With the upcoming markup of Clarity in the Senate things are reaching a boiling point with both sides unsure of whether the bill will pass. Here is why I think Clarity FAILING would be good news for DeFi (and maybe the rest of crypto too)
One of the foundational elements of Clarity is giving the CFTC jurisdiction over crypto spot markets. During the last administration, big players in the industry wanted this because the Gensler SEC was suing them and because some had broken securities laws via unregistered securities offerings
But if the industry thinks about the future, not the past, it is clear that the SEC is a better potential regulator than the CFTC. Everything that the SEC does is focused on protecting investors. While this includes ensuring markets are fair, the focus is on investors, which provides some flexibility in how those ends are achieved. Flexibility that is crucial for peer-to-peer protocols
Last week, the United States refused to participate in the UN’s review of the Global Compact on Migration.
The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.
UN agencies systematically facilitated mass migration into America and Europe, even as citizens of these nations called for restrictions on migration.
Now the Global Compact’s latest report urges nations to expand migration pathways and pursue “regularization” of migrants.
UN agencies – working with the NGOs they fund – established a migration corridor through Central America and to the U.S. border.
As the American people suffered under an unprecedented wave of mass migration, the UN was on the ground pipelining migrants to our southern border.
1/ The @nytimes just published one of the most serious sets of allegations imaginable against Israel – claims of systematic sexual violence, including a bizarre story about carrots and trained rape dogs. We checked the sources.
What we found is journalistic malpractice. 🧵
2/ First, Sami al‑Sai, introduced by @NickKristof as a “freelance journalist.” What the NYT doesn’t tell you: al‑Sai has a long record of celebrating terrorists on social media.
Kristof repeats gruesome details of “vomit, blood and broken teeth” and lets al‑Sai claim he was arrested to pressure him into becoming an informant. In reality, al‑Sai had already been jailed in 2016 for incitement – and his 2024 arrest was again for incitement.
His own Facebook explains why.
3/ On 23 March 2023 al‑Sai posted about Amir Abu Khadija, calling him “our martyred prince.”
Abu Khadija wasn’t some random victim. He was the founder and leader of the Tulkarm Battalion – a terrorist group behind multiple deadly attacks, including:
🔴30 May 2023 – Israeli civilian murdered near Hermesh
🔴19 Oct 2023 – 1 IDF officer killed, 10 wounded
🔴23 Mar 2024 – 4 Israeli soldiers killed
🔴1 Jul 2024 – 1 soldier killed, another severely injured
In December 2023 – just two months before his arrest – al‑Sai posted videos and photos celebrating armed fighters in Nur Shams camp.
16 Dec – “Moons of Nur Shams camp,” showing terrorists in tactical gear
18 Dec – cheering captured Israeli military equipment
The very next day, 17 Dec, Israeli forces raided Nur Shams, killing five terrorists. Al‑Sai had close access to the gunmen Israel was targeting. NYT’s due diligence on his background? Zero.
Three different kinds of AI user are emerging right now which is presenting a novel crisis for education. We could soon see rapid cognitive disparities of a kind we have no historical precedent for. 🧵⤵️
My sense is that the emergence of frontier AI has created 3 types of users right now which is effectively running a real-time social experiment in cognition:
1.) Group 1 (bootstrappers) - those who are using it to bootstrap their thinking and to learn as much as they can
2.) Group 2 (offloaders) - those who use it to avoid all thinking and yet are producing high quality outputs but learn absolutely nothing
3.) Group 3 is (business as usual) - those who more or less ignore it, or use it like a slightly better Google.
In the short run the 2nd group outperforms the otehrs on almost every measure school can see, BUT they do not experience themselves as having lost anything because the thing they lost is precisely the thing that would have noticed the loss (hard-earned, systematised knowledge).
In other words, not only do they not know what they dont know, but everyone else doesn't know what they dont know.
Se habla mucho de LA LEYENDA NEGRA pero en realidad pocos comprenden su mecanismo
Se trata de la lucha entre dos conceptos distintos e incompatibles de civilización
La lucha de una ANTICIVILIZACIÓN contra una CIVILIZACION...+
2 deberíamos empezar explicando que una VERDADERA CIVILIZACIÓN asienta su espíritu en la base, en el origen, en el cosmos, en Dios
Su actuación siempre se refiere a ese origen común, común a toda la humanidad y por lo tanto no EXTERMINA sino que INCORPORA
3 Incorpora a los recién hallados a su modo de vida, sin ocultarles nada, sin falsificar los textos de la Biblia.
No les mantienen en la ignorancia tribal, no les clasifica como subhumanos
Un IMPERIO tiene leyes para proteger a sus súbditos de la explotación
🧵⬇️ L'histoire d'un tournage de légende : Quand la Citroën Visa GTI a conquis la Marine Nationale. ⚓️🚗
Vous avez surement déja vu passer cette pub, et pour cause: elle reste dans les mémoires ! Ce n'est pas tous les jours qu'un constructeur français catapulte une voiture depuis un porte-avion pour la faire réaparaitre... sur un sous-marin !
Je vous livre quelques détails...
Tout commence par une idée délirante de Jacques Séguéla : propulser la Visa GTI depuis un porte-avions. La Marine refuse poliment.
Le publicitaire qui appelle directement son ami, F. Mitterrand. Amusé par le projet, il donne le feu vert : l'armée française prêtera ses fleurons
I have probably written more about tendons in the past year than most surgeons have written in their careers. I do this because tendon disorders are among the most common issues I see in the office.
You will need to know this stuff at some point.
Also... Don't think that because of severe pain, something is torn. Let's do this...
Most tendon pain is not caused by a single traumatic event. Tendinopathy is the most common cause of tendon pain. It is a failed response to loading over time. Simply put... Your tendon was asked to do more than it was adapted to handle, and the rate of breakdown exceeded the rate of repair.
This can happen to someone sedentary who tended to their garden in the spring... or a runner whose achilles was used to 20mpw, and now they decided to run 40mpw.
The tendinopathy process occurs on a spectrum... from a reactive stage that is usually reversible to a degenerative stage where the tissue has changed structurally but can still be managed effectively.
Your overall health has a significant role in your risk for developing tendon-related issues. Your tendons do not exist in isolation from the rest of your systemic physiology. Elevated blood sugar leads to collagen cross-linking (via AGEs) that makes tendons stiffer and more brittle.
Declining estrogen and testosterone reduce collagen turnover.
Elevated uric acid and dyslipidemia are both associated with increased tendon disease.
Certain medications, including fluoroquinolone antibiotics and repeated cortisone injections, can directly weaken tendon tissue.
If your tendon issue is not responding to rehab alone, your metabolic health is the next place to look.
¿Voy a hacer un hilo con mis gráficos favoritos de Jon?
POR SUPUESTO.
Empiezo con este. Por razones obvias.
Sigo: el problema del precio de la vivienda es común a toda Europa... hasta cierto punto. Mirad lo que hizo aquí Jon: ajustarlo por salarios.
Sorpresa: España destaca.
Foco en la brecha vivienda vs salarios de la gente de 25 a 29 años, la edad en teoría prime para independizarte podríamos decir (edad media en España de emancipación: 30 años).
One US sanction was enough to break normal life for a ICC judge in Europe.
Nicolas Guillou lost access to credit cards, bank transfers, hotel bookings, UPS deliveries, Paris bike rentals and parts of his health insurance because they all depended on American companies, FT. 1/
The US sanctioned Guillou in August 2025 after the ICC issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza. 2/
Within days, banks blocked transfers.
and Expedia canceled hotel reservations. UPS returned packages. Paris’ Vélib’ bike system refused rentals because it required a credit card guarantee. 3/Booking.com
Nikita’s latest statements actually put an end to this debate.
If you truly want to become a real content creator, there’s only one option: quotes.
So when should you use retweets?
Let’s get into it 👇 (Thread)
Thread 1
With Nikita’s recent statements and the platform being rebuilt to protect real content creators, retweet impressions now mostly go only to the original creator.
So why should you still repost content?
For positioning.
When you’re busy or unable to create a new post, retweeting helps you avoid losing momentum, shows that your account is still active, and helps the algorithm continue positioning your profile.
Thread 2
Quotes work a little differently. Let me explain it like this;
If you quote a post and only add a simple sentence without bringing any value, most of the impressions will still go to the original creator.
But if you add your own perspective and create a different angle, the impressions, engagement, and honestly the money, start coming to you 😅
Quoting is one of the most important tools for a content creator.
Because the topic already exists and you’re building extra value on top of it.
You’ve probably seen quote posts with millions of impressions.
Hello @RickJacksonGA can I come speak at your events ton behalf of #Protect2028 ? We know @POTUS and @burtjonesforga told us about GA elections rigging in 2020. I am happy they told us, but they also have offered no solutions. Go to iBlackVote.com to see solutions #GaPol x.com/rickjacksonga/…
@threadreaderapp “unroll”
Rick @RickJacksonGA we also designed these shirts for our student led movement. How can we coordinate canvassing on your behalf in all Fulton, Paulding, Clayton, Dekalb, and Cobb? We have a large network.
Claude can now replace 8 of them at once — for free.
Here are 8 prompts that cancel $400/month in subscriptions you forgot you were paying for:
Save this thread 🧵👇
Prompt 1: Audit Your Entire SaaS Stack
You can't cancel what you haven't seen.
This prompt builds your subscription kill list:
Act as a SaaS cost-cutting consultant who has
audited subscription stacks for solopreneurs
and small teams.
Here's my honest SaaS situation:
- Subscriptions I actively use weekly: [LIST
WITH MONTHLY COST]
- Subscriptions I use occasionally: [LIST WITH
COST]
- Subscriptions I haven't opened in 30+ days:
[LIST WITH COST]
- Annual subscriptions I forgot I had: [LIST]
- Free trials that auto-converted: [LIST]
- My role and workflow needs: [DESCRIBE]
Run a full SaaS audit:
1. Total monthly and annual spend across all
tools 2. The 5 tools doing real work I'd actually
miss 3. The tools that overlap (where I'm paying
2x for the same job) 4. The tools Claude can fully replace today 5. The tools Claude can mostly replace (with
one cheaper backup tool) 6. A prioritized cancellation list (highest
ROI cuts first) 7. Realistic monthly savings if I follow this list
Show me the money I'm leaking every single
month.
Prompt 2: Replace Your Project Manager (Notion, Asana, ClickUp, Monday)
Most project management tools are bloated dashboards you barely touch.
This prompt replaces them with one Claude system:
You are a productivity strategist who has helped
solopreneurs and small teams ditch bloated
project management tools.
My current PM tool: [NOTION / ASANA / CLICKUP
/ MONDAY / TRELLO / OTHER]
What I use it for: [LIST]
The features I actually need: [LIST]
The features I never use: [LIST]
Build me a Claude-based project management
system:
1. A "single source of truth" structure I can
maintain in one document or chat 2. A weekly planning template (what to ask
Claude every Monday) 3. A daily standup template (5-minute check-in) 4. A task tracking system that doesn't require
me to update 14 fields 5. A project review template for end-of-week
reflection 6. How to handle deadlines, dependencies, and
priorities without a Gantt chart 7. The 3 things a tool like Notion does better
(so I know when to keep one tool around)
Make this lightweight enough that I'll actually
use it.
There is a certain tragedy to Keir Starmer, for all of his many political deficits, his wooden demeanour, the inability to formulate a vision, the seeming lack of genuine conviction in his own policies, the countless u-turns, he seems fundamentally to be a man of integrity. The
almost pathological hatred of Starmer carries with it an element of irrationality. He did not chance the country on his personal ego like Cameron, produce an endless series of scandals and lies like Johnson, or almost crash the economy due to his zealous conviction like Truss.
Starmer’s inability to translate Labour’s landslide at the election into policy wins and popular support reveals more about structural political dynamics than his individual character. Western democracies like the UK, Germany and France are becoming virtually ungovernable due to
I’ve just listened to the health update from the US Nebraska Health Officials 🇺🇸
A few points of interest:
1/ in addition to the US passenger who tested positive & the one showing symptoms, it seems there is ANOTHER passenger who may have tested positive.
2/ Passengers currently in the Nebraska quarantine unit will spend a few days there being assessed.
If they remain symptom free & have support available at home to isolate safely, they’ll have the choice to complete the 42-day isolation either at home or in the quarantine unit.
3/ When asked about the US passengers who left the ship in St Helena on 24 Apr (at the same time at the Dutch woman who was symptomatic & sadly died on 26 Apr), they confirmed that these passengers have all been traced & are being monitored - but seems they’re NOT self-isolating.
"Our Country Was so RICH, they didn’t know what to do with the Money. There was a Group of Very Prominent People that were set up to Hand out Money to EVERYBODY"
Sounds Like #NESARA
I'm not an expert on employment discrimination law so I am not really your source on what will happen in the NY Times reverse discrimination lawsuit.
But I can tell you about a broader more "cultural" trend about this issue, which is a lot of people don't realize this is illegal
Discrimination against white people because of their race has been illegal ever since the civil rights statutes were passed (and was illegal before that under the Constitution with respect to state actors).
TBC, there were exceptions for very specific types of affirmative action
But those exceptions, even when they existed (and it is unclear any of them still do after Students for Fair Admission), were very narrow. E.g., even many college affirmative action programs were illegal and SCOTUS struck a bunch of them down.
1/4 🌱🧬 Algunas plantas pudieron sobrevivir a la catástrofe que extinguió a los dinosaurios no aviares gracias, en parte, a una estrategia evolutiva extraordinaria: duplicar su genoma.
🧵Esto plantea un nuevo estudio publicado en Cell por un equipo científico internacional 🦖🦕
2/4 El fenómeno se llama poliploidía: tener copias extra del genoma 🧬
En ambientes estables puede ser costoso. Pero en escenarios extremos —frío, calor, sequía, colapso ecosistémico— esa información genética adicional puede transformarse en una ventaja adaptativa.
3/4 El equipo analizó 470 especies de plantas con flores y 44 fósiles, identificando antiguas duplicaciones genómicas asociadas a grandes periodos de crisis ambiental.
La evolución deja pistas muy valiosas para la agricultura del futuro.