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Exxon Mobil has held secret talks with Rosneft, the Russian oil giant run by a close Putin ally, about returning to the Sakhalin project if given the green light as part of a Ukraine peace deal. @josephttwallace @CostasParis @learyreports @CollinEatonHC wsj.com/business/energ…

NEW — The AI industry prepares for 2026 combat. Andreessen Horowitz: $50 million Greg and Anna Brockman: $50 million Meta: "Tens of millions" Huge sums of corporate cash are flowing into pro-AI super PACs. nytimes.com/2025/08/26/tec…

Exclusive: A company circumvented a ban on corporate donations to give legislative Republicans $220,000. Those lawmakers then passed legislation that could make the company millions. By Jeffrey Billman for @TheAssemblyNC. #ncpol theassemblync.com/politics/legis…

NEWS: Bill Gates is quietly cutting ties with Arabella Advisors, a consulting firm closely linked to Democrats. The $77 billion Gates Foundation has decided to stop making grants to nonprofit funds administered by Arabella. $450 million. NYT scoop: nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/…

NEW: How China influences elections in America's largest city, often using tax-exempt U.S. nonprofits. nytimes.com/2025/08/25/nyr…

Scoop: Robert Smith rented Donald Trump’s mansion, directly next door to Mar-a-Lago, while facing possible indictment in a massive tax-evasion case. forbes.com/sites/danalexa…

Here is a gift link to the story with @yaffebellany. It details how CZ & Binance’s team has deployed the tactics that others have used to win clemency from Trump — flattering him, hiring lobbyists close to him & courting his business. nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/…

Trump is being pushed by well-funded marijuana companies, who are attending his fundraisers, giving millions, presenting political arguments and hiring his former advisers, to reclassify marijuana. And he’s considering it. My latest: wsj.com/politics/polic…

@iverglas Hopefully it wasn't as painful as speaking felt that week! I'm honestly grateful my voice was audible at all

@annalecta Listen up, you narcissistic brat. I just tried to listen to a PBS item about dark money in elections in the US. Your phoney lazy smug fucking VOCAL FRY made it impossible. Your affected speech is painful to the ear and your obvious self-absorbtion defeats your message. GROW UP.

President Donald Trump continued profiting off the presidency this week with a stop in Scotland, where he opened a new private golf course. Taxpayers picked up the ~$10 million tab.

Rep. Cory Mills, already under investigation by House Ethics for financial disclosure and conflict of interest issues, allegedly received "SACKS OF CASH" from the defense contractor that he founded—while also sitting on the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees.

‘Successful Businessman’ Trump Mobilizes Business Economists Against Him  talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/s… via @TPM

This morning, ICE sent out a memo offering cash bonuses for quick deportations. The New York Times reached out to DHS about the memo. It then got cancelled. Story: nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/…

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.” bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Weight-loss drugmakers shook up their lobbying operations when Trump took office. Their strategy appears to be working: the administration is reportedly considering covering weight-loss medication under Medicaid & Medicare. NEW in @NOTUSreports: notus.org/money/weight-l…

Pharmaceutical companies behind the biggest weight-loss drugs shook up their lobbying operations during the first six months of Trump’s second term, and @NOTUSreports' @taylorgiorno_ has the skinny on what happened — with huge amounts of money at stake: notus.org/money/weight-l…

Billionaires. Shell companies. Quiet corrections. We dug through filings to follow how Musk’s money is still flowing into politics, and uncovered who actually funded Trump’s second inauguration. The full story: influencebrief.com/p/revealed-elo…

TRANSPARENCY: @FCC FOIA @CBSNews @60Minutes Kamala Harris Interview Complaints Never Before Seen Documents “My training, as a journalist, is that it always makes sense to file a FOIA…” “I felt it was important, for full context, to understand the viewing public's response to the interview and the edit....”

Scoop: Elon Musk’s X Corp. made a $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration. But it wasn’t disclosed until six months later. Here’s how it finally surfaced—and what the filings reveal 🧵

@davelevinthal @NOTUSreports Congrats, excited to keep reading your work with them!!

Some professional news: Delighted to join @NOTUSreports as a contributing editor.

NEW: A former adviser to Kamala Harris, @MikeNellis, and a conservative talk radio host, @EWErickson, agree on at least one thing: political texting 'spam' has gotten out of control. Now, Apple is rolling out a new feature that could crush those endless messages. And Senate Republicans/others in GOP operative world warn it could do more than just that. @TheFP The iPhone Update That Could Wreck Political Fundraising