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• @stephentracey Stephen Tracey on bluesky

  How is this not getting more condemnation?  Trump has floated the idea of executing drug dealers yet he frees this particular drug dealer because he is a crypto bro cause celebre.  The embarrassments just keep coming.  Nice work law and order voters, you dimwits.  —  www.nytimes.…

• @justinling.ca Justin Ling on bluesky

  Pretty good evidence that Trump doesn't even know what he's signing to appease his base: He completely butchers Ulbricht's name.  [image]

• @justinling.ca Justin Ling on bluesky

  annnnnnnd there's the Ross Ulbricht pardon.  —  Even if you've got mixed feelings about Silk Road, his sentencing was based, in part, on evidence that he ordered the murder of an witness, an informant, and three others.  —  www.wired.com/2017/05/silk...

• @harrymccracken@mastodon.social Harry McCracken on mastodon

  I'm still haunted by the fact that the case against this guy apparently didn't officially resolve the seemingly important question of whether he tried to have several people murdered. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @free_ross @free_ross on x

  Ross was just granted a FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON by @realDonaldTrump. Words cannot express how grateful we are. President Trump is a man of his word and he just saved Ross's life. ROSS IS A FREE MAN!!!!!

• @jconorgrogan Conor on x

  I found ~430 BTC across dozens of wallets associated with Ross Ulbricht that were not confiscated by the USGovt and have been untouched for 13+ years Back then these were probably dust wallets, now, collectively, they are worth about $47M. Welcome back Ross [image]

• @realrossu Ross Ulbricht on x

  I am not involved or associated with any memecoin bearing my name. There is no official Ross coin.

• @repthomasmassie Thomas Massie on x

  Ross Ulbricht has been freed by President Trump with a full pardon! Thank you for keeping your word to me and others who have been advocating for Ross' freedom, Mr. President! #freeRoss [image]

• @justinamash Justin Amash on x

  Ross Ulbricht is free! Thanks to President Trump for keeping his word to end Ross's unjust sentence by granting him a full and unconditional pardon. Prayers have been answered for Ross, Lyn (his mother), and all their family and friends. So happy for them!

• @free_ross @free_ross on x

  FREEDOM!!!! [image]

• @geiger_capital @geiger_capital on x

  Trump has fully pardoned Ross Ulbricht. Kept his promise to the libertarians. [image]

• @aubreystrobel Aubrey Strobel on x

  After 4,133 days in prison, Ross Ulbricht is free. A young man who built a platform, served a sentence far longer than the crime deserved, and became a symbol of excessive punishment in the digital age. Welcome home, Ross. Today marks the start of a new chapter.

• @ariehkovler Arieh Kovler on x

  A court found that Ross Ulbricht probably paid $730,000 to supposed contract killers to murder at least five people who could expose his darkweb drugs marketplace. The hits weren't charged criminally, but did contribute to his harsh sentence. Trump just pardoned him.

• @ianhuyett Ian Huyett on x

  The judge who sentenced Ross Ulbricht gave him life without parole because Ross is white. Judge Katherine Forrest suggested that, because of Ross' “privilege,” she was giving a much harsher sentence than she would give to a “drug dealer from the Bronx.” [image]

• @silvermanjacob Jacob Silverman on x

  Does this mean the war on drugs is over and it's legal to run an online drug market now because I am looking for a new project

• @ariehkovler Arieh Kovler on x

  James Ellingson, the “hitman” hired by Ross Ulbricht, has not yet been tried. I'm curious how if Trump's DoJ will try him for scamming poor Ulbricht, who paid good money for those murders. https://www.justice.gov/...

• @antoniogm Antonio García Martínez on x

  If Ross launches a memecoin and it pumps I'm going to lose it. But also maybe buy it.

• @timjacobwise Tim Wise on x

  So Trump has previously said drug dealers should be put to death. But he's freeing Ross Ulbricht. Because he didn't mean rich white drug dealers. Because he's a racist.

• @bensig Ben Sigman on x

  Ross Ulbricht (@RealRossU) didn't sell drugs—he built an anonymous, free, and open platform on Tor called Silk Road. Silk Road sold apparel, art, books, collectibles, computer equipment, electronics, herbs, and yeah—drugs. But according to friends who used it, Silk Road was [imag…

• @qasimrashid @qasimrashid on x

  Ross William Ulbricht stole hundreds of millions of dollars & ran a massive dark web narcotics scheme as the drug epidemic destroyed lives. He was convicted. Trump just gave him a full & unconditional pardon. Remember this when Trump blames immigrants for drugs & economic harm.

• @mattgoldstein26 Matthew Goldstein on x

  Silk Road no more. At the time it struck many as a very harsh sentence but it was back when most bad never heard of Bitcoin or the dark web [image]

• @iwriteok Robert Evans on x

  actually pretty happy to hear Ross Ulbricht is being pardoned. he did very bad things, i am not a denier, but i don't believe a man that young deserved to spend the rest of his life in a cage. i hope he makes the next chapter of his life better.

• @chaseforliberty Chase Oliver on x

  I am happy Ross Ulbricht is free and pardoned. I am happy that Lyn Ulbricht will be able to see her son free from imprisonment. There are many people who fought for this, and chief among them was Lyn Ulbricht. A mother's fierce determination to see her son free. She packed up [im…

• @juliettekayyem Juliette Kayyem on x

  Ulbricht is a high tech drug dealer who got rich off the dead bodies of those who overdosed by the sales he made possible on the dark web. He's a real Day Two priority.

• @bitcoinmagazine @bitcoinmagazine on x

  BREAKING: Here's the first image of Ross Ulbricht leaving prison as a free man 🧡 [image]

• @functi0nzer0 Laurence on x

  It's time Ross Ulbricht needs to start an exchange With a token Run it back

• @ronfilipkowski Ron Filipkowski on x

  This is the guy who started the Silk Road dark website which was used the facilitate major global drug trafficking. Was serving life in prison. But when Trump wanted the Libertarian Party endorsement he promised them this. He never heard of Ulbricht. Even spelled his name wrong. …

• @a_greenberg Andy Greenberg on x

  For anyone feeling nostalgic on the occasion of Ross Ulbricht's pardon, here's my interview with him (as the Dread Pirate Roberts) from 2013, just a few months before his arrest: https://www.forbes.com/...

• @billybinion Billy Binion on x

  I say this without snark: I am grateful that this worldview—that people deserve to rot & die in prison for victimless crimes, that no mercy should be extended, that redemption is impossible—is losing handily. Welcome home to Ross Ulbricht.

• @esaagar Saagar Enjeti on x

  I'm no fan of the silk road but the way the FBI set up Ross Ulbricht for life is still one of the most insane cases I've ever read about

• @jamesrbuk James Ball on x

  The constituency calling for this was a very small and extremely online section of Trump's base. If regular voters actually hear about this, they'll *hate* it: he's a drug kingpin who tried (albeit ineptly) to have rivals killed. Very much Trump unchained stuff.

• @ariehkovler Arieh Kovler on x

  In 2023, the DoJ charged James Ellingson aka Redandwhite, the alleged “hitman” that Ulbricht hired to do the killings. The hitman was actually a scammer and just faked the ‘proof’ pics and kept the cash. But Ulbricht thought he was paying for killings. https://www.justice.gov/...…

• @johnstossel John Stossel on x

  President Trump just pardoned Ross Ulbricht. Good. Ulbricht has served almost 10 years of a life sentence for creating the Silk Road website, where people bought and sold things the government didn't like. [video]

• @repthomasmassie Thomas Massie on x

  When I endorsed Trump for President, he and I had a conversation in which he assured me he would free Ross Ulbricht. He even suggested I could include it in my endorsement statement, which I did. Many thanks to @angela4LNCChair of the Libertarian party for elevating this cause. […

• @autismcapital @autismcapital on x

  Absolutely freaking STOKED for the inevitable Ross Ulbricht Joe Rogan podcast. 🔥🔥🔥 [image]

• @jeffjohnroberts Jeff Roberts on x

  My biggest question: Did the feds seize ALL of his Bitcoin? Or does he have secret wallets?

• @megabasedchad @megabasedchad on x

  Ross Ulbricht operated a meth and fent exchange, let him rot. Libertarians are beyond retarded for hyping up this drug dealer

• @theviewfromll2 Susan Simpson on x

  Ulbricht was also charged with paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to have 6 people murdered, but the charges were deemed unnecessary and dismissed with prejudice after he got a life sentence.

• r/CryptoCurrency r on reddit

  Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Pardoned.

• r/politics r on reddit

  Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

• r/politics r on reddit

  Trump pardons the founder of Silk Road, a platform where known for promoting and facilitating drug deals and other crimes

• r/technology r on reddit

  Trump pardons the programmer who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace.  He had been sentenced to life in prison.

• r/inthenews r on reddit

  Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

• r/politics r on reddit

  Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ulbricht for online drug scheme

• r/PKA r on reddit

  Trump pardoned the creator of the Silk Road.

• r/Buttcoin r on reddit

  Ross Ulbricht has been pardoned.

• r/stupidpol r on reddit

  Ross Ulbricht receives full pardon

• r/WayOfTheBern r on reddit

  Trump makes good on his promise to pardon Ross Ulbricht

• r/Wild_Politics r on reddit

  Trump makes good on his promise to Libertarians and pardons Ross Ulbricht

• r/Destiny r on reddit

  Boys... Trump just did a good thing!

• r/Destiny r on reddit

  Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

• r/Bitcoin r on reddit

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• r/neoliberal r on reddit

  Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ulbricht for online drug scheme

• r/onions r on reddit

  Trump gives Ross Ulbricht Full and Unconditional pardon.

• r/Bitcoin r on reddit

  Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full and unconditional pardon

• r/JoeRogan r on reddit

  Ross Ulbricht has been granted a full and unconditional pardon.  He's free.

• r/Anarcho_Capitalism r on reddit

  Ross Ulbricht was just granted a full and unconditional pardon