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Many of you may remember my reporting around "Operation Choke Point 2.0" from the spring of 2023; TLDR, Biden's financial regulators, namely the Fed, FDIC, and OCC, launched a crackdown on banks covering the crypto space. The first casualty was Silvergate Bank, which voluntarily liquidated. The standard reporting around Silvergate was that the bank lent to crypto depositors and those depositors were flighty; when rates rose, Silvergate suffered M2M losses on bond portfolios and ended up insolvent. Except that's not true. Silvergate weathered the storm, even though short sellers and members of Congress like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) encouraged a...

Graham Hetrick has made a career of signing off on cause of death reports as Dauphin County coroner. But lately, he’s been authoring an evolving minority report if you will on the coronavirus pandemic, one that clashes loudly with the medical establishment on issues such as the effectiveness of vaccines and the usefulness of masking. And the more he speaks up about it, the more pushback he’s getting. “I’m a little surprised that a public official would think he knows better than all of these organizations,” a UPMC infectious disease specialist told ABC27 Wednesday. “A result of these kinds of...