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>>173422Dan Bongino @dbongino - A really effective and intuitive leader and mentor told me this years ago:
There’s this common tactic of people in leadership positions to constantly try to over explain themselves. You see it in coaching, management, and elsewhere in leadership. It’s typically done with a pure heart because many of these leaders want you to “peer into their souls,” or to be understood.
This is an enormous mistake. Notice, I said “over explain” and not “explain. An explanation of what they jokingly call in leadership schools your BHAGs (big, hairy, audacious goals), and your results is enough, because the people you work with deserve to know why they’re doing what they’re doing.
But over explaining can easily be mistaken for weakness and insecurity. If you believe in your work, then lay it out there and move on. Your detractors won’t care, because it conflicts with their priors about you, and the people who appreciate your work don’t need an ongoing manifesto about it.
As always, thanks for reading and for following.
https://x.com/dbongino/status/2009727173775565136DAR @TodaysDAR - Today, we commemorate an important date as part of the America 250 celebration— the 250th Anniversary of Thomas Paine anonymously publishing Common Sense. This bold pamphlet galvanized public opinion and rallied widespread support for independence across the American colonies.
https://x.com/TodaysDAR/status/2009973498668822540David @david_eng_mba - Venezuela Just Proved the Bitcoin Bull Case, And No One Is Paying Attention
Maduro used Tether to move 80% of Venezuela's oil revenue. Billions in sanctions evasion, settled on Tron since 2020.
Then the US made a phone call.
Tether froze the wallets.
Game over.
Everyone's focused on the arrest. The real story is the lesson every finance minister on earth just learned in real time:
Stable coins are a leash, not an escape.
If someone can freeze it, it isn't money. It doesn't solve sovereignty.
First principles:
USDT is dollar plumbing without SWIFT. Faster. Cheaper. Still has a CEO. Still has a compliance department. Still picks up when Washington calls.
This is why USDT adoption exploded, 71-year-old grandmothers in Caracas pay their HOA fees in tether now. But useful ≠ sovereign.
The entire value proposition for sanctions evasion just got publicly falsified.
Now do the game theory:
You're Iran. Russia. Any country hedging against dollar weaponization. You just watched Venezuela's "crypto solution" get shut off like a light switch.
Where do you put reserves now?
USDT? Compromised.
Yuan? Political strings.
Gold? Try settling $500M across borders in 10 minutes.
CBDCs? Same kill switch, government branding.
There's exactly one asset that clears final settlement without asking permission from anyone.
21 million units. No CEO. No freeze function. No phone number.
This is the ad Bitcoin never had to buy.
The most desperate, highest-stakes capital on earth just learned there's only one door.
Price doesn't reflect it yet.
It will.
https://x.com/david_eng_mba/status/2010377715963109648David Axelrod @davidaxelrod - To Minneapolis, from a Chicagoan who closely observed one of these ICE-storms last fall.
Hang together as a community. Bear witness. Protest peacefully.
But know that the obvious intent is to provoke violent confrontations to justify MORE interventions.
On that, don't play.
https://x.com/davidaxelrod/status/2009628585930485890DC Police Department @DCPoliceDept - With profound sadness, we announce the line of duty death of Officer Terry Bennett.
Officer Bennett, an 8-year veteran of the department, was struck by a vehicle while assisting a motorist on I-695 on December 23, 2025.
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