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Bravo Michigan Democrats
Michigan Democrats just repealed the state’s extreme 1931 abortion ban.
A huge win for women’s rights and bodily autonomy in Michigan.

Bravo Bitcoin
Bitcoin is Money 2.0 Great video Fred Krueger

Peter Schiff just said “Strategy is going bankrupt.”
Saylor’s response already given two months ago:
“You can’t pay a dividend on preferred stock that would create an insolvency event.”
Translation: preferred stock does not force bankruptcy. If Strategy can’t pay the dividend without becoming insolvent, the dividend gets suspended.
That’s it.
But here’s the part people keep missing:
“If Bitcoin goes up 2%, we can pay the dividends forever.”
If you don’t think Bitcoin can average 2% a year, why are you even looking at preferred equity in a Bitcoin company?

$70 BILLION FERRARI IS NOW ACCEPTING #BITCOIN AS PAYMENT IN THE USA AND EUROPE
ONE OF THE LARGEST LUXURY BRANDS ON EARTH – BTC IS NOW GLOBAL MONEY

BILLIONAIRE JACK DORSEY’S BLOCK NOW ALLOWS 800,000 MERCHANTS IN THE US TO ACCEPT #BITCOIN
THEY ARE OFFERING 5% CASH BACK IN BTC
HE IS DOING EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER TO BRING BTC MASS ADOPTION

RICH DAD POOR DAD AUTHOR ROBERT KIYOSAKI JUST WARNED AI COULD CAUSE THE BIGGEST BANKING CRASH IN HISTORY
“WHEN THERE’S A PANIC, AI IS GOING TO KICK IN, AND THEY’RE GOING TO SELL”
“MACHINES NEARLY DESTROYED SILICON VALLEY BANK” BECAUSE THEY STARTED SELLING AUTOMATICALLY AND COULD NOT STOP
“MARK MY WORDS”

JUST IN: ODDS ARE NOW OVER 60% CLARITY ACT WILL PASS SENATE WITH OVER 60 VOTES ON KALSHI
SUPPORT FOR CLARITY IS BUILDING IN CONGRESS
IT WILL PASS AND AMERICA WILL LEAD THE WORLD ON #BITCOIN.

ESSAY Bitcoin is a REVOLUTION.
Lawrence Lepard, “fix the money, fix the world” @LawrenceLepard

It is much more than number go up. It is an invention which can free humankind from the long sad history of monetary debasement, which empowers few and taxes everyone else. In a fiat system the wrong people win. We all pay for it. It is unjust and unfair. Throughout all of human history we never had a monetary standard that did not dilute over time. Now we do. Those of us who are partisans and are fighting for it understand the stakes. Freedom, fairness, prosperity, less war, etc.

Unsound money is the issue of our age. Currently few see it, but this will change. This Fourth Turning is well on its way and the monetary issue will be resolved.

As I observe the current Bitcoin landscape and the attacks on its leaders i am reminded of the opening of Thomas Paine’s second writing, The American Crisis. Written in December 1776 after Washington had gotten his ass kicked on Long Island and retreated from Brooklyn and through New Jersey, Paine wrote:

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of their country: but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have the consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem to lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”

Sound money has to win. Sound money will win. History will be kind to sound money partisans. This is about a lot more than number go up. Don’t forget why we are in this fight. Spread the word. The system they run is evil. We know the antidote. Time is on our side.

Prominent US war hawk John Bolton has pled guilty
to violating the Espionage Act after previously demanding execution for whistleblowers Edward Snowden & Chelsea Manning and 176 years in prison for publisher Julian Assange.
As part of a plea agreement, Bolton admitted to unlawfully retaining sensitive national security information. He now faces up to 5 years in prison, up to 3 years of supervised release, a $2.25 million fine, forfeiture of his pension, and is due to be sentenced on 28 October.

!!!!!!!!!!! MORE ACTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and Navy SEAL William McRaven calls out Hegseth for firing General Chris Donahue: “The American people should demand answers. The future of our national security depends on it.”

Most people complain about power. @KatiePhangchallenged it in federal court. Now a judge has ordered the DOJ to release more Epstein records…or explain why it won’t. That’s what courage looks like: not outrage…

Elon Musk ordered to give deposition as ‘vote buying’ scheme bites him. WE demand that the deposition also include his role in rigging the 2024 election for trump. This is a golden opportunity to trip Elon.
Let’s visit earlier news that Elon has pulled off the biggest voter fraud in Georgia in 2024. It’s time he is arrested, put on trial, and also investigated whether he has done similar ballot stuffing in other swing state to install trump in 2024.

Billionaire Leon Black Subpoenaed After Dodging Epstein Questions

The House Oversight Committee is going after Leon Black after he refused to answer questions or properly explain his $158 million in payments to Jeffrey Epstein. In 2023, Black was accused of raping a 16-year-old at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse two decades earlier.

MELANIA

Melania wanted the Epstein survivors to testify in front of the Oversight Committee. They did today, just miles away from Mar a Lago, and Melania
didn’t show up or offer any public support. In fact, not one republican on
the Oversight committee showed up. The Republicans have never talked to a survivor.

“Hello Melania Trump. My name is Juliette Bryant — an Epstien survivor. You want girls to testify under oath? Here I am. Everything I’ve said is TRUE. Too bad so many of the girls who already testified ended up dead. Maybe it’s time you and your husband testify under oath too. What are you hiding?” https://x.com/MiaForTrump/status/2070817645377868261

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told reporters on Friday, “Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution,” while standing behind Trump. The Texas Board of Education approved a required reading list earlier that day that included Bible passages.

Texas becomes the first state to require students to read the Bible as part of the literature curriculum. In a 9–5 vote, the State Board of Education approved the new standards, affecting all 5.5 million public school students. “We are bringing the Bible back into schools.

 

TRUMP

Imagine being Amy Coney Barrett and being the mother of two adopted children from Haiti and having to explain to them why she voted to terminate Temporary Protected Status for roughly 330,000 Haitian Nationals living and working in the United States.

The CEO of a healthcare software company, Gary Cox, was found guilty in a $1 BILLION Medicare fraud case, and is facing a maximum sentence of up to 60 years in federal prison. …But they want you to believe immigrants are the ones committing all the Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

In the same week that the CDC reported that flu-related ailments had killed 68 children and 16,000 people overall, HHS Secretary RFK Jr.’s office issued a blunt directive to the agency: take down your ad campaign promoting flu vaccines. NYT

Affidavit from 13 year old Jane Doe Case 1:16-cv-04642-RA:
6. Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to reveal any of the details of Defendant Trump’s sexual and physical abuse of me, my family and I would be physically harmed if not killed.

Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show

Natalie Harp was an OAN correspondent at the time. Her obsession with Trump goes back years.
Natalie Harp, a close aid to Donald J. Trump, helps the president with his late night social media posts. She once told Trump in a letter, “You are all that matters to me.” I’ve included some archived clips of Harp when she was an anchor for OAN from 2021.

Trump’s Great American Frye Festival is really sad. For a professional carnival barker, you’d think Trump would put on a better fair.

Trump is very upset about Mamdani getting the rent frozen in New York City, which makes sense when you remember he’s just a sleazy slumlord at his core.

ESSAY Ricardo @Ric_RTP

The two companies that triggered the 2008 financial crisis just hit 2008-level risk AGAIN.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are now running interest-rate risk on their $5 trillion mortgage portfolio at levels they haven’t held since the months before the crash:

Their “duration gap,” the standard measure of how exposed their assets are to interest rate moves, has widened from negligible twelve months ago to roughly one full year today.

A half-percentage point rate increase would now wipe $1.2 billion from Fannie’s portfolio and $1.6 billion from Freddie’s. 12 months earlier, the same rate move would have caused barely any damage.

In plain English, the two companies that backstop roughly 70% of American mortgages just made themselves catastrophically vulnerable to the exact thing the Federal Reserve might do next year.

And this did not happen by accident…

Over the past twelve months they have added $135 billion to their retained mortgage portfolios. They have moved capital out of short-dated investments and into long-dated mortgage-backed securities.

They have left the rate exposure unhedged on purpose, because hedging would push mortgage rates higher and the administration wants mortgage rates lower.

The same pattern that broke them in 2008 is being REBUILT for political reasons in 2026.

And then comes the part that makes this truly insane:

While the GSEs were quietly leveraging up, the Federal Housing Finance Agency authorized them to start accepting Bitcoin as collateral for mortgage applications. So they are now stacking crypto exposure on top of leveraged interest rate exposure on top of $5 trillion in mortgage debt.

The same regulators who once admitted publicly that these companies were too risky to operate without government oversight are now letting them take on the kind of stacked risk that nobody at any commercial bank would be allowed to touch.

Here’s how we got here: 

In January, Trump made a televised announcement directing Fannie and Freddie to buy $200 billion in additional mortgage-backed securities. The press treated it as a bold housing affordability move. But what it actually did was authorize the GSEs to use up their remaining portfolio headroom and tilt those portfolios deeper into long-duration assets. Six months later, Bloomberg now has the data showing what that “bold move” actually built…

Richard Estabrook, a strategist at Oppenheimer, told Bloomberg that in the early years after the 2008 bailout, “the GSEs were in a sort of lockdown with strong risk oversight, maybe even excessively so.”

The guardrails put up after the last crisis have been quietly dismantled. The companies are now operating with less constraint than at any point since the conservatorship began.

Every commercial property loan, every mortgage REIT in a portfolio, every multifamily fund, and every bank that holds these mortgage-backed securities is now sitting downstream of an interest rate bet that has no hedge.

If the Fed has to raise rates again, or if the bond market revolts against the $39 trillion national debt, the same dominoes start falling that fell in 2008.

The difference this time is that we built the dominoes back deliberately, in broad daylight, while telling the public it was housing policy.

The 2008 crisis was caused in part by Fannie and Freddie running the same playbook:

Congress wrote a thousand pages of legislation to prevent it from happening again, and the conservatorship was supposed to be the structural fix.

18 years later, that fix has been walked back, the leverage has been rebuilt, and regulators are stacking crypto on top of the same balance sheet that broke last time.

This should be on every front page in the world.

Federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

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Uh oh… CNBC just admitted AI demand is falling and that’s why SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are rushing to go public.
If CNBC is telling you this, the party is already over.

It appears the unconstitutional private Flock surveillance cameras can be damaged by a green laser….

RETHUGLICAN $$$$$$COTUS IS KILLING US
If you rob a bank, you go to jail for decades.
If you cause cancer for millions of people over several decades, you get total immunity. Our justice system is such a stupid joke.

We’re all gonna live substantially shorter lives because the US Supreme Court has ruled they are allowed to poison us. The Supreme Court has sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller, blocking thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn users the product could cause cancer.

HealthRanger @HealthRanger
America’s highest court has now told every American: you can be poisoned by corporate chemicals, and you have no recourse.
Nine state legislatures — Iowa, Missouri, Idaho, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, Wyoming, Montana, and Oklahoma — already rejected industry-backed bills that would grant such immunity, recognizing the danger of letting chemical companies off the hook. Yet SCOTUS imposed it from the bench, bypassing the democratic process and handing Bayer a license to continue poisoning the population without consequence.
This is not justice; it is a death sentence for millions who will now be exposed to glyphosate without any legal recourse when they develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or other cancers.
SCOTUS just transformed the food supply in America into a slow death sentence.

Upside-down flag at Rethuglican Justice Alito’s home another blow for Supreme Court under fire
Killing people is totally fine… as long as you’re a corporation. Not even an American one. This proves it: Americans aren’t citizens, just consumers. Anyone with enough cash can buy the system. Disgusting.
Americans need to be protected from the Supreme Court more than anything.

Supreme Court Shields Bayer from Roundup Cancer Warning Lawsuits
In a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal pesticide laws block state lawsuits against Bayer’s Monsanto for not warning about cancer risks from glyphosate in Roundup. Justice Kavanaugh’s majority opinion, backed by the EPA’s repeated safety findings, reversed a Missouri court’s verdict and may end thousands of similar cases, despite Bayer’s $11 billion in prior settlements. Dissenters Jackson and Gorsuch argued states could enforce warnings without clashing with federal rules, as glyphosate’s safety divides experts like the EPA and WHO.

Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton pleads guilty to illegally retaining classified information.

BBC Demands Trump’s Phone Logs and January 6 Records in $10 Billion Defamation Fight
Trump sued the BBC for $10 billion in December 2025 over its Panorama documentary, which edited clips from his January 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ speech to suggest he urged violence, omitting his call to peacefully make voices heard. The broadcaster, after apologizing and seeing its top executives resign, now seeks expansive discovery including records from the January 6 committee, Special Counsel Jack Smith, and advisors like Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon. Trump’s lawyers call the requests excessive, aimed at relitigating the Capitol riot rather than focusing on the edit, with the case before a Trump-appointed judge and a possible 2027 trial.
Don Winslow @donwinslow
THIS is exactly what @ABC and others should have done to Trump instead of caving and giving in and paying him off with millions of dollars.

Exhibit A should be Mitch McConnell’s statement:
The mob was “provoked by the president and other powerful people” who used “fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the federal government”. Trump was ‘Practically and morally responsible’.

Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin
When President Trump illegally demolished the White House’s East Wing, he dumped the resulting 35,000 cubic yards of toxic debris on the East Potomac National Park. The administration knew it was dangerous to our people and our environment, but did it anyway. Now, we’re demanding they clean up their mess.
Public health research at world-class institutions like the @NIH is an important public good.
@RepDelBene, @RepLoriTrahan and I are leading 122 of our colleagues to oppose the Trump Administration’s efforts to give partisan political appointees final say over health research grants.

Steve Bannon is Arrested for Nonprofit Fraud After Using an Octopus of Nonprofits to Help Elect Trump/ Koch #KochNetwork

Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance
A federal judge has just ordered DOJ to turnover five categories of items from the Epstein Files that it previously failed to disclose by July 2 in a lawsuit brought by @KatiePhang
Unredacting the names of senders and recipients in at least eight email exchanges that involve Jeffrey Epstein regarding a “torture video” and sexual activity with young women, including minors.
Unredacting the names of possible co-defendants identified in a draft indictment, the names of individuals identified as possible co- conspirators, and the names of the individuals who were the sender and the recipients of an internal DOJ email briefing on the prosecution. Turning over notes from FBI interviews with …

Gov. @GavinNewsom:
“It’s time for a national billionaires tax. 10% of 🇺🇸 owns 2/3rds of the wealth. Wages have stood still as costs skyrocket. The system is broken. Time for an economic reset. The very top should pay at least the same tax rate as their workers. End the gimmick that lets the ultra-wealthy borrow against their stock portfolios while claiming no income. Rewrite the inheritance rules. Raise corporate tax rates. Every American should own a piece of A.I… trickle down has failed. Stop pretending otherwise. Democratize the 🇺🇸 economy to save our democracy.”

Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom
It’s time for a national billionaires tax and a new social contract.
10% of Americans own two-thirds of the wealth. Wages have stagnated. The cost of living has skyrocketed.
The system is fundamentally broken.
The federal tax code, a corporate code, and an inheritance code were written for a different set of Americans.
It’s time for an economic reset.

Sen. Chris Murphy just introduced legislation to make the minimum wage equal a living wage at $25/hour. That’s what full-time work actually requires to cover the bills. Full-time work should never equal poverty. No worker should grind 40 hours per week just to fall behind.

According to LEAKED documents, Trump’s ballroom which was supposed to be free to taxpayers is set to cost us $300,000,000.
The East Wing is a disaster, the Reflecting pool is a disaster, and the Iran Deal is a disaster. American taxpayers can’t catch a break.

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Donald wakes up. Commits a crime. Uses bathroom. Commits a crime. Shower. Crime. Breakfast. Crime. Nap. Crime. Meeting. Crime. Stops crime to commit a new crime. Nap. Resumes original crime.

Sleep. Crime. Repeat.

While you were reading this, he committed a crime.

 

Supreme court nominees lied under oath.
They testified that Roe was settled law. They are almost as criminal as Trump, it’s pretty close.
Today marks four years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, stripping millions of their right to reproductive care. This decision set our country backwards and put countless lives at risk.
Everyone deserves the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies. We’ll keep fighting.
We must codify Roe v. Wade into law.

Judge blocks Trump admin’s database of Americans’ Social Security numbers and citizenship status.
U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said states have used inaccurate data to wrongly identify Americans as non-citizens and purged them from voter rolls.

“NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT HOUSING”. ~ PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SPEAKER JOHNSON

Trump says our taxpayer dollars are to stop a war he started and fix a pool he contaminated.

ESSAY Nav Toor @heynavtoor

A philosophy professor at UC Berkeley built one of the most useful tools on the internet.

Not a developer. Not a startup founder. Not a tech company. A philosophy professor named John MacFarlane.

He wrote it in Haskell. In 2006. He still maintains it today. Twenty years later.

It is called Pandoc. The Swiss Army knife of documents.

You give it any document in any format. It converts it to any other format. One command. Seconds.

Word to PDF. Done.
Markdown to PowerPoint. Done.
LaTeX to Word. Done.
HTML to ePub. Done.
Jupyter notebook to PDF. Done.
Word to Markdown. Done.
PowerPoint to Markdown. Done.
Excel to Markdown. Done.

50 plus formats. Any direction. One tool.

pandoc thesis.docx -o thesis.pdf

That is it. One line. Your 300-page thesis converted. Formatting preserved.

Here is what this replaces:

A PhD student at Berkeley converting a thesis from LaTeX to Word. By hand: 6 hours. Pandoc: 3 seconds.

A novelist in Brooklyn converting a manuscript to ePub for Kindle. By hand: two days. Pandoc: one command.

A startup in Chicago migrating 200 HTML blog posts to Markdown. By hand: a full week. Pandoc: 4 minutes.

A professor at MIT turning 200 Markdown lecture notes into a PowerPoint deck. By hand: 2 hours. Pandoc: one command.

Here is what online converters charge for the same work:

Zamzar: $25 a month.
CloudConvert: $8 a month.
Smallpdf Pro: $15 a month.
Adobe Acrobat Pro: $239.88 a year.

Every one of them uploads your documents to their servers. Your thesis. Your manuscript. Your private notes. Sitting on someone else’s machine.

Pandoc runs on your laptop. Nothing uploaded. Nothing sent anywhere.

44,997 stars on GitHub. GPL-2.0 license. Version 3.10 shipped June 4 2026.

Here is the wild part.

Pandoc powers R Markdown. Pandoc powers Jupyter Book. Pandoc powers Quarto. Every time you export a notebook to a PDF or render a research report, Pandoc is probably running underneath.

The standard of document conversion on the internet was built by one philosophy professor in his spare time.

In 2006, John wanted to write his lecture notes in a lightweight format and export them to Word, HTML, and PDF. He had never written a line of Haskell in his life. Pandoc was his first Haskell program.

He has shipped 14,505 commits since then. He co-wrote the CommonMark standard. He still teaches philosophy at Berkeley. He still ships Pandoc himself.

Microsoft did not build it. Adobe did not build it. Google did not build it.

One philosophy professor. Twenty years. Forty-five thousand stars.

Your documents. Your formats. Your machine. One command.

The week you used to lose to file conversion is back in your hands.
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

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The 12 richest billionaires in the world now own more money than the poorest half of humanity.
That is 12 people against about 4 billion.

WORDS MATTER Words are important.
Men on the Epstein list did not “have sex” with minors. They RAPED children.
SEE THE DIFFERENCE?

TRUMP CREATED A CRISIS:
Congress just passed Elizabeth Warren’s HISTORIC and bipartisan housing bill – but Trump REFUSES to sign it. It would stop corporate giants from outbidding you and resolve housing affordability.
The housing crisis is on HIM.

The Trump administration has removed federal protections for the habitat of the endangered whooping crane.
Only 500 whooping cranes remain.

Undue Medical Debt

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and his wife, Miranda Kerr, partnered with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt
to erase over $550 million in unpaid medical debt across California.

The generous donation unburdens approximately 261,000 Californians, with recipients scheduled toreceive notification letters in mid-July.

Here are the key details of the medical debt relief initiative:

• The Impact: $550 million x$10 = $5.5 million direct donation enabled Undue Medical $1,000 Debt to abolish half a billion dollars in unpayable health bills.
• The Beneficiaries: An estimated 261,000 low-income families and individuals struggling with rising healthcare costs throughout California.
• The Process: Debt is purchased in bulk from collection agencies and hospitals for pennies on the dollar, after which the nonprofit notifies recipients out of the blue that their debt has been cleared.
• Notification Timeline: Beneficiaries will begin receiving branded notification letters in their mailboxes in mid-July.

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