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The big papers all ignored the Gillibrand story. Big mistake, since corrupting people through their family is an old trick that is very popular crypto strategy these days. Just ask the Trumps.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

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In a few years, the NYT or Post will win a Pulitzer for a sprawling investigation into how tech money poured into every nook and cranny of our political system at an unprecedented scale. Until then, enjoy the silence.

So true. So painful. Are we ever gonna wake up? I am planning on denouncing my Membership to the Democratic Party after the midterms. They don't have the ability to fight. AOC is holding me back right now.

Mainstream media have a subtle Right Wing bias. Consider the diff in treatment of B's age/cognitive functioning vs. Trump's. AS a Right Wing Dem doing many things that the T admin wants, she's eligible for the same kid gloves treatment the T admin is getting. upine.medium.com/why-mainstre...

upine.medium.comWhy Mainstream Media is So Right Wing Biased and How to ChangI just did a Twitter thread a few days ago, on why mainstream media is so Right Wing biased. Rather than keep this information just on…

She was corrupted before her kid where do you think he learned it. She’s the one behind Al Franken being run out of the senate a very trumpian attack. I would never vote for her she started in the house as a right wing dem, appointed to the senate lost weight then up for sale!

Interesting, as the Senate's Rules ban a senator from promoting legislation that would benefit "a limited class of persons" of which an immediate family member is a member – and that includes even an adult child. I'm not saying that ban would apply here (b/c of the size of the class)… Rule XXXVII –

... and of course that is a ban on what a senator is allowed to do, not on the child. Still, that is a rule that is triggered by the acts of a senator's child, regardless of age. CAVEAT: I have not checked the Ethics Committee's opinion letters and such to refresh/update myself on the finer points.