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BUY BITCOIN SIGN TURNS 9 YEARS OLD

Nine years ago today, on July 12, 2017, then-22-year-old intern Christian Langalis slipped into the audience behind Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen during her semiannual testimony before Congress and held up a handwritten sign reading just two words: “Buy Bitcoin.”

The sign appeared on live television for only a few seconds before security eventually escorted Langalis from the hearing.

He later said he never expected anyone to notice, believing he would simply save a screenshot from the broadcast as a personal keepsake.

His phone had died before the hearing began, so he didn’t realize the stunt had gone viral until after he left.

Langalis later explained he attended the hearing while working at a macro hedge fund and had grown tired of what he described as “Fed worship.”

As a libertarian influenced by Bitcoin’s cypherpunk roots, he said the sign reflected his broader belief that central banking and state-controlled money should be challenged.

He kept the original sign in a sock drawer for years before auctioning at PubKey in New York in April 2024.

A pseudonymous bidder purchased the piece of Bitcoin history for 16 BTC, worth more than $1 million at the time.

 

Stablecoins just handled what wire transfers have fumbled for decades. Hyundai settled a cross-border treasury move between its US and Mexican units using Tether’s USDT, completing a proof-of-concept that puts traditional correspondent banking on notice.

 

CORRUPT POLITICIANS

THANKS TO NETHAPPENINGS READER NIZA!!

Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Trillions of reasons why @USGAO hasn’t ever issued an audit opinion on the U.S. financial statements. hole here: https://missingmoney.solari.com
Our ENTIRE National Debt of $38 TRILLION truly IS due to elites stealing our taxpayer dollars?!
Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, reveals how the US government stole $50 TRILLION taxpayer dollars and used Jeffrey Epstein to launder it.
Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin arranged Jeffrey Epstein’s first visit to the Clinton White House in 1993, precisely as massive funds began disappearing from federal agencies, alleging Epstein ran the SWIFT system to launder the stolen TRILLIONS!
TRILLIONS vanished through undocumented adjustments at DoD and HUD starting in the mid-90s, escalating to $21 trillion by 2017 (matching the entire U.S. national debt then), plus $29 trillion in bailouts, totaling $50 trillion extracted while taxpayers are forced to hold the central banking debt trap in the form of our National Debt!
video Rubin was the secretary of the Treasury
BIS can hold money in secrecy behind soverign immunity
https://x.com/LightOnLiberty/status/2076430963379224839

US Strategic Petroleum Reserve drops ~3M barrels to 316.5M, lowest since 1983. Forty years of buffer, gone.

Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin
If a stock trading ban for Members of Congress came to the floor tomorrow, it would pass.
Everyone knows it’s corrupt. Everyone knows it destroys trust. And everyone knows Congress has no business letting Members profit off information the public does not have.
So why hasn’t it happened? Because Speaker Johnson refuses to bring it up for a vote.

“The big lesson of the Iran war…is that the U.S. no longer controls the world’s sea lanes, because warfare has changed. We now live in a world where you cannot protect billion dollar ships with million-dollar missiles against $10,000 drones.” Louis Gave

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assured a judge in Washington, D.C., that it was shuttering a controversial citizenship database, but would make the tool available to four Republican-led states on a different judge’s orders.
Megyn Kelly: “I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been. The self-dealing, the lining of his and his family’s pockets. It’s shocking… You look across the board at the Trump family, I’ve never seen a family get so rich off the presidency.”

 

Melanie d’Arrigo: “Saying ‘I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as
widespread as it has been’ is admitting that you knew he was corrupt, and endorsed him anyway.”

 

THOMAS MASSIE: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, & the White House — and we’re yelling ‘election fraud’? We won all the damn elections.
What are we doing with that? We’re bankrupting the country. We’re starting new wars. We’re violating the Constitution. We’re not cracking down on the fraud. The problem is not the elections. We won the damn elections. The problem is that we’re wasting the opportunity voters gave us.”

Federal judge in Florida has released a scathing takedown of Trump’s slush fund, Trump’s sweetheart IRS immunity deal and the lawsuit Trump filed against his own IRS Judge orders sanctions and possible bar discipline against Trump’s lawyers in lawsuit . Judge says Trump lawsuit against IRS was filed for ‘improper purpose’ and refers attorneys for disciplinary action

Trans actress Jesse James Rose claims Lindsey Graham paid her to do “unspeakable things to him” as a “pre-transition college student”

Pete Buttigieg advocates for abolishing the Electoral College and supports electing the president by national popular vote, emphasizing that “everybody’s vote” should carry equal weight.
Abolish the Electoral College NOW!

WATCH Rep. Sarah Jacobs DESTROY Pete Hegseth with a masterpiece truth bomb in this hearing.
With 2,500 Marines from her district off the coast of Iran and military families calling her office in panic, she asked the question no one else would:
“Do you believe the president is mentally stable enough to be Commander-in-Chief?”
Hegseth deflected hard.
She didn’t flinch and dropped this:
“If you think this is what winning looks like… maybe we should be questioning your mental stability.”
BAM! Hegseth stunned & speechless.
It takes a woman to say what needs to be said when millions of lives and billions of taxpayer dollars are on the line. THIS clip is everything.

CHUTZPA REPORT

Benjamin Netanyahu admits that his plan to merge the Pentagon and the Israeli military will be forced upon Americans.
Netanyahu says America and Israel must invest in new technology that will give them an advantage.
“I think the merging of our two great countries’ talent would strengthen America’s position on the battlefield.”
“There are some unbelievable projects.”

Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Fox News that preparations to merge the Pentagon and the Israeli military will begin soon.
FOX NEWS: “The proposal is to have some sort of merger between our Pentagon and your military.”
NETANYAHU: “Yes, I’m calling it from aid to partnership.”
The US will be the single source of IDF funding, which explains the insane budget proposal for next year.

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They say Bad news comes in 3s….
1) Moscow Mitch    2) Lindsey    3) fingers crossed

THANKS TO NETHAPPENINGS READER MARCY !! FINALLY SOME GOOD NEWS 
 Eat your ice cream for a long, healthy life? This doctor says so

Let’s give teachers $50k signing bonuses, $100k salaries, and $60k student loan forgiveness. You know, the same as ICE gets.

The Louisiana Creoles Were Never What We Thought — DNA Finally Revealed

WANT A NEW PASSPORT WITHOUT DRUMPFS PICTURE ?
NPR did learn that there’s a trick if you are applying in person in Washington and do not want a passport with Trump’s image: Choose extra pages. The State Department says the 250th commemorative passport is only available in the standard, 28-page book.
The Trump passports only available in person at DC Passport Agency & with an appointment.

What Governor Andy Beshear is doing right now is exactly what’s wrong with the Democratic Party.

He’s been tip-toeing around missing McConnell for weeks. Pull the plug & file for a special election. Soft stepping is how we ended up with a corrupt SCOTUS & Trump Tyranny. FIGHT!!

Dear @GovAndyBeshear, the public is not satisfied with the statement and photo of Mitch McConnell with his wife Elaine Chao that was released today. The photo is deemed fake and AI by dozens of journalists and experts. You need to make a trip to the facility/hospital and meet with Mitch yourself. Why is this so hard to do? It’s your job. There’s too much disbelief and distrust that Mitch McConnell is alive and able to finish his final term in the Senate.

JUST LIKE FRANCO
MOSCOW MITCH IS STILL DEAD!

Fuck the special election.

The KY GOP only passed that law in 2024 specifically because Beshar was coming into office and Mitch was already glitching out.

!!!! But they didn’t ammend the KY Constitution!!!!!

Bashar still has Constitutional authority to appoint a replacement.

Do it.

RETHUGLICANS

Lindsey Graham Was Gay and voted against Gay Rights every time.
Trump called in to Meet the Press this morning and said that Lindsey Graham was “scheduled to win by a lot. He was scheduled.” He used the word SCHEDULED. Twice. Tell us more @realDonaldTrump

The FBI never interviewed Epstein’s lawyer, his accountant, or the primary financier of his sex trafficking. Our investigation uncovered major gaps, and new allegations have come to light. Trump’s DOJ cannot bury this. It must reopen the investigation and follow every lead.
– Rep Walkinshaw

Eminem “Donald Trump is a narcissist who uses his power only to spread hate and racism, and could drag the country into a nuclear disaster; you either stand on his side or mine, because both are not possible.”

Representative Thomas Massie:
​“Everyone who went to rape island should be behind bars, even the billionaires.”
​”Do not mess up this bill.”

Andreessen Horowitz Partner Quit Firm, Horrified by What His Old Colleagues Are Doing to Humankind

FARMLANDGRAB.COM JD Vance funded AcreTrader. Here’s why that matters.
Some of the most pristine farmland in California can be yours, at least by proxy, in just a matter of minutes. That’s the promise that AcreTrader, a company with the mission of simplifying investing in valuable U.S. farmland, makes to prospective financiers. In a social media post, Sarah Taber, a farm and food systems strategist and the Democratic candidate for North Carolina commissioner of agriculture, describes AcreTrader as “like Uber for buying U.S. farmland.” Like Uber, AcreTrader makes it easier for more buyers to gain quick access to an ordinarily expensive asset. “And who’s one of its key investors, profiting off of every sale?” Taber asks. “JD Vance.”

Donald Trump owns stock in Boeing.
Two of its 737 MAX jets crashed and killed 346 people. It later admitted to a criminal fraud conspiracy over how it hid the flaw from regulators. In 2024 a door plug blew off a MAX in midair.
The President owns it — while the FAA he controls is the agency that certifies Boeing’s planes and was accused of going too easy on it.

If you read anything today you must read ABOUT Trump’s ownership in private prisons and ICE detention facilities. Trump’s policies on immigration are literally lining his pockets. Major new sources globally are not covering this story. 

The Spy at the First Lady’s Side
A Russian-cultivated fixer has Melania Trump’s ear. He texts her, travels with the Vice President, and spent thirty years working the Russians. Now he works for the US with no security clearance.

Buried in Donald Trump’s financial disclosure: Encore Capital Group.
It’s one of the largest debt collectors in America — it buys up people’s defaulted debt for pennies on the dollar, then comes after them for the full amount. The President owns a piece of it. He profits when Americans can’t pay their bills.

Donald Trump owns between $500,000 and $1 million in McKesson.
Never heard of it? It’s one of the three companies that flooded America with opioids.
In 2021 McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen paid $21 billion to settle claims their pill distribution fueled the overdose epidemic.
McKesson’s share: $7.4 billion.
Trump owns all three.
He holds nearly a million dollars in the company that helped drug America — while his DEA sets the quotas that let it happen.

Speaker Mike Johnson said that Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid need to be “adjusted and fixed,” meaning they will be cutting your benefits in 2027. This is Project 2025. So, we have money for war, ballrooms, reflecting pool, arches, billionaire tax cuts, but not for seniors.

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate?
Dahl: Yes
Murray: And the rate for someone making $1,000,000?
Dahl: 2.2%
Murray: So, a 12.4% tax for people making less than $184,000, but 2.2% for a millionaire or .0002% for billionaires.

Republican mayor Wesley Dingus was caught breaking into a little girl’s room to smell her underwear. He is facing up to 10 years in prison.

BREAKING Allison Gill: EXCLUSIVE: FBI Admits it has Epstein Files Training Videos
In a letter sent to me in response to my Freedom of Information Act Request, the FBI admits to having training videos that it failed to release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act
Last spring, over 1000 FBI analysts were locked in the building, paid over $1M in overtime, and told to review and redact certain information from the Epstein Files.
In the summer, multiple anonymous FBI and DOJ sources who participated in the review confided in me that there were training videos instructing them on how to find, log, and redact Trump’s name.
I filed a Freedom of Information Act request, then sued the government to get the videos. In a stunning admission, the FBI just sent me their response confirming the videos exist. I have forwarded the information to House Oversight and Senate Judiciary committees ahead of this week’s confirmation hearings for Todd Blanche.

Shawn Ryan @ShawnRyan762
When the American empire finally collapses, historians won’t be stunned by the greed of the elite; they’ll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.
The working class didn’t just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them. They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions.
Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else. And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without even breaking a single law.

Todd Blanche will never release the Epstein files.
He told us he already saw tapes of “torture and death”, which means he knew who did the torturing and the killing. He will never release them. His father ran a cult that he grew up in.
Children were tortured and killed and buried at the zorro ranch most likely which is why he’s blocking the Investigation

House Oversight, in February, asked Ghislaine Maxwell whether she was aware Epstein was sexually abusing minors and adult women.
She invoked her Fifth Amendment right.
Have you ever facilitated his abuse? Fifth.
Were you aware? Fifth.

In a 2021 recording, Trump is heard discussing “confidential” and “secret” documents, including a plan of attack involving Iran. In the recording, Trump acknowledges that he cannot declassify the documents. He was later indicted under the Espionage Act.

PRIVATE EQUITY PLAYBOOK:
Buy a company with borrowed money.
Cut costs by 40%. Fire half the workers.
Slash wages for the rest.
Extract dividends for yourself.
Leave the company hollowed out.
Move to the next target.
Jobs gone. Wages destroyed. Communities wrecked.
The PE firm walks away $2 billion richer.
Workers left with nothing.
That’s not capitalism. That’s legalized theft.

Ten years ago the mortgage rate was 3.5% and the average new home cost $350,000.
Today the rate is 6.5% and the average new home costs $540,000.

TECH

“A hacker built a free tool where you enter an email or domain and it automatically finds every account, breach, and leak connected to it, and it’s scary good. It’s called SpiderFoot. Steve Micallef started building it back in 2012, and it hasn’t stopped growing since.

ESSAY @ihtesham2005
A hacker known as “0x90” wanted a way to chat online without anyone tracing who he was. He ended up building a second internet.

It started in 2001 as a small project to let people chat on IRC without anyone tracing who they were.

In 2003, a developer known only by the handle jrandom rebuilt the whole thing from scratch and renamed it I2P, the Invisible Internet Project.

I2P isn’t really trying to hide you while you browse normal websites, the way Tor does.

It builds you a second internet that lives entirely inside your regular connection. Inside it are hidden websites called eepsites, hidden chat, and hidden file sharing, all invisible to anyone outside the network.

The trick is something called garlic routing.

Tor wraps a single message in layers of encryption and passes it hop to hop, like an onion.

I2P bundles several messages together into one package before it even leaves your computer, so anyone watching the traffic cannot tell how many separate messages are hiding inside it, or where each one is actually headed.

Tor also uses one path both ways. I2P builds a completely separate path for messages coming in and messages going out, up to seven hops each direction.

There is no company running any of this, and no central server holding a map of the network.

Every computer running I2P is part of that map instead.

In 2006, jrandom, the developer who rebuilt the entire project, disappeared. No announcement. He just stopped showing up.

For a moment it looked like the whole thing might die with him.

It didn’t. A group of volunteers, one going by the name zzz, picked the project back up in 2009 and kept building. Twenty three years later, it is still running, still fully open source, still owned by nobody in particular.

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Mitch, and now Lindsey.
Doesn’t bad luck come in 3’s?

Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
· John Lennon · Yoko Ono

There is a movement building across our country to STOP Donald Trump and defeat MAGA. People are SICK of Trump’s grift and he is a pedophile.

The average age of a US Senator is 64. The average age of a US House Rep is 58. The average voting-age American is 48. The average American is 39. These people squatting in seats for decades can’t accurately relate to, or represent, the needs of Americans, and waiting for them to pass in their seats isn’t a solution. We need term limits.

GRAHAM: “if trump is the GOP front-runner nominee, “the Republican Party will get killed, we’ll get creamed, we’ll lose, we’ll deserve it.”

“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ……. and we will deserve it.”
– Lindsey Graham, Republican Senator, 05/03/2016

The U.S. Senator from Israel, Lindsey Graham: “The wars of the future are being planned here, in Israel.”

Mitch McConnell betrayed this country when he admitted that Trump was unquestionably responsible for the treason that occurred on Jan 6. He had the responsibility to hold him accountable and he chose power and party over accountability. If he’s rotting in Hell, he deserves it. Lindsey Graham to all Americans: “I’m not with you; I’m with Israel until my dying day.”

CAUGHT ON TAPE: A video of Trump is going viral from 2016 when he publicly exposed Graham’s phone number to get back at him for calling him a “jackass.” Graham was forced to change his number. This is who Trump really is.

Trump attacked war hero John McCain for years — called him a loser because he was captured, stating he prefers “heroes who weren’t caught,” and resisted lowering flags to half-staff for TWO DAYS after McCain died.
But for Lindsey Graham flags are already down.
Why? Because Graham bent the knee and became a deplorable Trump loyalist.
Draft-dodging Trump with fake bone spurs never missed a chance to spit on real heroes who opposed him. So disgusting!

Video GRAHAM: “And you know how you Make America Great Again? Tell Donald Trump to go to Hell.”

South Carolina’s about to have a real choice. Dr. Annie Andrews is exactly the kind of candidate this moment calls for — support her campaign.

The president telling these people they had to come to DC on Jan 6 to “Stop the Steal” over and over is called planning. If Pence had spoken to the media on Jan 6 about the scheme he was being asked to do, then we could have put people in prison. Where they would still be today.
If there are still any doubters, THEY SIGNED UP FOR BUSSES & HOTEL ROOMS PAID BY GINNY (Clarence) THOMAS using the EMAIL of a Supreme Court justice who’s ILLEGALLY received millions in “gifts” from billionaire Trump supporters. The whole party is BOUGHT BY BILLIONAIRES.
Scripted. Choreographed. Only one participant failed them. VP Pence. Yet, they were ready and erected a gallows. It was organized. I remember MTG saying the night prior she had just left a meeting with Trump and they had their resources ready and in place. It was well planned and funded by the felon in chief!!! In fact, there were posts on January 5 that stated “the protest” will be an entirely new movement. FACTS!!! The fact that a gallows was erected proves it as well. They brought a gallows with them and assembled it and no one stopped them. They had their civil war shirts made with the date on them a head of time to wear

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution agreement contained a clause its own parties say was intended to confer immunity on potential co-conspirators, such as Ghislaine Maxwell. The deal didn’t just spare him. It was written to shield the people who recruited the girls.

Speaking of sexual misconduct, Linda McMahon is a wrestling promoter whose husband paid an employee $3 million after he brutally gang raped her. @Linda_McMahon

Republican Sex Crimes Involving Minors & Children List
106 Republicans who committed sex crimes involving minors since 2000

“my husband started believing things I knew weren’t true. At first I thought it was Alzheimers… Then I realized he was watching Fox News.”

GOP county chair for Sen. Jon Husted‘s (R-OH) campaign quits fast after reporters ask about his jail time over a 15-year-old. They are all pedo molesters.

Drumph paid an adult film star $130k to keep quiet about the sex they had while his third wife was home recovering after just giving birth to their son.

NEWS BYTES

A Delaware company that didn’t exist a month ago is selling gas fifty cents under market at stations partly owned by Blue Owl, a company Trump holds over five million dollars in. Nobody will say who’s covering the loss. Ask for the paperwork before you call it patriotism.

Tell Congress: impeach John Roberts. His wife got paid by the firms arguing before his Court. He gave Trump immunity.

“The US has an estimated 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sun, generating nothing, absorbing heat, and contributing to the urban heat island effect in every city they’re in.
A 2023 analysis estimated that covering existing US parking infrastructure with solar canopies could generate enough electricity to power roughly half the country.”
Europe’s most awarded zoo just turned its parking lot into a power plant without removing any parking spaces.
Pairi Daiza in Belgium covered 80 percent of its 7,000 parking spaces with 62,750 solar panels, creating one of the largest solar parking lots in Europe. The installation produces 20 megawatts at peak output, more than the entire zoo consumes. The surplus charges electric vehicles on site and sells the rest back to the grid.

FLOCK YOU

Since Flock loves to track our locations, it only seems fair that we know theirs. Flock Safety’s new GA plant is located at 1885 Mitchell Rd, Smyrna, GA 30082

The Flock CEO is calling people that don’t want 24×7 government surveillance terrorists.

Evanston, IL ordered Flock Safety to remove all cameras after a state audit revealed that the company was illegally sharing Illinois data with federal agencies.

The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its contract with Flock cameras over civil liberties and civil rights concerns.
Officials have confirmed that these cameras collect data on Americans.
The contract is set to expire and will not be renewed.

Fort Collins didn’t let its Flock contract quietly expire. The city council voted 6 to 1 to cancel it on the spot. Stop collecting data now, pull the cameras, no similar tech until a real surveillance policy exists. And the police backed it.

CHUTZPA REPORT

Trump appointees are overruling DOJ lawyers scrutinizing corporate mergers
Justice leaders are blocking the enforcement of laws meant to protect consumers from price gouging, sources say.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has now publicly called for Senator Mitch McConnell to provide an update on his health status to end the “crazy speculation.” Beshear is failing this moment.
He has Presidential ambitions.
This is his moment to prove to the nation that when the cards are down he will actually take action on things in this country and not just write strongly worded letters.
!!!!! Step the fuck up Governor!!!!!

✅  Scott Jennings was lying so fire his ass right now !!!!

Global Regulators are cracking down, which puts pressure on the US Regulators and the Courts. JUDGES ARE HAVING TO TAKE MARKET MANIPULATION CASES SERIOUSLY AND ORDER DISCOVERY. Citadel Securities and Virtu Financial counted on market manipulation illegal naked short selling cases being hard to prove, now they are more vulnerable.

Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to return everything “back to the way it was” before Trump started the war. So after all that, the mission is apparently to undo the damage.

Former AG Pam Bondi answered questions on the Epstein files for nearly four hours.
Not under oath. Not on camera. Every deposition before hers was both. The woman who ran the department got the one interview nobody can hold her to.
Outside an Epstein files hearing last week:
‘Bondi confirmed she has six million files and has only released three million. And she has never spoken to a single survivor.’
She is the attorney general of the United States.

TECH

Xbox is cutting 4,800 jobs.
20% of the entire division.
Microsoft’s excuse? “AI is changing work.”
Their spending? $176 billion on buybacks.
Tax breaks? $12.5 billion last year.
Please don’t tell me this is about technology.
It’s about profits. Nothing trickles down.

SCIENCE

Nearly 300,000  public comments have already been submitted opposing the proposed OMB rule that would give political appointees greater control over federal research grants. The public comment period closes tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/12/scientists-warn-trump-omb-rule-could-upend-how-science-is-funded/

MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA THIS EXISTS

A hacker known as “0x90” wanted a way to chat online without anyone tracing who he was.

He ended up building a second internet. It’s called I2P, the Invisible Internet Project. Unlike Tor, I2P doesn’t just hide you on normal websites.

It builds you a completely separate internet inside your regular connection.

Hidden websites called eepsites, hidden chat, hidden file sharing.
All invisible to anyone outside the network.

The trick is garlic routing.

I2P bundles several messages together into one package before it leaves your computer. Then builds completely separate paths for messages coming in and going out, up to seven hops each direction.

I2P has no central operator or server, every computer running it contributes to the network.

In 2006 the original developer jrandom disappeared. No announcement. He just stopped showing up.

Volunteers picked it back up in 2009.

23 years later it’s still running, still fully open source, still owned by nobody.

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RETHUGLICANS DROPPING LIKE FLIES

DING DONG  the Lady Lindsey Graham is daid, from a heart attack.
MAGA TEARS I DON’T SUGAR COAT SHIT! 

That’s a big loss…
…for the Military Industrial Complex’s balance sheet.
May the Goddess judge him with perfect justice.
He took so much lobbying money while consistently supporting manufactured wars that enriched the MIC.
May Palantir’s and the defense contractors’ share prices reflect the loss on Monday.

LADY Lindsey Graham went from “Trump will destroy America” to becoming his most pathetic bootlicker — then suddenly dead after shilling for Trump’s illegal Iran war. The ultimate fair-weather whore and American zero.

Poor Mitch is daid
Poor Mitch McConnell is daid
He’s lookin’ oh so peaceful and serene (And serene)
He’s all laid out to rest
With his hands across his chest
His fingernails have never been so clean

They’re trying to run the clock until Aug 3 to keep Thomas Massie from going after that seat.

Why is Mitch McConnell’s wife out of the country while he’s in the hospital? He’s the Senate majority leader. We’re entitled to know.

Chao was in Beijing on June 17 — three days after McConnell’s office says he was hospitalized for an undisclosed condition — for a meeting with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng. Chao finally broke her silence through a spokesperson on Tuesday, July 7, “The Senator’s health did not warrant an immediate return to the US.” well of course that is what any normal Chinese spy would say.
Who remodels their house when their husbands in the ICU?
VIDEO Desirée Townsend

219 C Street NE Washington DC
@scrowder @WhiteHouse They’re taking the evidence
It could be a complete coincidence, but a large amount of furniture and other items from the small apartment next to Senator McConnell’s home is being loaded into a junk truck. The neighboring property, which appears to be connected to McConnell’s residence, also appears to be undergoing renovations. Chinese spy Elaine Chau is selling. Obvious that The Chinese Spy is selling the house because Mitch is DOA and she’s gotta download all the info she’s been collecting.
Mitch McConnell does not own both properties. However, the neighbors have lived there for roughly as long as he has, which makes this interesting.
Typically, you see a junk truck brought in when an elderly person is downsizing, moving into assisted living or a nursing home, or after a long-term resident passes away. The other common reason is a tenant turnover, which usually happens at the beginning or end of a month.
It could be nothing more than a coincidence, but given the timing, it’s something I’m watching.
TMZ: They are putting in new flooring
If you go to google maps, the small house IS directly behind the McConnell residence. It’s on the same swath of land… Good catch Desiree! Obvious that The Chinese Spy is selling the house because Mitch is DOA and she’s gotta download all the info she’s been collecting.

“…renovations”. Uh huh, yeah, sure, that raises no questions about silly stuff like spycraft, or anything.They’re getting rid of all the Chinese spy equipment that they had in the house Mitch ain’t there he’s dead they got to get rid of all the Chinese spy s***
A good reporter would be asking the DC medical examiner’s office if a death certificate exists for a Mitch McConnell. Also a good reporter would ask the Social Security Administration if a death certificate has been posted for Mitch McConnell.

Why is the Trump administration blocking the investigation into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico? Could it be because Trump is implicated in the Epstein files and there are a whole lot of skeletons buried at the ranch?
Trump was 43 when his wife testified under oath that he ripped hair from her scalp and sexually assaulted her in 1989. She also described a marriage marked by physical abuse.

LINKAt some point, you have to be honest with yourself. There is a pattern of behavior.

  • Trump was 46 when Jill Harth accused him of sexual assault at Mar-a-Lago in 1992.
  • Trump was 51 when he boasted, on the Howard Stern show, about watching Miss Teen USA contestants change their clothes.
  • Trump was 57 when he decided NOT to file a police report after being informed that Jeffrey Epstein had attempted to solicit sexual services from a spa employee in 2003.
  • Trump was 59 when he was recorded making statements in which he boasted about sexually assaulting women.
  • TRUMP buries his x wife the mother of his children on a golf course.

Trump’s next bankruptcy: The U.S. Military
The Pentagon is almost out of money after spending over $100 billion on Trump’s Iran War. Democrats are refusing to fund more of the war.

China announces Petro-Yaun deals with Gulf countries, replacing Petro-Dollar deals
Russia also stopped trading in dollar.

Other than legal accountability the best way to punish the Republican Party for the Trump Era would be to put tax rates back to the pre-Reagan era.
Just send a giant fuck you to our corporate overlords and their political cult.

Trump is paying himself a 2.5% general contractor’s fee on his 400 million dollar ballroom. That’s 10 million dollars.
When will MAGA stop making excuses for his corruption?

Women are
51% of the population but 60% of the poor and
83% of single parents doing 66% of the work Producing 50% of the food but earn just 11% of the payand own only 20% of the land.
All while giving birth to 100% of the population. In case you wondered why we still need feminism.

This is actually a real economic concept called the velocity of money.
Let’s say you get paid $10, you use that $10 to buy lunch from a street vendor, then the street vendor uses that $10 to take a taxi home, then the taxi driver used that $10 to pay his babysitter, next the babysitter uses that $10 to buy groceries, etc.
That one $10 bill produced $50 of economic value. This is really good for the economy and why it’s bad to give rich people more and more money because all rich people do is horde it.
They don’t stimulate the economy multiple times over with it.

Epstein survivor Lara Blume McGee confirms the Justice Department has not released all of the Epstein files. She said there were recordings of crimes from inside of Epstein’s townhouse.
Federal prosecutors secretly signed a non-prosecution agreement with Jeffrey Epstein.
Then they sent his victims letters falsely telling them their “case is currently under investigation.” The deal not to charge him was already done.

Cases of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal infection caused by a parasite, are currently being reported in nearly three dozen states, according to an @ABC News tally. A year ago, CDC made Cyclospora surveillance optional. It had been tracked for 28 years. Today: ~3,000 cases across 31 states, no confirmed source, and CDC’s own count (843) is trailing what states are reporting by thousands.

AI ESSAY Ricardo @Ric_RTP

OpenAI just got OFFICIALLY flagged as a company that might not be able to pay its bills.

S&P Global Ratings just cut Oracle’s long term credit rating from BBB to BBB-.

One more cut and Oracle becomes a JUNK rated company for the first time in its history.

But the reason S&P gave is what’s really interesting here…

They named OpenAI as a “key credit risk” inside the report.

OpenAI is a private company. It carries no credit rating and has never been profitable.

And a ratings agency just took the risk of that company failing and wrote it directly onto the credit file of a public company held inside pension funds and bond funds all over the world.

OpenAI accounts for roughly HALF of Oracle’s remaining performance obligations. That’s the famous $638 billion backlog every bull points to as the reason to own the stock.

Half of the asset is the risk.

And then there’s the maturity trap:

Oracle’s data center leases run 15 to 19 years. Its cloud customer contracts run about 5 years. Oracle disclosed both figures in its own annual report.

So Oracle is signing 19 year obligations to serve 5 year promises made by a customer that has never earned a dollar of profit.

If OpenAI cannot pay, Oracle gets left holding data center leases it may not be able to exit, and may have to re-lease to somebody else on worse terms.

That is the entire downgrade in one sentence.

The numbers underneath:

Oracle spent roughly $55.7 billion on capital projects in fiscal 2026 and posted negative $23.7 billion in free cash flow.

S&P now expects the fiscal 2027 cash flow deficit to widen to around negative $42 billion. That is nearly DOUBLE its previous estimate, and the agency admitted it had underestimated how much Oracle would need to spend.

Oracle plans to raise up to $40 billion in fiscal 2027, including a potential $20 billion share sale that would add roughly 4.8% to its share count.

They literally cannot borrow more without triggering the next downgrade, so shareholders are being diluted to protect the bondholders.

And the funny part is that on the day of the downgrade, Oracle’s stock went UP 2.65%.

But on that same day, the spread on Oracle’s BONDS widened.

Equity investors looked at the $638 billion backlog and bought. Credit investors looked at the identical company and demanded to be paid more for the risk of holding it.

Credit investors are the ones whose entire job is to price what goes wrong, so they just repriced Oracle.

For context, Microsoft is rated AAA, Alphabet is AA+, and Amazon is AA. Oracle is chasing the same AI contracts from seven to nine notches further down the ladder.

The day after the downgrade, the UK named Oracle, alongside three other cloud providers, a critical third party to the British financial system. Supervision by the Bank of England begins July 13.

Oracle is the only one of those four sitting one notch above junk.

Now follow the chain:

OpenAI has never made a profit. OpenAI is half of Oracle’s backlog. Oracle is one downgrade from junk. Oracle is now formally load bearing infrastructure for British banks.

The business risk of an unprofitable private startup has traveled through a corporate balance sheet and landed inside the supervisory perimeter of a central bank.

Nobody designed that. It happened one contract at a time.

And the demand IS real. Oracle’s cloud infrastructure revenue grew 93% last quarter.

If this buildout works, it becomes one of the great corporate reinventions in history.

But the whole structure now rests on one question that no rating agency, no bank and no regulator can answer:

Can OpenAI pay its bills?

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