How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

40% of Trump's wealth he has acquired in the six months since he became president. His immediate family is making a dizzying sum of money that would be unimaginable without his office, including profits from overseas deals and at least five different crypto ventures. How much does it all amount to?

In fact, all the places cited by Trump are NOT major violent crime centers. Memphis, St Louis, Kansas City and New Orleans are the top tier, and a dozen cities in the Southeast have still higher violent crime rates. These are all Republican-ruled localities.

Leak Reveals the Workaday Lives of North Korean IT Scammers Spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an alleged group of North Korean IT workers expose their meticulous job-planning and targeting—and the constant surveillance they're under.

New from me: North Korea's IT scammers are estimated to make at least $250 million per year by obtaining fraudulent work at companies.

A new cache of data—emails, spreadsheets, Slack messages—reveals how meticulously they plan and track job applications, earnings, and day-to-day work life

‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head After speaking out about the suppression of Hong Kong’s protests, Chloe Cheung was targeted by Beijing, followed on the street and abused online. Yet she remains defiant

‘I don’t expect to live a normal life’: how a Leeds teenager woke up with a Chinese bounty on her head

Monday mornings are never too pleasant, but I hope your week starts well, unless you're pro-Russian.

Another of my daily threads begins right now, I've still never missed a single day during Russia's full invasion & I've posted about Ukraine since pre-Maidan.

This is Day 1265

Project 2025 Would Increase Costs, Block Debt Cancellation for Student Loan Borrowers The radical Project 2025 policy agenda for student loan repayment would multiply costs for borrowers, increase defaults, and end existing programs that allow borrowers to earn cancellation.

Project 2025 Would Increase Costs, Block Debt Cancellation for Student Loan Borrowers - Center for American Progress share.google/zvHmu1K4HCeq...

There are a lot of idiots enraged by this misleading Times headline.

The article itself - yes, the exact same one - points out that:

A) In any typical year, about 50 independent schools close

B) More independent schools opened than shut, so the overall number went up.

But that's far too nuanced.

The Quiet Technocrat Who Enacts Putin’s Ruthless Agenda

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...

Antiquities Returned to Europe Include 16 Seized From the Met

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European officials told the US that Ukraine’s future cannot be discussed without Kyiv and that Europe will continue to provide weapons and funds regardless of the US position.

The outlet also reports the proposal sets a ceasefire as a prerequisite for any further steps. Any territorial “exchange” must be mutual—if Ukraine withdraws from some regions, Russia must withdraw from others.

Doug Wilson is a “Christian Nationalist” pastor & “biblical patriarchy” proponent whose new DC church is attended by Pete Hegseth. Israeli-American Yoram Hazony—whose Thiel-linked “NatCon” conferences helped propel JD Vance’s political career—platforms Wilson & Wilson’s associates & admirers. 1/

"The disaster would be investigated by journalists and by the authorities. Their diverging conclusions highlight the power of investigative journalism – and its stark limitations – within a compromised system."
#FactsMatter #OnlyFacts

UEFA has transferred millions to Russia (let’s not pretend the Russian football federation is independent from the regime) since it began its aggression against Ukraine. Meanwhile, it denied any compensation to Ukrainian clubs because their country is involved in a war. Hypocrisy, so much hypocrisy

I still find it darkly funny that a bunch of people went “I’ll never take the COVID vaccine because Big Pharma” while pushing Ivermectin as an alternative, which doesn’t work on viruses and is made by Merck.

Opinion | You Are Contaminated

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World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

The Guardian has a report: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mali: Army, Wagner Group Disappear, Execute Fulani Civilians Mali’s armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have committed dozens of summary executions and enforced disappearances of ethnic Fulani men since January 2025.

In April, Russian Wagner fighters & Malian soldiers executed as many as 65 Fulani herders & cattle traders from Sebabougou village in Mali after rounding them up and taking them toward an army camp. Dozens of them have been summarily executed since January
www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Say good riddance to education, healthcare, social security, medicaid, science, and government that works for "the people".

#CorruptTrumpAdmin

The great crime paradox Disorder is rising in public consciousness. Is it rising in reality?

This year is on course to show the lowest rate of violent crime in decades in both Britain and America. US rates of both violence in general and homicide specifically are down more than half from their modern peaks in the 1990s, and approaching record lows, to the consternation of demagogues.

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

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UK Fines London Firm $1.28M for Supplying Jet Fuel Used by Russian Military The UK government fined Superservice Ltd £1 million for violating sanctions related to Russian military aircraft fuel trade.

⚡ The UK government has issued a financial penalty of approximately $1.28 million to London-based company Superservice Ltd for breaching Russia-related sanctions.

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, says Russia's war economy is being directed towards going to war with NATO by 2030.

NATO has no plans to interrupt this timeline, even though it could easily do so by defeating the Russian invasion army in Ukraine.

Nino Datashvili, a Georgian schoolteacher imprisoned for resisting court bailiffs, is now being forced to undergo psychiatric evaluation.

The basis? A 2019 medical document noting that Nino has spinal injury—and that she occasionally experienced emotional instability (like crying or sadness).

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down

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Tech investor Marc Andreessen’s VC firm, a16z, backs the “Solano Foundry” project in CA. Andreessen also backs the “Network State” movement, which seeks to build new cities w/ the goal of helping them amass enough power that they can become countries. How do we know they won’t try that here? 1/

Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal

Trump's key problem in his efforts to suppress solar power: it's already considerably cheaper than fossil fuel energy. www.scientificamerican.com/article/wind...

From Russia(to Jeffrey), with Love The Epstein saga is even more interesting when you look at the Russian women who helped run his operation. Here's a look at Svetlana Pozhidaeva.

From Russia(to Jeffrey), with Love

The Epstein saga is even more interesting when you look at the Russian women who helped run his operation. Here's a look at Svetlana Pozhidaeva.

open.substack.com/pub/craigung...