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Meant to say - the Trump family's inflated crypto assets now surpass the value of their inflated property assets bsky.app/profile/wend...
Trump family amasses $6 billion fortune fter World Liberty crypto trading launch - at least on paper The Trump family's inflated crypto assets now surpass the value of their inflated portfolio assets The grift is astronomical www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Trump’s World Liberty Financial tokens begin trading Early investors can sell up to 20% of their holdings, crypto exchanges including Binance, OKX, ybit are offering the tokens on their platforms The Trump family has made approx $500M from the project so far www.investing.com/news/stock-m...
"The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" www.reuters.com/world/middle...
If only there were a Nobel Prize for crimes against humanity, Trump would be a shoe-in.
On Wed Trump held a White House meeting with Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Tony Blair and Jared Kushner to discuss ideas for how to relocate two million citizens and profit off the ruins of Gaza Gift link: wapo.st/4g2eATo
WaPo has a link to the 38 page pdf The GREAT Trust - From a Demolished Iranian Proxy to a Prosperous Abrahamic Ally Proposed projects include: - The MBS Ring and MBZ Central Highway - The Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone - Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands www.washingtonpost.com/documents/f8...
The WaPo story on the recent WH meeting to discuss Gaza references last month's Financial Times story on Tony Blair's staff project and a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) proposal for GREAT Trust (Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation) www.ft.com/content/0b1b...
Trump’s vow to own and redevelop Gaza into a new 'Riviera' provided a road map for a group of Israeli businessman. Michael Eisenberg and Liran Tancman who helped launch the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) are now consulting on the 'postwar problem'. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
On Wed Trump held a White House meeting with Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Tony Blair and Jared Kushner to discuss ideas for how to relocate two million citizens and profit off the ruins of Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Gryphon Digital Mining stockholders approved merger with American Bitcoin - majority owned by Hut 8 and formed w/American Data Centers Eric Trump - Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer Michael (Mike) Ho is Exec Chairman, Board Asher Genoot - Board Matt Prusak - CEO www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...
My latest: borderland-talk.ghost.io/what-a-human...
Last Friday Cyprus’ tax commissioner "filed a criminal indictment against former directors of a Cypriot company that ultimately benefited the sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich" via @cirency.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/wend...
Ex-Directors of Blue Ocean Management Ltd, a firm linked to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, have been indicted in a €25M tax evasion case Firm was dissolved last year after contesting 2012 order to pay 14M euro bill, a court order reinstated the firm ciren.cy/news/ex-dire...
In June Federal Prosecutors in NY at SDNY dropped an investigation into Polymarket The Commodity Futures Trading Commission also sent a separate letter to Polymarket saying it, too, had closed an investigation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/t...
In Nov FBI raided home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan Polymarket funders include Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin In 2022 Polymarket agreed to stop offering services to US users after Commodity Futures Trading Commission settlement and fine bsky.app/profile/wend...
Prediction markets platform Polymarket secures investment from 1789 Capital and Donald Trump Jr joined advisory board Per source investment amount is double digit millions Last year FBI raided home of CEO Shayne Coplan - this year several investigations were closed www.cnbc.com/2025/08/26/p...
One of the donors mentioned in this piece, David Chesnoff, is notably also the lawyer for Alexander Smirnov— the Israeli-American FBI informant indicted for lying about Bidens to FBI. I’ve written about Smirnov’s ties to Trump associates twice. The DOJ recently attempted to let Smirnov out/
Last week @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social reported "The Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain Sight" with scoop that Putin signed decree on Exxon Mobile Rosneft deal This week WSJ has an exclusive on secret talks between Exxon and Rosneft www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Trump Media & Technology Group, Yorkville Acquisition Corp and Crypto .com plan to form digital asset treasury company Trump Media Group CRO Strategy, Inc Expected funding: $1 bil of Cronos, $200M cash, $220M cash-in warrants, $5 bil equity line of credit www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
Europe is selling its soul to Trump. What ostensibly "pragmatic" leaders are getting terribly wrong. on.ft.com/4lQ9BpT
DOGE employees at the Social Security Administration put the records of more than 300 million Americans at risk by creating a copy of the data in a vulnerable cloud computing server, the agency’s chief data officer said in a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday.
In its alleged fight against antisemitism, the Trump administration has relied on two groups with murky funders—one of which is in Israel. Here's my deep dive @thebaffler.com into Canary Mission and Betar, two extreme Zionist groups at the heart of Trump's crackdown. thebaffler.com/latest/for-b...
The Texas Senate approved a bill on Aug. 23 to redraw the state's congressional maps at the behest of Trump in an effort to flip five US House seats held by Democrats to Republicans. Governor Greg Abbott is expected to sign the measure into law amid a nationwide redistricting battle reut.rs/3HN4SHL
“A law firm representing opponents of offshore wind farms is demanding that Brown University retract research that details links between the fossil fuel industry and anti-wind groups.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “This is truly a war with no limits,” our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes of the war in Gaza, “and soon there may be no journalists left to document its horror.”
Air pollution from oil and gas kills over 90,000 people in the US every year and makes hundreds of thousands more sick, disproportionately affecting Black and brown communities. But Republicans want to drill baby drill and kill more people because they're racist af.
BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
Not sure if people have realized yet on just how many levels the #zcavengerhunt is working. Not only is it activating a bunch of people, not only is it getting people out and about in NYC, not only is it highlighting public transits, not only is it highlighting NYC history... it's also:
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
“Currently, Massachusetts sends $4,846 more per capita to the federal government than it gets back. New Jersey and Washington are in the same position...Meanwhile, red states pocket $1.24 for every dollar they send to Washington. Blue states are essentially paying red states to undermine democracy.”
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Trump administration said Thursday that it is reviewing more than 55 million people who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation, marking a growing crackdown on foreigners who are even permitted to be in the United States. https://to.pbs.org/41Nf61w
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been released, have been informed by ICE that he could now be subject to deportation to Uganda, and he's been told to report to ICE next week, a source confirms to me. A few points about this, because there will be a lot of bullshit about it. 1/
The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Times saw the mayor's people handing out bribes in public last month and refused to write about it till after somebody else broke a related story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...
After DOGE outed Halimi, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.
They despise humanity.
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Donald Trump Jr is an investor in Thumzup Media Corp which announced plans to acquire Dogehash Technologies run by Parker Scott Dogehash shareholders will exchange all holdings for 30.7 million shares of Thumzup, trading now $5 (valuing deal at approx $150 mil+) www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
Donald Trump Jr. recently invested in Thumzup Media I wrote about deal in story below and another investor Valkyrie run by Jin Pyung Yoo, who is an officer for Dogehash Technologies (linked to lawyer that worked w/Barry Honig charged by SEC for stock fraud) Thumzup announced deal to buy Dogehash
Insane
"'I think Laura Loomer is a very nice person,' Trump told reporters this month. His early mentor Roy Cohn had previously been an unapologetic adviser to McCarthy ... Trump’s subsequent political adviser, Roger Stone, a friend and admirer of Cohn, has been a mentor to Loomer."
SCOOP: As the National Guard takes over the streets of DC, military officers are now going to be detailed to prosecute civilian criminal cases for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
I have been doggedly reporting on Trump family business partner Dominari Holdings WSJ just published a story on the Trump family's 'Go-To Dealmaker' - it was such a fluff piece Dominari issued a press release about the story thanking the WSJ www.wsj.com/finance/inve... This is how MSM fails us
NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin.
yes, followed back
The Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain Sight While no progress was made towards a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to ExxonMobil deal that could pour billions into its war coffers, by @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/08/18/t...
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August story Don Jr. and Eric Trump partner with Dominari Holdings exec Kyle Wool and Trump Media advisor Kevin McGurn to launch New America Acquisition I Corp. to raise $300M. Deal has links to China-based ARC Group, a prior advisor to DWAC which merged w/Trump Media bsky.app/profile/wend...
July story - Austrian billionaire Martin Schlaff who allegedly once worked with East German Stasi spies links to a network tied to several Trump family deals bsky.app/profile/wend...
June story revealed that Barry Honig and some of his associates were 2013-2014 investors in Dominari Holdings (then called Spherix). bsky.app/profile/wend...
April story that SEC filing revealed that over 20% of Dominari Holdings common stock is owned by 5 Trump Org execs – including Don Jr. & Eric Trump - the two own 2.9M shares worth $13.4M bsky.app/profile/wend...
March story: Russian-American businessman Anton Postolnikov loaned $8M to Trump Media in 2021-2022. He also sent $10.8M to a firm named Eleven Ventures LLC, that appears linked to Hartley Wasko, who is tied to some deals w/Eric and Don Jr. and Dominari bsky.app/profile/wend...
March story on Dominari, Eric and Don Jr., and Don's investment in Unusual Machines - and links to the network of people associated with Barry Honig who was charged by SEC in 2018 for $27 million stock scheme bsky.app/profile/wend...
Everything in the WSJ story was previously covered in my reporting - which includes a lot of information missing from the WSJ 🧵 of my reporting, my first piece is from March where I broke the news that Dominari was a tenant in Trump Tower paying approx $750,000/year rent bsky.app/profile/wend...
I have been doggedly reporting on Trump family business partner Dominari Holdings WSJ just published a story on the Trump family's 'Go-To Dealmaker' - it was such a fluff piece Dominari issued a press release about the story thanking the WSJ www.wsj.com/finance/inve... This is how MSM fails us
Good WSJ update on Prince activity, but I edited the headline: Blackwater’s Erik Prince M̶u̶s̶c̶l̶e̶s̶ Squirms Back Into the Mercenary Business Prince has a new guns-for-hire firm to take overseas security jobs the White House doesn’t want to pay for www.wsj.com/world/americ...
New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.
Updated this story @taskandpurpose.com. Ohio and South Carolina are joining West Virginia in sending National Guard troops in DC. That brings the number of Guardsmen activated for this to ~1,500. taskandpurpose.com/news/west-vi...
What if we vilified billionaires and their corporations the way the poor have long been stigmatized: as the "parasite class"—Musk's own favored term—trapped in an "endless cycle of dependency." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
"Instead of being worried about the fingers he was missing, 16 years old, he kept pointing to his mouth & telling me to feed him. He had no fingers left on his hands, that had been blown away." A US doctor talked to me from Gaza City about starvation. Shocking testimony. zeteo.com/p/bombs-go-o...
US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.
Federal district court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters, finding the "expansive" investigation is "a retaliatory act" for Media Matters' criticism of Elon Musk. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.
Erden Arkan, the Turkish businessman being sentenced today for funnelling illegal straw donations to Mayor Adams in 2021, is cooperating in the NYC Campaign Finance Board's continuing investigation into the mayor's 2021 and 2025 campaigns, per a new letter filed by CFB in court.
Brooklyn real estate magnate Erden Arkan was just sentenced to 1 year of probation for funneling straw donations to Eric Adams’s 2021 mayoral campaign. His attorney angered Judge Ho after making a stink about prosecutors pursuing him and letting the mayor off the hook.
Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners is buying 8% stake in UK digital lender OakNorth, founded by Rishi Khosla and valued at $2.8 billion in a 2019 funding round, large backers include Japan's Softbank, Singapore fund GIC, UK Toscafund - OakNorth is targeting US growth news.sky.com/story/trumps...
If you’re going to enforce the law, you need to show your face and say who you are. No more masks. No more unmarked cars. No more invoking fear in our communities. (2/2)
I teamed up with @repdexteror.bsky.social to introduce the CLEAR ID Act because ICE shouldn't be allowed to hide behind masks and unmarked cars—especially not on the taxpayer’s dime. (1/2)
This is what fascism looks like — masked agents arriving, uninvited, at a governor’s event to intimidate a political rival. The idea that the Border Patrol would accept such a nakedly authoritarian assignment six months into the Trump admin should terrify us.
Exclusive: Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep personnel in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes Story first reported here by Reuters (behind paywall) www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Blackwater founder Erik Prince to send hundreds of fighters to strife-torn Haiti - Critics say Vectus Global’s presence – including snipers – will undermine Haiti’s police and UN security force Vectus Global will also be involved in collecting taxes in Haiti www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Yesterday, @citizensforethics.org filed a Hatch Act complaint against Howard Lutnick for telling people to vote against Zohran Mamdani. www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
Yesterday I published this piece on PragerU spending tens of millions on Facebook/Google advertising newstracs.com/prageru-is-m... Today PragerU published a 55 min interview with their CEO Marissa Streit interviewing (aka reputation laundering) Hungarian PM Viktor Orban
I saw an unreliable source (story w/info from Telegram) naming people (some sanctioned) who may attend Trump/Putin mtg - Kirill Dmitriev, Oleg Deripaska, Roman Abramovich, Igor Sechin, Sergey Chemezov, Leonid Mikhelson No doubt there will be shady business dealing going on bsky.app/profile/wend...
US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control issued Russia-Related General License: Authorizing Transactions Related to Meetings Between the US Government and the Government of the Russian Federation in Alaska Seems like clearance for sanctioned people to attend ofac.treasury.gov/media/934566...
World Liberty’s relationship with PancakeSwap is one of several "with strong ties to China have supported the Trump family crypto business. One of World Liberty’s largest investors is Justin Sun, the Hong Kong-based billionaire." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
"Binance’s majority owner and founder, Changpeng Zhao, spent four months in jail in the U.S. last year after Binance agreed to pay a $4.3 billion fine for becoming a global money-laundering hub for criminals, terrorists and sanctions evaders." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Recipe Behind the Trump Family’s $4.5B in Crypto Riches: PancakeSwap PancakeSwap, whose website was registered in Shanghai China, is administered by Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, whose founder Changpeng Zhao is seeking a pardon from Trump www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
On Monday ALT5 Sigma Corporation announced $1.5 billion registered direct offering and private placement to implement their World Liberty Financial $WLFI treasury strategy Zach Witkoff to become Board Chair of Alt5, Eric Trump to become director www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
I had missed this and updated my article to reflect that the story on the PragerU and WH partnership was first reported out in this Bluesky thread: bsky.app/profile/seth... From @sethcotlar.bsky.social And reported in this story by 404 Media: www.404media.co/white-house-...
For anyone not familiar with PragerU here is an overview of the nonprofit (which is not accredited to award any degrees) and some of their largest donors I report on top 5 contractors 2018-2024 with $44.5M spent on Facebook and $38M on Google newstracs.com/prageru-is-m...
"Rightwing nonprofit PragerU is making inroads with the White House and has spent tens of millions of dollars to expand their reach on Facebook and Google" @wendysiegelman.bsky.social for NewsTRACS newstracs.com/prageru-is-m...
I can't describe how whacky, and scary, the PragerU AI videos are, you can view some of them here When people talk about rewriting history, this is one way they are doing it www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjEm...
Vox reported the WH recently held a launch event for a virtual Founders Museum with content by PragerU - the partnership was introduced by Dept of Education Secretary Linda McMahon. PragerU created AI videos and put made up words into mouths of historical figures www.vox.com/today-explai...
I wrote about Darren Beattie, who’s been appointed as acting president of the US Institute of Peace, which was seized by DOGE earlier this year. Beattie once wrote that “competent white men must be in charge.”!Former USIP employees are agahst: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Rightwing nonprofit PragerU is making inroads with the White House. New reporting shows that since 2018 PragerU has spent over $44.5 million on Facebook and over $38 million on Google advertising to expand their reach. My latest:
There are many assessments that suggest PragerU "is a central node in the production of misinformation and radicalization in the United States today." One is available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Rightwing nonprofit PragerU is making inroads with the White House. New reporting shows that since 2018 PragerU has spent over $44.5 million on Facebook and over $38 million on Google advertising to expand their reach. My latest:
I recently reported Eric and Don Jr. back New America Acquisition I Corp which plans IPO to raise $300M - deal has links to ARC Group based in China newstracs.com/don-jr-and-e... ARC subsidiary US-based ARC Group Securities is now a FINRA approved broker-dealer finance.yahoo.com/news/arc-gro...
Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.
The stuff that, 15 years ago, would have been a screaming 72-point all-caps headline — and now appears in the sixth paragraph, almost as an aside www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Despite 11 1/2 years since Russia invaded Ukraine and 17 years since Russia invaded Georgia there isn't any leader of a major world power who will admit the obvious truth: this war will never end until Russia is defeated.
People will say this isn't possible and then build 500 prisons and deploy thousands of federal troops at ten times the price.
As some have noted, first trial balloon was L.A., now it's D.C. bsky.app/profile/wend...
🔎 NEW: Farage's fixer and convicted fraudster, George Cottrell, has launched a polling company. But we can’t find any staff, any media coverage, or much polling data. So is it just a vehicle for dark money? 💷 goodlaw.social/qqou