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Crypto industry observers were baffled Wednesday afternoon when an on-chain transaction showed that Paxos, the issuer behind the PayPal-branded PYUSD stablecoin, minted $300 trillion worth of the tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. A little over 20 minutes later, all 300 trillion PYUSD tokens were "burned," or effectively destroyed, by sending them to an inaccessible network address. For context, $300 trillion is more than 2.5 times larger than the entire world’s GDP, which is approximately $117 trillion, according to the International Monetary Fund. There is also only $2.4 trillion in physical U.S. dollars in circulation, per TradingEconomics. It cost just $2.66...

After ten months, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s Bureau of Elections has produced the constitutionally-mandated audit of statewide results from the 2024 election, but it missed reviewing any ballots from two of the state’s most populous cities. Made public on October 13, the audit’s risk-limiting, statistical methodology reviewed “a random sample of ballots drawn statewide.” But the sample precinct batches didn’t include any ballots from Detroit (Wayne County) or Troy (Oakland County). Detroit and Troy are the largest cities in the state’s two most populous counties. The Michigan Department of State press release said, “the report affirms Michigan’s election...

The United States Virgin Islands legislature is considering a bill that imposes extreme infringements on rights protected by the Second Amendment. The Bill is number 36-0144, which amends chapter 13 of the Virgin Islands Code Title 14. From legvi.org: Lawmakers considered Bill No. 36-0144, an act amending Title 14 Virgin Islands Code, chapter 113 to define and prohibit assault rifles, ban suppressors and silencers, and requiring safety training for licensed rifles and shotgun holders, prohibiting large-capacity magazines and preventing the illegal sales of firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition. The Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands is Gordon C. Rhea,...

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes BREAKING: Letters are being sent out from the Department of Agriculture directing states to pause EBT and SNAP benefits beginning in November due to the Government shutdown The letter shows benefits will be paused 🚨 Democrats are about to cause millions to lose food assistance

End Wokeness @EndWokeness Jacoby Tillman tried vioIentIy rping a girl in a park. He has a long, vioIent record. He was FREED yet again. $9,500 bail.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune Gov. JB Pritzker released partial tax records Wednesday showing he and his wife reported more than $10.3 million in taxable income — including more than $1.4 million in income from gambling.

The land I reside on, where I sit as I write these words, has a long history of human habitation, going back to the most recent major glaciation. Before Europeans came to Alaska, this general area, the Susitna Valley, was occupied by one subgroup or another of the Dena'ina linguistic grouping of the Athabascan people. The area started being settled by people of European descent in the late 19th century, when gold was discovered in the area (gold is a really powerful draw, it turns out). At some point, the land on which I reside was taken up under the...

Some of Christianne Amanpour echo chamber and her own sick propaganda since genocidal "Palestinian" Islamic-terror regime Hamas Oct 7 atrocities.Christiane Amanpour's coverage since the barbaric October 7, 2023, [beginning as it was happening], "Palestine" Hamas atrocities—where the genocidal Islamist terror regime slaughtered 1,200 innocent Israelis, including babies and Holocaust survivors, and took 251 hostages, and the declared aim to murder as many as possible —has devolved into a toxic echo chamber of her own twisted, anti-Israel propaganda. Far from objective journalism, her program has become a platform for laundering Hamas's blood libels, moral equivocation, and outright distortions that shield the...

And now for something completely different. I have something very different and very exciting today, which I hope you will enjoy. Dr. Sean McMeekin is a name that readers may recognize from his regular appearance in my recommended reading segments at the ends of our regular history pieces. Dr McMeekin is a prolific author of what I like to call “muscular history”, particular the wars and revolutions of the early 20th Century. A Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College, Dr. McMeekin is the author, among other works, of The Russian Origins of the First World War, July...

Not sure how I got on a Democratic text message solicitation, but I constantly am getting messages from various Democratic candidates using ActBlue. Never signed up for it. I’m constantly blocking new text messages soliciting donations. How do you get off once and for all of a Spam text message situation

As NBC ratings continue to fall with resultant reduction in revenues/profits, NBS has just fired 150 staff mostly made up of LGBTQ Out specialists and staff who concentrated on black, Latino people issues.

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6 far left visa holders who posted on social media rejoicing over Charlie Kirk's assassination during the award ceremony for Charlie yesterday, swiftly had their visas revoked. Rubio is on the job. Buh bye suckers! Love free speech, but why should America tolerate assassination lovers from other countries?

Earlier this month, how did Abdul El-Sayed, a far-left candidate in the Democrat primary for an open Michigan Senate seat, mark the second anniversary of Hamas' slaughter of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023? By sending out a fundraising email. Adding ghoulish insult to injury, El-Sayed's email began: "Two years ago this month, Netanyahu's military launched a ground invasion of Gaza."Incredibly, El-Sayed's email failed to mention the Hamas attack that prompted Israel's response. But just as El-Sayed never mentioned the Hamas attack in his October 7th fundraiser, neither did Cornish breathe a word of his outrage in their conversation. To...

New York magazine wondered aloud about the success of President Donald Trump in achieving a peace deal in the Middle East while the Biden administration was an utter failure in that regard. That puzzlement was reflected in the title of Ross Barkan's Tuesday Intelligencer section column, "How Did Trump Get a Peace Deal Done Where Biden Could Not?"Barkin struggles with the idea of Trump's success by denigrating him as merely a transactional deal maker in the real estate mode as well as being primarily motivated by a desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, such mockery is to be...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson argues that being black is like having a handicap or disability. They don't have equal access to the voting system. They're disabled."

Google will invest a staggering $15 billion to build data center capacity for a new AI hub in southern India, marking the company’s largest AI investment outside of the United States. CNBC reports that Google has announced plans to invest $15 billion in a new AI data center hub in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The investment, which will be rolled out over the next five years, represents Google’s largest AI investment outside of the United States. The announcement was made by Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian at an event on Tuesday. The deal comes after a year...

The United States boasts plenty of coal, wood, and fowl — enough to provide all the tar and feathers required. Indeed, the globalist bureaucrats at the United Nations should remember how Americans deal with unconstitutional attempts at taxation. According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.N. this week stands “poised to impose what amounts to a global tax on carbon emissions” — what the WSJ called “the ultimate in taxation without representation.” Despite lacking both sovereign authority and enforcement power, the U.N.’s London-based International Maritime Organization could attempt to saddle ships with taxes ranging from $100 to $380 per metric...

The Democratic Party is collapsing before our eyes. You can see it in the polls. You can see it in their internal panic. You can see it in the way their message shifts from week to week as they desperately grope for something—anything—that resonates with the American people. Now they’re shutting down the government because they want to fund healthcare for illegal aliens. Why you ask? For two reasons: one, because they need to continue to create a new demographic for political power by keeping the illegals here on our social welfare programs to shore up Democrat Party power. Second,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed in court today that all black people are mentally disabled, Justice Clarence Thomas gently informed her that it's actually just her. Not wanting to embarrass Jackson in front of the rest of the court, Justice Thomas waited until a brief recess to explain. "I don't know how to say this best, Ketanji, but not all black people are mentally disabled. It's just you," said Thomas. "You having an exceptionally low IQ has absolutely nothing to do with your skin color, Ketanji. You're just an idiot. I know this is hard for...