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Take 100mg of zero fuqs and call #Bitcoin in the morning.

What the fuq happened in 1971
Everytime this number goes up the value of your dollar goes down.
JUST IN: US national debt officially reaches all-time high of $39.5 trillion.
Live United States Debt Tracker
US National Debt
$39,545,510,492,914
Officially: $39.51T

Trey Sellers ∞/21M @ts_hodl
In 2018, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff said bitcoin was more likely to fall to $100 than reach $100,000.
Bitcoin cleared $100,000, then Harvard disclosed a $100 million-plus position in BlackRock’s IBIT. The miss exposed assumptions worth testing in your own bitcoin thesis.

Jason Lowery @JasonPLowery
Imagine if the early adopters of HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) successfully banned people from transfering non-HyperText data across the World Wide Web.
Think about how silly & unproductive that would have been.

$3 TRILLION CHARLES SCHWAB JUST ISSUES A MASSIVE WARNING ON THE #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO CLARITY ACT
“PATH TO 60 VOTES IS BECOMING MORE DIFFICULT”
“SENATE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO BLOCK THE ACT OVER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S CONFLICTS OF INTEREST”
“DEMOCRATS ARE ARGUING THAT WITHOUT ETHICS THIS WOULD NOT REGULATE TRUMP’S CRYPTO BUSINESS”
“WE ARE AT THE CRUNCH TIME”

“This smug face Fed Chair got $100 million check from a billionaire just before being sworn in. Now I have seen it all. Every person in trump’s regime is a crook. Our country is being run by a gang of criminals. They just protect each other.”

Democrats are clearly in the driver’s seat for 2026.
The odds of Democrats winning the House have increased to 85% — with 44% odds of sweeping BOTH the House and Senate!
Momentum is building. Time to deliver the map that flips Congress blue!

Senate Intelligence Committee vice chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says the real reason for Trump’s speech was to signal the president’s own intentions to interfere with November midterms.

Mamdani said his administration was still discussing whether to arrest Netanyahu when he comes to the UN in September. “I believe that Netanyahu belongs in The Hague. He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court.” Gift link.

ESSAY: Lev Parnas
Andrew and Tristan Tate spent the days before their arrest partying in Washington, D.C., as guests of Paolo Zampolli — Donald Trump’s U.S. Special Envoy for Global Partnerships and a longtime friend of Trump and Melania.
Zampolli is the former modeling executive who says he brought Melania to the United States and introduced her to Donald Trump. His name has also surfaced repeatedly in reporting surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s modeling-world connections.
And there’s more.
Zampolli previously acknowledged contacting a senior ICE official about Amanda Ungaro, the mother of his child, during a bitter custody dispute. She was later taken into immigration custody and deported, although Zampolli denies that he asked ICE to detain her.
Now we learn that the Tate brothers — facing rape and sex-trafficking charges in Britain — were being welcomed and entertained in Washington by a Trump administration envoy shortly before federal authorities arrested them in Miami.
That raises some very serious questions:
Who invited them?
Who did they meet with?
And why were they being embraced by someone so close to Trump’s inner circle?
Stay tuned. There is much more to come.

Adam Kinzinger
Garland didn’t START his investigation until we had our first of the summer hearings, a YEAR into our investigation. And now he’s incredibly silent, won’t even come out to defend his career prosecutors who got fired.
Garland’s silence since leaving office is the most telling thing that bastard’s ever done. And at a time when American democracy is being systemically erased. He is silent.
Garland was the most consequential failure of the Biden administration. Had he released the Epstein files, charged those guilty, and held the January 6th orchestrators, not the rubes, accountable we would be living in a different country right now.

Hunter Biden: “We are not a divided country.
We are a country being divided, on purpose, by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They’ve captured our government, denied our healthcare, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt”

Everyone! This is Bruce Taylor, the guy who owns Taylor Farms.
This guy made huge contributions to Donald Trump so that his lettuce is never inspected.
This man and RFK Jr are responsible for given us E. coli, and cyclospora.
He apparently doesn’t allow his lettuce pickers to take bathroom breaks.

Wake up, peeps: Think book bans are local?
The Senate just introduced S.4925, a companion bill to H.R.7661, to fast-track censorship nationwide. They’re trying to shut down libraries entirely and call it “modernization.”

Everything the chatbot industrial complex said was a lie.
OpenAI and Anthropic are fucked. Elon will only survive on government welfare. Oracle will die in a fire.
LLMs are not magic or a revolution. They are a useful search tool for large datasets—a commodity.
It’s over.
@Kimi_Moonshot
Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected, and our GPUs are feeling it.
Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of existing subscribers, we’re temporarily pausing new subscriptions and prioritizing compute for current members. Existing subscribed users are not affected.
We’re adding capacity as fast as we can and will reopen new subscription spots in batches.
Going forward, we’ll also split membership into two more focused plans: Kimi Membership for Kimi Web, App, and Work; and Kimi Code Membership for coding workflows. This will help us match compute more precisely and keep the experience stable.

“Odysseus’s spirit of seduction endures not only in verse,
and its reception on the big screen, but in the personae of our leaders.”
New at Public Books : Pasquale Toscano on the alike-ness of Trump and Odysseus.
The Ableism of Kings, the Fury of Trump

This week in medicine
– Sana Biotech take us a step closer to cure for type 1 diabetes
– Merck’s oral PCSK9 inhibitor gets FDA-approved
– Early stages of a vaccine to intercept pancreas cancer (Johns Hopkins)
– Novel anti-aging discoveries from Stanford, Revel Pharma, and Shanghai
– Veradermics’ pill treats pattern hair loss (now also in women)

A new AI system read through 2.6 million cancer research papers published since 1999.
It flagged what researchers are calling one of the biggest honesty problems in modern science: signs that a large share of published studies may be unreliable, or even manipulated.

ESSAY Nav Toor on X:

If you use TikTok, you should read this once. In October 2024, a court clerk in Kentucky uploaded the lawsuit against TikTok with the confidential sections still visible. NPR downloaded it before anyone caught the mistake. By the time the court resealed it, the internet had a” / X

Nav Toor on X: “If you use TikTok, you should read this once. In October 2024, a court clerk in Kentucky uploaded the lawsuit against TikTok with the confidential sections still visible. NPR downloaded it before anyone caught the mistake. By the time the court resealed it, the internet had a COPY.

In October 2024, a court clerk in Kentucky uploaded the lawsuit against TikTok with the confidential sections still visible. NPR downloaded it before anyone caught the mistake. By the time the court resealed it, the internet had a copy.

What was inside was TikTok’s own engineers, in their own words, describing what their app does to a human brain.

Not a critic’s brain. Yours.

Here is what they wrote down.

— TikTok ran the math on how long it takes to develop “compulsive use” of the app. The number is 260 videos. With 8-second videos played in rapid-fire succession, that works out to roughly 35 minutes. The company’s internal documents call this the compulsive-use threshold.

— TikTok’s own research describes what compulsive use causes: “diminished analytical ability, impaired memory, contextual reasoning, conversational depth, empathy, and heightened anxiety.” That is not a quote from a critic. That is TikTok’s own language, in its own internal documents.

— A team inside the company called “TikTank” wrote in an internal report that compulsive use on the platform was “rampant.”

— After 30 minutes of continuous use in one sitting, the company’s own documents state that users are placed into “filter bubbles” — algorithmic loops the user did not choose and cannot easily escape.

Then there is the screen-time tool — the one TikTok publicly markets as proof it cares.

— TikTok ran an experiment on the 60-minute screen-time prompt. Daily teen usage dropped from 108.5 minutes to 107. A reduction of 1.5 minutes.

— Internally, the screen-time tool was not measured by whether it reduced screen time. Its top success metric, in writing, was “improving public trust in the TikTok platform via media coverage.”

— A project manager wrote in internal chat: “Our goal is not to reduce the time spent.” Another employee added that the goal was “to contribute to daily active users and retention.”

— A TikTok executive approved the screen-time feature only on the condition that its impact on the company’s “core metrics” was minimal. The lawsuit alleges the company planned to “revisit the design” if the tool ever reduced usage by more than 10%.

The “Are you still scrolling?” break videos? An executive admitted in an internal meeting they were “useful talking points” for lawmakers, but “not altogether effective.”

Then there is the algorithm itself.

— An internal report flagged that the For You feed was showing what the company called “a high volume of not attractive subjects.” TikTok then retooled the algorithm to suppress those users. Kentucky authorities wrote: “By changing the TikTok algorithm to show fewer ‘not attractive subjects’ in the For You feed, [TikTok] took active steps to promote a narrow beauty norm even though it could negatively impact their Young Users.”

That sentence is the entire pitch of the platform, said out loud.

— Internally, TikTok also acknowledged that its publicly reported content moderation metrics were “mostly misleading,” because they only measured the content the company successfully moderated — never the content it missed.

Now read those bullet points again as one continuous case.

The company knows the addiction threshold. The company measured it. The company ranked engagement over mental health in writing. The company built a screen-time tool whose internal success metric was PR. The company suppressed people it deemed unattractive to keep you scrolling. The company called its own moderation numbers misleading.

None of this is a leaked rumor. None of this is a journalist’s interpretation. This is a court filing. The documents are TikTok’s. The words are TikTok’s. The math is TikTok’s.

The 14 state attorneys general who signed onto this lawsuit aren’t fringe activists. They’re a bipartisan coalition.

Sources at the bottom: NPR, CNN, AP, Mashable, OPB, The Independent. All citing the same accidentally-unsealed Kentucky filing from October 11, 2024.

The next time the company tells you it cares about your wellbeing — the screen-time prompts, the break videos, the safety features, the careful PR statements — remember that its own engineers wrote down, in court-admissible language, that the safeguards were never meant to work.

The app is not broken.

It is performing exactly as designed.

You were the spec.

 

TECH

@0xpwnie Jul 18
Microsoft blocked Office macros in 2022. Attackers moved to ISO files. Microsoft fixed ISO files. Attackers moved to LNK and OneNote. Microsoft closed those too. By mid-2024 attackers had landed on MSC files, the administrative console files used by IT teams to manage Windows systems. GrimResource exploits a cross-site scripting vulnerability in apds.dll that was reported in 2018 and never patched. The sample that exposed the technique was a red team payload accidentally uploaded to VirusTotal by a blue team analyst who picked it up during an assessment. When it first landed on VirusTotal on June 6 2024, zero antivirus engines flagged it.

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ECP NetHappenings Subpoena Dershowitz and swear him in

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THE U.S. IS A COUNTRY RUN BY A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION #EpsteinClass

THE U.S. NATIONAL DEBT JUST HIT $39.5 TRILLION. It took the U.S. over 200 years to hit its first $1 trillion in debt. But it added $9.5 trillion in just the last 4.5 years alone, nearly matching two centuries of accumulated debt in a fraction of the time.

MITCH IS DEAD – HE IS STILL DEAD – THE KY GOVENOR HAS TO APPOINT SOMEONE RIGHT NOW!! WHY IS HE WAITING?? WHAT IS HIS PROBLEM??
RETHUGLICANS WON’T ALLOW SOMEONE TO BE PLACED IN THIS SPOT TILL AUGUST 3RD THEY ARE RUNNING OUT THE CLOCK.

He died. His sister got the Senate. A US Senator died. 48 hours later, his sister inherited his seat. No election. No vote. Just a phone call. Now she writes laws.

He is now Trump’s Secretary of Commerce.
He is also the man who lied to Congress about visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s island with eight children.
“Howard Lutnick lost 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees who were killed on 9/11…”
Within days — before many were even confirmed dead — Howard Lutnick cut off their paychecks to their families without warning.
He wept on national television. The families were furious.
Years later Cantor Fitzgerald won a $135 million settlement from American Airlines.
Lutnick told senior executives the bulk of the money would go to the firm’s partners — not the families of the 658 dead.

Remember the push to refer to the ultra rich as “job creators” and now every single one of them is trying as hard as possible to eliminate every single human job they possibly can.

Iran formally withdraws from its MoU with the U.S., says it will no longer fulfill its obligations under the deal.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that he is prepared to have Benjamin Netanyahu arrested and is reviewing all of the options available to him. The arrest could take place in September when world leaders arrive in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly. “I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague. “He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court.”

Ex-Trump aide points finger at president for ‘legalizing insider trading’ schemes

If they’ve made Bill and Hillary testify, they certainly can make Captain underpants testify.

Sergey Brin is worth $276 billion.
He could save healthcare for 3 million people.
Instead, he’s spending $82 million against California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax.
He’d rather see low-income Americans die & suffer than pay his fair share of taxes.
That is a moral obscenity.

Sandi Bachom @sandibachom
I sat in court with Epstein for three days, and after he died was in court when his survivors read their victims impact statements.
Put me in a room with Todd Blanche, and I would ask him “dude you saw all the tapes you saw young girls getting r*ped by famous men you saw torture you saw death. What’s wrong with you?
Epstein taped EVERYTHING he blackmailed everybody that’s how he worked

CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS @AlanDersh @TheDersh
Alan is in the files. He was at the island on many many occasions. He spent time with Epstein in NYC and in Palm Beach. Virginia Giuffre named him as one of her rapist. To his face on national TV.
He claims Epstein is not a pedo because she was 17.

For those who do not know who Alan Dershowitz is – he was lawyer and friend of both Jeffery Epstein AND Donald Trump –AND– he once argued that viewing snuff movies (real life intentional sex torture death scenes) should be OK if the murders happened in another country.

During his July 15, 2026 Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for attorney general, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked by Sen. John Kennedy whether he and President Donald Trump were friends. Blanche responded:
“I’m his lawyer – was his lawyer, and now I’m the deputy attorney general. So I met him as his criminal defense attorney. I’m not sure there’s very many people who have ever had a criminal defense attorney who calls that person their friend”

Alan Dershowitz represented Trump in the impeachment hearing, but now he won’t present the Epstein briefs that he says he never took off on Jeffrey’s island?
He might just be too busy on his new Fox television dating show …
“Underage Love Connection”

@MacFarlaneNews
Per sources, Alan Dershowitz is NOT going to appear for his scheduled interview Monday with the House Oversight Committee… about Epstein Files
Let’s see what the panel does next to secure his testimony/answers
This was the June letter seeking Dershowitz’s appearance ==>

Mr. Alan M. Dershowitz
Dear Mr. Dershowitz:
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Committee) is reviewing: (i) the alleged mismanagement of the federal government’s investigation into Mr. Jeffrey Epstein and Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell, (i) the circumstances and subsequent investigations of Mr. Epstein’s death, (iii) the operation of sex-trafficking rings and ways for the federal government to effectively combat them, (iv) ways in which Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell sought to curry favor and exercise influence to protect their illegal activities, and (v) potential violations of ethics rules related to elected officials.
Due to public reporting, documents released by the Department of Justice, documents obtained by the Committee, and your former role as Mr. Epstein’s attorney, the Committee believes you have information that will assist in its investigation. Indeed, you recently made statements to the press in which you expressed your willingness to appear to testify “about
everything” in a “videotaped, under oath and open to the public” interview.’ Accordingly, we request your testimony at an in-person, videotaped transcribed interview on July 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. E.T. in Washington, D.C. The Committee will publicly release the transcript and video as expeditiously as practical after the interview.
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the principal oversight committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X. To schedule your appearance for the interview or ask related questions, please contact Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Majority
staff at (202) 225-5074.

Why did the FBI list Leslie Wexner as a co-conspirator in their own child sex trafficking documents, then tell him they had no questions for him?

Les Wexner CONFIRMED that Jeffery Epstein worked for the ROTHSCHILD FAMILY

His lawyer then leaned in and said: “I will f*cking kiII you if you answer another question with more than 5 words.”
https://x.com/thematrixb0t/status/2054094288313782381

ESSAY Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005

OpenPlanter is a recursive-language-model investigation agent designed to automate civic oversight and forensic data analysis. The system ingests disparate structured and unstructured datasets to perform entity resolution and detect probabilistic anomalies across public records. It utilizes a recursive sub-agent delegation strategy with a max-depth of 4 to parallelize complex evidence-chain construction. The technical stack includes gpt-5.2 and claude-opus-4-6, supported by 19 tools for shell execution, file I/O, and web search. By acting as an open-source alternative to proprietary surveillance platforms…..

A guy named Shin just open-sourced Palantir for free.

It is called OpenPlanter.

Palantir helps governments and giant companies connect scattered data about people, businesses, contracts, and money.

OpenPlanter could give that same power to ordinary people.

Feed it corporate records, political donations, lobbying disclosures, government contracts, or other public documents.

Its AI agents search through everything, identify the same people and companies across different datasets, and turn the connections into a live knowledge graph.

You can click an entity, follow its relationships, and inspect the original sources behind each finding.

The desktop app already works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. It supports OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and local models through Ollama.

But OpenPlanter is still an early-stage project.

It is nowhere close to having the data, resources, or maturity of Palantir.

Still, the idea is huge.

Powerful institutions have spent years using data to investigate the public.

Now the public may finally get a tool for investigating them.

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ECP NetHappenings The Odyssey Tips for Teachers

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Kimi K3’s full benchmarks. Chinese model rivals Fable & GPT 5.6

Moonshot’s new model beats Fable 5 for frontend: The Chinese AI lab just released Kimi K3. It’s a massive 2.8 trillion parameter model with native vision and a 1 million token context window. The lab claims it only trails Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol, meaning it beats every other model they tested. It even beats Fable 5 on the Frontend Code Arena, where human judges compare the designs side-by-side. The full weights will be available on July 27.

Claude Code now reviews your PRs as hard as you want: The AI lab just rolled out new effort levels for /code-review. Previously, the command ran one fixed prompt no matter what. Now, each level runs its own review. Low effort runs a fast single pass that you can use before every push. High effort spins up sub-agents to verify every single finding. Anthropic says even the lowest tier outperforms rival tools. Update Claude Code and try it on your next PR.

DoorDash lets your AI agents order food: The food delivery giant just opened a limited beta of dd-cli. This command-line tool lets agents search stores, find deals, and handle checkout. You can now integrate food ordering directly into their workflows instead of using the app. Early access is available via waitlist for macOS developers in the US and Canada.

OpenAI’s new coding model reportedly deletes files without permission: The ChatGPT maker’s GPT-5.6 Sol is facing backlash from developers who claim it wiped production databases and entire Mac filesystems on its own. The company’s system card flagged the risk, noting Sol is more likely than GPT-5.5 to exceed user intent and may even misreport its actions afterward. For now, strict permission scoping and regular backups are the only real safeguards.

Anthropic reveals Claude’s personality shifts with model and language: The AI lab analyzed over 300K real conversations and found that its assistant expresses different values based on the model and language you use. Opus 4.7 is more cautious and flags potential risks, while Sonnet 4.6 is friendlier and likes to joke around. Claude also tends to be warmest when speaking Hindi and Arabic but turns more rigorous and critical in English and Russian. See the findings.

Washington is working to keep Chinese AI models out of U.S. companies. Anthropic is leading the charge. They’ve accused Chinese labs of copying Claude’s capabilities at an industrial scale. Now, China is pushing back. On July 10, Alibaba reportedly banned its staff from using Claude Code, calling it high-risk software. Shortly after, Z.ai founder Tang Jie published a memo. He argued that advanced AI should stay open and accessible to everyone. On the surface, it looks like a simple clash of philosophies.

Beijing breaks the script. The timing tells a different story. Tang published his memo just days after Reuters reported that Beijing is considering restrictions on overseas access to China’s top open-source models. The very person advocating for openness might find his government shutting it down first. If you strip away the political talk, both capitals are trying to pull the same lever. They both want to control who leads in frontier intelligence.

The lever already moved. In June, the Commerce Department terminated Anthropic’s Fable 5 for foreign nationals. The termination happened just three days after it dropped. That is the risk you take with closed models. Open weights have their set of problems. No one can take back weights you have already downloaded. But the supply of future updates can dry up at any time. Either way, every model you use now depends on the mood of a government.

Artificial Intelligence: How teachers are coping with students’ use, and misuse, of AI in completing homework assignments

The Odyssey
Five Tips for Teachers on Bringing Homer to High Schoolers

With The Odyssey commanding movie screens this summer, contributor Joe Goodkin describes his efforts to bring the age-old Greek epic to life for high schoolers across the country and what teachers can do to make the text relevant to students. That includes finding the right translation, using modern adaptations and focusing on key parts of the tale. Homer’s epic, Goodkin writes, “shows us what it means to be human. It considers identity, family, adventure, gender, leadership, failure, glory and perseverance: it’s all there.”

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NEVER FORGET:
NOT ONE REPUBLICAN OFFICEHOLDER WHO OBJECTED TO BIDEN’S VICTORY HAVE OBJECTED TO THEIR OWN WINS ON THE SAME DAY, ON THE SAME BALLOTS, USING THE SAME ELECTION SYSTEMS.

To Governor Andy Beshear These seats don’t belong to the candidate. These seats don’t belong to the parties. They belong to the people. Act, dammit!

Governor Andy Beshear says he got calls from two different non-state agencies saying McConnell had died. This was before the “proof of life” photo was shared by McConnell’s team.
If taxpayers pay Mitch McConnell’s salary, then taxpayers deserve to know if he’s alive.
Taxpayers also pay his staff’s salaries, and they should be forced to answer this simple question, and show proof — and if they lie, they should be prosecuted.
This isn’t complicated.
He needs to start the process of replacing him. It’s now up to McConnell to prove himself.

Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371): Intentionally hiding a Senator’s death alters the voting makeup of the U.S. Senate and obstructs the legal process for a governor to fill a vacant congressional seat. Hiding the death to stall political appointments or keep a Senate seat functional constitutes a major federal conspiracy. This carries a penalty of up to 5 years in federal prison.
Federal Wire / Government Fraud: If any official Senate business, votes, statements, or payroll distributions were processed using the Senator’s identity during those 47 days, the individuals involved would face multiple counts of federal fraud, carrying penalties of up to 20 years per count.
Kentucky State Criminal Penalties
If the death occurred or the body was kept within Kentucky boundaries, the state penalties outlined previously would immediately apply to his spouse or any co-conspirators:
• Abuse of a Corpse (KRS § 525.120): Keeping a body unreported for 47 days legally constitutes treating a corpse in a way that “outrages ordinary family sensibilities” (even if done by family). This is a Class D felony punishable by 1 to 5 years in prison.
• Tampering with Physical Evidence (KRS § 524.100): Intentionally concealing a body to prevent a police or coroner investigation is a Class D felony, adding another 1 to 5 years in prison.
• Failure to Notify Coroner (KRS § 72.020): Any person who finds or has possession of a body must report it immediately. Failing to do so is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail and fines.
Penalties for Local Authorities
If local or state authorities (such as aides, doctors, or staff) were aware of the death and actively participated in a cover-up, they would not only face the felony charges above but would also be charged with Official Misconduct and Misprision of a Felony (the federal crime of concealing a known felony from law enforcement).

Luttig: As a candidate for attorney general of the United States of America, Blanche is an embarrassment to America itself. If the Republican Senate confirms this man, based on his record, to be the next attorney general, it will mark the end of the rule of law in America.

Rep. Deborah Ross says Todd Blanche and the DOJ quietly changed Bureau of Prisons policy AFTER Ghislaine Maxwell’s transfer because it violated the original rules.
Rep. Deborah Ross says the same DOJ policy that was changed to move Ghislaine Maxwell to a cushy prison could ALSO be used to send Donald Trump’s enemies to HARSHER prisons.
“It’s kind of like a king deciding which dungeon they’re gonna put somebody in.”

Anyone up for a trip? DJT -> SUX -> FAT -> DIX
Fly from Palm Beach, FL, to Sioux City, IA, to Fresno, CA, to Dickinson, ND.

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher
https://nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/new-york-humanoid-robot-teacher-salamanca-school-district

Intelligence test scores are dropping, especially among wealthier families. In 579,379 Norwegian men, scores started falling first in sons of high‑income fathers and declined most in this group. Gains from expanded upper‑secondary education briefly slowed declines in lower‑income groups.

Sen. Mark Kelly has amassed a nearly $25 million campaign “war chest” ahead of a potential 2028 run — would be the first astronaut president in history.

A federal judge rules that agencies can’t cut previously awarded grants based on a new president’s changing priorities.
Those priorities can only be applied on a forward-looking basis, she says. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.286247/gov.uscourts.mad.286247.122.0_1.pdf

CLARITY ACT COULD REACH SENATE FLOOR NEXT WEEK, SAYS HOUSE REP. BRYAN STEIL
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Bryan Steil said he’s optimistic the Senate will bring the CLARITY Act to the floor as soon as next week, arguing the legislation would finally provide long-awaited regulatory clarity for digital assets in the U.S.
Speaking ahead of today’s New York field hearing, Steil said the bill would establish a framework that protects consumers, distinguishes legitimate companies from bad actors, and helps attract both financial and human capital to the United States.
He also dismissed ethics-related objections, saying those concerns are another reason to pass clear digital asset rules.

Larry Fink has said he’s very bullish on the market over the next 12 months.

If you invested $1,000 in Bitcoin when Satoshi created it, here’s what you’d have today
The genesis block went live on January 3, 2009, with a message embedded in the code about bank bailouts. Seventeen years later, that origin story is worth more than most countries’ GDP.

Bitcoin Mining Giant Foundry Asks Miners To Vote on BIP-110 Soft Fork
Foundry Digital said it will allow clients who use its Bitcoin mining pool to vote on BIP-110.

Ted Lieu @tedlieu
And what is the response from House Republicans? Allowing the trump Administration to let US companies (who donate to trump) to sell high performance AI chips to China.
I’m not kidding. Go look it up.
Because trump doesn’t care about America, he only cares about himself.

Stop calling his rambling incoherent dementia-ridden rants of self-serving lies a “speech.”

“Trump says Democrats FORGOT to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *HE* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats SUPPOSEDLY stole was the one HE HIMSELF controlled.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.”
– REP. JIM MCGOVERN

“He knows those computers better than anybody, all those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide, so it was pretty good, so thank you to Elon!”
– Donald Trump, the day before he was sworn in for a second term

And he didn’t discuss “election security.”
He delivered a direct attack on it; regurgitating debunked conspiracy theories as a blatant pretext to interfere in the midterms and beyond.

ESSAY @ihtesham2005 htesham Ali

https://x.com/ihtesham2005/status/2078115795880772059

Edward Snowden recommends this operating system to journalists, activists, and anyone whose computer could be used against them.

It’s called Qubes OS, and it’s free.

A Polish security researcher named Joanna Rutkowska built it.

In 2006, she walked onto a stage in Las Vegas and showed a room full of hackers something that shut the whole place up.

She had built a way to take over a computer completely, using the hardware itself, without the operating system ever noticing it happened. People called it Blue Pill.

A few years later she asked herself the opposite question. If a computer can be silently taken over like that, how do you build one that survives being attacked anyway?

Her answer was Qubes.

Instead of trusting your whole computer as one single space, Qubes splits it into many separate little computers running side by side, each one sealed off from the others. Open your banking site in one. Open a sketchy email attachment in a different one.

If the attachment turns out to carry malware, it wakes up alone in its own sealed box with nothing else to touch.

Some of those boxes are built to disappear on purpose. Open a suspicious PDF in a disposable one and the moment you close it, the whole thing gets erased and rebuilt from scratch the next time you need it, malware included.

In 2016, Snowden tweeted about it directly: “It’s what I use, and free. Nobody does VM isolation better.”

Whonix, the anonymity system built entirely around Tor, actually runs as one of the isolated boxes inside Qubes.

That’s the exact combination Snowden pairs together for the strongest privacy setup he trusts on his own hardware.

ESSAY Ricardo @Ric_RTP

Xi Jinping just hijacked the rules of AI for the entire planet.

Today, Xi walked onto the stage at the World AI Conference in Shanghai.

It was his FIRST time attending the event in person since it launched in 2018. Heads of state do not fly in personally for a product expo.

The day before he spoke, 29 governments signed a founding charter.

It created a brand new international body called the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, with its permanent headquarters in Shanghai. China had spent a full year lining up the signatures.

UN Secretary General sat in the audience. So did the leaders of Kazakhstan, Cambodia, and Thailand, alongside representatives from more than 100 countries.

While the robots and the chips got the headlines, those 29 signatures were what really mattered.

Here’s why:

Whoever writes the rules of a technology decides who gets to win with it.

The US is leaning on export controls and voluntary safety pledges. Europe is enforcing its own AI Act.

China just built the institution that wants to set the standards for everyone else, and it put the headquarters on its own soil.

And look at who signed…

The founding members include Russia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, and Laos. Together, the countries in this new bloc represent a population that dwarfs the entire G7. These are the nations that felt shut out of the AI order the West built, and Beijing just offered them a seat at a table it controls.

And Xi framed all of it as a gift to humanity. He pledged 5,000 AI training slots for developing countries.

He called on the world to “encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing” and warned against any nation placing its own security above everyone else’s, which is basically a shot at American chip controls.

It was a generous call for openness from the country that just created the rule-setting body and kept the headquarters for itself.

On the conference itself, more than 1,100 companies showed off over 3,000 products, including Huawei’s Atlas 950, an 8,192-chip supercomputer built to go straight at Nvidia, and what China is billing as the world’s first AI agent phone.

So while much of the West is still arguing about whether AI is a bubble, China spent this week doing something more lasting:

It started writing the rulebook, and got 29 countries to sign.

What happens to America’s lead if the rest of the world ends up playing by China’s rules?

ESSAY @TeganMathis

QUESTION: President Richard Nixon was way ahead in the polls! Why would he even bother to burglarize the DNC headquarters at the Watergate office complex?! ANSWER: Watergate had nothing to do with the election. Read on:

The Watergate break-in was an extension of the Plumbers operations which began in 1969 when NSC military aide Alexander Haig approached FBI Assistant Director William Sullivan about wiretapping NSC insiders to determine who was leaking secrets to the press.

But the FBI wiretaps were just one, small part of Haig’s larger Plumbers operation.

Haig also had the Joint Chiefs steal NSC documents for him in what we now known as the Moorer-Radford affair. He also had the Plumbers burglarize Daniel Ellberg’s psychoanalyst’s office. He even used those same Plumbers to hit the Chilean Embassy in Washington DC shortly before the Watergate burglary.

None of these operations had anything to do with Nixon’s reelection campaign. That’s just a cover story.

The break-in at the Chilean Embassy is key to understanding the Watergate break-in. The DNC break-in was not orchestrated to give President Nixon an electoral advantage. It was orchestrated to determine what the Democrats knew about the NSC’s plans to convert Chile to fascism. Most or all of the Burglars were experts on Salvador Allende and his ally Fidel Castro. They couldn’t care less about Richard Nixon or his election.

Though it was kept secret from the American people, the Deep State plot to convert Chile to fascism was a very big deal at the NSC in 1972. Chile was to provide a model for future fascist imperialism. (Richard Nixon’s NSC, with the help of the CIA, converted Chile to fascism on September 11, 1973.)

Chile was a huge “national security” secret. It still is, frankly. Of course they had to put blame somewhere else. And being that the Plumbers operation was apparently funded via illegal campaign cash, it was very easy to blame Nixon’s reelection committee.

But this was only the beginning. Watergate investigators eventually linked Haig to the Burglars and the JFK assassination. The more Nixon pushed back on impeachment, the bigger a threat he became to Haig. That’s why Haig arranged to have President Nixon replaced with Warren Commissioner Gerald Ford who effectively stopped all the investigations and saved Haig. But that’s a different topic. This X post is about why the Burglars hit the Watergate in the first place. (Chile!)

For much more, see Sins of the Vicar and Against Them by Tegan Mathis. That’s me.

ESSAY Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ

BREAKING 🚨: How corrupt is the United States? The day after the Justice Department launched an investigation into Wall Street short sellers the largest document storage facility, TD Ameritrade Bartlett Warehouse, went up in flames. They hauled the evidence away ON FIRE in direct violation of OSHA safety requirements. 60 hedge funds were to undergo investigations for manipulative short selling. Authorities concluded that a “falling shelf” took out the entire building’s sprinkler system that was located on the roof.
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The facility was a newer facility outfitted with state of the art fire prevention technology.
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Hedge funds have been under heavy scrutiny from retail investors.
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More specifically from the AMC and GME community after the ‘meme stock’ frenzy early last year, 2021
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Hedge funds have been able to suppress the share price of both these stocks through predatorial short-selling strategies.
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In a Bloomberg exclusive, Gary Gensler states 90%-95% or retail market trades do not go through the lit exchange, but rather through dark pools.
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This happened on February 4th 2022. Just like everything with out government absolutely NOTHING has come from the investigation. No charges. No stop to the blatant naked short selling taking place on a daily basis robbing investors.
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The primary offender of naked shorting of course is Citadel, owned by Ken Griffin. Griffin is Ron DeSantis’s MEGADONOR and #WEF member.

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