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• @wmiddelkoop Willem Middelkoop on x

  After ignoring the CFTC trading scandals for decades the American MSM is finally awaking 😇💰🙏

• @daveweigel David Weigel on x

  “In the past 16 months of the Trump administration, the commission has shrunk [the CFTC's] work force, purged career officials, sharply curtailed crypto enforcement and helped out prediction markets at virtually every turn.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @sbmccallister @sbmccallister on x

  @jason_kint @GayleOldSmith Kushner financial giant Public Investment Fund crypto scandal with Son Mayasshoi and UAE MBS is cooked. Did he trick @EricTrump into it by appealing to his charity robbing greedy heart? [image]

• @camrmackenzie Camille MacKenzie on x

  I've brought attention to other articles talking about how Trump has gutted the SEC and forced them to kowtow to his demands or else and now the same thing has happened with the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission). The sole commissioner, as Trump purposefully left all

• @rorytyer Rory Tyer on x

  does nobody have the political will and integrity to connect all of these dots and impeach him for how much he and his family have enriched themselves, and their allies, through federal power

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  NYT out with a jaw dropping investigative report on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on some of this, too. The NYT report is a must-read, the 60 Minutes report should then be watched. 1/3 [image]

• @julie_bush Julie Bush on x

  why isn't this enough to arrest these criminals and put them in jail for life? they have gotten Americans killed for this insider trading

• @beverlymann19 Beverly Mann on bluesky

  OH, MAN.  Dems REALLY need to detail THIS throughout the summer and fall in their campaigns for Senate, House, governor and state legislature.  —  cc: @ossoff.bsky.social  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...  [images]

• @robertscotthorton Scott Horton on bluesky

  The word isn't “steamrolled,” which suggests intellectual leverage, it's “corrupted,” as in deployment of cash and hard assets.  It looks to me like the NYT headline writer never read the piece.  But it's an excellent exposé, a classic exercise in what Brandeis called “capture.”

• @bradlander Brad Lander on bluesky

  Dan Goldman voted last summer with his crypto donors & the GOP to move crypto regulation away from the SEC to the far weaker CFTC, which this NYT investigation reveals is utterly captured by the industry:

• @lavidagata Kat O'Brien on bluesky

  Oh, hmm, wonder if the Trump family investments in prediction markets and crypto contributed to them getting away with crimes left and right and up and down, all day long.  —  Gift link.  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...  [embedded post]

• @annmlipton Ann M. Lipton on bluesky

  it's like the entire american economy is coyote just as he runs off a cliff, before he looks down  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

• @socialmedialab.ca @socialmedialab.ca on bluesky

  Latest poster child for industry capture.  “How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency.”  The only people who are benefiting are insiders. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

• @dangillmor@mastodon.social Dan Gillmor on mastodon

  All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 67,895: https://www.nytimes.com/...  The crypto and gambling bros own the “regulators.”

• r/anticapitalism r on reddit

  Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Are Running a $1.2 Billion Felony Fraud Scheme that is Fully Prosecutable in New York.

• r/LegalNews r on reddit

  Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Are Running a $1.2 Billion Felony Fraud Scheme that is Fully Prosecutable in New York.

• r/politics r on reddit

  How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency

• r/neoliberal r on reddit

  How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency