Bluesky doesn’t even know it’s Uptober. #bitcoin

I am curious at what point people do leave. I’m not there yet. And I frankly don’t see anything in the immediate future that will make me do so. But I do wonder what will be the redline that gets people do so.

Depend on the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is not corruption though it can be used as payment for corruption or to save funds obtained via corruption but that’s no different than the dollar. If the cryptocurrency is centrally controlled & can be printed at will, well, expect lots of corruption. BUT…

Yes. I really wish Democrats got much more serious about Federalism.

Yes. Yes it is. I went from the show to the books. I’m on the fourth book now. I also think it’s exceptionally timely.

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

79. American citizen.

Maybe but what I don’t get is why house Democrats don’t give him the boot. They can do that without voters. Just give him the goddamn boot. Anyone who is part of the early insurgency to end his tenure will be well rewarded. They might even become a serious 2028 presidential contender.

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

I hope y’all are on NOSTR before that happens. And own bitcoin. Both exist as a specific way to stand up to such abuses of centralized power.

Or a moral excuse to become violent. And they don’t have it! Tom’s point is the gov’t isn’t, as a whole, fascist. And it’s not! We’re winning consistently in lower level courts. We’re watching state governments and governors push back. We’ve got upcoming elections. Let’s focus on winning those.

What are we doing here? What have we become? And what are we deciding to continue to be?

I’d rather not. It’s a local company and while they’ve done the right thing, I’m sure they don’t need unwanted publicity. It would be different if it was national.

Email received from company I contacted: Thank you for reaching out to us ... effective midnight tonight and in response to Sinclair’s recent decision regarding the Jimmy Kimmel show, (we have) chosen to discontinue advertising on KOMO and other Sinclair-owned stations for the foreseeable future.

REQUEST: If anyone has the memo in question, pushing such prosecutions, apparently sent from a lawyer in Blanche's office to "U.S. attorney’s offices in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Detroit and Maryland, among others," please send it my way. Signal: crg.32

This is actually good news. We can’t fix this situation if the majority of people cannot face reality. And the majority is correct about everything here. It’s gonna get worse, but if getting worse means even more people face reality, we will have a chance to fix this.

History folks: What are the best book to come out in the last decade or so on World War II from a War and Society lens, US-focused? I've got Preston's Total Defense, Roberts' What Soldiers Do, Samet's Good War, Delmont's Half American, Borgwardt's New Deal for the World, but looking for more.

Government ownership of the means of production, and if you don’t like it, you’re a “radical socialist”.

These are fair surmises.

Anyone know how this worked out?

High School Musical Shooting: ouch.

In light of reporting on the planned new assault on transgender individuals: "We have a presidential administration which seeks to curtail their rights. We have a powerful political movement that wishes to make them afraid. This is wrong. It’s also un-American." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-stephe...

People are doing an exquisite job at making Trump synonymous with Bitcoin. I’m sure this will work out well for us Bitcoiners! Cc: @trey.progressivebitcoiner.org

To the Scoundrel James Kimmel: Bring $500,000 in unmarked, sequential bills to the parking lot of Men’s Warehouse at precisely 11:13pm if you want your show back on the air. Come alone. If you inform the authorities, Jimmy Kimmel Live becomes Jimmy Kimmel Dead. You have 48 hours.

I think it was but not if you measure it using CPI. If you’re one of those people who 1) believe CPI is an accurate measure of inflation & 2) assume people understand inflation as year over year running indicator, you’ll assume it wasn’t about inflation.

Well, maybe she would have won if she did? All we know for sure is she didn’t win & therefore she shouldn’t have taken a nomination she didn’t earn behind closed doors. So I don’t really give two shits about her political opinion. Win or I can discount your political opinions by a lot.

It’s high time all entertainment unions negotiate that their owners will fight first amendment violations that impact their programs, movies, etc. and if the companies don’t, the affected parties will have financial recourse against the company: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

My attitude is you can call it anything you want as long as you also call it morally wrong and make a call to end US complicity in the war. Fighting over whether it’s now genocide or a war crime that hasn’t tipped over into the definition of genocide is counterproductive.

Absolutely. But in 1975 neither of the nation's political parties was a cult, and its president wasn't a sociopath.

They’re going to print the money. They’re going to print the money. They’re going to print the money. The most important investing decision right now is how you express the dollar devaluation thesis in your portfolio. So I once again ask, “Got bitcoin?”

One side (R) is not only not principled, but actively subverting the constitution. The other side (D) *MUST* do everything within the bounds of the constitution to protect it. Otherwise we lose it all. It’s like an intentionally set wildfire that is being encouraged by a group that is feeding…

When you unilaterally assassinate a person in cold blood for their views, even if those views are actually evil, you deny them the chance to change. And people *can* change. Case in point: amzn.to/3IdfDU2

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

More importantly, it is clear as day that Trump and MAGA want to use his murder - as awful as it is - as an excuse to criminalize entire categories of speech and beliefs they object to, or just find annoying. This must be fought with every ounce of energy we can muster.

These people would rather imagine Democrats wanting them dead because the truth is far worse for them. The reality is we don’t think about them at all.

best one-line insight about the Kirk assassin: “To them, murder is the ultimate act of trolling, and they want to be remembered for it.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Cox: "I brought up the Democrats who were assassinated recently. And how quickly we move on from these things. But the body count is piling up. I'm so concerned about this radicalization piece."

I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!

Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.

/2 We can, and should, discuss whether political violence is inevitable, or whether we’re fooling ourselves because we’ve been swimming in it for a long time. You can note that political violence against the Left (like Melissa Hortman) is treated differently than political violence against the right

So is the GOP now officially the pro pedophile party?

Yeah, but on the upside, in the long run natural selection will make us smarter again.

It was only a matter of time before we'd see both stories like this and passages like footnote 9 in Judge Burroughs' ruling yesterday in the Harvard case. It's one thing to be bound by #SCOTUS; it's another thing to respect what the justices are doing. The decline of the latter is a five-alarm fire.

People outside of the bitcoin bubble (or outside of Bitcoin holders and users) see this and I completely understand why they want to hate Bitcoin and anything to do with it! Just…hear us out, we’ve got a place for you @progressivebitcoiner.org

Here’s the thing. Just stack the court first. Then you don’t even have to worry about this.

Terrific piece by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for @theguardian.com. The country desperately needs congressional Democrats to get their shit together, and it needs to happen sooner rather than later.