CNN reports the administration pressured law enforcement groups to back the CLARITY Act. One person in the field said everyone got hammered to support it. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

Pete Hegseth pulled the Pentagon's drone and autonomous weapons programs together under one command. Budget for those systems, $53.6 billion. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

The Washington Post built a federal contracting database and matched it against PitchBook to ask one question. What happens to a company after Trump's sons invest? #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

The United States just recorded its worst ever score on the global corruption index. 29th out of 182. Tied with the Bahamas. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

The President made $2.2 billion in 2025. That is roughly six million dollars a day. It is in his own disclosure, all 927 pages of it. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

Marco Rubio’s State Department failed a geography quiz with one question: put any of six African countries in the right place. Score: 0 for 6. At a global health conference. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

We’re eagerly awaiting states’ rights advocates to complain. ICE’s draft detention terms say certain state and local laws “shall not apply” when they regulate performance under ICE standards. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

For everyone who doesn’t see the direct link between Democrats who take AIPAC funding with other forms of direct corporate corruption, here you go.

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More than $52 million in outside spending has hit Michigan’s Senate race. OpenSecrets mapped the four super PACs driving it. QPQ Tracker followed the money one layer back. buff.ly/djHWTwV

Reuters reports Juan Orlando Hernández is back in Honduras after his local arrest warrant was suspended. Trump pardoned him after less than four years in custody on a 45-year sentence. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

Russia’s announced AI chips will not catch NVIDIA. The larger risk is what could form around them: Russian demand, Chinese fabrication, and battlefield use. Here is what the post documents—and what it infers. 🧵

More than $52 million in outside spending has hit Michigan’s Senate race. OpenSecrets mapped the four super PACs driving it. QPQ Tracker followed the money one layer back. buff.ly/djHWTwV

Russia’s rocket industry needs a binder it cannot reliably make. A 2025 contract reportedly called for French cellulose acetate from a plant that had closed five years earlier. Read the DKP analysis www.dekleptocracy.org/blog/cellulose-acetate-russian-rocket-fuel

Outside groups poured more than $52M into Michigan’s Senate race. OpenSecrets mapped the four super PACs driving it. QPQ Tracker followed the money one layer back — to nonprofit treasuries, repeat donors, and disclosure gaps. buff.ly/djHWTwV

LOCAL MAN LOSES $600,000,000. Eric Trump’s bitcoin bet erased $600M from the family fortune, per Bloomberg. The story held the front page for about a day. That’s how normal corruption has become. 🧵

Russia admits it was deliberate. A ballistic missile hit a defense industry expo near Kyiv on July 24. At least 10 people are dead, about 100 wounded. Moscow's own Defense Ministry confirmed it targeted the event on purpose.

What happens when the referee owns the team? The CLARITY Act — the 616-page crypto bill stalled in the Senate — devotes its final pages to an "ethics" section that works like a user manual for keeping a conflict of interest alive. 🧵

Sen. Jack Reed just called out Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth. Sen. Reed laid out the brutal truth: an unauthorized conflict, no strategic planning, rising oil prices, & American troops in harm’s way. Follow Lincoln Square: lincolnsquare.media #Pentagon #IranWar #DefenseBudget

Chicago just handed more than $150M to two companies that fuel ICE deportation flights. On July 16 the City Council made Atlantic Aviation and Signature Aviation Midway's only fuel and ground operators for 20 years. Credit @resistmap.bsky.social

A foreign billionaire was indicted in a US court for bribery and fraud that reached American investors. Eighteen months later the case is gone. Follow the money. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

🧊✈️ ICE AIR: Inside America's Secret Deportation Network "Due Process is not a game of keep away" Every day, volunteers across the U.S. track flights and show up to airports to monitor the ICE human trafficking network. This is our story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BsG...

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Jared Kushner backed a luxury resort in a protected Albanian lagoon. Albania answered with 45 straight nights of protest — and a national movement now demanding the Prime Minister's resignation.

A Trump staffer allegedly made $100K+ betting on words in the president's speeches. He was put on unpaid leave. Now Trump Media wants to sell financial firms the fastest access to market-moving Truth Social posts. Same timing advantage. Different rules. #AntiCorruption

The DOJ had 7 years to bring the $722M BitClub crypto-fraud case to trial. Now, Washington is reportedly walking away months before trial. That is not smart enforcement. It is incompetence with victims attached. #AntiCorruption

The White House teleprompter operator got suspended for trading on early access to the President's words. Trump Media just turned the same trade into a product — at enterprise pricing. On Truth API:

He gave $11M to Trump's super PAC. The State Department just handed him the chair of a $201M taxpayer-backed fund for the South Caucasus. Armenia's press calls him "the most absurd part" of the whole project. Meet Konstantin Sokolov.

A court order is not a wallet key. DOJ says Rossen Iossifov allegedly conspired to move about $290K in forfeited crypto before the U.S. obtained possession of the funds. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

"documents do not back up his claims" is just a wildly inadequate way to describe a guy who lies all the damn time about everything and who has been lying all the damn time about this particular topic for a decade and who has a obvious self-interest in lying about it and who is definitely lying

NYT reports Ken Paxton bought 3 condos at a luxury Utah resort worth $1.6 million and transferred them to his blind trust. On the deeds, he listed a Frisco-area home tied by police records to a woman who is not his wife. #AntiCorruption

Local video posts say masked ICE agents followed and detained an elderly woman near El Paso while she was reportedly on her way to chemotherapy. If a cancer patient is not safe on the way to treatment, this is not public safety. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney

Trump is rearming America. His sons are invested in the sellers. At least 10 military-linked companies tied to their investments have drawn roughly $3.7 billion in federal funds since the second term began. Reporting: MS NOW. Thread. #AntiCorruption #FollowTheMoney