📡 Tech Support: A bipartisan group of 13 lawmakers wrote to the leaders of major technology firms on Thursday, urging them to offer more services to dissident Iranians protesting against the regime in Tehran.
🚫 Sanctioned: The Treasury Department announced sanctions against the 15 Khordad Foundation, an Iran-based group that issued a bounty on author Salman Rushdie, who survived an assassination attempt earlier this yr.
📱 Musk’s Moves: Shortly after finalizing his purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk tweeted that the corporate will form a content moderation panel, and said that no major decisions or account reinstatements would occur before the panel’s launch. On Sunday, Musk tweeted after which deleted a conspiracy theory in regards to the assault on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
💻 Antisemitic Campaign: A coordinated online campaign to spread antisemitic memes and pictures was launched on Friday after Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter.
💲 High Stakes: Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding Company announced the rollover of its existing Twitter shares, valued at $1.89 billion, to the Musk-owned Twitter.
💙 Competing for Love: The wife of Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, Doug Mastriano, said they “probably love Israel greater than lots of Jews do,” during a campaign stop on Saturday.
🗳️ Pennsylvania Politics: The United Democracy Project spent nearly $80,000 opposing Democrat Summer Lee in Pennsylvania’s twelfth Congressional District. The group had backed Lee’s primary opponent, Steve Irwin, through the primary.
🏢 Second-Likelihood Startups: Andreessen Horowitz invested in Andy Rubin’s recent hardware company Easy Things, two months after the enterprise capital firm put $350 million behind WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s latest startup.
💵 Crypto Money-In: Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of crypto exchange FTX, looks set to money in as much as $100 million from Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
🕵️ DoJ Team: Federal prosecutor David Raskin has joined the Justice Department’s investigation into the documents at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.
🏀 Fouled: Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving defended having shared antisemitic content on social media despite statements from NBA officials, including Nets owner Joe Tsai, regarding the purpose guard’s controversial posts.
✡️ Tackling Antisemitism: Latest England Patriots owner Robert Kraft sponsored an ad broadcast during NFL game broadcasts on Sunday, calling on fans to “Stand Up To Jewish Hate.”
🇧🇷 Brazilian Bombshell: Brazil’s former leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made a comeback as he beat far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro within the country’s presidential election.
🕯️ Remembering: Roz Wyman, the youngest member ever elected to the Los Angeles City Council, died at 92. Press agent Sy Presten died at 98. Gallerist Margo Feiden died at 77. Literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, who helped expose Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, died at 87. Poet and National Book Award winner Gerald Stern died at 97. Seymour Press, who performed in and later assembled orchestras in Broadway and Off-Broadway shows for greater than 60 years, died at 98. Musician Robert Gordon died at 75.
