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- The Hound | July 2
The Hound | July 2
Idaho opens firing squad execution center, the disaster of Trump's Great American State Fair, and more.
Hi there,
Due to the federal holiday tomorrow, there will be no Friday newsletter. Not to fret, we will be back in your inbox on Monday, July 6. Enjoy the semiquincentennial!
It’s Thursday. Trump's financial disclosures reveal his cryptocurrency ventures netted him roughly $1.2 billion in 2025 alone — his first year back in office. This is not a financial story. It is a corruption story — arguably the largest presidential self-dealing operation in American history. A sitting president is selling access through a memecoin, dismantling the regulators who would investigate him, and taking money from foreign adversaries through vehicles that require no disclosure of who is buying.
🖊️ Sign the petition to call on The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, NBC News, ABC News, and other mainstream outlets to cover Trump's crypto empire not as a business or technology story, but as an ongoing corruption and national security crisis. The public deserves reporting that matches the scale of what is actually happening.
In addition, Idaho opened a new execution center featuring firing squads, which has become the states primary form of execution. And ProPublica delves into the rise of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket, deciding more consequential rulings with secretive votes and little justification.
Read about this, and more, with today’s stories:
A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification (ProPublica)
The Great American State Fair Is a Great Trumpian Disaster (The New Republic)
Will Lawrence Is Upending Conventional Wisdom on How to Win Congressional Districts (The American Prospect)
Death by firing squad: archaic method on the rise in US as Idaho opens new execution chamber (The Guardian)
Until next time,
Harry from The Hound
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