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Trump opens door for 401(k) retirement plans to invest in private equity and crypto Millions of Americans saving for retirement throughΒ 401(k) accountsΒ could have the option of putting their money in higher-risk private equity and cryptocurrency investments, according to anΒ executive...

"Trump opens door for 401(k) retirement plans to invest in private equity and crypto."

09.08.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Has anyone else noticed how Trump is always pardoning corporate criminals, human traffickers and pedophiles?

09.08.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Flattery, Lobbyists and a Business Deal: Crypto’s Richest Man Campaigns for a Pardon

NEW: Trump’s team appears to be considering pardoning Binance founder CZ.

He pleaded guilty in 2023 to money laundering violations that allowed terrorist groups to move $.

Since then, Binance has done a $2B deal that benefited Trump’s crypto firm.

A pardon could allow more deals +access to the US

09.08.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 26
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Donald Trump Is Mostly a Crypto Billionaire Now, Group Says Traditional business ventures now make up less than half of Donald Trump’s wealth compared to crypto, says a new analysis from Accountable.US.

β€œThe more the President’s wealth depends on anonymous investors around the world with hidden agendas, the greater the risk.”

09.08.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

Here's another angle of the same attack on @plasticjesusart.bsky.social. At 0:31 you can see Nick hold up his press ID before an officer attacks him.

09.08.2025 06:49 β€” πŸ‘ 164    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

HUGE kudos to attorneys @peterbibring.bsky.social and @westonrowland.bsky.social, who got down to LAPD's riot tonight. There are two photojournalists who LAPD cuffed and weren't going to release (at least one taken away in a squad car), but apparently may be out any moment thanks to their efforts.

09.08.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 180    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crowd is growing and chanting ICE out of LA

09.08.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Absolutely brutal and unwarranted arrest by DHS in front of the detention center just now

09.08.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 310    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 10
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LAPD came in to clear and several people have been injured

09.08.2025 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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Live updates: Police officer killed after shooter appeared to target CDC headquarters in Atlanta, sources say | CNN A police officer was killed during an active shooter incident at on the campus of Emory University in Atlanta, according to a law enforcement official. The shooter is also dead, according to authoriti...

If the shooter at Emory/CDC did in fact believe he was sick from a Covid vaccine, this violence has been stoked and incited for a very long time. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

08.08.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1595    πŸ” 402    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 28
Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through July 2025. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 428 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.

Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through July 2025. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 428 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.

Carbon dioxide (COβ‚‚) averaged about 428 ppm in July 2025

10 years ago July averaged about 401 ppm

Preliminary data from @noaa.gov at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

09.08.2025 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

09.08.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5672    πŸ” 2288    πŸ’¬ 541    πŸ“Œ 283
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Here’s the moment LAPD ordered media along with protestors against the wall, despite requests for a supervisor as well as reminders that PC409.7(b) specifically exempts media from dispersal orders. Never made contact with a PIO. didn’t speak with a supervisor for a very long time after being cuffed.

09.08.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 252    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 8
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Los Angeles, CA -

The two protesr groups today have converged in front of metro detention center. 100+ people here now, lots of energy. DHS is outside the lot in riot gear. A second group of DHS inside the lot.

09.08.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Los Angeles, CA -

Greetings! I’m here in Westlake, where a group of several dozen are having a pro-immigration rally, and promising to have a (rather long) march. There’s a (almost certainly unrelated) fire a few blocks away.

W/ @melbuer.bsky.social

09.08.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 355    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 9
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A Fight Is Brewing in the Midwest Over Immigrant Mass Detention As ICE expands its presence across the Midwest, activists fight the reopening of private prisons to jail migrants.

ICE is shifting people around to county jails until prisons in Michigan and Kansas get up to speed, which are often hidden out of sight. Local residents may not even know their towns are holding people for ICE.

08.08.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

And yeah Biden should have absolutely reclassified it at the very least. Such an easy win smh

09.08.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Loomer, who has serious influence on this admin, is now arguing that the military is "disloyal" if they publicly praise past medal winners if they were Democrats.

09.08.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 683    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 5

"Karsh, a creative entrepreneur who lost his spouse, develops a machine designed to communicate with deceased individuals."

It's probably not going to cheer you up, but perhaps it will distract you nonetheless.

09.08.2025 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Karsh, a creative entrepreneur who lost his spouse, develops a machine designed to communicate with deceased individuals."

It's probably not going to cheer you up, but perhaps it will distract you nonetheless.

09.08.2025 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Stop the steal!' MAGA rep files bill for citizens-only Census following Trump's demand A freshman Republican has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives to mandate a citizens-only U.S. census, following a demand from President Donald Trump. But legal scholars say the Cons...

"'Stop the steal!' MAGA rep files bill for citizens-only Census following Trump's demand"

09.08.2025 02:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WA state employee stopped at Canada border, held by ICE in Texas, union says A Washington state employee and her son were detained by ICE at the Canadian border, according to a news release from the Washington Federation of State Employees.

"Sarah Shaw and her son were detained at the border after dropping off Shaw’s two eldest children at Vancouver International Airport, according to the news release. The two were driving back home to Everett."

Her son is 6. This must be terrifying for him.

09.08.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5
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Texas AG Ken Paxton Files Lawsuit To Vacate 13 Democratic House Seats The lawsuit from Paxton is one of several ways Texas officials have pressured Democrats to return to the state for a vote on a congressional redistricting expected to add five Republican seats in the ...

Can you fucking believe this?

09.08.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Texas GOP Uses Emergency Flood Relief to Push Trans Bathroom Ban After deadly flooding in Texas, Republicans used an emergency legislative session called to tackle the state’s most pressing issue: where trans people pee.

1. Texas Republicans are attempting to use the devastating floods to push... a trans bathroom ban.

That's right, the emergency session which has been billed as primarily for flood relief is being used to sneak in anti-trans legislation.

The latest from S. Baum.

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09.08.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1074    πŸ” 359    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 22
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According to a speaker here in front of Metro Detention Center Los Angeles, Trebach is currently in custody here.

09.08.2025 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Greetings! I’m here at Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. Union del Barrio is holding a press conference regarding the detention of Amanda β€œMandy” Trebach earlier today by federal agents. Trebach was volunteering as a community defender.

W/ @melbuer.bsky.social

09.08.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 305    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4

Gee, it's almost like bending over and placating unreasonable demands from a fascist government doesn't actually satisfy them and only emboldens them to take more.

Huh, would could have possibly predicted that?

09.08.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes, this is how you fight, Governor!

08.08.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 20972    πŸ” 4539    πŸ’¬ 565    πŸ“Œ 235

Wow: Seattle's updated election counts puts Katie Wilson, the progressive candidate for mayor, *above* 50% in the primary.

She now leads Mayor Bruce Harrell 50.2% to 41.7%.

The two will head to a November general election no matter what, but this is a mighty first-round lead for the challenger.

08.08.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 564    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 10
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BREAKING: In 2-1 ruling, DC Circuit overturns Judge Boasberg's order initiating contempt proceedings against Trump admin over Alien Enemies Act Deportations. Majority Katsas (Trump)/Rao (Trump). Dissent: Pillard (Obama). Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

08.08.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 324    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 45

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