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The Politics of the ‘Same Oppressor’
Gene Wu's common oppressor, the Subway Takes clip and the racial demonization I warned about in 2020. Plus Jeff Park, wages, PSI, IREN and Bull Bitcoin Payjoin.
"Do we just accept fiat as the end game?" @MartyBent on why Bitcoin developers can't quit.
Core Scientific sold 816 bitcoin last quarter and held just 32 on September 30. The miner had 848 at June 30. It is winding down mining in Q4 to become a colocation business, mainly for CoreWeave.

TFTC 808 w/ @RealEJAntoni: "Trump clawed back half of the losses under Biden in only twelve or thirteen months. And then what happens? Down they go, because of energy prices spiking." We discuss: ⚡ Why Republicans lost ⚡ The paycheck reversal ⚡ The next two years
The US Treasury has sanctioned eight Canada-based money services businesses, saying they helped move money into and out of Iran, including through crypto. OFAC listed six TRON addresses across four of the eight designees.
20 million new voters registered between 2022 and 2024 in states that don’t require documentary proof of citizenship. 37 states don’t ask for a passport, birth certificate or naturalization papers to register to vote.

Levered ETFs had to sell $57 billion of US stocks on Thursday, the most since Morgan Stanley’s data begins in 2007. Retail selling in the first 90 minutes was the 2nd largest since 2016.
Trump's advisers are split on ending the Iran war or resuming major combat, the WSJ reports. Vance and Gulf allies reportedly want it ended. Hegseth and CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper back new strikes. "Now we will make a decision," Trump said. "You'll know soon enough."
Trump confirmed the US struck an Iranian anti-aircraft facility overnight. "We do minor strikes," he said, calling the target "a little bit of an anti-aircraft device." "As soon as it was completed, we hit it last night very nicely."
"This is a perfect example of an economically illiterate policy that the left is going to try to push." @MartyBent on Shapiro's minimum wage hike.
Vice President JD Vance sent a letter to Iran proposing renewed direct talks, which he would lead, Axios reports. It reportedly went to Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, through Qatari mediators. It named no time or place.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly backed Stephen Miller as White House Chief of Staff, calling him "one of President Trump's longest-serving and most trusted advisors." Bessent pointed to Miller's work "combating fraud, contributing to Venezuela policy, or making D.C. safe and beautiful."
"They can't independently print their way out of it." @MartyBent and @tpacchia on why France could be the first domino.
"Do we just accept fiat as the end game?" @MartyBent on why Bitcoin developers can't quit.
Core Scientific sold 816 bitcoin last quarter and held just 32 on September 30. The miner had 848 at June 30. It is winding down mining in Q4 to become a colocation business, mainly for CoreWeave.

TFTC 808 w/ @RealEJAntoni: "Trump clawed back half of the losses under Biden in only twelve or thirteen months. And then what happens? Down they go, because of energy prices spiking." We discuss: ⚡ Why Republicans lost ⚡ The paycheck reversal ⚡ The next two years
The US Treasury has sanctioned eight Canada-based money services businesses, saying they helped move money into and out of Iran, including through crypto. OFAC listed six TRON addresses across four of the eight designees.
20 million new voters registered between 2022 and 2024 in states that don’t require documentary proof of citizenship. 37 states don’t ask for a passport, birth certificate or naturalization papers to register to vote.

Levered ETFs had to sell $57 billion of US stocks on Thursday, the most since Morgan Stanley’s data begins in 2007. Retail selling in the first 90 minutes was the 2nd largest since 2016.
Trump's advisers are split on ending the Iran war or resuming major combat, the WSJ reports. Vance and Gulf allies reportedly want it ended. Hegseth and CENTCOM chief Adm. Brad Cooper back new strikes. "Now we will make a decision," Trump said. "You'll know soon enough."
Trump confirmed the US struck an Iranian anti-aircraft facility overnight. "We do minor strikes," he said, calling the target "a little bit of an anti-aircraft device." "As soon as it was completed, we hit it last night very nicely."
"This is a perfect example of an economically illiterate policy that the left is going to try to push." @MartyBent on Shapiro's minimum wage hike.
Vice President JD Vance sent a letter to Iran proposing renewed direct talks, which he would lead, Axios reports. It reportedly went to Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, through Qatari mediators. It named no time or place.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly backed Stephen Miller as White House Chief of Staff, calling him "one of President Trump's longest-serving and most trusted advisors." Bessent pointed to Miller's work "combating fraud, contributing to Venezuela policy, or making D.C. safe and beautiful."
"They can't independently print their way out of it." @MartyBent and @tpacchia on why France could be the first domino.
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