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Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021
-- after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time.
Trump alleges that Capital One illegally closed his accounts for political reasons, following …

Trump accounts at Capital One were closed in 2021 over money laundering concerns
Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering. The bank disclosed this in a court filing over the weekend. Trump has sued Capital One, alleging the closures were politically motivated following the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks. Capital One seeks to dismiss the lawsuit, stating the closures followed months of analysis by its anti-money laundering team. Trump has also sued JPMorgan Chase, claiming similar political m…

Independent of the very serious issues raised in this article, it highlights the fact that a #capitalist-driven economic strategy creates winners (the source of capital) and fails to respond to evolving threats, this leaving manufacturing vulnerable - by extracting every milligram of available profit out of existing plants, and failing to upgrade plant and equipment - because, after all, capital …

EU faces 300,000 factory job cuts as China ‘colonises’ supply chains, industry warns
Protest using 10 coffins to symbolise struggling manufacturing industry to take place in Brussels

Independent of the very serious issues raised in this article, it highlights the fact that a #capitalist-driven economic strategy creates winners (the source of capital) and fails to respond to evolving threats, this leaving manufacturing vulnerable - by extracting every milligram of available profit out of existing plants, and failing to upgrade plant and equipment - because, after all, capital …

EU faces 300,000 factory job cuts as China ‘colonises’ supply chains, industry warns
Protest using 10 coffins to symbolise struggling manufacturing industry to take place in Brussels

Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm Mido Capital; sources: he plans to raise ~$100M for a fund backing early-stage AI and other startups (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Pro Shop, the media company founded in 2023 to expand golf's presence in entertainment, raised a $24M Series B, following a $20M Series A (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Golf Media Company Pro Shop Raises $24 Million In Expansion Push (Exclusive)
Arthur Blank's family office, Causeway Partners and Ares Capital are among the new investors in the company, founded by Chad Mumm and Joe Purzycki.

#CapitalOne Cites Money Laundering Review in #Trump-Related Suit https://finance.yah…

SpaceX reported Q2 2026 results with revenue of $7.8 billion versus $6.81 billion expected,
but the stock fell after the report.
It also posted adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization)
of $3.5 billion,
while heavy AI infrastructure spending drove a large AI operating loss and high capital expenditures
Following the earnings report, SpaceX's stock declined due to concerns over high capital expenditures and AI spending.…

FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/alternative-social-media-ap…

Instagram alternative Retro raises $21M for close friends sharing
In 2023, ex-Instagram employees launched a new app called Retro. It's one of many new social media apps taking on Big Tech platforms.

The Russian strikes tormenting Ukraine’s capital in recent days have had an ominous new feature:
jet-powered drones.
Significantly faster and harder to intercept than the propeller-driven drones that have stalked Ukraine’s skies for years,
these munitions are stretching air defenses and stoking anxiety about what analysts and officials predict will be a dangerous new stage of the war
With jet engines
drones can carry heavier explosive payloads,
flying farth…

The New Jet-Powered Drones That Are Breeding Anxiety in Ukraine
These Russian drones are more destructive, faster and harder to shoot down than the propeller-driven models that Moscow has used throughout the war.

Filing: a major Cumulus Media post-bankruptcy stakeholder is likely to be Alden Global Capital President Heath Freeman, who may hold a 31.86% voting interest (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/07/29/notorious-newsroom-job-slasher-gr…

Notorious Newsroom Job Slasher Grabs Big Stake in Cumulus - Radio Ink
FCC filings show notorious "vulture" capitalist Heath Freeman is set to hold a 31.86% stake in the reorganized Cumulus Media.