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View More NewsThe night the socialist Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was captured, thousands of political prisoners across the country shouted in celebration: “Down with the dictatorship!” For Jesús Armas, an activist locked inside the infamous prison known as El Helicoide, it seemed possible the regime that had abducted and tortured him was finally beginning to break. It wasn’t. Maduro is gone, American oil investment is returning to Venezuela, and yet the apparatus of repression remains intact. In the months after the 2024 presidential election, Maduro’s government detained more than 2,000 Venezuelans in a campaign of repression. Armas was among the hunted. His…
from the disown-the-libs dept We’ve been detailing the trademark bullying ways of Buc-ee’s, famous gas station and convenience store chain in the American south and infamous IP bully, for over a year now. Buc-ee’s seems to think that any semi-related business that has branding that involves a cartoon animal or in any way references beavers somehow violates its trademark rights, no matter how absurd a claim of potential public confusion might be. I’ve likened them to the Monster Energy of convenience stores and it’s all gotten bad enough that John Oliver has dedicated multiple segments of his show to both…
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In January 1986, four skinny, long-haired twenty-somethings from Huntington Park, California, walked into a recording studio in Los Angeles. Three weeks later, they emerged with Reign in Blood—a 28-minute and 55-second sonic blitzkrieg that became an instant thrash-metal classic. This wasn’t just another metal album. It was an assault that redefined just how fast and just how uncompromising music could be. If John Coltrane pioneered sheets of sound, Slayer fired sheets of shrapnel from the opening bars of “Angel of Death.” There is no atmospheric intro, no fade-in, and no warning—just a surgically precise cymbal and guitar punch before vocalist Tom…
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Cryptocurrency platform Bullish is extending a $100 million debt facility to USD.AI to finance GPU-backed loans for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Read the full article…
Solana validators have approved a proposal to double the network’s annual disinflation rate, reducing future SOL issuance.According to finalized voting results, the proposal received…
In brief The SEC declared effective Evernorth’s Form S-4 registration statement on August 27, clearing Armada Acquisition Corp. II to schedule a shareholder vote…
Meta agreed on Wednesday to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle lawsuits brought by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from 47 states and…
Exodus Movement (EXOD) cut its bitcoin holdings by 1,076 BTC in the first quarter, while adding 5,068 SOL, as it moved more of its…
Bakkt swung to a first-quarter loss as crypto services revenue fell 77%, underscoring the digital asset platform’s push to reposition itself around stablecoin payments…
In brief Bitcoin’s current bear market drawdown of around 36% from its ATH is shallower than historical cycles, which saw 40–50% declines. ETF inflows…
Last week, Clarence Thomas became the second-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. If he remains on the bench through…
New York, May 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to immediately and unconditionally release two journalists from TOLOnews…
If the treatment of gender dysphoric youth were treated like any other medical topic, there would be little controversy about how patients should be…
The broader crypto market ticked lower on Tuesday with bitcoin BTC$80,984.66 falling 1% since midnight UTC to $80,800 and ether (ETH) losing 2% to…
Bitcoin miner CleanSpark (CLSK) recorded a net loss of $378.3 million in its fiscal second quarter, more than doubling the $138.8 million loss reported…