The incumbent Democrat Senators who: (a) opposed the Clarity Act; and (b) are running for re-election THIS YEAR are:
Markey (Mass.)
Hickenlooper (Colorado)
Coons (Delaware)
Ossoff (Georgia)
Booker (NJ)
Lujan (NM)
Merkley (Oregon)
Reed (Rhode Island)
Warner (Virginia)
To all my fellow Americans in Oregon.. 🇺🇸
Senator Merkley announced he will block the Clarity Act.. 📃 🇺🇸
We will block his ass in the midterm November election.. 🗳
Goodbye, Senator.. 👋
@JeffMerkley
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what's happening in japan and why is it affecting our bags?
TLDR what happens in japan doesn't stay in japan.
so what's going on?
japan just approved a massive $135 billion stimulus package (financed by issuing gov't bonds - JGBs) to help its people deal with rising prices and strengthen its economy (cash handouts, energy subsidies etc).
but at over 240% of GDP already, japan's debt threatens to trigger a global fiscal crisis. and markets are bracing for impact.
but why is japan so important?
well, japan is the world's 4th largest economy. and too much debt is deadly (remember the good ol' days of 2008?). japan's debt is already twice the size of its economy and investors are rightly worried about japan's worsening fiscal condition.
japan must soon choose whether to stabilises the yen (its local currency) by allowing yields to rise (triggering a fiscal crisis and risking its huge debt becoming unmanageable), or to keep rates artificially low (devaluing the yen lower and lower).
so why is all this affecting US tech stocks / crypto?
when japan gov't bond (JGB) volatility rises, global funding costs rise. and since companies are valued by discounting future cash flows by funding costs, the higher the funding costs, the lower a company's present value (and therefore the lower its stock price today). and since tech and crypto are correlated, both have dipped bigly.
time will tell what happens to the world's 4th largest economy, but in the meantime markets are watching like hawks, uncertain about what comes next.
fasten your seat belts and expect more volatility as the situation develops.
If you haven’t figured it out by now, there’s a massive, well‑funded, coordinated effort, driven largely by Bitcoin Maxis, to manipulate public perception. It’s happening right in front of everyone, and most people still can’t see it.
Bitcoin Maxis have dumbed down the entire conversation to pure nonsense while boxing millions of people into a centralized control grid that depends entirely on central bank liquidity.
It’s ironic, because the very system they claim to be escaping is the one propping up their asset.
The Bitcoin community has trapped itself in a wealth extraction machine disguised as a movement.
They’re incentivized to “hold forever” based on the childish belief that someone even more clueless will eventually pay a higher price.
But here’s the question no one's asking, if everyone’s supposedly holding… Then who’s selling?
We already know the answer. It’s MicroStrategy, despite their public theatrics. It’s the large funds, the exchanges, the market‑makers.
And where does that extracted capital go? Into XRP. Into gold. Into silver. Into land. Into productive, real‑world assets.
There’s documentation for all of it.
So what is Bitcoin really? It’s not a store of value, gold is. It’s not a monetary infrastructure, XRP is. It’s not a settlement rail, other networks have already proven that function.
Bitcoin is a speculative instrument wrapped in ideology and defended by those who refuse to admit they’re being used.
If you’re smart, you can extract wealth from it by understanding the game. But most people aren’t playing the game. The game is playing them.
2025, without a doubt, has been an incredible year for @Ripple, and a record year for crypto as a whole. Although we have a couple of months left, this announcement feels like the cherry on top of a mountain of good news:
Today we announced a $500M investment in Ripple, from Fortress Investment Group, @citsecurities, @PanteraCapital, @galaxyhq, Brevan Howard, and Marshall Wace at a $40B valuation.
This investment isn’t just validation of Ripple’s growth strategy and business built on the foundation of XRP, but also a clear bet on what the future of crypto will look like. I’m very proud of what we’ve built, and all that’s to come.
Ripple Swell: We’re collaborating with @Mastercard, WebBank, and @Gemini to introduce $RLUSD settlement on the XRP Ledger for fiat credit card payments, starting with the Gemini XRP Credit Card: https://t.co/lMQ5qnthLT
This initiative sets a new benchmark for institutional efficiency, enabling faster, compliant, and more transparent settlement within traditional finance.
The future of payments is here.
trading is much simpler than most realise.
you don't need charts, stochastic indicators, fibonacci retracements or bollinger bands.
you just need to do the opposite of what cramer says.
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RIPPLE LAUNCHES NEW COMMERCIAL PROMOTING #XRP AS THINGS TAKE A WILD TURN!!! XRP LEDGER LAUNCHES THE LARGEST DECENTRALIZED MEDIA AND IS ABOUT TO TAKE THE LEAP INTO CENTRALIZED EXCHANGE EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 14TH POWERED BY XRP LEDGER TOKEN, BXE TOKEN!!!
THE MEDIA IS SHIFTING INSANELY!!! ITS BECAUSE THE XRP LEDGER IS BEGINNING TO HAVE A HOLD ON THE NEW MEDIA POWERED BY BXE TOKEN!!!!
THATS WHY I WAS AND AM REALLY BULLISH ON BXE TOKEN!!!! BXE TOKEN IS $0.07!!!! THATS NOTHING!!!! BXE TOKEN HAS A TOTAL SUPPLY OF ONLY 500 MILLION TOKENS!!!
NOVEMBER 14TH COULD BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST DAYS THE XRP LEDGER HAS EVER EXPERIENCED SINCE RLUSD!!!
BXE TOKEN TRADE LINK: https://t.co/Whp13KUnaJ
🚨BREAKING: BlackRock Exec at Ripple Swell: “The Market Is Ready — Trillions Are Coming On-Chain” 💥
This might’ve been the most electric moment of @Ripple Swell 2025.
Maxwell Stein, a representative from @BlackRock, took the stage and straight-up said what everyone’s been waiting to hear:
“We’ve seen what early adopters of crypto have done — they’ve shown us what’s possible. And now… the market is ready for broader adoption.”
You could feel the room shift. Stein credited @Ripple and other early builders for proving that blockchain works — not as a concept, but as real financial infrastructure. 🏦
“They’ve already tokenized fixed income, bonds, stablecoins… that’s where it started. But this is the rails for trillions in capital flows.” 💬
@BlackRock saying “trillions” — at @Ripple’s own event — isn’t a coincidence. It’s a signal. Institutional money is no longer circling the crypto industry… it’s starting to plug in.
He finished with a challenge to the room:
“You crypto people — keep building market momentum.”
And just like that, Ripple’s narrative of “institutional rails for global liquidity” hit a whole new level of credibility. 🚀