Some people are chaos-seekers – and those people like Elon Musk, support political violence and share false information online.
A new study finds people under 40, those with less education, and individuals who pay the least attention to politics score highest on this "need for chaos" dimension.
Two days before Trump announced dramatic plans for “reciprocal” tariffs on foreign imports, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sold stock in almost three dozen companies, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.
#News #Tariffs #Trump #SeanDuffy #Stocks #Trade #Economy #Business #USPolitics
Newsletter: Crypto traders are spending millions of dollars on TRUMP memecoins to buy access to the president at an upcoming private dinner, exacerbating existing ethics concerns. 73% of the attendees are likely not American, only adding further concerns over foreign influence.
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-memecoin-dinner-guests/
Democratic Lawmakers Blast Trump Administration’s VA Cuts After ProPublica Investigation
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The lawmakers also accused Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins of stonewalling their efforts to learn more about agency cuts and their effects. “There are real-life dangerous impacts for veterans,” Rep. Chris Deluzio said.
#News #Veterans #Healthcare #Health #Democrats #Congress #Government #USPolitics
Good show Salt Lake City, #Utah! Keep the #activism going. #protest, #resist!
#50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #UtahPolitics #USPolitics #OpposeFascism #fascism #government #press #handsOff #SLC
With 16 Democrats voting in favor, the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill has passed cloture in the Senate.
Alsobrooks (MD), Blunt Rochester (DE), Booker (NJ), Cortez Masto (NV), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Gillibrand (NY), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Lujan (NM), Ossoff (GA), Padilla (CA), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Slotkin (MI), Warner (VA).
BREAKING NEWS 🚨
$100 OIL IS COMING!
The Iranian parliament has approved the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and final approval by the Iranian leadership is being prepared.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
With so called center lefts like Keir Starmer in the UK doing an Enoch Powell on migrants, and Newsom outlawing homeless - the GOP can happily stay fascist and watch the opposition come to them
Where's the empathy, where's the fight?
#Trump just defunded a program to provide high-speed #internet to rural areas, which are predominantly red. Why? It was called the Digital Equity Act.
https://newrepublic.com/article/195097/angry-trump-kills-woke-program-and-accidentally-screws-maga-voters
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica.
#News #Trump #StockMarket #Stocks #Tariffs #Economy #USPolitics
SCOOP: Trump to launch branded crypto wallet and trading application, encouraging his supporters to purchase his memecoin and other crypto assets.
Absolute chaos. After my scoop about the upcoming launch of a Trump Wallet by Magic Eden, in cooperation with the $TRUMP memecoin team, Magic Eden pushed out their announcement. Both Eric and Don Jr then repudiated the project, stating they had no prior knowledge.
The Air Force revealed earlier this year that a general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had inappropriate relationships with five women.
Sources say one of the women whose relationship with him was scrutinized was Sen. Joni Ernst.
(Published March 2025)
https://www.propublica.org/article/joni-ernst-congress-military-relationships?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #JoniErnst #Military #Ethics #Government #USPolitics #Congress
Adam Levitin on the GENIUS Act: “[I]n regard to cash deposits, the stablecoin investors will have priority over the claims of ma-and-pa for their bank deposits (and thus over the FDIC's subrogation claim when it pays ma-and-pa). Yes, you read that correctly: Congress is about to put the claims of stablecoin investors ahead of ma and pa's bank deposits. That's just stunning. Now ma-and-pa's deposits are FDIC insured, so they'll be alright, but it means the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund is footing the bill. In other words, the GENIUS Act is subsidizing stablecoin issuance on the back of bank deposits. By subordinating the FDIC's subrogation claim in a bank insolvency to the claims of stablecoin investors, the GENIUS Act is effectively letting FDIC insurance leak out to cover uninsured stablecoins, without any insurance premiums paid.”
There were two approaches to dealing with the outbreak of measles that spread through the rural community of Gaines County, Texas earlier this year. Dr. Ben Edwards — himself sick with the virus — handed out cod liver oil and prescribed inhalers, neither of which can prevent or cure measles. Meanwhile the waiting room at the only hospital in Seminole, the county's largest town, was virtually empty. On one recent weekday, just four people had come by Gaines County's free vaccine clinic. NBC's Brandy Zadrozny reports on the spread of misinformation, a child's death that brought anti-vaccine activists to town, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s involvement, and the situation now that the outbreak has run its course.
#Science #Health #News #Texas #USPolitics #RFK #RobertFKennedy #Measles #Misinformation #AntiVax #Vaccines
I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.
Karine Jean-Pierre, who was Joe Biden's White House press secretary, has written a book, "Independent," and has left the Democratic Party, her publisher says. According to @CBSNews, the book, due to be published in October, covers the three weeks that led to Biden abandoning his bid for a second term, "and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision." Jean-Pierre, who is now an Independent, said in a statement, "I determined that the danger we face as a country requires freeing ourselves of boxes. We need to be willing to exercise the ability to think creatively and plan strategically. We need to be clear-eyed and questioning, rather than blindly loyal and obedient as we may have been in the past."
#KarineJeanPierre #USPolitics #BidenAdministration #JoeBiden #Democrats #DemocraticParty
GENIUS Act (stablecoin bill) has passed the Senate.
Elon Musk called empathy a “weakness” of Western civilization. But philosophers argue the opposite: empathy is a hard-won form of knowledge — and essential for understanding others and making informed decisions https://theconversation.com/empathy-can-take-a-toll-but-2-philosophers-explain-why-we-should-see-it-as-a-strength-254554 #philosophy #USPolitics
Wow! Seattle Reign soccer team has issued a statement warning fans not to attend matches and FIFA World Cup events as they could be targeted by ICE agents
With the unravelling of America I cannot see the US successfully hosting major international sporting events, including the Olympics - fans, athletes, maybe even entire countries will boycott over safety
Newsletter: As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis
The poster is already out.
Now Eye can hardly wait for the trailer.
Eye'm thinking this could be the first blockbuster of the summer!
Biggest Kaiju movie since Mothra vs Godzilla!
#USPolitics #TrumpVMusk #MuskVTrump #MuskVersusTrump #Alien #Predator #TuckersBalls
Dear G-d:
When I said that I wondered what watching a dictatorship form would be like, I didn't mean it *this* way!
"Do you remember the Human Genome Project? I’m not sure the Trump administration wants you to."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/nih-national-human-genome-project-institute-hgp-archives-trump-cuts/
(#paywalled)
"My job was to preserve and provide access to the records of the Human Genome Project [#HGP]...All of that work, like so much else at #NIH, is currently being dismantled...The digital archival records my colleagues and I maintained are currently inaccessible. I worry that they might be gone altogether, either now or sometime in the future."
#DefendResearch #Medicine #OpenData #Preservation #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
