Newsletter: The crypto industry spent the spring buying primaries, an octagon at the White House, and — they hope — a market-structure bill by the Fourth of July.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will face questioning from lawmakers Wednesday for the first time since the Trump administration launched the war against Iran.
@AssociatedPress has a live blog with the latest: https://flip.it/mCvL8J
Black lawmakers decry supreme court’s ruling in voting case: ‘We’re going backwards’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/black-lawmakers-supreme-court-voting-rights-ruling #UsVotingRights #UsSupremeCourt #Race #UsNews #UsPolitics #Alabama #UsCongress #HouseOfRepresentatives
New: President Trump's memecoin project is preparing to launch a membership club promising "elite and extraordinary experiences". This is the latest attempt to prop up a token down 97% from peak.
Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga #ICE #google
I Reached Out to the White House Counterterrorism Czar for Comment. He Lashed Out on X.
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Sebastian Gorka accused a ProPublica reporter of writing a “putrid piece of hackery” about him. Here’s how basic beat reporting led to a broader story about the state of the U.S. counterterrorism mission at a critical moment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sebastian-gorka-counterterrorism-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #WhiteHouse #Government #USPolitics #Security #Journalism
very cool illustration of ranked choice voting and how it worked in Maine’s gubernatorial Democratic primary
via Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comments/1ua4e7n/sankey_diagram_of_the_democratic_gubernatorial/)
Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats' redistricting plan, a blow for midterm hopes.
@politico reports: "The decision is a massive loss for the party ahead of the 2026 midterms."
#Virginia #Redistricting #Elections #USPolitics #Democrats #News
Newsletter: Crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who escaped fraud allegations after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto projects, is now accusing the Trumps’ project of fraud.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-105/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump
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Sebastian Gorka’s anti-terror plan makes no mention of long-established threats posed by far-right militants and instead villainizes the president’s political enemies. “This administration is not paying attention to the data,” one expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-counterterrorism-plan-ignores-far-rights-gorka?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Terrorism #Trump #USPolitics #Violence #Security #Extremism
One of the most effective, organic, long lasting boycotts in recent history
Not one group really organized this, no advertising (except stores doing buy Canadian, and they mostly flubbed that)
This is ongoing collective fury and disdain
Well done Canada
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #USpol #USpolitics
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cross-border-travel-down-dramatically-research-9.7198652
Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
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Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen whose prior detentions went viral and were detailed by ProPublica, was recently detained for a third time — and shackled. “I just want to live in peace,” he says.
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-leo-garcia-venegas-arrests-detentions-citizens-ice-dhs?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Normal Island News
Muslim socialist destroys New York by taxing the rich, eliminating the deficit and improving public services
Newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani—better known as Muslim al-Socialist to everyone who remembers what America used to be—has single-handedly ruined the greatest hellhole on Earth in just 100 days, exactly as every hedge-fund manager warned he would.
#NormalIslandNews #satire #Mamdani #USPolitics #mayorOfNewYorkCity #socialism
Look! Sealant Team 6 is guarding the Strait of Warm-Ooze. 🤣🤣
Working on the back cover of the new issue of Shut Yer Pie Hole!~ Folks can check out some Pie Hole content at https://shutyerpiehole.org
NEW: Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-election-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Vote #Election #Law #TX #USPolitics
Emily Waldorf faced a life-threatening miscarriage.
Even after she met the hospital’s CEO, called the governor and hired a lawyer, she couldn’t get care in the country’s “most pro-life state.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/arkansas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-care?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Arkansas #Women #Health #Law #Abortion #Medicine #USPolitics
‘We are not criminals’: protests erupt as hunger strike rocks New Jersey ICE jail https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/new-jersey-ice-immigration #NewJersey #IceUsImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement #UsImmigration #UsPolitics #UsNews
So apparently ICE has big feelings about people posting that their guy #JonathanRoss murdered #ReneeGood, lied about having “internal bleeding”, and fled the scene like a cowardly loser (also known as an ICE agent) so definitely don’t post about him or share his name or his photo or anything like that.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DaEM9sSjnVu/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
#coward #murderer #traitor #racist #nazi #idftraining #ice #fuckice #homan #tomhoman #noem #kristinoem #mullin #markwaynemullin #news #history #politics #uspol #uspolitics
US strike on alleged drug boat kills three in eastern Pacific https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/31/us-strike-boat-kills-three-eastern-pacific #UsMilitary #TrumpAdministration #UsForeignPolicy #UsPolitics #UsNews
"Prominent Republicans, including President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Mike #Johnson and conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson, have echoed ideas associated with the great replacement theory. And conservative media outlets, such as Fox News, have disseminated them to millions of viewers." The Conversation https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/more-fox-news-white-american-133205276.html
#TrumpRegime #USPolitics #ICE
I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.
https://influence.citationneeded.news/
Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now: https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter