Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.
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"Acclaimed author #OmarElAkkad writes a powerful reflection [on] #WesternHypocrisy over #Gaza in his book, #OneDayEveryoneWillHaveAlwaysBeenAgainstThis. We speak to El Akkad on the immense suffering that has occurred over the past two years of #Israel's genocidal war and examine how #WesternLiberals failed the people of Gaza."
https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/glb-omarelakkad
#Palestine #WarOnGaza #GazaGenocide #USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #liberalPosturing #NiOubliNiPardon #books @bookstodon
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"Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."
Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/karl-marx-in-america-marxism-in-us/
#Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon
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Most of the journalists who cover the Pentagon, include the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News, decided to surrender their press credentials rather than sign the U.S. Defense Department's pact restricting their coverage. Enter the new generation. The list of organizations and "independent journalists" now largely consists of MAGA-friendly outlets such as Just the News, Canadian far-right site The Post Millennial, Lindell TV (founded by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell), Turning Point USA’s media brand Frontlines, and influencer Tim Pool’s Timcast. @Independent has more.
It's a know your enemy sort of thing to say, no, #Trump is not a king. He's a stupid brand. And recent events just highlight that as he slapped his name on the #Gaza agreement.
I keep thinking of the Trump brand of wine.
Trump didn't make that wine. I doubt he knows how wine is even made at all. He's notorious for not drinking, so how would he even know if the wine is good or bad? He doesn't know anything about it, he just slapped his brand on it.
To counter Trump it's foolish to approach him as a king. In fact that might might make things worse because it brings more attention to his brand.
The #nokings stuff is foolish because it misses what's going on here. And it will serve to actually embolden and strengthen Trump.
Know your enemy. He's not a king, he's not that smart, he's just a brand hopping from issue to issue the same way he hops from crappy wine to crappy steaks.
Russell Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who wants to take a hatchet to the federal government.
Trump got pissed at Ontario/Canada anti-tariff ads playing in US markets, so ending trade talks
Note to Carney, appeasement NEVER works with this asshole. Counter tariff the fuck out of the UIS, make a deal with China for EVs and our soy/wheat
And make it clear there will be NO ICE in Canadian territory
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The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” for the rest of the country.
Trump reportedly tossed aside a Ukraine frontline map during a tense Oval Office meeting with Zelensky.
To him, maps show “property lines.”
To Ukrainians, they mark a homeland fought for in blood, writes a political geographer.
https://theconversation.com/when-it-comes-to-ukraine-peace-negotiations-its-all-over-the-map-265798
#USPolitics #Ukraine
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center is calling for an inspector general investigation into potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations in the office of border czar Tom Homan related to government contracting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/border-czar-tom-homan-mark-hall-conflicts-interest-ethics-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #TomHoman #Ethics #Government #Immigration #USPolitics
Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.
One of the people CZ hired to lobby for the pardon is Teresa Goody Guillén, a lawyer who has simultaneously represented the Trump World Liberty Financial project. She's also lobbied on behalf of Binance on crypto-related topics.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63
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Earlier this week a post went viral on Bluesky that claimed ICE had spent $61,218 on guided missile warheads and explosive components. @WIRED took a look at what might actually have happened (looks like the ICE team entered the wrong procurement code).
wake up babe new $20 bill just dropped
#meme #memes #eastwing #whitehouse #uspol #uspolitics #trump
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Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #USPolitics #Government #DHS #Immigration #ICE #Trump #Texas
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In August, the #Trump admin sent #UCLA a 27-page list of demands and settlement proposal, which UCLA wanted to keep confidential during the negotiations. The UCLA Faculty Association sued to compel its disclosure, and the California Supreme Court just decided in favor of the faculty.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-24/uc-publicly-release-trump-ucla-1-2-billion-settlement-offer
Here's the list of demands.
https://ucop.edu/communications/_files/confidential-rule-408-communication-ucla-08-08-25.pdf
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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the #FBI is now officially visiting the homes of people spotted at protests like #NoKings, #ICE, etc.
it boggles the mind that there are people at #protests in the US who, upon finding #FBI agents at their door asking “do you have a few minutes to talk about the protests?” answer with anything other than “do you have a warrant?” followed by a polite request that they leave your property.
this isn’t complicated. you need to shut the fuck up. the #5thAmendment exists for a reason. shutting the fuck up cannot be used against you, for any reason, ever. not shutting the fuck up will never help you. it can only hurt you.
any false statement to the FBI can be charged as a crime. even if you just forgot. even if you mix up the order of events. even if you tell the truth but the agents find another person whose story contradicts yours. even if you tell the truth but the agents misrember what you said (!!!)
talking to the FBI is much more legally perilous than talking to the police (and you shouldn’t do that either) and talking to Kash Patel's FBI is far worse than talking to the old FBI.
i know it’s hard. you want to be helpful. you want to explain yourself. it’s a very natural human thing and that’s exactly what they’re going to use against you. so here’s a helpful script you can follow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqo5RYOp4nQ
literally every single lawyer in the united states will tell you exactly what i’m telling you now. tell a friend. tell all your friends. tell random people you see on the street.
and shut. the. fuck. up.
don't be like this guy, who helpfully stepped out of his house to chat with the FBI outside the range of audio recording for most of an hour: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-agents-visit-anti-ice-protester
#STFU #shutTheFuckUp #PSA #uspol #uspolitics #KashPatel #law #lawfedi
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Trump lied about many things.
🔻 He did not have the greatest economy of any president ever.
🔻 Biden is not freely letting millions of immigrants (including many from jails all over the world) into the country to give them Social Security and Medicare.
🔻 There was no COVID “mandate” (that was apparently disastrous)— masks, vaccines, or otherwise.
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This famous poster from the Holocaust Museum displays the early warning signs of #fascism. While still applicable, I want to make it clear that we are chest-deep in the #fascist #cesspool and have been for *years*.
Pinning this to my profile in case you know someone who still has doubts. Send them this post.
History is repeating itself once again.
#unitedstates #uspol #uspolitics #antifascism #warning #History #resistandinsist
The two candidates in today's primaries that received substantial backing from cryptocurrency PACs both won their primaries.
1. John Curtis defeated Trent Staggs in the Republican Utah Senate primary, with the help of $5 million in crypto industry funding.
2. George Latimer defeated Jamaal Bowman in the Democratic primary for NY H-16, with the help of $2 million in crypto industry funding.
Newsletter: Binance’s Changpeng Zhao earns a gold-plated pardon as other industry figures fund Trump’s $300 million ballroom
“I have a great and considerable fear that people will freeze to death in their homes this winter if we do not turn this around quickly.”
https://themainemonitor.org/people-freeze-without-heating-aid/
Where's Laffy?
As you have probably noticed @GottaLaff has pretty much stopped posting on Mastodon in favor of #Bluesky. You can still get her posts by following @gottalaff.bsky.social
If bridging to Bluesky is not your thing, there are a few other very good 'newsgatherers' here on Mastodon, including:
Each of these accounts has their own style, but all are fabulous ways on Mastodon to keep up with the #news.
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
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Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #NorthCarolina #Law #Justice #SupremeCourt #USPolitics #Christianity