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[?]Molly White » 🌐
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.

influence.citationneeded.news/

Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now: citationneeded.news/tech-influ

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    [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
    @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social

    Featured story, from Candice Bernd: The drought-stricken City of Corpus Christi is withholding how much a controversial mine is siphoning away from surrounding residents. texasobserver.org/corpus-chris

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      [?]Molly White » 🌐
      @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

      Newsletter: The crypto industry spent the spring buying primaries, an octagon at the White House, and — they hope — a market-structure bill by the Fourth of July.

      citationneeded.news/issue-106/

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        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
        @Nonilex@masto.ai

        Trump’s 80th birthday stunt on the South Lawn of the on Sunday night was a mass-media spectacle unlike any in the history of the presidency.

        sat ringside beside his wife, Melania Trump, as fighters whaled on one another inches away inside an 8-sided cage wrapped in ads. All 5 of his children & nearly all his grandchildren sat around him.


        nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ufc-

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          [?]Texas Observer » 🌐
          @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social

          From May to August last year, Corpus Christi's mine consumed 11,563,000 gallons of water, according to utility records that the Observer previously obtained via a local resident’s public information request.

          Now the city is refusing to share the latest data. texasobserver.org/corpus-chris

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            [?]Molly White » 🌐
            @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

            [noted]: The Second Circuit has rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's appeal, upholding his conviction and 25-year sentence. The court ruled that whether his investments ultimately paid off is “irrelevant”. Meanwhile, SBF has applied for a presidential pardon.

            citationneeded.news/second-cir

              [?]Molly White » 🌐
              @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

              My work tracking cryptocurrency and AI industry political spending has only underscored the importance of getting big money out of politics. I recently talked to Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United, about what it would take to do that, and how we’re closer than you might think.

              Video: youtube.com/watch?v=oZAhNJbsPcA
              Transcript: citationneeded.news/end-citize

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                [?]Molly White » 🌐
                @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

                House Oversight Democrats have published a Web3 is Going Great-style “Trump Family Digital Grift” counter
                oversightdemocrats.house.gov/t

                This goes with their recent staff report, “Professionalized Corruption: How Donald Trump is abusing power and accepting digital kickbacks from foreign and criminal interests to cash in on the presidency like never before”

                oversightdemocrats.house.gov/i

                (The report cites my writing on Trump’s USD1 stablecoin, published here: citationneeded.news/issue-83/#)

                Trump Family Digital Grift Profits $2,255,399,364.28 Total Trump Family Digital Grift Wealth $8,712,974,364.28 Trump Family Digital Grift Profits from Foreign Interests $437,004,026.96 While Americans struggle to buy groceries and pay rent, Donald Trump is making his family richer through digital grift schemes— collecting profits through digital wallets and granting pardons to the highest bidders. While Trump and his family are using the White House to make billions, we are tracking every cent. As of January 2026, our Committee’s analysis shows that these schemes have contributed to an estimated $2.25 billion in realized profits for Trump from foreign payments, corrupt oligarchs, and others. This total rises to as much as $9.7 billion when the value of Trump’s digital assets is factored in, with as much as $436 million coming from foreign interests. President Trump should be serving the American people—not his own pockets.

                Alt...Trump Family Digital Grift Profits $2,255,399,364.28 Total Trump Family Digital Grift Wealth $8,712,974,364.28 Trump Family Digital Grift Profits from Foreign Interests $437,004,026.96 While Americans struggle to buy groceries and pay rent, Donald Trump is making his family richer through digital grift schemes— collecting profits through digital wallets and granting pardons to the highest bidders. While Trump and his family are using the White House to make billions, we are tracking every cent. As of January 2026, our Committee’s analysis shows that these schemes have contributed to an estimated $2.25 billion in realized profits for Trump from foreign payments, corrupt oligarchs, and others. This total rises to as much as $9.7 billion when the value of Trump’s digital assets is factored in, with as much as $436 million coming from foreign interests. President Trump should be serving the American people—not his own pockets.

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                  [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                  @octade@soc.octade.net

                  @usenet@lemmy.world

                  Behold! The net cop gives expensive advice! You are basically requiring that I pay for yet another ERC20 cryptocurrency token just to send text messages.

                  From the Autonomi site:

                  "WHEN SOMEONE (A PERSON OR A COLLECTIVE) UPLOADS DATA THEY PAY A FEE TO DO SO."
                  "+1 Million tokens on offer for early contributors."
                  MaidSafe is credited as having invented the ICO. I wouldn't touch it or any of its descendant projects with a ten-foot pole.
                  "MaidSafe are the team behind Autonomi ..."
                  Didn't you learn from Maidsafe+Mastercoin ICO and ten thousand other ICOs already? The purpose of digital 'tokens' is to separate gullible people from their dollars or euros or yuan or rubles, providing in return something they could already have for free or so cheap it's nearly free. It appears that the people behind Maidsafe are also behind the crypto token you are suggesting, for merely posting text files. Get outta here!

                  Newscard has several selling points:

                  0. It's not for sale. Try that with Autonomi, Maidsafe, and a thousand others.
                  1. It is free, unlike your suggested cryptocurrency pump.
                  2. My solution is simple and elegant - naming small text files for retrieval.
                  3. Newscard uses existing infrastructure already in operation for decades.
                  4. Many mature client softwares and terminal emulators already exist for the task.
                  5. Newscard doesn't require investment or payment.
                  6. Newscard doesn't have an integrated, useless payment system.
                  7. Newscard is ANONYMOUS and uses The Onion Network by default.
                  8. Users won't lose their money when using Newscard.

                  And my Newscard solution doesn't require taking zillions of dollars from people who will likely never see a return on their token investment. Storage token sale schemes are a dime a dozen. I can't believe you think I have the credulity to swallow such a scheme.

                  For almost two decades running countless crews have claimed that they will, 'decentralize the Internet' if you give them your money.

                  Newsflash: The Internet already is decentralized. Decentralization is a basic part of the design of the Internet. It already routes around damage and censorship by default. Why do I need to pay for a crypto token for something that already exists? Decentralized Usenet has been in continuous operation for decades. I'm already using the 'decentralized Internet' for the Newscard protocol. I've been using the 'decentralized Internet' since forever! It doesn't need to be decentralized by crypto pump schemes. The Internet is already decentralized.

                  So we already have a decentralized Internet where data storage is abundant and cheap. And these token pumpers want to set themselves up as gatekeepers so we have to pay them to get the tokens to store our data. That is not decentralization. That is the essence of a centralized monetary gatekeeper!

                  You accused me of misusing Usenet. Yet I am only doing what people have done with Usenet for decades--posting encrypted messages. I'm not misusing Usenet. You're misusing my patience for cryptocurrency dumps and re-hashed token sales strategies.


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