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THE REAL STORY of the Silvergate Bank “collapse” is finally starting to come out, due to the SEC lifting its “no-deny”/“no criticism” restriction on SEC settlements this week. @jaredkate, Silvergate’s then-COO, has started to talk👇 & more of Silvergate’s side of the story will come out, no doubt. As @nic_carter has reported, Silvergate didn’t actually collapse; rather, it was purposefully demolished as part of #OperationChokePoint2.0 — and it stands pretty much alone in banking history as a bank that paid out depositors amid a bank run without sticking the FDIC’s deposit insurance fund with losses. I’d already learned what happened from a different insider who was at the table back then: the insider witnessed the Fed ordering Silvergate to de facto liquidate by ceasing to service the crypto industry, the “voluntary” announcement of which started the bank run. The insider named names, and a senior Fed official later asked for that list of names (note: many of the people have since left the Fed or no longer in senior positions there). I can’t wait for the interviews of Silvergate executives who previously couldn’t talk but can now. I hope @MaxfieldOnBanks runs with this — he did a big analysis of the Silvergate story a few years ago and figured out that the mainstream narrative wasn’t correct. I look forward to hearing more from the execs, who successfully liquidated a bank under extreme bank run pressures. Are you ready to hear what they have to say???




🇺🇸🇮🇱 Mark Halperin tells Megyn Kelly that Massie will lose today, and it won’t be because of AIPAC… “If Massie loses, it’ll be for the same reason Cassidy lost: Donald Trump.”

This is who you voted into office instead of Deaton lol what a joke Warren is.


News: Sens. Reed (D-R.I.) and Smith (D-Minn.) have filed an amendment ahead of Thursdays markup that will force senators to choose between crypto and the banks The amendment would incorporate bank’s changes to stablecoin yield restrictions. Tough tough vote for bank-friendly Rs

.@PYoes is pushing for open-source software developers to be held liable for what criminals do with bitcoin by pressing Senators Scott and Warren to remove Section 604 from the CLARITY Act. After reading the letter, it's clear that he doesn't understand how bitcoin works. Protecting developers from liability does nothing to impede law enforcement from utilizing block explorers and chain analysis heuristics.


🇺🇸 Epstein survivors were shocked by Melania denying ties to Epstein, and are now alarmed by reports Republicans may push to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell. Survivor Annie Farmer called it “extremely troubling.” If true, they're not doing it for free.



🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Megyn Kelly just dropped a bombshell. Brad Parscale, Trump's former campaign manager and current Salem Media exec, registered as a foreign agent for Israel last September. His contract: between $6 and $9 million to build digital campaigns combating anti-Semitism. At least 80% of the content is required to be tailored to Gen Z across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and podcasts. Megyn confirmed she personally knows Parscale and has had long discussions about what his AI can actually do. Her words: "It's substantial." This is the influence network operating at a scale most people don't even realize exists. Not just donors writing checks and lawyers visiting the Oval Office. AI-generated content flooding the platforms where young Americans form their opinions, funded by a foreign government, built by a man with direct access to the most powerful political data operation in American history. Source: @MegynKellyShow




🇺🇸 Jeffrey Epstein's purported suicide note has been released by a federal judge in New York. "They investigated me for months - FOUND NOTHING!!! It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye. NO FUN. NOT WORTH IT!!" The letter dates to July 2019, when Epstein was found semiconscious with marks on his neck in what is believed to have been a first suicide attempt. He died in his cell the following month. The note hasn't been authenticated and the cellmate who supposedly found it is a convicted killer. The conspiracy theories write themselves. Source: Sky News

Google Chrome is quietly downloading a roughly 4 GB AI model to many users’ computers without clear upfront consent. The file, called weights.bin, is part of Google’s Gemini Nano on-device language model and lands in the browser’s user data folder under OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It powers built-in AI tools such as “Help me write,” smarter tab suggestions, on-device scam detection, and page summarization. The download triggers automatically for devices meeting minimum hardware requirements, and Chrome often replaces the files if deleted. While the model processes data locally, installation happens in the background with minimal notification. The scale is noteworthy. Hundreds of millions or billions of installations add up to thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions globally from data transfer, even though each is a one-time event. To prevent or remove it, go to chrome://flags, disable the entries for the optimization guide on-device model and Prompt API, restart the browser, and manually delete the folder.



