Pablo Antonio and DC Posch spent months at San Francisco farmers' markets documenting how food-stamp fraud quietly funds the fentanyl trade. Their conclusion is uncomfortable: the NGO complex built to help addicts has an incentive to keep them addicted. Plus the case for rebuilding a beautiful city.
Washington banned a US central bank digital currency, then quietly built its surveillance twin out of private stablecoins that freeze, block, and report by law. Here's the documented record of how the digital dollar arrived without a CBDC, and what still defends against it.
FinCEN told prosecutors Samourai Wallet wasn't a money transmitter in August 2023. SDNY indicted Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill six months later. The documented record, the legal theory, and what you can do this week.
Lauren Rodriguez joined the show to talk about her husband Keonne's five-year sentence for building Samourai Wallet, the August 2023 FinCEN call that prosecutors hid for fourteen months, and what every Bitcoiner can do this week to help.
The 1953 Army document, the 1960s radioactive tick releases, the 2019 Smith amendment forcing Pentagon declassification — here's what's documented about America's Lyme bioweapon history and what to do about it this summer.
How a Martha's Vineyard tick bite and a chance encounter with a CIA black-ops operative at a Texas birthday party launched Kris Newby's 20-year investigation into the Cold War bioweapon program behind today's Lyme and Alpha-Gal explosion.
Attorney Preston Byrne on how foreign governments launder censorship through US platforms, why the UK Online Safety Act tries to govern American servers, the 4chan v. Ofcom lawsuit he's litigating, and the Granite Act's plan to strip foreign regulators' immunity and make them bear the cost.
Kyle Olney helped the government seize 140-plus failed banks in the 2008 crisis, which is why he sees the next move coming. Protecting Bitcoin developers is only the first battle; the Treasury can still use the Bank Secrecy Act to push the network into a permissioned, surveilled system.
