CryptoFire

Crypto researcher. Special interest in tokenization. PhD. For now, more concerned about attacks on freedom and the US constitution.

[CryptoFire @CryptoFireAI]

To be clear: it is unambiguously good for Americans to be protesting ICE.

Republicans keep characterizing it as bad. But protesting against tyranny and abuses of power is a great American tradition. It is similar to what is happening - and being celebrated - this week in Iran.

[CryptoFire @CryptoFireAI]

WTF. It's like some warped version of the guilded age.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Mar-a-Lago last night, looks like it’s a man dancing in a Niqab

[Jelle @CryptoJelleNL]

Seems like a good level.

Have a nice weekend.

$BTC

[Croaky Caiman | The Rational Purview @RationalPurview]

MAGA inherited a Republican Party with 54 senators, 247 House seats, and 31 governors.

They coopted the tea party that led to these wins and ran on pure populism with no actual guiding conservative principles other than whatever one guy said at any given moment and what his ditto-head podcasters and influencers repeated.

For years, anyone who questioned the strategy was accused of destroying the party

Anyway, here’s the receipt.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Election maps need to be 3D in order to show population density for true accuracy.

[Vincinnatus 🇺🇸 @Vincinnatus]

Trump has achieved what lesser economic minds thought impossible:

Turning a tax on Americans into a net loss for the Treasury.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

I present to you, in two images, the disconnect between how Colom won versus how nutty very online lefties think Colom won

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Experts warn US artificial intelligence is "fully compromised" by China following Jensen Huang's affair with a Chinese Spy.

"Our data centers, compromised. All of our models, stolen."

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

So many stories like this. Accountability is coming. ICE agents work for us.

[CryptoFire @CryptoFireAI]

MAGA = armed, unaccountable, masked state police (thugs) disappearing people.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Months after a fund tied to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump put about $30 million into a nearly bankrupt spa company, the Trump administration awarded that company nearly $40 million in federal contracts to screen for Ebola.

The company made most of its money from airport spas and waxing salons.

It had never worked with Ebola.

It had never worked overseas.

Yet part of the money is for work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people this year. The company's CEO said, "I'm not sure we can do it."

This keeps happening. The same Trump-linked fund invested in a drone company, and five months later that company got an Air Force contract worth up to $90 million. A startup linked to Trump Jr. got a $620 million Pentagon loan after a top White House aide stepped in.

Their fund buys in, and federal money follows. Taxpayers foot the bill, and with Ebola, our safety is on the line too.

This is all totally corrupt.

Americans deserve answers under oath, and our conflict of interest and procurement laws must be enforced.
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[Tyler Strejilevich @TylerSCrypto]

look closely.

yea.

it's exactly how big you think it is.

#Bitcoin

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This new Reuters report is stunning.

A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.

Both men deny the meeting.

Flight records show their planes parked together that day.

Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.

Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.

Congress has a duty to act.

We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.

If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
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[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

I hope everyone takes a good hard look at this picture.

Trump’s under-construction ballroom is now bigger than the rest of the White House. Much bigger.

The contrast says everything you need to know about this President and his priorities.

[CryptoFire @CryptoFireAI]

@TrumpWarRoom Trump's literally a draft dodger.

[CryptoFire @CryptoFireAI]

Basically SS style thugs. It's not an accident - this is the kind of person Trump, Miller, and ICE WANT to hire.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

This is who Trump and Miller have hired, who then kill young fathers: untrained ICE agents who have “a troubling work history, domestic violence and abuse complaints, mental health issues, and a record of deep-seated anti-immigrant hostility”. @ktbenner
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[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Video shows soldier reprimanding Hegseth and advisers after some in the group laughed and talked at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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[Annmarie Hordern @annmarie]

“Sources told Axios that Lutnick has spent the last year "undoing" efforts by other administration officials to hold Megaspeed — a company accused of illegally diverting U.S. chips to China — accountable because of concerns it would escalate the trade war with China.”

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Since May, tariff refunds have amounted to 113% of new tariff collections.

That's a net loss of $15 billion for the Treasury.

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Politico: The Tech Right Pivots Left

Nowhere is that hard pivot more on display than with Alex Karp, the CEO and co-founder of secretive tech giant Palantir, which bet massively on Trump 2.0 and became an administration darling in the process

Inside Palantir’s Manhattan lair, in an exclusive sitdown with Playbook, Karp — who once criticized the Democratic Party as “totally irresponsible” — deployed the word ‘progressive’ eight times to describe his philosophy while acknowledging Democrats ‘absolutely’ corrected in 2026 enough to win back his support in 2028.

Karp: “I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. I grew up in a far left environment. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir— all of our products are essentially progressive.”

Link to article: https://t.co/hYUgQk6q2W