My latest piece on Brittany Kaiser, her new gig as CEO of AlphaTON - and several connections the company has to Russia

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Ex Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser is CEO of AlphaTon Capital, previously named Portage Biotech, a cancer treatment company

Shares surged on news they are exploring merging blockchain technology with oncology innovation

What could possibly go wrong

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NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

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Education Secretary Linda McMahon says she's leading the department's "final mission" to shut down. But @megomatz.bsky.social and I found it's more than that: Political appointees from ultraconservative groups are in power at ED now, and they hope to dismantle public schools.

NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools.

It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

Trump Opens the White House Doors to Foreign Regimes and Their Dirty Money

Lobbyists for foreign countries have long helped other governments influence US policy but nothing compares to the brazen corruption of the 2nd Trump administration @cjcmichel.bsky.social
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NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange to invest up to $2 billion in Polymarket, which is banned in some countries as an unlicensed offshore gambling platform and was banned in US until recently, Peter Thiel was an investor, Donald Trump Jr is on advisory board

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Read here about Georgia’s madman oligarch Ivanishvili, his crypto obsession, and how he instrumentalizes state institutions for his personal wealth games.

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Gentry Beach smiled: “Don has laughingly said many times that we’ve known each other so long, any information we have is mutually destructive,” he said.

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Beach connected the WSJ with the founder of asset manager Gemcorp who said he is working with Beach to bring OCSiAl’s product to the US

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Here's a 2024 Financial Times story on Gemcorp's thorny history in Russia

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When the opportunism is too much even for the Trump family...

Since Nov Gentry Beach has been to 20 countries pursuing billion dollar deals - but in August Don Jr.'s lawyer sent a cease-and-desist letter to Beach, his friend since college, to stop representing himself as his business partner

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

My latest story is on Brittany Kaiser's latest gig as CEO of crypto firm AlphaTon Capital - multiple people linked to AlphaTon have connections to Russia and a co-founder of AlphaTon, previously called Portage Biotech was a Brexit supporter

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Full report from @accountable.us

Trump and Steve Witkoff appear to be violating emoluments clause through tens of millions $ their crypto venture World Liberty has taken from Justin Sun, Prime Minister of Liberland which is campaigning for recognition

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More on Justin Sun and Liberland - a globally unrecognized micronation founded in 2015 by Czech libertarian right-wing activist Vít Jedlička on under 3 sq miles of land in Croatia next to the Danube

Liberland has been campaigning for official recognition

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Crypto billionaire Justin Sun (investor in Trump family's World Liberty Financial) was elected for 5th time as prime minster of Liberland, a tiny micronation near Croatia–Serbia border led by Vit Jedlicka

Ex Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser was elected as congresswoman

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

This didn’t generate a ton of front-page headlines, but Trump this week signed an executive order rewarding Qatar with a NATO-like security guarantee — without bothering to go through Congress.

Is this the same country that gave him a fancy plane? Yes. Yes it is. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

New: Abu Dhabi fund MGX told me it picked USD1—a Trump family–linked stablecoin from World Liberty Financial—to put $2B into Binance, citing its “compliance history.”

USD1 had just launched.

me, for @forbes.com

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“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

More than 350 people have been rescued after southern Ukrainian city was hit by two months of rain in just seven hours.

New from 404 Media: ICE to buy tool that tracks locations of hundreds of millions of phones every day. Billions of pieces of location data. ICE previously stopped using data remotely harvested from smartphones. Now it's buying it again. Usually used w/o warrant
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This didn't get much circulation but feel like this should be bigger news - Trump's ex digital guru Brad Parscale's firm Clock Tower X LLC is being paid $6 million for a 4-month stint for a pro-Israel media campaign targeting mostly Gen Z