Amanda Mull

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.

New York

Yeah I lived in a huge, poorly maintained 90-year-old stone building at the time and I was like, huh, don’t really love that this place shook hard enough for me to see it

The density of things that can go wrong here is just so high

Felt the hell out of the last one—I was wfh and on my standard morning call with my editor and it sounded like a truck had crashed into the low subway overpass down the block (again) but then I looked at my closet and all the clothes were swaying back and forth. So that phone call was over.

Didn’t feel the earthquake :(

My boyfriend is hoarding all the boy hobbies for himself. I think that’s the reason. None to go around, he’s already doing them all

I was once literally one single second away from ending up in an elevator with Mr. Met in a Game of Thrones costume

Citi is a bizarrely good operation in nearly every respect. We had really delicious cheesesteaks tonight? The helmet nachos are very serious??

Really confusing for my emotions that the hand signal for safe in baseball and incomplete pass in football are the same

Yeah she’s gotta be the same. Long braid?

She has all the traits but height

Give one of them the Pirates and the other the As

I’m at the Mets game and the hypewoman on top of the dugout in front of us doing flips and chucking t-shirts into the crowd has such an incredible arm—like, she winged a couple into the second deck no prob—that the dads around me are just marveling with each other. “Man I tell ya, she’s got a GUN!”

The drama this little guy would have about e v e r y t h i n g

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
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I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

The same way “Moneyball” made what used to be passionate fans into cap nerds and analytics experts I think it’s turned a lot of regular people into amateur VCs.

Negotiating With Terrorists, Unsuccessfully How to lose ideological battles by believing in nothing.

America's most prestigious universities fundamentally believe in nothing except themselves. Their capacity to lose ideological battles is therefore infinite.
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FOIAball College football's weirdest, wildest, and biggest secrets.

FOIAball is here: foiaball.com

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I can’t wait for you to meet these vampires! THE RED SACRAMENT coming July 2026 from @titanbooks.bsky.social

Got to work only slightly delayed and I attribute it all to the power of this Long Island man’s pure gruffness

STAND CLEAH

This man is SO irritated and I love him. He sounds like he has a mustache

Every time we’ve pulled into an express stop there’s been a train that doesn’t belong there at all across the platform and out of service. I may be on the only moving train in the city right now

The conductor on this train has a really wonderful New York accent at least

Folks were running it back today. I got on a train at my stop that usually doesn’t come to my stop and we’re gonna see how far we get

From the DoggyDNA community on Reddit: DNA results for our Sato (puerto Rican street dog) VERY SURPRISED Explore this post and more from the DoggyDNA community

I’m obsessed with this subreddit, where people post a bunch of pics of their dog and then, at the end of the carousel, the breed mix results from a DNA test kit. Among other things the world is just full of little chihuahua lotharios making mutts small. www.reddit.com/r/DoggyDNA/c...

I don’t follow baseball soooo

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