"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

How Trump is Pumping The Great Crypto Grift "Everyone is lying to you for money," concludes the actor and author @benmckenzie.bsky.social, who spent years investigating the great Crypto grift that has made Trump nearly $5 billion. thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-trump-...

We aren't dumb. Your company launched Trump's corrupt crypto coin. You greased the wheels of the massively corrupt UAE "trade secrets for cash" deal. You basically did whatever crooked thing Trump asked. And then, voila - your billionaire owner gets a pardon! C'mon.

In case you needed another reason not to vote for this loser, OKX is now an admit money launderer. “One was OKX, an offshore cryptocurrency exchange that hired the former governor in 2024 as it came under scrutiny by the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors for operating illegally in the United States.”

Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over? Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen. www.ft.com/content/4855...

As predicted www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

Behold: Republican permitting reform.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.

Please pay attention to this. It’s dirty as hell. 👇

No Kings rally in BK ❤️

Wahoo wah motherf#*cker

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Had the privilege of seeing 'Everyone Is Lying to You for Money' at its US premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival yesterday, and the honor of speaking with director @benmckenzie.bsky.social after the screening. You need to see this incredible documentary! letterboxd.com/unequalized/...

Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.

New today: my essay in @jodemocracy.bsky.social on The Golden Age of Transnational Repression: www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the...

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI. Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

David Cross folks.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You are praising a conman in your own party while simultaneously saying you will fight the conman in The White House. The former is why no one believes you on the later.

They're going to use the Comey case to break the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, just like they used the Adams case to break the office in the Southern District of New York.

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Barstool's Kirk Minihane called the extreme right "the biggest group of pussies that has ever existed in America" @timmiller.bsky.social talked to him today about that and much more.

This story is wild. Even for crypto. Worth a read.

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Growing evidence that this is the most corrupt White House in history. Trump has tripled his net worth based on corrupt, illegal crypto schemes. Trading access to the White House and national security secrets for foreign investments that make money for him and his advisors.

Ta-Nehisi Coates has done the reading web.archive.org/web/20250916...

Charlie Kirk’s killing turned into memecoin spectacle protos.com/charlie-kirk...

Shreveport, LA, the largest city in Speaker Mike Johnson's district, has a murder rate more than twice Chicago's, and a crime rate considerably higher than both the state and national average. And Johnson isn't calling for the military to invade it. One of many ways we know this isn't about crime.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

"You're a charlatan. That's what you are." -- Cantwell to RFK Jr

Thankfully this has nothing to do with “crypto mining”…right?

Golden Age of Fraud

DOGE, the fake govt agency named after a fraudulent meme coin is a fraud? No one could have seen this coming 🤦🏼‍♂️

What does this even mean? Also, what “concrete steps” can Mamdani take prior to getting elected? And once he’s elected, isn’t an endorsement meaningless?

ICYMI, the eye-popper in today's PPI: a 39% rise in wholesale fresh vegetable prices. It's the largest month-on-month increase ever recorded in the summer (data to 1947), and one of the ten largest ever, regardless of season. With the estimable @alexjamesfitz.com www.axios.com/2025/08/14/i...

Crypto: like subprime, but dumber.

Mark my words: this will happen. The most corrupt President in American history.

The future of money

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.

So @mattyglesias.bsky.social is doing that thing where he tells you what my post says without linking to it. Here's how it actually starts. I'm waiting to hear his response to my question: "what happens when regulatory arbitrage isn't good?" Is it because the Abundance agenda falls apart then?

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Please do this 🙏

Schumer caving on the budget will probably be seen as the biggest legislative mistake of this administration but that crypto bill is gaining fast and probably ends up being an early exhibit in explaining how we lost a republic

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.