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K12 Education, Health, Politics, Media, Howard Lutnick, Fascists, Marine Smedley Butler

#K12 EDUCATION

Simple Experiments to Test Quantum Branching Universe Theory: A High School Laboratory Guide
SAFETY NOTE: All experiments described require adult supervision and appropriate safety equipment including eye protection. Follow all local safety guidelines and regulations.
https://github.com/bryceweiner/GCS-Paper/blob/main/high-school-qbu.md

#HEALTH

H5N1 is no longer confined to birds.
It’s ripping through mammal populations and clawing its way toward humans.
The stage is set for a catastrophic spillover
It’s not a question of if, but when.

Andrea C. Love, Ph.D. ‍ @dr_andrealove Nov 15
In the US, milk is pasteurized via High Temperature Short Time pasteurization.
Milk is rapidly heated to 161°F for 15 seconds, then rapidly cooled.
This kills pathogens: E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria, inactivates influenza viruses, herpesviruses, parvoviruses, & others.

Michael R Scoma MD @DrScomaME_CFS  Nov 16
10% of my 70 college students (18-22 years old) have been diagnosed with *pneumonia* in the last week. 3 hospitalized.
In addition to Covid there are a lot of additional viral pneumonias going around (ie., RSV, enterovirus, human metapneumovirus) in addition to Mycoplasma (see my post) as well as the usual suspects such as Strep pneumoniae – I hope your students are convalescing

This is acute COVID pneumonia in 2024…not 2020…November 15, 2024
Profound respiratory and multi-system failure
41 years old and healthy with no medical history or immune suppression
This is not going away…#CovidIsNotOver
Repost to raise awareness outside the community
https://x.com/DrScomaME_CFS/status/1857506115153703425/photo/1

#BREAKINGNEWS Trump said during his rally that he hated paying overtime and he refused to pay overtime. This is also part of Project 2025 policy on overtime pay. Trump admits to cheating employees. Trump has said publicly he hates overtime. And they still voted for him as a champion of the working class.

In April, The Biden-Harris Labor Department expanded overtime pay rules.
Roughly 4.3 million more workers would have been eligible for OT pay under the new rule.
A Trump-appointed judged blocked it yesterday.
Go ahead and keep telling me that the GOP is the party of workers.

NEW: A Texas federal judge has struck down a DOL rule that would have expanded overtime eligibility to four million new workers, kneecapping one of the Biden administration’s most substantial labor policies.
This is why the entire narrative about Dems losing touch with the working class while Trump apparently showed he cares for them is so infuriating.
Biden tried to give extra pay to 4 million workers. A Trump-appointed conservative judge just blocked him.
No blowback for Trump.
It’s insane, but Democrats abandoned: medicare for all, increasing the minimum wage, cancelling student and medical debt, and increasing social security/medicare benefits at a time when prices had doubled and millions lost their medicaid coverage.

#POLITICS

A number of my friends who belong in these very high upper brackets have
suggested to me, more in sorrow than in anger, that if I am reelected they will have to move to some other Nation because of high taxes here. I shall miss them very much but if they go they will soon come back. For a year or two of paying taxes in almost any other country in the world will make them yearn once more for the good old taxes of the U.S.A.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The Dictator’s Pentagon — a five-sided takeover
“There are five key areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert and author Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense and intelligence.
And in each of these arenas, the goal is to consolidate power, create chaos — and yes, even death.” Is Trump trying to kill us? Authoritarian expert says yes. Here’s how
https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/11/is-trump-trying-to-kill-us-authoritarian-expert-says-yes.html

Senators call for federal probe into Musk’s contact with Russia
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0l3wl76gzo

Meet the new administration.
RFK JR AN ANTI-VAXXER IN CHARGE OF HEALTH
PETE HEGSETH A PUTIN SYMPATHIZER IN CHARGE OF SPIES Trump’s Pentagon pick paid woman after sex assault allegation but denies wrongdoing, his lawyer says.
MATT GAET A PEDOPHILE AS ATTORNEY GENERAL
ELON MUSK A PUTIN SYMPATHIZER IN CHARGE OF SPIES
TRUMP A RAPIST FELON AS PRESIDENT
-the four horsemen of the apocalypse?
-a kakistocracy in the making
-the decline, and perhaps even the fall, of the United States
-America takes a GIANT step backward when we most need to go forward.
WHEN YOU INVITE THE CIRCUS YOU GET THE CLOWNS
“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.”
https://x.com/Orange86Illini/status/1858121468812378238/photo/1

Remember how we said Europe should take the $350 billion in frozen Russian assets and give them to Ukraine?
Europe agreed to give $50 billion (the interest not the principal).
It’s time to give Ukraine the remaining $300 billion — RIGHT NOW, before Trump gets into office.

Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump
To President Biden and all elected Democrats: Stop playing by rules that no longer exist. At this point, it’s not just spinelessness, it’s complicity.

The Trump administration plans to nominate Jay Bhattacharya to lead the NIH. Bhattacharya has spread disinformation on COVID, fought against lifesaving measures including vaccines, masks, and social distancing, and is backed by dark money groups pushing corporate interests.
Washington Post
Jay Bhattacharya, an NIH critic, emerges as a top candidate to lead the agency. The Stanford physician was excoriated by NIH’s director in 2020 for his “fringe” ideas on covid. Four years later, he’s poised for power in Trump’s Washington.

Court evidence reveals a Luxembourg bank’s “central” role in moving millions stolen from a state bank in Azerbaijan into Europe, funding one family’s UK real estate spree. Luxembourg Bank ‘Central’ to Purchase of High-End British Real Estate with Embezzled Azerbaijan Funds, U.K. Police Say @NCA_UK says Luxembourg accounts were part of a cross-border financial network. https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/luxembourg-bank-central-to-purchase-of-high-end-real-estate-with-embezzled-azerbaijan-funds-uk-police-say

#MEDIA

follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__
Hi friends!
I wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest site on the internet.
Long and short of it: We won the bid and — you’re not going to believe it — the previous InfoWars folks aren’t taking it well.

Only Congress can create and fund agencies. Trump has said himself they are a voice outside the government in an advisory role.
RAMASWAMY: We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. Donald Trump and his cronies want to burn the entire house down, just for the sake of burning it down. Remember that cruelty and chaos are the points. Once again demonstrates that he has no idea how the Federal government works. He can make all the recommendations he wants, but Congress has to implement them since Federal legislation established these agencies. Good luck with that.
https://guides.law.fsu.edu/administrativelaw/agencies#:~:text=A%20federal%20agency%20exists%20because,specific%20legislative%20grants%20of%20power

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO on Rumble’s partnership with Donald Trump’s media company https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/12/17/spac-rumble-trump-media-truth-social-lutnick-qmb.cnnbusiness

OMG This is worldwide horrible! There Are More Slaves in the World Than Ever – These Countries Have the Most
https://247wallst.com/news/2024/11/16/there-are-more-slaves-in-the-world-than-ever-these-countries-have-the-most/

Grok answered a question, who spread the most disinformation on X
Answer; Elon Musk

X’s algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk’s own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.

#Howard Lutnick

Elon Musk just recommended bitcoiner Howard Lutnic as US Treasury
He has 100’s of millions of dollars in #Bitcoin

Epstein pal Howard Lutnick being considered for Treasury Secretary. Lutnick controls $100 billion in Tether, the underlying security of BITCOIN. This signals the end of the US dollar & the American economy as we knew it.
Lutnick took Rumble public for Peter Thiel & JD Vance.
The Trump campaign has a new team that includes hedge fund billionaire Howard Lutnick, who hosted a dinner where Trump said “we’ve got to stop the steal” at his home next door to Jeffrey Epstein’s house.
He also took Rumble public. Whoops. ↘️
Peter Thiel & JD Vance invested in Rumble in October 2020.
Archive NY Times article: https://web.archive.org/web/20240813010659/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/politics/trump-campaign-election.html
Lutnick and Epstein real estate connections:
https://crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/unraveling-web-jeffrey-epsteins-manhattan-real-estate
This is the real “deep state,” an incestuous collective of compromised oligarchs who see democracy as inconvenient.

Lutnick: graduate of Quaker-founded, social justice principled, Haverford College where he has an eponymous library? Weird. Every one of these Trump-backing hedge fund billionaires need to be investigated. They are all corrupt and made their millions nefariously. IRS better be taking note. I’ve had enough of these criminals bilking our country.

Cowboy.X @cowboycrypto313

https://x.com/cowboycrypto313/status/1857845890720919571
Robert Rubin was the Co-Chairman at Goldman Sachs and was also Gensler’s mentor while he was there.
Rubin would later become U.S. Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton Rubin and was a liaison between Epstein and the Clinton’s for years.
While Gensler worked at the Treasury, he was involved in policy formulation under Rubin’s direction, particularly in areas like financial markets and regulation.

Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House 17 times during Clinton’s first term when Rubin was the Director of Economic Council. According to the White House logs, Rubin authorized Epstein’s very first visit.
ELECTION 2020
Biden SEC Nominee Gary Gensler Worth as Much as $119 Million
By Benjamin-Bain
February 12, 2021, 7:05 PM UTC
Gensler discloses income figures in government ethics form
Also details past Tesla holding, Goldman pension payout amount
Gary Gensler Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

wEeZiE {X}John Deaton 4 Senate @NerdNationUnbox
So you’re telling me Jeffrey Epstein, who donated money to #MIT and was intrigued by #BTC, visited #MIT from June 2013 to April 2014
AND
Ryan Selkis who was Bitcoin foundation Board member attends #MIT from 2013 to 2014 but leaves due to his intrigue in #BTC?
Did ya meet him?

Elon Musk spent at least $130 million to elect Trump, despite $3300 being the maximum an individual can legally donate.
He increases his wealth by $333 million each day.
But tell me again how taxing billionaires and campaign finance reform are “radical,” “far-Left,” policies.

Exactly 2 years ago 11/16/22
El Salvador became the 1st nation state to start buying #Bitcoin every day
Today, they own $500 million in $BTC and are up 500%
Legendary

Bitcoin is a new global jurisdiction.
The first global unifying force in human history.

Why Bitcoin Will Rise to $420,000: It’s not a prediction. It’s simple arithmetic. Webinar – April 24, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fv6Lpa6FhY caveat He ALSO owns Ethereum which means he isn’t that smart.

From 2016-2022, Leonard Leo’s businesses were paid $90 million by nonprofits tied to him. In many cases, it’s unclear what his businesses did to earn that huge payday.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/leonard-leo-tied-nonprofits-businesses-88-million/

@johncusack
We are watching late stage capitalist global insanity – where the profit motive is the only value – every one and every thing is a commodity. Now the billionaires feel they have the right to be trillionaires & the biggest welfare freaks on the planet & the greatest spreaders of propaganda disinformation are now threatening the press and citizens – they want a return to feudalism
Feudalism had markets and slaves and serfs and lords.
That’s what these freaks want.
Talk about class and capitalism.
FDR or fascism

#FASCISTS

It’s been going on since Grandpappy Bush led a fascist coup on FDR and in response, nothing happened… Because they’re fascists.
Remembering when bankers tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictator. Prescott Bush’s 1933 fascist coup attempt in the US – Business Coup stopped by Smedley Butler
https://bigthink.com/the-present/fdr-coup/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp4h39qJKqU
The conspirators included Gerald MacGuire,
a bond salesman; Bill Doyle, commander of
the Massachusetts American Legion;
investment banker Prescott Bush, the father
of George H. W. Bush and grandfather of
George W. Bush; and others.
The Business Plot nearly involved another
individual as well: Retired Major General
Smedley Butler, who was at that time the
most decorated soldier in U.S. history. After
his military career, however, Butler became a
vociferous critic of war and its place in
American capitalism. Later, he would write
the famous War is a Racket and an article in
the socialist magazine Common Sense
stating, “l spent most of my time as a high-
class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall
Street and the bankers. In short, I was a
racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”

The Tea Party Used To Be called The American League
Franklin Deleno Roosevelt Fought The American League and Won
Franklin Deleno Roosevelt Was All For Workers Rights and Unions
https://edu-cyberpg.com/K12-Education-Tea-Party-FDR.html

The Marine Corps
https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/securitycrisis3.html
The Marine Corps was created on November 10, 1775, in Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by a resolution of the Continental Congress.
In 1834 the Marines became part of the Department of the Navy. ” Smedely Butler the only Marine Officer to win the Medal of Honor twice. Keep in mind, this was when WWI was just the World War. Reading “War is a Racket” is frighteningly similar to what is happening today, except the monetary figures are bigger. He foresaw WWII and all his points are verifiable. class material
He has a base named after him, he hated fascism. He fought against it home and abroad.
Smedley Butler was one of the most beloved military leaders in American history. Teddy Roosevelt called him, “The finest fighting man in America.” Butler was known as “the fighting Quaker.”

The Marine Corps was created on November 10, 1775, in Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by a resolution of the Continental Congress. In 1834 the Marines became part of the Department of the Navy. “War is a Racket” by Smedely Butler the only Marine Officer to win the Medal of Honor twice. https://edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/securitycrisis2.html

Texas – Reading First Program owned by President Bush’s brother Neil Bush is a Fraud Scam https://edu-cyberpg.com/Literacy/texasScam.html

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ECP NetHappenings The people call Donald J. Trump

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The people call Donald J. Trump

 

Kevin Wallace just said the magic words, “The people call Donald J. Trump,” and he just took his sworn oath to tell the truth.

My favorite line so far from the Trump trial today:
NY attorney: Did you get copies of statements in 2021?
Donald Trump: I was so busy in the White House with China, Russia, and keeping the country…
NY attorney: You were not the President in 2021.

Mary Trump says media is ignoring Donald’s ‘increasing inability to remember’ major facts
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-mental-2666157682/

Watchdog group calls on Rep. James Comer to release tax returns and bank records.

Mueller, She Wrote
The polls were wildly wrong in 2012, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022. And we’re seeing the EXACT SAME horse race bullshit now
When will folks realize its a BUSINESS? These polling companies make MILLIONS, and the media cleans up on scaring you with the results. Just VOTE.

Plenty of companies that are household names are making political contributions to the members of Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election.

Mike Johnson

Sure looks like Mike Johnson committed PPP loan fraud, and then the loan was forgiven.
Why would you need Half a Million Dollars in payroll assistance, for a small Louisiana-based church, with only eight employees?
Cypress Baptist Church of Benton, LA never paid back the loans. They were forgiven. There is so much more to @SpeakerJohnson and so much more to his not having a bank account. What a scam artist, “ praising the looord” and stealing from the government all in the same breath.

Where did 380 billion of PPP loans go? HERE THEY ARE

Mike Johnson was a member of the secretive Council for National policy in 2012 and 2013, and possibly earlier. Documented has published a newly revealed internal CNP directory. Here we connect the dots: Unpacking the Connections Between Mike Johnson and the Religious Right

VIDEO An unearthed clip shows Mike Johnson promoting an app called “Covenant Eyes” which “scans your devices” and “sends a report” to someone if you view “sinful” material. The app says “defeat porn.” He has been scrubbing this from his pages.

#MEDIA

@ElieNYC
Not for nothing, but if all you can do is scream at the 22% of the Black vote thinking of going for Trump, but not the 55% of the white vote that WILL go for Trump, you might be suffering from a bad case of white media.

 

New Washington Post CEO worked for Murdoch for a decade
NYT continues to carry water for fascists
60 Minutes platforms insurrectionists like Greene & John Eastman
CBS hired Trump lackeys like Mulvaney
ABC praised Moms for Liberty as joyful warriors
Media is screwing us again

#CHILDREN

Here’s What Can Happen When Kids Age Out of Foster Care
The unspoken theme here is that many kids fall directly into the hands of traffickers because of how foster care is intentionally designed in many states. Children in foster care experience high levels of trauma and high rates of PTSD post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health conditions.

Sam Bankman-Fried

Sam Bankman-Fried couldn’t fool a jury of his not-quite-peers.
https://dealbreaker.com/2023/11/that-didnt-take-long

The SBF Verdict and Crypto’s Unindicted Scam Network
“The high-profile trial leaves many questions unanswered, chiefly about FTX’s apparent role as a money-laundering operation.”

TETHER

Tether matters because FTX’s downfall is ultimately a story about illicit finance writ large. Besides securities and commodities fraud, Bankman-Fried was also convicted of conspiracy to commit money laundering. And some of FTX/Alameda’s business operations make it sound like the company itself served as a giant clearing house for laundering cash.

Fun Fact: Tether has sold Tethers for less than a dollar. Sometimes, as low as 40 cents, or even $0.00 Dollars for ponzi scammers. Tether could do a promotion, you redeem USDC & get two Tethers for each dollar you send to Tether fraud.
Costs Tether $0 to bring down competitor.

WorldBank publishes report
acknowledging the beneficial environmental impact of #Bitcoin mining in relation to gas flaring

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EARTH DAY

#EarthDay Celebrate Earth Day 4/22/1970
GO PLANT A TREE
The theme of this year’s celebration is ‘ Invest in your planet” which is a call for everyone to create a secure and moderate environment conducive for all.

Biden to issue Earth Day order to safeguard old-growth forests.

#RingoStarr @ringostarrmusic
Peace and love and remember Friday is earth day peace and love
https://twitter.com/ringostarrmusic/status/1517142193143566340

How to observe the Lyrid meteor shower in Western Pa., which should appear starting just after midnight tonight and run through dawn Friday morning
https://triblive.com/local/regional/how-when-to-observe-the-lyrid-meteor-shower-in-western-pa/

The Midwest has lost 57 billion metric tons of topsoil over the last 160 years, new study finds
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/environment/2022-04-08/the-midwest-has-lost-57-billion-metric-tons-of-topsoil-over-the-last-160-years-new-study-finds

WATCH OUT

“I have no faith we will remain a democracy if Republicans win power.” — Max Boot

Robert Reich “Perhaps there’s something wrong with a system that allows a 35-year-old, unelected, Trump-nominated judge — whom the American Bar Association deemed unqualified — to strike down the travel mask mandate for the entire country?”

Garlands fault: The Big Lie is here to stay: Republicans plot to overturn elections on every level
https://www.salon.com/2022/04/20/the-big-lie-is-here-to-stay-plot-to-overturn-on-every-level/

Biden Canceling Student Debt Could Help Party Avoid ‘Disaster’ Midterms
https://www.newsweek.com/biden-cancelling-student-debt-help-democrats-avoid-disaster-1699385

Amazon Europe Unit Paid No Taxes on $55 Billion Sales in 2021
https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-international/amazon-europe-unit-paid-no-taxes-on-55-billion-sales-in-2021

Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset.

“Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath”
https://www.amazon.com/Freezing-Order-Laundering-Surviving-Vladimir-ebook/dp/B09JPH6CW3/

It’s illegal for your boss to tell you can’t discuss wages. If your boss ever tells you not to discuss your salary with your co-workers, immediately start looking for another job. That’s a toxic place to work. When it’s safe, report them to the National Labor Relations Board because that’s also illegal.

MEDIA

CNN+ shutting down April 30th.
Reminder, they put 250 million into developing it. The CFO resigned.

Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D: “These articles were all published by Reuters since they claimed to have cut ties with Russian news agency TASS. Every single one of these articles is just repackaged TASS content under the Reuters brand name — so basically, it’s Russian propaganda dressed up to look credible. https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1516920620705005569

WHAT NO FU-KING MEDIA is talking about
China Is Nearly Done Building a Taiwan Invasion Fleet
Western democracies need to address the exigent threat
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-is-nearly-done-building-a-taiwan-invasion-fleet_4414077.html

@micahflee I don’t think people fully appreciate just how much, after invading Ukraine, people are hacking Russia. There are multiple hacks a week and it’s only increasing. For first time in internet history Russia is fair game for cyber attacks, and this is what it looks like
https://mobile.twitter.com/micahflee/status/1516521193808875527

LEGACY MEDIA LIKE NYT keep using euphemisms like “concerned about electoral issues” to describe widespread Republican rejection of democracy. They are failing their readers when they don’t use words like fascist or fascism. They are Lying to everyone! STOP LYING

SHUTTING DOWN SHANGHAI  1 good thing happened:
Analyst #Ming-ChiKuo says that Apple’s previous desire to reduce its reliance on China has become “an action plan” since the country’s recent lockdowns.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/04/21/apple-looks-to-move-away-from-china-for-its-new-products-says-kuo

Gizmodo: We’re Publishing the Facebook Papers
We’re Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here’s What They Say About Donald Trump, the 2020 Election, and Jan. 6.
Gizmodo has reviewed, redacted, and published more than two dozen leaked Facebook documents, the first of hundreds to come.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/04/were-publishing-the-facebook-papers-heres-what-they-say-about-donald-trump-the-2020-election-and-jan-6/
As part of an ongoing project to make these once-confidential records accessible to the general public, Gizmodo is today—for the first time—publishing 28 of the documents previously exclusively shared with Congress and the media. Meta declined to comment on the release.
We have undertaken this project to help better inform the public about Facebook’s role in a wide range of controversies, as well as to provide researchers with access to materials that we hope will advance general knowledge of social media’s role in modern history’s most troubling crises. Less than two weeks after Donald Trump’s mob attacked the Capitol, the results of a poll commissioned by Facebook itself showed what already felt anecdotally true to many: That a majority of Americans believed Facebook at least partly responsible for the events of Jan. 6.
The documents will reveal to you, for instance, an internal analysis of the many groups that Facebook knew to be prolific sources of both voter suppression efforts and hate speech targeting its most marginalized users. The records show the company was privately aware of the growing fears among users of being exposed to election-related falsehoods. The papers show that Meta’s own data pinpointed the account of then-President Trump as being principally responsible for a surge in reports concerning violations of its violence and incitement rules.
Today’s release is the first of a series of posts from Gizmodo to be published in tandem with legal and academic partners. Our goal is to minimize any costs to individuals’ privacy and any furtherance of other harms while ensuring the responsible disclosure of the greatest amount of information in the public interest possible. You can read more about our methodology and what we have redacted here.

Judge rules Donald Trump can keep running Bronx golf
https://therealdeal.com/2022/04/09/judge-rules-donald-trump-can-keep-running-bronx-golf-course/

Scott Dworkin  “Here’s video of Marjorie Taylor Greene at the White House in late December 2020 saying she had a “great planning session for our January 6th objection. We aren’t going to let this election be stolen by Joe Biden and the Democrats.” Expel and arrest Greene.
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1354919728888881158

FLORIDA

@TristanSnell: Richard Nixon lost the 1960 election by sweating on camera — and Trump’s sweat game on Piers Morgan looks to be at least 5 Nixons.

Stephen Colbert talks about the DeSantis-Mouse feud, and points out that not only is Disney the largest private employer in the state but also “Disney is also they only reason anyone goes to Florida.”

What we really need is the denazification of Florida. The repubs are a shrinking minority of theofascists. They are intent on destroying America because they failed to become the majority.

Florida House Democrats have taken over floor during informal recess now.
So far, no push from Republicans to get session going again
Does not seem like House Democrats plan on ending sit in anytime soon.
Announcing demands on floor.
Currently occupying the Florida House Chambers Floor. This is #ThePeoplesHouse we will not stand by and allow #DeSantis to eliminate Black districts. #StopTheBlackAttacks #FairDistricts

TECH

“Bitcoin changes everything. I don’t think there’s anything more important in my lifetime to work on.”
Jack Dorsey revolutionized media and payments.
Now he’s tackling his THIRD paradigm shift… the future of money.
How did we get here? A quick THREAD
https://twitter.com/cryptojobguy/status/1514698553788149764

Three-way digital currency taxonomy, with cryptocurrencies in a “hybrid” category.
https://kiffmeister.com/the-account-versus-token-based-digital-currency-taxonomy/

@AaronWi38550500
Wences Casares, of Argentinian aristocratic descent who later became a self-made decamillionaire founding a South American E*Trade-type company, spent $250,000 trying to hack bitcoin’s protocol as due diligence before buying at least $2M of bitcoin himself in 2012.

The Future of Bitcoin: What Lightning Could Look Like
Bitcoin’s overlay payment network is projected to improve over the next few years in areas ranging from network architecture to security and usability, and more. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/future-bitcoin-what-lightning-could-look

Lightning liquidity providers automate submarine swaps to fire whenever on-chain fees drop below a certain threshold.The Blockchain and the Lightning Network are not at odds, they are complementary systems. For the most part a payment channel’s strengths are the chain’s weaknesses and this is also true in the reverse.
https://medium.com/muunwallet/a-closer-look-at-submarine-swaps-in-the-lightning-network-4417a2e8f93c
For more technical breakdown of submarine swaps and HTLCs read this article: https://blog.muun.com/a-closer-look-at-submarine-swaps-in-the-lightning-network/

Nice overview of how one might start with KYC Bitcoin but then achieve pretty good forward privacy using mobile submarine swaps and Lightning
https://www.suresats.com/post/enhance-privacy-to-kyc-d-bitcoin-with-mobile-wallet-submarine-swaps

For the first time there’s a non-custodial Lightning wallet on iOS.
Uses Neutrino, Submarine swaps, and does all of the (IMO) right tradeoffs to deliver a seamless experience with the minimal levels of trust currently possible.

Crypto Exchange’s New Emoji Looks Like a Swastika and People Are Losing It
Binance launched an emoji apparently inspired by the ancient religious symbol on Hitler’s birthday, and Twitter users had a field day. April 20, is also Adolf Hitler’s birthday. After receiving criticism on social media, Binance changed the logo and admitted that it made a mistake.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn4q3/crypto-exchanges-new-emoji-looks-like-a-swastika-and-people-are-losing-it

Smart contracts are incredibly dangerous. The risk from farming is almost never worth the APY unless you’re being very careful spreading out funds across protocols.

Marcus Hutchins on Twitter: “Fun fact: if you enable iCloud backup and don’t use backup encryption with a different password, someone can phish your iCloud login and basically clone your entire phone.”

BANKING

Israel Adds Yuan to $206 Billion Reserves in ‘Philosophy’ Change
The central bank of Israel just announced an investing philosophy change.
They’re dropping the US Dollar for Chinese Yuan.
Are you paying attention yet?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-20/israel-adds-yuan-to-206-billion-reserves-in-philosophy-change

@MorganStanley report released today focuses on the prospects of using the Lightning Network for retail purchases and on “the long-term transition towards payments and settlements using digital and cryptocurrencies instead of fiat currencies like the US dollar”. The report was sparked by the @jackmallers Miami announcement—MS points out that “one in six point of sale devices globally use software provided by NCR, so this announcement is significant even if only a small proportion of retail shops choose to add the crypto functionality”

Biden Has Nominated a Man from the Sandy Weill/Robert Rubin/Tim Geithner
School of Wall Street Hubris to Head Regulation at the Fed
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 20, 2022 ~
In addition to being a law professor at the University of Michigan, Michael Barr also holds the title as the “Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.” The Ford School sits in a […]
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/biden-has-nominated-a-man-from-the-sandy-weill-robert-rubin-tim-geithner-school-of-wall-street-hubris-to-head-regulation-at-the-fed/

Why Didn’t Vanguard, the Largest Mutual Fund Family in the U.S., Need to Borrow from the Fed while the Wall Street Titans Did?
For the past week, Wall Street On Parade has been crunching the cryptic data released by the Federal Reserve on March 31 that named the mutual funds that couldn’t meet redemption requests in their money market funds in March and April of 2020 without tapping loans from […]
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/why-didnt-vanguard-the-largest-mutual-fund-family-in-the-u-s-need-to-borrow-from-the-fed-while-the-wall-street-titans-did/

It’s Been More than Seven Months and Still No Investigative Findings on the Fed’s Trading Scandal
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 21, 2022
Robert Kaplan, Former President of the Dallas Fed
On September 7 of last year, Wall Street Journal reporter Mike Derby broke the story that “Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan made multiple million-dollar-plus stock trades in 2020, according to a financial
disclosure form provided by his bank….” […]
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/04/its-been-more-than-seven-months-and-still-no-investigative-findings-on-the-feds-trading-scandal/

HEALTH

“Not having to wear a mask on the plane but still having to take your shoes off at the TSA checkpoint is peak failure to assess risk.”

@k8_lister talking about Mediaeval sex on a podcast, talking to @GoingMedieval about Mediaeval sex.
https://pod.link/1612090432/episode/3e6bdfc553e682ffa6488d2fb0ae1322

The fertility paradox – poverty vs prosperity
https://spectator.com.au/2022/04/the-fertility-paradox-poverty-vs-prosperity/

Urine bugs may be a sign of aggressive prostate cancer
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-61150771

The Florida Department of Health just issued guidelines telling doctors to medically de-transition all transgender youth and banned them from social transition treatment, including “name, pronoun, and clothing changes.”
https://www.floridahealth.gov/_documents/newsroom/press-releases/2022/04/20220420-gender-dysphoria-guidance.pdf

Emotional abuse during childhood is linked to alcohol-related problems in later life through increased insomnia
https://www.psypost.org/2022/04/emotional-abuse-during-childhood-is-linked-to-alcohol-related-problems-in-later-life-through-increased-insomnia-62959

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday to exclude residents of Puerto Rico from U.S. disability benefits programs.

Puerto Ricans seeking federal disability benefits strike out at Supreme Court

GEEKY TOPICS

Software Defined Radio (“Radio nerditry”)
http://websdr.org/
A WebSDR is a Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet, allowing many listeners to listen and tune it simultaneously. SDR technology makes it possible that all listeners tune independently, and thus listen to different signals; this is in contrast to the many classical receivers that are already available via the internet.
International shortwave radio broadcasting is definitely a dying medium, and the number of countries with stations decreases every year. So if you want to experience this medium, the clock is ticking.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1516995086487334914

President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (1961) | National Archives
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address

Fox News Rupert Murdoch secret Deal with Reagan, Cohn

WHY CAN’T WE GET RID OF FOX NEWS?

Both Cohn and Reagan got their starts in politics during the anti-communist purges in the 1950s, Cohn as Sen. Joe McCarthy’s chief counsel and Reagan as a witness against alleged communists in Hollywood.

#fake news, #Fox, #FoxNews, #Foxpropaganda, #media, #Murdoch, #Murdochmedia empire, New York Post, #propaganda, #Reagan, #Reagan Administration, Reagan transition team, #RogerStone, #RoyCohn, #Trump

1983 Roy Cohn helps install Maryanne Trump in New Jersey court
Sometime in the summer of 1983, Maryanne Trump Barry asks her brother Donald for a favor: see if Roy Cohn can pull President Reagan’s ear and nominate me for a federal judgeship.
Cohn makes a phone call to Attorney General Ed Meese, and Reagan calls Maryanne on September 13. Maryanne is on the U.S. District Court in New Jersey by the end of October, and Donald Trump has political influence in the state where he’s building casinos.

May 23, 2008 The Dirty Trickster
Campaign tips from the man who has done it all. Jeffrey Toobin

1/28/2015 How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch, the global media mogul who is now a kingmaker in American politics, was brought into those power circles by the infamous lawyer/activist Roy Cohn who arranged Murdoch’s first Oval Office meeting with President Ronald Reagan in 1983, according to documents released by Reagan’s presidential library.
“I had one interest when Tom [Bolan] and I first brought Rupert Murdoch and Governor Reagan together — and that was that at least one major publisher in this country … would become and remain pro-Reagan,” Cohn wrote in a Jan. 27, 1983 letter to senior White House aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver. “Mr. Murdoch has performed to the limit up through and including today.”

How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America

Rupert Murdoch, corporate media propaganda, and CIA covert ops December 28, 2015
Through Fox News and a vast media empire, Rupert Murdoch wields enormous political clout in the United States, but his entrée into the world of Washington power came from the notorious McCarthyite Roy Cohn who opened the door into Ronald Reagan’s Oval Office, reports Robert Parry.

How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch January 28, 2015
Special Report: Through Fox News and a vast media empire, Rupert Murdoch wields enormous political clout in the United States, but his entrée into the world of Washington power came from the notorious McCarthyite Roy Cohn who opened the door into Ronald Reagan’s Oval Office, reports Robert Parry.
Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, Ronald Reagan, Rodger Stone and Rupert Murdoch…and yes, all the way to Trump.

12/29/2017 Trump-Murdoch Lawyer-Mentor Roy Cohn’s Complaint To Reagan Admin Re Murdoch Newspaper Access To Reagan; Mentions Roger Stone-Bill Casey

2017 Netflix documentary GET ME ROGER STONE

 

Jeffrey Epstein, Roy Cohn & Donald Trump: The Back Story
July 28, 2019
Government by Blackmail: Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s Mentor and the Dark Secrets of the Reagan Era
Cohn was also the attorney and friend of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and, according to New York Magazine, “Whenever Roy wanted a story stopped, item put in, or story exploited, Roy called Murdoch;” and, after Murdoch bought the New York Post, Cohn “wielded the paper as his personal shiv.” According to the late journalist Robert Parry, the friendship between Murdoch and Cohn first began thanks to their mutual support for Israel.

August 18, 2019
Part 1—A History of Roger Stone’s Most Notorious Dirty Tricks
By Ali Adair
Donald Trump— Roger Stone— Paul Manafort—Roy Cohn

September 20, 2019
How Roy Cohn’s Shame Made Him – And Trump – Shameless

PJ Grisar

Jul 30, 2021 How Reagan and US agencies made Murdoch a king. His media assets were critical to the Reagan administration’s ‘public perception’ program aimed at winning support for an aggressive policy of ‘regime change’ in Central America.

Cohn’s own homosexuality became publicly known after he underwent treatment for AIDS in the 1980s, leading to his death August 2, 1986 from AIDS.