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Greetings from Muskau: Russian Propaganda Surges as Musk, Trump Jr. and AfD Align leavex.eu/posts/greetings-from…

*There are currently masses of Russian propaganda videos in circulation, ostensibly from the news media. Many are attacking the USAID. Elon Musk, Trump Junior and the AfD are happy to help. The closing of ranks is complete.*

Excellent article by @chrisstoecker. Share it.

#Russia #Musk #afd #USA #USPol #Europe #EU #disinformation #FakeNews #trump #USAID


If you know of or are involved with an organization that helps people in a way that the #TrumpAdministration doesn't approve of, and the org is worried about continuing to do their work while protecting their employees, volunteers, and clients, I am happy to meet for free with the org to work through with them what their threat model is and how they can improve their security posture. They can reach out to me on Signal at jik.87. Please :boostRequest: for reach.
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#Vance in Munich: "To many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, [European regulation of speech] looks more and more like old, entrenched interests hiding behind Soviet-era words like ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion."
thehill.com/homenews/administr…

#Trump in Washington: Taking down web sites and scientific research that use banned words.
washingtonpost.com/science/202…

#Censorship #DefendResearch #FirstAmendment #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics


Seriously, I appreciate my governor so much...

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#ilpol #uspol #politics


The crypto industry has in the past claimed to have obtained firm proof of “OCP 2.0” via FOIA-ed FDIC documents, but as I wrote then, those documents did not support their bold claims.

hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/11380…

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


They have been making similar claims about a new, nearly 800-page dump of FDIC communications with banks, which I analyze in detail.

Once again, the industry conflates supposed crypto debanking with regulators scrutinizing banks planning to themselves offer crypto products.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


Some witnesses, including Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal, have slammed the FDIC for asking questions of banks and crypto companies pertaining to their crypto activities.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


However, there is no shortage of extremely concerning replies from banks to these questions about the banks’ own planned crypto offerings and partnerships with crypto companies, suggesting the FDIC was more than justified in making these inquiries. Just a few highlights:

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There were some conversations with banks about offering depository accounts to crypto companies, which I focused on in particular as this is the root of the industry’s claims.

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Broadly: despite bipartisan agreement that discriminatory debanking happens to some groups and individuals, there is no agreement about who those people are, or what to do about it.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


Meanwhile, the agency most involved in handling debanking is being dismantled, to cheers from the crypto industry. “Debanking” is a crypto rallying cry only so far as it supports their deregulatory agenda, dropped the second it might result in actual consumer protections.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


Sadly, the Congressional majority appears far more eager to spend its political capital making bold statements about debanking only when it applies to crypto billionaires, while dismantling the very agencies best positioned to help debanking victims.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


We are in a situation where reasonable people can look at the same set of documents and some will conclude that the regulators are simply doing their jobs, while others conclude that regulators are improperly pressuring banks to not provide services to those customers at all.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


But the industry’s bold claims that “Operation Choke Point 2.0 is real” are hyperbole intended to mislead. Perhaps they need more time to acquire the proof they claim exists. Perhaps they will just continue to claim it exists, and hope no one notices they haven’t produced it.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


$130 million in Congressional spending by the crypto industry helped put their claims of systemic debanking by the Biden administration and financial regulators at the top of the to-do lists for both the House and the Senate, who held hearings last week on the topic.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


On the face of it, there seemed to be bipartisan agreement that debanking is a real issue that needs to be addressed. But scratch the surface, and the two sides were discussing radically different issues.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


When it comes to claims of “Operation Choke Point 2.0”, a supposed government campaign to improperly pressure banks to not provide services to the cryptocurrency industry wholesale, little has emerged in the way of proof of such a campaign (despite the industry’s claims).

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


Even Republicans and their invited witnesses — to Senator Kennedy’s apparent surprise — disagree as to whether denial of banking services is some sort of nefarious government campaign or just banks making their own decisions.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


Newsletter: Dubbing it “Operation Choke Point 2.0”, cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it.

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#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol


“You’re not the President, you need to go away.” And Howdy Doody, the puppet president sitting behind the Resolute Desk, the first to “hold the office” but with someone else speaking in and for “his” office to the press, just sat there as a four year old broke down who he is in 9 words.

The moment he was schooled by someone 74 years his junior, almost three quarters of a century younger:

#USpol #coup


US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off

Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from #USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #corruption


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