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Donald Trump has launched a cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, sparking ethical concerns as he profits directly from purchases.

Critics, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, warn this creates conflicts of interest, with Trump benefiting from a largely unregulated industry while overseeing federal crypto policies.

The move, coupled with First Lady Melania’s $MELANIA coin, led to financial losses for some supporters.

Some Republicans dismissed the issue as free-market risk, while Sen. Richard Blumenthal argued it may violate the Constitution’s emoluments clause.

GOP lawmakers remain focused on Biden-related investigations, ignoring Trump’s ventures.

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Leaked documents reveal that 2023 leadership meetings of the far-right Oath Keepers in Utah were attended by former law enforcement officers, a prosecutor, and a former elected official.

Despite founder Stewart Rhodes's conviction for his role in January 6, later commuted by Donald Trump, efforts to rebuild the group have continued.

Participants discussed combat training and leadership roles, highlighting ties to law enforcement and conservative politics.

Experts warn that anti-government extremism persists through other movements and networks.

Appears that evidence shows manipulation of voting machines to favour donald trump in swing states. Here, Clark County Nevada.

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The Trump administration launched a tip line encouraging federal employees to report colleagues involved in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) efforts.

However, the email account has been flooded with spam, including movie scripts, jokes, and fake reports.

This tip line is part of Trump’s broader anti-DEIA campaign, which includes dismantling diversity programs and revoking anti-discrimination policies.

Similar spam efforts have disrupted government tip lines in the past, leaving their operations ineffective.

Critics see the initiative as divisive and potentially facing legal challenges.

Most of the western media has played a pivotal role in normalising these obscenities. From October 2023 to January 2025, 1,091 babies were killed in Gaza, more than the total number of Israeli civilians killed on 7 October. A total of 17,400 children have been killed – the equivalent of one every 30 minutes. A recent study in the Lancet reported the total number of deaths in Gaza were probably an underestimate.

The Times newspaper splashed on a story about lurid and unverified allegations of Hamas cutting babies’ throats; two days later, it followed up with another story about the allegedly “mutilated” babies. The unevidenced allegations were later found to be rumours. More than 1,000 Palestinian dead babies aren’t rumours – they really have been killed by Israeli forces. As far as I’m aware, no equivalent Times front page exists.

Unlike Guernica, the crimes committed in Gaza have been documented in real time. Israeli soldiers gleefully posted evidence on social media and survivors took to the internet to share footage of what they were enduring. Many of those survivors were, in the words of the Irish lawyer Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, “broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something”.

There must be a reckoning. Those who continued supplying weapons to Israel ought to be put on trial for helping to facilitate it. Those who used their media platforms to justify it should see their reputations in tatters. Without that accountability, even more depraved violence will become normal, even acceptable.

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Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde refused to apologize after delivering a sermon at the National Cathedral that criticized Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ and immigration policies, calling for compassion and mercy for marginalized groups.

Trump responded by attacking Budde on Truth Social, labeling her a "Radical Left hard line Trump hater."

Budde, known for prior criticism of Trump, said she stands by her message and has received both support and threats.

She emphasized the need for dignity and respect in public discourse to counter the "culture of contempt."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/37798072

A man who taped a sinister note to a Chinese ex-official’s door in New Jersey was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in prison. He was convicted of participating in what U.S. authorities called a Beijing-driven pressure campaign targeting expatriates.

WDJT-TV (CBS 58) defends Nazis.