Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Nation-States, Central Banks Expected to Buy BTC in 2025, Fidelity Digital Assets Says
Rising inflation, currency debasement and growing fiscal deficits will push countries to make strategic bitcoin allocations, the report said.
Thailand to pilot cryptocurrency payments in Phuket
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Forgotten But Not Gone: Covid Keeps Killing, Five Years On
America’s first bird flu death reported in Louisiana
Politics:
Trump asks Supreme Court to block New York criminal sentencing
The Holiday Terror Plot No One Is Talking About
The media, the federal government generally, and the Justice Department and the FBI specifically, all have spent decades pretending that far-right violence and extremism just ‘happens.’ That there’s no ideology or organized effort behind it, that far-right extremism is just some sort of naturally occurring and random trait of certain offenders—like that some suspects have brown hair and others have blond hair.
And that’s where this week’s January 6th anniversary ties into three other apparent terror plots that we learned about and witnessed over the holidays that haven’t received proper context in the media’s coverage, three events that show that we are still under-reacting to the rising threat of far-right political violence in the United States, three events that show how unprepared we are for the months ahead as a nation, and three events that underscore—again—the danger posed by Trump’s choices of Kash Patel to head the FBI and Pam Bondi to serve as attorney general.
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DOJ says Eric Adams committed additional crimes
Federal prosecutors alleged in a recent court filing that New York City Mayor Eric Adams engaged in illegal activity beyond the bribery case laid out in a September indictment.
How long until Adams switches parties and gets a Trump pardon?
In sum: Trump just left open using military force against a NATO ally
Trump regularly declines to rule things out, but this one on Greenland is different.
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Merrick Garland to Release Special Counsel Report
Attorney General Merrick Garland plans to release only the volume of special counsel Jack Smith’s report dealing with Donald Trump’s plans to subvert the transfer of power, holding back on sharing the Mar-a-Lago report while the president-elect’s two co-defendants still face trial.
Doing the math on Russia’s territorial gains in Ukraine
Oh, no, of course not. This should not be seen as protection money for the mob boss: Quite a Payday for Melania Trump
Amazon is paying “a whopping $40 million to license the Brett Ratner-directed Melania Trump documentary plus another, previously undisclosed project from the First Lady…”
Trump can flick Marco Rubio aside like dandruff; brush Mike Johnson off like an errant crumb; turn Pam Bondi into Nikki Haley by midnight tonight. His orbit is filled with botoxed disposables who hang upon his favor; courtiers who can be stripped of their livelihoods and status — and exiled from MAGA altogether — if they offend the Orange God King. Trump can’t fire JD Vance, but he could destroy his truckling veep’s political future with a single Truth Social post.
Not so with Elon Musk.
Musk is the world’s richest man; a cult-figure in his own right, and the master of his social media domain. Now, in part thanks to Trump’s own patronage, he also holds sway over much of his domestic agenda via DOGE. If that were not enough, Musk is rapidly fashioning himself into a global power broker — with a decidedly Trump-like flavor.
Indeed, the two men seem to be dueling for attention — vying with one another with competing distractions, as Musk conducts his own independent foreign policy.
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We’re Listening! Canada Proposes Acquisition of Minnesota.
Serendipity:
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America's last Revolutionaries: Rare photos of US patriots
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