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How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
amandamarcotte.bsky.social
Guessing soybean sales are really hurting, huh. Good for us vegetarians, bad for the economy and farmers.

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Treasury Secretary Bessent says he has divested his soybean farm
The New York Times has reported that Secretary Bessent owned as much as $25 million of soybean and corn farmland in North Dakota.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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This week's comic: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star foxtrot.com/2025/12/07/t...
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
FoxTrot by Bill Amend | December 7, 2025
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December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
paulbigland.bsky.social
It's their last month in service, so here's part 2 of my picture retrospective of the lives and times of the #swrClass 455 fleet. paulbigland.blog/2022/02/07/t... #railways #photography
The end of the line beckons. The SWR Class 455s (part 2)…
Following on from part 1 I’ve completely skipped the logical path of documenting the Class 455/8s – for two reasons. One is that the fleet is split between SWR and Southern and the othe…
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December 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
scalzi.com
Today's pick for the December Comfort Watches: Moana, the animated film that does something different than other "Disney Princess" films, and stands out because of it:

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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Seven: Moana
I will begin this piece noting that I am not unbiased in my thoughts about Moana, as my friend, the Oscar-nominated writer Pamela Ribon, helped write a significant chunk of this film’s story.…
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December 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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This week’s must-read

“How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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December 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Your daily Avian Hybrids story!

The Herring Gull complex is not a ring species
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The Herring Gull complex is not a ring species
The evolution of this species complex does not follow the strict definition of a ring species.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
ryanlcooper.com
“When the Court has exercised sole power to interpret the Constitution, with rare exceptions it has used that power to obliterate Americans’ constitutional rights, uphold white supremacy, and protect abusive corporations from unions and the regulatory state.” prospect.org/2022/07/11/t...
The Case Against Judicial Review - The American Prospect
If Democrats don’t bring the Supreme Court to heel, Americans will live under judicial despotism for the foreseeable future.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Smugglers, money launderers and sanctioned people once relied on diamonds, gold and artwork. Now, criminals have a far more practical alternative: stablecoins, a cryptocurrency tied to the U.S. dollar that exists largely beyond traditional financial oversight.
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How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Trump pushes foreign food crackdown as grocery prices rise www.axios.com/2025/12/07/t...
Trump pushes foreign food crackdown as grocery prices rise
It has proven hard to keep grocery prices down without cheap foreign labor, imports and capital.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
kashhill.bsky.social
In which my colleague Aaron Krolik finds out just how easy it would be to money launder with stablecoins, which gets an immediate reaction from the company that made it possible:

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How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
midcenturycinema.bsky.social
12/10/31: Alfred Hitchcock's Rich and Strange
Fascinating early talkie of interest
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The Strangeness of Rich and Strange
Yes, Rich and Strange (or East of Shanghai in its American title) was very different from the other “typical” Hitchcock’s films. It’s not often cited as a favourite and it t…
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December 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
seancasten.bsky.social
When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
jonathancohn.bsky.social
Crypto's main function is money laundering, and it should be regulated out of existence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The Texas Tribune sounded the alarm for Texas Republicans all the way back in July.

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As Texas Republicans prepare for mid-decade redistricting, cautionary tales loom from the past - The Texas Tribune
Spurred by President Donald Trump’s political team, Texas lawmakers will try to redraw the state’s congressional map to boost Republicans — but some GOP incumbents are uneasy.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
rosesbloom24.bsky.social
The order highlights a key tension of his domestic policy. It has proven difficult to have cheap food without cheap foreign labor, imports and capital.

www.axios.com/2025/12/07/t...
Trump pushes foreign food crackdown as grocery prices rise
It has proven hard to keep grocery prices down without cheap foreign labor, imports and capital.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
johnrogers.bsky.social
i’ve been following international crime and money laundering for 20 years and subscribe to multiple reports by organizations that track these things. The use cases of bitcoin are 1) speculation, which is not a use case and b) crime.

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How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The Truth About Reform’s New Front Man for Scotland bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/07/t...
The Truth About Reform’s New Front Man for Scotland
The big reveal that Malcolm Offord would be joining Reform UK was framed as a breakthrough moment for the far-right party. Without any real base here in Scotland, and safe in the knowledge that run…
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December 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The Sunday Post — Week 49 ✨
#Food #Cooking #Books #HomeCooking #ComfortFood #GiftIdeas #Cookbooks #Memories #TheOutpost 🍽️🍜 📚
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The Sunday Post — Cookbooks & Recipes Enjoying a Simple Life At Home With Goodport
Holiday shopping reminds me of cookbooks, as they make terrific gifts. In a family of cooks, we had a strict ‘Don’t Buy Any New Cookbooks After August!’ policy, to prevent receivi…
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December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Just discovered the Post Pub has closed for good in DC! 😞 washingtonian.com/2024/07/02/t...
The Post Pub Has Closed Again
The beloved downtown DC bar reopened in 2022, but "lunch just became obsolete," its owner says.
washingtonian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
valeriavescina.bsky.social
This short article will interest you if you've ever wondered what #writingretreats are actually like, how they differ from one another and why they enable leaps forward for #writers at every level of experience: valeriavescina.com/2022/07/25/t... Happy reading! #WritingCommunity
Top 10 reasons to go on a writing retreat
A view from Flüeli-Ranft Writing away Ever wondered what a writing retreat is all about and whether it would benefit you? There are at least 10 reasons why writing retreats are invaluable. You̵…
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December 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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www.salon.com/2025/12/07/t...

Hmm...wasn't there a guy in Germany 80-90 or so years ago who...?
Trump's foreign policy vision: Make Europe white again - Salon.com
Trump's global
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December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
jswatz.bsky.social
Donald Trump bankrupted casinos, but his administration will bankrupt millions while enriching crooks of every stripe. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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December 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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WASHINGTON: “This should shock the conscience”

Trump’s racist ICE goons use attack dog on an innocent husband of a 🇺🇸 citizen and father of 3 other 🇺🇸 citizens outside their home after posing as a construction worker and claiming he struck their parked car.

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December 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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More about A7A5 👇
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December 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM