JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya. The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy www.propublica.org/article/keny...

Do Kwon gets 15 years for crypto crimes, even longer than prosecutors had asked for. from @joelkhalili.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Eight months ago vs today. 🤡 @atrupar.com @cnbc.com @cbsnews.com

Well said @seancasten.bsky.social

GREAT reporting here, although I admit the headline made me chuckle. “Could Tether do more to stop financial crime?” Well, yes they could stop committing it, for one.

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

Like subprime, but dumber

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

They. Are. Terrified.

I wrote this @thenation.com to keep from howling from my rooftop. "After the DC National Guard Shooting Comes the Big Lie." tinyurl.com/2456cc46

And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now. Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government. Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives. Duh.

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

“…the President has leveraged his office to make himself a crypto billionaire and…has extended broad protection to fraudsters, scam artists, and other online criminals—who, in turn, repay the President and his family with millions of dollars in tribute.” democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.

Heard of Tether? It's based in El Salvador and makes cryptocurrency. One use of that crypto is to help Russia's war machine, I'm told. Tether is massively profitable. And among its biggest shareholders is a donor to Nigel Farage... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“Bitcoin might not have lived up to its promise as a currency, but the underlying blockchain technology shows great promise.” (Someone, circa 2015)

If you're still referring to bitcoin as a currency or a store of value, please see me after class.

Thanks @cnn-news.bsky.social and @jaketapper.bsky.social

What’s the Mamdani/Trump positivity implies is that Trump might actually get along with Democrats if they actually had charisma and the courage of their convictions

Inject it into my veins

The fascist doesn’t mind being called a fascist. So legacy media, maybe you can call him a fasicst now??

Going on @cnn-news.bsky.social in the 5 PM hour to talk with @jaketapper.bsky.social about Jeffrey Epstein secretly funding Bitcoin development via the MIT Media Lab.

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So it’s an “asset” then, not a currency? Almost like a security you might say?

“whether the machines could be remotely controlled for spying or to sabotage the American power grid” 🤔 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bitcoin now down over 30% from its all-time highs… Six weeks ago. If Saylor is forced to liquidate his bitcoin, things could get bad real fast. As always, no one could have seen this coming 🤡🤡🤡

Store of value. Unit of account. Inflation hedge.

The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1

This is naked corruption on a scale we’ve never seen. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence the majority of it comes from crypto. Private money is antithetical to democracy.

Republicans vote overwhelmingly to pretend they want the Epstein Files released. www.axios.com/2025/11/18/h...

Stay classy, Clay Higgins

The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking

ICIJ's latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is a collaboration of 113 journalists from 38 media partners in 35 countries that exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime. Here are our findings:

There’s a movie for that www.docnyc.net/film/everyon...

The report cited actually says “at least $28 billion” with the “at least” doing a lot of work

If you're in or near NY, head over to @docnycfest.bsky.social and check out "Everyone is Lying to You For Money" from @benmckenzie.bsky.social Funny and dark at the same time, it's a great skeptical look into Cryptocurrency nonsense! www.docnyc.net/film/everyon...

Jeffrey Epstein is Satoshi Nakamoto www.therage.co/epstein-bitc...

Brock Pierce, Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein decrypt.co/348586/epste...

“In one txt correspondence from Sept 2018, Epstein told an associate that “crypto needs to be thought of [as] similar to the internet,” and approached with intl agreements and “coordinated understandings.” “Otherwise it is a Ponzi scheme outside of the law,” he said. “ decrypt.co/348724/jeffr...

Oh no not bill clinton and lawrence summers anyone but those, mr president

Bitcoin down more than 20% in the last five weeks. Remember, it’s a store of value and an inflation hedge. 🤪

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Went on @msnbc.com to talk crypto grift. Plus, a sneak peak of the film I directed, EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY playing @docnycfest.bsky.social this weekend!

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Asking the right questions :)

Stay classy Larry