Virtus Verbis Podcast

[Virtus Verbis Podcast @VirtusVerbis]

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[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

The Justice Centre announces that lawyers have filed responses to five applications for intervenor status in Amy Hamm's appeal before the Supreme Court of British Columbia, underscoring the broader public importance of a case concerning freedom of expression and the authority of professional regulators to discipline their members.

The case arises from social media comments Ms. Hamm made about sex and gender while identifying herself as a nurse. Although the comments were made outside her employment and did not involve patient care, a BCCNM disciplinary panel found that several constituted unprofessional conduct. In August 2025, the panel ordered that Ms. Hamm’s nursing licence be suspended for one month, and that she pay costs of nearly $94,000, although these orders were stayed pending the outcome of her appeal.

Constitutional lawyer Lisa Bildy said, “This appeal raises important questions about the extent to which professional regulators may discipline members for lawful expression outside their professional practice.”

She continued, “The large number of prospective intervenors suggests there is considerable interest in the outcome of this case, particularly whether gender-critical speech and advocacy should be permissible for regulated professionals, or punishable.”

Read the full story here:
https://t.co/jMECTubwKs

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Elon Musk's SpaceX $SPCX hits post-IPO low, falling under $140

[BitcoinTreasuries.NET @BTCtreasuries]

JUST IN: Investment bank BTIG has reiterated buy rating on #Bitcoin treasury company Strategy $MSTR with a price target of $250.

That's a 171% upside. 👀🔥

[Strategy @Strategy]

A dedicated USD Reserve. A stronger foundation for Digital Credit. $STRC

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

96 out of every 100 US companies never made their investors any money.

A new study from Arizona State tracked every stock listed on US markets from 1926 to 2025. That is 29,754 stocks over 100 years.

The market created $90.96 trillion in that time. All of it came from just 1,082 companies. The other 27,999 gave investors nothing. Most stocks lose money. Only 48% of stocks made any money at all. Only 41% beat a savings account. 59% of companies lost money for shareholders.

The median stock lost 6.87%.

But the average stock returned 30,621%. That gap is the whole story. A few enormous winners pull the average up while most stocks bleed.

So who were the winners?

• Apple: $5.02 trillion
• Nvidia: $4.58 trillion
• Microsoft: $4.03 trillion
• Alphabet: $3.57 trillion
• Amazon: $2.27 trillion

These are not market caps. This is total wealth created for shareholders since the company listed, measured against what that money would have earned sitting in Treasury bills.

Apple and Nvidia alone made 10.6% of all the wealth the US market has created since 1926.

The same researcher ran this study in 2018 with data through 2016. Back then it took 89 companies to make up half of all the wealth ever created. Nine years later, it takes only 46.

In the 90 years up to 2016, the top 30 companies made 31% of all the wealth. In the nine years since, the top 30 made 61%. Nvidia by itself made 9.32% of everything created since 2017.

Concentration doubled in nine years. And those nine years are exactly the years the AI trade took over the market.

The typical company got worse at the same time. In the first six decades of the study, the median stock returned 63.6% per decade. In the last four decades, it dropped to 5.8%. The market kept going up. Most companies stopped going up with it.

People keep saying the S&P is being carried by a handful of AI stocks, as if this is something new. It is not. The market has always run on a tiny number of winners. What changed is how few of them there are now.

[Lina Seiche @LinaSeiche]

The “Rule of Law” is a myth.

Actually, it’s worse.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Rand Paul just announced Fauci will testify publicly before his committee on July 29th. This has been years in the making.

Declassified documents now show Fauci didn't just fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, he personally shaped what the intelligence community told the American people about COVID's origins. 18 agencies relied on his guidance to form their assessments.

Think about what that means. The guy with the deepest conflicts of interest in the entire pandemic was the same person guiding the intelligence apparatus on what to tell the public. That's not oversight. That's the fox designing the henhouse security system.

Rand Paul has been the only senator consistently pressing this since 2021. The "gain-of-function" exchange in the Senate hearing wasn't a gotcha moment, it was the beginning of a paper trail that has only gotten more damning with every FOIA release and declassified document since.

Public testimony under oath is different from closed-door briefings. Questions get asked on camera. Evasions get recorded.

The American people get to watch in real time whether the man who told them "I represent science" can explain why he was simultaneously funding the research and controlling the narrative about its consequences.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Total US federal debt is now up to a record $39.4 trillion, rising +$3.2 trillion over the last 12 months.

Since 2020, US federal debt is now up a massive +$16.3 trillion.

This marks a +$2.5 trillion average annual increase, or +$209 billion per month.

At this pace, total US debt will surge to $50.0 trillion before 2030.

The US debt crisis has no end in sight.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP!! $27 BILLION in Obamacare fraud has been exposed, and now a new bombshell report confirms a "lack of basic safeguards" allowing DECEASED PEOPLE and other scammers to steal taxpayer funds

Obamacare is one big racket. SHUT IT DOWN!

"MILLIONS" of fraudsters are being purged from the rolls by the Trump administration

"This investigation found as many as 160,000 people using the program legitimately had their accounts accessed and changed without their permission."

"One House committee estimates around $27 billion in improper payments are going to people taking advantage of this system."

"Now for months, the Government Accountability Office has been investigating fraud in the Obamacare marketplace."

"It found that a lack of basic safeguards allows bad actors to use fake identities, other people's social security numbers and even dead people to receive subsidies." 🤯

"The House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman blames the previous administration and sent us a statement saying the Biden-Harris administration actively removed safeguards protecting Americans from unscrupulous actors, taking advantage of them, including unauthorized enrolments and switching Obamacare plans."

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

They were actors playing a role the industry manufactured and sold to you.

Ice Cube was an educated, articulate guy who wrote the raps for the whole group, then went on to produce movies.

Tupac was a poetic kid from performing arts school. He was an avid reader, never sold drugs, and his mother kept him disciplined.

They were performers who knew the “gangster” image moved units.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites.

🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements.

Today von der Leyen said:

"This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children".

💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984.

🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online".

💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different.

🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done".

💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof".

🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source".

💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant.

🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents".

💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust.

🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence"

💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do.

💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive.

💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child.

💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive.

🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed"

💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price.

🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof"

💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution".

💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity.

🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it".

💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely.

💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor.

💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law.

💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals.

💡Where this ends

🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever".

George Orwell, 1984.

[PsyopAnime @PsyopAnime]

POV: you're iran and you didn't take the deal

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 White House Executive Director Patrick Witt on the Clarity Act: "We cannot afford to delay any longer" 👀

Pass it 🚀

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chairman Mike Selig on Clarity Act: "We CANNOT let outdated laws allow us to fall behind China and other countries. It's time for CLARITY." 🚀

[Dylan LeClair @DylanLeClair]

Retail Investors Are on a “Corporate Bond Buying Spree” – Rakuten Bonds Sell Out Instantly; Urgent Need to Expand Bond Fund Offerings - Nikkei
https://t.co/GcJKRvxI8h

[Phong Le @phongle]

Introducing the Bitcoin Bank Adoption Index. Adoption of Bitcoin and the related digital asset ecosystem across major banks and financial institutions is accelerating, but still early at 32%.

Methodology and updates to follow. Institutions with questions, corrections, or additional public information: [email protected].

[Grain of Salt @GrainofSaltSF]

Well said @dmweisberger !

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Nick Shirley found a single-story building in Queens claiming 7,000 patients and billing $12M

Healthcare isn't broken, it's a racket running exactly as designed.

Shirley keeps pulling threads the system hopes nobody touches.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump announces the United States will take 20% PERCENT TOLLS on all Strait of Hormuz traffic, and will now be known as “THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT"

Effective IMMEDIATELY.

Iran is FUMING

"We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait. The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as “THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World. The process and formation will begin immediately."

[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

Strategy sells 4,818,781 MSTR shares for $466.7 million net, bought zero Bitcoin, and finishes with a $3.0 billion USD reserve.

20.4 months of dividend coverage in cash now.

Was this accretive or dilutive for MSTR shareholders?

Did roughly $96.85 of new cash per issued share exceed the pre-issuance residual CEBE NAV per common share?

It was accretive to MSTR shareholders, and the cash position will likely be viewed as favorable for STRC investors.

Strategy received $466.7M ÷ 4.818781M = $96.85 of net cash per newly issued share.

Pre-transaction CEBE NAV was approximately $91.99 per share. Therefore, Strategy issued common equity at roughly $96.85 ÷ $91.99 = 1.053× CEBE NAV.

Even using only the reported $450 million reserve increase:

$450M ÷ 4.818781M = $93.38

That still exceeds the pre-issuance CEBE NAV of $91.99.

The break-even reserve increase was approximately:

4.818781M × $91.99 = $443.3M

The reported increase was about $450 million - roughly $6.7 million above CEBE-neutral.

Before: 144,208 sats/share of CEBE
After: 144,239 sats/share of CEBE
Accretion: +0.022%