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Trump's social media company is attempting a $6 billion merger with a nuclear fusion company. TAE Technologies partnered with the UK's atomic agency this month, has financial backing from the Russian gov, and hopes to see fusion power the AI revolution https://www.cnn.com/...

2025-12-19 View on X

Financial Times

Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the “world's first utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026

NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Liz Hoffman / Semafor : America is becoming the world's dumb money Dominic Preston / The Verge : Trump Medi...

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Patel's disclosure says that his shares in the company—Elite Depot Ltd—would begin vesting Feb. 1, two days after his Senate confirmation hearing, will continue to vest through November, and that he won't back out. [image]

2025-02-08 View on X

Wired

Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head FBI, was allotted Shein shares of $1M to $5M in exchange for consulting services; he has no plans to divest them

Donald Trump's pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form …

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NEW: Trump nominee Kash Patel disclosed he's receiving $1 million-$5 million in shares of a Cayman Islands holding company directly tied to a Chinese corporation the Senate & a pro-Trump nonprofit accuse of “slave labor.” Patel says he won't divest. (cont'd)

2025-02-08 View on X

Wired

Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head FBI, was allotted Shein shares of $1M to $5M in exchange for consulting services; he has no plans to divest them

Donald Trump's pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form …

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Here are the entity's directors, per Cayman Islands records. They include celebrities, but also the heads of Chinese retail conglomerate Shein. That company has been excoriated by US officials, including a Senate CCP investigation and Trump Secretary of State Marco Rubio. [image]

2025-02-08 View on X

Wired

Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head FBI, was allotted Shein shares of $1M to $5M in exchange for consulting services; he has no plans to divest them

Donald Trump's pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form …

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But Patel appears to have lied about or misrepresented the company on his disclosure, claiming under penalty of perjury it was a “fashion management company.” But it filed as an “equity holding company” in the Cayman Islands. Equity in what, you ask? [image]

2025-02-08 View on X

Wired

Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head FBI, was allotted Shein shares of $1M to $5M in exchange for consulting services; he has no plans to divest them

Donald Trump's pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form …

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Twitter challenged Jack Smith's warrant for Trump's account because Twitter (Elon Musk, decision maker) wanted to notify Trump [image]

2023-08-10 View on X

CNN

Filing: Twitter was fined $350K for not giving Trump's account data after special counsel Jack Smith got a warrant in January 2023; Twitter ultimately complied

Remember when Donald Trump tweeted? Of course you do! James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : X Corp. hit with fine for not turning over data on Donald Trump Ryan Ozawa / Decrypt : Did Spe...

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If Elon Musk leaves Twitter in like a year to start his own platform, which we should remember was his original threat, do they Men-In-Black his brain? https://twitter.com/...

2022-04-11 View on X

@paraga

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal says Elon Musk has decided not to join Twitter's board despite being offered a seat

Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here. https://twitter.com/...

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If Elon Musk leaves Twitter in like a year to start his own platform, which we should remember was his original threat, do they Men-In-Black his brain? https://twitter.com/...

2022-04-11 View on X

Axios

Elon Musk tweets that all Twitter Blue subscribers “should get an authentication checkmark” and that the service should be ad-free for a lower ~$2/month price

👏 @elonmusk 👏 https://twitter.com/... @joelkatz : This actually makes a lot of sense. It would make Twitter a lot more money and would make it much more expensive to get your bots ...

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<matt gaetz shakes fist, presumably> however, we didn't get the payments themselves from venmo feeds; those came from a source. but we did use venmo's public friends list to map out a network of what gaetz's “wingman” describes as a potential sex ring. this doesn't fix the issue https://twitter.com/...

2021-07-21 View on X

Bloomberg

Venmo says it is ditching its global social feed, making it so users can no longer see payments between people they don't know

Good morning! This Wednesday, tech employees want to work … Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge : Venmo drops the global social feed that could make your payments visible to strangers...

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SCOOP, in @WIRED: Is your shirt even legal? How untold millions of dollars of merch fraud in the online T-shirt industry is challenging our concepts of ownership https://www.wired.com/...

2020-03-18 View on X

Wired

A look at print-on-demand companies that let users upload any design for products like T-shirts and the challenges of policing IP violations

Roger Sollenberger / Wired : Tweets: @sollenbergerrc , @wired , and @stanfordlaw Tweets: Roger Sollenberger / @sollenbergerrc : SCOOP, in @WIRED: Is your shirt even legal? How unt...

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