'Privacy nightmare': 19 states fight SEC's investor tracker Twenty-three officials are sending a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, calling for him to send the Protecting Investors' Personally Identifiable Information Act to the floor. 06/12/2024 - 11:02 am | View Link
Investors and private fund groups at odds over court tossing SEC private fund rule The judges wrote that the SEC could not rely on Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act nor Section 211 (h) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to regulate private funds because those sections are ... 06/12/2024 - 12:01 am | View Link
Analysis-As Supreme Court decisions loom, a legal assault is weakening SEC's power A legal assault on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is chipping away at its powers to oversee Wall Street and is likely to intensify with two imminent Supreme Court rulings. A U.S. appeals ... 06/11/2024 - 1:06 am | View Link
End of Wall Street? Texas Stock Exchange to File SEC Paperwork Texas continues its rise to prominence when other states are falling short. Plans are in motion for a new Dallas-based Texas Stock Exchange to officially launch in 2026, CNN reported. The TXSE group ... 06/6/2024 - 6:47 am | View Link
Wall Street trade failure rate rise in third day of faster settlement The U.S. trade failure rate rose on Thursday, the fourth day of the newly launched faster settlement cycle, according to data released by the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation on Friday. 05/31/2024 - 6:03 am | View Link
So Clarence Thomas took several more trips on the private plane of GOP megadonor Harlan Crow than were previously known, Sen. Dick Durbin revealed yesterday. Between the private yachts and the luxury jet trips, when the hell did he have the time to tour trailer parks on his luxury megabus?
Killer Kyle Rittenhouse was recently appointed as the Outreach Director for a group called Texas Gun Rights:
Excited to be part of the team! https://t.co/npiiDtvtDx
— Kyle Rittenhouse (@ThisIsKyleR) June 11, 2024
Per the press release, apparently Killer Kyle's qualifications are that he is, well, a killer. They actually touted Kyle's shooting and killing two people and injuring a third person as giving him a "unique perspective." Well, you know that they couldn't set the bar too high if he was deemed too stupid to join the Marines.
I wonder if his motto will be "Reach out and shoot someone."
It is rather ironic that this announcement was made as Hunter Biden was convicted on felony charges for illegal possession of a firearm and lying on the background check form.
It does give one pause to wonder if there is indeed a two-tiered justice system in this country.
On one hand, a guy who lied on a form and illegally possessed a gun is now a convicted felon.
Fox's Jesse Watters is the last person anyone should be asking for dating tips, but the hosts on this Tuesday's The Five decided to go there anyway.
Here's the discussion about dating apps at the close of the show where apparently none of Watters' cohosts thought there was anything creepy about asking a guy who dumped his wife and kids for a 25-year-old coworker for his thoughts on the topic:
FOWLER: Greg, what happened just going to a bar and meeting someone?
GUTFELD: It's interesting.
GOP senators were a vision of spinelessness as they slobbered over the convicted felon who nearly got them killed on Jan. 6, 2021. The felon, however, looked and sounded quite diminished.
He spoke to a gathering of reporters in what seemed to be a planned press conference. But after five minutes, the guy who seems like he can never get enough attention called it quits and refused to take questions.
Trump pretends to be so brave he’s willing to face down a guillotine.
Above, Berlin perform, No More Words. We gotta keep beating this drum: The GOP is falling in line behind and enabling a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who tried to overthrow the government in 2021. That’s the message.
News Corpse presents the latest conspiracy theory.
Max's Dad has a blue plate special.
The Daily Blast Greg Sargent's podcast had Dahlia Lithwick as a guest.
Representative Tom Tiffany (MAGA-WI) sat down with CNN's Boris Sanchez for an interview when he tried to spew the Republican conspiracy theory that President Biden was involved in influence peddling with Ukraine. He was not prepared for Sanchez who had done his homework and had the receipts. Tiffany didn't know what hit him:
SANCHEZ: And there's no evidence in any of the documents put out by the Oversight Committee that a single dollar went to President Biden when he was in office, therefore there's no evidence that he did anything illegal, that he abused his power, or that he abused his power in office to help his family members or friends get wealthy.
TIFFANY: Joe Biden has a check in, in the amount of $40,000 that has his name on it, you got another $200,000 check that came from Jim and Sarah Biden to him.