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TODAY 5/22/25 12:47 pm
1 BTC STILL equals 1 BTC
1 BTC now worth $111,480.oo
US FIAT Dollars
Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day!
14 years (2011) ago today, a man named Laszlo spent 10,000 BTC on 2 large pizzas.
THIS IS WHY WE BITCOIN
South America discovers one of world’s largest copper, gold, silver deposits
Interestingly, this is the biggest gold, copper, and silver deposit discovered in the past three decades. THERE IS ALWAYS MORE COPPER, GOLD, AND SILVER — THERE IS ONLY 21 MILLION BITCOIN, NEVER MORE THAN THAT.
EDUCATION
Public funds shouldn’t be used for private, for-profit schools, and to enrich private school investors.
Supreme Court deadlock blocks nation’s first religious charter school.
Conservative Justiæ Barrett recused herself from the case involving a proposed Oklahoma Catholic school
Oklahoma will not be able to launch the nation’s first ever religious public charter school after the Supreme Court deadlocked in a 4-4 split, a major case on the separation of church and state.
A judge blocks President Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department.
The median pay for a Gen Z college graduate was $60,000, based on data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, compared to $40,000 for a high school graduate.
@SenatorDurbin: With federal funds, the Chicago Health Department reduced the rate of children with elevated blood levels of lead from 70% in 1996 to 2% today.
The entire division working to prevent kids from being poisoned by lead was fired.
D☭ИOld tЯUmp
Exclusive: Hacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from across US government
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hacker-who-breached-communications-app-used-by-trump-aide-stole-data-across-us-2025-05-21/
So, this is insane:
“FOIA requests at numerous federal agencies in February were ‘lost’ by a government records contractor. It turns out, the ‘data failure’ was linked to two convicted hackers who worked at the company.” — via
@JasonLeopold
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-21/how-2-hackers-erased-hundreds-of-foia-requests
With redactions lifted, we can see what the government was trying to keep secret.
ICE is seeking the addresses of people it is investigating — information that taxpayers entrust the IRS to keep confidential, and that the IRS is bound by law to keep safe.
Exclusive: A hacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from across US government –
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hacker-who-breached-communications-app-used-by-trump-aide-stole-data-across-us-2025-05-21/
BUDGET / TAXES
US Rethuglican House passes Trump’s disgusting, ugly, horrendous ‘big, beautiful’ tax and spending bill.
U.S. Institute of Peace leaders regain control of HQ after judge declares DOGE takeover “null and void.”
“Appeasement never works,” writes @Sulliview. Not for @ABC, not for law firms, and not for universities that have caved to Trump. It won’t work for @CBS either. https://margaretsullivan.
Alexander S. Vindman @AVindman
The ReTrumplicans passed a budget that adds an estimated 10 Trillion to National debt. Setting aside the hypocrisy over claims of fiscal conservatism and the threat to national security, as debt service payments in the future will make it very difficult to cover debt, pay for national defense, and meet services obligations like providing Social Security and Medicaid, this is a billionaire’s budget. It steals from the poor, working class, and middle class Americans to give to the ultra wealthy.
Trump has schizophrenic communist, fascist, and robber baron tendencies. He demands industry/ business price controls, stifles free speech, attempts to silence opposition, and uses the law to pursue political opponents. And he’s taxing most Americans with his idiotic tariff scheme, while stealing their hard-earned benefits to enrich himself and his billionaire friends. And the
@GOP completely embraces these activities.
$PLTR Palantir co-founder @JTLonsdale: I’m excited to help with the ‘Golden Dome’.
Reportedly Palantir, @anduriltech and @SpaceX are the frontrunners of Golden Dome contracts on the non-traditional commercial company side of things..
HEALTH CARE
The Real Target: How Republicans Are Using Tax Cuts to Gut Obamacare in the Dead of Night
Let’s Be Clear: This Is About Gutting Obamacare—And Handing the Bones to Billionaires
WTF. The budget bill cuts 500 BILLION to Medicare!
UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to slash hospitalizations for elderly residents, according to a new @guardian investigation.
Yes, the GOP budget guts Medicaid, SNAP and gives more tax breaks to the mega-rich — but it also:
– Lets Big Oil buy public land to drill
– 10 year ban on state AI regulations
– Tax break on gun silencers
– Restricts funding to nonprofits
– Defunds women’s health organizations
In America, we call this “healthcare.”
UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to slash hospitalizations for elderly residents, according to a new @guardian investigation.
COWARDS ‘INTENTIONALLY HIDING’: GOP TRIESTO SNEAK THROUGH MEDICAID CUTS IN
Democrats bashed Republicans for scheduling a meeting to push
through Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill for 1:00 a.m.
By NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ
MAY 21, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) arrives to a House Rules Committee meeting on the One Big Beautiful
Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol on May 21, 2025.
“Of course, you don’t want anybody to know what you’re doing here,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said around 1:30 a.m. “It’s because you know this bill betrays the people who voted for you.”
CREDIT
“Credit” derives from “Credo” (Latin) meaning “I believe” …
Dow tumbles by more than 800 points and bonds fall as concerns rise over America’s status as a safe place to invest https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/investing/us-stock-market-bonds
Moody’s now has the following countries credit rated higher (AAA) than the United States (AA1):
– Germany
– Canada
– Australia
– Denmark
– Luxembourg
– Netherlands
– Switzerland
– Norway
– Sweden
– Singapore
BITCOIN
NEW #BITCOIN ATH!
Congrats to all the HODLers!
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1925206567017689089/vid/avc1/320×350/Wgv6XSY2X8piYd9U.mp4
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1925206632037786073.html
#BITCOIN JUST SURPASSED AMAZON AND GOOGLE TO BECOME THE 5th LARGEST ASSET IN THE WORLD. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!!!
Once BTC properly breaks all time highs, the move to 118k will be very fast.
GAMESTOP IS NOW FOLLOWING #BITCOIN LEGEND HAL FINNEY
THEY ARE TELLING YOU $4.7 BILLION BTC BUY INCOMING
BINANCE FOUNDER CZ SAYS #BITCOIN IS GOING TO $1 MILLION DURING THIS CYCLE
Kraken to offer tokenized US stocks to users worldwide.
Senators revive bill to harmonize conflicting cybersecurity regulations
The legislation Sens. Gary Peters and James Lankford would create an executive branch panel to align federal cyber rules.
https://cyberscoop.com/senators-revive-bill-to-harmonize-conflicting-cybersecurity-regulations/
Coinbase breach happened on Dec 26, 2024.
For over 5 months hackers had full access to the data of 69,000 Coinbase clients & harvested their data.
It’s wild Counbase didn’t think to disclose this till now.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/21/coinbase-says-its-data-breach-affects-at-least-69000-customers/
UNITED STATES CONGRESS INTRODUCES BILL TO PROTECT #BITCOIN SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS FROM LEGAL ATTACKS.
OPEN SOURCE IS NOT A CRIME. HUGE
@gladstein
A leaderless decentralized cypherpunk open source software project that secures property rights and free speech for anyone and destroys central banking and financial censorship has just eclipsed the corporate behemoth Amazon in market cap.
Apple, NVIDIA and Microsoft will all fall at the same time.
CIRCLE, TETHER, AND OTHERS ALL SURVEILLED AND COMPLY
DARK STABLECOINS OPERATE OUTSIDE OF GOVERNMENT
PEOPLE WILL WANT ALTERTERNATIVES ISSUED BY NON CENSORING ENTITIES AND THE SPACE IS SURVEILLANCE AND COMPLIANCE.
When your “decentralized” stablecoin knows more about you than your bank…
You don’t need a new wallet.
You need a new system.
Bitcoin doesn’t surveil. It frees
It’s weird how people are “opposed to surveillance” only until they get their hands on the surveillance apparatus.
https://gizmodo.com/fbi-director-kash-patel-abruptly-closes-internal-watchdog-office-overseeing-surveillance-compliance-2000604994
AI
2 major newspapers unknowingly publish AI book list with imaginary book titles
https://triblive.com/news/world/2-major-newspapers-unknowingly-publish-ai-book-list-with-imaginary-book-titles/
An AI-generated book list with imaginary book titles and nonexistent plots was published by two renowned newspapers — the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The articles were published in the papers’ “Heat Index” special sections, a multipage insert filled with tips, advice and articles on summertime activities, The Washington Post reported.
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