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Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders urge closure of ‘$50 billion crypto tax gap’
3.8.2023
U.S. senators including Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders claimed crypto tax evaders are siphoning off billions from the government
Arkansas Makes Gold, Silver Legal Tender; 23 States Involved in Similar Legislation to Establish US Dollar Alternatives
21.4.2023
A bill signed into law on April 11 has made gold and silver legal tender in the U.S. state of Arkansas, allowing citizens to use gold and silver coins to pay debts. The bill also clarifies that gold and silver “specie” (coins) will not be considered property for tax purposes,...
Nintendo's Big Piracy Case Is A Very Sad Story
7.6.2022
Back in February, Gary Bowser—who in most media reports has been described as a ‘hacker’—was sentenced to 40 months in prison for his role in selling cheat and modification devices for Nintendo hardware. Being a court case, most of the reporting dealt only with names on a page and cold facts, but...
Dead By Daylight Dev Announces Dating Sim Spin-Off, Gives Killers Amazing Glow-Ups
18.5.2022
Yesterday the ever-evolving 2022 bingo card got even more unpredictable when Behaviour Interactive, the developer behind popular asymmetrical multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight, revealed that it’s making a spin-off game in which you can romance your favorite Dead by Daylight killers. Read more
Why Everyone Is Talking About Twitch Star Hasan Piker's New Merch Line
10.11.2021
Popular socialist streamer Hasan Piker did a cool thing earlier this week: he launched a new line of merch aimed at supporting workers. In addition to the clothes being made by union shops, some of the profits are also going to strike funds to help pro-labor causes across the country. The store...
Report: Leading South African Bank Sends Account Termination Notices to Crypto Arbitrage Traders
23.10.2021
One of South Africa’s biggest banks, Standard Bank, has reportedly sent account termination notices to clients that offer automated cryptocurrency arbitrage services. Bank’s Criteria Questioned This move, according to a Mybroadband report, has sent shockwaves through...
People Are Losing Their Minds Because A Socialist Streamer Bought A House
20.8.2021
Truly we live in times. Climate change marches on unchecked. The pandemic still rages. Just yesterday someone made a bomb threat outside the White House calling for “revolution.” Oh, and today some people are freaking out because socialist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker apparently bought a nearly...
KFC And Anime Kaguya-sama Keep Flirting On Twitter
25.6.2021
In Japan, Kentucky Fried Chicken is a cultural institution. People not only love it but the Colonel’s chicken has been linked with Christmas for decades. And KFC, it seems, likes anime Kaguya-sama.Read more
SonicFox Gets Their Own Plushie, Sells Out In Two Hours
16.6.2021
Dominique “SonicFox” McLean, the non-binary Defender of Trans Rights and perhaps the best fighting games player of a generation, got their own plushie yesterday.Read more
Relief Payments Coming? 80 Legislators Press Biden Administration for a Fourth Round of Stimulus
1.6.2021
Rumors of a fourth and possible fifth round of direct stimulus checks have become a hot conversation topic this week, as lawmakers are urging the President to act. Over 80 U.S. legislators have sent letters to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris asking the administration to push...
Riot Co-Founder Courageously Tweets, Deletes ‘Critical Race Theory’ Dog Whistle
23.4.2021
“Critical race theory” is the right’s latest buzz phrase in service of silencing discussion of America’s racist past and how it informs the country’s still very racist present. Last night, Riot co-founder and chairman Marc Merrill tweeted and quoted an article about how critical race theory is...
Coalition of US Senators Press President Biden for a Fourth Round of Stimulus Checks
19.4.2021
While Americans are still getting their third stimulus payments, discussions of tacking on a fourth round of direct payments to Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar infrastructure proposal have started trending. Just recently, a coalition led by Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden and over a dozen...
Amazon Union Vote Fails in Bessemer, as Union Calls for Investigation
9.4.2021
Amazon has won the first round in its fight to squash a union in its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse. Hundreds of contested ballots remain, but Amazon has reached the minimum threshold of 1,608 “no” votes needed to prevent workers from joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)....
The Rise and Fall of 'Bro-gurt,' the Macho, Ab-Obsessed Snack for MEN
23.3.2021
In 2013, a blonde-haired woman in a “sexy nurse” costume (low neckline, high hemline) worked a booth at the Food Expo of Natural Products, pitching a new option: Powerful Yogurt. She offered passers-by ultrasounds of their stomachs so they could “find their inner abs,” the brand’s tagline....
Bernie Sanders mitten memes immortalized in new NFT collection
27.1.2021
He may not be President, but Bernie Sanders will live on as long as blockchain exists, thanks to a series of NFTs celebrating his mittens
Bernie Memes Are Here For All Your Curmudgeonly Needs
20.1.2021
Today at noon Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, but online it was another super-old white guy who stole the show thanks to a photograph by Brendan Smialowski showing Bernie Sanders sitting in a chair emanating such levels of sass and “I don’t have...
Ex-Prudential Securities CEO Calls Bitcoin a ‘Safe Haven’
17.8.2020
George Ball, who claimed himself as a Bitcoin and blockchain opponent, said that bitcoin or another cryptocurrency is “very attractive” both in the long term and short term
Former Prudential Financial CEO George Ball Says Now Time to Buy Bitcoin
17.8.2020
Former Prudential Financial CEO George Ball is advising wealthy investors to acquire bitcoin because it is the only asset that cannot be undermined by the government. Ball made the comments while discussing adjustments that investors need to make to their portfolios. Now CEO at Sander Morris...
This Is Not Capitalism: How Covid-19 Shined a Light on America’s Fascist System
25.5.2020
In the last few months, giant American corporations and financial incumbents that are subsidized by the U.S. government, have profited immensely during the coronavirus outbreak. This has caused certain groups of people and those who despise wealth to claim that “capitalism is broken.”...
US Lawmaker Claims Stimulus Bill Bolsters Fed Secrecy, Pork Funds, and Wall Street Bailouts
28.3.2020
On Friday, U.S. bureaucrats passed the 2020 stimulus bill, which has become the largest cash injection package ever created by the federal government. However, following the bill making it through the Senate and House, Republican representative Thomas Massie told the public the stimulus bill...