Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen bet big on Trump and it’s paying off for Silicon Valley

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen bet big on Trump and it’s paying off for Silicon Valley

By Jake Pearson This story was originally published by ProPublica For more than a decade, Silicon Valley venture capitalists have poured enormous sums of money into newfangled technology companies seeking to disrupt, and even supplant, the traditional financial system and sidestep its burdensome regulations. At the same time, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has policed that effort, going after such businesses for deceiving, overcharging or otherwise taking advantage of their customers by enacting rules, filing lawsuits and shutting down the…

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CBP agent reminisces about the sandwich that landed on his chest: ‘You could smell the onions and the mustard’

CBP agent reminisces about the sandwich that landed on his chest: ‘You could smell the onions and the mustard’

The Hill reports: The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent struck by a sandwich in Washington, D.C., this summer testified Tuesday during resident Sean Dunn’s federal misdemeanor trial. CBP agent Gregory Lairmore, who was called as the government’s first witness, told jurors that the sandwich “exploded” on his chest, saying he could feel it strike even through his ballistic vest. “You could smell the onions and the mustard,” Lairmore said. Dunn doesn’t dispute that he threw the sandwich at…

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How AGI has become the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

How AGI has become the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time

Will Douglas Heaven writes: Are you feeling it? I hear it’s close: two years, five years—maybe next year! And I hear it’s going to change everything: it will cure disease, save the planet, and usher in an age of abundance. It will solve our biggest problems in ways we cannot yet imagine. It will redefine what it means to be human. Wait—what if that’s all too good to be true? Because I also hear it will bring on the apocalypse…

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Israeli dissidents can show Americans how to be a good citizen when your country does terrible things

Israeli dissidents can show Americans how to be a good citizen when your country does terrible things

Masha Gessen writes: When your country pursues abhorrent policies, when the face it turns to the world is the face of a monster, what does that say about you? In my experience, it is strikingly easy to shrug off one’s responsibility for the country where one pays taxes, contributes to the public conversation and, at least nominally, has the right to vote, if that country is the United States. It seems one can just say “Not in my name” and…

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FBI warns that criminals are posing as ICE and urges federal agents to ID themselves

FBI warns that criminals are posing as ICE and urges federal agents to ID themselves

Wired reports: Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to a local police precinct. “Ensure law enforcement personnel adequality [sic] identify themselves during operations and cooperate with individuals who request further verification,”…

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Dick Cheney’s war on terror paved the way for the rise of Trump and the destruction of democracy

Dick Cheney’s war on terror paved the way for the rise of Trump and the destruction of democracy

Spencer Ackerman writes: The week before Dick Cheney died, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, one of the bureaucratic venues through which the most powerful vice president in U.S. history disfigured the country, informed Congress that it would have no say over Donald Trump’s rapidly coalescing military aggression against an oil-rich country. While self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted over social media about treating the Caribbean fishermen that he insists without evidence are drug smugglers “exactly like al-Qaeda,” Office…

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‘Free speech protects the right to speak; it does not compel anyone to provide a megaphone for a Nazi’

‘Free speech protects the right to speak; it does not compel anyone to provide a megaphone for a Nazi’

The National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, a project of @Heritage, has done valuable work. But free speech includes the right to associate—and not to. I cannot serve under someone who thinks Nazis are worth debating. Here is my resignation letter: pic.twitter.com/ccVHMdlDbO — Mark Goldfeder (@MarkGoldfeder) November 2, 2025 New York Post reports: One of the largest conservative think tanks in Washington, DC, has been roiled by its president’s embrace of Tucker Carlson after the conservative podcaster hosted white nationalist…

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Judge chastises DOJ lawyers for ‘waste of time’ in deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino

Judge chastises DOJ lawyers for ‘waste of time’ in deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino

Chicago Tribune reports: The deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino nearly ground to a halt last week as government lawyers repeatedly objected to questions by plaintiffs’ attorneys, including some about communications between Bovino and White House adviser Stephen Miller, court records obtained by the Tribune show. The impasse prompted attorneys for both sides to go before U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in the middle of Bovino’s sworn testimony on Thursday, where lawyers for the Justice Department complained that Bovino…

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Trump at center of governing chaos through contradictory statements on SNAP payments

Trump at center of governing chaos through contradictory statements on SNAP payments

HuffPost reports: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that federal food benefits won’t be distributed until after Democrats agree to reopen the government. Hours later, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt contradicted the president, saying food benefits would go out after all. As of Tuesday afternoon, it was basically unclear what was going on, except that Donald Trump had placed himself at the center of governing chaos. In a Truth Social post on Tuesday morning, Trump said Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…

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Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund votes against $1 trillion compensation for Elon Musk

Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund votes against $1 trillion compensation for Elon Musk

electrek reports: A major Tesla shareholder announced that they are voting against Elon Musk’s CEO compensation package, but the odds are still in his favor. As we have been extensively reporting over the last few weeks, Tesla shareholders are set to vote on a new compensation package for Elon Musk worth up to $1 trillion. The package is highly controversial. On one hand, the board, Musk, and his fans are presenting it as an “all or nothing” situation on which…

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The rise of a new American oligarchy: Top 10 billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year

The rise of a new American oligarchy: Top 10 billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year

The Guardian reports: The collective wealth of the top 10 US billionaires has soared by $698bn in the past year, according to a new report from Oxfam America published on Monday on the growing wealth divide. The report warns that Trump administration policies risk driving US inequality to new heights, but points out that both Republican and Democratic administrations have exacerbated the US’s growing wealth gap. Using Federal Reserve data from 1989 to 2022, researchers also calculated that the top…

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Chicago woman dragged out of her car after collision with masked federal thugs demands accountability

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after collision with masked federal thugs demands accountability

  Chicago Tribune reports: Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As…

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Trump says ICE raids haven’t gone too far — ‘they haven’t gone far enough’

Trump says ICE raids haven’t gone too far — ‘they haven’t gone far enough’

Fox 13 News Utah: The woman caught on video being detained by ICE agents at Salt Lake City International Airport this week is legally allowed to be in the United States and has the paperwork to prove it, her attorney claimed:   Trump was interviewed for 60 Minutes on October 31: NORAH O’DONNELL: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have…

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