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PoliticsTrump and Rubio Weigh Firing Kimberly Guilfoyle as Envoy to Greece
On Sunday, October 11, 2026, a senior US official said President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are "extremely pissed off" at Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece.
PoliticsTrump's Memecoin Dinner Returns November 22 With Gold Watches for the Top Four
Donald Trump will host the top 185 holders of his namesake memecoin at a dinner on November 22, 2026, according to the official TRUMP token leaderboard reported by Decrypt on October 3.
PoliticsWashington Purges 760,000 Obamacare Enrollees and Calls It Fraud
On Tuesday, September 22, 2026, officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services stood at a podium and announced that 760,000 people had been stripped from Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage on…
PoliticsThe CFTC Will Write Crypto Rules Because Congress Would Not
On Thursday, September 17, 2026, CFTC Chairman Mike Selig confirmed what the derivatives industry had been bracing for since the Senate's digital asset market structure bill stalled: the Commodity Futures Trading…
PoliticsLummis Blasts Democrats on Clarity Act While Insisting It Can Still Pass
Senator Cynthia Lummis spent the days before the Senate's market structure vote doing two things at once: attacking Democrats for stalling the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, and insisting the bill can still clear…
PoliticsOil Tops $90 as US Strikes Iran and Trump Calls Hormuz Normal
Brent crude broke $90 a barrel on August 31, 2026, after the United States and Iran resumed exchanging fire, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal relayed by BlockMedia.
PoliticsThe Jeffries-Kushner Meeting and the Permanence of the Political Class
Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader who would become Speaker if his party wins the November 2026 midterms, met privately with Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, to discuss areas of possible…
PoliticsA 1.6 Million Dozen Egg Recall Exposes the Cost of Centralized Trust
On August 12, 2026, the US Food and Drug Administration elevated the recall of nearly 1.6 million dozen cage-free white and brown eggs to Class I, its highest-risk designation, meaning the agency believes consumption…
PoliticsEl Salvador Quietly Sold. Bhutan Quietly Bought.
The country that made Bitcoin legal tender is quietly winding down its program under IMF pressure. The country that never held a press conference is now sitting on one of the largest sovereign Bitcoin positions in the world. The sovereign adoption story is real. It just isn't where you were looking.
Politics1099-DA Was Supposed to Crash Bitcoin on April 15. It Didn't. Here's What Actually Happened.
Four days after America's first automated Bitcoin tax day, the selloff that everyone priced in never showed up. The sell pressure came earlier, the ETFs kept absorbing, and the real 1099-DA shock is months away in the mailbox, not on the chart.
PoliticsCBDC Pilots Are Failing. That's Why They're Speeding Up.
Every major CBDC pilot over the last three years has produced the same result. Voluntary adoption is dismal. User demand is nonexistent. Merchants treat it as a compliance burden. Central banks have noticed. Their response is not to reconsider. Their response is to accelerate toward mandatory adoption before voluntary failure becomes politically untenable.
PoliticsForm 1099-DA Just Landed. Tomorrow Is the First Tax Day the IRS Cross-Checks Your Bitcoin.
April 15 is the first US filing deadline where Bitcoin holders are reconciled against records the IRS already received. Form 1099-DA went live for the 2025 tax year, and a quiet cost basis rule change has rewritten the math for anyone who held coins across more than one wallet. The grace period is over.