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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
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Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
https://www.propublica.org/article/andrew-tate-investigation-dhs-paul-ingrassia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #AndrewTate #WhiteHouse #DHS #Law #USPolitics #Trump #Epstein
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
NEW: “In Texas, we fight fraud head-on,” Ken Paxton said last year.
Yet records show his trust gave $600K to a convicted fraudster’s new company in 2020, which later wired the trust tens of thousands of dollars before and during his 2023 impeachment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-investment-scott-sherman-wildcatter?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Fraud #Business #Investment #TX #Government #USPolitics
Dear G-d:
When I said that I wondered what watching a dictatorship form would be like, I didn't mean it *this* way!
#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Of Tech Bros And Trumpers
The reason so many Silicon Valley billionaires suddenly decided to back #DonaldTrump is not the mystery the media is making it out to be.
tl;dr The billionaires backing #Trump are crypto bros and they want to continue profiting from committing various kinds of crimes.
This is a "follow the money" deep dive into how some of these bros profit by investing in companies like #Uniswap that create excellent tools for #NorthKorea to launder stolen money with a passing explanation of how #Coinbase facilitates the overall system.
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https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers
#a16z #MarcAndreessen #SequoiaCapital #BenHorowitz #crypto #COIN #Cryptocurrency #AndreessenHorowitz #ethereum #Sunswap #SwftSwap #LazarusGroup #moneylaundering #FinReg #FinCEN #sanctions #CryptoLobby #USpol #USpolitics #Republicans #politics #CraftVentures #GOP #TheNerdReich
Watching the screw-ups in the Comey prosecution right now I'm just thinking #TACO , #Trump Always Chickens Out, should be joined by #TOFU , Trump Only Fs Up.
Because seriously... OK his supporters claim that he's not chickening out, that was the plan all along, but there's really no way to get around the F ups.
And this is a historically giant screw up.
re: #InfluencerGate
even if tim pool and benny johnson were just morons who had no idea they had become #russian assets (doubtful) the indictment is pretty clear that lauren chen is 100% a russian asset.
she's appeared on a who's who of right wing media: Fox News, BlazeTV, RT, OANN, #Newsmax, The Daily Wire, Rebel Media, #PragerU and The Rubin Report.
an interesting twist is that recently #LaurenChen had kind of gone batshit anti-trump. she also had a big "repeal the 19th amendment" phase. some folks are claiming that means she was a plant to damage the right. all i can think of is that KGB quote "our brand is chaos".
worth at least seeing Chen's anti-trump tweets: https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1831453510438998498
(screenshots from: https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1831433336293880183)
#Russia #Russian #propaganda #uspol #freespeech #Uspolitics #Election2024 #2024Election #Republicans #TenetMedia #BennyJohnson #Ukraine #TimPool #LaurenSouthern #DaveRubin #FoxNews #OANN #RT #Newsmax #RebelMedia #LaurenChen #TenetMedia
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#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Trump's Transition Team Is Tethered To Thievery (And Worse)
How is it that money managed by the chair of Trump's transition team keeps showing up in the hands of drug cartels, terrorists, and fraudsters?
This is a "follow the money" deep dive into how Howard Lutnick manages roughly $100 billion for #Tether. Together they've created an offshore legal fiction by which neither bears any responsibility if that money ends up in the hands of sanctioned countries like #Iran or #NorthKorea or international criminal organizations like #PigButchering frauds and weapons markets.
Which is exactly where it ends up pretty much constantly.
For bonus points $40 billion of those dollars came from Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX.
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https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #TenetMedia #Election2024 #2024Election #cantorfitzgerald #HowardLutnick #USDT #Terrorism #fraud #scams #Russia #Theft #cartels #DonaldTrump #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin
In two months, will Ghislaine Maxwell be dead or pardoned and tight-lipped?
The House panel issued the subpoena requesting a meeting with Maxwell at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee on Aug. 11, committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced.
The subpoena comes just one day after the committee voted in favor of the subpoena despite calls from Trump to drop the story
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/07/23/republicans-subpoena-maxwell-without-trust/
Leaked Files from Putin’s Troll Factory: How Russia Manipulated European Elections
https://vsquare.org/leaked-files-putin-troll-factory-russia-european-elections-factory-of-fakes/
#Russia #Putin #VladimirPutin #Europe #EU #Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #TenetMedia #Germany #AfD #Deutschland #Italy #France #ViktorOrbán #Orban #Ukraine #UkraineWar
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
#News #Militia #Jan6 #Insurrection #Trump #USPolitics #Journalism
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
Texas lawmakers rejected over five dozen bills that could have protected residents from last summer’s deadly floods.
“We need to resist this narrative that this disaster was unpreventable,” an environmental studies director said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-lawmakers-flooding-protections?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #Flood #Environment #Climate #Law #Safety #TX #USPolitics
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
IMPACT: Senators Call on DOJ to Investigate Potential DOGE Conflicts of Interest After ProPublica Report
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden and Jack Reed cited our reporting on how one aide assigned to the CFPB helped oversee the mass layoffs of the agency’s staff while holding as much as $715K in stocks that bureau employees are prohibited from owning.
#News #DOJ #Congress #Senate #Ethics #Government #USPolitics
Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
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In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power to partisan legislatures.
https://www.propublica.org/article/red-state-ballot-initiatives-gop-republicans-florida-missouri?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #GOP #Republican #Law #Democracy #USPolitics #Abortion #Labor
* The most corrupt WH in history. A must watch video for all Americans.
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
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Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Department.
#News #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #USPolitics #HumanRights #Government
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated.
The USAID programs were cut anyway.
#News #USAID #PublicHealth #Trump #DOGE #Aid #Disease #Health #USPolitics
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
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Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold.
#News #Education #Trump #CivilRights #Students #Discrimination #USPolitics
Trump Cancels Lifesaving USAID Programs, Despite Pledge of 90-Day Review
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The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court.
#News #Trump #USAID #Rubio #Aid #Gaza #Syria #Congo #HIV #Ebola #USPolitics
What’s Mandelson up to? Is this really Kier Starmer’s message to Europe, or is Mandelson an outlier with this?
#UKPolitics #USPolitics #Ukraine #UnderhandBackstabbingSnake #EU #SlavaUkraini
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/03/peter-mandelson-ukraine-comments-not-government-policy-minister
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Peter Walker Senior political correspondent
Mon 3 Mar 2025 10.38 GMT
Peter Mandelson has been rebuffed for saying Volodymyr Zelenskyy should be more supportive of US peace efforts and that Ukraine should unilaterally call a ceasefire, with a UK defence minister saying this was “not government policy”.
The overnight comments by Lord Mandelson, the UK ambassador to Washington, were also criticised by opposition parties, with the Liberal Democrats saying Mandelson should not be “telling President Zelenskyy what to do”.
In an interview with ABC News, Mandelson, who was Keir Starmer’s choice to try to maintain ties with the second Donald Trump administration, said there was a need for a “very radical reset” after Trump and his vice-president, JD Vance, berated Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday.
“The reset has to consist of the United States and Ukraine getting back on the same page, President Zelenskyy giving his unequivocal backing to the initiative that President Trump is taking to end the war and to bring a just and lasting peace to Ukraine,” Mandelson said.
“And the Europeans too, they need to back the calls for a ceasefire, and – by the way – I think that Ukraine should be the first to commit to a ceasefire and defy the Russians to follow.”
Asked whether this was government policy, Luke Pollard, the armed forces minister, replied: “No.” He told Sky News: “It’s certainly right that Ukrainians want peace. I think of all the people on our continent that want peace, the Ukrainians want it the most.
“But we’re still in discussions, diplomatic engagement with our European, US and Ukrainian friends as to the shape of that deal. It’s certainly right that the war could stop tomorrow if President Putin stopped his illegal and unprovoked aggression. He could stop this war.”
Asked if Mandelson had been incorrect with his comments, Pollard said: “That’s not government policy.”
Earlier, senior figures in the Lib Dems and Conservatives criticised Mandelson’s intervention. Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, tweeted: “What is Mandelson up to? You cannot square what the prime minister said this morning with this. What is the government’s actual position? Our man in DC should be securing US protection for our brave Ukrainian allies, not telling President Zelenskyy what to do.”
James Cleverly, a former Conservative foreign secretary, said: “The UK ambassador to Washington isn’t meant to communicate his own opinion, he is meant to communicate the UK government opinion. Lammy and Starmer need to grip this.”
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