Tom O'Malley

Days after $5M donation, Trump administration backs Crypto.com in lawsuit In a document quietly filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday night, MAGA Inc., the primary Super PAC supporting President Trump, revealed that it received a $5 million donation from Cryp...

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Frustrated Illinois congressional candidates call super PAC influence 'buying a seat' The 2nd Congressional District is especially hit hard by super PAC influence, with Fairshake, a pro-crypto PAC funded primarily by Trump megadonors and business partners Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowi...

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Messy Retaliation Allegations at Binance - Radical Compliance Fortune Magazine says cryptocurrency platform Binance has fired five investigators who uncovered $1 billion in transactions going to Iran.

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After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.

Brilliant idea. Can we put his name on it as well....that would make it special

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Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S. Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

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Trump administration expands ICE authority to detain refugees By Ted Hesson and Devika Madhusudhanan Nair WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has given immigration officers broader powers to detain legal refugees awaiting a green card to

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How deregulation made electricity more expensive, not cheaper Deregulation promised competition but delivered middlemen instead.

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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

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Apparently “America First” means promising foreign countries financial assistance from US taxpayers but only if they vote for the incumbent president trailing in the polls.

Robot Dogs Are on Going on Patrol at the 2026 World Cup in Mexico The Mexican city of Guadalupe, which will host portions of the 2026 World Cup, recently showed off four new robot dogs that will help provide security during matches at BBVA Stadium.

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Anthropic gives $20 million to group pushing for AI regulations ahead of 2026 elections Public First Action is taking on a PAC backed by the AI industry, supporting candidates who favor more regulation.

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That's my story 👍 -- we're staying on this and watching for further developments.

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Trump says Gordie Howe bridge won't open without Canadian concessions Canada has footed the entire cost of the $5.7-billion Gordie Howe bridge construction project, aiming to recover costs through toll collections.

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Republicans are pushing to drastically change the way you cast ballots Explaining the SAVE Act, which Republicans in Congress are voting on this week.

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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Turns out firing career diplomats and replacing them with Trump loyalists who learned international relations from Truth Social has consequences. Who knew. #holdfast

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More Than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts With ICE and CBP The campaign is among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month.

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Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics | TechCrunch The use of administrative subpoenas, which are not subject to judicial oversight, are used to demand a wealth of information from tech companies, including the owners of anonymous online accounts docu...

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Good luck. Has he apologized for anything in his life?

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The story behind the midnight immigration raid on a South Side apartment building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about "ille...

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Trump’s Eighteen Trillion Dollar Hoax Yet this totally imaginary $18 trillion political talking point continues to be repeated endlessly in the hope that nobody in the public or press would ever be brave enough to rudely ask for some expl...

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For ICE protesters, high-tech punishment for standing up for what's right Is the Trump administration flirting with a Chinese-style "social credit system" to lash out at those protesting ICE abuses?

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Chicago's quantum park lands another global player Israel-based Quantum Machines will open a lab at Chicago’s South Works site, adding momentum to Illinois’ $500 million push to become a global hub for quantum computing.

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This is diabolical. That man was in the theater filming during the movie with his flash on 😂😂😂 Just to illustrate how empty it was 😂😂😂

Transparency in Decline as Data Breaches Hit New High The Identity Theft Resource Center tracked a record 3,322 U.S. data breaches in 2025, more than any previous year. Yet, only 30% of breach notices included

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Wedding Photo Booth Company Exposes Customers’ Drunken Photos ‘Curator Live’, a popular photo booth company for weddings and other events, is exposing all sorts of unsuspecting people’s photos.

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