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@OverReactor1776 " without releasing particulate matter " I saw that, and notice you avoided mentioning the gas which is consumed by plants. A fuel reprocessing strategy would be helpful. All-of-the-above energy is a great choice for USA. Energy becomes GDP.

Now that I’m out of government, I can finally respond for myself: Get bent, soyboy. We didn’t do this for “Silicon Valley . . . companies.” We did this for you, for your family, your community, your state, your nation, and your species. Nuclear energy provides the safest, highest density, reliable power available on our planet. My career colleagues at DOE and NRC inspired me to think about nuclear as a way to forge American steel and electrolyze aluminum without releasing particulate matter, to desalinate water in the Middle East and save humanity from resource wars. By rejecting the false narratives and Cold War hysteria, we can secure the next American century while raising whole countries out of poverty. Do you really think I left an incredible career at Kirkland, paid out of pocket for an apartment in DC and dozens of cross-country trips, and left my family on the west coast because I wanted to enrich people I never met before taking this job? I came to D.C. to do something that mattered, to satisfy a driving curiosity (more on that later), and, most importantly, to serve. As I learned more about nuclear energy and its history, I developed a conviction that one nuclear’s biggest issues was a culture of cynicism: nothing new or exciting could happen because it would end in disappointment, and that militated against rocking the boat even a tiny bit. The career staff in government and their industry counterparts lived through dark winters before and stopped believing that warm springs could bloom into summers. I have two core philosophies. First, I believe in ruthless optimism. Rational decision making requires detached risk analysis. But we also cannot win if we believe we can lose. Merging the two requires orienting teams around driving missions. That way, when a real opportunity presents itself, you can take a huge swing. If I take credit for anything—honestly, almost all of the success belongs to the incredible and dedicated people at @ENERGY and @NRCgov—it’s countering the cultural rot and morass that risked forfeiting American excellence. My colleagues and I gave cover to the scientists and engineers, which freed them up to focus on delivering safe power. And, as success materialized, they started to dream again. That’s why the pilot program succeeded, and why I feel confident about the future of NLICs and NRC reform. Nobody needs me anymore because they can innovate on their own. My second core philosophy is to assume positive intent. Avi, I know that you heard about my real motivations from multiple people you interviewed when preparing your hit piece on me. Rather than telling that story, one which could help inspire another generation of people to use their talents for the greater good, you ignored them. Instead, you implied that Peter Thiel recruited me for nefarious purposes. (I’ve never met him, but, @peterthiel, if you’re reading this, I’m a huge fan!) Nuclear regulation starts and ends with safety. I promised everyone I worked with that I would resign before doing or pushing for anything that could compromise public safety. But I also distinguished between real safety and performative bullshit. That’s what the careers came to embrace, too. We love nuclear, why would we do anything that could risk threatening its future? America faces a crossroads. We can either trod a road of cultural decay or hike our way back to the peak of global innovation. Join me on the latter path. Correct the fear mongering and conspiracies and tell the story of America’s great reindustrialization. Tell the story of our public servants, our great entrepreneurs, our scientific dominance. Tell the real story about how DOGE went nuclear.

@timevalueofbtc Sweep of 54,000 this summer makes a better movie script for the flush of $STRC. Loading.

One more battle at $69,420 then we head to the moon I don't make the rules #bitcoin

@defyneric How to base on CHF currency then maybe euro.

thinking about writing an article about how to start your own neobank everything from: > card issuance > bank account issuance > yield/treasury providers > on off ramps > lending and credit what other topics should i cover?

@negligible_cap Turkey charges tolls. Canals charge tolls. It becomes acceptable when terms such as "safety and environmental monitoring" are used. @algore can get in on this environmental persuasion racket. Maybe that bridge in Baltimore could have used some ship oversight and compliance.

Iran is now floating the idea of every ship having to buy “mandatory insurance” in order to safely transit the SOH. Nothing like a classic waterfront mob protection racket “hey nice tanker you’ve got there..”

@sistineresearch A bitcoin dividend would at least flush out paper shorts. It would be a hassle for boomers who bought STRC for the $ yield. Maybe board of directors will consider a special dividend on MSTR to appear to be doing something beyond prompting chatgpt to write resignation letters.

Seems like the obvious solution is make the $STRC dividend payable in BTC (or IBIT) instead of dollars so he never has to directly sell BTC.

No reason to have any personal income tax when feds have no plan to pay down the debt. Congress won't slow spending either way. Imagine the productivity gains of each taxpayer no longer doing yearly paperwork. Most of the IRS can move on to productive activities and finally retire the COBOL.

Anyway, capital gains should be taxed like ordinary income.

@WallStreetMav Republican Newt Gingrich voted to create it. Another big government republican consolidating power to federal government. @grok did Newt Gingrich vote to create department of education in 1979, and provide references of the vote. edweek.org/education/ging…

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education. 46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

@RedStatesLead This is a proposed rule change. You can comment on the proposal at federalregister.gov/documents/2026…

For 48 years the Small Business Administration racially discriminated against Americans with preferential programming for minorities. That just ended today. For the first time in A HALF CENTURY, federal contracts will be based on MERIT, EFFICIENCY, AND COST. NOT RACE.

@davidzmorris STRC is not a bond, the dividend can be changed, and there is no reason common stockholders should be diluted to get STRC back to 100. 100 was a made-up number and stock prices vary. Those who want a bond should buy a bond and not a stock.

The part of the $strc unwind we haven't seen yet is when Saylor has to raise the yield directly to retake the $100 'peg.' He has to do this to avoid serious civil litigation - he compared it to a mmarket/savings. But it would also accelerate the spiral trap he's in.

@murchandamus @L0RINC Grandpa Mainframe was using hierarchical storage management on water-cooled mainframes running MVS in the late 1980s. Some old tech is useful when encountering hardware limits. grokipedia.com/page/Hierarchi…

Have you ever benchmarked a setup with the UTXO set on a fast SSD and blocks on an HDD, @L0RINC? If so, how did it perform?

@cryptofergani While ct is focused on @saylor, tradfi needs to raise cash to buy the Spacex IPO. Bitcoin is liquid and easy to sell 24/7. RSI and price can go lower. Will be interesting to watch first weeks of the IPO.

Can someone explain to me like I’m 10 years old, how Bitcoin has gone down -$22,000 with NO BOUNCE in 21 days?

Does that chart include rail shipments from Iran or just floating tankers? The "most important story" is that China seems to have been prepared. Their energy mix of using everything to generate power provides optionality. Good for them. Maybe some countries such as Germany will notice.

CHART OF THE DAY: Perhaps the most important story in global markets / geopolitics right now. China's oil imports plunged to ~6.6m b/d in May, according to @Vortexa data, down ~38% vs 2025 average (or ~4m b/d). I wrote this @Opinion column in early May: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

@eastdakota Parent has an attorney or pro se? The filing attorney could envision sanctions for a frivolous filing if the court agrees there is no cause of action. Attorney sanctions could stop future predatory actions against people such as that suffering parent.

Have a problem I genuinely would love input on. My wife and I own a local newspaper. In our town the police arrested a member of the community for having what they thought were naked pictures of a juvenile on his phone. Held him for days. Turns out, it was his own kid and none of the pictures were sexual. Terrible. Newspaper we own reports on it. Just the facts. Also report on when he’s released and there are no charges. Exactly what local news should do. He sues us and the local radio station, which had also reported on the arrest. We’re like: dude, we just reported the facts. Radio station settles (not sure terms). We push on because we did nothing wrong and the nature of a newspaper is reporting what happened. So we win. No cause of action against the paper. And then we, under statute, get awarded attorneys fees. They amount to tens of thousands of dollars. So what’s the right move? I don’t particularly care about the money. But I do want to discourage other caseless plaintiffs against suing us. Has been a costly distraction. But also seems wrong to bankrupt the guy. Genuinely looking for what to do next…

@AAGShumate @DAGToddBlanche @TheJusticeDept USPS vehicles including tractor trailers don't have license plates, so why would federal law enforcement need license plates? Or make your own plates.

Some states are refusing to issue license plates to federal law enforcement. It’s dangerous, shameful, and unconstitutional. It needs to stop now. Under @DAGToddBlanche, this @TheJusticeDept stands with our brave law enforcement officers.

>> something as simple as voting. The seldom voting blue collar workers voted a couple years ago and got rugged. They won't waste their time again. Those voter's issues were no new wars, mass deportations, and arrests of political insiders. Congress and POTUS have clearly not delivered.

@elonmusk @data_republican And yet, so many on our side won’t even do something as simple as voting. The consequences of their complacency will be horrific.

If they’re willing to die to assassinate, imagine what they will do if they gain political power

@Tyler_Neville_ EU and NATO don't want to negotiate nor restart local energy infra. Best US can do is leave NATO and spend those funds to rebuild at home.

The longer the Strait of Hormuz is closed, the more negotiation leverage the US has over the future of NATO and European energy supply chains. The US could ironically be the winner (even in a war-losing scenario) in the future, simply because Europe never invested in their own defense or energy. Now Europe is forced to choose reinvestment in their own military & economies after two decades of GDP stagnation.

>> Netanyahu is the by-product of the evils of that country[Israel] More than that. I just read he went to grade school around Philadelphia. I have been told his father had the family socialize with Bill Krystol's family - neocons who promoted wars in that area. The ideological grooming goes deeper than I had known. easternherald.com/2025/07/21/net… studentreview.hks.harvard.edu/bill-kristol-c…

The bullshit tactic of Israel supporters is to pretend the bad parts of Israel are due to Netanyahu, so that once he's gone, everyone can and should go back to loving Israel. Netanyahu is fully representative of Israel. That's why he's been in power 19 years. What comes after him will be more sociopathic. Netanyahu is the by-product of the evils of that country, not the cause.

@ekwufinance I'm OK with do-little managers being forced to trim unprofitable lines. You can call it demand destruction, though it's a lot of waste reduction. The email manager jobs can go away, also. FT headline: Lufthansa cuts 20,000 flights

2.5 mbpd demand destruction 2-3 mbpd SPR release 11-13 mbpd oil production shut-in = 5.5-8.5 mbpd supply deficit We don’t want to live in a world in which demand destruction closes that supply gap.

>> decentralized and divided command structure is ... highly vulnerable to ground invasion forces Iran is largely mountainous which naturally limits force concentration. Iraq, without mountain ranges and with C&C, was militarily pounded by USA. Iran appears to be leading a war of attrition. I didn't attend West Point so maybe I'm overlooking aspects of Iraq vs Iran terrain.

A decentralized and divided command structure is effective in ensuring a regime’s survival against precision air strikes, but it is highly vulnerable to ground invasion forces, as it prevents the concentration of forces necessary to counter them. In fact, this is often how big empires fell to smaller determined forces as many “byzantine” generals either sat out or outright defected instead of presenting a unified resistance. (See Arab invasion of Sassanid Persia or Manchu’s takeover of China post-fall of Ming).

Poor will have same rate. Consumables such as grocery store food should be tax exempt. Super rich already escape progressive income taxes by living through their trusts and foundations and private businesses paying their first class travel. Can't escape sales tax for the higher price plane tickets. What is your agenda?

@jonwarnick @charliebilello Then it punishes the poor because larger portions of their income are spent and paid for sales tax therefore they have a de facto higher tax rate than the rich. I’m sure you understand that because that’s your agenda

A 25-year old married couple earning $150k will pay over $3k more in federal income tax for 2025 than a 65-year old married couple with the same income (note: assumes no social security - 65-year old couple is waiting to age 70 to get max benefit). This is a fair tax policy?