Christopher Deutsch

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When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data

I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key

I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed.

www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

Escalating the use of the military on US soil through directly linking immigration to the war on terror

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.

And in the 1990s!
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Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels Chris Booth’s channel – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months

The Guardian has identified the man behind an openly extremist YouTube channel. Rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism & racism, it's garnered 50k subs, 2.3m views & likely thousands of dollars from YouTube’s revenue-sharing monetization program. From @jasonaw.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/...

Georgia detainee with prosthetic legs who objected to flooded cell sent to solitary Rodney Taylor placed in ‘restrictive unit’ for refusing to enter flooded cell because his prosthetic legs can’t get wet

This isn’t jail...it’s an Abu Ghraib remake. A double-amputee detainee in solitary? That’s not security...it’s sadism. Georgia’s system just proved how low America can sink when cruelty goes official.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The question to ask here is: What would a Democratic Miller even want? Stephen Miller has a crystal clear picture of the America he believes should exist in his head. It motivates him. It determines the policies he prioritizes and the strategies he chooses. What would be the Democratic equivalent?

Excellent piece!

1/3 It's official, our grants from the NIH/NIEHS have all been suspended. We were aiming to understand how arsenic, a chemical that millions of Americans are exposed to at high levels, is disrupting the epigenetic machinery.

Also check out @hzeavin.bsky.social 's terrific book The Distance Cure (includes discussions of ELIZA)

chart: capital expenditures, quarterly shows hockey-stick like growth in the capex expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and meta, almost entirely on data centers in the most recent quarter it was nearly $100 billion, collectively

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/

The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance.

In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

If you are teaching Intro to US Politics/American Government at the college level this coming year and would like a place to share resources, ideas, and questions, please join our Slack! Email me at sara.chatfield @ du.edu for the link.

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Just got out of the Naked Gun. It was cute and a fun throwback.

Since the mid-1980s, he had been obsessed with trade deficits and using tariffs to win them. To him, trade deficits are other countries stealing money from the US. To his mind, he is finally getting his revenge.

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

Gaza has recorded the most health-care worker deaths (over 1400 deaths), UN deaths (295) & journalist deaths (212) than in any recent conflict zone.

Life expectancy at birth dropped 35 yrs in 2024. From Oct '23-May '25, there were 720 attacks on healthcare targets www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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One would think...

Border Patrol arrested an LA cyclist for looking ‘startled and nervous’ court records show A federal judge blocked immigration agents from detaining people based solely on race or language as felony charges mount against residents who resisted deportation raids."

"Border Patrol agents arrested Russell Gomez Dzul and questioned him about his citizenship after they thought he appeared 'startled and nervous' while riding his bicycle [..] even though the agents were searching for someone else suspected of a crime."
#California #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

While Giuffre's family was giving this statement, Trump was in the White House briefing room with former Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, arrested in 2010 for raping a 16-year-old

Trump knew Epstein used Mar-a-Lago ‘to try to procure girls’ The nation is consumed by speculation about the Epstein files. Trump’s admission may provide a critical clue, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.

"An old item from the New York Post shows that the poaching and the creeping were two sides of the same coin."

The latest by @beyerstein.bsky.social for the EB.

www.editorialboard.com/trump-knew-e...

Poll shows decline in belief that Blacks and Asians face racial discrimination Meanwhile, about three in 10 people said DEI increased discrimination against white people.

the idea that “DEI” is to blame for racist assumptions about the ability of nonwhite people and not actual racism is such a perfect example of racecraft www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

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I’m afraid the boring conclusion is “the BLS is now massively understaffed and trying to rejig its methods to maintain accuracy while coping with way fewer employees”

rather than “the government has gone full Krushchev five year plan and is just making up data now”

Lots of (appropriate) outrage about the Brown student survey meddling but I’ve heard less nationally about what’s going on in Ohio (state inserting a required “bias” question into our surveys & requiring we be reviewed on it).

Please share widely: “LinkedIn’s quiet decision to retract longstanding, best-practice hate speech protections for transgender and nonbinary people is an overt anti-LGBTQ move — and one that should alarm everyone," a spokesperson for @glaad.bsky.social said in a statement.