Amazing series. I had never heard of Fania Mindel and now here she is — a missed turn of the birth control movement. And here, what she stands for, the imperative of translation in a Pluralistic democracy., and an alternative universalist path still available to be taken against the eugenicists.

Oh yeah that’s the good stuff, hit me heavy with that. *SOFTBANK, ARK IN TALKS TO INVEST IN MAJOR TETHER FUNDING ROUND

It's not lost on me that DOJ created their whistleblower program with a stated focus on bringing domestic bribery allegations to light at almost the exact same time as this undercover FBI operation

The cool thing about a dollar derivative that’s unregulated being valued extremely high is that

Every contract with the US govt I've ever seen has either an expressed or implied obligation to follow the Constitution, which includes the 8th Amendment last time I checked. Contrary to what some of these private prison companies may think, there are defined standards for adequate medical care

In 2021, I warned that “family offices”—investment firms that manage the $ of tech titans & other billionaires—have more assets combined ($6TN) than all of private equity ($4TN). Unlike PE, the public has NO insight into where they put that money. Zero. www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/o...

very much what observers are rightly recognizing is becoming a scam economy. we're really communicating that the road to riches is a quick scam or internet fame that can be fleetingly monetized it's having a distortionary effect on everything

The merging of gambling, sports betting, crypto “investing,” and securities trading continues apace and as @molly.wiki rightly points to, the risk is that the merge will result in a race to the regulatory bottom

Newsletter: I spoke to experts across financial regulation, gambling, and election law about prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. They claim to be trading platforms, they look like gambling sites, and the rules don’t fit. www.citationneeded.news/prediction-m...

Jameson Govoni is a co-founder of a hangover prevention company who had almost no public presence until his armed contractors arrived in the Middle East. Now, he is at the center of a highly controversial Israeli and US-backed food distribution scheme in Gaza that experts say has been a disaster.

The political theory grad student buried within me has to grudgingly admire Robinhood's continual push for the Hegelian synthesis in all accepted financial dichotomies

My AI safety bill received final Senate passage & is on its way to the Governor! SB 53 requires large AI labs to be transparent about their safety protocols, creates whistleblower protections for employs at AI labs & creates a public cloud to expand compute access (CalCompute).

You don’t realize how much of parenting is talking (or “talking”) until you lose your voice

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

Bloomberg has responded to Justin Sun’s renewed motion for a temporary restraining order. “This is a case involving a crypto billionaire who is upset because a news report said he had more of a certain cryptocurrency than he wanted the public to know.”

Every story about crypto is a story about fraud.

New Meta whistleblower says WhatsApp was shockingly unprotected: just 6 security engineers, 100,000 account hacks/day, exposed metadata. Businesses, journalists, activists, families rely on it daily. We helped protect this worker as he brought his story to the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/t...

New SEC Cross-Border Task Force targets foreign companies engaging in market manipulation and gatekeepers who help them access US markets. Whistleblowers with tips about cross-border violations, particularly international #whistleblowers, may be eligible for 10-30% of penalties. Learn more:

1/ If you live in SF/Bay Area: realize that if @governor.ca.gov reneges on loan to tide agency over, the service cuts will be DEVASTATING to a functioning city. People of all kinds—and especially low-wage workers and school kids—depend on it. Here's what to do... www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman suggests Eric Adams drop out of the New York mayoral race, but first "place a large bet on Andrew Cuomo and then announce your withdrawal from the race" to "fund [his] future".

On Sept 16, whistleblower @reazlepuff.bsky.social ‪‪publishes I Am Not Your Enemy. Prosecuted under the Espionage Act, she served the longest sentence ever for leaking docs. Her story underscores the profound personal toll of whistleblowing. #whistleblower #memoir

Last Friday, Aug. 29, marked the 20th #anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It was a day to remember lives lost and forever changed. It’s also a reminder that fraudsters exploited relief efforts, and #whistleblowers played a key role in exposing and stopping the fraud.

@harrylitman.bsky.social kindly turned over the reins of his #talkingfeds substack to @erichavian.bsky.social and @poppyalexander.whistleblower.law for a guest post on the new #antitrust whistleblower program. harrylitman.substack.com/p/trumps-tra...

A few questions here: who charged 200M? Did they know it was being constructed illegally? Did they hide important facts to get the contract? Will it be the same companies double dipping by also now deconstructing the facility?

I realize the pros on here will be gobsmacked at the clownishness of it all but the real scandal is that a critical law enforcement function - responding to crime, supporting victims, and exposing criminals - has been all but entirely privatized when it comes to the internet.

basic human rights are not something u put up to debate like some influencer game show shit

"Everything is sports, and everything will be commodities fraud." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

If the govt starts nationalizing the defense industry, do taxpayers just pay themselves the inevitable False Claims Act settlement dollars?

The Bank Secrecy Act requires financial institutions to maintain programs to know their customers and detect suspicious activity. But it is up to banks to design those programs. The regulations don’t even require that the programs be effective.

Watching from afar the sheer FUN NYers are having right now and can’t stop thinking about Eva Patersons keynote at this year’s @impactfund.bsky.social gala — truly this is what it means to “be a vessel of nourishing joy” vimeo.com/1098592193?f...

What a saga from the @wsj.com : a billionaire heiress from Canada, her less wealthy friend--and crypto investments gone bad. Now a lawsuit. www.wsj.com/articles/tay...

The government either shouldn't give taxpayer handouts to big corporations, or if it does, taxpayers should be guaranteed collateral or a return on our investment. The current model of giving away taxpayer cash to big corporations & taxpayers getting nothing in return = a form of elite theft.

to be fair the flex move by an Intel shareholder would be to seek books and records under DGCL 220.

"This might be the one time a DAO would actually make sense."

All that AND a bag of chips?!?

NEW REPORT: "Criminal groups are using gold to launder drug money, evade sanctions, finance enemy regimes, and undermine U.S. laws." Read the @factcoalition.bsky.social report now. thefactcoalition.org/illegal-gold...

A+ headline defector.com/it-took-many...

That fraud Platner references? Fortunately, taxpayers did get some of their money back via whistleblower-brought False Claims Act cases. But Platner is right the scope is much bigger than people realize and everyone, not just progressives, should be very angry at the corporations stealing our money

I’ve been saying this for a while: anti-fraud is a winning progressive message. This is from Graham Platner, who’s running for Senate in Maine

too much beef --> climate change --> ticks --> less beef --> less climate change????

Two years after OceanGate’s Titan tragedy, a USCG report confirmed what whistleblower David Lochridge had warned: safety concerns were ignored in a toxic workplace. A #whistleblower reward program could help prevent the next disaster by ensuring warnings are heeded, not ignored.

How anyone could read about this scheme and think, yep, we need more stablecoins is beyond me

Crucially, whistleblower David Lochridge brought safety issues to OceanGate leadership as early as 2018- only to be ignored, fired, and eventually sued by the company. His story could’ve saved lives. We need to listen to workers. Read his accounting here: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just last month, US Treasury imposed a record fine of $216m on a venture capital fund for sanctions violations, widely seen by lawyers as a warning shot to the fund industry. But yesterday US Treasury exempted the fund industry from anti-money laundering checks for at least two years.

Transparency must come before trust, especially in AI. We're proud to support @aiwi-official.bsky.social's ‬call for companies to publish their #whistleblower policies. It's a baseline for accountability. Learn more: aiwi.org/publishyourp... #PublishYourPolicies

"Unleashing U.S. Markets: Big Beautiful On-Chain Software Systems" is sending me www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...

On this month’s Fraud in America podcast, @poppyalexander.whistleblower.law and David Kovel break down DOJ’s new Antitrust Whistleblower Rewards Program—how it works, why it matters, and what whistleblowers should know. Listen here: www.taf.org/podcasts/ant...

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...