A company banned from New York, never audited in 12 years, is part-owned and custodied by the Commerce Secretary's family firm. His cabinet colleague decides whether it enters the American market.

Britain's likely next PM took a £5M gift from a Tether billionaire. Then he privately lobbied the Bank of England on stablecoin policy. Parliament's standards watchdog now has the receipts.

Ben Franklin warned us. On America's 250th, his warning came true — and so did his remedy. A thread on how our national birthday was walled off and offered for sale, and the tools the founders left us to take it back.

America turns 250 today. Congress built a nonpartisan commission to run the party. A House oversight report says a private LLC took it over instead — selling access, rerouting taxpayer funds and misleading donors. The receipts, in thread. #AntiCorruption

The NYT just reported that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick helped cut a $1.6B federal mining deal in Kazakhstan — and President Trump's sons took an undisclosed stake six days before it was signed. And it isn't just one deal. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

A Greenland mayor's open letter to an American oil CEO asks one question, who are you misleading? Robert Price tells US investors one story about Greenland's oil and tells the people who live there another. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

The product of corruption

This isn’t just Trump, though. The faction pushing this are all the whacky folks around Thiel.

Atlanta Black Star News: During the G7 Summit in France, Trump placed his left hand on Brigitte Macron and leaned toward her face, when she quickly stepped back, creating an uncomfortable public moment. Trump is a walking HR violation. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

What is wrong with him?

Michelle and I had fun surprising the first group of visitors to the Obama Presidential Center on Juneteenth. Come check it out!

🇺🇸🇺🇦 According to Regime Change book, Bessent privately urged Trump not to host Zelensky at the White House, - The Guardian Bessent referred to the Ukrainian president as a “little fucker,” “the special-needs child for the Europeans,” and “Mr Bean on crack.”

The pool is the metaphor. The Pentagon is the machine. ProPublica found a Don Jr.-connected rare-earth startup got a $620M Pentagon loan commitment after reported White House intervention. dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/american-p... #AntiCorruption

The green pool is one line item in a no-bid renovation spree: East Wing gone for a ballroom, an arch near Arlington, a Qatari jet eyed for Air Force One. Haste, spectacle, friendly vendors. dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/american-p... #FollowTheMoney

The VICE PRESIDENT heard from 2 real estate guys, so he declared the strait open... just minutes before Iran CLOSED IT again! How useless is JD? Pie all over his face again!

Trump declared the Reflecting Pool fixed for 100 years. Less than two weeks later, Reuters reported blue coating peeling into algae-tinted water. American flag blue became pond-scum green. dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/american-p... #Accountability

The $1.7M no-bid water contract for Trump's green Reflecting Pool went to Greenwater Services, tied to Trump donor John Cafaro, a two-time federal felon. The company name is Greenwater. The water turned green. dekleptocracy.substack.com/p/american-p... #FollowTheMoney

Exclusive: The U.S. is working with Qatar on a plan to make billions of dollars in frozen funds available to Iran for humanitarian spending

Imagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this — not in a million years. Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. 🇺🇸

There is no rift between Vance and Trump on Israel/Iran, per reporting from my Zeteo colleagues: zeteo.com/p/trump-rage...

It’s a perfect metaphor for America under Trump.

Iran-Deal nach 12 Tagen.

Rarely is corruption risk this rage-inducing. WIRED found a leaked roster for Peter Thiel's secretive Dialog society: 222 people registered for an off-record 2026 retreat near Dublin. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

$11 billion stolen. Zero federal units left to chase it. A thread. #AntiCorruption

They are about to hand the president's family a bank. A thread. #AntiCorruption

A federal appeals court just told Sam Bankman-Fried no. Now only Donald Trump can set him free. A thread. #AntiCorruption

The cage on the White House lawn was trashy. The conflict was worse: a $7.7B UFC deal, a $16M Trump settlement, an FCC-approved merger, and a Paramount+ paywall wrapped around the People's House. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

A company half-owned by the sitting president's family can now freeze ordinary people's dollar balances outside the rule of law. Around June 5, World Liberty Financial froze crypto tied to the exchange HTX. A thread. #FollowTheMoney

One venture firm is now the biggest disclosed donor of the 2026 midterms. Andreessen Horowitz, a16z, has poured more than $115 million into federal politics, nearly double its 2024 spend. A thread. #FollowTheMoney

Thousands of Albanians are waving inflatable flamingos and chanting that their country is not for sale. They are fighting a Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump resort on a protected lagoon and a former military island. A thread. #FollowTheMoney

@dekleptocracy.bsky.social with a characteristically excellent and infuriating account of the ongoing Flamingo Revolution against Kushner in Albania:

Trump was asked who the $100M triumphal arch is for. He said: "Me." $100M. Rigged review. Comment window closes June 15. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

Know why Crimea's liberation is soon at hand? www.youtube.com/shorts/Gn736...

The crypto bill moving through Congress is not abstract. Coinbase, Ripple and a16z helped build a $193M Fairshake war chest. The same industry is pushing rules while Trump-family crypto deals cash out.

Senior CFTC officials raised concerns about Polymarket, Crypto.com, and a Gemini affiliate. Then they were suspended, investigated, and pushed out, per a NYT investigation.

ALT5 Sigma raised $750M from shareholders, spent $717M on World Liberty tokens, and Reuters says more than $500M flowed to the Trump family. Then the stock cratered.

Reuters found the Trump family pulled at least $2.3B from crypto ventures while more than 1M investors lost about $2.25B. This is not innovation. It is a cash register bolted to the presidency.

A Trump-run Kennedy Center accepted $2M from Gaurav Srivastava, a donor accused in a lawsuit of posing as a CIA operative. That is not normal philanthropy. It is what corruption looks like when public institutions become private access points. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

27 corporations helped fund Trump's $400M White House ballroom. 14 have since won more than $50B in new federal contracts. A new Public Citizen report lays out the receipts. #FollowTheMoney #AntiCorruption

A UAE government fund wired 500 million dollars into the Trump family crypto venture, and 187 million reached Trump entities. Weeks later the President pardoned the crypto mogul woven through the same business. Meet this week's Princeling.

So trump can go to a knicks game on a Monday but not his own son's wedding on a weekend???

Because Trump is attending Monday’s NBA Finals Game 3 at MSG, fans are being told to expect TSA-style screening, a strict no-bag policy, & arrive two hours early As usual, Trump couldn’t care less about inconveniencing others as long as he gets the VIP treatment. Hope he gets booed into oblivion.

"JARED KUSHNER is (also) having (more) problems at his (other) day job as the founder of AFFINITY PARTNERS . . . " "THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS *AND* DRAIN THE SWAMP . . . " MORE MONEY & MORE PROBLEMS FIRST AS TRAGEDY SECOND AS FARCE MADE IN USA 2026 ANOTHER SUMMER www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Don’t like it? Consider voting for Democrats in November so they have the *majority* in the House and Senate — and this way they *CAN* do something to stop criminal Trump. #Pinks #MomSky #ProudBlue

In consultation with my attorneys, this is my official response to Trump putting me on his enemies list:

To be fair, Trumps unable to see insider trading as a bad thing. It’s one of his business models

A presidential son-in-law with no government office is negotiating US policy across the Gulf, and his fund just set Albania alight. Meet this week's Princeling.