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BITCOIN

They really are getting this done.
The Senate Banking Committee advances the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a 15-9 vote.
The committee is now proceeding toward a final vote on the bill.
Pro-Crypto CLARITY Act H.R. 3633 Passes Senate Banking Committee 15-9

The US government already has a ballroom just down the street.
The Andrew Mellon Auditorium is less than a mile away from the White House is beautiful and accommodates more people than the new ballroom will and is owned by the U.S. Government.

CHINA

TRUMP IN CHINA
General Tso, a fantastic person…
not many people will say that. People say he’s a little spicy, but a great leader. A strong man.
Trump SAID: Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States all combined. That’s a pretty big statement.

The US Commerce Department has approved around 10 Chinese companies including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance and http://JD.com to purchase Nvidia’s H200 chips.
Another Trump NATSEC Epic Fuck Up:
China has been using Ai to steal US IP, attack corporations, infrastructure, critical networks & giving North Korean, Russian & Iranian hackers access to it all. Giving China access to these chips will allow them to TRIPLE their Ai computing. https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/exclusive-us-clears-h200-chip-054811034.html

Chinese President Xi treats TRUMP with a visit to the factories where most of the ‘MAGA’ merchandise is made.
A spokesperson assured the US delegation that all MAGA production followed an America-first policy.
HE SAID… MEDIA  UNFILTERED
America first pay, Then we make

This is a masterclass on why China is rising and the United States is decaying:

“In America, you can change the political parties but you can’t change the policies.
Billionaires in America control all policy making. China is a vibrant market economy but it is not capitalist.
Billionaires in China can’t control policy and capital does not have enshrined rights.
In America, capital itself has risen above the nation.

In the last 66 years China is being run by one single party, yet the political changes that have taken place have been wider and broader and greater than any other country in modern history.” This is why it is far better to have one party that serves the people than two parties that both serve corporations and billionaires.

GO GAVIN  <–> GO MAMDANI

California’s fiscal future is on a stronger footing for the years to come.
$0 deficit THIS budget year.
$0 deficit NEXT budget year.
$0 structural deficit through July 2028.
Long-term deficit: Cut by more than half.

Gavin Newsom = balanced budget
Zohran Mamdani = balanced budget
Donald Trump = $10 trillion in debt written into his budget.

THE DEMOCRATS DO NOT HAVE A BRAND

– NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THEY STAND FOR

– THERE IS NO LOGO

– WE NEED THE POWER TO THE PEOPLE LOGO

NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL

CASAR: For the $1 billion we’re being asked to spend on Trump’s ballroom, we could fund 217 million free school lunches and 15,000 more teachers. As secretary of education, which do you think helps our nation more? McMAHON: I think those are incredibly weird comparisons

Lost in the news this week: the real story behind Palm Beach International becoming Trump International is not the renaming. It is the coercion that produced it and the extraordinary terms hidden inside the deal. County staff told commissioners that refusing would put state transportation funding and grant assurances at risk.
DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who crossed him. That is the climate one Democratic commissioner cast her deciding vote in. And the agreement itself is not a normal honorary naming.
The Trump family company retains the right to pick vendors, license the name to third parties, and sell branded merchandise off-site. This is not an honor bestowed as much as it is a shakedown.

“Today @OfTheBraveUSA Home of the Brave launched a brand-new $200K billboard campaign bringing the following message to eight cities across the country: Trump is focused on his ballroom. Not your gas prices. Not your grocery prices. Not your healthcare. Not you.”

Trump’s 65% disapproval rating on Health Care is the worst this century.

TRUMP SAYING HIS DONORS WERE GOING TO PAY FOR THE BALLROOM IS JUST LIKE HIM SAYING MEXICO WOULD PAY FOR THE WALL.
NEVER HAPPENED.
NOW WE HAVE TO PAY $1.4 BILLION FOR HIS BALLROOM WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS BECAUSE HE ALREADY DEMOLISHED THE EAST WING WITHOUT APPROVALS.

WHAT IS SO HARD YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS?
22 million jobs in the US pay so little that workers qualify for SNAP. You’re not paying for their food, you’re paying for their employers’ low wages.
Get mad about that.

trump calls the White House a “shithouse.” Calls a reporter a “bitch.” Screams at Iran: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards.” And not a peep from the media. Do not become numb to this. None of this is acceptable. How far we have fallen as a nation.

Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray
I asked Director Patel to pass on my thanks for FBI’s work stopping a crook who scammed Medicare out of $205 million. He obliged.
Only problem? Trump pardoned that scammer.
So which is it? Should the FBI keep uncovering fraud, or should Trump keep pardoning these crooks?

CPS CEO King declined invitations to testify to Congress. A lawmaker responded with a subpoena.

EPSTEIN / BARAK

Ehud Barak visited Epstein‘s New York townhouse at least 5 times in 2013-2014. Barak said they met to discuss a biotech investment. The investment never happened. Epstein on tape advising former Israeli PM Barak to approach Palantir founder Peter Thiel. And there you have it

Yesterday, Jeffrey Epstein’s former accountant testified under oath that Epstein’s estate paid a settlement to one of the women who accused Donald Trump of raping her as a minor — after Epstein had died.
That would end any other president instantly.
But the press? Barely a whisper.

Sarah Kellen scheduled travel for Epstein’s accusers.
The FBI investigated her as a potential co-conspirator.
She was never charged. She married NASCAR driver Brian Vickers and now goes by Sarah Kensington.

Epstein’s will was signed 2 days before he died.
It placed $578 million in a trust based in the Virgin Islands.
The trustee: Darren Indyke, Epstein’s lawyer. He controls who gets paid.

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

AI

AI oversight is a must. In the absence of Federal regulation, we cannot allow Congress to strip states of their power to regulate this technology. Protecting local authority is the only way to manage the risks effectively.

“The ghost offices turn into closed offices, and it’s all by design.
The billionaires are hollowing out the Social Security Administration as an attack on our earned benefits.” – Alex Lawson, Executive Director, Social Security Works.
FYI, billionaires LOVE that Social Security’s “ghost offices” are technically still “open” but lack the staff to actually function.
Why?
Because it’s a part of their scheme to wreck Social Security so they can rob us of our earned benefits!
http://x.com/SSWorks/status/2054245669364220228

This is amazing – clown kevino leary is fear mongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him out!!

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink declares a pre-emptive war against American citizens who fight back against his precious AI data centers, warning that people could use inexpensive drones.
He admits that BlackRock will control nearly all of the AI data centers being built across the United States because the government cannot afford to fund them on its own.
“We have to relook at all forms of security.”
“Could it be domestic terrorism using a $3,000 drone?”
“Many more things will have to be underground.”

They’re building the surveillance state right in front of us and disguising it with buzz words like “security” and “AI” If your AI shit requires underground facilities, drone defenses, expanded security, and treating angry citizens like domestic terrorists, maybe pause for a sec and ask whether the public actually consented to this future YOU want.
But Noooo. The answer is always more control, never less greed, right?

American citizens aren’t ‘domestic terrorists’ for defending their communities, land, water, and sky high energy bills from BlackRock’s AI surveillance megafarms.
Larry Fink admits his firm will own nearly all these data centers because the government ‘can’t afford’ them, translation: elites and foreign money get to carpet America with power-guzzling server barns while families pay more for electricity and watch farmland disappear.
These aren’t just ‘compute’ centers. They’re the backbone of a technocratic control grid, massive energy hogs, water consumers, and surveillance infrastructure disguised as progress. Locals in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, and beyond are already fighting eminent domain abuse, noise pollution, and grid strain for good reason.
We don’t need more things buried underground or militarized security to protect BlackRock’s profits. We need leaders who put American citizens and sovereignty first, not hedge fund overlords turning our country into a data colony.
Push back peacefully, legally, and relentlessly. This is our land.”
This hits the core frustrations (corporate overreach, energy costs, land grabs, surveillance fears) while staying on the side of lawful resistance that matches the “US citizens against” vibe in the replies. It echoes the post’s tone

You really have to wonder what dimensions he’s peering into while tripping his balls off on ketamine.
https://x.com/YourAnonNews/status/2054974317360816148

EDUCATION

“The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy”

Dr. Dominic Ng: Writing forces your brain to coordinate memory, reasoning, and meaning-making simultaneously.
Every time you write, you rewire toward clearer thinking. Every time you let an LLM do it, you rewire toward consumption.

Researchers warn that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession — a slide predating the pandemic’s disruptions in schooling.

A new approach to cancer vaccination yields more powerful T cells
Using immune-remodeling mRNA molecules, researchers generated T cells that can slow tumor growth and, in some cases, eradicate tumors.

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AP – Trump flouts lower court rulings in unprecedented display of executive power.

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of “executive power. “ It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

An interesting tidbit of history is that many prominent leaders in the Confederacy, including Jefferson Davis, had dreams of a tropical empire that spanned the Gulf of America and extended down into South America. The Confederate government couldn’t get some of its own senior officials and richest planters to pay taxes. The notion that it was going to get its act together and conquer Meso America, Latin America, and part of South America is beyond fanciful to put it kindly.

PETE BUTTIGIEG: “What if we selected our President by letting the person who got the most votes take the office, instead of the Electoral College?”

The Supreme Court’s Death Blow Against Voting Rights Is the Culmination of Racist John Roberts’s 50-Year Crusade
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jon-roberts-callais-v-louisiana-supreme-court-voting-rights/

BREAKING: MAGA influencer Craig Long — “MAGA to the core,” 560K TikTok followers, photographed with Trump — was just arrested in a human trafficking sting. He’s married. He frequently posted videos praising the sheriff who just arrested him. Sheriff Judd’s response at the press conference: “Well, there you go. You got arrested in a human trafficking sting. Influence that for a while.” Never stop connecting the dots.
In a wild plot twist, MAGA was the deep state pedophile ring the whole time. Who would have thought that MAGA the cult of cucks that elected one of the most well known predators to lead them would be a breeding ground for child predators.

Who Killed Spirit Airlines?
One upside of the Spirit liquidation is you can see all the Wall Street guys and political hacks who lie for a living blaming this on Biden. A useful litmus test.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/who-killed-spirit-airlines

BITCOIN

ALBERTA CANADA JUST ANNOUNCED THEY BOUGHT $220,000,000 WORTH OF #BITCOIN EXPOSURE VIA $MSTR COUNTRIES ARE BUYING THE DIP.

BILLIONAIRE TIM DRAPER JUST SAID THE COMING HALVING WILL SEND #BITCOIN ABOVE $250,000
“SUPPLY GETS CUT”
“DEMAND GOES UP”
“PRICE GOES UP

FED CHAIR NOMINEE CONFIRMS US WILL NEVER ISSUED A CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY A MASSIVE WIN FOR #BITCOIN

AI

Scientists have discovered AI data centers are even worse for the environment than we thought. Big data centers create “heat islands” that raise local surface temperatures an average of 3.6°F, enough to potentially devastate local wildlife and water supply. New data centers are popping up across the country, driving up utility bills in at least 13 states. According to a new analysis, Americans who live near the centers are paying as much as 267% more a month for energy than five years ago.

AI vs. actual intelligence
– Babies draw conclusions without words.
– Animals reason without language.
– The text in the book didn’t solve the mystery – the author did, long before writing a single word. The book is just where the answer was stored.

“In summary, there is very little evidence for LLMs benefiting patients or doctors for health outcomes” – Dr. @EricTopol https://x.com/EricTopol
Read his full review here: The Paradox of Medical AI Implementation
From Missed Opportunities to Missing Evidence
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-medical-ai-implementation

AI ESSAY

Paul M. Roe @ZadienLabs

For someone to conflate predefined computational algorithm enabling chat bots to SIMULATE conversation with true mental cognition or even worse, consciousness; really shows the state of idiocy within our culture.

It highlights the lack of fundamental knowledge provided by Public Education, and further exemplifies the effects of “Social Media” and Echo Chambers.

Electro Mechanical Computation ≠ Conciousness

One works on pre-defined algorithms.

The other works in ways we have yet to completely determine.

Let’s examine what we know about the brain, what we know about computation, and compare the differences.

The differences are strikingly alarming and plainly obvious that processing 1’s and 0’s to render an output does not equate to anything remotely “living”.

We are conscious. We have organs. These organs work together.

Electro Chemical processes make consciousness. This is a far cry from processing with Electro Mechanical Computation.

Huge difference.

The world would do good to understand this.

Biologists and Physicists understand this.

Why doesn’t the average public?

Ohh. Because @elonmusk and @DarioAmodei have Money, Popularity, and agendas to push.

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BITCOIN 2017

An anonymous Bitcoin whale gave away $86 MILLION to charity in 2017 and disappeared
In December 2017 a user calling himself “Pine” posted on Reddit: “I have more money than I can ever spend” and pledged 5,057 BTC to charity
Over 5 months he sent $5M to GiveDirectly to fight poverty in Africa, $5M to fund MDMA-PTSD trials at MAPS, $5M to the Open Medicine Foundation, $1M to the Internet Archive, $1M to the EFF, $1M to charity water and 54 more charities on top.
He never doxxed himself and never claimed a tax deduction even though it would save him millions.
Those 5,057 BTC are worth $394 million today.

AI

BuBBliK @k1rallik
do you understand what just happened to mathematics..
A 23 year old with ZERO math degree opened ChatGPT on a Monday afternoon out of boredom.
80 minutes later – a 60-year-old unsolved problem was dead.
The problem? World’s top mathematicians had tried for decades. Failed..
The tool? A $20/month subscription..
The effort? One single prompt..
And here’s the wild part – the AI used a method everyone already knew existed. Nobody just thought to apply it HERE.
Terence Tao (literally the greatest living mathematician) called it “a meaningful contribution that goes well beyond solving this one problem”
We are not ready for what’s coming next..

TECH

TYPE ANYONE’S USERNAME INTO THIS FREE TOOL & IT WILL DO SOMETHING CRAZY!
It finds every account they have ever made across 3,000 websites. No login. No payment. No nothing.

It’s called Maigret.

You run one command → it checks 3,000+ sites and builds a full profile.

What it actually does:

↳ Finds accounts across social platforms, forums, and niche sites
↳ Pulls data directly from profile pages
↳ Discovers linked usernames and runs deeper searches
↳ Tracks patterns of username reuse across the web
↳ Works even on sites behind restrictions (Tor, I2P, etc.)

Setup is simple:

↳ Install with pip
↳ Run: maigret username
↳ Get results in minutes

Outputs are clean and usable:

↳ HTML and PDF reports
↳ CSV / JSON data
↳ Visual graphs of connections

Used for:

↳ OSINT research
↳ Cybersecurity work
↳ Background checks
↳ Digital footprint analysis

Reality check:

Most people reuse the same username everywhere.

This tool connects those dots fast.

Free. Open-source. No API keys.

Use it responsibly.

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Bitcoin is back above $78,000

THE UNITED STATES is still the world’s leading Bitcoin holder by government.
The U.S. holds 328,372 $BTC worth over $25.5 BILLION.

SAYLOR: “The ₿eat Goes On.” Saylor teases another BTC buy.

Bitcoin is about to close its 4th consecutive green weekly candle, up +5.64% this week alone to $78K.
This marks BTC’s longest weekly winning streak since May 2025, nearly a full year ago.
Bitcoin has now rallied +25% from its “Iran War” low of $62K.
The “Ceasefire Rally” has added roughly $15K in just 4 weeks.
From peak to trough, $BTC lost ~53% of its value in roughly 4 months.

Tom Lee in 2019 on Bitcoin:
“We think the best approach for most people is to put 1% maybe 2% into BTC.”
CNBC: “I still think that’s CRAZY.”
Morgan Stanley 2026: “We recommend 7% allocation into BTC.”

Strategy has more $BTC than Blackrock’s IBIT.

“BITCOIN IS FUEL FOR A POTENTIAL NEW INTERNET.”
Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder of Reddit, on why $BTC is the most important invention of the digital age.
“It gives us the opportunity to have a store of value that’s not backed by a country.”

History:
Analyst predicts Bitcoin will hit $500,000 and be the world’s reserve currency, at $100, 11 years ago “3,000 $BTC and you’re a billionaire.”

 

Willy Woo @willywoo Apr 24, 2026
Most Bitcoiners think BTC is a safe haven asset but the truth is nuanced.

It has the properties of a safe haven asset. In times of war you can take your seed phrase, cross borders and start afresh without losing your wealth.

It should be independent of the system and thrive if it collapses. These are the properties you’d expect of a safe haven.

BTC has the properties of a safe haven but to this day, in times of uncertainty and war it trades like a risk asset, very sensitive to uncertainty.

This is because the large capital pools don’t acknowledge BTC’s properties as it’s considered too new and untested. Hence it trades like the NASDAQ.

It’ll take another decade for it to gain market acceptance as a safe haven, maybe longer. When it does, it’ll give gold market cap a run for its money.

Capital flows into BTC just flipped positive, first time since January.

Liquidity is repairing… spot remains stable while derivatives after being destroyed 10 Oct is now making its second attempt at rebounding.

80k remains key test level.

 

“BTC uses too much energy.”

There’s only 3 ways to secure a monetary ledger.

– with atoms (gold)
– with energy (BTC)
– with social / political consensus (fiat)

Energy is the only path to unbreakable hard money. There’s no scarcity of atoms.

ESSAY Smart Money Crypto @Smart_Money
100 MILLION GONE. CEO FLEES TO ISRAEL.

Poland is stunned. A crypto exchange collapses, hundreds of millions of dollars vanish, thousands of families are left facing locked accounts. And the man who could have the answers is sitting in Tel Aviv. With a new passport.

Zondacrypto was one of Poland’s largest crypto exchanges. Thousands of ordinary Poles held #Bitcoin and altcoins there. Hard-earned money, in the hope of joining what was likely the biggest wealth-building trend of this generation. Then withdrawals were frozen. First partially. Then completely.

What followed was no explanation. It was a silence that grew more expensive with each passing day.

Founder Sylwester Suszek vanished. He’s said to have taken the critical private keys with him. CEO Przemysław Kral now speaks of a “bank run” plus technical issues, triggered by the missing founder. No theft, he says. The Bitcoin still exists. You just can’t get to it.

The evidence tells a different story. Reserves have plummeted. Suspicious transactions are on the table. Polish prosecutors are investigating for fraud, embezzlement, and possible theft. So far, confirmed losses stand at 350 million zloty, around 100 million US dollars. In total, about 4,500 BTC are affected. At $BTC around $77,000, that’s nearly 350 million dollars in market value. The Polish authorities confirm a third of that. The rest hangs in the air, without an address, without an answer.

While Polish families fight for their savings, Kral has emigrated to Israel. He recently obtained citizenship there. That makes him practically no longer extraditable. Reports speak of a comfortable life beyond the reach of Polish authorities.

And that’s the point that won’t let me go. It’s not the first scandal of this kind to end this way.

Poland knows this story already. Amber Gold, 2009 to 2012. A Ponzi scheme in golden wrapping. 18,000 Poles lost around 850 million zloty. Homes, life savings, livelihoods. The main culprits ended up in prison, but the structural gaps that made it all possible remained wide open.

The pattern fits beyond Poland’s borders, too. In Ukraine, investigations are currently underway against Timur Mindich, a former close confidant of Zelenskyy. The charge: a 100-million-dollar corruption network around the nuclear giant Energoatom. Before his arrest, he fled to Israel. The trial is proceeding in absentia.

In Poland, the Tusk government is currently trying to frame the Zondacrypto affair politically through donation flows and lobby connections. Roman Giertych, a politician with a quirky past, plays a central role in that. It changes nothing for the victims. They’re waiting for something that rarely arrives in this setup: accountability.

The honest lesson is harsh, but it stands. If you park Bitcoin on an exchange, in the end you own a database row with a number on it. Self-custody is cumbersome, labor-intensive, and off-putting for many newcomers. At the same time, it’s the only protection that holds up in exactly this scenario.
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