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BITCOIN

Do you own 0.1 #Bitcoin yet? c’mon let’s go!
THERE ARE 1000s of VIDEOS TO WATCH JUST GET STARTED.

1) Reacting to Bitcoin breaking $100 in 2013
2) How to buy bitcoin from an ATM
3) How to use Blue Wallet for Bitcoin and Lightning Network Transactions
4) Why You Need Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet
5) Can You Actually Buy Anything With Bitcoin?
6) P2P BITCOIN TRADING platform Non-custodial Bitcoin trading solution, we don’t hold your funds.
7) Why-Every-Fixed-Income-Investor-Needs-To-Consider-Bitcoin-As-Portfolio-Insurance.pdf
8) Bitcoin Rent: Top 5 Cities Embracing Crypto for Housing Payments

Oh The Irony

Michigan Retirement System has nearly tripled its stake in the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) during Q2 2025, increasing from about 110,000 to 300,000 shares. Retirees will have indirect exposure to Bitcoin through their pension fund.

The $9T US retirement market can  invest in crypto. This is a MASSIVE new source of demand being unlocked, just a 5% $BTC allocation would mean $450B of inflows. For reference, $BTC ETFs have seen cumulative net inflows of $53.86B so far.

WHY ELECTRIC CARS ARE SO MUCH BETTER
https://www.tiktok.com/@thefinanceinfo/video/7532506945819823382

BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website.
Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with: – Writ of Habeas Corpus – Congresses ability to control tariffs.

Democrats leaving Texas to protect their district.
Republicans leaving D.C. to protect the Epstein Files.

Jeffrey Epstein signed his sweetheart non-prosecution deal with U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, requiring him to register as a sex offender on 9/24/07. Mar-a-Lago’s registry listed Epstein’s membership as “Account closed 10/07” as per the authors of the Grifter’s Club.
Jeffrey Epstein still had exclusive membership at the Mar-a-Lago club while out on bail until October of 2007, but despite that, Epstein publicly laughed it off and claimed to have been invited there.
Trump says he “kicked Epstein out” over Virginia Giuffre — but Epstein was still a Mar-a-Lago member while out on bail. He laughed off the ban. This isn’t denial. It’s a cover-up. And she was 17.

Trump is not Only a pedo, he’s a trafficker
IF YOUR PRESIDENCY CAN BE DESTROYED BY RELEASING THE
EPSTEIN FILES, IT DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED BY RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Previously unseen photos revealed a network of cameras in Epstein’s seven-story New York mansion, raising new questions about who may have been caught on tape.
The images taken inside his Manhattan home showed video cameras on the third floor in Epstein’s suite, which included his bedroom, bathrooms and the massage room where Epstein was accused of having teenage girls give him massages while he was naked. There was at least one camera mounted in a corner above his bed, according to the bphotos. A second camera could be seen in the room next door. There were no cameras visible in the photos of the massage room. Photos of Trump’s former senior adviser and conservative podcaster Steve Bannon, including a mirror selfie of him by Epstein, were kept in at least two rooms of the townhouse. There were also framed pictures of Epstein with former President Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Pope John Paul II, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk.
The #TrumpEpsteinCoverup is not working and not going away. there is just too much evidence that Trump and Epstein were in cahoots.

“An evil man will burn his own Nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” —Sun Tzu

Marsha Blackburn @VoteMarsha vs. Hegseth?
It’s official! I’m running for Governor to ensure Tennessee is America’s conservative leader for this generation and the next.
I would be honored to have your support. #TNGov

Hegseth Leak Reveals Secret Plan for Years of Troops on U.S. Streets

Hegseth’s Headlong Pursuit of Academic Mediocrity His military-education reforms seem designed to ensure fighting men can’t think and thinking men can’t fight.

JOBS VS. AI

AI hallucinates, lies, schemes, can’t be trusted, wastes your time, gives advice, and can’t code correctly cause it decides on its own to do wild wrong things that breaks the code. You have to spend all the time checking the code for all the mistakes it’s making. LLM suck.

Just when your boss

1) doesn’t know how to use AI
2) thinks AI will be better at your job than you are
3) workers are let go but still have to pay off their student loan for that college degree they didn’t get to use
4) needs to send out the resume that only AI reads

vs. “AI is coming for your job. It’s already replacing writers, coders, artists, and even doctors. As it gets smarter and cheaper, no industry is safe. If your work involves repetition or patterns, AI could do it faster—and better

Alert: Vocational Training gives the poor and middle class job security!

Academy at Penn student from Furness High, said he was surprised to be chosen for the program.
A new Penn program is spending $8M to help underserved Philly kids. Here’s how its first summer is going.
Academy at Penn, currently serving 50 students from School of the Future and Furness High, includes a summer session and school-year programs.
Is this really a game changer? really?

A vocational school (alternatively known as a trade school, or technical school), is a type of educational institution, which, depending on the country, may refer to either secondary or post-secondary education[1] designed to provide vocational education or technical skills required to complete the tasks of a particular and specific job. In the case of secondary education, these schools differ from academic high schools which usually prepare students who aim to pursue tertiary education, rather than enter directly into the workforce. With regard to post-secondary education, vocational schools are traditionally distinguished from four-year colleges by their focus on job-specific training to students who are typically bound for one of the skilled trades, rather than providing academic training for students pursuing careers in a professional discipline.

@teneikaask_you If you live in the DMV – this program is back! Its a free tech training program that prepares you with the skills to pass CompTIA and AWS certifications. You’ll also receive a voucher to take the exam for free, and a full resume revam and mock interview!
TechMAP Certification Prep Program Application (Fall 2025)
Montgomery College is proud to announce the Technology Metro Area Pathways (TechMAP) grant program. Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, TechMAP aims to support current and aspiring IT professionals in the DMV-area to obtain industry-recognized certifications and high-quality employment, particularly in the field of IT.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must reside in the DC, Maryland, or Virginia (DMV) area.

Herbert J. Hoelter Vocational Training Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The majority of homeless men in Philadelphia are veterans, that is unacceptable. Do you know a veteran looking for FREE vocational training? Email me Se***********@*****et.org

NCIA’s Herbert J. Hoelter
Vocational Training Center 801 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19122
There is NO COST to participate if you are eligible for food stamps!
HVAC NCIA’s Herbert J. Hoelter Vocational Training Center (VTC) provides 15 weeks of vocational training for
veterans, returning citizens, and those 18 years or older on food stamps. Students receive industry recognized certifications in the vocation of their choice. VTC alumni have built careers in automotive, transportation, construction, culinary and HVAC.
• 15 weeks of vocational training
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In addition to vocational training, the VTC provides wrap-around support services as needed including help with transportation and housing. The vocational training program includes financial literacy, digital literacy and workforce development including resume writing and interview preparation, plus up to 12 months of post-training support. The VTC has strong employment partners and maintains a 75% employment rate for those who successfully complete the program.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, VIC programs currently include a mix of small-group, hands-on training (following state guidelines and safety recommendations), and virtual training with online simulators.
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Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump
Wagner Middle School in Philly is bringing real-world learning to life with Saturday morning classes focused on hands-on skills. From fixing things to building futures — this is what education should look like. Relevant, empowering, and rooted in reality. We love to see it!

My junior high in the 60s only had shop for the boys and Home Economics for the girls, who learned to sew /operate a sewing machine, cut patters, make aprons, learn to cook food and how to present it, all taught by a older unmarried women.
The  boys took shop class. In the 70s that all changed, these classes went coed which had a  huge effect on turning some girls into a diy power tool wielding woman!!

Apple to announce $100B further commitment for U.S. manufacturing.

After 147 failed ChatGPT prompts, I had a breakdown and accidentally discovered something

Teens going to AI Chatbots, but is it healthy?
“Discussing profit motives, personal security risks and social or emotional risks doesn’t guarantee that a teenager won’t go online and get an #AI girlfriend; but it will at least plant the seeds of a healthy doubt”

How to get rid of AI Bytespider, Amazonbot, ClaudeBot, and GPTBot crawlers, scraper Bots from your site.
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
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ARTS

Why this is so funny ? cause it’s telling the truth!! The Truth is Hilarious!!!

To Begin:
“Alexander Hamilton” and “My Shot.” Everyone wore a costume for the occasion and used classic childhood instruments like a triangle and a kazoo.

thx to Amy for Revenge of Sesame Street & public TV-supercallafragilisticextraalladocious

The President of the United States is publicly arguing with,… a cartoon. ‘South Park’ hurls DHS’s own post back in its face as feud with Trump escalates

ANOTHER EXAMPLE HOW MUSIC IS DANGEROUS
Treasury Department @USTreasury
Today, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned three high-ranking members of the Mexico-based terrorist organization Cartel del Noreste (CDN), along with narco-rapper El Makabelico.
The narco-rapper’s concerts and events are used to launder money on behalf of CDN, and 50% of his royalties from streaming platforms go directly to the group.

HEALTH

Researchers can forecast what this will mean for health care.
As a direct result of losing coverage: 2.5 million people will no longer have a personal doctor. 1.6 million pts will take on medical debt. The lack of care will cause nearly 22,000 deaths annually.

U.S. FDA Human Foods Program @FDAfood
Today, @US_FDA is proposing to extend the compliance date for the Food Traceability Rule by 30 months, to allow additional time, across all regulated industry sectors, to fully implement the rule’s requirements. https://fda.gov/food/hfp-constituent-updates/fda-proposes-extend-compliance-date-food-traceability-rule-and-issues-new-faqs-and-other-resources

Brain Dead Kennedy
“Genes don’t cause epidemics. They may provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin — and we know what it is. It’s sugar and ultra-processed foods.”
@SecKennedy
MAHA is winning.
Steak ‘n Shake © @SteaknShake • 7/16/25
Starting August 1, Steak n Shake will offer Coca-Cola with real cane sugar in glass bottles.
America deserves the best!

Nothing screams “die peasants die” louder than cancelling $500 million in vaccine research and development. This also means stunting future mRNA vaccines for cancer prevention and other diseases—never forget that. THEY REALLY DON’T CARE ABOUT HUMAN LIFE.
“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted. BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu.”
WHO ARE THESE SO CALLED EXPERTS!
WHAT “SCIENCE” DID THEY REVIEW?
THEY DON’T SAY!!!

The Trump administration is literally trying to make American sicker, dumber and poorer. Vaccines have saved MILLIONS of lives. This is just sinister at every level.

@RETTIWTGMM
My Fellow Americans … Can we get ANY MORE STUPID than what @RobertKennedyJr is doing as @SecKennedy over @HHSGov
RFK has brought back #Measles #Polio & desperately wants to welcome ANOTHER #Pandemic by eviscerating #VaccineDevelopment
When kids ☠️ DIE, Thank @GOP & OLDdon.

From 2017 to 2022, a total of 400,181 Uber trips resulted in reports of sexual assault and sexual misconduct in the US, court records show.
The company had only disclosed 12,522 accounts of serious sexual assaults for that same time period.
NYT paywall https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html

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ECP NetHappenings U.S. Virgin Islands saves the US Mainland from Trump

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GOLF

Fitting. Golf originated when Scots’ shepherds killing time hit petrified sheep turds with wooden sticks into rabbit holes. Honest.
The one and only thing Trump cares about is golf. All protests should be focused on gold courses. Scottish pranksters are targeting Trump’s Aberdeen golf course with some, uh, creative acts of defiance! Reports of intruders “decorating” the greens have led to increased security. I can’t help but chuckle.

 

POLITICS

The richest country in the world is now
asking its citizens for donations on to help pay off its debt.
Or billionaires could just pay taxes like everybody else.

Canada and Mexico are launching the $120B
Northern Corridor, a new trade route created
to bypass U.S. tariffs and customs. It will reduce
reliance on the U.S. and avoid Trump-era tariffs,
it’s set to boost their economies.

Paul Manafort: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
George Papadopolous: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
Mike Flynn: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
Roger Stone: Pardoned for lying to protect Trump.
Next up, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Sandi Bachom @sandibachom
I was in court when one of Epstein’s victims
described how Ghislaine Maxwell trained her
and groomed her. She was a virgin and Epstein raped
her on the floor, and she looked up and saw all the
photographs of the famous people, and Ghislaine
said she had to tell Epstein how fantastic he was after he raped her

Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who
wants bibles in the classroom and Christianity
taught to kids, just got caught watching adult content.
On his work computer.
During a Board of Education meeting.
Read that again.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walters-tv-displayed-nude-women

In 2002, at an Edge Foundation “Billionaires’ Dinner”
event in Monterey, CA, Jeffrey Epstein brought
Sarah Kellen and Cindy Lopez on his plane
to the event. Here they are with John Brockman.

It’s a great thing that regular TV is on the decline.
They preach merit too. The loudest preachers of
merit are nepo babies like these two and Musk.
Bitching about DEI while acting oblivious about bs like this.
@karlbode.com
To be clear Larry Ellison, a billionaire Trump
donor who believed the 2020 election was stolen
from Trump, used his own money to buy CBS
and install his son as the boss.
They’ll then convert CBS into another right wing
propaganda mill like Fox News.
It’s not really subtle!
Larry Ellison Invests $6 Billion in Son David’s
Paramount Takeover
The family office is funding the majority of the
$8 billion merger with Skydance as RedBird Capital Partn…
July 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM

Melanie D’Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie
Trump can’t legally deploy the military on US soil.
His budget bill gives $30B to ICE to hire 10,000
more masked, armed agents to be deployed in our communities.
He’s building a domestic military accountable only to him.
This isn’t about immigration.
It’s authoritarianism.

GOOD TROUBLE

If you haven’t yet seen the New Episode of South Park
Yes, ‘South Park’ Went There — And It’s Glorious
In a moment when Hollywood and the media are gripped by fear, Trey Parker and Matt Stone stepped to the mic and dropped a balls-out critique of President Trump and Paramount
Amazingly Aired Uncensored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6khV7jD9xU

Donald Trump is DONE. Stick a fork in him.

Rep. Ro Khanna has FORMALLY
contacted Epstein’s Lawyers to obtain the
birthday book after learning it’s in their
hands – and not the DOJ’s.
“This is an extraordinary step toward justice…
and if needed, we can subpoena it.”
Things just got real for Trump.  @RoKhanna is doing
what justice demands, going straight to Epstein’s
lawyers to get the birthday book. No more stalling.
No more sealed secrets.
The truth is knocking, and it’s not asking twice.

ARE YOU AWARE:
While the DOJ — at Trump’s bidding —
hides the Epstein files, little if any attention is
being paid to this: The U.S. Virgin Islands, acting
independently from U.S. law enforcement, exposed
Epstein’s international sex trafficking empire —
and won a record $105M+ civil settlement
in 2022 from his estate.

U.S. Virgin Islands saves the US Mainland
from Trump Their AG called it:
“An expansive criminal enterprise…
where dozens of young women and children
were trafficked, raped, sexually assaulted, and held captive.”
They named it the “Epstein Enterprise”.
They froze accounts, forced the sale of Epstein’s
private islands, and clawed back over $80M
in fraudulent tax credits.
This case got next to zero headlines.

Why?
▶️ It didn’t come from the FBI.
▶️ It didn’t come from U.S. DOJ.
▶️ It came from a Black woman AG in a U.S. territory who did what the U.S. DOJ wouldn’t do: expose the elite cover-up.

So we ask:
Where are the Virgin Islands Epstein files?
The documents. The photos. The logs.
We know they exist.
We demand their release.
Follow this link 12/1/02 to the official
announcement of the
U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice
https://usvidoj.com/u-s-virgin-islands-attorney-general-settles-sex-trafficking-case-against-estate-of-jeffrey-epstein-and-co-defendants-for-over-105-million/

THESE U.S.V.I. PEOPLE ARE SO STRONG AND RESILIENT!!
1990 Festival, U.S. Virgin Islands, Celebrations, Environment
In the Heart of the Storm: The Resilience of Culture

How many of those 4725 wire transfers
were made between Trump and Epstein?
Over 1 BILLION dollars And what were they for?

The Supreme Court just let the Trump
admin remove 3 members of the Consumer
Product Safety Commission without cause,
overruling a federal judge who reinstated them.
This continues a pattern of Trump removing independent officials
with no accountability.

Ralph Nader@RalphNader
Here’s a calculation for you.
Take all of DOGE’s cuts, the close downs of agencies,
the firing of hundreds of thousands of federal workers,
the breaking of all kinds of contracts with business
contractors including small businesses, the depletion
of the social safety net. Add it all up and it doesn’t
amount in terms of dollars to the three major
additions that Tyrant Trump has added:
-$150 billion more to the bloated military budget.
-Another $45 billion for building corporate
concentration camps for migrants who have not been
convicted of anything.
-And another $44 billion to build the wall
between Mexico and the United States.
Those totals are far greater than the cruel
and vicious so-called savings at the expense of the lives
and livelihoods of American families. -R

FOLKLORE

Professor Gregory Hansen
Here are some articles that include lots of photos.
https://arkreview.org/

“Envisioning a Storyworld at the Crowley’s
Ride Raceway.”
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 55.3 (2024): 186-205.

“Delta Sources and Resources:
Delta Gateway Museum.”
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 53.3 (2022): 227-9.

“KASU FM 91.9’s ‘Bluegrass Monday’: Performing
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Fostering Historic
Preservation in Arkansas, USA.” In Sustaining Support
for Intangible Cultural Heritage, edited by Shihan de
Silva Jayasuriya, Mariana Pinto Leitão Pereira and
Gregory Hansen.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022, 96-113.

“The Lepanto Terrapin Derby: A Photo Essay in the Time of a Pandemic.” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 52.1 (2021): 36-52.

BITCOIN

Bitcoin just proved it can absorb a $9 BILLION
sell order in 36 hours with minimal market disruption.
Huge green light for large fund managers and sovereigns
who can be assured of moving their money in/out w relative ease.
Incredibly bullish liquidity test.

American HODL says the coming Bitcoin treasury bubble
could rival the dot-com era—$11T of capital chasing BTC,
with true mania not hitting until 2026+. That’s when
Bitcoin could theoretically run towards a $1M
blow-off top. Is he on to something?

ECP NetHappenings Saylor Academy Free Education For All

Supreme Court allows Trump to lay off nearly
1,400 Education Department employees

@grok said
Comparing debt-based fiat and Bitcoin:

Fiat: Relies on perpetual debt expansion to pay
prior obligations, eroding value via inflation
(e.g., USD lost 99% since 1971). Ponzi-like as new
money funds old without real backing,
risking collapse sans growth.

Bitcoin: Decentralized, fixed 21M supply, no central promises. Value from scarcity/market demand, not new entrants paying old.

Fiat more Ponzi-like (70% probability) due to debt
pyramid; Bitcoin low (10%) as asset, not scheme.
GROK AI SAYS THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS CORRUPT
BECAUSE IT “CREATES MONEY FROM THIN AIR.”
ITS ONE WORD SOLUTION: #BITCOIN

Mark Moss @1MarkMoss Jul 25
The “Holy Grail” Bitcoin indicator is the PI Cycle Top Indicator.
It has perfectly nailed Bitcoin cycle tops in 2013, 2017,
and 2021, but… what it’s calling next is hard to believe.
While everyone is expecting BTC to peak in Q4 2025,
the PI Cycle Top is calling for a peak in Q1 2027, with the
bitcoin price being $395,000
Will the Pi Cycle top continue to be accurate, or is it broken?
Only time will tell.

What Is the Dolphin Card?
The #DolphinCard has a 1% fee but you maintain full privacy & sovereignty.
Other cards might pay you 4% to use them, but you have to give up all your info, let them track your spending habits, and sell your data.
*They can de-platform you anytime too. I know which one I prefer.

HEADLINES

@BladeoftheS
The USA is the only country on the planet that
employs more people in Health Insurance than
it employs as Doctors and Nurses.
Most of your money is spent BLOCKING your own treatment.

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21 children, some birthed by surrogate mothers,
found in connection with L.A.-area home
A local hospital notified police of an infant
who was taken to its care with head injuries.
Police said they are investigating whether the
children found at the home in the San Gabriel Valley
east of Los Angeles were part of a surrogacy scam.
The home’s residents — Silvia Zhang, 38,
and Guojun Xuan, 65 — were released from custody,
pending further investigation, authorities said.
It is not clear how many children at the
home were born to surrogate mothers

Meta shareholders vs Mark Zuckerberg in $8 billion lawsuit

The Patterns of Elites Who Conceal
Their Assets Offshore | Dartmouth

Minnesota Supreme Court Rules on
Unicorn Riot DAPL Subpoena

Ex-NYPD commissioner sues NYC mayor,
alleging he ran police department as a ‘criminal enterprise’

7 Concerning Levels Of Acoustic Spying Techniques
Take my hand while I gradually show you how to
spy in ways that will make KGB agents look like noobs.

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Honoring the fallen means more than remembrance—it means defending the freedom they died for.

On this Memorial Day, let’s remember all the legislation passed by Democrats to help veterans.
GI Bill ’44: Education/housing
Medicare ’65: Vet healthcare
Vet Health ’83: Agent Orange care
Vet Health ’92: VA access
Post-9/11 GI Bill ’08: Tuition aid
Camp Lejeune ’12: Toxic exposure
VA Choice ’14: Private care
VA MISSION ’18: Caregiver aid
PACT Act ’22: Toxin care

From Liz Cheney/Adam Kinzinger:
To those of you who don’t know what’s buried in the bill just passed by the GOP Congress.
Prepare yourself:
• He can delay or cancel elections!
• He can ignore SCOTUS rulings for a year or more.
• He can fire government workers for political disloyalty.
• Judges can’t enforce orders.
• Protests can be tracked and criminalized.
• Your VPN? Tracked.
• Your vote? Suppressed.
. Your speech? Flagged.
This bill doesn’t break the law. It rewrites it.
If this bill passes, Donald will be a dictator and democracy is gone.

Offices at the Capitol are closed, but their inboxes aren’t. Tell Senators right now, no cuts to health care or food assistance–period.

Why isn’t more of the media covering how incoherent and weird Trump’s speeches are?
Because Republicans OWN every major news outlet in the country.
They used their trillions in tax breaks to buy the newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, and yes, social media platform.

Trump keeps saying his tax bill won’t cut Medicaid. Surprise! His “AI and crypto czar” says it will! By a mere $880 billion.

Texas will require public school classrooms to display Ten Commandments under bill nearing passage.

Going to Mars is a waste of time and money.

“F**k You”: Entire Trump Team Hated Elon Musk, Damning Report Reveals
Elon Musk has left the White House an utter failure.

Surveillance Self-Defense
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How to: Get to Know iPhone Privacy and Security Settings

Trump is going to open “Trump University” again to challenge Harvard!
Trump got into Wharton as a transfer student, but—according to his sister!—only after paying someone to take the SAT for him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-secret-recordings-sat-penn/2020/08/27/ea7a6640-e892-11ea-a414-8422fa3e4116_story.html

The former head of the U.S. Copyright Office has filed suit against the Trump administration, arguing her abrupt ouster from the position violated the Constitution’s separation of powers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/22/copyright-office-challenges-trump-administration-00367020

Holy shit. Trump lied to cadets at West Point saying he had to leave abruptly and couldn’t shake their hands because he had to deal with China and Russia. The motherfucker went golfing.

DOGE Staffer Fired the Lawyers Trying to Help Him Avoid Corruption
Lawyers warned one of Elon Musk’s DOGE cronies that his investments were a conflict of interest. He fired them.
https://newrepublic.com/post/194966/elon-musk-doge-staffer-stocks-cfpb-fired

If Senate Bill 3 becomes law, Texas’ $8 billion hemp industry and its estimated 50,000 jobs would be dissolved in September, when the THC ban would take effect.

The more people who are denied care and left to die, the more profitable it is for health insurance companies.
Your reminder that for-profit healthcare isn’t healthcare.
It’s an exploitation of sick people and transfer of wealth from the working class to the mega-rich.
BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered

Now Germany, England, and France all have travel warnings for visiting America. Let that sink in.

#Bitcoin was 40 years of work, before the white paper was released.

Bitcoin made another weekly record close at $109,004.

#Bitcoin parents are raising #Bitcoin kids, who’ll raise #Bitcoin kids of their own. Bitcoin is generational now. The next wave is being raised with it. It’s already won.

A $426.9B institutional wave is heading toward Bitcoin.
Bitwise’s latest research maps how sovereigns, corporations, and wealth platforms could acquire over 4.2M Bitcoin by 2026.

JUST IN: JAPANESE PUBLIC COMPANY REMIXPOINT TO BUY 200 MORE #BITCOIN FOR ¥1 BILLION
THEY ARE RACING TO 1,000 BTC.

FLORIDA JUST BECAME THE FIRST STATE TO PROPOSE A LAW TO ELIMINATE STATE CAPITAL GAINS TAX ON #BITCOIN
https://southfloridareporter.com/florida-proposes-law-to-eliminate-capital-gains-tax-on-bitcoin/

If you want to understand where Bitcoin is going in the next decade, just look at Gold prices in the 1970s.
Almost the exact same setup. We started at $35 an ounce and ended at $615. This is the pattern when people want “out” of the financial system, And @saylor buys another $427M Bitcoin. Price is irrelevant. Buy more orange coin.

@saylor
Strategy has acquired 4,020 BTC for ~$427.1 million at ~$106,237 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 16.8% YTD 2025. As of 5/25/2025, we hodl 580,250 $BTC acquired for ~$40.61 billion at ~$69,979 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRK $STRF

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BREAKING MY BRAIN:
HOW DID WE GET HERE?

WHERE DID THE SERIOUS ADULTS GO?

Serious people in the 50’s and 60’s expanded our collective consciousness and felt it was their duty help make things more fair for people, animals and the planet. Nothing  wrong with making money but everything is wrong with corporations getting away with killing people for profit.

THIS PHOTO ON JUNE 8, 1968 SHOWED OUR REVERERENCE AND RESPECT FOR OUR PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY  FROM THE ORDINARY AMERICAN CITIZEN  ON HIS RIDE HOME AFTER BEING ASSINATED.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/robert-kennedy-funeral-train-1968/

This photo was taken during the funeral procession (by train) of RFK.
The photos show Americans of all colors and classes. Catholic schoolgirls, field hands, firefighters, blue-collar workers and housewives in their bonnets create a tableau of those who came to say farewell to the man many knew simply as “Bobby.” Some climbed fence posts to get a better view. Some saluted. Others stood rock-ribbed straight. Some waved American flags or handmade posters: “So Long Bobby.” Everyone Dressed like this in a typical summer style.

Serious people in the 50’s and 60’s expanded our collective consciousness and felt it was their duty help make things more fair for people, animals and the planet. Nothing  wrong with making money but everything is wrong with corporations getting away with killing people for profit. 

WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY?

FORWARD TO THE MICHAEL MILKEN TRUMP Symbol of ’80s Greed IS GOOD
A swashbuckling financier, he was charged with playing a central role in a vast insider-trading scheme and was sent to prison for violating federal securities and tax laws. He was an inspiration for the Gordon Gekko character in the film “Wall Street.”

MNUCHIN

It is a vivid illustration of the power that Mr. Milken, who was barred from the securities industry and fined $600 million as part of his 1990 felony conviction, has amassed in President Trump’s Washington. In addition to the favorable tax-policy changes, some of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers — including Mr. Mnuchin, Jared Kushner and Rudolph W. Giuliani — have lobbied the president to pardon Mr. Milken for his crimes, or supported that effort, according to people familiar with the effort.

TO TRUMP PROFITS FROM
Tax Break for Poor Areas.

TAXING POOR PEOPLE

Americans need to earn about 70% more today than six years ago to comfortably afford a median-priced home, per Realtor com.

The rule of 55 is an IRS guideline that allows you to
avoid paying the 10% early withdrawal penalty on 401(k) and 403(b) retirement accounts if you leave your job during or after the calendar year you turn 55.

You Can Only Withdraw from Your Current 401(k)
Penalty-free early withdrawals are limited to funds held in your most recent company’s 401(k) or 403(b) under the rule of 55.
“Even if you’re 55 or older, you can’t reach back to old 401(k)s and use that money,” says Luber. “Additionally, this rule doesn’t apply to individual retirement accounts (IRAs), so you need to leave your IRA alone if you want to avoid the penalty.”

$880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.

House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s ” big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.
https://triblive.com/news/world/house-republicans-unveil-medicaid-cuts-that-democrats-warn-will-leave-millions-without-care/

76% of Trump’s budget goes to the military and police.
He’s gutting social safety nets while giving over $1T to the Pentagon — which hasn’t passed an audit in 6 years.
He never cared about fraud and waste.
He cares about having a militarized oligarchy.
https://popular.info/p/inside-trumps-1-trillion-military

So American importers continue for next 90 days pay 30% tariffs while China importers pay 10% on tariffs so United States could.
-Lose 10 trillion in stocks.
– Trillions in retirement.
– Negative GDP growth from quarter 4 of 2024 to 2.7% quarter 1 of 2025.
– Consumption dropped from 4%. quarter 4 of 2024 to 1.8% quarter 1 of 2025.
– Inflation quarter 4 of 2024 from 2.4% to 3.8% quarter 1 of 2025.
– Thousands of trucker and port jobs lost.
– Companies not shifting any manufacturing back to US. In fact Manufacturing jobs declined.
Art of the deal.

“The IRS can’t audit the wealthy and corporations without resources and manpower.
Take away the funding and staff?
25 billion-dollar corporations get away with cheating us out of $20 BILLION.
In case you were wondering, THIS is why Trump and Republicans are defunding the IRS.”
25 Corporations Could Save Over $20 Billion from Low Tax Enforcement
New uncertain tax benefits reported in 2024 for tax year 2024
Meta
Google
Apple
J.P. Morgan Chase & co.
Amazon.com
Nvidia
Gilead Sciences
Eli Lilly
International Business Machines
UnitedHealth Group
Visa
Broadcom
Pfizer
Merck
Comcast
Goldman Sachs Group
Salesforce.com
Exxon Mobil
AT&T
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Wayfair
Wells Fargo
Chevron
Tesla
Uber Technologies

How Apple helped China become America’s biggest tech rival
Apple relied on cheap Chinese labour as it become the world’s most valuable company. But there was an unforeseen consequence: the millions of workers it trained would go on to transform the Middle Kingdom into a tech superpower.

HEALTH

Trump announces he’ll sign executive order that aims to cut drug prices
His prior rule, called “Most Favored Nation,” was finalized in late 2020 but blocked by federal courts and rescinded by then-President Joe Biden in 2021. It would have applied to Medicare payments for certain drugs administered in doctors’ offices. However, it is unclear what payments or drugs the new directive would apply to. Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be REDUCED, almost immediately, by 30% to 80%,” he wrote. “I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World.”

Mark Cuban @mcuban
Dunking on the pharma industry with @costplusdrugs.com, the lowest prices on meds anywhere. check it out !
costplusdrugs.com

If you are a CEO of a self insured companies and you want to know what the problem with pricing on medications do this:
Call your PBM and ask for
1. A list of all your pharmacy claims the last month and the net price for each
2. A price list of all net prices
3. Why a drug that is just a pill, is considered a specialty drug
4. Who pays for the rebates you get (hint, it’s your sickest employees)
5. Why they reimburse your local pharmacy less than their cost and charge them crazy fees
6. If you can discuss your PBM contract with anyone
7. Why you can’t add @costplusdrugs to your network, for when our prices are cheaper than theirs
8. Why you can’t call a manufacturer to discuss adherence or wellness programs with the company who created the drug
9. Why they don’t provide claims data to the manufacturer to help them improve the safety profile
10. Why they sell positioning on their formulary rather than using it exclusively for clinical value
11. Whether they calls doctors to get them to change scripts to the PBMs white label biosimilar
12. Why your consultant didn’t tell you any of this
The level of opacity that the big PBMs create is why the price of brand drugs are outrageous

Rare genetic mutation lets some people thrive on just 4 hours of shut-eye
Natural short sleepers seem to thrive on less shut-eye than the rest of the human population. Now, researchers have identified one of these mutations, named SIK3-N783Y, in a human super-sleeper. The team then studied the mutation in genetically modified mice and found that the mice carrying this mutation also got less shut-eye, according to a new study.

Trump official who is taking over DOGE from Elon Musk revealed

Elon Musk’s Grok AI was specifically instructed not to say he spread misinformation

Tesla employees ask Elon Musk to resign, confirm massive demand problem, get fired for it

A county pension fund in Pennsylvania just became the first known to cease purchasing new Tesla stocks

SECURITY

Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected

Artificial Intelligence is like the Ford Model T
https://www.zaita.com/blog/ai-is-like-ford-model-t

You think ransomware is bad? Wait until it infects CPUs

@GummoXXX
“You don’t trade your image for pixels & call it innovation.
Every face uploaded trains the machine.
Every smile handed over fuels surveillance.
Every “just for fun” is one less piece of yourself you control.
Decentralize your identity. #AI #privacy”

@GummoXXX
“Darcula” PhaaS platform doesn’t merely spoof sites, it thinks like a criminal, with generative AI churning out phishing kits in 100+ languages… even amateurs can now launch pro grade cyberattacks.

Carole Cadwalladr – If you want to know what’s really going on, we’re going to have stop falling for the spin & asking better questions.
What on earth was Palantir’s top UK dude doing anywhere near this? And why has neither govt revealed the sweetheart tech deal? Any why was that same Palantir executive, a company at the heart of the US’s illegal deportations, on the BBC being laundered *as a political pundit*?
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-secret-us-uk-sweetheart-tech-deal

Peter Thiel is a legit bond villain. Why is any western leader letting this drug addicted psychotic TechnoNazi anywhere near government …For some reason it didn’t surprise me to learn that the head of Palantir is Oswald Mosley’s grandson.

New computer chips do math with light
The photonic devices could pave the way for cheaper AI processing

SCIENCE

There will always be more gold vs. bitcoin which is finite = 21 million Bitcoin.
This is what it looks like when an explosion creates gold in space
The first observation of a collision between neutron stars, detected in August 2017, created gravitational waves, light and heavy elements like gold and platinum. But astronomers have realized they also witnessed a kilanova, the kind of explosion that creates gold and platinum, the year before as well.

Sending Bitcoin over Ham Radio
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1817264133085044736/pu/vid/avc1/480×852/Ew_H4XHA3gMku_d2.mp4

Secure Your Bitcoin

Why Bell Labs Worked. Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
Hallowed is the name of Bell Labs. It falls from many an ambitious lip, seeking to conjure forth lost magic for their pet jar. Some zealots go further. They attempt the most venerated of summons — to materialize an Apollo.
The conjuring proceeds with hope. It is extremely exciting and hopeful to be a part of such an endeavor. Naked hope sparks the flame of conviction. Sponsors are found. Press releases are released. Social media is social-ed. Applications are announced… It’s real!

How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?
And then there’s silence. Louder the start; quieter the end. Many an aspiring titan ends up wandering the plains of human endeavor with an open jar; forever searching for magic to bottle.

New computer chips do math with light
The photonic devices could pave the way for cheaper AI processing

BITCOIN

Missouri just voted 102-41 to scrap state capital-gains tax—stocks, real estate, and yes, #Bitcoin. Now it’s Gov. Mike Kehoe’s call: signing would make Missouri the first U.S. state where selling sats carries 0% state tax. Who’s next?
https://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/income-tax-by-state
AND
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/a-comparison-state-tax-rates.html

COINBASE JUST SAID #BITCOIN ETF INFLOWS WILL EXPLODE SOON WHEN ADVISORS CAN RECOMMEND THEM

BREAKING: Michael Saylor’s STRATEGY just bought 13,390 Bitcoin for $1.34 BILLION (Average price of $99,856 per $BTC)

Metaplanet acquires 1,241 $BTC for ~$126.7M, bringing their total holdings to 6,796 Bitcoin

BREAKING: $66 BILLION DELL OFFICIALLY REJECTS SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL TO ADD #BITCOIN TO TREASURY
THEY WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD CASH AND BONDS. THEY WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.

David Bailey and holding company Nakamoto raises $710 million and announces merger with KindlyMD to establish #Bitcoin Treasury.

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