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No Justice No Peace
When Corrupt Politicians Start Going To Jail, Then We Can Start Trusting The Government Again.

Troops from Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, and Finland have arrived in Greenland to boost security.

⊕ THUGGY RETHUGLICANS

• Reagan took the deficit from $70 Billion to $175 Billion
• Bush41 took it to $300 Billion
• Clinton got it to ZERO
• Bush43 took it from $0 to $1.2 trillion
• Obama halved it to $600 Billion
• Trump’s got it back to $3.3 Trillion
TRUTH: Republicans destroy the economy.

Hitler’s Brownshirts is ICE
NO MATTER WHAT YOU CALL THEM
KKK / BROWN SHIRTS / ICE

Ernst Röhm, leader of Hitler’s Brownshirts, showed how to build an authoritarian paramilitary: recruit men selected for their propensity for violence and absolute loyalty to a leader, then grant them legal immunity, a free hand to terrorize opponents, and pay far better than they could earn elsewhere.
This formula helped propel the Nazis to power. This is ICE.

@SenSanders
Because of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” the annual ICE budget — at $28 billion — is now larger than the annual budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons COMBINED.
No. The American people do not want Trump’s domestic army.

Top Trump Administration staffers worry that, if blue states and cities pass laws to unmask ICE agents and force them to wear visible identification, half the agents will quit and the other half will be revealed as convicted sex offenders.

Impeachment articles filed against Sec. Noem
https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/impeachment-articles-filed-against-sec-noem/

Bank records allegedly show Sen. Lindsey Graham laundering significant Ukraine war funds via Latvia into his accounts, per ex-CIA officer Larry Johnson. DOJ investigating

F%cking Twitter and Elon Musk — “Free Speech Absolutist”, MY ASS, ELMO.
Twitter/X is changing its Terms of Service tonight at midnight. If you engage on the platform after that time, you will have affirmatively opted into the new ToS, which gives Elon Musk a significant amount of power to sue you in his chosen courtroom.
As a result, Media Matters who has been fighting this in Court for two years already will be leaving the platform effective immediately.

Elon Musk’s grandfather was the Canadian head of Technocracy, Inc. and was arrested for being pro-Hitler in 1940.

⊕ Media Matters Says It’s Ending Its Presence on X

The liberal watchdog says changes to the terms of service make it impossible for them to keep posting on the platform.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/media-matters-says-its-ending-its-presence-on-x-twitter

This is a summary of what it was really about:
Grok “@grok –
Yes, based on analysis of X’s updated Termsof Service effective Jan 15, 2026, the claims are largely accurate:
– Al training: Users grant royalty-free license for content (incl. prompts/outputs) to train Al, no opt-out or compensation.
– License: Perpetual, worldwide, for any pourpose.
– Jurisdiction: Tarrant County, TX; class action waiver.
– Termination: Possible for any/no reason.
– Damages: $15k per 1M posts/24hrs for scraping.
– Disclosure: Reserved rights if believed necessary-
– Anti-jailbreak: Prohibited, incl. prompt engineering.
– Limitations: 1yr federal, 2yr state claims.
– Liability: Capped at $100.
Check official terms for full details.

Mission Accomplished.
2023: “Four very powerful billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—are creating a world where ‘nothing is true and all is spectacle.’”

@AlterNet
AlterNet is a progressive news magazine and online community.
AlterNet.org
MAGA Wall Street execs fuming about Trump ‘screwing things up’
https://www.alternet.org/maga-wall-street-trump/

Prof. Elke Schwarz @ElkeSchwarz Feb 2, 2025
Last year, Peter Thiel hosted Hereticon a ball for the usual tech-elites & acolytes. Reportedly, there were little busts of Elon all over. The ball was promoted with the line: “maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you aren’t trying hard enough”
Conjuring the End: Techno-eschatology and the Power of Prophecy
https://opiniojuris.org/2025/01/30/conjuring-the-end-techno-eschatology-and-the-power-of-prophecy/

Supreme Court will hear appeal by maker of popular Roundup weedkiller to block thousands of lawsuits.

“Trump is putting…America’s money in Qatar, where courts can’t touch it. Kind of like a drug dealer stashing his funds in the Caymans.” – JVL
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-trump-turned-a-foreign-country-into-piggybank-venezuela-qatar-rubio-cuba

TETHER

THE YIELD APARTHEID: THE $3.7 TRILLION MECHANISM WALL STREET HASN’T PRICED BITCOIN
US Congress just legalized the largest wealth transfer in financial history.
Nobody noticed.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/184625687
Section 11 of the GENIUS Act prohibits stablecoins from paying yield to holders.
Tether holds $135 billion in Treasuries earning 4.5%.
That’s $6 billion annually.
Passed to you: $0.
Tether keeps everything.
Legally mandated.
By Congress.
It gets worse.
January 1, 2026: China activated interest-bearing digital yuan.
American digital dollar: 0% yield (banned) Chinese digital yuan: 0.35% yield (enabled)
For every merchant in Brazil, Nigeria, Indonesia choosing settlement rails:
America charges you to hold dollars. China pays you to hold yuan.
This is what “dollar dominance” looks like now.
The smart money already sees it.
BlackRock’s BUIDL: $2.8 billion AUM, pays 4.9% Franklin’s BENJI: $849 million AUM, pays 4.9%
Same Treasury backing. Different legal wrapper. Full yield to holders.
Institutional capital is migrating from zero-yield stablecoins to yield-bearing tokenized Treasuries.
The GENIUS Act accidentally created the product that kills its own creation.
BIS Working Paper 1270 quantified the asymmetry:
$3.5B inflow: yields drop 2.5 bps $3.5B outflow: yields spike 8 bps
Ratio is 1:3.
Stablecoin issuers have no Fed backstop. No discount window. No lender of last resort.
One confidence crisis forces a $135 billion Treasury fire sale with no rescue mechanism.
Congress built a bomb and called it regulation.
The GENIUS Act didn’t secure dollar hegemony.
It created two financial universes:
One extracts yield from holders. One distributes yield to holders.
America chose extraction. China chose distribution.
Bookmark this.

BILLIONAIRE JON YARBROUGH JUST REVEALED HE OWNS $32,400,000 WORTH OF #BITCOIN
WORLDS RICHEST PEOPLE BUYING BTC. BUCKLE UP

COINBASE

COINBASE CEO JUST SAID LIVE ON FOX THAT BIG BANKS ARE TRYING TO UNDERMINE THE PRESIDENT’S CRYPTO AGENDA
THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL #BITCOIN
GENIUS and CLARITY need to provide PARITY between banks and crypto financial operators.
TRUMP: I will ensure the future of Bitcoin and crypto is made in the USA
“I will keep Elizabeth Warren and her goons away from your bitcoin”

Bryan summarized in 3 easy to understand point:
“We’re (crypto) not engaged in fractional reserve lending.
That’s an important point, by the way, because the bank license, what that really allows you to do is fractional reserve.
The banks don’t have all of your money there.
That’s why there’s so much oversight.
And you can have these runs on the bank.”
“Stable coins have 100% reserve. it’s actually a safer place to store your money”
“crypto companies should be allowed to compete and offer loans just just like banks.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says banks are ‘trying to undermine President Trump’s crypto agenda’
About the GENIUS Act passed into law which actually did enable, stablecoin rewards to happen. You know, the banks had their own concerns and we reached a good outcome in the GENIUS Act. And now the banks really are coming and trying to undermine the president’s crypto agenda. I mean, these are the same banks that de-banked his, him and his family, right?
And they want to come in and say that Americans should not be able to actually earn more money on their money. They’re trying to protect their own profit margins, taking money out of the, you know, pockets of hardworking average Americans and putting it into the coffers of these big banks that are hitting record profits.
And so our view is that there should be a level playing field where banks and crypto companies can lean into stablecoin legislation as an opportunity, and that includes paying rewards to Americans so they can earn more.

–COINBASE CEO BRIAN ARMSTRONG JUST SAID ON CNBC THAT BIG BANKS ARE HINDERING CRYPTO MARKET STRUCTURE BILL
IN SIMPLE TERMS: BANKS DON’T WANT REAL COMPETITION
DEFI, STABLECOINS, AND TOKENIZED ASSETS THREATEN THEIR BUSINESS MODEL
SO THEY PUSHED FOR A BILL THAT PROTECTS THEM AND RESTRICTS DIGITAL INNOVATION
THIS IS CRAZY!

Banks are fighting back because they feel the pressure from the crypto sector. When the national average US savings account APY is 0.39% to 0.42% and stablecoins offer upwards of 4%+ you can see the glaring reason why banks are shaken up.
Brian made his point clear that congress shouldn’t cater to the incumbent bankers and let them guide the rules to clear out competition. We need to set clear rules and allow competition to thrive between banks and crypto players. We need free markets where consumers are in the driver seat, not banks.

BlackRock’s chief investment strategist tells @philrosenn that the company views Bitcoin as a hedge against geopolitical risk.

West Virginia Introduces Bitcoin & Gold Treasury Bill
West Virginia lawmakers have introduced Senate Bill 143, the Inflation Protection Act of 2026, which would allow the state Treasury to allocate a portion of state funds to Bitcoin and gold as an inflation hedge.
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