the Supreme Court was the smartest in the Judiciary — cream of the crop, top of the line…
But damn I can see that’s not true because this is some A-class manipulation and gaslighting by Trump Administration lawyers—
And it makes sense that the people directing #Trump during his first term would put judges in #SCOTUS who would roll over for him.
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Our top story: Protesting, wearing black clothing, owning zines, guns, or first aid kits. Using the encrypted messaging app Signal. The federal government is using all these activities to build a so-called "antifa" conspiracy case. https://www.texasobserver.org/antifa-scare-prairieland-19-trial-ice-detention/
#FreeSpeech #activism #politics #USpol #news #Texas #NorthTexas
For decades, Republicans have pretended to be the "party of the private sector" by falsely claiming that the economy only adds government jobs under Democratic presidents.
Today's jobs report from ADP disproves that GOP talking point and shows once again that Democrats are the true party of private-sector job creation, which has slowed dramatically under Trump:
#Jobs #Economy #Unemployment #Trump #Recession #Tariffs #USPol
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Team IMMDEF has spent all AM desperately searching for Juli, a mom of 3 US citizens who’s lived in LA for 21 yrs. 3 nights ago Juli was on her way to work when💔she was FORCIBLY TAKEN AT GUNPOINT by men who in a short call to family she described as bounty hunters.
Juli called family from blocked# last night & said she was initially taken with others from LA by bounty hunters to #CBP near San Ysidro where officers🚨demanded they sign papers to be😭deported…”
#Deportations #Immigrants #USPol
There is really no comparison in American history to the blatant corruption.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion/trump-crypto-genius-act-memcoin.html
Exclusive: The #Trump admin has terminated more than half of all federal #funding for #GunViolence prevention
programs in the #US, cutting $158 million in grants that had been directed to groups in cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, & Baltimore.
Of the 145 community violence intervention (#CVI) grants totaling >$300 million awarded through the #DOJ, 69 grants were abruptly terminated in April….
#law #guns #GunControl #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-slashed-federal-funding-gun-violence-prevention-2025-07-29/