Source: TradingView
“After aggressively accumulating Bitcoin over the past two years, several public companies are now reversing course. With BTC hovering around $66K and prolonged price weakness weighing on balance sheets, firms, especially mining companies, are increasingly offloading holdings to stay liquid.” (04/03/26)
Source: Downsize DC
by Jim Babka
“Afroman can’t beat qualified immunity, and neither can you. But wait, didn’t he win his case? That’s what all the headlines are saying. Yes. He overcame his defamation case. It’s a great victory for free speech. But before that case ever went to trial, he lost a fight that few are talking about. … He wanted the deputies held accountable for the damage they did to his home: the broken door, the smashed gate, the detached cameras, and the $400 in cash that went ‘missing’ during the raid. The judge dismissed his claims. No jury. No hearing. Just gone. Think about that. The deputies got a full jury trial over hurt feelings from a music video. But … Afroman couldn’t get a hearing over a broken door and ‘missing’ money.” (04/02/26)
Source: The Anarchist Experience
“Rich, Lori, and Riley discuss the Free State Project endorsing racism, whether or not facts can be racist, why poor people should just live within their means and have babies if they want to, and why Gen Z should just stop whining.” (04/02/26)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/the-anarchist-experience-574/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“At least 43 people have been killed in an attack by a rebel group linked to ISIL (ISIS) in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to the army. Regional army spokesperson Lieutenant Jules Tshikudi Ngongo said on Thursday that at least ’43 compatriots were killed and 44 houses torched’ during the previous day’s attack in Bafwakoa, located in Mambasa territory, in the province of Ituri. Authorities blamed the attack on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group led by former Ugandan rebels that has sworn allegiance to ISIL.” (04/02/26)
Source: Wired
by Ali Winston & Maddy Varner
“A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.” (04/02/26)
Source: United Press International
“A Colorado appeals court on Thursday threw out the sentence of Tina Peters, a former elections clerk, who was convicted in an election data case. Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison in August 2024 on seven of the 10 counts for which she was charged. She allowed an unauthorized person to make copies of voting machine hard drives that included classified information. The data from those drives was then leaked online by conspiracy theorists who falsely said it proved President Donald Trump correct in his assertion that the 2020 election was ‘stolen.’ Trump later pardoned Peters, but Colorado officials said he has no power to do so because she was convicted by the state. … The judges of the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that District Judge Matthew Barrett wrongfully used Peters’ beliefs and promotion of election fraud conspiracy theories in his sentencing.” (04/02/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/04/02/tina-peters-sentence-overturned/6531775153086/
Source: Roll Call
“How much does the Homeland Security shutdown matter to the public?” (04/02/26)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL4524511184.mp3
Source: Expression
by Sarah McLaughlin
“With an act designated as ‘non-crime,’ you might reasonably expect the role for law enforcement to be quite limited. No crime means no cops … right? For years, though, the United Kingdom has allowed a system of police intervention and record-keeping over ‘non-crime hate incidents’ — including legal speech — to flourish. But new Home Office guidance intends to ‘prevent police from recording lawful free speech.’ Will this signal a new step forward for the UK? It’s complicated.” (04/02/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/uk-government-admits-the-obvious
Source: Politics Politics Politics
“Pam Bondi OUT as Attorney General. How Memes are Impacting the Iran War (with Jason Levin).” (04/02/26)
https://www.politicspoliticspolitics.com/p/pam-bondi-out-as-attorney-general
Source: Washington Post
by Keith B Richburg
“I’ve seen my share of dictatorships fall apart after decapitation. I saw it in Haiti, where I began my foreign reporting career covering the fall of ‘president-for-life’ Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier …. I witnessed the chaos left behind in Somalia following the fall of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, is still a partially failed state years after Mobutu Sese Seko was run out. When those dictatorial regimes collapsed, it’s because the dictator had hollowed out all the normal organs of a state. Because power was concentrated into one man’s hands, all other institutions just atrophied. But more often than not, authoritarian regimes are deeply institutionalized. … They can survive the removal of the leader because the regime is decentralized, built to endure and buttressed by a sprawling elite whose power and wealth depend on the system’s survival.” (04/02/26)