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The Supreme Court might defend the Fed’s independence the most boring way possible: by treating Trump v. Cook as an employment dispute.
Basic HR rules might beat executive power.
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How the Supreme Court might protect the Fed’s independence by using employment law in Trump v. Cook
This is not a typical employment law case because Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, has far more legal rights to her job than most American workers.The Conversation
Amid all this, the crypto industry has amassed at least $315 million to spend in the midterms — more than double their recordbreaking 2024 spending that helped install Trump and members of Congress who either support his atrocities or are too craven to do anything about them.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
The Fairshake PAC timed a press blitz about the nearly $200 million they’re brandishing towards members of Congress just ahead of a Senate Ag vote on crypto market structure. It passed, and amendments to address Trump’s crypto corruption or prohibit bailouts of crypto firms were shot down.
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The crypto industry’s “educational nonprofit” has also launched an initiative to fund Congressional staff positions after participants go through weeks of “training” on “emerging technologies like crypto, AI, biotech, and defense tech”.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
The SEC has dismissed with prejudice an enforcement action against the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange. This comes after the Winklevosses contributed $4.4 million to Trump, backed his sons’ ventures, and committed $21 million to elect pro-Trump, pro-crypto lawmakers.
To date, the SEC has paused, dismissed, or otherwise ended crypto lawsuits or investigations against Aave, Binance, Coinbase, ConsenSys, Crypto.com, Cumberland DRW, Dragonchain, Gemini (twice), Hex, Immutable, Kraken, Ondoe, OpenSea, PayPal, Ripple, Robinhood, Tron, Uniswap, Yuga Labs, and Zcash.
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$40 million in seized crypto held by the US Marshals was stolen in 2024, and crypto sleuth zachxbt has now linked the thefts to the son of a contractor managing the agency's crypto assets. The incident has renewed concerns about the government's ability to manage its crypto holdings.
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The answer, of course, is that they never actually cared about these principles at all. In fact, many of these executives have long made it clear that authoritarianism isn’t just collateral damage in their pursuit of business-boosting deregulation, but a desirable outcome.
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For years, crypto executives have touted cryptocurrency’s supposed anti-authoritarian and human rights credentials. But where are they when their beloved president claims Alex Pretti’s lawful gun ownership justified his killing, or when ICE leaders tell subordinates to enter homes without warrants?
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As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
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Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for
As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling itMolly White (Citation Needed)
“I’m not aware of something like this happening ever before,” said Rick Hasen, a professor at the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. “The idea that federal officials would seize ballots in an attempt to prove fraud is especially dangerous in this context when we know there is no fraud because the Georgia 2020 election has been extensively counted, recounted and investigated.”
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FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn
The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.lisa.larson-walker@propublica.org (ProPublica)
#uspol #uspolitics #Trump #politics
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ICE Exposes Democratic Party Irrelevance
The Democratic Party is useful only to the oligarch class, who give them their marching orders. Doing anything that serves the people is never on their agenda.Black Agenda Report
After observing Nazism and Stalinism, Hannah Arendt warned that repeated government lying makes it impossible for citizens to think, judge and trust reality – eroding the basis for democracy.
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Repeated government lying, warned Hannah Arendt, makes it impossible for citizens to think and to judge
When officials lie time and again, people don’t know what to trust. And when this happens, citizens cannot deliberate, approve or dissent coherently, because a shared world no longer exists.The Conversation
Atlantic is reporting that Bovino is being demoted from "commander at large" to whatever the fuck he was doing before and is expected to retire soon. (Mandatory retirement @ 57 at BP)
I hope that Nazi shitbird never knows a moment of peace or joy for the rest of his life and is permanently unemployable. (Paywalled, but the critical bit is at the start)
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Greg Bovino Loses His Job
The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.Nick Miroff (The Atlantic)
"Morale is plummeting among #ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred."
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More evidence that sometimes protests work.
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Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusioned’ with leadership’s tactics, according to reportsRhian Lubin (The Independent)
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse, shot five times in the back at point blank range while protecting his community from Nazis.
RIP 🕯️
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#Minnesota #USPolitics #ACAB #FuckICE
Live: Man shot by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.Star Tribune staff
Fresh Murder by ICE in Minneapolis....
"Shot the man on the ground five times"
That's an execution.
#ICE #ICEMUSTBEDESTROYED #Minneapolis #MSP #USPOL #USPOLITICS
The people of Minnesota are so fuckin' badass.
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Meet the Minneapolis neighbors standing up to ICE by the thousands
Local resistance is “growing exponentially," says Defend the 612’s Andrew Fahlstrom.Mother Jones
A leaked ICE document says the agency only needs an administrative warrant (not a judge’s approval) to enter a home and make an arrest.
We spoke with a former federal judge who says that’s a blatant violation of 4th Amendment rights, and amounts to ICE writing something up and saying, ‘We want you arrested because we said so’.
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‘We want you arrested because we said so’ – how ICE’s policy on raiding whatever homes it wants violates a basic constitutional right, according to a former federal judge
Since the republic’s beginning, it has been uncontested law that to invade someone’s home, the government needs a warrant reviewed and signed by a judicial officer. ICE is turning that law on its head.The Conversation
Vegas taking a 27% cut by valuing the Canadian dollar at par is giving me the giggles - this is bordering on one of the most successful boycotts in history - FAFO you fucking US fascists - we are NEVER coming back
#CDNpoli #Vegas #USpol #USpolitics
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‘We miss our best friends’: Las Vegas hotels accepting Canadian dollar at par to spark tourism
Three downtown Las Vegas hotels have begun accepting the Canadian dollar at par with the American dollar in an effort to spur Canuck travel.Timm Bruch (CTVNews)
When U.S. ambassadors are seen as political lapdogs, they lose credibility abroad.
Trump’s loyalty test may cost America leverage where it needs it most.
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Trump’s insistence on personal loyalty from ambassadors could crimp US foreign policy
Ambassadors play a middle role between the countries where they serve and the one they represent. Trump insists their loyalty must be to the US.The Conversation
Wow.
On the left, American imperialist politicians celebrating the future invasion of Greenland by making a cake with its territory, 2026.
On the right, Nazis present a cake to Hitler to celebrate the future invasion of the Caucasus, Baku and its oil refineries, 1942.
#USPolitics #AmeriKKKa #HandsOffGreenland
House Oversight Democrats have published a Web3 is Going Great-style “Trump Family Digital Grift” counter
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This goes with their recent staff report, “Professionalized Corruption: How Donald Trump is abusing power and accepting digital kickbacks from foreign and criminal interests to cash in on the presidency like never before”
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(The report cites my writing on Trump’s USD1 stablecoin, published here: citationneeded.news/issue-83/#…)
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Issue 83 – Trump’s crypto-backed plan to auction off access to the White House
Trump’s crypto conflicts continue to multiply as Democratic legislators demand ethics inquiries and block industry-backed billsMolly White (Citation Needed)
During that time, what are Americans doing ??
Where is the press?
Where is the opposition?
Where is the law ?
Where are the democrats? Where is America?
Where is the American Dream?
The American Dream has turned into an Amerikan Nightmare
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#EuropeanSovereignty #TransatlanticCrisis #EUGeopolitics #EuropeanRearmament #StrategicAutonomy #uspolitics #trump #groenland #groenlandcrisis #USanschluss
🇪🇺 France's role in preventing and resolving international crisis (Claude Malhuret) 🇫🇷
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French senator Claude Malhuret delivers an unprecedented analysis of the transatlantic rift. Faced with threats of annexation of Greenland, he describes Trumpism as “inconsistent” and “techno-fascism.”
#EuropeanSovereignty #TransatlanticCrisis #EUGeopolitics #EuropeanRearmament #StrategicAutonomy #uspolitics #trump #groenland #groenlandcrisis
Newsletter: Coinbase calls the shots in the Senate, former New York City Mayor Eric Adams faces rug pull allegations, and a crypto executive is breaking up with Trump
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So they're only "detaining illegal aliens", but they've got separate holding cells for US citizens?
A grim listen. Get prepared USians.
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"I have spare time. I have to be up for my community in any way I can."
Pickle Rick on the streets of Minneapolis.
#USPolitics #Minneapolis #FuckICE
Disturbing reports of how Native detainees are being treated have emerged during the later part of the week.
Eighty eight people, including a ten year old girl, have been kidnapped and disappeared in California this week.
One of the nurses on strike in New York throws their weight behind a general strike.
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Well yeah, that's how you deal with trolls. Don't feed them.
Gingrich is right, the #Greenland push IS just a bunch of noise, and the best way to sideline #Trump is to point out what a stupid and empty effort it is. He's trying to make waves, get a reaction with the noise, and if you react, THAT is what will have impact.
Unfortunately so far we have pushed the ball by reacting to his noise. It plays into his pattern.
Trump's an idiot who spouts noise. How we react to that noise is up to us. The more we call that out the last impact he will have on the world.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
Estee Lauder is backing Trump's plans in Greenland.
Time to update your boycott list:
Clinique, MAC cosmetics, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Tom Ford Beauty, The Ordinary, Origins, Bumble and bumble, Darphin, Le Labo, Aramis, Killian Paris, Smashbox.
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The battle for Greenland: The billionaire behind Donald Trump’s obsession
Ronald Lauder, heir to Estée Lauder fortune, seems to have invested in a boutique water company based in a mouldy, former schoolDerek Scally (The Irish Times)
🇺🇸 - 🇬🇱 The US military really doesn't have the best track record in #Greenland.
🛬 - 💥 It's shocking how irresponsible the #USA has been with it's nuclear weapons!
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