Mixed Martial Arts Group (MMA) announced $3 million private placement led by American Ventures LLC with Donald Trump Jr. investing in the offering, with Dominari Securities LLC acting as the exclusive placement agent for the Offering. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Interesting Whale Hunting piece: The $60 Billion Question: Is Venezuela Secretly a Bitcoin Superpower? Alex Saab may control $60B in Bitcoin for the Maduro regime. As Trump's naval blockade tightens, the real battle is being fought on the blockchain. whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/the-60-billi...

it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy

US carrying out strikes in Venezuela, US official says reut.rs/4bdcY8L

Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media & Technology Group (Truth Social owner) recently became officers and investors of a company soon after it made an unsuccessful $10 billion bid for the US assets of Venezuelan-state-owned Citgo Petroleum. My latest:

Devin Nunes and others linked to Trump Media & Technology Group (Truth Social owner) recently became officers and investors of a company soon after it made an unsuccessful $10 billion bid for the US assets of Venezuelan-state-owned Citgo Petroleum. My latest:

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches An illustrated guide of the first year of profiteering. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.

How Putin Got His Preferred US Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA Kremlin fueled rise of Trump’s friend Witkoff with prisoner release, sidelining career diplomats Putin picked Witkoff over Trump's then envoy to Russia and Ukraine Keith Kellogg. Witkoff has been to Russia 6 times www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

US investment manager charged with pre-IPO fraud scheme involving US drone maker Anduril Separately "Anduril founder Palmer Luckey accused crypto firm AlphaTON of defrauding investors" Alphaton is led by former Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser

Trump Media & Technology Group plans to merge with fusion power company TAE Technologies in all stock deal valued at over $6 billion TMTG CEO Devin Nunes and TAE CEO Michl Binderbauer will be co-CEOs, Michael B Schwab (son of Charles Schwab) to be Chairman www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

"Trump Billionaires Club: New Game Adds Utility To His Struggling Meme Coin" me, for @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Trump Media & Technology Group plans to merge with fusion power company TAE Technologies in all stock deal valued at over $6 billion TMTG CEO Devin Nunes and TAE CEO Michl Binderbauer will be co-CEOs, Michael B Schwab (son of Charles Schwab) to be Chairman www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Today, my colleague David Yaffe-Bellany and I published an investigation into the frenzied world of crypto unleased by Trump. Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...

This is the most important political, legal and democracy story right now. Yet, it has garnered relatively little coverage from legacy media outlets. The outcome in these cases may decide whether we have free and fair elections in 2026. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/as-...

“Temperatures in 2024 were the hottest on record and the heat in the uppermost layer of the ocean was also a record high, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautic and Space Administration.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

"Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed...Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud. Out of options and mortally afraid, refugees began fleeing...They said they’d rather risk being shot or dying on the perilous route than slowly starving"

After Backlash, Jared Kushner Drops Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia Kushner’s firm, Affinity Partners, withdrew from a planned Trump-branded development in Belgrade after protests and indictments. www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

The family affairs shaping Tether’s $180B empire protos.com/the-family-a...

An investigation by Bellingcat and Lloyd’s List found that Saudi Arabia joined the countries importing grain directly from a sanctioned port in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile Russia attempts to secure recognition of the Ukrainian territory via a US-led peace plan. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

Here's interview with US citizen scanned by ICE's facial recognition tech. Walking home from gym, authorities come over. He says he's a citizen. Put him in car. Only release after scanning his face “Flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society” www.404media.co/how-a-us-cit...

Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should

One more account of horror from Sudan. But world must not look away: so many more are in danger news.sky.com/story/63-chi...

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block President Trump’s construction of a large new ballroom on White House grounds, arguing that he violated at least four laws in bypassing any review process.

Once again Firtash evades extradition for 2013 indictment in Illinois An Austrian court has dealt a final blow to U.S. attempts to extradite Ukrainian tycoon Dmytro Firtash to face trial on corruption charges, rejecting an appeal against a ruling blocking the move. www.reuters.com/world/austri...

Paramount launches hostile $78-billion bid for Warner Bros with backing from Jared Kushner $11.8 B - Larry Ellison's family $24 B - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds $1 B - Chinese firm Tencent $ - RedBird Capital & Affinity Partners www.latimes.com/business/sto...

On Dec 5th New America Acquisition I Corp did an IPO raising $345 million www.sec.gov/Archives/edg... Don Jr and Eric Trump are investors in New America Sponsor LLC which owns 28.9% of the company www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Blackwater founder Erik Prince is now Chairman of 'Freedom First' a company eyeing oil and gas-related opportunities in Africa www.upstreamonline.com/exclusive/bl... Ryan Manicom is Pres/CEO, advisory board includes Ted Hogan, Cloby Fuser, Richard Anderson freedomfirstcorp.com

Dominari Holdings, the financial services firm part-owned by Don Jr and Eric Trump, announced withdrawal of a $2 billion shelf registration - and appointment of Trump supporter & former ambassador to France, Jamie McCourt, to the advisory board www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

"In response to Trump's order, attorneys general in 21 states sued the administration. Now, after a judge's ruling that Trump's actions were unlawful, libraries and museums across the country will have access to money that had been stuck in a months-long limbo..." www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

"'Low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’” As many as 150,000 residents of El Fasher remain unaccounted for Why, might be appropriate for our leaders, intellectuals, and activists who profess to care about our shared humanity to actually do or say something

Trump-Linked Crypto Firm Alt5 Sigma Shakes Up Leadership Amid SEC Filing Questions, by @zacheverson.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

SCOOP: The Jan. 6 pipe bomb suspect told the FBI he believed in 2020 election conspiracy theories. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The administration is relentless in its escalation of chilling tactics to limit free expression & equity. Now, it's doubling down on reviewing social media accounts to determine if immigrants are loyal enough or have engaged in "censorship". www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

New: "Trump-Linked Crypto Firm Alt5 Sigma Shakes Up Leadership Amid SEC Filing Questions" me, for @forbes.com 1/

Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

US Treasury Dept imposes penalty of $7,139,305 on Gracetown, Inc. for violating Ukraine/Russia-related sanctions in dealing w/property of sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska Gracetown was setup in 2006 to manage 3 of Deripaska's properties in NY & DC ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...

🔴Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry ‘I Am Your Champion’ The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne’s company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms

Kushner said he wouldn't have a foreign policy role in this administration just like the Trump Organization said it wouldn't make new foreign deals, just like Karoline Leavitt said Trump has never engaged in a conflict of interest.

SCOOP: Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale assisted the Honduran presidential campaign of Nasry Asfura, the right-wing candidate Trump endorsed. Parscale says he had nothing to do with Trump's endorsement or his pardon of ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez.

“The shadowy money-making element of cryptocurrency obviously appeals to the president, but so does the idea that it’s a space where he and his family and friends can do what they want.”

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Today in 'headlines that feel like they should be by The Onion but are in fact horrifically real'

NEW: Trump commuted the sentence of billion dollar Ponzi schemer David Gentile days into his sentence. Gentile's business history is long intermingled with former oligarch Michael Cherney, wanted by Interpol for alleged ties to Russian organized crime. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/trump-comm...

New: "Nasdaq Tells Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma It ‘No Longer Meets’ Listing Requirements After Missed Report" me, for @forbes.com 1/

Full pardon for the convicted drug trafficker who helped move 400 tons of cocaine. Death by airstrike for the guys on the boat www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Good look into the unheard-of organisation which selected the next US artist for the Venice Biennale news.artnet.com/art-world/am...

What's unique about the cryptocurrency A7A5 is that it appears to be not only a Kremlin vehicle to circumvent Western war sanctions; it also appears to be a pillar of a larger Kremlin effort to build a parallel financial system independent of the West. www.rferl.org/a/russia-cry...