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The dollar will no longer require foreign central banks choosing to hold US treasuries in order to maintain its hegemony. Rather, dollar hegemony will now be built on the self-interest of millions of individuals choosing to hold stablecoins.. This will create a structural demand for US sovereign debt that no single government can disrupt by selling its reserves. Decentralized & atomized global demand will lead to hyper-dollarization. Step 1: Retail users globally adopt dollar stablecoins because they're superior to local currencies as savings & payment instruments. Step 2: Their adoption drains FX reserves from foreign countries, weakening local currencies, which drives further adoption. Step 3: The T-bills backing those stablecoins create captive demand for US sovereign debt, compressing yields & reducing the deficit's carrying cost (3-3-3 achieved). Step 4: Trade settlement migrates from correspondent banking to stablecoin rails, short-circuiting the eurodollar credit multiplier & replacing it with a system where collateral never leaves US jurisdiction. Step 5: The on-chain nature of transactions gives the US real-time visibility into global capital flows & programmable sanctions enforcement at the stablecoin level. Step 6: Bilateral trade deals channel the resulting capital flows into specific US sectors (i.e. fabs, defense, energy, shipbuilding, etc.), thus completing the reindustrialization loop. Just as energy corridor control will force bilateral realignment on the world of atoms (physical layer). Stablecoin architecture will force bilateral realignment on the world of bits (financial layer). Both will make the cost of being outside the American system higher than the cost of being inside it. Energy dominance & financial dominance. Enabling the US to craft the alliances of Pax Americana 2.0

India produces ~150–200 billion mangoes per year, but consumes almost all of it domestically, exporting less than 1% globally each year That’s roughly 110–140 mangoes per person per year

His name was Srinivas Kuchibhotla. Born in Hyderabad. His parents called him Srinu. He came to America in 2006 for his master's. Graduated with a 3.85 GPA. Worked his way up from software engineer to aviation programs manager at Garmin in Kansas. His manager said one thing about him. Top of his class kind of guy. He built a home in Kansas with his wife. Painted the walls himself. Installed the garage door himself. A few weeks before he died, they had a doctor's appointment. They were trying to start a family. He would have turned 33 on March 9. On February 22 2017, he and his friend Alok stopped at a bar after work to watch a basketball game. An ordinary Wednesday evening. A man there had been watching them for weeks. Told others they looked like terrorists. That night, he walked up to their table. Poked Srinivas in the chest. Demanded to know their immigration status. Shouted get out of my country. Other patrons threw him out. He drove home. Got his gun. Changed his shirt so nobody would recognise him. Came back. He fired eight rounds. Srinivas died that night. As the killer fled, he told someone he had just killed two Iranians. Srinivas was Indian. From Hyderabad. Eleven years in America. Not one complaint against him. Not one rule broken. His mother had asked him many times to come back if he ever felt unsafe. He always told her he was safe. His body came home to Hyderabad in a coffin. His mother wailed as it was carried through the streets in a flower laden carriage. She said she would not allow her younger son to go back to America. His father said whatever was destined has happened. The killer got three life sentences. Srinivas got a funeral at 32. He did everything right. Degree. Visa. Job. Taxes. Never raised his voice at anyone. None of it was enough. His name was Srinivas Kuchibhotla. Every Indian in the US deserves to know it.

Black woman from South Africa: “Black people have been patient enough for more than 400 years of colonialism. We are coming for you, and we are going to get everything that you own.” White people are facing racism, hatred, and brutal violence in South Africa. This is not acceptable. More people should know about the horrible things happening in South Africa; almost nobody talks about it.