“I have a great and considerable fear that people will freeze to death in their homes this winter if we do not turn this around quickly.”
My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.
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how many cumulative hours will i spend infuriated at the loose connection on my keyboard before i finally spend the ten minutes to resolder it? stay tuned
Issue 95 – The pardon was the payoff
Binance’s Changpeng Zhao earns a gold-plated pardon as other industry figures fund Trump’s $300 million ballroom
fixed that for you
beside the point, but can you imagine how mad SBF will be when he hears the news? he's sitting in prison for another 20 years, but the President just pardoned the other crypto criminal who he blames for his own company's collapse
Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.
One of the people CZ hired to lobby for the pardon is Teresa Goody Guillén, a lawyer who has simultaneously represented the Trump World Liberty Financial project. She's also lobbied on behalf of Binance on crypto-related topics.
oh no... i regret to inform you another Maine Democratic Senate candidate has revealed his tattoo
he saw Mamdani talking about housing and thought: but what about crypto?
my guess is this is more of a hail mary attempt to get blockchain/AI money and influence behind him. we haven't seen much crypto industry spending in races below the federal level, but i also wouldn't put it past them to get involved here at the last minute
They were journalists at major news outlets in New York and D.C. before taking big pay cuts to run the Midcoast Villager, a paper covering a rocky, coastal part of Maine.