DC Refugee “‘Twas ever thus.” — Charles Dickens (adapting Thomas Moore)
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Jeri Thompson retweeted
Been talking for years and no one even slightly cared that American Lives are at risk so Cruz and Duffy make money on a start up. @realDonaldTrump fire him.
Congress has failed to secure our elections and infrastructure. Lincoln answered the same kind of failure this way:
“Are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?”
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People have no clue what never gets reported... shame is a powerful silencer.
Pamela Anderson's first boyfriend in ninth grade decided it would be funny to gang-rape her with six of his friends. Seven boys. One girl. She was fourteen years old.
It wasn't the first time. By the time her boyfriend and his friends pinned her down, she had already been destroyed twice.
A female babysitter started molesting her when she was six. The abuse continued for four years - "the games she used to make me play on her," Pamela wrote decades later, unable to describe them even in her own memoir. The babysitter died in a car accident years later. The secret died with her. Pamela never told anyone.
At twelve, a friend brought her to her boyfriend's house. The boyfriend's older brother - a 25-year-old man - offered to teach her backgammon. Then offered a back massage. Then raped her. She later described it as her "first heterosexual experience."
"Needless to say, I had a hard time trusting humans," she said. "I just wanted off this earth."
Her father was an alcoholic who once held her mother's face above a lit stove. Her mother worked two jobs and never knew what was happening to her daughter. Animals were Pamela's only comfort - she spent hours hiding with her dog, avoiding a world that had already shown her its worst.
Then Hollywood found her. Baywatch. Playboy. The red swimsuit. The world saw a sex symbol - blonde, tanned, untouchable. Nobody saw the girl who had been systematically broken before she ever stepped in front of a camera.
She married Tommy Lee. He kicked her while she held their seven-week-old son. Grabbed her arm, twisted it, threw her and the baby into a wall. He got six months. She filed for divorce, got a restraining order - and kept meeting him in secret. She called him "the only time I was ever truly in love."
Their private footage was stolen from a safe in their garage and sold to Penthouse. The whole world watched it. She has never watched it herself.
Another boyfriend pushed her out of a moving car. Another stripped her naked and left her in bushes. Another threw a silverware container at her head. "They would turn violent, mean, cruel, so quickly," she wrote.
On her first day of filming Home Improvement at 23, she says Tim Allen opened his robe and flashed her. She had been in Hollywood less than a year.
For thirty years, the world reduced Pamela Anderson to a punchline. The bimbo. The sex tape. Nobody ever asked how a girl from a small Canadian town ended up running from something nobody could see.
She told her full story in her memoir Love, Pamela in 2023. She was fifty-five years old.
Does the world owe an apology to the woman it spent thirty years laughing at - or was she always just the easiest person in the room to not take seriously?
There is a case to be made for Continuity of Money.
Continuity of Government is the pre-positioned structure that keeps essential functions operating through disruption. Continuity of Money is the parallel idea already sitting inside the current system: the accounting rules, the statutory channels, and the instruments that would allow a re-anchoring through existing pathways rather than a wholesale redesign.
Going back to a gold standard does not mean every dollar has to be redeemable on demand for metal. It can mean a limited form of convertibility: new instruments, or a portion of the monetary base, that can be exchanged for a fixed weight of gold while the rest of the system keeps running. That is the difference between rewriting the statute and adding optionality inside the existing framework. Whether that is actually the direction is the open question.
Judy Shelton’s remarks at the Mises Institute walk through the longer architecture. Full speech: youtube.com/watch?v=8l9LrMzt…
Treasury gold is still carried through gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve at the statutory price of $42.22 per fine troy ounce fixed in 1973 (31 U.S.C. § 5117). That produces a Gold Certificate Account of roughly $11 billion on the Fed’s balance sheet. At market prices the same metal is worth on the order of a trillion dollars. The gap is an accounting position locked in by statute. Changing that official price requires Congress. That is a sticky wicket. Proposals have surfaced over the decades; none have advanced, and there is no active vehicle near passage.
Other pieces do not wait on that vote. The Exchange Stabilization Fund already operates under broad executive authority dating to the 1934 revaluation. The long-dated Treasury securities Shelton has described—redeemable at maturity in either dollars or a fixed weight of gold—can be designed and issued under the same authorities Treasury already uses for instruments such as TIPS. These securities do not require backing the entire public debt with gold. They function as a contractual option attached to new issuance. The recent pattern has been to use executive action wherever existing statute allows rather than wait on Congress. Whether that pattern extends here is the practical question.
Once the statutory price itself changed, Treasury could reissue certificates at the new price and the Fed would credit the difference to the Treasury General Account. That is the same pathway used after the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, when the official price rose from $20.67 to $35 and the accounting gain funded the Exchange Stabilization Fund.
The physical metal is reported to remain at Fort Knox and other Treasury depositories. Or perhaps it’s in Cheyenne Mountain. Or wherever the current plot requires.
On October 9, 2026, Secretary Scott Bessent appointed Shelton Counselor in the Office of the Secretary, with responsibility for advising on currency policy. The appointment does not require Senate confirmation. That places the design of the parallel instrument next to the officials already managing issuance, the Exchange Stabilization Fund, and the broader Treasury balance sheet.
Central banks have been the largest consistent buyers of gold for the better part of a decade. World Gold Council data show sustained official-sector accumulation, with particularly large additions from several emerging-market and BRICS-linked authorities. Multi-asset settlement pilots that include a physical-gold component add further external pressure. Neither development dictates a U.S. response, but both increase the relevance of the levers that already exist—the certificate accounting, the ESF, and the capacity to issue convertible instruments under current authorities.
The chart maps those pieces for anyone who had not noticed how much of the path is already built.
References
Shelton speech: youtube.com/watch?v=8l9LrMzt…
Shelton, Good as Gold (Independent Institute, 2025)
Treasury announcement of Shelton appointment as Counselor (October 9, 2026)
31 U.S.C. § 5117 (statutory gold certificate price)
Federal Reserve H.4.1 (Gold Certificate Account)
World Gold Council central-bank gold statistics
Shelton’s published descriptions of convertible Treasury instruments (WSJ / Cato)
Jeri Thompson retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: The FBI has arrested the 40-year-old son of former Obama CIA Director John Brennan on a felony child pornography charge.
Kyle Brennan was arrested Friday afternoon at his workplace in Herndon, Virginia.
According to court documents, an examination of his iPhone uncovered approximately 88 images of child sexual abuse material, including images of prepubescent girls and a toddler.
The phone was seized during a traffic stop in July 2024, but the case wasn’t referred to the FBI until October 2026.
Brennan is scheduled to make his first appearance in the Eastern District of Virginia today.
Jeri Thompson retweeted
This is a big development Anons
BREAKING: A major shake-up is unfolding inside the U.S. Navy, with multiple senior commanders and top officials quietly removed from their positions without public announcements, sparking outrage and questions over the Pentagon’s lack of transparency, AP reports.
The removals include the ENTIRE leadership team of the nuclear-powered USS South Dakota following an underwater grounding, the commander of the USS Michael Murphy, deployed to the Middle East, and Rear Adm. Brian Monahan, who left his post amid a Navy investigation. Even Congress was reportedly left questioning why these departures were kept under wraps.
Jeri Thompson retweeted
A Florida federal judge denies the BBC's motion to dismiss President Trump's defamation lawsuit, ruling the broadcaster's intentional video edit plausibly establishes actual malice and forces the case toward trial.
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The Trump administration will funnel up to $4.9 million into supporting research into ibogaine, a psychedelic that’s drawn interest as a potential treatment for PTSD and addiction. trib.al/gsFspob
One more time, as the shift focuses to election malfeasance Beyond voter role manipulation…
AIR-FI: Generating Covert Wi-Fi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers
Abstract—In this paper, we show that attackers can exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers via Wi-Fi signals.
arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06884
mega.nz/file/qPBy2DJK#w7t5jl…
#Air_Gap_Hacking
#Tore_2020_affidavit
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‼️ CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of Outlook User Interaction 0-Day Vulnerability
Details: cybersecuritynews.com/active…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has confirmed active exploitation of a Microsoft Outlook zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2026-124194, that can expose user authentication data.
According to Microsoft’s security advisory, an attacker can send a specially crafted message file and persuade a victim to open it in Outlook.
The application may then connect to an attacker-controlled network location without showing its usual warning about external content. Microsoft released security updates for an actively exploited Outlook network-spoofing flaw (CVSS 6.5) that allows unauthenticated attackers to spoof networks.
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In WWII, the Office of Strategic Services was forged on a defining American truth: when the Nation is tested, Americans rise, endure, and prevail.
The men and women of the OSS went into the night with no promise of safety, no guarantee of return, and no expectation of praise. They went because their country called. They went because the cause was just. They went because Americans do not turn from the hard road when duty points the way.
That legacy lives today in America’s Special Operations Forces. They carry the Nation’s hardest missions into the world’s most dangerous places, often without recognition and always with extraordinary responsibility.
Today, I am pleased to announce that Secretary Hegseth has signed a pivotal memorandum enabling the ASW(SO/LIC) to fully exercise its statutory authority in line with Congress’s intent by elevating the office to Under Secretary of War equivalence and restoring its name to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
This action is a pledge that those sent into the hardest places, entrusted with the gravest responsibilities, and called upon when all else has failed will have a voice equal to the burden placed upon their shoulders. They will be given the resources, authority, and support required to prepare, to endure, and to prevail.
In honoring our Special Operators, we honor the courage, sacrifice, and unbreakable American spirit that has carried this Nation through its hardest hours and will carry us forward still.
Read the full release here:
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