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The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. ~ George Washington

Harvard circa 1700s: “No student shall be admitted unless they can translate Greek and Latin authors such as Tully, Virgil, The New-Testament, & Xenophon.”

Harvard circa 2026: “We can’t assign whole novels anymore.”

WEALTH TAX

Google co-founder Sergey Brin spent $45 million to stop a California wealth tax.
He’s worth $222 billion, and doesn’t want to 5% of that going to fund health care in his state.
Right now he has a powerful ally — Gavin Newsom. But the people of California feel differently.

You pay 12.4% of your income into Social Security. Billionaires pay .0002% And then the same billionaires tell us we “can’t afford” Social Security. The only thing we can’t afford is billionaires!

“$200 billion could eliminate nearly all medical debt in America, fund free community college for two decades, or feed 42 million Americans for two years. Instead, we’re dropping bombs on Iran.”

Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, we can all agree that billionaires and big corporations buying up politicians like they’re just another vacation home is simply not right. We need to end Citizens United.

FRAUD

I’ve never seen all the institutions in this country lose their guard rails at the same time. I don’t recognize the U.S. as the country I grew up in. 

$21.6 Million Fraud = Life Sentence in Korea.
In America? Regulators Change the Rules.
Death Sentence Stands For Real Estate Tycoon in Vietnam Unless She Pays $9 Billion. Prosecutors say 68 year old Truong My Lan stole $27 Billion from the bank she controlled.

CFTC Chairman Michael Selig warns of an “FTX-style implosion” if prediction markets aren’t properly regulated. During an interview with Farokh Sarmad, Selig raised concerns that pushing platforms like Polymarket offshore into “unregulated space” poses systemic risk.

UNTIL WE GET RID OF FOX NEWS 

Oliver North was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan Administration. Oliver North is a Fox News “military analyst” who thinks Iran shouldn’t have missiles. They’re the same guy.

DEPORT THOSE KKK AUSTRAILIANS.

Palantir now controls: – 30+ federal agencies – DHS-wide data fusion – Health surveillance infrastructure – Master list database of all Americans – Law‑enforcement “precrime” intelligence And now the Pentagon is making Palantir AI its core military system. One company… Running government. Running the military. Running surveillance on all of us. What could possibly go wrong?

Meta Platforms must face an antitrust lawsuit from photo-sharing app Phhhoto that claims the social media giant used its monopoly power to put it out of business, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

Sysco is buying Restaurant Depot for $29 billion. Plans to expand RD more aggressively. It gives Sysco a huge entry into cash-and-carry and a large number of independent restaurant customers.
This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive. Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard. Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing. This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.

Warren Buffett says he has completely cut off Bill Gates and hasn’t spoken to him since the Epstein files were exposed. He admits Gates could have brought him to New York to meet Epstein, but says he’s “lucky” that never happened. “I don’t want to be in a position where I know things… and get called as a witness.”

“Jeffrey Epstein appears to have successfully hidden a trove of potential evidence of his crimes from investigators for more than a decade,” according to DOJ documents and ABC

They found out SCOTUS was being bribed for 20 years, let the ones bribing them blow off their subpoenas and everyone carried on as usual, even as Clarence took a paid helicopter trip to Putin’s hometown.  Shame on them.

Trump’s very skilled at lying & cheating, been doing it for years, only now, look where he is. If only he’d have disappeared into obscurity after The Apprentice!!!

APOLLO GLOBAL SECURITIES FRAUD CLASS ACTION ALERT
Apollo Global one of the worst Cockroaches is about to be sued for SECURITIES FRAUD tied to EPSTEIN. It’s about time we start fumigating Wall Street

Ted Lieu on camera: “The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped children.” A sitting congressman said this on the record.

Epstein used philanthropy to buy access to science. He proposed funding cryptography research at MIT. One researcher turned him down after his mom warned: ‘Be careful of getting sucked into this slime machine.’

CONVICTED RAPIST

TRUMP: “The world respects us right now more than they have ever respected us before.” – France: closes airspace to our military – Italy: closes their airbase to our military – Spain: closes their bases to our military – Poland: refuses to provide missile batteries to us.

The Trump Regime has dropped 23,000 DOJ criminal cases for drugs, trafficking, fraud, gangs, and even 1,000 terrorism cases in the last year. Additionally, the “law and order” regime pardoned nearly 1,600 domestic terrorists, many of whom have since been re-arrested for rape, child kidnapping, child molestation, & possession of child porn.

President Trump posts interview from 1987: “The next time Iran attacks this country, go in and grab one of their big oil installations and I mean grab it and keep it. This country has lost plenty because of Iran.”

TRUMP VIDEO FROM 1987 IS GOING VIRAL
Watch this carefully. In a 1987 interview with Barbara Walters, Donald Trump starts talking about the Middle East… Iran… and what the U.S. should do next. Then says he’s thinking about running for president. Not subtle. Not vague. Direct.
• Says the country is being “ripped off”
• Points straight at Iran as the problem
• Talks about going in and taking oil
• Warns a war in the Middle East is coming
This wasn’t last year. This was 1987.
https://x.com/amconmag/status/2038687972900352017

TRUMP 1990 This old Barbara Walters interview shows Trump being called out big time… he’s always been a delusional liar who never respected educated women. https://x.com/BrittanyinTexas/status/2038768290097471754

The biggest land scam in Florida history is complete.
Miami Dade College sold it for $10. Today, Trump confirmed his “presidential library” – the one @MDCollege handed over for $10 – will be a luxury hotel. The most valuable land our students ever owned. Gone. For $10. Soon to be a high-rise for a corrupt president.

Trump votes by mail but we can’t????? #TrumpVotedByMail

POLLING PLACE CLOSED by CONVICTED FELON. CHRONIC LIAR. NOW TRYING TO STEAL YOUR VOTE. THIS ISN’T POLITICS. IT’S ELECTION TAMPERING.
MAIL-IN BALLOT CONSTITUTION
Trump on Executive Order on Mail-In Voting: “I don’t know how it can be challenged. We will appeal if it is, but I don’t see how anybody can challenge it. I don’t see how they can challenge it.”
The Constitution is amazingly clear on this. The states control their elections. Congress has the power to regulate them. There is a big reason the president is not allowed to be part of the process which is literally what he’s doing right here. It’s criminal.

TRUMP 1990 After the Gold Rush
Unfortunately for Donald and Ivana Trump, all that glittered wasn’t gold. But the reign of New York’s self-created imperial couple isn’t over yet. Donald’s Midas touch may be tarnished, but the banks are still throwing money at him, while Ivana is busy brokering a future of her own. MARIE BRENNER reports on how the Trumps are still going for it all https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1990/9/after-the-gold-rush

WHAT HAPPENS IF WE PAY OFF THE DEBT?

2011 –> What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report
by David Kestenbaum 10/26/11
The copy of Life After Debt we obtained reads
“PRELIMINARY AND CLOSE HOLD OFFICIAL USE ONLY.”
The report was intended to be included in the official “Economic Report of the President” the final one of the Clinton administration. But in the end, people above Jason Seligman decided it was too speculative, too politically sensitive. So it was never published.
Planet Money has obtained a secret government report outlining what once looked like a potential crisis: The possibility that the U.S. government might pay off its entire debt. It sounds ridiculous today. But not so long ago, the prospect of a debt-free U.S. was seen as a real possibility with the potential to upset the global financial system.
We recently obtained the report through a Freedom of Information Act Request. You can read the report called “Life After Debt”. It was written in the year 2000, when the U.S. was running a budget surplus, taking in more than it was spending every year. Economists were projecting that the entire national debt could be paid off by 2012.
This was seen in many ways as good thing. But it also posed risks. If the U.S. paid off its debt there would be no more U.S. Treasury bonds in the world. “It was a huge issue … for not just the U.S. economy, but the global economy,” says Diane Lim Rogers, an economist in the Clinton administration. The U.S. borrows money by selling bonds. So the end of debt would mean the end of Treasury bonds.
But the U.S. has been issuing bonds for so long, and the bonds are seen as so safe, that much of the world has come to depend on them. The U.S. Treasury bond is a pillar of the global economy. Banks buy hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth, because they’re a safe place to park money. Mortgage rates are tied to the interest rate on U.S. treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve ” our central bank” buys and sells Treasury bonds all the time, in an effort to keep the economy on track.
If Treasury bonds disappeared, would the world unravel? Would it adjust somehow?
“I probably thought about this piece easily 16 hours a day, and it took me a long time to even start writing it,” says Jason Seligman, the economist who wrote most of the report. It was a strange, science-fictiony question. “What would it look like to be in a United States without debt?” Seligman says. “What would life look like in those United States?” Yes, there were ways for the world to adjust. But certain things got really tricky.
For example: What do you do with the money that comes out of people’s paychecks for Social Security?
Now, a lot of that money gets invested in – you guessed it  Treasury bonds. If there are no Treasury bonds, what do you invest it in? Stocks? Which stocks? Who picks?
In the end, Seligman concluded it was a good idea to pay down the debt  but not to pay it off entirely. “There’s such a thing as too much debt,” he says. “But also such a thing, perhaps, as too little.”
The danger that we would pay off our debt by 2012 has clearly passed. There are plenty of Treasury bonds around these days. U.S. debt held by the public is now over $10 trillion.

IN 2011
THE COUNTRY COULD HAVE INVESTED IN BITCOIN
The first significant price increase happened in October 2010, when a single Bitcoin’s value began to move past its long flat price of less than $0.10

BITCOIN

A cache of bitcoin then valued at $15 billion tied to the Cambodia-based Prince Group became the largest asset seizure in American history. Victim advocates fear the funds seized will be stashed away for the U.S.’s new strategic cryptocurrency reserve.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/questions-swirl-around-us-plans-for-record-15b-prince-group-crypto-seizure/

BITCOIN-BACKED MUNICIPAL BONDS ARE HERE
New Hampshire is moving forward with a first-of-its-kind $100M Bitcoin-backed municipal bond, using over-collateralized BTC instead of taxpayer backing to fund economic development. The bonds, issued by the state’s Business Finance Authority, are structured as taxable conduit revenue bonds tied to a private borrower, not public funds. Repayment comes from the borrower or, if needed, liquidation of Bitcoin collateral held in segregated cold storage by BitGo. The borrower must post BTC worth 160% of the bond value, with a mandatory liquidation trigger at 140% loan-to-value to protect investors. One tranche may also offer upside exposure if Bitcoin appreciates. Moody’s assigned a provisional Ba2 rating, citing volatility risk but acknowledging strong collateral safeguards. If finalized, the deal would mark a major step in integrating Bitcoin into regulated municipal finance, positioning it as usable collateral inside traditional capital markets while attracting Bitcoin businesses to the state.

Over the past 30 days, $STRC has been less volatile than every company in the S&P 500—and every major asset class—while delivering an 11.5% dividend yield.

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