Luke Drawdy

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[GEORGE LUCAS JR. @VitoComedy]

I think internet articles should have to include a photo of who wrote them

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

I figured out what they are doing with the dollar. They are swapping it. Push the old one out, pull a new one in, and the new one hurts Americans and pays the elite every time it moves.

Here is how it works:

Step 1: Weaken the physical dollar abroad through Tariffs, Trade wars. Create so much friction that countries stop using the dollar in trade. They move to local currencies, gold, other systems. The dollar index drops 12.6 percent in one year. Steepest decline in thirty years. BRICS accelerates away from dollar reserves.

That part looks like incompetence but if there is one thing Scott Bessent is not, it's incompetent.

Step 2: Ban the government from making a digital dollar. Trump issued an Executive order in January 2025. No federal agency is allowed to build one, so the public option...the competition to a private one, is dead.

Step 3: Pass the GENIUS Act. The law that creates a legal framework for private companies to issue digital dollars instead. And here is the key, the law requires every stablecoin issuer to hold reserves in short-term US Treasury bills. Lutnick and Bo Hines wrote the GENIUS Act to benefit Tether.

Fun fact: Howard Lutnick's Canto Fitzgerald owns 5% of Tether and Bo Hines left shortly after the GENIUS Act was signed to be CEO of 21st Century, Canto Fitzgerald's crypto arm that Tether now owns.

That means every digital dollar that gets minted automatically creates one dollar of mandatory demand for government debt. Unlike normal investors, stablecoin issuers are price-inelastic, they buy Treasuries regardless of yield because the law says they have to. Brookings projects $2.3 trillion in captive Treasury demand by 2030.

So you push the physical dollar out and countries stop buying Treasuries. Then you pull it back in through private digital dollars that are legally required to buy Treasuries instead.

Different dollar with the same control. Except now it is not a public system, it is a private one, and the private company at the center of it takes a cut on every dollar that moves. The private company is also incorporated in the BVI's so no regulator has jurisdiction.

That company is Tether. $183 billion in dollars running through it, $13 billion in profit last year. It has never passed an audit. Co-founded by Jeffrey Epstein's crypto advisor. Reserves custodied by the Lutnick's family firm. Protected by a law that was championed from inside the White House by a man who quit one month after it passed and became the company's CEO.

Scott Bessent said that stablecoin firms could buy up to $1 trillion in government debt. The European Central Bank warned this "effectively outsources parts of the national debt to the crypto sector."

So in turn, our dollar gets weaker, our groceries cost more, our 401k buys less, and every time that happens, demand for the private digital dollar goes up. They get richer and we absorb the cost.

That is the trade, and the people who set it up are the ones collecting on both sides.

Full investigation is on my Substack. Link in bio.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

The most insane article I have written to date, Part III of my Currency Killer series is up now. Here is the intro:

I think they are replacing the US dollar with a private one.

Not in some distant future, not as a theory, but right now. Exposed and documented, happening in front of us, and no one is stopping it.

The United States government banned itself from making a digital dollar. Then it crashed the real one. Then it handed the replacement to a private company connected to $17 billion in organized crime, whose co-founder spent eight years as Jeffrey Epstein’s personal crypto advisor, and whose largest shareholder was convicted of software piracy before becoming the richest man in Italy.

That company is called Tether. It controls $183 billion in digital currency and it is now the 17th largest holder of US government debt on earth. It has never completed a publicly released independent audit. The UN has linked it to $17 billion in organized crime.

Tether is a stablecoin company, but it also owns 210,000 hectares of South American farmland and operates Argentina’s sole fertilizer producer. It holds a majority stake in a brain-computer interface company. It is the lead investor in a humanoid robotics firm. It owns 48 percent of a conservative media platform. Its third-largest shareholder controls a 10 percent stake in the privatized research arm of the UK Ministry of Defence.

Everyone involved is getting rich, except the American people.

Howard Lutnick’s sons’ own a piece of Tether. His firm, Cantor Fitzgerald custodies its reserves. Lutnick’s former minion, Bo Hines, championed the law regulating it from inside the White House and resigned one month after the president signed it, becoming CEO of the company the law was written for. Scott Bessent is blocking a billion dollars in suspicious Epstein banking records while his old fund was paying an intelligence firm controlled by Epstein’s partner. Trump’s family has made over a billion dollars launching their own stablecoin.

This is not deregulation, it’s a heist. And I am going to show you what they are doing.

Full article is up on Substack now (link in bio). Enjoy!

[Sam Schwartzstein @schwartzsteins]

I’ve operated a football league and was the first league to have Hawkeye at every game.

In no world did I ever have a “more official” clock than the stadium clock. I can’t understand this

[Linda Cohn @lindacohn]

I struck a nerve.

Full reel on The Linda Cohn Show on YouTube.
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[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

Dylan’s rant as promised.

This was 15 years ago in 2011 after the GFC.

He basically nailed everything that’s coming home to roost today:

[John Cullen 🐓 @I_Am_JohnCullen]

We know the Pentagon's HADES spy plane, AXEL10/N1098L, was at the crime scene at Utah Valley University on September 10th, 2025, twice, at 200' AGL and 115 knots, both before and after Charlie Kirk was killed.

We also see it's sister-ship, AXEL21/N2100L the very next day, in St. George, Utah..

...at the same moment Tyler Robinson is getting booked? It's right at the Sheriff's Station at 8:57 pm.

The same time we see on the confession message. 8:57pm

That's a LOT of coincidences.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

Scott Bessent was code-named "Sterling" in leaked emails between Jeffrey Epstein's business partner and George Soros's hedge fund.
Nobody is talking about this while he tanks our economy, so I will.
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In August 2024, a hacker group called Handala breached the personal email of Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel. Barak was one of Epstein's closest associates.

Those emails were published by Distributed Denial of Secrets. Journalists Jack Poulson and Harrison Berger spent months going through them. What they found was a direct financial relationship between Ehud Barak and Scott Bessent, the man who is now running the United States Treasury.

Here is what the emails show:

(1) August 2013. Barak emails a senior Soros Fund executive about "ichiban," a Japanese word meaning "number one." It is the code name for a currency trade being run by Bessent at Soros Fund. The trade that would make $3.5 billion crashing the yen.

(2) December 2013. Barak emails about meeting with Bessent directly. He refers to Bessent as "Sterling" in the correspondence.

(3) May 2014. Soros Fund executives discuss seeding Bessent's new hedge fund, Key Square Capital, with $100 million to $450 million. Barak is included in these discussions.

(3) February 2015. Barak has a direct meeting with Bessent scheduled. The emails reference ongoing financial discussions between them.

(4) May 2015. Discussions continue about Bessent's fund launch and Barak's financial involvement.

This is the same Ehud Barak who was business partners with Jeffrey Epstein. The same Barak who ran an intelligence-linked venture capital fund. The same Barak who was connected to Carbyne and TOKA, surveillance tech companies Epstein helped fund and sell to the US Government.

And Scott Bessent, who had this financial relationship with Epstein's business partner, who was code-named in Epstein-adjacent communications, is now the Treasury Secretary of the United States.

The Senate had a chance to investigate. Ron Wyden tried to expand the Epstein probe to include financial connections like these. Senate Republicans blocked it, and in March 2026 they killed the bill.

The leaked emails exist. The financial relationship exists. The meetings exist. The Senate investigation was blocked. A follow the money on these financials would be revealing, so the question is why??

This is the man running the U.S. Treasury. The man weakening your dollar. The man who just got the president's family a bank charter for their private digital dollar. The man who yesterday threatened to cut countries off from the dollar system entirely.

And his financial history runs through Jeffrey Epstein's business partner.

Nothing to see here folks….

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Jeffrey Epstein likely had every major U.S. politician on video doing something terrible to a child, according to former CIA officer David Robert Steele.

[Forbidden HQ 🐇 @WearForbidden]

Just when you thought the Andrew Wilson saga couldn’t go any deeper…

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[8/24MαɱႦα.Aɾƈԋιʋҽʂ🐐 @MambaArchives]

KG says LeBron James ruined the all-star game because he got scared 💯🔥

[Mark Bowman @mlbbowman]

The Braves had the Profar money and more prospect capital than they've had as a contender in long time. They've had an obvious need to bolster the rotation since November. Thought for sure this was the year they would make a big splash. But instead, they've left plenty of room to second guess.

[Stephen Tolbert @b_outliers]

Bragging about how many deals you said no to is a wild approach

[Luke Drawdy @luke_drawdy]

@gvedak Not that this isn’t cool but read the room dude

[Matt Powers @MattPowers31]

My grades on the Braves deadline

Lane Thomas deal: B+
RH bat who has done well after a slow start and career .850 OPS vs LHP. Got him for two guys not likely to be impact guys here, unless Holton rebounds next year another year post surgery

Tyler Mahle deal: B
Got a solid #5 to stabilize a very questionable back end of rotation for a guy who saw 3 G/5 IP this year and didn’t seem to be in the future plans. Could potentially be more than a #5.

Brent Suter deal: B
Suter is a low leverage lefty who can go multiple innings. Has ERA+ above 100 in 9 of his 11 seasons. Nacho wasn’t in the plans at this point. Could have gone B+, but would have preferred a higher leverage guy

Joey Bart deal: B
Bart was going to have to go in the near future due to the return of Sean Murphy. To get any kind of prospect for him is a strong return. Davitt isn’t likely a future starter here, and he doesn’t have the stuff for high leverage, so the upside isn’t exactly big either.

Eli White deal: B
Tyler Uberstine has some upside, but he’s probably a reliever. White is part of the roster crunch, but does hurt to give up a guy who has been valuable in that role.

AA grade: D
AA did a good job of building up the back of the roster here, but failed to address his biggest need - and that will be front and center in October when pitching matchups are revealed. They had the $ and the prospects, so there aren’t any good excuses as to why the Braves didn’t get a starter. Is his time here in danger of being up if the Braves don’t at least reach NLCS?

[Dave Bartoo @CFBMatrix]

1/🧵
The most in-depth research pieces I've ever published

At 2026 SEC Media Days in Tampa, Greg Sankey and Lane Kiffin made a case about SOS & the Playoff. So I tested it — against the one number that has no conference loyalty: the closing Vegas line

https://t.co/TDB8QBsn5y

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Obviously this little freak could go volunteer to fight the war himself, but of course he won’t. He’s got no interest in making any kind of personal sacrifice. None of them do. Israel’s finance minister bragged the other day that having American soldiers fight Netanyahu’s wars “is the best for us.” Smotrich doesn’t want to die for Israel. Neither does Ben Shapiro. Dying for Israel is your job. You’ve got to wonder how people like this — liars without honor, wisdom or loyalty to the United States — wound up in positions of such profound influence throughout our society. How did Mark Levin get the president’s cell phone number? Why is Adm. Brad Cooper, the man in charge of the Iran war, secretly taking strategic advice from crazed Israel shill Mark Dubowitz? It’s all so nuts, and ultimately suicidal. Future generations will struggle to understand it. In the meantime, Trump will likely obey Ben Shapiro, as he has consistently for months. We can predict the results, because every neocon “victory” is identical: huge numbers of innocent people killed, disproportionately Christians, economic destruction, famine, mass migration and deepening authoritarianism at home. That’s what they’re demanding because that’s what they want. What can we do to stop it? Apparently not much. But we can remember what happened and why, so that history records the truth. Otherwise, when the war ends in disaster, as it inevitably will, Ben Shapiro will be able to blame you for it.

[Liam McCollum @MLiamMcCollum]

That’s how it’s done. Absolute masterclass from Tucker here.

[trey wingo @wingoz]

“Let your apology be as loud as your disrespect “. I think somebody said that once