TJ Theodore

Another case of how to lie with statistics by Kobeissi - 2nd chart crime of his today I have debunked! Again, there is data and then there is CONTEXT… The share of total Treasury securities held by foreign entities peaked at 34% in 2015, then fell to a low of 22% in October 2023… but let’s see what has trended higher to make up for all that - and more! “The driver behind the multi-year increase were “PRIVATE foreign” holders: they increased their Treasury holdings by $117 billion in February, and by $461 billion over the 12-month period, to a record $5.45 trillion (red in the chart below). These private foreign investors include financial firms in other countries, foreign bond funds, foreign companies, individuals in foreign countries, but also US HEDGE FUNDS domiciled in the Cayman Islands, such as those engaged in the “Basis Trade,” and Corporate America with financial entities in Ireland, such as to legally dodge US taxes. These Cayman-domiciled US hedge funds engage in the basis trade. They’re highly leveraged in these positions. They’re long (they buy) Treasury securities and are short (they sell) Treasury cash-futures. It’s a massive business. In normal times, it provides liquidity to the Treasury market. During times of turmoil, such as in March 2020, those trades cause the Treasury market to seize – and the Fed ended up stepping into it to get it going again. So the actual Treasury holdings in the Cayman Islands would be close to $2 trillion, not $443 billion – more than any other country. But these holdings by Cayman-domiciled US hedge funds are foreign holdings in name only. That’s the same issue with the other financial centers that hold Treasuries of US entities. That’s not really “foreign” demand for US Treasury securities.” H/t @wolfofwolfst 🎩  wolfstreet.com/2026/04/15/the…

🇺🇸He was spot on. 29 years ago he had a vision that would make America Great Again.🇺🇸

Every parent should do this. It will be the best life lesson they could ever give their kids.

My home is paid off. My wife & I allegedly own it FREE & CLEAR. But today we got a bill for property taxes. If we don't pay it, ARMED MEN will come & take it from us & then cage me until I pay them MY MONEY. So do I own it? Am I really free? I already pay 35% income tax + easily another 15% taxes in: -Sales. -Gas & fuel. -Capital gains. -Plethora of other taxes. TAXATION IS THEFT. Property tax shouldn't exist.

This is sad

When does a little girl decide this is what she want to do when she grows up? I cant imagine all he prep. Theyve gotta be closer than sisters.

Amazes me that people will wait in long lines & purchase tickets for the best views but will sit next to an airplane windows, 35k feet above Gods creation & not open the window or look out. We flying over mountains, oceans, sunsets most people will never see in their lifetime.

HOLY S'HT 🚨 Only 30% of the 42M on EBT are Americans who were born here 51% are Muslim who won't allow their wives to work, and have multiple wives with multiple children, getting $4K to $5K each This is unsustainable, It's time for DOGE to do an audit of EBT, who's with me

The mascot never imagined that approaching that security guard would make history.

In Japan, some fruit and vegetable boxes show photos of the farmers who grew them.

Everyone’s told plastic pollution is a “global” problem… But the data say something very different. Roughly 90–95% of ocean plastic comes from a handful of rivers... mostly in Asia and Africa. The Yangtze. Ganges. Mekong. Nile. Niger. Not your grocery bag in Colorado. Not your straw in D.C. A small number of poorly managed waste systems are doing the overwhelming majority of the damage. The UN isn’t structuring this like a solvable engineering problem... it’s structuring it like a permanent global revenue stream. Because if you solve it quickly and directly… there’s no need for decades of committees, funding mechanisms, and “frameworks.”

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RFK was seen evacuating his security detail from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

🚨 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Dodgers legend Rick Monday became an American hero. Two protesters ran onto the field at Dodger Stadium trying to burn the American flag… and Rick Monday sprinted in like a damn boss and SNATCHED it right out of their hands. No hesitation. No apologies. Pure patriotism @TheVinScully with the call!

For five years, Iran built an alternative financial architecture on the explicit theory that cryptocurrency would be sanctions-resistant. Bitcoin mining was legalized in 2019. Subsidized power was redirected to industrial farms. Mined coins were sold to the Central Bank of Iran for hard currency. The IRGC moved over three billion dollars through digital assets in 2025 alone. By year end the Iranian crypto ecosystem had reached seven point eight billion dollars per Chainalysis, with the central bank holding at least five hundred seven million in USDT reserves per Elliptic. The architecture was the bet. The bet was that the dollar could not follow Iran onto the chain. On April 23, 2026, the United States Treasury froze three hundred forty-four million dollars of that architecture with one smart-contract call. Tether executed the freeze on receipt of intelligence from US law enforcement. Two Tron wallets, beginning TNiq9AXBp9 and TTiDLWE6fZ, were blacklisted at the smart-contract level. The first held two hundred thirteen million. The second held one hundred thirty-one million. The funds had accumulated approximately three hundred seventy million across nearly one thousand transactions since March 2021. Less than seven percent ever flowed out. The wallets had been dormant since late 2023. This was not operational money. This was a sovereign war chest stored on the chain because the IRGC assumed nobody could touch it. Treasury touched it on Thursday. Treasury Secretary Bessent named the campaign Economic Fury and stated the doctrine in plain English. “Treasury will continue to systematically degrade Tehran’s ability to generate, move, and repatriate funds. We will follow the money that Tehran is desperately attempting to move outside of the country and target all financial lifelines tied to the regime.” The five-year theory collapsed in one paragraph. The IRGC built crypto rails to escape the dollar. The dollar followed onto the rails, identified the wallets through TRM Labs and Chainalysis behavioral clustering, instructed Tether to freeze them, and demonstrated that the seven-point-eight-billion-dollar parallel economy is permissioned at the issuer layer. Tehran now knows what every Russian, North Korean, and Venezuelan sanctions desk is reading: USDT is a US Treasury asset that sanctioned actors cannot store value in. The timing reframes the entire conflict. Tehran’s negotiating posture for forty-eight days assumed crypto reserves provided sanctions cushion. That cushion is now provably three hundred forty-four million dollars smaller. The Pentagon is photographing three carrier strike groups. Treasury is photographing the Tron blockchain. Both are publishing the order of battle. The market is reading this as tactical sanctions enforcement. That reading is incomplete. CNN noted yesterday it had not independently corroborated the Iran attribution, and Bitcoin maximalists are noting that three hundred forty-four million is under five percent of the seven-point-eight-billion-dollar ecosystem. Both points concede the floor of the argument. Stablecoins are now Treasury extensions with smart-contract APIs. The GENIUS Act, signed July 2025 and operationalized through April rules, codified it. The freeze made it visible. Three readings of this week. A successful sanctions enforcement against the Iranian regime. Priced. A diplomatic pressure tactic ahead of fragile ceasefire talks. Narrow. The first publicly verifiable demonstration that Iran’s five-year sanctions-evasion architecture is permissioned end to end, that the dollar followed the IRGC onto the chain, and that every sanctioned sovereign on earth must reprice its crypto reserves before the next Economic Fury Friday. The market is pricing the first. Tehran is repricing the third. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

You are not a team because you work together. You are a team because you trust, respect and care for each other.

By God’s grace. Lord Jesus. We pray you protect those who still believe in God & Country. Help us all to be better in You.