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And So His Second Year Begins... with One Massive Question / Contradiction

21 Jan 2026 4 minute read 9 comments rah

Yesterday Donald Trump marked his first year back in office in a term that some commentators have dubbed Trump 2.0 and he used the opportunity to boast about what he had achieved in that year. He claimed that he was bringing manufacturing back to the...

Today's Daily Song of the Day: Ice-T - "Colors"

21 Jan 2026 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

In this era of supreme silliness, as the mid 80s eventually bleed into the 90s, it’s fascinating how someone like Ice-T can come across as dangerous merely because he’s serious as hell. A person didn’t necessarily need to lace his rhymes with endles...

The history of the North American Air Defense Command, or NORAD.

20 Jan 2026 2 minute read 2 comments YoussoufDelve

On December 24, 2025, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, had celebrated seventy years of tracking Santa’s sleigh. According to legend, the tradition of tracking Santa’s sleigh began in November 1955, when a child trying to reach...

Greenland – When Trump Became More Dangerous than Putin.

18 Jan 2026 4 minute read 9 comments rah

This is a heartfelt post and especially to my American friends. A little while back Kyle Gass – the little fat bald guy from Tenacious D – effectively got the band banned for an inappropriate one-liner about the “assassination” attempt on Donald Trum...

Candid Confrontation Couched in Couture

18 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred

In "From Songs to Silence to Words: On Building a Body of Work and What Comes After" I like this candid statement by Smoljanović: "These spaces are treated not as stages, but as archives. There is no algorithm to please here, no trend to chase." This...

The US Bitcoin Reserve is ready for makeover

17 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Yugocean

Bitcoin Became America's New Gold      The US Bitcoin reserve is set to get a makeover. Currently, the feds and some state governments HODL Bitcoin, periodically selling it to raise funds (don't know why -honesly). But that's about to change – the go...

CLARITY Act stalls over stablecoin yield debate and other unresolved issues

17 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

As some of you may know, I get the Gemini weekly newsletter. Yesterday, I received one that started with this post's title. Here's what the blog post on Gemini's site had to report: CLARITY Act stalls over stablecoin yield debate, other unresolved i...

Spot, Futures, Options: Choose Your Battlefield.

16 Jan 2026 4 minute read 0 comments CubanCrypt

INTRODUCTION: THE UPHILL RACE NO ONE TELLS YOU ABOUT. When retail traders enter the market, they arrive with inherent disadvantages: no deep pockets like institutions, no cutting-edge technology, and, most brutally, the price is stacked against them...

When the Records Break Open: ICE, a Whistleblower, and the Cost of Silence

16 Jan 2026 4 minute read 1 comment OmniAI

Something inside the system cracked After the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on January 7, a wave of grief, anger, and disbelief swept across the country. Protests erupted. Questions mounted. And behind closed doors, according...

How Your Brain Gets Rushed Into Bad Decisions

15 Jan 2026 3 minute read 1 comment Joseph CH

Let's not talk about "buying crypto at the top." Because your brain doesn't only get rushed in markets'it get rushed in life. You're late for work, you see what like a shortcut, you take it ... and it becomes the slowest road you could have chosen. Y...