Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Trend Research quietly becomes one of Ethereum’s largest whales with 46K ETH buy
Copper prices are soaring. Here's what that often signals for the economy.
Fed Pushing Ahead With 'Skinny' Master Account Plan for Crypto Banks
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Research hailing the benefits of the COVID-19 shot keeps coming
Politics:
China Is Worried AI Threatens Party Rule
Concerned that artificial intelligence could threaten Communist Party rule, Beijing is taking extraordinary steps to keep it under control.
Although China’s government sees AI as crucial to the country’s economic and military future, regulations and recent purges of online content show it also fears AI could destabilize society. Chatbots pose a particular problem: Their ability to think for themselves could generate responses that spur people to question party rule.
Trump’s Tanker Crackdown Paralyzes Venezuelan Oil
Venezuela’s ports are piling up with tankers filled with oil, as officials fear releasing them into international waters … Tankers bound for Venezuela have turned around midway, shipping data shows. And shipowners are canceling contracts to load crude.
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J. D. Vance Cozies Up to Anti-Semitism
The vice president fails a simple moral test.
On Sunday, J. D. Vance was presented with the simplest moral test: denounce commentators who traffic in medieval blood libels, who deny the Holocaust, and who endlessly harp on evil Jewish cabals.
The test was forced on the vice president. By the time he addressed the Turning Point USA conference this past weekend, it had turned into a referendum on latter-day Father Coughlins who have acquired substantial and growing audiences on the right. Among them is Candace Owens, whose YouTube channel has 5.7 million followers. She argues that there is a powerful, secret sect within Judaism practicing pedophilia. Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson, who has 16.8 million followers on X, has shared his microphone with an unabashed fan of Adolf Hitler and with historians who minimize the Nazi dictator’s evil.
And from National Review, about as mainstream conservative as you can get: JD Vance Picks a Side
Vance has made a choice here, and it’s a clarifying one. His allies are telling us straight that this is all about JD Vance — his political ambitions, his position as Donald Trump’s most likely successor, and, by extension, their own prospects when Trump is gone. Those voices claim that if you object to the rehabilitation of outright antisemitism on behalf of actual Nazis — not some tortured Democratic metaphor for fascism but the actual NSDAP circa 1920 to 1945 — you’re the paranoiac here.
Vance will pretend as though he is disinterestedly arbitrating a political dispute on the right, but he’s not. He has intervened in it on behalf of his allies and their revisionist historical project. If Vance’s contention is that the figures like Shapiro, who aren’t nobly attempting to talk sense to the talker class, are maliciously bifurcating the conservative movement and sowing division, the vice president’s implicit outlook is that interventions like Shapiro’s are the problem. That is an effort to shackle the interveners and arrest the rehabilitative process. Whatever else that is, it is not a neutral disposition.
———— The Epstein Coverup ————
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Epstein’s Brother Says Jeffrey Was Ready to ‘Name Names’
Mark Epstein, brother of child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, alleged to the FBI in 2023 that his brother was murdered because he was ready to “name names” and even claimed President Donald Trump was behind the death, according to the latest batch of Epstein documents.
Mark Epstein, 71, filed a complaint with the FBI in 2023 in which he claimed Trump “authorized” his brother’s murder.
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Wheels within wheels. This thread is wild:
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ICE’s public affairs arm has rapidly transformed into an influencer-style media machine, churning out flashy videos of tactical operations and immigration raids.
The internal communications reviewed by The Post show how the ICE team has coordinated with the White House, working to satisfy Trump aides’ demands to ‘flood the airwaves.’
They also show federal officials mocking immigrants in crass terms and discussing video edits that might help legitimize the administration’s aggressive stance. The team also knowingly used copyright-protected music without permission from the rights holders.
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———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
More than 400,000 Russian soldiers are estimated to have been killed or wounded in 2025, according to a British defence intelligence update on Ukraine.
In October 2025, defense intelligence put the overall number of Russian casualties throughout the full-scale war at 1,118,000, higher than the entire size of its army before the full-scale invasion. Russia has thrown men into ‘meat-grinder’ assaults to seize land in eastern Ukraine inch by inch.
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———— Mors Imperii ————
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Trump Rants About News Coverage
“If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated? I say, YES!”
Serendipity:
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