🚨 BREAKING: The US Supreme Court 8-1 has just OVERTURNED a lower court's block on Trump FCC rules that will benefit the Republican Party this election due to a massive cash advantage — allowing certain discounts for advertising
LET'S GO! 🔥
BRENDAN CARR: "The Supreme Court has now stayed a lower court ruling that purported to hold that broadcasters are not required to offer the LUC (lowest unit charge) to candidate-party coordinated & JFC (joint fundraising committee) ads."
Congratulations to the delegation of #Togo 🇹🇬 and the Africa Group on the adoption this morning by the #UNGA of resolution A/80/L.104, “Correct the Map.”
First endorsed by the African Union Assembly in February and officially passed at the United Nations today, this @_AfricanUnion initiative marks a historic step toward accurate and equitable global cartographic representation.
For centuries, the Mercator projection distorted global geography, shrinking Africa to the size of Greenland when our continent is actually 14 times larger. Today’s resolution promotes equal-area maps like Equal Earth across classrooms, media, and international institutions ensuring the world map finally reflects Africa’s true scale, weight, and place in the world.
A good reminder on how finance still works today… the Central Bank of Netherlands just spent months moving $11B in gold from New York to London.
~70% of it never actually left the ground. It was sold in NYC and repurchased in London. This reminded me of a story from 2013 – Germany took four years (!!) to move 674 tons of gold, worth $36 billion from vaults in Paris and New York.
In the 10+ years between those two stories, crypto went from a $1.5B experiment to a $2.7T asset class + financial infrastructure with real liquidity behind it. What didn't change: central banks (and a lot of the world frankly) still moving value the way they did in the 1940s.
Meanwhile self-driving cars are navigating city traffic, AI has transformed how we work, Starlink gives you internet access from just about anywhere in the world. But the best way to move value isn’t to actually move it? It’s confounding…
This an ideal use case for crypto - storing and then moving value instantly, securely, around the world, at little to no cost. How are people still fighting this?!
https://t.co/MRVXJZwcKR
🚨MASSIVE: National Sheriffs’ Association DROPS Its Clarity Act Opposition JUST 11 DAYS Before the Senate Vote 🤯🇺🇸🔥
In a new September 3 letter sent directly to Senate leaders @johnthune and @SenSchumer, The @NationalSheriff’ Association has OFFICIALLY shifted from
👉 BEFORE → OPPOSED ❌
👉 NOW → NEUTRAL 🟡
on the Clarity Act after previously raising MAJOR concerns over its crypto enforcement provisions. 👀✅
👉 The group is NO LONGER pushing against the legislation
👉 Its earlier concerns centered heavily around DeFi, illicit finance and law-enforcement powers
👉 The reversal lands right before the SEPTEMBER 15 Senate procedural showdown
👉 That vote still needs 60 SENATORS to advance the bill toward full floor consideration.
With September 15 approaching fast, Clarity is heading into its biggest Senate test with one LESS obstacle in its path. 🇺🇸🚀
LATEST: 🇺🇸 Sen. Cynthia Lummis says the CLARITY Act would take Wyoming's proven model of 'clear rules that keep builders here' and apply it nationally.
XRP Ledger Gets a Bis Test For Official Data
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has used the XRP Ledger ripple:native in a new blockchain data verification experiment.
The system lets users independently verify who published a dataset. It can also detect whether the underlying information has been altered.
The prototype stores cryptographic fingerprints rather than complete datasets onchain.
One XRPL transaction can represent thousands of datasets. Tests showed publication times of three to five seconds.
The BIS stressed that the system remains a proof of concept. The research does not mean IMF or World Bank data is now published on XRPL.
🚨 Ripple is now the headline sponsor of Stable Launch, Stablecon USA's startup competition.
One winning startup gets a $200K investment. Ripple's Whittney Levitt joins the judging panel too.
XRPL + RLUSD positioning itself as the go-to rails for the next wave of stablecoin/payments builders.
8 startups get revealed soon. 👀
BREAKING: Tesla wins San Antonio approval for Robotaxi site near airport.
The City Council approved the rezoning for a nearly 1-acre parking & dispatch site near airport. It clears the way for Tesla to build required infrastructure for its future Robotaxi launch in San Antonio.
🚨 IMF just confirmed it: El Salvador did NOT use public funds to grow its bitcoin stash.
The IMF says every BTC added since its loan review came from private donations not taxpayer money.
WHO are these donors? IMF didn't say. Bukele didn't say.
Drop your theories below. 👇
🇺🇸 BIG BREAKING: THE NATIONAL SHERIFFS‘ ASSOCIATION IS DROPPING ITS OPPOSITION TO THE CLARITY ACT & ADOPTING A NEUTRAL STANCE, THEREBY REMOVING A MAJOR HURDLE FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT AHEAD OF THE PROCEDURAL VOTE SCHEDULED IN THE SENATE FOR SEPTEMBER 15! 🥳
LATEST: 🇺🇸 House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill says legislative wins including the GENIUS Act becoming law and the CLARITY Act passing the House reflect a "bipartisan victory of a pro-growth agenda."