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TODAY 5/22/25 12:47 pm
1 BTC STILL equals 1 BTC
1 BTC now worth $111,480.oo
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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.

BTC

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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18 U.S. Code § 2383 Rebellion or Insurrection

18 U.S. Code § 2383
Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

The Presidency is an office of the Federal Government.
FromThe Oath:
“…I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States…”

Judge Wallace obviously never actually read the Presidential Oath of Office: “Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States,”

“The idea that any official who would engage in insurrection would be barred from taking office except the presidency is incredibly surprising. That basically means that the presidency is a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card for insurrection.” -Jena Griswold

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/colorado-official-trump-insurrection-state-judge-ruling_n_6559b029e4b05723e4bd7f23

It’s absurd. The whole point that our country was established on was that we would not have one person with too much power. The President cannot be free to overthrow elections.

@tribelaw
The man who, as president, incited a violent attack on the Capitol to overturn an election is again openly fomenting political violence while explicitly endorsing authoritarian strategies should he return to power. That is the story of the 2024 election. Everything else is just window dressing.

Plain English version of Trump’s claim: I swore to “preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution, not to “support” it; I was the President, not a mere federal “officer;” and the offices the 14th Amendment disqualifies insurrectionists from holding don’t include the presidency

My PBS News Hour interview re Trump’s audacious claim that the presidency is exempt from the Disqualification Clause — meaning that he alone can engage in “insurrection” against the U.S. Constitution without consequences

Trump’s claim that insurrection can’t disqualify him from another run for president because he never held federal “office” would lead to the bizarre result that being Christian could be made a qualification since the “No Religious Test” Clause applies only to federal “offices.”

Trump’s claim that insurrection can’t disqualify him from the presidency because it isn’t an “office” would mean he could accept foreign gifts or “emoluments” without limit if he were to win because the Art.

“No Foreign Emoluments” Clause applies only to federal officeholders. “It is clear that Eastman’s plan built on Chesebro’s fake electors scheme. And both men argued that the Vice President could exercise unconstitutional powers during the joint session of Congress.” And that Ken Chesebro met personally with Trump on Dec 16.

Secret documents and nuclear intelligence were concealed at Mar-a-Lago by Trump.
https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/1727372719971336265

An individual masquerading as a member of the Rothschild family, who was actually a Russian intelligence agent, gained access to Mar-a-Lago.

At Mar-a-Lago, Trump disclosed sensitive details about nuclear submarines to a non-American.

He entertained international agents at the location.

Inna Yashchyshyn, a 33-year-old woman, posed as Anna de Rothschild, falsely claiming to be an heiress of the Rothschild family, to gain access to Mar-a-Lago, the estate owned by former President Donald Trump.

RIGHT WING CHRISTIAN FASCISTS

“Falwell Jr. candidly admits that his late father, Jerry Falwell, Sr., founded the university solely to be an institutional arm of the Republican Party and not to be a Christian university aimed at spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

 

Yesterday, right-wing federal judges ruled that private citizens and groups like the NAACP cannot sue over voter suppression. They overturned decades of precedence that protected voters of color. The right will stop at nothing to destroy the Voting Rights Act.

HEALTH CARE

Across the US, health insurers are flouting state laws created to guarantee access to critical medical care, like cancer treatments.

And as the companies continue to dodge bills for pricey treatments, their industry profits have risen.

PRICE GOUGING

@RBReich Remember Cal-Maine? The largest egg producer in the U.S who made headlines this year for posting a 718% surge in profits.

Well yesterday a jury found that they and another egg producer engaged in an illegal price-fixing scheme for years prior to the pandemic. Interesting, huh?

TODAY: Egg producers LIABLE for price fixing scheme, per new verdict by federal jury.

The 2 top egg producers, Cal Maine and Rose Acre, and 2 top industry groups, were raising and fixing egg prices.

Case now moves to a damages phase. YES, inflation was partly price gouging.

ANTI TRUST LAW

– A ProPublica investigation found that real estate tech company RealPage and landlords may have violated antitrust laws when using algorithms to suggest rents. Now, the DOJ is backing tenants in a price-fixing case against RealPage and big landlords.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-backs-tenants-price-fixing-case-big-landlords-real-estate-tech

Here is George Clooney response after Trump accused him of being a “Hollywood elite.”

https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1726767153443914087

“Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!”

– George Clooney
actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

DEEP FAKES

JUST IN: Sam Altman‘s firing was driven by OpenAI’s secret breakthrough AI named Q* (possibly Q-learning).

Plus, huge developments in AI today from Inflection AI, Google Bard, Neuralink, ElevenLabs, screenshot-to-code, and 9 new AI tools.

Here’s EVERYTHING you need to know: Sam Altman was possibly fired from OpenAI due to a massive breakthrough dubbed Q* (Q-learning). Q* is a precursor to AGI. Most people (incl. AI experts) have no idea just how powerful AGI will be. Here’s Sam Altman discussing what most AI experts get wrong about AGI:

This new AI tool allows me to generate a functional website in 2 minutes from just a doodle. I’m convinced the kids growing up today with AI will be 10x more efficient than we are now. Tutorial on how to access it —  https://makereal.tldraw.com/

Please welcome Sam Altman to the DeepFakeAI family

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HEALTHCARE

The Middlemen of Healthcare
https://youtu.be/_khH6pZnHCM

Feds: Hospitals that denied emergency abortion broke the law

 

IF YOU ARE OVER 65 YOU CAN GO GET YOUR NEW COVID VACCINE NOW

Artificial intelligence detects fractures on CT images for osteoporosis diagnostics

Vitamin D3 Supplementation at 5000 IU Daily for the Prevention of Influenza-like Illness in Healthcare Workers: A Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/1/180

New genetic target for male contraception identified
https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2023/04/17/new-genetic-target-for-male-contraception-identified/

How much virus does a person with COVID exhale?
New research has answers
One ‘superspreader’ with Omicron shed 1,000 times as much viral RNA as those with Alpha or Delta.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02202-z

Nose Spray Vaccines Could Quash COVID Virus Variants
Three nasal spritzes, now in advanced trials, could trigger stronger immunity than shots in the arm
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nose-spray-vaccines-could-quash-covid-virus-variants/

New California bill would protect doctors who mail abortion pills to other states
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-california-bill-would-protect-doctors-who-mail-abortion-pills-to-other-states

After Mexican president tests positive for 3rd time with COVID, what do we know about reinfection
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/after-mexican-president-tests-positive-3rd-time-covid/story?id=98798837

This professor is a global coronavirus expert. Now he has long COVID
https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/health-and-wellness/this-professor-is-a-global-coronavirus-expert-now-he-has-long-covid-20230427-p5d3t7

“I was the only masked customer at Walgreens. Prominently displayed newspapers screamed “100,000 New Yorkers to lose Medicaid as Covid emergency ends.” At checkout, a Pixel brand PCR home collection kit was locked down behind the counter, retailing for $124.99. Welcome to hell.”Laura Miars