Trump’s most recent financial disclosure reveals more than $1.4 billion in income from his crypto-related ventures alone, and even that’s an incomplete picture.
https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-crypto-disclosure/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
My work tracking cryptocurrency and AI industry political spending has only underscored the importance of getting big money out of politics. I recently talked to Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United, about what it would take to do that, and how we’re closer than you might think.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAhNJbsPcA
Transcript: https://www.citationneeded.news/end-citizens-uniteds-tiffany-muller-on-fighting-big-money-in-politics/
#cryptocurrency #crypto #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CitizensUnited #USpol #USpolitics
Man killed by ICE agents not intended target of immigration arrest, DHS says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/houston-man-killed-ice-agents #Houston #Texas #UsImmigration #UsNews #UsPolitics #IceUsImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #TrumpAdministration
So when are Republicans going to begin Weekend at Bernie-ing Mitch McConnell?
This is fucking masterful and exactly how DHS should be dealt with.
Good on ya, lady.
Happy 250th to America's ultimate power couple! 🗽 💘 ⚖️
#IndependenceDay #LadyLiberty #LadyJustice #4thOfJuly #Art #FanArt #FanFic #FanFiction #Illustration #July4th #Politics #USPol #USPolitics
NEW: James Talarico accused Ken Paxton of committing voter fraud after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found that the Texas attorney general may have broken state law by voting using an address where he no longer appears to live.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-james-talarico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #TX #USPolitics #Election #Vote #Fraud #Law #KenPaxton #JamesTalarico
Memphis rallies for progressive Democrat after four fatal shootings by taskforce: ‘Fight of our lives’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/justin-pearson-memphis-rally-progressive-democrat-aoc #UsPolitics #UsNews #Tennessee #Democrats #AlexandriaOcasiocortez #UsCongress
"Masked federal agents are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, on the streets and behind the bars of hundreds of #detentionCenters across the country. In #HowToCloseACamp, award-winning journalist and translator #JohnWashington offers a galvanizing, clear-eyed case for why we must close these camps—and how to do it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC8lvGHp8TM
#USpol #USpolitics #immigrantDetention #ICE #CBP #ICEdetention #stateRepression #immigrantRights #racializedCommunities #activism #books @bookstodon
NEW: Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its advertising is focused on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors.
Campaign messaging never explicitly states the amendment would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved only two years ago.
https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-gender-transition-minors-amendment-3?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Missouri #GOP #Republican #LGBTQ #Abortion #Women #Health #USPolitics
LARB Radio Hour welcomes #KimPhillipsFein, author of #CountryOfLords: Neo-Aristocrats, #SocialDarwinists, #Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America
"Phillips-Fein examines a powerful countertradition that has challenged our well-mythologized national ideal of equality from the United States's founding to today."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/kim-phillips-fein-country-lords-podcast-interview/
#USpol #USpolitics #inequality #UShistory #socialTheorists #SiliconValleyRight #AmericanRight #racism #books @bookstodon
“These ideas could be coming to your community sooner than you think.”
I'd throw a party if they did.
NEW: ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of Justice Department lawyers.
We found judges nominated by both parties who are frustrated that they can no longer take the government at its word.
https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-presumption-of-regularity?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #DOJ #Law #Legal #Courts #Trump #Justice #Ethics #USPolitics
This is far worse than bulldozing the East Wing of the White House.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/14/bulldozers-big-bend-national-park-trump
How Trump’s Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
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To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So far, the effort has produced meager results.
https://www.propublica.org/article/noncitizen-voting-trump-homeland-security-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"Terrible things are happening outside… poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
"What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again."
~ Anne Frank
NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-paramount-gifts-brendan-carr-ethics-complaint-warner-bros-merger?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FCC #Government #Ethics #USPolitics #Paramount #CBS #Entertainment #Business
Many people.
Yes, sounds perfect. 💯
#Politics #USPOL #USPolitics #MAGA #Conservatives #Fascist #Fascism #Abortion #Abortions #AntiAbortion
Powerful video from Abdul El-Sayed, Democratic senate candidate from Michigan:
"We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights.
We all know that's some BS."
I'll put a link to the source and the full transcript in replies to this post.
1/n
#USPol #USPolitics #TransRights #CivilRights #HumanRights #USSenate #Michigan
US health officials exclude measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania from counts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/31/measles-deaths-pennsylvania-excluded #UsHealthcare #RobertFKennedyJr #Pennsylvania #VaccinesAndImmunisation #UsNews #Health #UsPolitics
Georgia just audited its voter rolls — and debunked Trump’s election lies…The list of states undermining Trump’s claims of widespread noncitizen voter fraud grew Tuesday, when a Georgia audit found the state’s voter rolls were 99.9% accurate and had no evidence of malicious manipulation. #Elections #Election2026 #USPol #USPolitics
https://www.ms.now/opinion/georgia-audit-voter-rolls-debunked-trumps-election-lies
> Defunding education was always part of the neoliberal plan. “Run the country like a business.” Defund a thing until it can’t function anymore, and then ask, “Why are we giving taxpayer money to this worthless program?”
"the student is now the teacher" – deerhoof https://deerhoof.website/the-student-is-now-the-teacher/ #Liberal #USPolitics
