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BITCOIN
$STRC is perpetual.
The principal never gets paid back.
Saylor is porting fixed income capital into Bitcoin forever.
99% of big pools of trillions of dollars of capital in the world can’t buy #Bitcoin.
Michael Saylor realized this from 2020 onward and started creating instruments for each of those pools. $STRC is the golden goose.
This is what BTC winning looks like.
Strategy CEO Phong Le just said “MSTR is 40% retail and STRC is 80% retail.”
STRC is sucking up capital from family offices and HNW individuals.
Dollars seeking yield are leaving money markets and private credit for bitcoin.

SENATE COMMITTEE JUST VOTED TO APPROVE KEVIN WARSH AS FED CHAIR
A FULL SENATE VOTE IS NEXT

MSM coverage of the Fed is abysmal – it’s the same suck-up sycophants every time.
Why? One woman picks who gets invited: Michelle Smith.
Ask anything off-script and your career is kneecapped.
Powell’s chief of staff is a woman named Michelle Smith, who has served every Fed Chair of the last 30 years in some capacity-Powell, Janet Yellen, Ben Bernanke, and Alan
Greenspan. Prior to that, as a spokeswoman in Bill Clinton’s Treasury Department, she
worked with the entire Rubinite gang that dominated economic policy in the Democratic
Party for decades. This unappointed, rarely discussed figure is the point person for most
of the Fed’s day-to-day activity, giving her extraordinary power over the actual operations
of the most powerful central bank on Earth.

“Don’t cross Michelle Smith, or you’ll lose your access to the chair.”
I didn’t vote for this woman. Maybe she’s the problem.
NOBODY VOTED FOR HER – MAYBE THIS WOMEN IS THE PROBLEM The Little-Known Power Brokers at the Federal Reserve
Individual senior staffers play a huge role, and may explain the Fed’s insularity and governance problems. by Max Moran October 12, 2021

SCOTUS gutted Black voting power 6-3. Louisiana’s majority-Black districts are gone. This affects every state. Check your registration NOW — don’t assume you’re still on the rolls. Then check on everyone around you. 2026 decides whether any of this gets undone.

STATEMENT FROM DNC CHAIR KEN MARTIN
Today is a dark day for America – the Supreme Court just rolled back the clock on the Civil Rights Movement. The GOP-captured Supreme Court just effectively killed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a major step back in the fight for racial justice and fair representation.
While today’s decision is a gut punch, make no mistake: Democrats will fight tooth and
nail to ensure the voices of all Americans will be heard in November and in every election
that follows.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH DEMOCRATS?
THEY WON’T ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT THEY DID WRONG LAST TIME! THEY WILL DO THE SAME WRONG THINGS AGAIN!

Ken Martin @kenmartin73 Chair of @TheDemocrats | Proud Minnesotan
In 2025, Ken Martin defeated Ben Wikler for the position of DNC Chair.
Minnesota DFL chair Ken Martin elected as next leader of DNC.
Wikler was formerly the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.

“Release the autopsy report! Why are you afraid of AIPAC?”
Dissenting voices shout at DNC chair Ken Martin to release a report that reportedly shows Kamala not breaking with Biden on Gaza cost her — as they fail to pass a resolution on Israel/AIPAC.
DNC Chair Ken Martin confirmed he will not publicly release the 2024 election “autopsy” report. While he originally campaigned for the chairmanship on a platform of transparency, Martin now argues that releasing the full document would be a “distraction” from the 2026 midterms. The IMEU Policy Project reported that DNC aides admitted during a closed-door meeting that the report concluded the Biden-Harris administration’s approach to the genocide in Gaza cost Kamala Harris significant support.
DNC Chair Ken Martin on why he didn’t release the committee’s autopsy on the 2024 election.
DNC Chair Ken Martin. You’ve probably never heard about this guy before now. The DNC is the source halting progressive policies and progressive politicians (like Bernie Sanders) from moving forward. This is the guy in charge. Jon Favreau questions DNC Chair Ken Martin on why he won’t release the DNC’s autopsy on the 2024 election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8IwrO-03WU&t=1s

Always happy to chat with fellow Democrats. At the end of the day, we all want Democrats to win. Here are some of the key takeaways from 2024 and 2025 that we’re putting into action to do just that. Take a look: https://democrats.org/playbook/

An appeals court in New York has rejected President Trump’s request to rehear his challenges to the writer E. Jean Carroll’s successful defamation and sex assault claims.

Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame
This is my take on the “ballroom.” No one cares about that but Trump
Congress wants this bunker because they’ve been spending so much time talking to FULLY INSANE tech nihilists that they’ve ingested that insanity and are 100% bought in Hundreds of billions of our tax dollars.

“A.I. is less regulated in America than sandwiches. You can’t open a sandwich shop without having your kitchen inspected. But you can release an A.I. girlfriend for 11-year-olds and that’s fine.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/technology/elon-musk-sam-altman-trial.html

Predatory individualized pricing is now illegal in Maryland.

Detestable Donald Trump Jr. Wedding To Vapid Socialite Delayed Amid Iran Chaos.
https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-jr-bettina-anderson-wedding-delayed-amid-iran-chaos/
Daddy declined to host the wedding at the White House. Sources claim he believes the venue should be reserved for events that “elevate him and the Trump brand” and that his son is “not important enough” for such an honor.

Death Valley National Park is experiencing its first major superbloom in a decade as of March/April 2026, driven by record winter rainfall (1.7 – 2.5+ inches) that transformed the desert landscape with vibrant carpets of yellow, pink, and purple flowers.

Hitler’s Führerbunker began as a ballroom extension to a building called the Old Chancelley to which an air raid shelter was added, eventually transformed into a luxurious bunker 50 feet underground that could be hermetically sealed to protect the VIP occupants from chemical weapons. Trump’s fanatic emphasis on ballroom/bunker might indicate that he anticipates, or will precipitate, a nuclear exchange of some sort, from which he, his staff, & (probably) selected billionaire donors might be protected. otherwise, it is hard to explain how important this ballroom has suddenly become. #WhenIsABallroomNotABallroom?

Samsung workers threaten strike, demand share of $38 billion AI memory windfall
Around 30,000 workers rallied as the union demanded 15% of operating profit, roughly $400,000 per employee

BREAKING: Norway and France have launched a joint police investigation into former UN diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen and his wife, Norwegian ambassador Mona Juul, over alleged corruption tied to Jeffrey Epstein.

Anna Paulina Luna: FL-13 Rep. Serving on @GOPOversight & @HouseForeignGOP | Wife-Mom-USAF Veteran luna.house.gov
“I think it’s really disgusting how this institution protects itself… We just had a Member of Congress literally sexually harass a woman that then lit herself on fire and you all protected him! You guys all protected him!” video https://x.com/Bitcoin_Teddy/status/2048840352350503120

The 2026 Met Gala — scheduled for May 4 — is struggling to sell out, with ticket prices falling from last year’s $75,000 per seat and $350,000 per table. Insiders say designers are pulling back, with one source stating bluntly: “The demand just isn’t there.” The crisis is driven by two forces: the appointment of Jeff Bezos and wife Lauren Sánchez as honorary co-chairs and primary sponsors, and the fading authority of Anna Wintour following her exit as Vogue editor-in-chief, replaced by Chloé Malle. Boycott posters have appeared across New York City targeting Bezos over Amazon’s labor practices, tax avoidance, and ties to the Trump administration. Insiders describe the event as having lost its cultural cachet — “It stopped feeling aspirational and started feeling like a billionaire circus.” NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani declined his invitation publicly. With Wintour’s industry power waning, observers note the gala’s leverage over fashion careers has diminished significantly.
Sources: Irish Star, The Mirror, RadarOnline — April 2026

Thomas Massie calls for investigation into Leslie Wexner as an Epstein “co-conspirator” in “an underage sex-trafficking case”
“Leslie Wexner was listed on the FBI’s own documents as a co-conspirator in an underage sex-trafficking case” “How did you go from deciding that Leslie Wexner was a co-conspirator to not even talking to him?” “What was the evidence that you found that exonerated him from any suspicion? They haven’t given us those documents” “Until I challenged them online in a social media post, they have redacted the fact that Leslie Wexner’s name was on that list of co-conspirator’s of Jeffrey Epstein” “I believe there’s enough evidence in there [the Epstein Files], even among the unredacted files, to start investigations on Leon Black, Jes Staley, and Leslie Wexner” This clip of Massie @RepThomasMassie, a U.S. representative for Kentucky’s 4th congressional district, is taken from a conversation with Alex Newman (@ALEXNEWMAN_JOU_) of The New American (@NewAmericanMag posted to YouTube on April 20, 2026.
VIDEO https://x.com/SenseReceptor/status/2048877476252955120  and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MfGmVLL17c

ESSAY @heynavtoor
The music industry had a pirate enemy.
It wasn’t a person. It wasn’t a company. It was a Python script.
It is called yt-dlp. 158K stars. Unlicensed. Sony couldn’t sue it if they tried. There’s no copyright to violate.
Then the music industry did the unthinkable.
October 23, 2020. The RIAA filed a DMCA takedown. GitHub complied. The repo and 18 forks vanished within hours.
Then one developer had an idea.
He merged the entire source code into GitHub’s own DMCA takedown repository. The takedown notice now contained the tool it was trying to delete.
24 days later, GitHub reversed course. Reinstated everything. Put $1 million into a developer defense fund.
The music industry lost.
Here’s the wildest part:
The community forked youtube-dl. Renamed it yt-dlp. Same code. New name. Latest release: March 17, 2026. Still impossible to kill.
One Python script vs. the entire music industry.
But DO NOT install it. Sony, Universal, and Warner deserve your $15.99/month.
100% Open Source. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Latest https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/tag/2026.03.17

Meet the 2026 Bitcoin Conference speakers.

Or how Bitcoin slowly became the system it was built to escape.

– Michael Saylor
Turned Bitcoin into a corporate balance sheet machine. He talks sovereignty while building one of the largest centralized Bitcoin exposure vehicles on Earth.

– Jack Dorsey
The most ideologically credible name on the list, but still a billionaire platform founder turning Bitcoin into corporate infrastructure.

– Todd Blanche
A state power figure on a Bitcoin stage. That alone tells you how far the movement has drifted from its original purpose.

– Paul Atkins
Regulation dressed up as legitimacy. The kind of figure who decides which parts of crypto are allowed to survive.

– Mike Selig
Commodities and derivatives bureaucracy entering Bitcoin through the front door. More paper markets, more institutional control, less freedom.

– David Bailey
Bitcoin media power broker. Sells the revolution back to the crowd as conferences, access, influence, and political theatre.

– Eric Trump
A political brand entering Bitcoin under the language of freedom. Another Trump scammer speaking for Bitcoin.
We really cannot fall much lower than this.

– Jack Mallers
One of the few with actual payment infrastructure. Still, Strike is a company, not a revolution. Users get convenience, not pure sovereignty.

– Paolo Ardoino
Runs the most important centralized dollar layer in crypto. USDT is treated like oxygen, but nobody elected Tether to become crypto’s shadow central bank.

– Cynthia Lummis
Bitcoin-friendly politician, but still a politician. Once the state starts hugging Bitcoin, it usually means it has found a way to use it.

– Adam Back
Probably one of the few with real historical credibility. But even original cypherpunk energy gets diluted when it is surrounded by corporations, politicians, ETFs, miners, and billionaires.

– Amy Oldenburg
Morgan Stanley digital assets. That says enough. Wall Street did not come to liberate Bitcoin users. It came to package, sell, custody, and extract fees.

– David Marcus
Former Meta executive building Bitcoin payment rails. The pitch is scale. The risk is another polished corporate layer between users and the protocol.

– Matt Schultz
Industrial mining executive. Bitcoin mining was supposed to decentralize security. Now it increasingly looks like energy deals, public companies, hashrate concentration, and corporate balance sheets.

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