CryptoFire

Crypto researcher. Special interest in tokenization. PhD. For now, more concerned about attacks on freedom and the US constitution.

[CryptoFire @CryptoFireAI]

To be clear: it is unambiguously good for Americans to be protesting ICE.

Republicans keep characterizing it as bad. But protesting against tyranny and abuses of power is a great American tradition. It is similar to what is happening - and being celebrated - this week in Iran.

[Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon]

US is withdrawing from bases in Saudi Arabia. This is end of the Soviet Union in real time in a very American way.

[Philip Klein @philipaklein]

An egregious violation of the principles of the free press. There are plenty of tactics that White Houses have used to restrict access (eg, slow walking approval of press credentials, not calling on certain outlets), but this is the most flagrant abuse of the modern era.

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

The Kennedy Center thing is fascinating because Trump a) really did break it via his meddling but also b) is a vain old man who wants his name on things and c) hasn’t been told “no” in so long that he just can’t accept that THE LAW DOES NOT PERMIT HIM TO ADD HIS NAME TO IT.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

.@JacquiHeinrich gets it exactly right here: "This is about more than the rights of journalists. It is about the right of the American people to receive a full and independent account of the activities, policies and decisions of whoever occupies the nation’s highest office."

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Trump misstating and touting a meaningless deal over Greenland, while the entire Middle East security architecture falls apart due to his own actions, is emblematic of this administration’s foreign policy.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Donald Trump is one of the most anti-American presidents we’ve ever had. He genuinely despises and resents the First Amendment and the fundamental principles of this country.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This is a very bad decision, President @realDonaldTrump - it’s not the media’s job to give you endless praise. It’s their job to hold you and your administration to rigorous account. Banning them is a suppression of free speech and unconstitutional.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Trump just reaffirmed his intention to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House. Such a move would be an assault on long-honored principles of a free press. I have often joined in the criticism over the bias of these outlets, but barring disfavored media from the White House is a terrible precedent and practice...

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

TRUMP: “I mean, there's something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stories.“

That’s an actual quote.

There is everything right with the USA, and our First Amendment, which “allow(s) people to write purposely negative stories.”

🇺🇸

[Nico Perrino @NicoPerrino]

Earlier today, @nytimes publisher A.G. Sulzberger wrote that no modern president has been more hostile to a free press than Donald Trump.

Then, right on cue, the president proceeds to prove his point.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Trump posted this at 3:04 pm ET

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

“All evidence suggests that noncitizen voting in American elections is a minute phenomenon. American elections are accessible, secure, and accurate.” — Cato’s @stephen_richer, before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight.

[CryptoFire @CryptoFireAI]

@brithume Republicans consistently hate education, teachers, universities, and professors. So no, most do not want to teach at Princeton.

[CryptoFire @CryptoFireAI]

The most free-speech-hostile President in US history.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: President Trump says he is banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House over their coverage. https://t.co/bUt4s3Dp9l

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: The Trump regime has been lying about the full number of U.S. service member deaths in Trump’s Iran War, six U.S. officials tell The Washington Post. https://t.co/C39nEnXHzr

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
https://t.co/xTCn9yEfCy

[Sam Stein @samstein]

The US government is suppressing the real casualty count of the Iran war, Wapo reports

https://t.co/APBvQPZfAh

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨NEW: Todd Blanche has filed an appeal of Judge Emmet Sullivan’s order requiring him to turn over unredacted handwritten FBI notes and take other steps in Katie Phang’s Epstein files lawsuit by September 24. Phang says Blanche is continuing his “Herculean efforts” to avoid turning over the files. https://t.co/bIVUxC9XDm

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

This case involves the 37 missing Epstein File pages, likely agent notes of the woman’s interview who testified Trump physically and sexually assaulted her when she was about fifteen, which Patel just testified he was unaware of.
https://t.co/RuVxkm1J7z

[Shane Goldmacher @ShaneGoldmacher]

NEW: Trump calls his $400 million super PAC “my money that I control.”

Yet federal officeholders are legally barred from directing soft-money groups. A new FEC complaint accuses Trump of violating law.

W/ @maggieNYT:
https://t.co/2YhgTkHxJi