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This Week…
Kleptocracy Is Trump’s Most Lucrative Business Venture
The New Republic
In the News
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Michigan lawmakers pass $84B budget, 67 bills in marathon session | Bridge Michigan
- There Are Very Few Socialists in America | Paul Krugman Substack
- How the Tide Turned Against Transgender Athletes—and the Movement | Wall Street Journal
- Voters Support a Data Center Moratorium | Data for Progress
The Economy
- June Jobs Report: Hiring Misses Expectations, Just 57,000 Jobs Added | Business Insider
- How Trump Helped China Make America’s Cheapest EV | WIRED
The Trump Administration
- Trump hijacked US’s 250 anniversary to serve ‘political ideology and pet projects’, congressional report says | The Guardian
- How Trump Lied to People Trying to Donate to America250 | The New Republic
- FBI directing hundreds of analysts to dig into Georgia election probe subjects, sources say | MS NOW
- Trump wants 47 trees to mark his 47th presidency in White House park | The Washington Post
Grifters and Thieves
- Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit. | The New York Times
- Trump is rearming America. His sons are invested in the companies selling it weapons. | MS NOW
- Trump ballroom built under a secret $500M no-bid contract | The Washington Post
- Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin | The New York Times
- Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big | The New York Times
- “Pump and dump”: How Trump made $636 million — and left his supporters holding the bag | Judd Legum/Popular Information Substack
- How Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Sparked a Movement to Overthrow the Government of Albania \ Mother Jones
- A Trump-linked firm is lobbying for pardons. Its first client already paid $500,000 | CBS News
