Activity tagged "US politics"

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Prediction markets are booming. Oversight is barely there.

A person uses their phone to place a bet on a Polymarket market on the NYC mayoral race

Prediction markets once lived on the academic fringe. Now they’re trading billions on politics, sports, and celebrity gossip — under rules never designed for retail gamblers.

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Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for “attacking” Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated

The attack continues further down in the Kirk article’s lead paragraphs, where editors said Kirk was controversial due to his "opposition to gun control, abortion, and LGBTQ rights; his criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr.; and his promotion of Christian nationalism, COVID-19 misinformation, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and false claims of electoral fraud in 2020."

COMPLETE COVERAGE OF CHARLIE KIRK

The framing ensures that anyone searching for Kirk after his murder is met with a narrative designed to discredit him.

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In the New York Times: There is really no comparison in American history to the blatant corruption.

Republicans in Congress, White continued,
would be horrified if any other president, particularly a Democratic one, was profiting from the office of the presidency in the way that Trump is, but they are so terrified of him that they haven’t said a word about it.
And the crypto lobby and its hundreds of millions in campaign donations, has produced a truly shameful situation among Democrats who have either sold out to the crypto lobby, or who are so afraid of opposition when it comes time for re-election that they’re keeping their mouths shut. We should live in a world where selling out to corporate money or being completely spineless and ineffective in office is what threatens re-election.

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Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat

A blue vending machine with branding that reads “Crypto is like a bar of chocolate” in the foreground, with the Capitol building behind

Trump stands to profit from a $2 billion bitcoin bet as the crypto industry pushes through bills aimed at bolstering the sector

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Trump is seeking to direct Americans' retirement funds to a sector in which he and his family are heavily invested.

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The House has passed the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill, sending it to Trump's desk where he will sign it. They've also passed the CLARITY Act crypto market structure bill and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act, both of which still need to go to the Senate.

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“I don't want to leave”.

Molly Monk in Men Yell at Me. Published July 16, 2025.

During the last act of Cabaret, I wanted to scream at the characters to leave Berlin because I know what disasters await them just years away. I don’t know if I’m being naïve or wise for thinking that what’s happening in our state now isn’t an early warning sign telling me and everyone I love to leave while we still can. I don’t know if staying is the ultimate act of defiance and joy in the face of people who wish to erase me and my friends and the beautiful life we are building.

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It's no coincidence that the Fairshake crypto super PAC has timed its press release announcing they have $140 million ready for the midterms as Congress is considering three crypto bills during "Crypto Week". Pass our bills, or we will spend millions against you in the midterms.

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“The Well-Funded, Likely Doomed Plan to Stop Zohran Mamdani”.

David Freedlander in New York Magazine. Published July 12, 2025.

“I would just say that a lot of these guys are really feeling their feelings right now,” said one operative who advises big-money donors. “They are showing up late to this and are unaware of the expertise they don’t have, and they are not behaving rationally.”

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Issue 88 – The stockchain

A stock trader on the floor of the NYSE in 1963, photoshopped to show him holding up a large physical “bitcoin”

Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep lessons learned in the 1929 Wall Street crash, crypto firms look to become banks, and Congress celebrates crypto surveillance while claiming to outlaw it

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