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August 11, 2026
SEC Poised to Unveil Major Crypto Plans as Clarity Act Stalls — bloomberg.com
The Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to roll out a pair of major initiatives in the coming days that could further turbocharge the US crypto industry as a landmark digital asset bill stalls in Congress.
Amanda Carpenter: Audit the White House — thebulwark.com
Trump may have the pardon power, but all those people making bank off of shady contracts from the administration or doing pay-to-play can lose all that money through forfeiture and seizure laws already on the books. Taxpayers are going to want their money
Trump’s media and crypto firm just posted a $238 million quarterly loss—here’s where those losses came from — fortune.com
Even President Donald Trump’s media company couldn’t escape the Bitcoin bear market. In the second quarter of 2026, Trump Media & Technology Group, the company behind businesses such as Truth Social and prediction market platform Truth Predict, reported a
Trump Media posted a $238 million loss as falling crypto prices battered its Bitcoin holdings — qz.com
The Truth Social parent recorded $360.6 million in losses on digital assets in the first half of 2026 as Bitcoin prices declined
Trump's DOJ lays groundwork for subpoena fights with a Democratic Congress — axios.com
Executive privilege can shield President Trump's communications with "private advisers" outside of the government, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel concluded Monday. Why it matters: Democrats have been planning to bypass expected White
‘Hear it here first’: Trump’s media company doubles down on the president and Truth Social — fortune.com
The president’s media company has tried its hand at a half-dozen new lines of business to lift its stock, but nothing has worked. Now it’s getting back to its roots. In a conference call with investors Monday, the company behind Truth Social said it will
Trump Media posts a $238m quarterly loss as its bitcoin bet sours — thenextweb.com
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, reported a net loss of $238.1m for the second quarter of 2026, a figure that dwarfs the $20m loss it posted a year earlier and turns the company’s slow drift from social network to crypto holding
Anthropic struck a $9.1 billion deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms for AI computing — qz.com
The 20-year lease covers 191 megawatts of computing capacity at Riot's Rockdale, Texas, campus and runs through June 2048
Anthropic signs a $9.1bn, 20-year cloud deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms — thenextweb.com
Anthropic has struck another enormous deal to feed its appetite for computing power, and this time the counterparty is a company that until recently made its money digging up bitcoin. The twenty-year arrangement is worth $9.1 billion and gives the Claude
Code Pink Founder Medea Benjamin's Radical ‘Charity’ Ordered To Cease Operations, as US Ups Pressure on Charity’s Shadowy Benefactor, Neville Roy Singham — freebeacon.com
Arc of Justice—the California-based charity established by Code Pink cofounder Medea Benjamin to dole out millions to Code Pink and other far left activist groups—was recently ordered by the state's attorney general to cease all operations after failing to
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