Metaphors for Living

Always that New York State of Mind

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Oppenheimer’s Ghost, 2022, Bryan McGovern Wilson, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

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@essa_muse NYT interview 1/2026: AF now living in Italy. “Here, they call me ‘maestro,’” Mr. Ferrara, 74, said. “They know I’m a filmmaker. That’s special to them. In New York, who cares? All you’re doing there is killing yourself to keep a roof over your head.”
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@ericadamsfornyc Former Mayor Adams— for all his disappointing colleagues and cronies- is looking pretty good in retrospect, all things considered… God bless and belated Happy Birthday

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If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do.

I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's currency. I would put my guy in charge of the agency that approves bank charters. I would install a crypto czar with $200M in crypto holdings and give him an ethics waiver so nobody could challenge it.

Then I would sign an executive order banning the government from ever creating a digital dollar so there was no competition.

Then I would have my family launch their own private digital dollar. My family takes 75% of net profits. I would grow it to $4.6 billion in circulation and route a $2 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign fund deal through it to prove it works.

Then I would get Congress to pass a law requiring every stablecoin in the country to hold short-term Treasury bills. Now every dollar of my digital currency is a forced buyer of government debt. Brookings projects $2.3 trillion in captive demand by 2030.

Then I would have my OCC guy grant my family's company a federal bank charter. Now I can issue my digital dollar with federal authority.

Then I would have my Treasury Secretary weaken the actual dollar. Bond buybacks that suppress yields but tank the currency. Build a $950 billion war chest for more. Let the debt hit $40 trillion. Dollar index drops to 99. Gold goes to highest point ever.

Then I would kill the Corporate Transparency Act and delete the FinCEN beneficial ownership database. That was the one law that required every shell company in America to report who actually owns it. Without it, nobody can trace who is buying my stablecoin, who is routing money through it, or where the profits land.

Then I would let the loop run. Weaker dollar drives demand for "stable" digital alternatives. The law I passed forces those alternatives to buy T-bills. That funds the government's debt. My family takes profit on every transaction. Foreign central banks walking away from Treasuries get replaced by legally mandated stablecoin reserves my family controls.

Then I would use sanctions to start cutting countries off from the dollar system entirely. And when those countries need a new way to transact in dollars, the only federally chartered private digital dollar in existence is mine. They can buy it through shell companies nobody can trace because I deleted the ownership database.

I just built a toll booth on the global financial system. I take a cut every time someone uses the dollar. And I made it so nobody can see who is paying.

And every single step I just described has already happened.

So what does that mean for you and I?

The reason the United States can borrow at low rates and keep your mortgage and your car payment and your import prices stable is because foreign central banks hold trillions in dollar reserves. That system has always been public. The benefit went to everyone. Lower borrowing costs, cheaper goods , and the single biggest economic advantage any country has ever had.

What I just described is the privatization of that function. The entity buying the debt is no longer a central bank acting in the public interest. It is a private company taking 75% of net profits for one family. The reserve function used to generate a public benefit. Now it generates a private fee.

Your purchasing power shrinks every time the dollar weakens. Your 401k buys less in real terms. Everything you import costs more. And every time the dollar drops, demand for the private digital alternative goes up. The one the president's family owns. The one that by law must buy government debt.

You absorb the cost of a weakening dollar. His family collects the profit. That is the trade.

The enforcement mechanism to stop a sitting president from doing this? There isn't one. Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says it would be a violation for literally any other federal employee, but not the president.

Nobody voted for this. No one was asked. There was no debate. There is no enforcement mechanism. There is no one investigating it. The Senate tried and it was blocked.

This is the largest conflict of interest in American history happening in broad daylight while everyone argues about something else.

So what do you do? Share this. Make it impossible to ignore. Send it to your representative, your senator, every journalist you follow. We make them answer for it.
Because the only thing protecting this scheme right now is the fact that not enough people understand it yet.

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Our star that seems made of gold nuggets: These are the most detailed images of the sun ever taken https://t.co/gmMhbnPcnK

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JACQUES VALLÉE’S FINAL WARNING

After nearly seventy years spent investigating the UFO Phenomenon, Jacques Vallée appears to be stepping away from public-facing research without providing the clean conclusion so many people desperately want.

If anyone had earned the right to give us a definitive answer, it would be him. Yet his final journal reportedly names no species, confirms no singular origin, and offers no triumphant announcement that the truth has finally been revealed.

What remains is far more difficult, which is the possibility that our demand for a simple answer is itself part of the problem.

Vallée’s work has long pointed toward something larger than biological visitors arriving from another planet. The extraterrestrial hypothesis may explain metallic craft and physical occupants, but it struggles with missing time, symbolic encounters, psychic effects, religious parallels, the manipulation of consciousness, and the apparent ability of the Phenomenon to alter its presentation across cultures and historical periods.

Something that changes its form alongside human belief, while producing effects within both matter and mind, does not behave like a conventional expedition from another world.

This is why I have never been comfortable placing the entire Phenomenon inside one explanatory box. Extraterrestrial visitors may absolutely be part of the picture. But if we force every encounter into that framework, we risk discarding the very characteristics that make this mystery so profound.

Most unsettling is Vallée’s suspicion that “Disclosure” itself could become the next stage of the old cover-up.

Disclosure can occur without revelation.

A government could acknowledge that something is present while retaining control over the evidence, vocabulary, and boundaries through which the public is permitted to understand it. By reducing the Phenomenon to military incursions, sensor anomalies, and threats to national security, its relationship with consciousness, mythology, religion, and human transformation disappears from view.

The admission would be real. So would the containment.

After seven decades, Vallée’s most honest conclusion may be that premature certainty is dangerous. Naming the Phenomenon too early could reduce it to something we already understand. Once that frame becomes fixed, everything that refuses to fit can be dismissed as irrelevant.

Something real is happening. It leaves traces in matter, enters consciousness, and appears capable of influencing human belief across entire cultures. Whatever intelligence exists behind it, assuming there is only one, may not respect our distinctions between physical and psychological, technology and mythology, or even past, present, and future.

Vallée may not be leaving us without an answer. He may be leaving us with a far more difficult responsibility: resisting the comfort of one. #ufox #ufotwitter

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Why the Adirondacks don’t burn like Canada’s forests https://t.co/QF00kAVHVr

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@mattvanswol You sound like an idiot.

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Evidently this horror movie trailer is playing before The Odyssey - it has (several?) jump scares that are freaking people out… lololol

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@MaverickDarby So insane- is this AI?

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@KingTunde_SZN 16

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@patriotjca @JoeRoganRecaps MAGA just can’t accept that some of their elected officials esp JD are deeply flawed. Liars. Prevaricators. Politicians.

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Iranian Christians allege U.S. gave Tehran details of asylum claims https://t.co/cfuS71sBSy

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The incomparable Michael McDonald and acapella Take 6 perform Don’t Worry Baby

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@aricchen @WUTangKids Gotta love it…..

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@gofishh77 Bizarre. But reminds me - Once on a road trip with our restless kids, I made “Auto-Nachos” with tortilla chips, shredded cheese, heated over the car cigarette lighter (when they still had cigarette lighters)…

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Brad Lander phoned it in for his last year as comptroller - POLITICO https://t.co/UGjiKN9toM

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REPOST by Monday, June 8 for a chance to win a signed poster for Ron James' original ACCIDENTAL TRUTH: UFO REVELATIONS - narrated by yours truly! I will select 3 winners at random and announce next #ModineMonday. Good luck!

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Dave Rubin Stumbles When Asked for What Trump Made Better. Nuthin! https://t.co/3dxyjga6QD