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I’m sure most people are beginning to realize most mainstream Podcasts are masked as Interviews while being prime real estate for agenda driven Propaganda.

The administration’s social media surveillance is fostering a climate of fear. International students now worry a single post or “like” could cost them their U.S. visa—chilling political debate and silencing dissent for non-citizens and citizens alike.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/trump-administrations-targeting-international-students-jeopardizes-free-speech-and

Two stories, same day,
(left) NYT: UAE pours $2 billion into Trump crypto coins
(right) Bloomberg: Trump White House may ease restrictions on selling AI chips to UAE

@Roshan_Rinaldi
You realize of course, that at this point, all Trump is doing,… is trying to wreck the United States Government.
Like Keith Moon at a Holiday Inn.

LABOR / SOLIDARITY

Robert Reich
Trump is threatening to revoke Harvard’s tax exempt status because the university refused to cave to his demands.
Why is he so hell-bent on attacking universities?
Because an educated and informed citizenry has always been the biggest threat to a dictator’s power.
Trump’s regime is coming for anyone who speaks up against him.
But there is courage — and hope — in solidarity.

Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders
The Redstone family is doing something extremely dangerous and un-American.
In order to sell Paramount and CBS and make billions, they’re prepared to settle a bogus lawsuit brought by Trump against 60 Minutes and undermine the Constitution and First Amendment.
Disgraceful.

BITCOIN

Bitcoin Price Tops $96K for First Time Since February 2025

Billionaire Draper Predicts Bitcoin Price Could Surge to Infinity
Forget about $1 million Bitcoin price predictions. One of the most prominent venture capitalists thinks BTC is heading to infinity

Britain to ban retail investors borrowing money to invest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
UK plans to ban consumers from borrowing money to buy cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
Tulip season ends. Bitcoin is forever.

Senator Cynthia Lummis says President Trump supports her Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill to buy 1,000,000 BTC

Trump rewrites crypto rules in first 100 days, industry celebrates ’180 pivot’ from Biden years

Bitcoin is a matter of national security — Deputy CIA director
Deputy CIA director Michael Ellis’ comments reflect Bitcoin’s maturation as an asset but conflict with the cypherpunk philosophy.

Strategy’s Bitcoin Surge: Why MSTR Could Outperform BTC in 2025
Strategy’s bold Bitcoin accumulation hits 550,000 BTC, positioning MSTR as a high-beta proxy with potential to outshine BTC in 2025.

Nvidia, World’s Third-Largest Company, Reportedly Considering Bitcoin Addition to Balance Sheet
Nvidia Corp, the world’s third-largest company, is reportedly considering adding an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin to its balance sheet to enhance financial stability

$3 TRILLION APPLE LIFTS IOS RESTRICTIONS THAT BANNED IN-APP #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO PAYMENTS
THIS IS HUGE

The GENIUS Act, the Senate’s stablecoin bill had a loophole to permit USDT be used in the US while Tether hid in El Salvador.
Senator Hagerty’s tweet that the bill now requires “foreign companies are playing by the same rules” suggests the Lutnick/Tether loophole is closed.
@SenatorHagerty
“I look forward to passing the GENIUS Act in short order to keep digital asset innovation in America, protect customers, and make sure foreign companies are playing by the same rules.”

@dotkrueger
Arthur Hayes now calling for 1MM BTC in 3 years.
Path:
– BTC 250K this year
– 500K in 2026
– 1MM in 2027-2028
Massive Deficits (Doge does nothing)
Expanded Government Spending
Fed onboard with Brrr in 2026
Yield curve control etc… all coming.

INCLUDED IN PASSING THE STABLE COIN BILL TETHER CAN / WILL GET DELISTED IN 3 YEARS IF THE USA DOESN’T LIKE WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

$7.2 BILLION BROWN UNIVERSITY JUST BOUGHT $4,900,000 WORTH OF #BITCOIN ETF ENDOWMENTS ARE BUYING BTC!!!
Just 1% away. This time $100k will hit differently
Total Cap Hits $3.1T!

NORWAY’S SOVEREIGN FUND IS BUYING MICROSTRATEGY $MSTR SHARES 
NORWAY IS BUYING #BITCOIN

TRUMP

Trump’s budget calls for a 22% cut that would hit the CDC, NIH, FEMA, EPA loan programs aimed at protecting drinking water, and much more.
All to finance giant tax cuts for the rich.
Oh and Trump is proposing a record $1 trillion military budget.
“Fiscal responsibility.”

The Trump Tariff Tax Hike kicks in today:

– higher prices
– costs the average family $5200 more
– higher unemployment
– reduced U.S. GDP of up to 8%
– likely recession

He’ll probably go golfing at his country club again to celebrate.

BREAKING: Trump has unveiled his proposed budget
It includes:
– $163 billion in cuts to health care, child care, education, housing, research, clean energy, food banks, and more
– $1 trillion for defense and homeland security
The proposed budget would raise defense spending by 13% and homeland security spending by nearly 65% compared with 2025 enacted levels.
Great news if you’re a defense contractor. Bad news if you’re a hungry kid, a teacher, or anyone who needs to see a doctor without going bankrupt.
Advanced societies usually cut defense and other nonsense and prioritize child care, health care, education, housing, research and basically programs that help people.
Dictatorships, just cut everything and send it to the friends that keep the dictator in power (the military)
Basically: no books, no bread—but plenty of bombs.

DRAFT DODGERS DON’T DESERVE A MILITARY PARADE
Fuck Trump Decals
https://www.amazon.com/YINENA-Brandon-Stickers-Motorcycles-Waterproof/dp/B0C4HFBJY6

Two IRS crypto directors step down after accepting DOGE resignation offer.

Trump has filed an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court to let DOGE access personal information for millions of people in Social Security databases.

Judge HOWELL rules forcefully in favor of Perkins Coie against Trump’s punitive executive order, comparing him to a Shakespearean character who famously called to “kill all the lawyers” in order to amass power.
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0716-185

Breaking News! A CA Federal Judge just put a restraining order on all ICE agents! No more snatching people from the streets or elsewhere without a warrant or probable cause and that doesn’t mean their color!
In an absolutely shocking moment, ICE Director Tom Homan suggests he will start ARRESTING Democratic mayors and governors of sanctuary cities: “wait to see what’s coming.” This is absolutely terrifying.
They are going for full dictatorship this time
No penalty for Jan 6 was the green light
We have to arrest these people when we take power. Homan, Miller, Trump, Elon. All of them.

We know that Trump is Mafia and has been since the 70’s with the NYC Families. He then worked with Giuliani in the 80’s to destroy those Families to allow the Russian Mafia to take over. Nice treasonous work.
The Mafias control approx 10% of the world economy: weapons smuggling, drug smuggling (thus the need to control Afghanistan, where 90% of opium comes from), human trafficking (for prostitution and for kompromat reasons), and theft. That’s $8 trillion to manage every year. So perhaps what Trump is doing with tariffs is the deliberate bankrupting of the next Yuppies…  FBI report on Transnational Crime Organizations and their “Iron Triangles” including capture of business elites, politicians w/ military backing & judiciary
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/transnational-organized-crime

Organized crime is being designated as a national security threat to the world. Haiti gangs designated as foreign, global terror
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article305515216.html

Fetterman the Dude ain’t right. At all.
I’m sorry. There’s something very wrong with @JohnFetterman and we need to face it.
Fetterman thinks he should be excluded from wearing a seatbelt?
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1918346917471232000/vid/avc1/320×568/AziA4yC81sQClR0w.mp4

When will Americans wake up to the fact
that they have elected a ruinous madman.

It’s strange how we cannot make policy to protect Americans from Russian and Chinese disinformation without elements of the American far right identifying with and protecting Russian and Chinese disinformation.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1115988/senior-state-department-official-sought-internal-communications-with-journalists-european-officials-and-trump-critics/

If a tree falls in the woods and everyone sees Donald Trump cut it down, is it still Biden’s fault?

If California declared independence the rest of the US would collapse.

WHO IS BIG BALLS?

BREAKING: Meet “BIG BALLS” of DOGE infamy BIG BALLS:
“I just set it as my LinkedIn username.
People on LinkedIn take themselves too seriously and they’re very adverse to risk and I wanted to be neither of those things.
I just set it and I didn’t think anyone would notice.”
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1918104071338377219/vid/avc1/648×360/8Dq7OI47FKKwD9zp.mp4

SCOOP: A startup founder and early DOGE recruiter posted in a Palantir alumni Slack recruiting for a new DOGE-related project.
The project’s goal, he said, is to automate work that’s currently performed by 70,000 federal workers.
A DOGE Recruiter Is Staffing a Project to Deploy AI Agents Across the US Government
A startup founder told a Palantir alumni Slack group that AI agents could do the work of tens of thousands of government employees. He was met with emojis of clowns and a man licking a boot.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-recruiter-ai-agents-palantir-clown-emoji/

Scott Jennings: “Are you a tattoo truther?”
Ana Navarro: “Are you a Photoshop denier?”

SHOCKING BODY CAM FOOTAGE: Tennessee Highway Patrol stopped Kilmar Abrego-Garcia in 2022, suspecting HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

• 8 men crammed in his car
• $1,400 cash
• no valid license
• terrorist watchlist hit
Linked to MS-13, this “violent wife beater” was deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison. Yet, a Democrats want him BACK in the US! People Who Bypassed Legal Process In Migrating To USA Demand Legal Process Before Being Kicked Out

…. Ever heard of “Due Process?”…..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Sam Altman’s World got its eyeball count wrong by 14 million
World is still nearly 990 million scans short of its one-billion-person target, set in 2021.
https://protos.com/sam-altmans-world-got-its-eyeball-count-wrong-by-14-million/

TIKTOK

TikTok Fined €530M for secretly storing EU user data in China, violating GDPR rules.
Ireland’s DPC says TikTok misled regulators, failed to ensure EU-level privacy, and ignored China’s surveillance risks.
They now have 6 months to stop transfers.
https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/tiktok-slammed-with-530-million-gdpr.html

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WATCH SPY HIGH – ON AMAZON

Watch on APPLE The Conclave
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/conclave/umc.cmc.1fqibjngeelsbc5tiwq1xzjv

Peruvian cardinal accused of abuse challenges late pope’s sanction
As Pope Francis’s body lay in state in the Vatican last week, one of the mourners — with eyes downcast and hands clasped — was a disgraced cardinal from Peru.
Juan Luis Cipriani, once the most influential religious figure in Peru as the former archbishop of Lima, stood at the side of the Argentine pontiff’s coffin in St. Peter’s Basilica. He wore a black cassock, red sash and skullcap and a pectoral cross — the vestments that Francis himself forbade the cardinal to wear in the wake of accusations of sexual abuse against him.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/peruvian-cardinal-accused-abuse-challenges-122740656.html

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HEALTH

@DrNeilStone
“There are no Amish with autism”
– There are

“Vaccines aren’t tested against placebo”
– They are

“MMR has never been studied as a possible cause of autism”
– It has. It’s not the cause.

I apparently need to say this stuff over and over and over and over again.
– And again.

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