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<\/a><\/p>\nRobert Reich: Trump\u2019s Graft, Insider\u2019s Grift<\/a><\/h2>\nMargaret Ryan, the top enforcement official at the Securities and Exchange Commission \u2014 the agency tasked with investigating insider trading and other illegal activities in financial markets \u2014 abruptly resigned last week, after just six months on the job.<\/p>\n
Reportedly<\/a>, Ryan wanted to be more aggressive in pursuing charges of fraud and other misconduct, including against Trump\u2019s inner circle. But the SEC\u2019s chairman, Paul Atkins, and other Republican appointees to the commission wouldn\u2019t let her.<\/p>\nWhen Trump appointed Atkins chair of the SEC, he was co-chair of the Token Alliance, a cryptocurrency advocacy group, and he owned $6 million worth of holdings in crypto-related businesses.<\/p>\n
During Atkins\u2019s time at the SEC, the commission has dropped or settled numerous lawsuits with cryptocurrency companies and adopted a lax regulatory approach to fraud.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also avoided politically sensitive cases \u2014 such as, let me hazard a guess, insider trading by Trump\u2019s family and cronies.<\/p>\n
Why do I mention insider trading by Trump\u2019s family and cronies?
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\n(Robert Reich more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMike Allen @ Axios<\/em>: Mystery trading patterns follow Trump<\/a><\/h2>\nMichael Fanone: This Company Behind January 6 Just Got Paid \u2014 Again<\/a><\/h2>\nIf this doesn\u2019t sit right with you, don\u2019t just absorb it and move on. Share this. Talk about it. Make it inconvenient to bury.<\/em><\/p>\nLiz Dye: Kari Lake’s dismantling of VOA is a full-blown fiasco<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – March 25, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nYesterday Trump told reporters that Iran \u201cgave us a present and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t nuclear-related, it was oil and gas-related,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Today Katherine Doyle, Courtney Kube, and Dan De Luce of NBC News reported that U.S. military officials have kept Trump up to date on events in the war on Iran by showing him a two-minute montage video of \u201cthe biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours,\u201d or, as one put it: \u201cstuff blowing up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although Trump also receives briefings through conversations with military and intelligence officers, news reports, and foreign leaders, some of Trump\u2019s allies expressed concern to the reporters that he is not \u201creceiving\u2014or absorbing\u2014the complete picture of the war, now in its fourth week.\u201d
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nCNBC: Iran rejects U.S. ceasefire offer, demands sovereignty over Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/h2>\nAP: Iran rejects US ceasefire plan, issues its own demands as strikes land across the Mideast<\/a><\/h2>\nAlexander Willis @ RawStory<\/em>: Admission from Epstein advisors undercuts central claim from Trump admin<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nDuring their testimony, both Kahn and Indyke revealed that at no time were they ever contacted by federal investigators, an admission that \u201craises questions about the depth of the Justice Department\u2019s review of Epstein,\u201d NBC News reporter Raquel Coronell Uribe wrote in a report<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\nAlexander Willis @ RawStory<\/em>: Jack Smith memo reveals Trump\u2019s classified docs ‘motive’<\/a><\/p>\n\nAngelina @ Atlanta Black Star<\/em>: \u2018This Is a Joke\u2019: Trump\u2019s Knee-Jerk Reaction Sparks New Airport Chaos He Didn\u2019t Account For \u2014 and It\u2019s Sure to Have the White House Scrambling<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Paul Krugman: The War on Wind Continues<\/a><\/h2>\nThe burn, baby, burn compulsion persists amid a fossil fuel crisis<\/em>
\nWe are now in a global fossil fuel crisis. With oil and liquefied natural gas from the Persian Gulf unable to reach international markets due to Iran\u2019s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, hydrocarbon prices have been soaring around the world and widespread shortages are emerging. Anyone who thought that the U.S. would be insulated from this dire picture thanks to its large domestic oil production has had a rude awakening: the average retail price of gasoline<\/a> has risen more than $1 per gallon over the past month, while the price of diesel is up $1.60.<\/p>\nBut the Trump administration hasn\u2019t allowed these short-run distractions to divert it from its long-run goals: It remains deeply committed to killing renewable energy, especially wind power, and increasing America\u2019s reliance on fossil fuels. …<\/p>\n
And on Monday the Interior Department unveiled a new tactic in its war on wind: It announced that it will pay TotalEnergies, a French energy giant, almost $1 billion<\/a> to not<\/em> produce energy \u2014 specifically to abandon its plans to build two large wind farms off the East Coast.<\/p>\nTo understand the Trump administration\u2019s motives in its campaign to kill renewable energy, one must realize that this campaign is both economically self-destructive and, despite the best efforts of the fossil fuel industry, deeply unpopular.<\/p>\n
Fifteen years ago wind and solar power were still relatively marginal energy sources, which those hostile to their development could portray as unproven and uneconomic. Today they are major contributors to energy supply in many nations \u2014 and in some U.S. states. Perhaps most notably, as the chart at the top of this post shows, renewables \u2014 mostly wind, but with a growing role for solar \u2014 now account for more than a third of electricity generation in Texas, America\u2019s largest producer of electricity and not exactly a state run by environmental extremists.<\/p>\n
Even more impressively, renewables have dominated the growth in Texas\u2019s electricity generation in recent years:
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Emily Atkin: What oil actually costs<\/a><\/h2>\nThe market price of oil has never reflected its true cost. This week made that impossible to ignore.<\/em>
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Julia Musto @ Independent<\/em>: New Covid variant has been identified and is already spreading in 25 states<\/a><\/h2>\nResearchers say the strain could evade protection from current Covid shot<\/em><\/p>\nKatelyn Jetelina @ Your Local Epidemiologist<\/em>: Glyphosate: A story of science, risk, and nuance<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Jennifer Rubin: What Did Republicans Expect?<\/a><\/h2>\nRepublicans made a calculated bet that by indulging Donald Trump\u2019s ill-conceived and cruel schemes (e.g., unleashing ICE on cities, tariffs, wars with Venezuela and Iran, slashing healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the rich), the country would somehow stumble through. They figured congressional Republicans would share in any successes but somehow avoid any blame when things (inevitably) went haywire. Politics rarely works out that way.
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nAl Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\nICE deaths 2026 – They deserve remembrance and justice.<\/em><\/p>\n\n- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez<\/a>\n
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil<\/a>\n
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam<\/a>\n
- January 24: Alex Pretti<\/a>\n
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez<\/a>\n
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz<\/a>\n
- January 9: Parady La<\/a>\n
- January 7: Ren\u00e9e Good<\/a>\n
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz<\/a>\n
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres<\/a>\n
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos<\/a>\n
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n
Suffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\nNACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTexas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\nWalk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMargaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\nNPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\nAccountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Robert Reich: Trump\u2019s Graft, Insider\u2019s Grift Margaret Ryan, the top enforcement official at the Securities and Exchange Commission \u2014 the agency tasked with investigating insider trading and other illegal activities in financial markets \u2014 abruptly resigned last week, after just six months on the job. Reportedly, Ryan wanted to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9504"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9539,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions\/9539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
When Trump appointed Atkins chair of the SEC, he was co-chair of the Token Alliance, a cryptocurrency advocacy group, and he owned $6 million worth of holdings in crypto-related businesses.<\/p>\n
During Atkins\u2019s time at the SEC, the commission has dropped or settled numerous lawsuits with cryptocurrency companies and adopted a lax regulatory approach to fraud.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also avoided politically sensitive cases \u2014 such as, let me hazard a guess, insider trading by Trump\u2019s family and cronies.<\/p>\n
Why do I mention insider trading by Trump\u2019s family and cronies? If this doesn\u2019t sit right with you, don\u2019t just absorb it and move on. Share this. Talk about it. Make it inconvenient to bury.<\/em><\/p>\n Yesterday Trump told reporters that Iran \u201cgave us a present and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t nuclear-related, it was oil and gas-related,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Today Katherine Doyle, Courtney Kube, and Dan De Luce of NBC News reported that U.S. military officials have kept Trump up to date on events in the war on Iran by showing him a two-minute montage video of \u201cthe biggest, most successful strikes on Iranian targets over the previous 48 hours,\u201d or, as one put it: \u201cstuff blowing up.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Trump also receives briefings through conversations with military and intelligence officers, news reports, and foreign leaders, some of Trump\u2019s allies expressed concern to the reporters that he is not \u201creceiving\u2014or absorbing\u2014the complete picture of the war, now in its fourth week.\u201d … The burn, baby, burn compulsion persists amid a fossil fuel crisis<\/em> But the Trump administration hasn\u2019t allowed these short-run distractions to divert it from its long-run goals: It remains deeply committed to killing renewable energy, especially wind power, and increasing America\u2019s reliance on fossil fuels. …<\/p>\n And on Monday the Interior Department unveiled a new tactic in its war on wind: It announced that it will pay TotalEnergies, a French energy giant, almost $1 billion<\/a> to not<\/em> produce energy \u2014 specifically to abandon its plans to build two large wind farms off the East Coast.<\/p>\n To understand the Trump administration\u2019s motives in its campaign to kill renewable energy, one must realize that this campaign is both economically self-destructive and, despite the best efforts of the fossil fuel industry, deeply unpopular.<\/p>\n Fifteen years ago wind and solar power were still relatively marginal energy sources, which those hostile to their development could portray as unproven and uneconomic. Today they are major contributors to energy supply in many nations \u2014 and in some U.S. states. Perhaps most notably, as the chart at the top of this post shows, renewables \u2014 mostly wind, but with a growing role for solar \u2014 now account for more than a third of electricity generation in Texas, America\u2019s largest producer of electricity and not exactly a state run by environmental extremists.<\/p>\n Even more impressively, renewables have dominated the growth in Texas\u2019s electricity generation in recent years: The market price of oil has never reflected its true cost. This week made that impossible to ignore.<\/em> Researchers say the strain could evade protection from current Covid shot<\/em><\/p>\n Republicans made a calculated bet that by indulging Donald Trump\u2019s ill-conceived and cruel schemes (e.g., unleashing ICE on cities, tariffs, wars with Venezuela and Iran, slashing healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the rich), the country would somehow stumble through. They figured congressional Republicans would share in any successes but somehow avoid any blame when things (inevitably) went haywire. Politics rarely works out that way. <\/center><\/p>\n ICE deaths 2026 – They deserve remembrance and justice.<\/em><\/p>\n Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" curated news excerpts & citations Robert Reich: Trump\u2019s Graft, Insider\u2019s Grift Margaret Ryan, the top enforcement official at the Securities and Exchange Commission \u2014 the agency tasked with investigating insider trading and other illegal activities in financial markets \u2014 abruptly resigned last week, after just six months on the job. Reportedly, Ryan wanted to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9504"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9539,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions\/9539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n(Robert Reich more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMike Allen @ Axios<\/em>: Mystery trading patterns follow Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n
Michael Fanone: This Company Behind January 6 Just Got Paid \u2014 Again<\/a><\/h2>\n
Liz Dye: Kari Lake’s dismantling of VOA is a full-blown fiasco<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – March 25, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nCNBC: Iran rejects U.S. ceasefire offer, demands sovereignty over Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/h2>\n
AP: Iran rejects US ceasefire plan, issues its own demands as strikes land across the Mideast<\/a><\/h2>\n
Alexander Willis @ RawStory<\/em>: Admission from Epstein advisors undercuts central claim from Trump admin<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nDuring their testimony, both Kahn and Indyke revealed that at no time were they ever contacted by federal investigators, an admission that \u201craises questions about the depth of the Justice Department\u2019s review of Epstein,\u201d NBC News reporter Raquel Coronell Uribe wrote in a report<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\nAlexander Willis @ RawStory<\/em>: Jack Smith memo reveals Trump\u2019s classified docs ‘motive’<\/a><\/p>\n
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Angelina @ Atlanta Black Star<\/em>: \u2018This Is a Joke\u2019: Trump\u2019s Knee-Jerk Reaction Sparks New Airport Chaos He Didn\u2019t Account For \u2014 and It\u2019s Sure to Have the White House Scrambling<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nPaul Krugman: The War on Wind Continues<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nWe are now in a global fossil fuel crisis. With oil and liquefied natural gas from the Persian Gulf unable to reach international markets due to Iran\u2019s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, hydrocarbon prices have been soaring around the world and widespread shortages are emerging. Anyone who thought that the U.S. would be insulated from this dire picture thanks to its large domestic oil production has had a rude awakening: the average retail price of gasoline<\/a> has risen more than $1 per gallon over the past month, while the price of diesel is up $1.60.<\/p>\n
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\n(Paul Krugman more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nEmily Atkin: What oil actually costs<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Emily Atkin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nJulia Musto @ Independent<\/em>: New Covid variant has been identified and is already spreading in 25 states<\/a><\/h2>\n
Katelyn Jetelina @ Your Local Epidemiologist<\/em>: Glyphosate: A story of science, risk, and nuance<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nJennifer Rubin: What Did Republicans Expect?<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Jennifer Rubin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nAl Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Suffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\n
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\n
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\n
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\n
Accountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\n
GriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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