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Bukele is the most popular elected head of state in the world. Those who demonize his power fail to mention WHY he has this power in the first place: because the people vested it in him, repeatedly and with greater conviction at every turn. When the public has this degree of trust in you, you get to control the entirety of the state, and you get to do it with the blessing of your people. Ironically, the country the media calls a “dictatorship” might be the most functional democracy we have today.

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@RichardHanania Shocker, Citizens reasonably expect their elected representatives to act in their interests and ensure their safety.

No matter the poll, Bukele's approval rating is nearly always over 90%. In the last three polls, it's 93%, 93%, and 94%. I've never seen anything like this. We need to study this regime. The international community has massively underestimated the importance of public order.

CFTC Chairman Michael Selig declares zero tolerance for insider trading.

The government killed off Benefacts. Two ministers saw to it. Micheal McGrath and Paschal O’Donoghue. Benefacts was becoming too good at showing where the €14bn was going, including uncomfortable details like executive salaries and the exact level of State dependency in certain NGOs. They didn't just ignore the public, they ignored their own commissioned experts. Indecon found that Benefacts was highly cost effective. They claimed other departments could take over but none stepped up. Why? Department’s like Education, Health and Tusla plus the CSO explicitly said they used the data everyday. Today, as Michael McGrath champions "transparency" across Europe and Paschal Donohue leads the world bank’s strategic relationships with governments, civil society, and major philanthropies worldwide, the Irish public is left without the very tool they allowed to be dismantled. They shuttered Ireland’s transparency window only to walk into elite global jobs preaching the very openness they just dismantled. Shameful. share.google/WUi5Jlp186e3xE…

Bitcoin is Energy Money.

The bitcoin crash of 2026, annotated for your convenience.

INSIGHTS: Brazil just banned crypto for cross-border payments. Bitcoin doesn't care. Every country that has ever banned Bitcoin. Eventually reversed. China banned it. Three times. India banned it. Reversed. Russia banned it. Now holds it. Name one country that banned Bitcoin and came out ahead. I'll wait. Every ban is free advertising for why Bitcoin exists. The message is always the same. We can't control it. So we'll try to stop it. They never can.

This is beyond absurd, it’s a system that’s openly admitting it’s being gamed and then doing nothing to stop it. The Department of Justice concedes that most asylum claims are unfounded, bogus or just liars, yet even after the obvious initial refusals and lengthy appeals funded entirely by the taxpayer, another 32% are ultimately granted status. That’s miles above the EU average of 20.9%. So what exactly is happening here? Are we running a fair system, or one that rewards persistence over legitimacy? We were promised by Jim O Callaghan action to prevent a breakdown in social cohesion. Instead, the situation has been allowed to spiral. People with no valid claim arrive, get refused, and then remain tied up in a drawn-out legal process for years, all on the public purse. Legal aid, court time, NGO support, layer upon layer of cost, until eventually the State just gives in. At that point it’s not a robust asylum system, it’s a war of attrition the taxpayer is losing. This isn’t compassion, it’s dysfunction. And the longer it continues, the clearer it becomes that those in charge either don’t have control of the system they are just a bunch of incompetent clowns.

INSIGHT: Just 3% Bitcoin allocation in a traditional 60/40 portfolio jumps your returns from 9.4% to 14.6%, per Fidelity.

There are about 150,000 people unemployed in Ireland. The Dept of Enterprise issued about 150,000 work visas in the last 3 years. The Dept of Enterprise do not check the skills available on the live register before they issue working visas.

After Germany sold ALL its bitcoin, somebody sent them a $1.87 transaction, inscribing the message: “HFSP German government” 😂 Germany's Bitcoin would be worth $3 BILLION today

🚨 WOW! El Salvador President Nayib Bukele just completed ANOTHER batch of 70 new, state of the art schools for his people This is the man the Left slanders as a "dictator?" Over 250 are under construction right now The citizens and students FLOCKED Bukele, thanking him ❤️ All I see is pure SUCCESS and revitalization of his country! 🇺🇸🇸🇻 @nayibbukele

JUST IN: BILLIONAIRE PANTERA CEO JUST SAID 10% OF ALL MONEY SENT FROM THE US TO MEXICO IS NOW #BITCOIN A $4 BILLION MARKET THAT IS EXPANDING RAPIDLY "THEY DON'T TRUST PAPER MONEY" "THEY BUY BTC" 🔥

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Constructing a broad European community has never been more important as our governments deal with many serious economic, social, and political challenges. Today's European Political Community Summit engaged in vital discussions on shared energy resilience & security.

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If you use TikTok, you should read this once. In October 2024, a court clerk in Kentucky uploaded the lawsuit against TikTok with the confidential sections still visible. NPR downloaded it before anyone caught the mistake. By the time the court resealed it, the internet had a copy. What was inside was TikTok's own engineers, in their own words, describing what their app does to a human brain. Not a critic's brain. Yours. Here is what they wrote down. — TikTok ran the math on how long it takes to develop "compulsive use" of the app. The number is 260 videos. With 8-second videos played in rapid-fire succession, that works out to roughly 35 minutes. The company's internal documents call this the compulsive-use threshold. — TikTok's own research describes what compulsive use causes: "diminished analytical ability, impaired memory, contextual reasoning, conversational depth, empathy, and heightened anxiety." That is not a quote from a critic. That is TikTok's own language, in its own internal documents. — A team inside the company called "TikTank" wrote in an internal report that compulsive use on the platform was "rampant." — After 30 minutes of continuous use in one sitting, the company's own documents state that users are placed into "filter bubbles" — algorithmic loops the user did not choose and cannot easily escape. Then there is the screen-time tool — the one TikTok publicly markets as proof it cares. — TikTok ran an experiment on the 60-minute screen-time prompt. Daily teen usage dropped from 108.5 minutes to 107. A reduction of 1.5 minutes. — Internally, the screen-time tool was not measured by whether it reduced screen time. Its top success metric, in writing, was "improving public trust in the TikTok platform via media coverage." — A project manager wrote in internal chat: "Our goal is not to reduce the time spent." Another employee added that the goal was "to contribute to daily active users and retention." — A TikTok executive approved the screen-time feature only on the condition that its impact on the company's "core metrics" was minimal. The lawsuit alleges the company planned to "revisit the design" if the tool ever reduced usage by more than 10%. The "Are you still scrolling?" break videos? An executive admitted in an internal meeting they were "useful talking points" for lawmakers, but "not altogether effective." Then there is the algorithm itself. — An internal report flagged that the For You feed was showing what the company called "a high volume of not attractive subjects." TikTok then retooled the algorithm to suppress those users. Kentucky authorities wrote: "By changing the TikTok algorithm to show fewer 'not attractive subjects' in the For You feed, [TikTok] took active steps to promote a narrow beauty norm even though it could negatively impact their Young Users." That sentence is the entire pitch of the platform, said out loud. — Internally, TikTok also acknowledged that its publicly reported content moderation metrics were "mostly misleading," because they only measured the content the company successfully moderated — never the content it missed. Now read those bullet points again as one continuous case. The company knows the addiction threshold. The company measured it. The company ranked engagement over mental health in writing. The company built a screen-time tool whose internal success metric was PR. The company suppressed people it deemed unattractive to keep you scrolling. The company called its own moderation numbers misleading. None of this is a leaked rumor. None of this is a journalist's interpretation. This is a court filing. The documents are TikTok's. The words are TikTok's. The math is TikTok's. The 14 state attorneys general who signed onto this lawsuit aren't fringe activists. They're a bipartisan coalition. Sources at the bottom: NPR, CNN, AP, Mashable, OPB, The Independent. All citing the same accidentally-unsealed Kentucky filing from October 11, 2024. The next time the company tells you it cares about your wellbeing — the screen-time prompts, the break videos, the safety features, the careful PR statements — remember that its own engineers wrote down, in court-admissible language, that the safeguards were never meant to work. The app is not broken. It is performing exactly as designed. You were the spec.

@saylordocs Must be going to zero 🤔

I've watched Bitcoin crash from: $32 to $0.02 $200 to $50 $1,200 to $200 $20,000 to $3,000 $60,000 to $15,000 $126,000 to $60,000 Notice a pattern?

De Guindos: Preparing for the digital euro, building the savings and investments union, and simplifying the regulatory and reporting frameworks, are crucial to ensuring financial stability and securing a prosperous economy for Europe.

Never in history did we inject something that trained your normal healthy cells to produce a foreign protein in the body, perhaps indefinitely. Recipe for disaster! It’s not any more complicated than that!