VanGogh

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

WHY THE HELL AM I PAYING TAXES TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT:

>CANNOT DEFUND THE TALBAN
>CANNOT SECURE OUR ELECTIONS
>CANNOT BALANCE A BUDGET
>CANNOT READ THE BILLS THEY VOTE ON
>CANNOT PASS TERM LIMITS
>CANNOT PASS DOGE CUTS

WHY ARE WE PAYING TAXES?!!!!!!

[Sherri Unfiltered™ @FFT1776]

If Jim Jordan is in charge of the ActBlue shitshow, don’t expect it to go anywhere.

Jordan grandstands with zero follow thru. His committee is where issues go to die.

[Digital Asset Investor @digitalassetbuy]

This sure would be a good way to back the banks down on the Clarity Act.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

“Journalists” are reaping exactly what they sow: Reputational destruction.

It is every American’s patriotic duty to shame them relentlessly.

Make them realize where they stand in our hierarchy.

Somewhere above pedophiles and below thieves, pimps, and drug dealers.

[Joshua Hall @JoshHall2024]

🚨BREAKING:🚨FORMER THUNE STAFFER SAYS RINO SENATE MAJORITY LEADER IS "GLEEFULLY" BLOCKING ALL OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S GOVERNMENT NOMINEES AND APPOINTMENTS - A former staffer of TRUMP HATING RINO Senate Majority Leader John Thune has come forward to claim that Thune is INTENTIONALLY BLOCKING EVERY SINGLE GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP NOMINATES to serve in his administration as a part of Thune's RELENTLESS EFFORT to please his puppet master Mitch McConnell by SABOTAGING our President and undermining him every step of the way. The staffer, who recently RESIGNED IN DISGUST after growing fed up with Thune's every day vulgar personal tirades against President Trump and open STONEWALLING of his agenda, is alleging that his former boss is WORKING HAND IN HAND with Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in attempting to TAKE DOWN the duly-elected President and is even LEVERAGING EXTRA MONEY AND RESOURCES for the re-election campaigns of fellow so-called "Republican" Senators who sign on to his TREASONOUS effort to RESIST The Trump administration. This is AN ACTIVE AND ONGOING COUP PLOT being orchestrated by The Senate Majority Leader against the duly-elected President of his own party - all for his own political power and benefit. What do YOU think the consequences should be for Thune for his ULTIMATE BETRAYAL of President Trump and do YOU agree that it is LONG PAST TIME for this TURNCOAT TRAITOR to be REMOVED AND REPLACED as Senate Majority Leader IMMEDIATELY?

[Svetlana Lokhova @RealSLokhova]

It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

George Orwell

[Q The Storm Rider @Q_TheStormRider]

JUST IN: Reporter Catherine Herridge testifies that CBS News locked her out of the building and seized all her files, says she was working with sources to "expose government corruption."

Nothing at all going on here, folks.

"CBS News’ decision to seize my reporting records crossed a red line that I believe should never be crossed by any media organization."

"Multiple sources said they were concerned that by working with me to expose government corruption and misconduct they would be identified and exposed."

"CBS News locked me out of the building and seized hundreds of pages of my reporting files, including confidential source information."

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.

[MedicUSA @MedicMaXX]

@mazemoore ♦️ We remember.

“As Nancy Pelosi was being evacuated from the Capitol, she admitted that she was responsible for the security failures and for not having the National Guard at the Capitol.”

https://t.co/IrLWfJUoe8

[Crowenation4547 @Crowenation4547]

@mazemoore @Mom3CCC When we now know the truth. Pelosi admits on video her daughter was shooting that day TWICE that she turned down the National Guard. Incidentally, Welker nor NBC has ever recanted their earlier statements even after these videos came out. There’s both videos.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Watch this clip to see why Governments insisted you were classed ‘unvaccinated’ for 14 days after the Covid shot.
This lady’s son was initially classed as an ‘unvaccinated death’ as were 98% of the immediate deaths from the ‘safe and effective vaccines’
They knew they would kill

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

EDITORIAL DOUBLE STANDARD: When I was a senior investigative correspondent at CBS News (2019–2024) I was stunned by how little due diligence some colleagues did on Southern Poverty Law Center's claims....

Versus their “attack dog” mentality applied to right-leaning non-profits and think tanks.

More for subscribers In this week's @X Article!

[VanGogh @1984repeat]

@RyanWeather @redsteeze I was thinking Scott was a partisan hack from the beginning.

[SonOfaRichard @heythereRich]

Which chain’s tokenized asset base becomes what agentic finance runs on top of?

That question was just filed with the SEC. By insiders. During a merger review. Food for thought, right?

AI agents can’t manage your portfolio if the financial system speaks the wrong language.

Login screens.
KYC popups.
T+1 settlement.
Business hours.

That’s not the end destination.

That system was built for humans. Not agents. Agents can’t act on it.

Blockchains were designed differently.

No login screen: a cryptographic key.
No submit button: a signed transaction.
The asset, the account, the rules for moving it: all live in code.

Tokenized assets aren’t just 24/7 — they’re accessible in agent language.

XRP plays two roles in this architecture.

1) The Bridge: cross-border settlement, FX conversion, liquidity without pre-funding. Already live. Already institutional.

2) The Legal Wrapper: $RLUSD + tokenized Treasuries on XRPL. Machine-readable.
24/7 reachable.
GENIUS Act compliant.
Settleable in XRP.

Sheathed by a regulatory wrapper.

OCC trust charter. GENIUS Act compliance. Fed skinny account pending.

XRPL is the only public blockchain where an institution can hold tokenized Treasuries and settle them inside a fully regulated framework.

(1) Bridge + (2) wrapper converging means:

A Japanese bank holds tokenized US Treasuries on XRPL, collateralized by $RLUSD, settles cross-border in XRP, clears through Ripple Prime on CME, all 24/7, machine-readable, legally defensible.

That’s not the future.
That’s now.
Every piece went live in the last 6 months.

CME 24/7 was yesterday.

Evernorth becomes a different type of bridge — the institutional on-ramp that lets TradFi legally access, deploy, and earn yield on XRP at scale.

EXAMPLES
A pension fund accesses XRP liquidity through Evernorth’s borrowing and lending infrastructure without touching a crypto exchange.

A bank deploys XRP as a settlement asset through Evernorth’s DeFi layer, fully compliant, fully auditable.

A sovereign wealth fund gains programmatic exposure to XRPL tokenized assets through a regulated US-listed vehicle.

The ETF got institutions in the door. Evernorth puts them to work.

The answer was already being built into the regulatory architecture while the question was still being asked.

$XRP

[SMQKE @SMQKEDQG]

‼️OFFICIAL DTCC PARTICIPANT LIST REVEALS RIPPLE PRIME NOW OPERATES ALONGSIDE WALL STREET GIANTS‼️

This internal DTCC document confirms Ripple is now in direct company with the biggest names in finance.🙇‍♂️

Hidden Road, operating as Ripple Prime, appears on the list alongside J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Charles Schwab, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, and many other dominant players.🔥

These are the firms that form the backbone of U.S. securities clearing and settlement.🔒

They manage trillions in daily volume across equities, fixed income, repo, and financing operations through the DTCC’s infrastructure.

And now a Ripple-controlled entity has been granted the same operational access as these finance giants.💯

This is rare for a crypto firm.

Ripple Prime’s inclusion puts a crypto-native prime broker inside the post-trade backbone responsible for quadrillions in annual U.S. market activity.📈

Institutional clients can now execute, clear, and settle traditional securities through a platform rooted in Ripple technology.🎯

This is the path for XRP to truly reach quadrillions in scale through regulated, high-volume channels.😏💨

Documented.📝👇

[Diligent Denizen 🇺🇸 @DiligentDenizen]

‼️🇺🇸: BODY OF ONE OF MISSING SCIENTISTS FOUND 👀

The remains of Melissa Casias, were discovered outside of Taos New Mexico on the edge of a national park by a hiker yesterday.

Casias was a high-level assistant at the Department of Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory, and disappeared last year in June.

Her ERASED PHONES, wallet, and car keys were left in her home in Ranchos de Taos home, her car was left parked outside. 👀

Cause of d3ath has not yet been released.

This stinks to high h3ll. 🤨

[Tim Noakes @ProfTimNoakes]

"The distribution pattern wasn't random. Catastrophic batches were disproportionately sent to specific zip codes. Zip codes with high concentrations of military veterans. First responders. Independent business owners. Communities with historically low compliance to federal mandates. The people most likely to resist got the most dangerous doses. Moderate batches went to urban centers with high media consumption—populations that would report mild symptoms, feel it was "normal," and return for boosters without hesitation. Placebo batches went to politicians, media figures, and pharmaceutical executives. The people promoting it on television. The people telling you it was "safe and effective" while receiving saline. They took the same vaccine on television. They didn't take the same formula. The 12,000 batch numbers are now mapped. Every batch".

[Critica Climatica Alias Fortunato Nardelli @climacritic]

Lo scioglimento delle lastre di ghiaccio in Norvegia ha rivelato reperti umani incastrati nelle rocce sotto il ghiaccio. Il che significa che all'epoca dell'Età del Ferro (800-450 a.C.) faceva abbastanza caldo da impedire la formazione del ghiaccio.
Era più caldo di oggi, e questo è stato dimostrato dalla datazione al carbonio degli stessi reperti trovati.
Altro che maggio più caldo di sempre!

[SonOfaRichard @heythereRich]

Evernorth dropped a new 2600 page filing late on Friday.

MicroStrategy did it for Bitcoin. Evernorth is doing it for XRP — and they’re almost through the door.

📊 THE NUMBERS

•473M XRP held (~$656M at May 4 pricing)
•$1B+ gross proceeds raised (Ripple, SBI, Pantera, Arrington)
•126.79M XRP contributed directly by Ripple Labs
•$2.44 avg cost basis on 473M tokens
•$230M implied public shareholder valuation at $10 reference price
•2,600 pages in the latest S-4/A filing (Amendment No. 3)
•3 amendments filed: Mar 18 → Apr 7 → Apr 27 → now May 2026

🔝 TOP 5 CHANGES / OBSERVATIONS IN THE LATEST FILING

1. Full Exhibit Package Now Included
Earlier filings referenced agreements in form only. This amendment appears to include the complete voluminous package of agreements, financials, annexes, and pro formas  — standard signal that SEC review is nearing completion and they’re submitting a near-final-ready document.

2. Updated Financials + ASC 350-60 Fair Value Mechanics Refined
XRP price references have been updated (Coinbase close Dec 31, 2025 at $1.839; signing price ~$2.37). The pro forma dilution tables now include all redemption scenarios — 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100% — critical for showing institutional investors the floor case. Fair-value accounting under ASU 2023-08 means every XRP price move flows directly to earnings. Volatility = feature, not bug — it’s the whole pitch.

3. Active DAT Model Hardened (Not Just Hodling)
The “active” framing is now central. Unlike passive vehicles that track assets without intervention, Evernorth is pursuing a true XRP treasury approach  — validators, RLUSD integration, institutional DeFi lending/yield on XRPL. KPIs being introduced: XRP-per-share and yield-per-token. This is the differentiation vs. spot ETFs.

4. Governance + Voting Power Structure Finalized
SBI voting power detailed across scenarios (up to 29.8–59%). Stuart Alderoty (Ripple CLO) formally named to board with signed consent in filing. Voting caps (9.9% for certain groups), Up-C structure (C-corp over LLC), Tax Receivable Agreement (85% to insiders) — all locked in. The power structure is Ripple/SBI dominant with public float exposure below.

5. Regulatory Tailwinds Now Explicitly Cited
The filing now references the favorable Ripple-SEC resolution, 2025 CLARITY and GENIUS Acts, and Trump EOs as risk mitigants rather than uncertainties. Earlier filings had these as open questions. That’s a material shift — the legal moat is now a selling point in the prospectus itself.

⏱️ HOW CLOSE?

Not days — but weeks to low months. Here’s the sequence left:

1.✅ Amendment No. 3 filed (this filing)
2.🔄 SEC declares effectiveness (no further comments) — likely the final gate
3.📬 Definitive proxy mailed to Armada II shareholders
4.🗳️ Extraordinary General Meeting (shareholder vote — date TBD, likely Q2/Q3)
5.🔒 Closing conditions satisfied (XRP contributions, Nasdaq listing, DTC, min net assets)
6.🚀 XRPN begins trading

All that remains is final SEC clearance and a shareholder vote.  The private funding is committed, XRP is already held, and the institutional backing is locked. Redemption risk is the main wildcard — high redemptions reduce cash available for additional XRP purchases, but the private placement cushions that.

🎯 BOTTOM LINE TAKEAWAY

This isn’t a concept. Evernorth wants to become the largest public institutional holder of XRP in the world — with over $1 billion already converted into XRP treasury holdings, the foundation is firmly in place. 

When XRPN goes live, it creates a reflexive demand loop: equity buyers → company buys XRP → XRP appreciates → NAV rises → equity premium → more buyers. MicroStrategy’s playbook, but with an asset that’s simultaneously the settlement rail for the post-Bretton Woods financial system.

Window 3 is live. This is what it looks like.

[Not A Number @myhiddenvalue]

Reminder: This building in Oklahoma City was blown up and destroyed just 4 days before Hillary Clinton was to be indicted in the Whitewater scandal.
All documents lost!

[Stand With Crypto🛡️ @standwithcrypto]

Sorry Jamie, but the people have spoken. They want Clarity, and they Stand with Crypto 🛡️