Katherine Hirschfeld

Crypto and meme assets are being used by transnational organized crime syndicates—especially mafia state leaders—to undermine global democratic and accountability institutions.

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Authorities sound alarm on new money laundering threats The latest National Money Laundering Risk Assessment finds up to £10 billion in illicit flows through UK property each year

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Up to £10 billion could be laundered through UK property each year, according to the latest government risk assessment.

From opaque trusts to crypto schemes, criminals are finding new ways to hide dirty money.

Read more ⤵️
www.transparency.org.uk/news/authori...

For what it’s worth, the Toronto Star has the best archival search function I’ve found. Miles ahead of US papers.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

If you’re a US researcher, now is the time to establish a plan B The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths.

If you're a US researcher, now is the time to establish a plan B

The author, a Professor of medicine, has turned to growing fruit to supplement his income.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This. 100%.

I told my students reading essays generated by AI is like hosting a pot luck dinner party where all the guests bring plastic food.

I’ve officially become the person who goes outside to take pictures of the tornado passing overhead.

Not looking good Oklahoma.

A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...

"We’re a tech-forward, future-oriented company that doesn’t shy away from the promise of new innovation—even if that innovation is a Giant Plagiarism Machine™ that copy-pastes existing innovation into fake sentient sentences."

Everyone is invited to enjoy this video of bunnies playing in my yard.

Law enforcement groups are alarmed by Treasury's gutting of the Corporate Transparency Act "If we abandon our own enforcement tools... we invite cartels and traffickers to hide their profits here, undermining [our] border security and law enforcement efforts"

thehill.com/opinion/5263...

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’ After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”

Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.

The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Last minute additions to the budget dismantle tenure, take aim at public universities One Democrat said higher education institutions are "slowly being destroyed."

Indiana University has served the young people of the state and the country and the world as a model public university. These measures, passed without review or discussion, destroy IU’s independence and will if allowed to stand undo its essential character. (1/3)
www.axios.com/local/indian...

Wife of former senator Bob Menendez found guilty in corruption case Prosecutors described Nadine Menendez as a liaison between then-Sen. Bob Menendez and the contacts who paid him, seeking bribes and sharing in illegal profits.

Breaking news: Nadine Menendez, 58, was convicted of bribery, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit those crimes and related counts after a roughly month-long trial in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. She faces the possibility of decades in prison.

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand.

You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls

RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

The Economic Consequences of State Capture Oligarchs are warping markets and corrupting economies around the world.

I have a new piece out in Foreign Affairs on how #statecapture ruins economies and livelihoods...

www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

I KNEW IT!

NWS Louisville doesn’t have enough staffing to cover NWS surveys. They now have to verify tornadoes via social media pictures.

Poem by @silashouse.bsky.social
Title: John Prine

#poetry #poem #JohnPrine #KYPoetLaureate

Bird flu continues to spread as Trump’s pandemic experts are MIA Vacancies in a key office of pandemic preparedness raise concern.

The office tasked with coordinating the federal government's response to pandemic threats, including bird flu, has been sidelined by President Trump and sits nearly empty.

Someone should create a bloviation index.

Oklahoma has been on fire all day. This is the air quality index.

How Trump Sold America Out to His Kleptocratic Friends While the American people get saddled with the staggering cost of his trade war, the president has given the world’s worst actors the license to misbehave.

In 2021, a bipartisan group passed the Corporate Transparency Act, enacting America’s first shell company registry—the single-greatest anti-corruption step the U.S. had taken in decades.

And with a single statement, the Trump White House cancelled it.

Treasury Department won’t enforce beneficial ownership rule under the Corporate Transparency Act - ICIJ The rule, which was held up in court for the last few months, would require foreign and domestic companies to disclose their true owners.

📰 Another great piece from @icij.org on the recent suspension of #CTA enforcement.

🚨 Both TI US and our colleagues at @factcoalition.bsky.social warn that this move weakens our country's national security and risks FATF “grey-listing.”

Read more HERE ⤵️

www.icij.org/inside-icij/...

Under the heading “Peak Operational Efficiency,” a person sits at a computer with speech bubbles that say variations of “You’re Fired!” and “Back to Work!,” in addition to directives and retractions regarding sending the manager a list of five accomplishments.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Sarah Kempa. #NewYorkerCartoons
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Treasury Reopens the Floodgates to Dirty Money in the U.S. The Treasury Department’s decision to limit reporting requirements under the landmark Corporate Transparency Act to only foreign entities is a boon for fentanyl traffickers, domestic criminals, and ta...

An illegal and unconstitutional move which will reopen the floodgates for dirty money to flow into (and in) the U.S. Read our @factcoalition.bsky.social reaction. thhttps://thefactcoalition.org/treasury-reopens-the-floodgates-to-dirty-money-cta/

Corruption is the most important story in the world, part 214

New Bright Line Watch report brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-...

-Expert ratings of US democracy at post-2016 low
-55% of Trump-aligned Rs approve of "strong leader who does not have to bother w/Congress"
-Jan 6 pardons, exec branch firings, Musk influence rated as grave threats

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Texas Measles Outbreak Nears 100 Cases, Raising Concerns About Undetected Spread - KFF Health News Health officials expect a measles outbreak in West Texas to exceed 100 cases because of low vaccination rates and undetected infections. Vaccine misinformation and new laws may make such situations mo...

🚨Texas measles outbreak nears 100 cases, w/16 hospitalizations. Officials suspect it's spilled just across the border to New Mexico.

Low vax rates+undetected infections mean it will grow.

“This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better”

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