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[Graff44 @agraff44]

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[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

Devon Archer was convicted by a federal jury of helping defraud the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s business arm out of $60 million in worthless bonds. He owed $43.4 million in restitution and $15.7 million in forfeiture. The Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal.

Trump pardoned him. And the White House explained why out loud: the case against Archer changed, they said, after he became a witness against the Biden family.

[Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal]

Ben McKenzie maps out the potential crypto crimes of Trump & members of his Executive Branch—specifically how they have benefited from their financial ties to the shady foreign operator Tether.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Ben McKenzie: I'm an author and filmmaker. I spent the last several years documenting fraud and other criminal activity in the cryptocurrency industry. I believe we are at a point of crisis when it comes to crypto's influence over our legislative process. Recent reporting from just last week reveals a foreign company that issues a cryptocurrency used by major criminal organizations appears to have shaped Trump's signature piece of legislation, the GENIUS Act, while at the same time forging deep financial relationships with members of the executive branch.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

You don’t lose your scientific base to your trading competitors at this scale and recover overnight if you just change the government.

The damage Trump is doing with his campaign of science denial and attempting to make dumb the new smart will in many cases be irreparable.

Academics are not the enemy of the people, they are the foundations on which future prosperity are built.

The level of self harm being caused by political dogma is beyond comprehension.

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[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

A former 60 Minutes correspondent has revealed that Paramount CEO David Ellison and CBS editor Bari Weiss pressured her to report on events that "never happened."

[ProPublica @propublica]

As private schools proliferate, states are taking a hands-off approach to regulating them.

School founders — in one case, a woman prosecuted for sexual abuse — often aren’t screened.

Some states can't even say how many of these schools exist.
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[Acyn @Acyn]

Wolfers: For nine out of the last 10 presidencies, if you’d said, “How much should we blame the president for what’s going on with the economy right now?” I would have said that the president is just one factor among many.

That’s what I would have said nine out of 10 times. This is the 10th time.

There’s literally no question about the cause of the current oil price spike. It is that we decided to go to war in Iran on an open-ended, ill-defined mission, and we’re not quite sure what to do. The Iranians took over the Strait of Hormuz, and now the global economy is substantially fractured and global energy markets are in disarray. There’s no question about what caused that. We know that because we actually saw things get a little bit better in June during the ceasefire, but those happy days are behind us.

There’s also no question that tariffs are a complete own goal. They’ve led to higher prices paid by Americans. And that, I think, explains why, if you look at the United States compared to our peers in the G7—think of these as other economies that are kind of like, if the U.S. economy had mates, this is who they’d be—comparable large industrialized economies, the United States right now has higher inflation than any of them. We’re number one, but it’s not one of those good number ones.

And let me just add: it really does hurt my heart because we know how not to screw things up. Any economics textbook, anyone who’s taken introductory economics, would know that there are large economic costs to going to war. They would know that starting a global trade war in a chaotic and incoherent fashion is all downside and no upside.

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

The White House blew up the Hormuz cease-fire agreement because it didn’t understand—or didn’t care—what it had agreed to, writes David Raikow. https://t.co/JvV1HanzoX

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

The numbers don’t lie.

The president does.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Todd Blanche testified he wasn’t involved in firing people at DOJ connected to the cases he worked on as Donald Trump's criminal defense lawyer.

Clearly that wasn't true.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

"That's almost word for word what they told us when we were sold the war in Iraq. Remember 2003?" -- another Pete Buttigieg masterclass on Fox News. There is no Democrat better at communicating to that audience.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Cory Booker says Todd Blanche is COMMITTING A CRIME in his handling of the Epstein files:

“Yes, he is breaking the law passed by Congress.”

Booker says that alone should disqualify Blanche and, if he were already attorney general, would be an IMPEACHABLE offense.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

This mass partisan retribution is appalling, outrageous, dangerous, lawless, unconstitutional, unpatriotic and a massive offense against the Republic. Trump knew how important these Biden-era grants were to the American people, which is why he did not cut them off to the red states, but did cut them off to the blue states. This is rank partisan discrimination in violation of the First Amendment and Equal Protection, conflicting with the president’s duty to “take Care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Every elected official must denounce this imbecilic deep betrayal of America. And the illegally impounded funds must be restored and released immediately to the blue states. https://t.co/Frn8meDT67

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump just pardoned a convicted fraudster who owed $21.7 million in restitution for defrauding investors.

His name is Adam Kidan. He donated millions to Republican campaigns and groups, including more than $270,000 to Trump’s political committees in 2024, and helped host a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.

Now, his pardon appears to have erased whatever restitution he still owed.

Welcome to Episode 10 of the Pardon Papers.

Read all about this crazy story via The Guardian (https://t.co/1vQ5vJq9aM) & the NYT (https://t.co/jEEYJdicAF)

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: The fellas at MeidasTouch want to know where you’re at on the moon landing. The anniversary was yesterday.

Boebert: I don’t know. I think it was done in an Amazon warehouse… Oh, they didn’t have those then—a different warehouse.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

House Republicans have just passed a $95,000,000,000 budget plan to fund the war in Iran and merge US military technology with Israel.

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

The United States has now reported the highest number of measles cases in any year since 1991. And the year still has more than 5 months to go. This is an almost 100% vaccine preventable illness. Why is RFK Jr still Health Sec?

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

Rep. Raskin: "Typical now of ICE's hiring practices. Bring everybody in, just like Donald Trump's parties. 'We don't care really what your background is. Clothe you with the power of the federal government, turning our society upside down, turning Americans against each other, and having our officers shoot our people, like Alex Pretti and Renee Good, dead at point-blank range in the streets of America.' That's what this has led to."

[Acyn @Acyn]

Luttig: As a candidate for attorney general of the United States of America, Blanche is an embarrassment to America itself. If the Republican Senate confirms this man, based on his record, to be the next attorney general, it will mark the end of the rule of law in America.