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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
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The only people who can stop what is happening in America sit on their hands in the Senate, in full partnership with a Russian pedophile. Until people start focusing on our enemies within that godawful legislative body, nothing changes. It is the most powerful branch of the government, and it willfully, and at great profit to themselves, led us into hell.
“This is scary. It’s adding to the vigilante state we live in.”
Texas' anti-trans bathroom bill went into effect December 4. Here's how the state government could weaponize this new #law against public institutions, from libraries to prisons: texasobserver.org/texas-bathro…
#Texas #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #news #trans #fascism #genocide #extremism #USpolitics #politics
How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions
A legal expert called the new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “the most plainly unlawful, undemocratic legislation I’ve seen in recent history.”Kit O'Connell (The Texas Observer)
Social media is reshaping how we see politics, each other and even reality itself.
Let’s look at the research and gain some insight into how our democracy and communities could do better (thread) ⬇️
#USPolitics #socialmedia
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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."
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KGB's Codename For Trump is:
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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 🐘)
God damn America.
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#Trump #Ukraine #gangsters #USpolitics #corruption #fascism
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Attached: 1 image Donald Trump Jr. suggested his father might walk away from Ukraine if no peace deal is reached, citing corruption in Kyiv and calling Zelensky “a borderline deity” created by the left. Speaking at the Doha Forum, Trump Jr.NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (Mastodon 🐘)
GRAND THEFT MOBILE!
Trump Mobile is offering phones for $500 — except they are three years old and refurbished!
The phones probably cost Trump about $10!
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Trump Mobile is offering phones for $500 —they are just refurbished, and three years old
While true Trump fans await the long-promised golden ‘T1’ phone, his family is selling marked-up older iPhones and SamsungsIo Dodds (The Independent)
"The retraction notice cited documents made public through litigation in the U.S. that suggest employees of Monsanto, which makes Roundup, may have helped write the article without proper acknowledgment -- a practice known as ghostwriting."
Study that said glyphosate herbicide is safe retracted 25 years after publication:
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#USPolitics #ClimateCatastrophe #Farming #Food
Study that said glyphosate herbicide is safe retracted 25 years after publication
An influential research article that claimed a popular weed-killer was safe has been retracted 25 years after it was published, prompting environment groups in Canada to ask the federal government to review the science on glyphosate use.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
Three states have passed laws requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in public school classrooms.
Federal courts have blocked the laws, but appeals could bring the issue back to the Supreme Court, where a new "history and tradition test" the court adopted for religion freedom cases in 2022 puts established precedents into question.
Quick overview to catch you up:
theconversation.com/3-states-a…
#SCOTUS #USPolitics
3 states are challenging precedent against posting the Ten Commandments in public schools – cases that could land back at the Supreme Court
New laws mandating the Ten Commandments’ display in schools have faced lawsuits in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.The Conversation
Thich Nhat Hanh’s idea of “interbeing” says we’re deeply interconnected. A new book on ‘mindful democracy’ argues that embracing this idea could help us learn to work together again.
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#USPolitics #mindfulness
Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided country – here’s how ‘interbeing’ works
Meditation can change our perceptions about things we encounter in our daily lives − revealing the interconnectedness of reality.The Conversation
You're missing the real issue, though. Gerrymandering is absolutely allowed and even encouraged in the US system. That the map is gerrymandered is not relevant to this question.
The question in the case is whether the METHOD of gerrymandering was legal. And the specific question before the Supreme Court here is whether the lower court followed proper procedure.
SCOTUS found that the lower court didn't follow legal procedure, so it stayed the lower court decision.
New research shows ranked choice voting works better than the usual “pick one” system, helping elect candidates most voters actually support and avoiding spoiler chaos.
We’re curious what you think: Should more places try it?
theconversation.com/ranked-cho…
#USPolitics #Election
Ranked choice voting outperforms the winner-take-all system used to elect nearly every US politician
Ranked choice voting largely avoids the pitfalls of plurality voting, giving voters the power to express their true candidate preferences rather than being strategic.The Conversation
Stolen territories in Ukraine
#Ukraine #warinukraine #uspeaceplan #territories #uspolitics
Today #Trump supporters are crowing about how he keeps winning over every court that comes after him, he's a force of nature that no one can land a hand on, because he's just so awesome, and a rebuke against politicized use of the courts.
Trump keeps winning!
Meanwhile, outside of that uninformed echo chamber...
Unfortunately, this gets into the thorny question of whether something is a lie if the speaker really believes it.
The #Trump admin actually believes a lot of things that are factually wrong. Courts have trouble addressing such situations as they're supposed to be arbitrators of law, not of fact, so they're generally supposed to judge based on the record that's put before them.
It says a lot that these days have reenergized debates among legal scholars as to when factual errors are so egregious that a court has to call them out.
A federal judge tossed the indictments against James Comey and Letitia James — but “without prejudice.”
That key phrase means the DOJ could try again, if it fixes what the judge ruled was the unauthorized appointment of the prosecutor who brought the cases.
For Comey, though, the clock may have already run out.
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‘Without prejudice’: What this 2-word legalese means for the dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James
The dismissals do not mean that these prosecutions are over.The Conversation
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Good thing for us maybe USA need to copy us on this for a change
#usa #us #uspol #uspolitic #uspolitics #trump #republican #democrat #lesbian #gay #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqi #lgbtqia
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Top court rules EU nations must mutually recognize same-sex marriages The Court of Justice of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday that any refusal to do this 'is contrary to EU law' and 'infringes not only the freedom to move and resid…European News 🇪🇺 (Mastodon)
laugh about how it was always a joke, because it goes both ways: the deal didn't promise Ukraine security, but it also didn't promise the US the minerals the president kept crowing about.
It was a little stunt that both Ukrainian and US officials pulled just to get Trump to shut up and let the adults talk.
I can't believe Ukraine isn't grateful that Witkoff took a Russian plan for Ukrainian capitulation, ran it through Google Translate, and mandated that Zelenskyy accept it by Thursday!
My soul is shattered over the impact of Americans having not elected Kamala. All the pain and suffering — domestically as well as in Ukraine and elsewhere — could have been avoided.
Things are going to get much, much worse, and my heart breaks for #Ukraine.
#Trump #USPol #USPolitics
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Ukraine war: Trump says Ukraine ungrateful as officials meet to convince Kyiv to accept peace proposals
Ukraine's allies have expressed concern that the plan favours Russia, but Zelensky says Kyiv's interests could be included.BBC News
Labour union leaders and community members in the Bay Area led a picket outside of Oak Airport this week, to demand an end to its military shipments to the Israeli occupation.
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#GlobaliseTheIntifada #FreePalestine #StopArmingIsrael #USPolitics
Thirty thousand high school students in Charlotte NC walked out of class on Wednesday to protest ICE raids in their city.
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#USPolitics #FuckICE #GlobaliseTheIntifada
Watching the screw-ups in the Comey prosecution right now I'm just thinking #TACO , #Trump Always Chickens Out, should be joined by #TOFU , Trump Only Fs Up.
Because seriously... OK his supporters claim that he's not chickening out, that was the plan all along, but there's really no way to get around the F ups.
And this is a historically giant screw up.
“Jeffrey Epstein is not unique,” says a child sex trafficking expert. Actually, his case is “absolutely classic” in reflecting a wider pattern of how powerful (usually white and wealthy) men exploit vulnerable children.
Low prosecution rates, victim-blaming and systemic failures let trafficking flourish.
Let’s dive into the facts:
theconversation.com/jeffrey-ep…
#news #Epstein #Congress #USPolitics
‘Jeffrey Epstein is not unique’: What his case reveals about the realities of child sex trafficking
Child sex traffickers are typically white, wealthy men who often insulate themselves from detection and charges, according to a sexual exploitation scholar.The Conversation
“There’s certainly no Trumpism without Trump, but MAGA without Trump would be like the tea party.”
Anthropologist Alex Hinton says that’s why the Epstein files matter so much to MAGA — they sit at the intersection of anti-elite conspiracy theories, Christian morality politics and deep loyalty to Trump.
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#USPolitics #Epstein
Why MAGA is so concerned with Epstein − and why the files are unlikely to dent loyalty to Trump
President Donald Trump’s base has supported him through countless controversies. But they split from him over the release of the Epstein files. Why does MAGA care so much about this issue?The Conversation
Danielle Moodie Breaks Down Why America Still Isn't Ready for a Woman President
#GenderInequality #USPolitics #StillNotReady #MichelleObama #DanielleMoodie
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Danielle Moodie Breaks Down Why America Still Isn’t Ready
Danielle Moodie delivers a sharp analysis of Michelle Obama’s claim that America isn’t ready for a woman president, exposing the misogynyEgberto Willies (EgbertoWillies.com)
The #Texas redistricting case points directly at the mess that VRA has caused, which landed the law in front of the #SCOTUS earlier this year.
In the district court's order blocking the new map you can see arguments echoing those against the VRA in the Supreme Court.
I think a lot of people are going to be upset about the VRA challenge but celebrate the Texas ruling without realizing their contradiction.
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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#News #Women #Health #Abortion #Pregnancy #Texas #Law #USPolitics
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.andrea.wise@propublica.org (ProPublica)
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
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Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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#News #AndrewTate #WhiteHouse #DHS #Law #USPolitics #Trump #Epstein
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Here's a link to the #Epstein files bill that the #House is to vote on.
