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Jimmy Kimmel used the “As I was Saying” line in tribute to Jack Parr the original late night talk show host when Parr came back on the air after he had “retired”.

Combined YouTube views for Charlie Kirk’s memorial between Fox and Turning Point USA: 6.9 million.

Jimmy Kimmel show views: 19 million and counting.
Don’t let them ever convince you that they are a majority.

Liberalism, fairness and justice are still far more popular in the US and around the world.

Yes… @PeteHegseth really quote tweeted that….they’re not even hiding it
July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.

Hitler ordered all German military personnel to swear an oath of personal loyalty to him as the Führer, or leader, of the German Reich — a crucial step in cementing his control over the armed forces and removing them from their traditional loyalty to the state and constitution.

“Navalny’s warning is devastating. Tyranny just requires mass acquiescence or simply indifference. When people stare down at the table and say nothing–instead of speaking out–a tyrant can lock up critics and destroy a nation’s institutions with ease.” READ: Why are you staring at the table?
A dead Russian dissident has words for all of us, on the eve of Trump charging his critics with crimes.
https://www.treason.io/p/read-why-are-you-staring-at-the-table

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/us/politics/justice-trump-george-soros-foundation.html

Hey MAGA, Trump is sending $20 Billion to Argentina because it seems Milei’s cuts to government are decimating their economy.
Peter Thiel IS the Antichrist.
The same cuts Elon and Donnie supported and thrust on America. Too bad the New York Times doesn’t have anyone covering the tech billionaire beat. This outbreak of globe-trotting apocalyptic fanaticism by a tech figure so deeply influential in US politics seems kind of newsworthy. The international press is tearing into Peter Thiel’s Antichrist fixation. Not lookin’ good for Gollum.
sh:t Nazis Apparently, he spooked a group of theologians in Austria with his 4 hours/4 days Antichrist sequence.
University of Innsbruck: “Problematic.” “Unsatisfactory.”
https://www.falter.at/maily/20250924/peter-thiels-geheimer-besuch-an-der-uni-innsbruck

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. Brian Niccol is absolutely vile.

Trump just announced a 100% tariff on pharmaceutical products, which is going to be a fucking disaster for tens of millions of Americans—especially seniors. Stupid policy.

They still haven’t released the Epstein Files and the media is still talking about an escalator.

Data centers get discounts—homeowners foot the bill
OpenAI plans to build data centers that require 10 gigawatts of power — which is about as much as all of New York City.
Billionaires pushing AI on us are getting free rein to use up as much power as entire cities, poison air and water, and get six-figure tax cuts to go and make more money.
The rest of us get higher utility bills despite our usage hardly changing.
That’s a rigged economy.

AlterNet described the Republican National Committee (RNC) which Priebus chaired as a “wholly owned subsidiary of the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity.” Priebus worked closely with the Wisconsin chapter of Americans for Prosperity #KochNetwork
So Trump wants to investigate George Soros. That will be a dead end, but I look forward to Dems investigating the Koch Brothers, Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, Miriam Adelson, and with any real courage AIPAC.

When Donald Trump took office eight months ago, the Department of Justice had 36 experienced attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians and police officers.
Today it has two. https://www.notus.org/courts/doj-public-integrity

Senator Wyden just opened a new probe into JPMorgan Chase’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Mikie Sherrill never cheated but didn’t get to walk at her Naval Academy graduation because she refused to rat on her classmates who did cheat. Meanwhile, her opponent Jack Ciattarelli and Trump broke the law by releasing private records in order to smear her character for political gain.

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing….The Nerve!!!
@thenerve_news
We’re all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!
Press Gazette @pressgazette
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla @sarah_donaldson @JaneFerg @ImogenCarter launch title with redundancy payouts
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-observer-big-hitters-launch-new-title-with-redundancy-payouts/

Trump’s lawyers just inadvertently admitted that his tariffs are illegal
Oops. https://www.vox.com/scotus/460312/supreme-court-trump-tariffs-vos-selections

Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom
California is the fourth largest economy in the world.
#1 in new business startups
#1 in manufacturing
#1 in farming
#1 in public higher education
#1 in Fortune 500 companies
Six of the top ten U.S. cities for quality of life in 2025 are located in California.
We are happier, live longer, and are dominating every industry.

Michael Burry: The moment your interest payments exceed tax revenue, your country officially becomes a Ponzi scheme

BITCOIN

JUST IN: WORLD’S HIGHEST IQ HOLDER JUST SAID #BITCOIN IS THE “ULTIMATE RESERVE ASSET” HE SAYS WE WILL 100X FROM HERE

Alex Gladstein @gladstein
My BPI keynote, delivered in DC to a hall full of American leaders
“Bitcoin is the Most Important Human Rights Technology of the 21st Century”
Please share with anyone who doesn’t think Bitcoin has a use case https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1939120278916718592/vid/avc1/640×360/_eglI0bYWkf1Zonh.mp4

ALL YOUR MODELS ARE BROKEN – OPINION NOT ADVICE:
October and November are bitcoins strongest months.
Cycle peak window Oct 15–Nov 20
Q4 = $BTC’s strongest season
What matters in investing is not how much the price of an asset is now, but how much room it has left to run. It takes a lot of reading to understand that Bitcoin can do a 10x from here. TIMING – is to out pace the normal regular benchmarks, which is obsolete. The timing is own it now. Just buy it. All your models are obsolete.

#Bitcoin #BTC #BitcoinCulture
NYC’s West Village, @PubKey has become a cultural home for Bitcoiners.
A bar that doubles as a Bitcoin shrine
Weekly meetups + talks from legends like Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert
Reviving Bitcoin culture in a city once written off as “dead”
85 Washington Pl, NYC

Vanguard Signals Crypto Adoption Wave
Vanguard refused customers access to the best-performing ETF in history because Bitcoin didn’t “align with their philosophy.”
Now, they’re finally bending the knee.
Everybody gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve.

Do NOT go to Britannica for your information about Bitcoin, their team is ignorant and has a tremendous amount of errors in their writing. Bitcoin is the only form of cryptocurrency that is truly decentralized due to its lack of a founder, corporation governing issuance, and peer-to-peer architecture.
https://x.com/DSBatten/status/1971258620537970965

James Fishback @j_fishback
In federal court, Jerome Powell’s taxpayer-funded lawyers told a judge the American people have “no legal right” to know what the Fed is doing in real time. Imagine our Founders hearing that—sitting next to my parents in court—watching unelected, unaccountable bankers make life-altering decisions in secret, then calling us the bad guys for demanding they follow the law and open the doors to the public.
We won today by exposing their secrecy scam. Now we’re weighing our next legal steps—not just for Azoria, but for every American who deserves better than these scoundrels who think we have no right to know what they’re up to.
A U.S. District Court judge on Monday rejected a legal bid by an investment
fund to force the Federal Reserve to open to the public a meeting on setting
interest rates this week.
The ruling found that the Federal Open Market Committee is not a
government agency subject to the federal “Sunshine Act” requiring open
meetings, despite claims to the contrary in a lawsuit filed by Azoria Capital.

SOCIALISM

They didn’t call the trillion-dollar Wall St. Bailouts “Socialism”
They don’t call nearly $1 Trillion in oil & gas subsidies “Socialism”
They don’t call the billions in farmer bailouts “Socialism”
But health care, wages, food for poor people? “SOCIALISM!”
Justin Kanew @kanew –

FAR RIGHT EXTREMISTS

Just like South Park !!!
Trump just called the Democratic Party the “party of Satan” on Truth Social. That’s demonizing your political opponents — literally. It’s not just rhetoric. This shifts the language toward extremism.

Multi Cultural Cities are an affront to the nazi far right, they prove we can all get along inspite of our different heritages.

New Realtime Techpocalypse article just dropped! It discusses the recent (failed) rapture prediction, and ties this into the AI apocalypticism that’s become rampant in Silicon Valley.
https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/is-ai-apocalypticism-really-that

Tesla offers $1 trillion contract to Musk. Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. proposed a new compensation agreement for Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk potentially worth around $1 trillion, a massive package without precedent in corporate America.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-award-musk-an-unparalleled-1-trillion-depending-performance-2025-09-05/

The US Justice Department remove a study from its website last week that concluded that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terror group.

Erika Kirk
https://sirescanor.substack.com/p/amerika-the-erika-kirk-files?r=5er7ls
Erika Kirk Named CEO of Turning Point USA After Charlie Kirk’s Assassination.
Erika Frantzve Kirk was Miss Arizona 2012 in Trump owned Miss Universe Organizations and the Teenage America Contest.
She ran Romanian Angels, an “orphan ministry” in Constanța, Romania.
Locals accused it of trafficking children under the guise of mission work.
Exactly the model exposed in Clinton Foundation scandals & Guatamala through ‘Save The Children.’
Those Romanian “orphans” are exported to UK, Israel, and undisclosed islands.

“Philanthropy” or pipeline?

Her résumé
• Trump’s Miss Arizona, 2012 (Trump-owned pageant).
• Casting director.
• Founder of multiple “nonprofits” with orphan projects.
• Married into MAGA’s golden boy after falling in love over an interview set up by Trump’s team.

COVID 19 HEALTH

FROM FAUCI TO JFK JR BRAIN WORM HEROIN ADDICT

Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history | Science | AAAS

Silent Invasion: COVID-19′s Hidden Damage to Human Organs
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8112/5/9/156

@ZdenekVrozina
A massive new peer-reviewed review (161 studies, 2+ million patients) makes it clear.
COVID-19 isn’t just a respiratory infection.
It’s a multi-system disease leaving lasting scars on lungs, heart, brain, kidneys, and more
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1970937100385255520.html

An experimental intranasal vaccine eliminates the COVID-19 virus in mice
“a single dose the protection in mice reaches 60%, the use of double immunization by intranasal route reaches 100% protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection”
https://www.csic.es/es/actualidad-del-csic/una-vacuna-intranasal-experimental-elimina-el-virus-del-covid-19-en-ratones

How to be bored again (what your brain does when you do nothing)

Antiviral nasal spray VIRALEZE™ could be helping the whole world over 12 yr olds.

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Alzheimer’s Drugs Are Finally Tackling the Disease Itself. Here’s How

The Toxic Avenger’ Relieved ‘Millions in Medical Debt,’ but Cineverse Only Spent $50K to Make It Happen
https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2025-07-17/medical-debt-erased-for-thousands-of-michiganders

Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg
For those confused about the lies this administration is telling now on the coming shutdown, let me get personal. I have been self-employed for decades and I have preexisting medical conditions. My only option for healthcare is through Obamacare. Without the subsidies that will be cut, I will be directly affected, and my health care costs will sky rocket. I am not an illegal immigrant; I am an American Citizen born and raised here. When @JDVance and others say this is only about healthcare for illegal immigrants, they are lying to you. I am a well known American Citizen who truly has no idea what he will do for healthcare next year.

Thank you to the Democrats who are fighting for Americans like me, like you, and like the many family members and friends that you love. Thank you to the Democratic leadership on this that tried everything to do this the right way and tried to meet with the President only to have him cancel.

I will figure out my personal situation and I am not looking for sympathy. I am truly worried about the millions of American citizens who are going to be devastated by this change.

This administration is working overtime to make America less healthy. Why?

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ECP NetHappenings Oh The Irony

NetHappenings Headlines: Bitcoin, Funny, Jobs vs AI, The Arts, Health, Politics

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
• Industry-recognized certifications
• 12 months of post-training support
• Strong employment partners
• 75% employment rate
CULINARY ARTS
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.
To learn more, email vt*************@*****et.org or call 610.563.6269

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
Disallow: /
User-agent: PiplBot
Disallow: /

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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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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THE OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE ACCOUNT IS BULL POSTING ABOUT #BITCOIN– WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
Bitcoin! is legal. All the fuddy duddy folks at your money management company will need to recommend it for your retirement portfolio or they will be considered negligent, and hopefully get fired.
People are under valuing this: the strategic bitcoin reserve announcement is huge for moving the overton window, the actual US government promoting bitcoin. This provides a new ultimate reference for sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, mutual funds to add bitcoin allocations.

The big takeaway from the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?
The US, issuer of the world’s reserve currency, just validated #Bitcoin as a credible, neutral reserve asset. The magnitude is hard to overstate. A global reserve asset shouldn’t be worth the same as Amazon. Soon, it won’t be.

After WW2, the world was decimated. The US was the only industrial power left standing. Europe and Japan were in ruins. The world needed to rebuild, and the US took the lead. How? The US funded global reconstruction with efforts like the Marshall Plan and Bretton Woods.
We are witnessing the unwind of the WW2 economic order.
What’s happening now is much bigger than tariffs. For nearly 80 years the US exported dollars while importing goods & debt. That system is failing.
What’s next? A move back to a neutral reserve currency. Got #Bitcoin?

America will be the Bitcoin superpower of the world.
The Golden Age of America has BEGUN!

$1 TRILLION STANDARD CHARTERED SAYS THE USA SHOULD SELL ITS GOLD TO BUY MORE #BITCOIN
– Standard Chartered, a major global bank with $1 trillion in assets, recently suggested the U.S. should sell its gold reserves to invest in Bitcoin, aligning with the bank’s bullish outlook on the cryptocurrency, as evidenced by their prediction of Bitcoin reaching $500,000. Gold served its purpose for centuries, but Bitcoin is superior in every way.. scarcer, more portable, and impossible to confiscate. The first nation to pivot fully to BTC wins the next financial era. The greatest trade of all time might be unfolding right now.

Must Watch Toxic American Bitcoin Saturday

WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TOLD PRESS YESTERDAY #BITCOIN “DESERVES SPECIAL TREATMENT” “BTC IS MORE SECURE, DECENTRALIZED, AND DOESN’T HAVE AN ISSUER.”

Trump signs executive order establishing crytocurrency reserve, but for now apparently only using coins currently held by the government.

‘We’ve decided Bitcoin is scarce, it’s valuable’ for US strategic reserve — David Sacks
Regarding ETH, SOL, XRP and ADA, “The president just mentioned the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap, so I think people are just reading into this a little bit too much,” said Sacks.

$110 BILLION VANECK SUGGESTS 6 WAYS FOR THE USA TO BUY MORE #BITCOIN
Possible budget neutral ways to acquire BTC:
1) Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF)— net $39B position. Self-funded, not congressionally approved.
2) Revalue Gold reserves (requires Congressional action)
3) Reduce the Fed’s permissible surplus (requires congressional approval. but doesn’t require specific on use of proceeds). For background: pre-2015, Fed had limitless surplus, then lowered to $10B (highway bill),
then reduced to $78 in 2018.
4) Lobby IMF to include BTC in SDRs (last review 2022, next in 2027). Phased integration like CNY in 2016?
Likely no congressional vote would require lobbying from lawmakers.
5) Bitcoin Bonds – u.s. Treasury issues bonds priced above par, with a small portion of the proceeds used to buy Bitcoin and the remainder financing government operations. The Bitcoin would be held as collateral
and returned to bondholders in-kind upon maturity, potentially alongside principal repayment in dollars (would likely require congressional approval as “material change” to structure of US debt.
6) Sell the 1.433 Billion pounds of Cheese stored in Missouri caves. Estimated value = —$2 to 4B. (Most of the cheese is privately held, but USDA can sell excess dairy without congressional approval.)
7) % of DOGE savings? unclear if general savings like this fit the bill.

No Plan Yet to Sell Gold to Buy More Bitcoin, But Treasury Will Decide: David Sacks
Treasury and Commerce secretaries will explore buying more Bitcoin in a “budget neutral way,” but such conversations have not happened yet, says the White House’s crypto czar.

Michael Saylor Bitcoin 2024 Keynote Speech (With Slides)

Michael Saylor Hints US Will Buy 1 Million Bitcoin For Strategic Reserve

SEC says Memecoins are not securities and that it won’t regulate them,
setting up millions of Americans to lose their life savings.

GOP Vote To Remove Debanking Oversight After Promising To Fight Debanking
Viral discussions on Operation Chokepoint 2.0 had the potential to reform a broken financial system. Instead, it birthed a disinformation campaign designed to save big tech from enforcement action while selling out consumers.

Got Bitcoin?
Lagarde reports that the digital € will launch in October:
–They will track every payment
–They can block purchases
–Automatic taxes
–Without cash, you depend on the ECB
They will sell you “convenience”, but you will lose freedom. And you will be happy.

trump

#InternationalWomensDay reminder that Republicans are trying to cancel the votes of 69 million women by passing the SAVE Act.

Trump voters shocked that a person who had six bankruptcies is destroying the economy.

The 7,000 IRS agents fired by Trump and DOGE appear to have mainly been employees who worked in the Large Business and International (LB&I) division, which audits companies with more than $10 million in assets and high-income individuals.

Trump has now spent more than half the weekends since his inauguration back at Mar-a-Lago, at immense expense to U.S. taxpayers and Florida law enforcement.

Trump is Krasnov and Doe 174.

How many young Americans died in WWII to save the world from fascism. Now the Germans are going to do it because our own president won’t. You can’t make it up. In a shocking twist of fate, *Germany* steps into the leadership vacuum created by Donald Trump and pledges to spend $536 billion to revamp its military and economy in the cause of fighting fascism and dictators across the globe.

This is 41-year-old Donald Trump in Moscow in July 1987 after being invited by the USSR Ambassador.
What do you notice?
There is some speculation that this trip was the start of a KGB effort to recruit Trump to be a Kremlin asset.
Former KGB officials, including Yuri Shvets, have claimed that Trump’s 1987 visit was part of a broader strategy by Soviet intelligence to develop relationships with influential Americans.
Just two months after his return to NY from Moscow, Trump paid almost $100,000 dollars for full-page ads urging the US to abandon its foreign aid to its allies and demanded they pay for their own security or fend for themselves.
Sound familiar?
In the 2000s, the Trump Organization sold numerous properties to anonymous shell companies, some linked to Russian and post-Soviet oligarchs.
In 2008, Trump sold his Palm Beach estate, Maison de L’Amitié, to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million, a number almost 2x its market value.
Follow the money. If it wasn’t for the Russians who baled him out he would be selling peanuts at Mar-a-Lago

“Our kids don’t need to know that our president is a rapist”
Yes the fuck they do.

Fascist Trump Pentagon flags 26K to 100K photos for DEI deletion, including war heroes and photos of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb: the Enola GAY.

Private equity firms are being allowed to loot the New Deal-era housing program thats supposed to offer low-interest mortgages. Private equity is funneling the program’s money into investments jacking up rents – and offering no mortgages.

The Trump administration plans to cut over 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to an internal memo.

Trump unenthusiastic about changes to daylight savings time right now.

Trump Is Gutting the National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence
National parks just had a record-breaking 331 million visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while they fire rangers, close visitor centers, and cut public safety. This will not go well—we love our parks.

MUSK

Elon Musk is literally a fucking nazi. If you need a list, here it is

DOGE Is the Deep State
A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!

[He said Musk heads DOGE — oops!] Lawyers use Trump’s speech before
Congress in suit against DOGE
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lawyers-trumps-speech-congress-suit-doge/story?id=119477540

Watch The Exact Moment John Roberts Realizes He Whored Himself Out – Above the Law

Elon Musk’s plan to cut the Social Security Administration’s staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days. That is beyond unacceptable.

IRS Chief Vows Revenge After Being Ousted by Elon Musk’s DOGE: “I’m just trying to do my goddamn job. They have no idea who they picked a f—king fight with.”

FAA SAYS THURSDAY SPACEX EXPLOSION DISRUPTED NEARLY 240 FLIGHTS
Musk’s SPACEX needs to compensate the public & airlines for flight delays of 240 flights.

FAA workers threatened with firing if they ‘impede’ Musk’s SpaceX federal deal

Elon Musk is rumoured to have lost over $151 Billion in worth as a result of Tesla’s stock price crash. This effectively slices his wealth in half.

When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” But WIRED has learned that some DOGE staffers are drawing six-figure salaries from the agencies they’re dismantling.

Starlink benefits as Trump admin rewrites rules for $42B grant program

AI

Pentagon to give AI agents a role in planning, operations

For all of the press coverage of AI, don’t look now but Meta just lost its motion to dismiss copyright case for alleged concrete harms from stripping copyright info off pirated books to train LLaMA.

Walgreens Fridge Fight Bodes Poorly for Future of Retail

Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved
A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more likable.

Politics / HEALTH

PRIVACY REDACT Pretty neat service that allows you to selectively or fully delete your history from 30+ sites: The only platform that allows you to automatically clean up your old posts from services like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and more, all in one place.

Glenn Doucette
Another FAFO moment. The County in Kentucky that produces Jack Daniel’s Whiskey voted 5-1 for the orange bloviator: The LARGEST purchaser is the Province of Ontario but they only pay for it once it’s sold. They are sending it ALL back with no payment: Jack Daniel’s just laid off over 650 employees.

Documents show American taxpayers spent $6 BILLION to develop the key ingredient in Ozempic — but after lawmakers repealed pricing rules, Americans are now charged Ozempic prices up to 11 times higher than the price in other nations.

Congressman Al Green @RepAlGreen Mar 6
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome
10 OTHER DEMOCRATS VOTED TO CENSOR AL GREEN

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