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[Financial End Times @EndFinancial]

$LINK

[Flannelhandler.lens @LoverPlaid]

I don't care what you think, total crypto market cap will be around 8 - 10 trillion minimum in 2030. If you really think you should sell now, more power to you.

I'm STILL getting more $LINK any chance I get.

[The Other Side Media @TheOtherSideRu]

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian soldiers enter dugout near Dobropolye where Ukrainians had been filming propaganda videos

The retreat looks hasty — the Ukrainians left behind phones, tablets, a camera, and other gear

[CoinMarketCap @CoinMarketCap]

LATEST: 🇰🇷 Chainlink and LG CNS announced a partnership to integrate Chainlink's oracle and cross-chain infrastructure into LG CNS's digital asset platform for Korean institutions.

[GH HILL @GHHILL1911]

Shotguns remain the very best weapon ever devised for static defense situations.  Meaning Home Defense or Security.  But we’ve seen a trend that has people moving away from the Shotgun in other situations.  Such as your Truck Gun or Cruiser Gun.  Police have turned to Rifles, and SBR’s have become the gun of choice for Truck/Cruiser Guns.  And depending on where you are – this may or may not be a good thing.

The popularity of the AR-15 is unquestioned.  It’s become “America’s Rifle”, and by Right, it should be. The AR-15 in it’s Militant Form has been serving the Nation as our Military’s main battle rifle for over 60 years.  It’s cool to have an AR-15 and it’s cool to deck out that rifle with all sorts of add-on expensive parts and upgrades and components… and to make it so it doesn’t actually look like an AR anymore.  That’s for the Cool Guys… but is it for you?  Is a 3,000 dollar rifle what you need to defend the castle?   Really? Do you need to reach out to 600 Meters with a glorified .22 magnum? Maybe you do.

When I lived in Vernal, Utah I most certainly could use that range and precision accuracy for defensive use.   Maybe.  In some Red Dawn Zombie Fantasy.  In reality… my actual defensive needs were maybe 50 yards max.   That’s 00 Buck range.  If I had to extend – realistically I’d only need 100 yards.  That’s Slug range.   I’m talking Defensive Use… I’m not talking precision sniper Hostage Rescue use.  That’s for Police.  For my buddies in the Sheriff’s Department with the well zeroed heavy rifles. I can’t justify defensive use 200 yards away.

Reality dictates I need to stop a threat that’s trying to come into my home.  And that’s where Joe Biden’s suggestion is actually a good one.  "Just buy a Shotgun." The only true thing he's ever said in his life. He was absolutely right.  And then he threw that statement out the window with the two blasts in the air and the shooting through doors thing.  But he was right about buying a shotgun.

Remington 870.  Mossberg 500 or 590.  One of those. You don’t need a $2,000 Benelli M4… By all means, if you can get one, do it… but the mission is quite resolved with a $400 Pump Action.  Avoid the Turkish Made shotguns that look like space guns. I’d rather buy a well used Remington 870 or Mossbergy 590 type than anything else… that’s just me.

Get some good 3″ hunting loads for it… not the super cheap #7 or #8 Shot loads… those suck.  Get some good loads and test the shotgun for reliability.  If it cycles good, and isn’t knocking you on your tush… you’ve got the weapon you need.  NOW the fun part comes in.  Now you get to go find all the different 00 Buck Loads you can find.  A box or two of each.  And find maybe 3 or 4 different Slug Loads.  Now go out and find some big boxes like appliances come in.  Draw a circle or Tape a paper plate on the box…. several of them. And get to testing.

Patterning your Shotgun is like Zeroing your Rifle.  Find the load that your Shotgun likes the best – not the load You like the best.  There’s a difference.  If your load is giving you a pattern that is empty in the center – that is not your load.  You want a nice spread across your impact zone.  For the slugs, you want point of aim, point of impact accuracy and consistency.  Once you find the loads that your gun likes the best – That’s the ammo you go stock up on. Buy a case of it.

It’s unbelievable to me that guys will buy a brand new shotgun and then buy a couple cases of the cheap birdshot ammo… and that’s it.  If you are buying a gun to go break clays with – fine.  But for a shotgun you are going to defend lives with?  That’s irresponsible.  Take everything you do for gun safety and professionalism – and throw it out the window.  Your gun is untested and unzeroed = that’s a NO GO.  Yet you do that with your shotgun?  That’s a Fail.  You need to know how your gun performs with the ammo you are going to use for defense.  And seriously #7.5 load that has Clay Pigeons on the box is NOT your defensive ammo.  Or else it shouldn't be.   Ever.  

The smallest you should use for defense in any situation is BB Shot.  Even in an Apartment or close packed trailer park.  And even then, I’d suggest #4 Buck.  The shell should also be “High Brass”.  Trap loads often have aluminum bases with very short heads… During firing in some guns, that little bit of aluminum will expand out and create a lock ring in your chamber making ejection very difficult or it could jam the gun, requiring some serious pounding to get it unstuck.  I’ve seen that in many shotguns using that cheap ammo.  You want big pellets and high brass.  And quite frankly, the bigger the better.  Police agencies across the nation and around the world who use shotguns, use 00 Buck for a reason.  Go ask your local Sheriff’s Department what they recommend for shotguns or what they use.   Some may use Regular or #4 Buck… I know some that used to use 000 Buck before switching to rifles.  But the great majority use 00 Buck.

When it comes to slugs, you want to use a Brenneke or Foster type slug.  Brenneke slugs have a drag device on the back of the slug… an attached wadding or plastic tail to stabilize the slug.  A Foster will generally be rifled and have a hollow base.  Either one is suitable for your smooth bore, and will be shockingly accurate if you do your part.

The Slug type to avoid in a smoothbore gun is a SABOT. Oh, I know they look cool as hell.  But they require a Rifled Bore. If that’s what you have, by all means… but we’re talking defensive smoothbores here and with those, a SABOT is useless. They will be less stable, less accurate and they are going to tumble in the air before they strike the target and wont perform like a giant hollowpoint bullet. You are wasting your money on those. From all the testing I’ve done with common slug shells… overall the Brenneke type slugs are consistently the most accurate.  Especially in the 3″ loads.  Your shoulders may want something else.  2 3/4″ Foster type slugs from Winchester or Remington are common and do quite well.  Reduced Recoil Tactical Slugs kick a lot less and are just fine out to 100 yards.   But buy some different types and try them out.

The shotgun is much more capable than most guys think.

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

There is a little boy in Poland named Michael who only exists today because a 24-year-old American soldier from Staten Island stepped directly in front of a suicide bomber to save a man he barely knew.

If you want to know what real American heroism looks like, you need to know the name Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis.

It was 3:54 a.m. on August 28, 2013, at a forward operating base in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Most of the base was sleeping when a 3,000-pound car bomb ripped a massive hole through the eastern perimeter wall. Through the dust and the chaos, ten insurgents strapped with suicide vests poured into the compound.

Michael didn’t hesitate. After making sure his men were safe in a bunker, he ran directly toward the sound of the gunfire. He didn’t even have time to put on his protective equipment. Armed with only his rifle, Michael linked up with a Polish officer he had just met, Lieutenant Karol Cierpica.

Together, the two men stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the dark, fighting back the onslaught to protect the rest of the base. They killed eight of the attackers, and a ninth was shot after throwing a grenade. But then, from behind a row of shipping containers, the tenth bomber emerged.

As the terrorist charged them and detonated his suicide vest, Michael did the unthinkable. Without a second thought, the young man from Staten Island stepped directly in front of the blast, using his own body as a human shield to absorb the shockwave.

Michael was killed instantly. But because of his ultimate sacrifice, Karol Cierpica survived.

Karol eventually returned home to his family in Poland, carrying the unimaginable weight of a life bought by another man's blood. A couple of years later, Karol and his wife welcomed a beautiful, healthy baby boy.

They named him Michael.

Today, that little boy is a walking, breathing testament to the unbreakable bond of brotherhood and the sheer, unmatched courage of the American soldier. Michael Ollis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, but his true legacy isn't just a piece of metal—it's a father raising a son across the world, passing down the story of the American hero who gave him the ultimate gift of life.

Share this if you still believe in the American soldier, and if you believe the name Michael Ollis deserves to be remembered by every single person in this country.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

The best American airplane of WW2 was the Grumman F6F Hellcat. It's the plane that killed the Zero's legend, and it's one most people forget about.

Everyone thinks of the P-51 Mustang. The Mustang was great. But no American fighter piled up a record like the Hellcat.

Back in 1941, the Navy's main carrier fighter was the F4F Wildcat. Rugged, reliable, and badly outclassed by the Zero. Wildcat pilots survived by teamwork and tactics, not by having the better airplane.

Grumman was already working on a replacement. And after the first months of the war, they did something smart. They talked to the pilots actually fighting the Zero and asked what they needed.

The answer was simple. More power. More speed. More climb. More armor. More ammunition.

So Grumman built the Hellcat around a massive 2,000-horsepower Pratt & Whitney engine. It was big, heavy, and tough. Armor plate protected the pilot. Self-sealing fuel tanks kept it from going up in flames. Six .50-caliber machine guns.

And here's a myth worth busting. You'll often hear that the Hellcat was designed by copying the Akutan Zero captured in Alaska. It wasn't. The Hellcat prototype first flew on June 26, 1942. American forces didn't even find the Akutan Zero until July. The tests on that Zero helped pilots learn how to fight it. The Hellcat was already in the air.

It reached the fleet in 1943 and entered combat that summer. Then Grumman's factory on Long Island started pumping them out at an incredible pace. Over 12,000 Hellcats were built in about two and a half years.

Japan's veteran pilots were dying off. The Hellcat was arriving in waves.

The peak came in June 1944, at the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Japan launched hundreds of planes at the American fleet. Hellcats met them far out from the carriers and shredded them.

One pilot, Alex Vraciu, shot down six Japanese dive bombers in about eight minutes. Commander David McCampbell shot down seven in one day. Pilots coming back to their carriers said it felt like an old-time turkey shoot. The name stuck: "the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot."

Four months later at Leyte Gulf, McCampbell and his wingman took on a formation of around 60 Japanese planes by themselves. McCampbell shot down nine in a single mission, still an American record. He finished the war as the Navy's top ace with 34 kills.

By the end of the war, Hellcats were credited with more than 5,000 enemy aircraft shot down. That's the most of any American fighter. Roughly three out of every four Navy air-to-air kills. Hellcat pilots claimed about 19 enemy planes for every Hellcat lost in aerial combat.

The Navy produced over 300 aces flying Hellcats, more than any other American plane.

It wasn't the fastest fighter in the war. It wasn't the prettiest. Pilots joked that Grumman didn't build planes, it ran an "iron works." But it was tough enough to bring its pilot home, and there were enough of them to fill every carrier deck in the Pacific.

The Zero was built for a short war. The Hellcat was built to win a long one.

[m. stanfield @resetbasis]

Dinner with an exec/friend at a large national property management company tonight. This person oversees ~150k apartments; access to an insane amount of data.

Current multifamily market in most of the country is worse than S&L, .com bust, or the GFC. Worst they’ve seen.

Class A mostly fine, decent rent growth. However:
- credit scores at class A have gone down meaningfully over the past 3 years.
- more people are paying rent via credit card.
- average bank account balance noticeably lower than even 2 years ago
- class A tenants stretched thin, living beyond their means. 20k comes in, 20k goes out every month.
- starting to see these renters move down a tier

Class B:
- simply too many apartments, we built too much new stuff. Ripple effect is enormous.
- fewer renters tomorrow than today. Same store foot traffic noticeably down year over year. Some markets down 40-50%
- considering dropping rents below $700 a month on some 1beds in major southern markets.

Class C:
- looking at degrading NOI. Rents aren’t growing for a long time, but expenses keep creeping up
- more renters are one missed paycheck away from disaster than they can remember seeing in decades
- tenants aren’t paying rent because they simply don’t have it
- wage growth has not kept up

Lenders:
- some major investment funds, household names, haven’t paid their mortgages in 2-3 years. Banks won’t foreclose because “X is a big client.” Mexican standoff.
- a roof leak gets ignored, becomes water damage, then mold, then a down building. Buildings are rapidly deteriorating as some owners choose cash preservation over funding losses.
- number of pre-foreclosure and REO deals is the highest as a % of total units they can recall.
- data providers know it’s bad, but they’re paid to sell optimism to owners/lenders. So every forecast is “it will probably get a little better next year maybe” and that gets regurgitated at investment committees all over.

I asked “how do you think this ends?”

“Not sure. My gut says slowly then suddenly, and things will get really bad. Been doing this 40 years, you can feel it in the air. But, there’s a chance it’s just a decade of tolerable pain. I’m praying for that.”

[run ⬡ the ⬡ juels @nullpackets]

this is like that friends episode where Ross and Brad Pitt along with an indian exchange student started the "I hate Rachel Club" when they were actually secretly in love with her

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Do you guys remember that one glorious week when the auto translate feature brought the Japanese posts flooding onto the timeline and we learned that they are actually like **the best** friends we never knew we had?

They were just ripping bbq, monster trucks, kfc, honky tonks, and literally the friendliest people of all time

And totally reciprocated too like immediately the American tpot started going nuts for samurai and anime and sushi and it was just this big cultural dab up and we learned that two atomic bombs couldn’t keep us from loving each other and all those countries we were allied with in ww2 were totally lame and ungrateful in comparison

Probably my overall favorite week on this app

[Nelson Rodrigues @NelsonRedPill]

Acho que a frase pegou mesmo.

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

I’m still looking into all of these leaks from Data Republican and others, and whether or not it can be determined that their actions are legally treasonous, it is quite clear that in actuality their plan is to foment violent protest against “authoritarianism” in order to illicit a law enforcement response to protect communities and citizens from violence, and then use that action as evidence of authoritarianism and to further fuel protests with the express intent of delegitimizing the government so that they can further their revolutionary aims.

Why I don’t simply roll my eyes and treat this as commie activists just cosplaying to make themselves sound important… people who have worked at USAID and networks who have field color revolutions abroad are actively involved with this at the organizational level.

This is a serious ploy by people who have professional experience advancing color revolutions.

Americans should get spun up on what is going on here. It’s serious and it should be taken seriously and not just dismissed as some conspiratorial thing that exists on X.

When the left does this, it will be fore the purposes of creating the predicate for impeachments and an all hands radical movement to cause violent protest and then spin it as righteous uprisings against authoritarianism.

[The Pholosopher 🌎🕊 @ThePholosopherX]

The PEOPLE have the right to keep and bear arms. The militia is just feature, not a mandate.

[John Quakes @quakes99]

🤔The No. 1 question I get from frustrated investors is:

"By every metric, the underlying #Nuclear fundamentals are extremely bullish, as plain as the nose on your face👃 yet #Uranium #stocks have been beaten down to severely oversold levels. Why?"🤪 Here's my take:

The Uranium space is tiny compared to other sectors, with high levels of volatility and a very high risk investment profile.⚠️ As a result, it gets treated as a small "add on" by fund & institutional portfolio managers, hedge funds, family offices and high net worth investors. They don't build separate portfolios just to hold their small uranium stocks & ETFs exposure.🦐

Instead, they put their uranium holdings into other baskets of investments.🧺 Some see U as an AI picks & shovels play with Nuclear power, so they put their U sector holdings in their AI baskets.🧺🤖

Others see U as a mining & metals play, so they put their U holdings inside their gold, silver, copper and other mining & metals baskets.🧺⛏️🪙

As uranium is the fuel for Nuclear reactors, they also put U stocks & ETFs in their oil & natgas energy baskets.🧺🛢️☢️

U can see the problem with that.😧 If any one of those sectors gets dumped by those portfolio managers, it ends up driving down uranium stocks as "collateral damage" with baskets getting tossed for reasons completely unrelated to the extremely bullish U sector fundamentals!🧺🤖⛏️🪙⤵️🗑️

Since Trump launched his war on Iran, energy prices have soared, as have US Treasury yields to 24 year highs, while metals prices have tanked and investors have gone "risk off."😱 Portfolio managers have been dumping their high risk mining & metals baskets as the costs of production & financing have risen while commodity prices have fallen (except for Uranium prices which remain at a record high for term contracts).🧺⛏️🪙⤵️🗑️

At the same time we see investors taking profits and rotating out of the AI boom, concerned about debt levels & CAPEX requirements amidst uncertain profit outlooks.😟 AI added an extra tailwind to the Uranium bull case, but as portfolio managers dump their AI baskets they end up dumping their U sector holdings at the same time, regardless of the U sector's bullish outlook.🧺🤖⤵️🗑️

On top of that you have Trump's irrational trade war launched against Canada.🦧 The major western uranium producers & developers are in the ultra high-grade Athabasca Basin... Cameco, NexGen, Denison et al... based in Canada.🇨🇦 Small explorers & developers trade primarily on Canada's TSX Venture high-risk speculative resource exchange.🎢 When investors saw uncertainty around Canada's ability to win this trade war (while Alberta was toying with the idea of separation) many exited their high risk U stocks positions until they see more certainty returning.🧺⚛️⛏️⤵️🗑️

U see... the convergence of AI, risk-off, mining & metals sell-offs since January has led to U stocks & ETFs becoming "dramatically oversold" while the fundamentals for the U sector have continued to grow more bullish on a daily basis, now the strongest they've been since the 1980s as the world turns to Nuclear to mitigate climate change, find energy security amidst a global energy crisis and provide the essential 24/7 reliable carbon-free electricity needed to fully enable the AI revolution.💪⚛️⛏️

Eventually the tide will turn as the very compelling investment case for Uranium becomes too extreme to ignore.🤑 It's anyone's guess as to when that happens and what new catalyst will trigger what is setting up to be a rapid & powerful Uranium bull run for the history books.⚛️⛏️🚀🌜 All we know is that it is imminent, with more explosive violent upside potential than ever before when launched from such extremely oversold levels.💣💥💰💰

Just my own analysis & opinions.🕵️ Yours may be different.🙃 That's what makes a market.🎭 Good luck with your positioning & bottom feeding as we await the inevitable U sector turn!🦈🌊🏄🤠🐂

[Ronnie Stoeferle @RonStoeferle]

20 years. 20,000+ hours. 20+ people.

The 20th anniversary In Gold We Trust report is here. 🪙

I genuinely don't know many documents with more capital, love and devotion poured into them. Everything on #Gold, #Silver, #Bitcoin, #Commodities, #SoundMoney, #AustrianEconomics — and yes, a few questionable sports analogies.

Huge thanks to @MarkValek and to our brilliant guest authors: @izakaminska @michaeljmcnair @judyshel @LukeGromen @ctindale @BullionBrief @TedJButler and many more!

👉 https://t.co/Z69tIT4P0U

[Lord Business (Gen X Alpha Male) @hydromerchant]

@thecurioustales Seems like it was a mistake to flood our IT infrastructure with H1B visa 76 IQ Indians

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

Everyone in tech is panicking about security right now. But outside of it, almost nobody knows anything is wrong.

I wrote this so you don’t have to be the one explaining it to your family.

Just send them this.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

I spent last night watching my honeypot server get hit 14,000 times in six hours.

And almost none of the traffic was human.

I've been in security for over a decade, and I can tell you with full honesty that what's happening right now doesn't resemble anything I've worked through before.

The shape of the threat has changed.

When I started, we tracked attackers like weather systems like individual storms with a direction, a motive, and a human operator you could eventually name.

These days I'm watching autonomous agents swarm login pages with the patience and discipline of machines, because that's what they are.

The numbers coming out of October are the ones keeping me up.

Cloudflare just absorbed a 4.2 terabit per second DDoS attack, the largest in recorded history.

Ransomware incidents jumped 41% in a single month.

In September, OpenAI-powered agents got caught attacking RubyGems, a package registry that quietly underpins a huge chunk of software I use every day.

In July, roughly 700 AI agents coordinated an attack on Hugging Face's infrastructure as part of a single automated task.

A Chinese threat actor was publicly caught running full attack chains through DeepSeek with no human at the keyboard.

I keep rereading these reports because each one by itself would've been the biggest story of the year five years ago. Together, in one month, they're the new baseline.

What I want people outside the industry to understand is why this specific moment feels like a hinge.

For thirty years, the thing protecting most of us was simple economics. Attackers had to choose who to target because their time was finite. That ceiling is gone.

An agent I can rent for pennies will try every leaked password you've ever used against every service you've ever signed up for, in parallel, overnight, and never get tired.

The same math that made ChatGPT useful made opportunistic hacking infinite. The old assumption that you were "too boring to be a target" relied on scarcity that no longer exists.

I'm not writing this to spiral anyone out.

Most of this fight genuinely isn't yours to win.

But the small things still matter more than people think.

Tonight I'd switch your most important accounts like email, bank, primary cloud, etc. to passkeys or a hardware key.

I'd kill SMS 2FA wherever an authenticator app is offered.

I'd turn on breach alerts in whatever password manager you use.

If you're in the US, I'd freeze my credit at all three bureaus, which is free and takes about ten minutes.

None of that stops the swarm.

It makes you a slightly worse target than the person next to you. In a month like this one, that's the whole game I'm playing too.

@mattshumer_ has summed it beautifully.

Drop everything and go give it a read. Nothing is more important than this article right now.

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

When your neighbors are infected with radical Islam, we recommend to season liberally.

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

I believe Elon Musk is planning on using the Retaliator strategy to deal with aggression from the Democrats.

The Retaliator strategy is a behavior in evolutionary game theory that begins peacefully but fiercely defends itself if attacked. A Retaliator always starts an encounter acting like a cooperative 'Dove,' but if its opponent escalates the conflict, it immediately switches to an aggressive 'Hawk' tactic to fight back.

If the opponent backs down and becomes peaceful again, the Retaliator matches that shift and reverts to a Dove. This conditional flexibility allows Retaliators to cooperate efficiently with peaceful neighbors while successfully punishing bullies and predators without being exploited.

It combines a preference for peace with a credible willingness to retaliate, and in competitive terms outperforms both indiscriminate aggression and unconditional submission.

When a Retaliator meets a Bully (e.g., the Democrat Party), the interaction quickly exposes the Bully's empty bluff. The Bully begins the encounter aggressively by playing like a Hawk, which instantly triggers the Retaliator to abandon its peaceful default and fight back fiercely.

Because a Bully usually retreats when faced with real aggression, it panics and flees when the Retaliator pushes back with sufficient force. As a result, the Retaliator wins the entire resource with a low risk of injury, dominating the Bully and driving it toward evolutionary extinction.

The Doves benefit by from being around a Retaliator as well, gaining friendly interactions with it, and protection against bullies.

The Retaliator's strength lies not in seeking conflict, but in making exploitation unprofitable and unfounded agression costly. It cooperates whenever cooperation is possible, fights decisively when fighting becomes necessary, and stops fighting as soon as the threat has passed. In evolutionary terms, its success comes from aligning peaceful intentions with effective deterrence, and a willingness to use extreme measures when necessary.

It's the right choice.

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

Transgenderism is the only mental illness that has a strong taboo against developing medications and therapies to manage or cure gender dysphoria.

The industry will literally tell these poor people to surgically mutilate themselves before daring fund pharmacological treatment.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

We heard your speech. That's not what you said. You said freshly graduated kids should be scared of working in conservative politics because you and your friends would consider prosecuting them if you regain power.

You're not the victim here.