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RE: vis.social/@infobeautiful/1157…
I wonder it this has anything to do with the Court of the Tangerine Tyrant's the current policy towards Venezuela?
#oil #FossilFuels #USPol
A huge list of labor unions and advocacy groups have signed letters to Congress urging them not to support the draft crypto market structure legislation due to the “many systemic failures and harms” of the crypto industry that they believe are going unaddressed in the draft.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
It’s not all good news for Kalshi, though: a federal judge in Nevada has decided their events contracts are not “swaps” under the CFTC and dissolved a preliminary injunction protecting them from civil and criminal action by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #Kalshi #PredictionMarkets #CitationNeededNewsletter
A Kalshi partnership with CNN and CNBC will place Kalshi prices alongside news stories — inviting readers to view these as probabilities and encouraging them to place their own wagers. Kalshi gets the imprimatur of journalistic legitimacy; CNN — fresh off layoffs — gets cash.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #Kalshi #PredictionMarkets #CitationNeededNewsletter
Ondo Finance has announced the SEC has ended a multi-year investigation into their activities. This follows Ondo’s $2 million+ in political contributions to President Trump, hiring of former Congressman Patrick McHenry, and partnership with Trump’s World Liberty Financial.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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The SEC has reportedly ended a two-year-long investigation into Ondo Finance and its tokenization of US Treasuries. In December 2024 and February 2025, the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto business gave Ondo $720,000 to acquire almost 135,000 ONDO tokens for its treasury.1415 In January and February, Ondo Finance contributed $2.1 million to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc.16 In February, former House Financial Services chair Patrick McHenry joined Ondo as vice chairman of its advisory board [I78]. Also in February, Ondo announced a partnership with the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto business, which was reportedly looking to incorporate into its crypto platform the same Ondo products that drew SEC scrutiny.17 According to Ondo, the SEC closed its investigation with no charges.18](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5342591 "SEC
The SEC has reportedly ended a two-year-long investigation into Ondo Finance and its tokenization of US Treasuries. In December 2024 and February 2025, the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto business gave Ondo $720,000 to acquire almost 135,000 ONDO tokens for its treasury.1415 In January and February, Ondo Finance contributed $2.1 million to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc.16 In February, former House Financial Services chair Patrick McHenry joined Ondo as vice chairman of its advisory board [I78]. Also in February, Ondo announced a partnership with the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto business, which was reportedly looking to incorporate into its crypto platform the same Ondo products that drew SEC scrutiny.17 According to Ondo, the SEC closed its investigation with no charges.18")
The OCC has approved the first five national trust bank applications by crypto firms Circle, Ripple, BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Paxos. This gives them a stronger foothold in traditional finance, confers regulatory legitimacy, and preempts some state financial laws.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
![Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally approved the first spate of national bank trust charter applications from five crypto companies: Circle (using an entity called First National Digital Currency Bank), Ripple, BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Paxos [I88, 95].11 These licenses don’t permit the firms to accept cash deposits or make loans, but they will allow them to hold customer assets. The approvals prompted objections from several banking groups, including the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, which wrote that “Today’s OCC announcement sends a dangerous message to the financial industry: break the law, harm consumers, and facilitate fraud—and you will be rewarded with a bank charter. ... Granting these cryptocurrency charters creates a new and frightful category of banks-in-name-only ... It will further enrich insiders in the crypto industry at the expense of the rest of us.”12](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5342589 "Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally approved the first spate of national bank trust charter applications from five crypto companies: Circle (using an entity called First National Digital Currency Bank), Ripple, BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Paxos [I88, 95].11 These licenses don’t permit the firms to accept cash deposits or make loans, but they will allow them to hold customer assets. The approvals prompted objections from several banking groups, including the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, which wrote that “Today’s OCC announcement sends a dangerous message to the financial industry: break the law, harm consumers, and facilitate fraud—and you will be rewarded with a bank charter. ... Granting these cryptocurrency charters creates a new and frightful category of banks-in-name-only ... It will further enrich insiders in the crypto industry at the expense of the rest of us.”12")
Newsletter: Terra’s Do Kwon gets 15 years, crypto banks get the green light, and the Trump family’s crypto grift expands even as one of their treasury companies goes off the rails
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
Yikes, someone is going to be in trouble…
Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions
In interviews with #VanityFair, #SusieWiles, the White House chief of staff, said #Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” called #JDVance a “conspiracy theorist” & concluded that #PamBondi “completely whiffed” the early handling of the #EpsteinFiles.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #unfit #USpol
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It's a pretty jarring juxtoposition between the freak out Trump and MAGA had about Charlie Kirk, and Trump's invective-laced post about Rob Reiner after he and his wife were murdered by their son.
So much that, apparently, even MAGA can't stomach it:
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Even MAGA Can't Stomach Trump's Vile Rob Reiner Post
Some prominent Republicans on Capitol Hill called out the president for his sick post about the murder of a beloved director.Arthur Delaney (HuffPost)
Recap:
* Elect a decent moderate human being, willing to commit to what is best for the USA over what is best for the party.
* Seek political solutions that are Win-Win in the views of BOTH parties.
* Quit the ideological civil war between the extremist right and left, and instead work together for the common good.
Example solution:
A law that protects LGBTQ rights & religious freedoms at the same time. If any side strikes down any part the law, both sides lose what the law protected. Both sides then have to think carefully before trying to get a law cancelled. It would be a win-win for all if passed. Both sides have a reason to protect the legislation. Both sides keep a deeply divided country working together for what is best for all, rather than just what is best for one party.
What the USA needs right now, more than ever, is a decent human being, that can provide an example to the world of what it means to do what's right and stand up for what is right. That person needs to want to find solutions that work together for everyone. Tie solutions together that provide what both sides want, and bind that solution with a clause that states that all rights from both sides are lost if any part of the law is struck down.
Both parties are corrupt, & both parties want what's best for their party over what's best for the country. Every election, I have to try to determine who will be the best decent human being to be in charge & to represent our country as a whole. Yes, "represent", as in: BE A MODEL & AN EXAMPLE of decency. As polarized as the U.S. is, only moderate bipartisan solutions can be representative of our country as a whole. Far-right and far-left leaders are too extreme.
You might wonder why I post so much Anti-Trump material, yet claim to be a moderate independent politically. It's quite simple--I hold beliefs that run the gamut--left, right, libertarian, etc., but I believe in decency, and I have never felt that Trump is decent. He is the least statesman-like president I've ever lived under. I could easily vote for a different (moderate) republican or democrat that supported my views. But I've been a "Never Trumper" since the beginning.
Seems the FBI is not yet ready to take in surrendering forces from fictional terrorist organizations. No word on whether or not they could take surrendering Nazgul, Decepticons or Cobra from GI Joe either.
#USpol #antifacsist #fictional
One can cite whatever reason or law that they want but the "numbers" or deaths speak for themselves
The US gun laws are totally nuts.
I can say for sure the current situation will not change if the US keeps it up like this
And no, it's abosolutely not "normal" how many people are killed on a daily basis by gun violence
It's freaking nuts
And yes, it can be different and we know how but therefor one has to be open to learn
Immediately after the 2024 US election there was a naive knee jerk reaction where pundits would claim the country as a whole had shifted right, and that to win vulnerable groups like trans people need to be thrown under the bus.
A new analysis challenges that view, suggesting that what really happened was fewer left-leaning voters came to the polls in 2024.
They note one of the largest problems was lack of a strong economic message from Democrats.
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A New Report Reveals the Real Reason Democrats Lost in 2024
It wasn’t because Biden voters shifted to Trump—but because so many of them stayed home. Here’s how Democrats can motivate them once more.The New Republic
Military flights with no transponder to prevent the press from knowing what they're up to! Evil. Dangerous.
Flight Narrowly Avoids Midair Collision With U.S. Air Force Tanker
thedailybeast.com/flight-narro…
#TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Flight Narrowly Avoids Midair Collision With U.S. Air Force Tanker
“It’s outrageous,” a pilot said about the near collision.Wiktoria Gucia (The Daily Beast)
I'm utterly fascinated that someone laid that out on the wall and thought it was alright.
Zero planning, but also zero fucks to do it right.
Just lazily slapped up there, and the stupid Home Depot spray-painted decoration that looks like complete shit.
(And yes, I did notice the pathetic petty orange twat blocking Biden's entry.)
#NFL #SuperBowlLX “Hold my beer…” 🍺
#DonaldTheDeplorable plans use an #ExecutiveOrder to rename #football as #Trumpball because players use their feet to play #soccer. foxnews.com/sports/trump-says-…
#FIFA #WorldCup #USpol #Resist
Trump says America should change football's name so soccer can have it: 'It really doesn't make sense'
FIFA awarded President Donald Trump its inaugural Peace Prize, and Trump suggested soccer should be called football and the NFL should be renamed during the World Cup.Jackson Thompson (Fox News)
Reading the #USpol notes today, I realize we'll wake up one morning, or pick up a smartphone, or turn on the radio and it'll be over – he'll be gone.
Things won't get better right away. The rats will fight over the pieces because the next guy doesn't own the cult in the same way. It'll be like the aftermath of the French Revolution, everyone guillotining each other for not being right kind of revolutionary.
It'll still be a mess, but the planet will celebrate like it hasn't in 80yrs or so.
#BreakingNews #USpol #GeoPol
#WarInUkraine
👉US votes with dictatorships in #UN GeneralAssembly👈
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Via #KaterynaDenisova @KyivIndependent
"*#US sides with #Russia on #UN resolution on Chornobyl disaster*
The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution on Dec. 10 to boost international cooperation and reduce the impact of the #Chornobyl nuclear disaster,...
👉Russia, Belarus, China, North Korea, and the U.S. voted against the document...👈"
kyivindependent.com/us-sides-w…
US sides with Russia on UN resolution on Chornobyl disaster
Washington's representative said the U.S. voted against the resolution not because it opposed nuclear safety measures, but because it objected to references to the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.Kateryna Denisova (The Kyiv Independent)
RE: mstdn.plus/@gcvsa/115698117729…
Its come to something when citizens of a country make such a plea - with which I have much sympathy.
Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐 (@gcvsa@mstdn.plus)
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I absolutely implore the entire world to stop doing any business at all with the US, wherever and whenever possible or feasible.MSTDN+
"Only 31% of U.S. adults now approve of how Trump is handling the economy, the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds. That is down from 40% in March and marks the lowest economic approval he’s registered in his first or second term.
Perhaps most worryingly for Trump, who’s become increasingly synonymous with his party, he’s slipped on issues that were major strengths. Just a few months ago, 53% of Americans approved of Trump’s handling of crime, but that’s fallen to 43%. There’s been a similar decline on immigration, from 49% approval in March to 38% now."
What a queen
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Amanda Seyfried Says She's Not Sorry for Calling Charlie Kirk 'Hateful'
Amanda Seyfried said she won't apologize for calling Charlie Kirk "hateful" after he was shot to death earlier this year.Emily Zemler (Rolling Stone)
Film review: The Voice of Hind Rajab
The film "focuses on the Palestinian Red Crescent response to the desperate cellphone calls of Hind, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl, trapped by Israeli fire in Gaza in January 2024."
Hind, "along with six members of her family & two Red Crescent paramedics, eventually died in a hail of lethal IDF fire."
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#TheVoiceOfHindRajab #HindRajab #USPol #Europol #GazaGenocide #Racism #press #palestine @palestine .
The Voice of Hind Rajab, film on the murder of 6-year-old girl in Gaza, finally receives distribution in US
The film had until recently been the target of pro-Zionist political censorship in the US and in Hollywood’s upper echelons in particular.World Socialist Web Site
You can refuse to provide official ID or biometric data for social media accounts requiring age verification.
Actually, I bet if everyone did refuse, and let their account dormant for a couple of weeks, you would suddenly see American Big Tech transforming into the fiercest defender of your privacy rights, using their powerful network of lobbyists to fight these invasive government regulations.
They need you more than you need them.
Force them to work for your rights.
Do not comply.
Report: "israel kills nearly half of journalists worldwide"
"Reporters Without Borders reported on Tuesday that Israeli forces were responsible for almost half of all journalist deaths worldwide this year.... the worst enemy of journalists.”
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#RWB #USPol #Europol #gazagenocide #palestinianJournalists #palestine @palestine .
👉*Zeitenwende in der #NATO*:
#Europa ist aus dem Dornröschenschlaf erwacht und blickt in den transatlantischen Abgrund👈
Hierzu zunächst 2 Beiträge:
1) BR24: *Scheidung von Europa? Was Trumps Sicherheitsstrategie bedeutet* - Nachricht via @BR24:
(📼 Video)
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und
👉Die positive erste Reaktion des Kremls auf die neue #US-#Sicherheitsstrategie👈
*„Entspricht weitgehend unserer Vision“ – Europa warnt*
„Entspricht weitgehend unserer Vision“ – Europa warnt - EUROPE SAYS
Stand: 09.12.2025, 10:22 UhrEUROPE SAYS
"US manufacturing employment🚨is plummeting:
US MFG payrolls dropped -18K in Nov, the 2nd-largest decline since Oct 2023.
Also marks the🚨5th monthly decrease this year.
MFG employment has now fallen in 25 of the last 35 months.
Meanwhile, the ISM MFG Employment Index fell to 44.0 pts in Nov, posting its 10th consec monthly contraction.
This has historically been a leading indicator for US MFG #jobs,🚨suggesting further declines ahead."
-Kobeissi L
#Economy #Tariffs #Protest #Recession #USPol
mstdn.social/@Free_Press/11568… Free_Press@mstdn.social - PUTIN'S AGENT TRUMP
Trump says he is "disappointed" that Ukrainian President Zelensky hasn't read his peace proposal yet.
"Russia is, I believe, fine with it, but not sure that Zelensky is fine with it…His people love it, but he hasn't read it."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war
KGB's Codename For Trump is:
Aure Free Press :verified: (@Free_Press@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 video PUTIN'S AGENT TRUMP Trump says he is "disappointed" that Ukrainian President Zelensky hasn't read his peace proposal yet.Aure Free Press :verified: (Mastodon 🐘)
From the Wash Post:
"Overall, Trump — who campaigned against America’s drug crisis and promised to crack down on the illegal flow of deadly drugs coming across the border — has pardoned or granted clemency to at least 10 people for drug-related crimes since the beginning of his 2nd term, according to a Washington Post analysis. He also granted pardons or commutations to almost 90 others for drug-related crimes during the 4 years of his 1st term.
Bah humbug!
“Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the DOJ,” said Kathleen Engel, a Suffolk University law professor and leading expert on mortgage finance. “Trump has deemed that this type of misrepresentation is sufficient to preclude someone from serving the country.”
LoL!
As the saying goes for trump and other authoritarians - "For my friends and me - everything, for my enemies - the law."
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#UsPol
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
"In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach, FL, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just 7 weeks later, he got another mortgage for a neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence.
In reality, Trump, then a New Yorker, does not appear to have ever lived in either home, let alone used them as a principal residence. Instead, they were used as investment properties and rented out."
propublica.org/article/trump-m…
#UsPol
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
An excellent summary from Thom Hartmann of how we got here from Franklin Roosevelt to Reagan to trump and an optimistic look at what lies ahead.
"So now Donald Trump tells our young people that it’s time to make take the next big step — to reject democracy — as the logical outcome of the Reagan Revolution.
A new, progressive America is being birthed from the ashes of the Reagan Revolution and the GOP and its billionaire owners can’t stop it much longer."
rawstory.com/raw-investigates/…
#UsPol
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Trump's lies are pushing his rotten foundation to collapse
Young people are furious. A survey released this week by the Harvard Institute of Politics finds that under-30 Americans are “a generation under profound strain” who’ve lost pretty much any confidence in government or corporate institutions.Thom Hartmann (Raw Story)
We can't even get a day off from this fucking guy...
Russia praises US security strategy shift heralded by ‘strong’ Trump
politico.eu/article/russia-us-…
Russia praises US security strategy shift heralded by ‘strong’ Trump
Moscow regards Washington’s updated National Security Strategy as “consistent with our vision.”Joe Stanley-Smith (POLITICO)
