What we learned about Jump in the Terraform Labs trial

1/ Secretive HFT giant Jump Trading was a big backer of Do Kwon’s Terra/Luna project. Exhibits released by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show that Kwon formed a tight relationship with this guy: Jump Crypto president Kanav Kariya

Must read interview with Ami Ayalon, the former Shin Bet head, by Bruno Macaes...quite a bit of wisdom there newstatesman.com/the-weekend-in… Bruno Maçães

At least six instantly iconic lines in this post. The recent International Ape Workshop in Miami. My kids know me as this ape. Unfortunately, what blur is doing to apes is frankly unacceptable. A notarised letter begging Pacman to stop this nonsense at once.

Thank you to Bradley Hope and Project Brazen for having me on to discuss Means of Control! Please check out our conversation here or anywhere you get podcasts.

The end of Credit Suisse in March 2023 stunned the financial world. What happened and why it matters - read it in my new book, available to pre-order on Amazon now: Meltdown: Scandal, Sleaze and the Collapse of Credit Suisse amzn.eu/d/6zssLQb

Amazing story: Damien Hirst's studio knocked up more of his classic formaldehyde animals in 2017, but displayed them with dates implying they were part of the original 1990s crop

Hirst's response? Oh, no, these dates refer to the 'conception of the work'!
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Latest on Gaurav Srivastava sage — Democrats refunding donations and FBI agents interviewing associates about campaign donations and money flows. Only on Whale Hunting Soobin Kim

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This month we’re remembering Evan’s one-year anniversary of being arrested while conducting a reporting interview in Russia #JournalismIsNotACrime #istandwithevan

Very much enjoyed talking to the great Jane Bradley of the London bureau of the The New York Times. She goes deep on Interpol's latest abuse patterns from member states

Interpol’s rainbow menu of global notices has been used and abused by authoritarian regimes. Will a new boss bring it to heel? This week, hear from Jane Bradley about what Interpol is really for, and the complicated politics at play within its ranks: link.chtbl.com/whalehunting.

Very excited to see our Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project report with Marshall Islands Journal won a SABEW award! It's a crazy story of international grifting involving a miracle water scam, the new US-China cold war, and corruption at the highest levels of the UN

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Inside the fight to free @wsj reporter Evan Gershkovich from Russia ti.me/4a3ObQG

When journalists and lawyers start getting gunned down in Amsterdam, you’ve got all the makings of a European narco-state. This week, we hear from Mitchell Prothero about the sentencing of the merciless kingpin at the heart of the chaos: Ridouan Taghi.
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In Dune the Freman follow Zensunni a future religion derived from Islam and Buddhism with Reverend Mothers like Lady Jessica. Since Zensunni derives from Islam were women religious leaders in Islam historically?

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NEW: Just in time for #SunshineWeek ! I'm launching a weekly #FOIA newsletter for Bloomberg called FOIA Files where I will challenge govt secrecy & unshroud the documents recalcitrant agencies preferred never saw the light of day. 

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Taylor Swift's juggernaut global tour has hit Asia, causing tensions between Singapore, the only Southeast Asian stop on her itinerary, and neighboring countries like Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
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Oscar-winning filmmaker turned propagandist: How @theOliverStone and an accomplice offered favorable documentaries to Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Azerbaijan's autocrat Ilham Aliyev. #Oscars2024 spiegel.de/kultur/wie-oli…

What is going on with the death of Ivan Sechin, previously healthy 35-year-old son of one of Putin's most feared cronies who dropped dead last month? Get into it, including a mysterious raid on oil traders at the *exact* same time as the funeral whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/death-of-sechi… Only on…