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View More NewsStay-at-home moms: Reader, let me take your hand and guide you to a realm of the internet that I inhabit, which you probably don’t even know exists. Welcome to Mom Twitter, where the discourse vacillates between dumb and enlightening. Today’s topic? What exactly the term “stay-at-home mom” means, and whether “work”—presumably meaning formal participation in the labor force—disqualifies you. moms on TikTok that are like “SAHMs what are you doing to make income from home 🥺 I need to make $200 a week” and the comments are all giving them suggestions…..idk how to tell them that they aren’t SAHMs. they…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $95 million on Thursday, per SoSoValue data, while ether ETFs shed about $52 million, ending a five-day inflow run that had been the steadier side of the market.Fidelity’s FBTC drove the bitcoin outflow with roughly $63 million, followed by ARKB at about $40 million. BlackRock’s IBIT was flat, neither adding nor losing money, and VanEck’s HODL and Morgan Stanley’s MSBT were the only funds in the green. Total bitcoin ETF assets sit near $77 billion.Ether’s reversal was broader. Fidelity’s FETH lost about $34 million and BlackRock’s ETHA roughly $13 million, with Bitwise and…
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A review of Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders by Claudia Verhoeven; 384 pages; Verso (May 2026)Although the True Crime genre of publishing and documentary television is replete with accounts of murderous spouses, serial killers, Mafia wars, and financial scams, rarely do the subjects transcend the headline immediacy of police procedurals to deliver the long-term import of critical analysis. The Victorian predator Jack the Ripper and the Depression-era exploits of Bonnie and Clyde are two such exceptions; a third is the countercultural carnage wrought by the Manson family. As such, Claudia Verhoeven’s new book Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History…
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This summary was created based on CoinDesk Research’s latest report; Digital Assets: Quarterly Review and Outlook, Featuring CoinDesk 5 and CoinDesk 20.- Joshua de…
Bitcoin (BTC) institutional demand is “not yet strong” despite positive inflows to the US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs).Key points:Bitcoin ETF flows reverse a…
Brazil’s B3 stock exchange has unveiled options on bitcoin BTC$63,004.85, ether (ETH) and solana (SOL) futures, expanding its regulated crypto derivatives offerings.The contracts bec+ame…
Bitcoin (BTC) saw intraday highs after Thursday’s Wall Street open as US stocks rebounded on fresh Iran peace hopes.Key points:Bitcoin joins a risk-asset rebound…
from the team-surveillance-will-use-any-excuse dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the largest sporting event in…
New York, July 9, 2026—CPJ is concerned about a Ukrainian court’s decision to ban the publication of a journalistic investigation into the assets and business activities…
Grayscale’s chief financial officer Edward McGee has stepped down after seven years at the crypto asset manager, becoming the latest senior executive to leave…
Shares of Bitdeer Technologies Group rose on Thursday after the Bitcoin (BTC) mining infrastructure company announced a $36 million manufacturing facility in Nevada, a…
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The unified version of the Clarity Act — which is said by one person to have had more than 70 pages of text added…
Crypto wallet provider Phantom and the Hyperliquid Policy Center have urged the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to exempt blockchain protocol developers and…