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New article/interview headlined in The Broadsheet explaining the virtues of the RiverArch for all New Yorkers: bit.ly/BroadsheetRA1 Partners present & sought. Full presentation upon request.

You could check out this group for more info too: mailchi.mp/b098f5b90431/t…. I stopped attending their meetings because my senior position in two other NGOs takes too much of my time already, but they were founded by Zarlenga and continue the good fight to get debt-free money accepted and re-issued.

Not theory. Reality. The debt report still excludes U.S. Notes and Silver Certificates to this day. If it hasn't been debt since the Civil War, it's not going to change now; the amount listed has been fixed for over 100 years. Below is the latest monthly U.S. Treasury Debt Report Snippet from March 2026 showing the same amount - $237m in U.S. Notes. This doesn't change because they've been neither withdrawn from the the non-debt portion of the money supply, nor added to, since the 19th century, like Silver Certificates, which are technically redeemable in silver, but which have never been redeemed. U.S. Notes remain available on eBay and elsewhere as collector's items, and are even legal currency, though you'd be losing about 3X their face value by spending them vs. paying for them on eBay as I did. In any case, journalist & film-maker (and colleague of mine) Bill Still has documented Greenback/U.S. Note historical and potential future use in his films and Still videos for decades (The Money Masters is a classic and his other two are important follow-ups too). Still is a conservative Trump supporter and I am not, but on these points we and many other monetary reformers agree: Treasury issued U.S. Notes are money which never has to be paid back; it's just...money. Read Stephen Zarlenga's "The Lost Science of Money" too, another classic book. It spawned the NEED Act, from former U.S. Rep Dennis Kucinich, which would have replaced debt-money with debt-free money. I don't go that far since I know the political realities. In my book "America is Not Broke!" I only advocate for a parallel system of U.S. Notes, which could be used to pay down the domestic debt as it comes due, in a non-inflationary way, while leaving the current system alone, for now.

@PamRyanRyan1 @SamJownes I guess we'll have to see who's next. It looks like we won't have long to wait since Trump is purging to deflect from his own failures.

@NewThinking2 @SamJownes I get what you're saying but the women concerned were an embarassment to me, as a woman. Anyway, that smokey-eyed would-be trans with a liking for couches is still there. He counts. Nor is he the only one. Lesley Graham springs to mind.

Trump just fired his second cabinet member in a month. Pam Bondi is gone — not for being too aggressive, but for not being aggressive enough on Trump’s enemies. The regime is eating itself alive! dworkinsubstack.com/p/this-week-be…

@Aurthuria @RealJessica You are proving my point. Property taxes, or Land Value Taxes, cannot be moved. Only the ones you mentioned can. That's another reason to have LVT.

@NewThinking2 @RealJessica Not really. You could operate in NY from a Florida business. Be physically present for 100+ days and keep all the staff in NY. This would avoid all the personal and company taxes except sales tax. That's only required if you need an actual physical presence in NY

A NYC school teacher has a GREAT idea for billionaires leaving New York. 🤣🙄 He suggests that if the billion dollar companies leave then the regular folks should just take over their businesses. Journalist: “What do you say to the folks who say, if you tax millionaires, they're going to leave the city and the top 1% pays 40% of the taxes in the city. What happens if they leave? What's your response?” NYC Teacher: “We should take their business and we run it for the city ourselves.” 🤡 Journalist: “They take their business to Florida, you feel like you can keep it here?” NYC Teacher: “They can't leave the building. They can't just bring their whole entire workforce to Florida. Right? They can't bring all of the resources that they have to build the business here to Florida. Thats where you would say we're building a real movement, right?” “To stop that, we’d make it illegal for them to actually leave. We would find them to hell if they're gonna try to abandon their property here. Because clearly people do need to work, right? People do need to make a living.” Are they really all this stupid?? Follow: @RealJessica

@AI_EmeraldApple OMG. The tagline at the bottom should be Unconscious, Uncaring, Uncomfortable. Alternate media is sometimes alternate reality. Oy...

At first, I couldn't fucking believe this was a real article. So I had to look it up... and it's real. This is some deranged, evil nonsense, man... no amount of ideological spin turns a sexual assault into some noble "assimilation tool". This is just morally bankrupt. Then they use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to dress up sexual assault as some quirky "cultural misunderstanding"... Fucking disgusting. Anything "quasi" = not consensual = sexual assault... no such thing as a "kinda raped" category that magically fixes racism. 🤡

Congestion pricing is $9 now; it was supposed to be $15. It's more if you come from N.J. b/c bridges & tunnels cost $$$ too. By paying these tolls, the roads can be maintained & buses & subways too, freeing the roads for cars, trucks & others (including me on a bike in the bike lanes). We all pay our way!

@NewThinking2 @RealJessica Doesnt it cost $10 to cross a river into manhattan?

@Roxenka It's literally excluded. Read the official U.S. Treasury debt report snippet I provided & the popup from the debt clock. A monetarily sovereign nation like the U.S. can't owe money to itself, unlike that states, cities, or the EU which is dependent on the ECB in Brussels.

@NewThinking2 Key word: borrowed. It can't be debt-free because it IS a debt!

@RasmusJarlov Unfortunately, stateless Islam is the 4th power, currently ascending the most & being the most dangerous too.

In the future, there will be three major powers in the world: China, USA, EU. Neutral countries will move as much as possible towards the EU as their preferred partner because both China and the USA treat other countries disrespectfully and try to extort them. Europe will be the only great power and market to turn to if you want to have an equal and fair relationship. Canada is already moving towards Europe for this exact reason. India and Japan will also form a closer relationship with Europe. This is what soft power means. MAGA replies in the comment section will prove the point.

@LVTbruno @LVT_USA @mmt_lvt @LVTYIMBY @Lvt @LVT253 @henrygeorgepgm @HenryGeorgeInst @henrygeorgeuk

@EYakoby And this despite most NYC Jews being secular & not easily identifiable as Jews, unlike some other more easily identifiable groups.

BREAKING: NYPD Commissioner BREAKING: Jessica Tisch reports 55% of NYC hate crimes in Q1 2026 targeted Jews—who make up just ~10% of the population. Jews should not have to live like this.

@ICRB5 True, but here in NYC where the average rent just hit $5,000/month, that's pretty much middle class, or maybe upper middle class at the $400k level. And people at that level don't have the tax loopholes that <1% HNW people have.

@NewThinking2 @ennui365 Millionaires in Bella millionaires, OK. But what about people who make 180,000 a year 200,000 a year, 300,000 a year? They are still collecting salaries.

HNW individuals have options, in both senses of the word. Multi-billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zucherberg, for example famously takes only $1 in wages, but has massive stock grants. x.com/i/grok/share/3…

@Roxenka But it's debt-money when borrowed from the Central Bank. It's debt-free when issued by the Treasury Dept., as done during the Civil War, and less so thereafter to the present.

@NewThinking2 Hate to burst your bubble of ignorance, but US Dollars ARE "sovereign money". We are already funding SSA with money.

True. The technical term is "negative rights" - rights that cannot be denied by the government. The Constitution is sometimes criticized for not giving "positive rights" with an exception being the 20th century right to a lawyer when charged with a crime. Most modern constitutions contain more positive rights: right to healthcare, rights to food & water, etc.

The Constitution does NOT give you rights. You already have them. The Constitution simply tells the government that it cannot take those rights away. I wish more people understood this.

@Ratio_Disputati @mcafeenew @UnmaskTheSys @NYCMayor Well, there is one Civil War exception, kinda, but let's hope it doesn't come to that! x.com/i/grok?convers…

@NewThinking2 @mcafeenew @UnmaskTheSys @NYCMayor Unfortunately the Constitution requires that to form a state out of parts of another state the consent of the “mother” state and the consent of Congress is required. Not a chance in hell that New York would consent to this.

🚨STATEN ISLAND SECESSION EXPLOSION — SIX BALLSY NYC COUNCILMEN JUST FILED TO BREAK FREE FROM THE RADICAL COMMUNIST HELLHOLE OF NEW YORK CITY AND FORM THEIR OWN INDEPENDENT TOWNSHIP! Follow @UnmaskTheSys After three nightmare months of socialist Mamdani pushing his Marxist garbage down everyone’s throats, they’ve had ENOUGH and are officially done being held hostage. “The people of Staten Island should be free to govern themselves,” declared Councilman Joseph Barron. “They don’t want communism rammed down their throats!” With a population larger than 90% of American cities and full infrastructure ready to split in WEEKS, Staten Island could be its own sovereign town by next month — leaving the failing woke disaster behind forever! This is what happens when real Americans finally say SCREW YOU to the radical left. The communists are PANICKING! SHARE THIS IF YOU WANT TO SEE STATEN ISLAND TELL NYC TO KISS THEIR ASS AND GO FULLY FREE! Follow @mcafeenew for more drops.

@aakashgupta Trump's No Tax on Tips makes it even worse, shifting the payment burden to customers since restaurant managers know the base pay is taxed & tips aren't so they are net worth more. This makes everything uncertain & everyone unhappy.

American restaurants are legally allowed to pay servers $2.13/hour. In Japan, tipping is rude. In Australia, servers make $24/hour before tips. In Denmark, $25/hour with full benefits. In those countries, a server handwriting a demand for more money on a receipt would be absurd. The restaurant already paid them. In America, the restaurant doesn't. So 20% from the customer fills the gap. That's the system. Leaving less means the server worked your table for two dollars an hour. This receipt is what that looks like in practice. $525 check. The restaurant collected every dollar. Printed "gratuity: $0.00" on the bill. Paid the server $2.13/hour. Then left the building. The customer left $60 in cash. That's 11%. The server handwrote a note: "I was expecting more like $120. Thanks." The note looks entitled until you do the math. At $2.13/hour, a four-hour dinner shift pays the server $8.52 from the restaurant. The difference between a $60 tip and a $120 tip is the difference between $17/hour and $32/hour for skilled service on a $525 tab. Everyone is arguing about the server's attitude. Nobody is asking why a business that just collected $525 is paying its worker two dollars. The server and the customer are fighting over who covers payroll. The restaurant owner is nowhere in the conversation. Already won.

N.A. I took the J&J one-shot jab when it was still available. No mRNA, no controversy. And it turned out later that it had longer lasting protection against new variants. J&J should bring the vaccine back, maybe boost it a bit to make it as effective as the mRNA 2 shots & restart the patent. A lot of people would opt for that vaccine now & lives could be saved.

Anyone here completely happy with their decision to take an mRNA Covid vaccine? ✋