Alts Decentralized AI IMO is THE cycle theme. $TAO is the play.
#bittensor -expect top 10 rank.
#Bitcoin continues to displace gold as a global store value. Expect $4T+ MC in 25.
$eth plays catch up as institutions adopt as their 2nd crypto asset.
$sol will be the 3rd.
ANOTHER NEW WITNESS, A 16-YEAR-OLD BOY, HAS TAKEN THE STAND. HE HAD JUST COME ONTO THE MEMORIAL TRACK MEET BEFORE THE DISTRICT MEET.
Prosecutor Bill Wirskye: “Did you become aware of someone not on the team in your tent?”
Witness: “Yes, he sat next to me.” [Karmelo]
Prosecutor Bill Wirskye: “Did this worry you, bother you, or seem kind of normal?”
Witness: “It was kind of strange because everyone is supposed to be in their home tent.”
Prosecutor Bill Wirskye: “What did Karmelo say?”
Witness “He says he wasn’t leaving and says a profanity.”
Prosecutor Bill Wirskye: “What did Karnelo do?”
Witness “He was starting to get more aggressive.”
Prosecutor Bill Wirskye: “What does he say next?”
Witness “F you all. I’m not going to leave. You’re all a bunch of p@ssies.”
Prosecutor Bill Wirskye: “Did Austin take the lead?”
Witness “Yes. Karmelo put his hand in the bag and said five times, ‘Touch me and see what happens.’ Austin said he’s not going to touch this guy. He was calm.”
Prosecutor Bill Wirskye: “What did you see during the stabbing?”
Witness “You saw a big hole and blood coming from his upper body.”
Prosecutor Bill Wirskye: “At some point, did you decide to unfreeze and do something.”
Witness: “Yes, he had a knife, so we ran to the left side of the field. I heard Xavier say, ‘Austin looks dead.”
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Great news, Dave. I've found a place with a billion and a half of these people. You should go live there and create your tech empire. Show us all how wrong we are!
Pete Hegseth in Normandy:
Sadly, today different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies.
In Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive.
When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?
You’re going to hear a lot of liberals in the media tell you that mail in ballots favor democrats so this is totally normal…but is it totally normal for mail in ballots that come in after Election Day to overwhelmingly favor the third place candidate that didn’t perform nearly this well until after the Republican beat her? You are witnessing a hoax in real time. Trust your gut. Ignore the left wing narrative.
In 1979, the mullahs tortured the Shah's favourite horse to death.
The horse, Azar, was paraded in the streets. They broke his legs, cut his tongue out, and then shot him in the head in front of a large crowd.
Iran is occupied by demons from hell.
🚨 OMG. A MASSIVE India H-1B visa fraud ring has just been busted...nearly 90% PERCENT of India's visa applications contain FRAUDULENT INFORMATION
100,000 THOUSAND counterfeit certificates have been seized 🤯
"Law enforcement in India claim it has uncovered a network of universities that produce fake degrees which were possibly used to obtain these high skilled H1B visas, including one school which allegedly stole over 36,000 fake degrees. It cost as little as $1,400 for one of those."
"And while these are supposed to be high skilled employees during almost all of Biden's time in office, 83% got junior or entry level positions."
This is INSANE! SHUT DOWN THE H-1B SCAM!
@KenPaxtonTX is now going after this in Texas 🔥
@kayleighmcenany@SatAmericaFNC
Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.
They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.
Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.
They lost them for two reasons.
The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.
In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.
Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.
That fight dragged on for years.
The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.
Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.
So now it's all gone.
The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.
Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.
Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.
But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.
Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.
And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.
Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.
Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."
There it is. "Billionaire-owned."
That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.
Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.
Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."
When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.
They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.
Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.
But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."
Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.
Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.
Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.
What does it feel like to be British?
It feels like being a second class citizen in your own country, paying for foreigners to loot and rape you, while your rulers call you evil if you complain.
Samantha Sykes, 18, and her 17-year old friend Kimberley Frank were murdered in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on 9 March 2012.
Ahmad Otak, an Afghan asylum seeker and the ex-boyfriend of Kimberley’s older sister Elisa Frank, carried out the killing after Elisa ended their abusive and possessive relationship.
He bought a kitchen knife that day, went to the flat, and forced Elisa to watch as he stabbed her sister Kimberley 15 times in a frenzied attack. He then laughed, licked blood from the knife, and spat on her body.
Otak tied up Elisa and lured Samantha to the flat under false pretenses, stabbing her 32 times when she arrived.
Otak abducted Elisa, drove her toward Dover in an attempt to flee the country, and hid in a lorry at the port. Elisa escaped with help from another man, leading to Otak’s arrest.
He pleaded guilty to the two murders in October 2012 and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 33 years.
He won't be eligible for release until at least 2046.