🇺🇸JUST IN: The Senate has shelved the CLARITY Act to take up a Russia sanctions bill first, per CoinDesk.
Voting on the crypto bill is now unlikely before next week, leaving only the final days before the August 8 recess.
On behalf of 3 million U.S advocates, @standwithcrypto is providing notice that we will be scoring votes on the CLARITY Act.
SWC strongly urges Senators to vote “Yes” to advance the bill, and lawmaker scorecards will be updated based on voting records.
The CLARITY Act has galvanized millions of crypto owners, as they eagerly await market structure legislation that will deliver certainty about the technology they rely on.
Crypto voters across the country are paying attention to which lawmakers stand with them in this critical moment.
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Florida Governor candidate James Fishback says "the way they treat Christians in Israel is disgraceful."
"If Christians are not welcome in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in Florida."
LATEST: 🇺🇸 Senator Cynthia Lummis says the CLARITY Act's main obstacle is not Trump but the Senate, where banks are running "a full court press that's scaring some senators."
This Clarity Act ethics provision applies to every House Member, Senator, and Federal Judge — not just the President and VP.
Let's stop legislating for one person in one office and pass ethics rules built to serve all three branches fairly, for the long haul.
Unfortunately, the House just voted to merge the most secretive & sensitive elements of our defense & intelligence apparatus with a foreign government.
This bill still has to clear the Senate.
Call your senators & representatives and tell them to not support the NDAA until the merger w/ Israel (Section 219) is removed.
Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
🚨NEW: Industry stakeholders are set to have a call with Republican leadership later this morning to receive an update on the latest Clarity Act text, according to an industry source invited to the call.
A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.
What the evidence shows:
Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.
Built to fail:
The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.
Accountability buried:
Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.
My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.