Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Binance Research Survey Shows 95% of Latin American Crypto Users Plan to Buy More in 2025
Ethereum rollback deemed ‘technically intractable’ amid Bybit hack pressure
AI's Premium Price Tags Are Creating a New Digital Divide
Politics:
Trump Uses Lies and Distortions to Drive Radical Change
Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change…
Mr. Trump has long been unfettered by truth when it comes to boasting about his record and tearing down his enemies. But what were dubbed ‘alternative facts’ in his first term have quickly become a whole alternative reality in his second to lay the groundwork for radical change as he moves to aggressively reshape America and the world.
~~~ embed:1893070884086206966 twitter metadata:c2VnYWxtcnx8aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9zZWdhbG1yL3N0YXR1cy8xODkzMDcwODg0MDg2MjA2OTY2fA== ~~~
Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release; moves tanks into West Bank
~~~ embed:1893171271418159340 twitter metadata:bWNjYWZmcmV5cjN8fGh0dHBzOi8vdHdpdHRlci5jb20vbWNjYWZmcmV5cjMvc3RhdHVzLzE4OTMxNzEyNzE0MTgxNTkzNDB8 ~~~
A Friday-Night Massacre at the Pentagon
Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government. None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple.
~~~ embed:1893127031845449837 twitter metadata:QW15TWNHcmF0aEtZfHxodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL0FteU1jR3JhdGhLWS9zdGF0dXMvMTg5MzEyNzAzMTg0NTQ0OTgzN3w= ~~~
The Death of Competition in American Elections
After decades of gerrymandering and political polarization, a vast majority of members of Congress and state legislatures did not face competitive general elections last year.
Instead, they were effectively elected through low-turnout or otherwise meaningless primary contests. Vanishingly few voters cast a ballot in those races, according to a New York Times analysis of more than 9,000 congressional and state legislative primary elections held last year. On average, just 57,000 people voted for politicians in U.S. House primaries who went on to win the general election — a small fraction of the more than 700,000 Americans each of those winners now represents.
Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Plummet
In the week following Trump’s announcement, ticket sales dropped by roughly 50 percent compared to the previous week, a stunning aberration.
~~~ embed:1893365932300411304 twitter metadata:U3RyYW5kanVua2VyfHxodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL1N0cmFuZGp1bmtlci9zdGF0dXMvMTg5MzM2NTkzMjMwMDQxMTMwNHw= ~~~
~~~ embed:1893394525009150318 twitter metadata:U2V0aEFicmFtc29ufHxodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL1NldGhBYnJhbXNvbi9zdGF0dXMvMTg5MzM5NDUyNTAwOTE1MDMxOHw= ~~~
Trump Moves with Light Speed and Brute Force
…Donald Trump is moving with light speed and brute force to break the existing order and reshape America at home and abroad. He likes the ring of calling himself king.
No one can absorb it all. By the time you try to process one big thing — he covets Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal and Gaza; he turns away from historic alliances and Ukraine; fires many thousands of federal workers, then brings some right back; raises doubts whether he will obey laws he doesn’t like; orders an about-face in the missions of department after department; declares there are only two genders, which federal documents will henceforth call sexes; announces heavy tariffs, suspends them, then imposes some — three more big things have happened…
~~~ embed:1893162429946761492 twitter metadata:QW1vbmV5UmVzaXN0c3x8aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9BbW9uZXlSZXNpc3RzL3N0YXR1cy8xODkzMTYyNDI5OTQ2NzYxNDkyfA== ~~~
Trump suggests Musk needs to be ‘more aggressive’
~~~ embed:1893314997620473932 twitter metadata:V2FyTW9uaXRvcjN8fGh0dHBzOi8vdHdpdHRlci5jb20vV2FyTW9uaXRvcjMvc3RhdHVzLzE4OTMzMTQ5OTc2MjA0NzM5MzJ8 ~~~
U.S. pressures Kyiv to replace U.N. resolution condemning Russia
~~~ embed:1893040947715260520 twitter metadata:R3JpcGVuTmV3c3x8aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9HcmlwZW5OZXdzL3N0YXR1cy8xODkzMDQwOTQ3NzE1MjYwNTIwfA== ~~~
~~~ embed:1893062875683389836 twitter metadata:SmF5aW5LeWl2fHxodHRwczovL3R3aXR0ZXIuY29tL0pheWluS3lpdi9zdGF0dXMvMTg5MzA2Mjg3NTY4MzM4OTgzNnw= ~~~
Serendipity:
The illegal church at the heart of US history
second place hockey teams source
Want a free Hive account? Join Hive using my referral link.
Am still waiting to see what trump has for the world especially this year
Congratulations @preparedwombat! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain And have been rewarded with New badge(s)
You can view your badges on your board and compare yourself to others in the Ranking
If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word
STOP