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[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

As much as last night was an indictment of the Democratic Party for misleading party members and the country about the mental acuity and health of the president, the media deserve far more derision and scorn.

I and others were repeatedly criticized by the media for questioning the competency of the president. Among other false accusations, I was accused of spreading misleading videos which clearly showed Biden’s deterioration.

Do you remember the heavily excerpted and edited @POTUS Biden @60Minutes interview where the interviewer covered for the president by saying he was ‘very tired?’

@60Minutes knew.

The @nytimes knew.

@CNN knew.

@MSNBC knew.

Left wing media have had total and complete access to the president, his staff, and his administration.

They all knew, but they told you otherwise. They outright lied to you.

When Robert Hur, the special counsel who deposed the president, said that the president was not fit to stand trial and therefore chose not to bring charges, the media described him as a tool of the Republican Party and character assassinated him.

When the @WSJ recently published a several-thousand-word, carefully researched, front page piece on the president’s mental and physical health, it was described by left wing media as outright propaganda.

Now consider who has been feeding you propaganda.

A favored technique of some of the most evil leaders in history was to mislead the people by constantly repeating the Big Lie.

The Big Lie is so audacious that people accept it as truth because it is repeated so often that how can it be that something so important and material could be an outright falsehood?

In this case the Big Lie was our president’s fitness for office, let alone a second term.

A media organization is not supposed to be a branch of the Democratic Party.

The media have a profound obligation to tell the truth to the American people, particularly about something as critical for the country as the president’s mental and physical health.

People very close to me, my closest family and friends, trusted the media on Biden until the @CNN commentators finally owned up to the truth about Biden last night.

For months I have been accused by many friends and family of being misled by an @X-based ‘right wing echo chamber.’

The sad reality is that one of our most important institutions, the so-called ‘Fourth Estate,’ fourth only after the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners, has destroyed any remaining credibility it has.

Consider how your perception of @POTUS Biden and @realDonaldTrump has been manipulated.

The media can no longer save itself.

A suggestion. Rely on empirical data as much as possible. Listen to what someone actually said, rather than a headline summary or article about what someone said.

Get your news from people who have a track record of telling the truth, people who do so at significant personal cost like whistleblowers.

I follow broad constituencies on @X on multiple issues. That has led me closer to the truth. Citizen journalism has been a much more accurate representation of reality.

Thank you @elonmusk for saving this platform. It gives us a fighting chance to save our democracy.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

BLM went full mask-off today.

We always called them a domestic terror group. Glad to see them finally admit it.

Keep in mind this is from the official BLM chapters in LA and Chicago:

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

"Early in 2023, genomics scientist Kevin McKernan made an accidental discovery. While running an experiment in his Boston lab, McKernan used some vials of mRNA Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines as controls. He was ‘shocked’ to find that they were allegedly contaminated with tiny fragments of plasmid DNA.

McKernan, who has 25 years’ experience in his field, ran the experiment again, confirming that the vials contained up to, in his opinion, 18-70 times more DNA contamination than the legal limits allowed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

In particular, McKernan was alarmed to find the presence of an SV40 promoter in the Pfizer vaccine vials. This is a sequence that is, ‘…used to drive DNA into the nucleus, especially in gene therapies,’ McKernan explains. This is something that regulatory agencies around the world have specifically said is not possible with the mRNA vaccines..

..Now, McKernan, Dr Buckhaults and other scientists are calling for urgent research to test whether the DNA contamination is lingering in the cells of mRNA vaccinated people, and whether the human genome has in fact been altered by mRNA Covid vaccines."

[Nik Bhatia @timevalueofbtc]

I spoke with Michael @saylor about government bonds. We discussed his idea that corporate treasury theory is about to fundamentally change due to fair value accounting classification for bitcoin, which he estimates will be with us by end of next year. Bitcoin might start to compete with Treasuries to upend the era of negative working capital and transform corporations into endowments. The theory is admittedly tough to summarize, but I hope you'll listen in to this fascinating thought experiment. Bitcoin's potential on display.

[Dan Hockenmaier @danhockenmaier]

The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia is wild:

40 direct reports, no 1:1s
- Believes that the flattest org is the most empowering one, and that starts with the top layer
- Does not conduct 1:1s - everything happens in a group setting
- Does not give career advice - "None of my management team is coming to me for career advice - they already made it, they're doing great"

No status reports, instead he "stochastically samples the system"
- Doesn't use status updates because he believes they are too refined by the time they get to him. They are not ground truth anymore.
- Instead, anyone in the company can email him their "top five things" with whatever is top of mind, and he will read it
- Estimates he reads 100 of these everyone morning

Everyone has all the context, all the time
- No meetings with just VPs or just Directors - anyone can join and contribute
- "If you have a strategic direction, why tell just one person?"
- "If there is something I don't like, I just say it publicly"
- "I do a lot of reasoning out loud"

No formal planning cycles
- No 5 year plan, no 1 year plan
- Always re-evaluating based on changing business and market conditions (helpful when AI is developing at the pace that it is)

This org is optimized for (1) attracting amazing people, (2) keeping the team as small as it can be, and (3) allowing information to travel as quickly as possible

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This bill is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

What it would actually mean is that if you disagree with the other parent about sterilizing your child, you lose custody.

Utter madness!

[@amuse @amuse]

Trump was right… [must watch]

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

In 2022, the US Senate passed a bill to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to investigate citizens finances.

Yesterday, the Senate blocked a bill to monitor and audit billions of taxpayers dollars sent to Ukraine.

[Quiver Quantitative @QuiverQuant]

I spend most of my day writing code to bring insights into what’s going on in DC.

But not everything is in the data, so I often run C-SPAN in the background to catch moments like this.

Dianne Feinstein almost accidentally voting in favor of banning congressional trading:

[Satoshi @satoshimoneybtc]

The Nation State Bitcoin prisoners dilemma game began in 2020.🚨

For the first time in Bitcoin's life, we're seeing coins leave exchanges, with supply on exchanges at a 5-year low.📉

🧵Time for a thread explaining why this trend suggests this cycle could be different.👇

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[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN - 🇺🇸 Federal Reserve announces its FedNow instant payments system is now officially live

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

🚨 NEWS ALERT: Top US Military General NOW PUBLICLY PUSHING FOR LITTLE CHILDREN WHO QUESTION THEIR GENDER TO BE INJECTED WITH PERMANENT DRUGS ⚠️ How Can Anyone Take The US Military Seriously?!

[AMERICAN HODL 🇺🇸 @americanhodl8]

Anti-human technocrat thinkboi @harari_yuval was on @lexfridman recently.

Here he talks about #bitcoin

Pay specific attention to the last sentence.

“It’s the story around the math, which is the real magic”

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Vivek explains how the White House uses private actors like BlackRock to implement what they can't get passed through Congress, label it ESG, and claim it's good for the environment.

NOW: House Republicans to launch an investigation into BlackRock and Vanguard.

🔊

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

Today I am unveiling my hand-picked list of judicial appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court & to the federal Courts of Appeals. Biden’s top focus appeared to be on diversity of race & gender. While I drew from diverse experiences - current & former federal judges, a former Solicitor General, two U.S. Senators - my sole criterion was to select candidates with an unwavering commitment to an originalist understanding of the U.S. Constitution, who also understand the unique threats to liberty in the 21st century (including lurking state action). Our courts remain the last line of defense against the overreach and weaponization of government. As President I will appoint judges who will protect the integrity of our constitutional Republic.

My list was not drawn from personal recommendations or backroom deals. I have not personally met most individuals on this list, but I will take time to meet them over the next year. This list was produced through a robust process over several months with input from multiple outside groups and a rigorous internal review focusing on reviewing judicial decisions and other writings to ensure clear commitments to the letter of the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. Supreme Court Candidates:

James Ho, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
- Authored lower court’s opinion in Dobbs, which the Supreme Court later followed.
- Rejected unlawful lockdowns, closing churches during the pandemic in Spell v. Edwards.

Lawrence Van Dyke, U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit
- Protected women’s pageants from transgender activism in Green v. Miss United States.
- Protected 2nd Amendment rights during the pandemic in McDougall v. County of Ventura.

Lisa Branch, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit
- Upheld Congressional powers against the administrative state in Salcedo v. Hanna.
- Ruled for election integrity and voter ID laws in Greater Birmingham Ministries v. Sec’y of State for Ala.

Thomas Hardiman, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit
- Ruled against viewpoint discrimination nation and for free speech in Ne. Pa. Freethought Soc’y v. Cnty. of Lackawanna Transit Sys.
- Supported judicial review to keep the administrative state accountable in Del. Riverkeeper Network v. Sec’y Pa. Dep’t of Evntl. Prot.

Justin Walker, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit
- Ruled against pandemic lockdowns and for religious liberty in a ruling for drive-in churches in On Fire Christian Center, Inc. v. Fischer et al.
- Landed a blow against the administrative state in an important law journal article.

John Bush, U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
- Defended workers from vaccine mandates imposed by the administrative state in Kentucky V. Biden.
- Wrote in favor of parental rights and against mask mandates in Resurrection Sch. v. Hertel.

Paul Clement, Former U.S. Solicitor General
- Argued against deference to the administrative state in Loper Bright Enterprises, et al., v. Raimondo.
- Not only won a major gun rights victory in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen but also resigned the same day from his law firm after they said they would no longer take on Second Amendment cases.

Mike Lee, U.S. Senator, Utah
- Twice clerked under the heroic Justice Samuel Alito, both in the lower and Supreme Courts.
- Known as one of the foremost advocates for originalism in Congress, and in his book “Saving Nine: The Fight Against the Left’s Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and Destroy American Liberty.”

Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator, Texas
- Fought for the Constitution and against left-radical court-packing.
- Champion of religious liberty who was the 2017 American Legion Religious Liberty Award winner.

Appellate Court Candidates:

Sarah Pitlyk, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
- Argued for the religious liberty of Catholics with her amicus brief for Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.
- Strongly rebuked racial quotas in an amicus brief for Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action.

Kathryn Mizelle, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
- Struck down the federal mask mandate in travel in Health Freedom Def. Fund v. Biden.
- Defended Florida’s right to ban sanctuary cities in City of South Miami v. Governor.

Martha Pacold, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- Protected the free exercise rights of workers in Castro v. Dart.
- Upheld free speech rights for a parade in Aurora Pride v. City of Aurora.

Matthew Kacsmaryk, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- Took strong action to defend life against mail-order abortion in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al. v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration et al.
- Defended the U.S. border and the Constitution in Texas v. Biden.

Brantley Starr, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
- Guarded against administrative state overreach in Kovac v. Wray.
- Protected worker free speech rights in Carter v. Transp. Workers Union of Am. Local 556.

Stephen Alexander Vaden, U.S. Court of International Trade
- Filed an amicus brief to defend election integrity in Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless v. Husted.
- As general counsel for the USDA, argued for their power to relocate employees outside of D.C. and into the heartland.

Ryan Holte, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- Laudable allegiance to textualist principles in Nycal Offshore Development Corp v. United States.
- Defended Constitutional principles of property rights in Campo v. United States.

[KWE @KWEcrypto]

"Reduce" it's still a gross display of our "moral" leadership

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Kamala Harris wants to “invest in reduced population” 😳

🔊

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Larry Fink of @BlackRock thinks #Bitcoin will transcend every international currency due to broad-based worldwide demand.

[Lookonchain @lookonchain]

The U.S. government transferred out 9,825 $BTC ($297.6M) again 13 hrs ago.

Among them, 1,625 $BTC($49M) was transferred to 2 new wallets.

Another 8,200 $BTC($248M) was transferred in 101 transactions to 8 whale wallets that had been dormant for 2 years.
https://t.co/o5DWXuwpL4

[Will @WClemente]

XRP declared not a security.

Bitcoin dominance: