On Sunday night, John Oliver dedicated the majority of his Emmy-winning show “Last Week Tonight” to the Secret Service’s failings in recent years while declining to address the major media news of the week: David Ellison’s newly-formed Skydance Corp. swallowing up Warner Bros. Discovery — which controls Oliver’s network HBO — and merging it with Paramount Skydance to form a mega-company.
So, would his late-night compatriot Jon Stewart give his two cents on the merger during Mondays’ episode of “The Daily Show,” since it’s also a part of Skydance Corp.?
Apparently not.
Stewart dedicated the show entirely to AI, first ripping apart AI leaders’ empty promises of job creation, economic prosperity and its ability to cure cancer while admitting that there’s a 10-25% chance it will kill us all. Currently, however, AI is primarily being used for ICE and other surveillance, drone warfare targeting and potential dynamic pricing at places like McDonald’s.
“What are we getting in exchange for this 10-25% chance at extinction?” asked Stewart, adding, “Right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance and surge pricing for the McRib? What a trade! I’m getting the sense that you guys might be full of shit.”
The comedian also pushed back at President Trump allowing these AI companies to self-regulate after his recent fawning AI summit, since the Zuckerberg’s and Musk’s of the world don’t exactly have a sterling track record when it comes to playing it safe. There’s also the matter of how many jobs AI will eliminate. Though AI leaders keep repeating over and over that the technology will lead to newer, different jobs and an economic windfall for everybody, they can’t say what jobs it would create or how it will economically benefit everyday people.
“The view of our self-policing geniuses is that the new world that we are building must continue without regulation or financial limitation because it’s important work carried out by important people,” offered Stewart. “And my guess is: They’ll still have jobs when this is done… Stop lying to us! Claims of universal high income and incredible hobbies isn’t going to paper over how frightening this future can sound.”
Christa Pike remains on life support in hospital with specialists keeping her alive – despite spending three decades on death row.
It followed a fail execution attempt of the killer which has made repeated headlines since she was taken to hospital following the incident on 30 September.
Pike, now aged 50, was due to become the first woman put to death in Tennessee in two centuries after being sent to prison for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer.
Christa Pike is still alive following her execution attempt (Tennessee Department of Corrections)
Her lawyer said her future now remains uncertain as doctors attempt to clear two doses of pentobarbital from her body.
Pike reportedly ‘remains critically ill‘ and is being treated at a hospital in Nashville, Texas, with her legal team claiming she ‘may not fully recover’.
Her lawyer Stephen Ferrel told CNN of her current status: “She is guarded. I’m not sure who may have seen her.
“I know I have not seen her. The state of Tennessee has not yet said whether it will ultimately try to execute her again.”
Christa Pike, pictured in 1995, is receiving life-saving medical care in hospital (WBIR10)
Reason for life-saving treatment
With the convicted killer remaining on a ventilator, questions are being raised as to why she is still receiving life-saving medical care despite the execution attempts and her death penalty sentence.
But this is because the death sentence had been imposed by the courts, with her execution authorised to be carried out only at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, where she was imprisoned.
Constitutional attorney David Raybin, who helped write the Tennessee death penalty statute, told Fox 17, “She is in a situation where the government itself is responsible for failing to execute her properly; they bear the consequences.
Christa Pike (Tennessee Department of Corrections)
“The death sentence was imposed by a court, but it was to be done at the prison.
“They can not ‘execute’ her at a hospital by removing her life support. That would be murder.”
Gov. Bill Lee has since halted the one remaining execution for the rest of the year in Tennessee pending an investigation.
And Tennessee’s prisons chief resigned after the failed execution of Pike on 30 September.
Frank Strada has stepped down from his post after Pike’s lethal injection attempts went wrong, leading to her to be taken to hospital where she remains ‘critical’.
Strada will leave his role this month after being the residing commissioner of Tennessee’s Department of Correction for the past three years, and also in the role when the May execution of Tony Carruthers, was called off due to problems finding a vein for his lethal injection.
Pike has been locked up since 1996 after killing her classmate, Colleen Slemmer, when she was 18 at the time. She had allegedly killed Slemmer in Knoxville in a jealous rage.
Prosecutors also said a pentagram was carved on Slemmer’s body, and that Pike took a piece of her skull with her as a souvenir following the killing.
The CFTC published an advance notice outlining Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM, which would let crypto exchanges register as a new type of federally regulated “crypto asset market.”
Under the agency’s preliminary reading, merely offering leverage could bring even fully paid trades under CFTC oversight unless customers take actual delivery of their crypto.
The public has 60 days to comment. Exchanges that don’t offer leverage could keep operating under state licenses.
The CFTC wants to give crypto exchanges a federal home, and leverage is the key that unlocks the door.
The agency is moving forward with further rulemaking proposals following the collapse of the Clarity Act, the legislation that would have established the ground rules for most cryptocurrency activity in the United States but last month fell short. The CFTC on Monday published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, an early step that seeks public input before formal rules are drafted.
Its proposal outlines two linked frameworks: Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions, or Regulation CTX, and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets, or Regulation CAM. The public will have 60 days to comment once the notice appears in the Federal Register.
The plan rests on a 2010 Dodd-Frank provision requiring retail commodity trades offered with leverage, margin, or financing to take place on a CFTC-registered exchange, as if they were futures.
Under Regulation CTX, the CFTC reads that rule broadly. Simply offering leverage, even through routine onboarding documents or terms of service, could pull fully paid trades under the agency’s watch, as long as the purchased crypto sits on the exchange’s internal books rather than in the customer’s own wallet.
Those trades escape federal oversight only through “actual delivery,” which the CFTC suggests could require customers to hold their private keys. On-chain trading protocols, which typically send tokens straight to users’ wallets, would usually clear that bar, the agency said.
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Regulation CAM would create a “crypto asset market” license, a tailored version of the designated contract market status held by futures exchanges. Trades would run through futures commission merchants, brokers subject to anti-money laundering rules, and leverage could come only from those brokers or banks they sponsor. Exchanges could also register as their own broker and clearinghouse.
The CFTC is weighing proof-of-reserves requirements and standards against listing tokens prone to manipulation. Exchanges that don’t offer leverage could keep operating under state money transmitter licenses.
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said the rules are “designed to prevent, rather than only prosecute after the fact, fraudulent schemes such as FTX.”
The notice also repudiates the agency’s past approach, describing its Biden-era cases against Kraken, Ooki DAO, and Uniswap as “regulation by enforcement.”
The “Wall Street” actor, who is the son of the late Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, opened up on a recent episode of the “SmartLess” podcast and said the title “really pisses” him off.
While discussing his success with hosts Sean Hayes, Jason Bateman and Will Arnett, Douglas said, “Well, first of all, you know, Hollywood royalty. I mean… this ‘nepo’ thing really pisses me off.” He continued: “I don’t know a career where a father or mother don’t try to help their son or daughter get into their business and this and that, and why they picked on this because of the well-known aspect of it.”
Beyond the discussion of nepotism, Douglas also noted that the best advice he could give to aspiring actors is to recognize “good material.” “The problem we all have is we don’t play an instrument, or we don’t paint, or we don’t write,” he said. “We’re standing there. But a good piece of material, man, a good piece of material helps things along well.”
His father, Kirk, died in 2020 at 103. He starred in films including “Spartacus,” “Seven Days in May,” “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” “Champion,” “The Bad and the Beautiful,” “Lust for Life,” “Paths of Glory” and “Lonely Are the Brave.” He earned three Oscar nominations and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1996.
Douglas is known for his turns in “Fatal Attraction,” “Behind the Candelabra” and more films. Douglas has won one Oscar for acting and one for producing; he took home the trophy for best actor in a leading role in 1988 for “Wall Street” and best picture in 1976 as a co-producer of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Douglas’ forthcoming memoir, “One Helluva Ride,” comes out Tuesday.
The SEC approved Cboe’s request on October 2 to list six 3x funds from Volatility Shares tracking Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, silver, crude oil and natural gas.
Each fund targets three times the daily performance of futures contracts on its asset, and the order sets no launch date.
The approval follows SEC warning letters on leverage above 2x in December 2025 and a March 2026 request to avoid 5x products.
The SEC approved a rule change on October 2 that lets the Cboe exchange list six funds built to deliver three times the daily price moves of Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, silver, crude oil, and natural gas, per the agency’s order.
The funds come from Volatility Shares, the firm behind existing 2x Bitcoin and Ethereum products. Shares will trade on Cboe’s BZX Exchange like a regular stock.
An ETF, or exchange-traded fund, is a basket of assets you buy and sell through a brokerage app like a share. A leveraged one uses debt and other financial tools to amplify returns, and losses.
These funds aim for triple. If Bitcoin futures rise 2% in a day, the fund aims to gain 6%. If they fall 2%, it aims to lose 6%.
The funds mainly get that exposure through futures, which are contracts to buy or sell an asset at a set price on a later date.
But there’s a catch in the word “daily.” These funds reset every day, so the 3x promise applies to one day at a time. Over longer stretches, results can drift far from three times the asset’s move.
So, for example Bitcoin futures drop 10% on Monday, then rise 10% on Tuesday. The asset ends down 1%, while a 3x fund falls 30%, gains 30% and ends down 9%. If you have $100 worth of Bitcoin, a 30% drop takes off 30% of $100, which is $30, leaving you with $70 net. A 30% gain adds 30% of $70, which is $21. You’re at $91, overall 9% down after the movement.
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The SEC and FINRA have warned investors about exactly this. Their alert says returns over more than a day can differ significantly from the daily target.
Why the SEC had to vote
Cboe’s fast-track listing rules for commodity funds exclude products that chase a multiple of an asset’s return, so the exchange needed the SEC to approve these funds individually. Apart from the 3x target, the funds must meet all of Cboe’s other listing requirements.
The SEC leaned on existing guardrails. Brokers must act in a retail customer’s best interest under Regulation Best Interest, and FINRA, the brokerage industry’s self-regulator, requires tougher sales and margin (borrowing) rules for leveraged products.
Volatility Shares launched the first leveraged crypto ETF in the U.S. in 2023, tracking Bitcoin futures. Spot Bitcoin ETFs, which hold the coins directly, arrived in January 2024 after a decade of rejections.
Then the race for more leverage began. In October 2025, Defiance filed for 49 funds with 3x long and short exposure, and Volatility Shares filed for 5x products.
The SEC pushed back. In December 2025 it halted review of products above 2x exposure and sent warning letters to nine issuers, including ProShares. In March 2026, it asked issuers to avoid 5x products.
Volatility Shares kept shipping 2x funds anyway. In April 2026 it launched 2x funds on Cardano, Stellar, and Chainlink, adding to existing 2x products on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP.
These aren’t the first 3x products. Earlier ones tied to silver, crude oil and natural gas, from other issuers, have since left the market, per the order. A 3x gold product from another issuer still trades.
The order sets no launch date. According to Cboe’s filing, the shares can’t trade until each fund’s registration statement takes effect.
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Picked among 50 submissions from Eurimages member states, the 10 selected series will vie for the coveted €50,000 ($56,000) Council of Europe Series Co-Production Development Award.
TV Beats co-heads Roosa Toivonen and Petri Kemppinen
Credit: TV Beats
“Never before have we welcomed that many big names and companies,” said Petri Kemppinen, co-head of TV Beats, alongside Roosa Toivonen.
This year’s crop hails from Belgium, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, and co-production partner Canada. As underscored by Toivonen, the geographical spread mirrors TV Beats’ core which is “to act as a bridge between the Baltics, Central Eastern Europe, and the Nordics. Three territories – Czechia, Finland, and Estonia – topped the list of applications.
“Estonia is very dynamic in TV drama, and we did receive more applications than from Lithuania and Latvia,” said Toivonen who mentioned the catchy story of “Stormbird,” about a young female fugitive, under Soviet-occupied Estonia in 1949. Also from Estonia is the fast-paced YA drama “Breaking the Ice,” produced by Jevgeni Supin, who was distinguished last year with an Honorary TV Beats Producer Award.
TV Beats co-heads also pointed at the larger number of projects in early development compared to previous years, set to make their very first pitch in Tallinn. “Obviously the hefty €50,000 development award from the Council of Europe is a major draw in today’s touch times for indie producers who struggle to gather development money when commissioners and public funders are cutting back. They need co-production partners to lift their projects,” Kemppinen said.
Theme-wise, in an age of distrust and as the Baltics and CEE feel the heat from Russian threats, espionage is the beating heart of three shows (“Tanner,” “Fortel,” “The Woman Who Roared”), while oppressive regimes, systems or leaders -even disguised as devils-feature in the remaining slate, next to the ever-popular crime bets.
Next to the TV Beats Co-Financing Market slate, more than 20 other top-tier series looking for additional financing, distribution and sales, will bow at ‘TV Beats Screenings’ and ‘TV Beats Coming Soon’, to be unveiled at a later date.
The TV Beats Forum is part of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival’s industry platform Industry Tallinn & Baltic Event, running over Nov 9-20.
Full rundown of TV Beats Co-Financing Market lineup:
“Breaking the Ice” (“Päike mis sulatab jääd,” 6X45’, Estonia) Young adult drama from Estonian powerhouse Zolba Productions (“Von Fock”, “My Dear Mother,” “A Girl From Tallinn”), co-penned and co-created by the seasoned Leana Jalukse (“Mother”, “Von Fock”) and German screenwriting expert Joachim Friedmann.
Beneath the polished surface of Estonia’s elite ice rinks, a Russian hockey prodigy ruled by his violent father and an Estonian figure skater groomed by a manipulative coach fall in love across a national divide. “Breaking the Ice” is not another fast-paced feel-good love story on skates,” says producer Jevgeni Supin. “Our series looks beneath the polished surface of youth sport, where abuse by parents and coaches is often disguised as pursuit for excellence. At its heart, it’s is a story about two young people who find the courage, through love, to break this cycle.”
“Fortel” (8X45’, Poland)
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Legendary Polish film mogul and director Dariusz Jabłoński (“The Pleasure Principle,” “The Cop-A New Chapter”), serves as creator and showrunner of this spy thriller penned by US screenwriter Marc Grey, episodic writer of Apple TV’s International Emmy-winning show “Tehran.”
Jabłoński’s own pedigreed banner Apple Film Production is producing for commercial giant Polsat. The core of the action is the little-known Polish town of Rzeszów close to the Ukraine border which has turned into a spy nest and arms dealing platform. The story tracks a CIA officer who sets a trap for Russian saboteurs, targeting confidential Western arms shipments while secretly searching for his missing brother, who may hold the key to the leak, says the logline.
“Fortel” is about the history we’re living through right now, in real time, two hours from my home,” Jabłoński tells Variety. “Rzeszów is a city that woke up one morning to find itself at the center of the war, with no instruction manual and no way out. I want to make a thriller that feels the way the war feels – chaotic, morally unresolved and shot through with unexpected moments of humanity, with a cast drawn from several of the countries involved. A Polish-based story that the whole world needs to see right now,” he claims.
“Happy New Year!” (“Laimingų Naujų!” 10X21’, Lithuania)
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Created and helmed by rising talent Montis Norvaisis for his outfit Big Drama, setup with producer Lineta Lasiauskaitė. The drama turns on a young woman, victim of spike drinking at a lavish New Year’s Eve party in a remote manor. When the guests refuse to confront the crime, her best friend seeks justice herself. Norvaisis will draw from his own experience to portray a raw and authentic portrait of New Year’s Eve youth parties.
“Kalmann” (6X45’, Iceland, Finland, Estonia) TV adaptation of Icelandic-Swiss crime author Joachim B. Schmidt’s “Kalmann” book series, penned by María Heba Þorkelsdóttir and Kristófer Dignus who directs.
Produced by Kontent’s Guðný Guðjónsdóttir and Sara Djeddou Baldursdóttir, who have attached Iceland’s main streamer Síminn and co-pro partners Snapper Films from Finland and Cuba Films from Estonia. Headlining the show is the eccentric sheriff Kalmann, who uses unique instincts to solve murders.
“’Kalmann’ sits within the internationally established Nordic crime space, but brings warmth, humor, melancholy and humanity to the genre alongside a compelling murder investigation,” says Baldursdóttir, who plans to use TV Beats to test the show’s concept, tone and international potential. Production is set to start in the fall 2027.
“Intimacy on Prescription” (“Intimita na předpis, 8X60’, Czechia) “Can good sex save every marriage,” says the logline about the tragicomedy set in 1970s Czechoslovakia, and inspired by the real story of Stanislav Kratochvíl, a pioneer of couples sex therapy. The show, helmed by established theater and film director Jiří Havelka (“Owners”), is set in a psychiatric clinic, where couples are invited to say out loud what society, marriage and shame have taught them to hide.
“For us, ‘Intimacy’ is not only about sex, but about the courage to speak honestly about desire, fear, shame, power and the need to be seen by the person closest to you,” says producer Karolina Zalabáková, who looks forward to pitching in Tallinn this story “strongly rooted in Czech and Czechoslovak history” with “emotional themes that are universal and highly exportable.” The screenplay from head-writer Kristina Májová, co-written with Matěj Randár and Jan Smutný, is based on an original idea by Kateřina Kořínková.
“Stormbird” (“Tormilind,” 5X42’, Estonia)
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Historical thriller from acclaimed filmmaker Kadri Kõusaar, credited for the Cannes Un Certain Regard’s “Magnus” and Estonia’s Oscar pick “Mother.” Set in 1949, under Soviet occupied Estonia. After killing soldiers who attack her family, Lee (18), known as ‘Stormbird’, becomes a fugitive and joins the Forest Brothers band led by “Geronimo” to rescue her imprisoned brother, Uku. Hunted by the Red Army, she fights to survive, while her childhood friend Reinhardt becomes her enemy. producer Aet Laigu says “Stormbird” “is first and foremost a story about people trying to survive and forced to make impossible choices under occupation.” It’s also a unique take of a “rarely seen part of European history”, depicted through a young woman’s eyes, turning on topical themes such as freedom, resistance and identity.
“Tanner” (6X50’, Ireland, Canada) Produced by Fíbín Films’ Bernie Hoban and Darach Ó Tuairisg, co-produced by Fraser Ash and Kevin Krikst for Canadian power-player Rhombus Media, attached to HBO’s Emmy nominated “The Sympathizer.”
The story created and penned by Keith Hodder, with Damian McCann and Sarah Gordon turns on a former Irish intelligence officer who returns home to investigate a missing teenager and uncovers a tech-powered conspiracy reaching from elite schools to the highest levels of government. Hoban says “Tanner” stands out thanks to its unique world “rarely seen before, the Irish intelligence services operating in a country whose prosperity is increasingly intertwined with some of the world’s most powerful multinational corporations, creating fascinating tensions between democracy, sovereignty and corporate influence.”” Through a uniquely Irish lens, “Tanner” tackles themes that resonate across the world while anchoring them in the journey of an unforgettable protagonist – a deeply flawed investigator whose greatest gift may also be his undoing,” she adds.
“The Inheritance” (“De Erfenis,” 6X45’, Belgium) From fast-expanding powerhouse Panenka behind the New8 hit show “This is Not a Murder Mystery” and Series Mania 2025 Special Mention winner “Putain.” Commissioned by leading Flemish broadcaster VTM. Created and penned by Alexandra Jans with Jan Van Dyck for producers Kato Maes, Kristoffel Mertens and Karlijn Van de Cruys. Psychological thriller set against the world of animal welfare and hunting. When Hanne, a staff member of a struggling animal rescue, unexpectedly becomes executor of a wealthy hunting family’s estate, a bitter battle over the inheritance erupts. Van de Cruys says the show will draw from its breathtaking location-Belgium’s largest national park of Limburg’s Hoge Kempen, and the personal take from Jans who has crafted the story out of her own personal experience.
“The Woman Who Roared” (4X45’, Finland)
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From box-office hit habitué, actor and filmmaker Pamela Tola (“Ladies of Steel,” “Bad Apples”). Dramedy in which the recently widowed Leena (65) discovers that the Helsinki Zoo is actually an arena where international spies gather. She believes the place is linked to a top-secret nuclear weapon her late husband had hidden.
“The Woman Who Roared” offers a fresh take on the spy genre – thrilling, funny, and full of heart,” says producer Mete Sasioglu of Sons of Lumière, who will be looking for co-producers, especially from France, Eastern Europe and the Nordics in Tallinn.
“When Devils Rule” (“Los demones mandan,” 6X35’, Spain) Darkly humorous political thriller with supernatural elements from the team behind Movistar Plus’ anticipated “Patagonia.” Atlantika Films’ Nano Arrieta-creator and producer with Claudia Ruíz — shares the writing room with Popy Blasco, Ibai Ariztegi and Bárbara Zemelman. In a world fractured by power, fear and political extremism, a group of women uncovers a demonic force operating at the highest level of society-and realizes the chaos around them may be part of a much darker design.
Gabe Poirot claimed he met Jesus when he spent 18 days in a coma (Picture: Fox News)
An American man who claims he met Jesus after spending 18 days in a coma has described ‘him’ as ‘6ft but as tall as eternity’ and a ‘Mustang full of testosterone’.
Gabe Poirot was riding an electric skateboard at around 30 miles per hour without a helmet in October 2021 when he hit a small bump in the road and flipped backwards, landing directly on his head.
The impact cracked the then 20-year-old’s skull, causing a traumatic brain injury.
However, during Gabe’s 18-day coma, he apparently had a near-death experience, where he recalled leaving his body, encountering Jesus, and witnessing how heaven is a person rather than a place.
He also says that Earth isn’t actually ‘real’ and heaven is true existence.
Gabe also says Earth isn’t real (Picture: Fox News)
Gabe spoke to Fox News about his ordeal, telling the presenter that ‘Jesus had waited his entire life just for [him],’ and that he was ‘suctioned up’ to a ‘tunnel of light’ where he could see his body from above.
‘I watched my own friend hold my body in his arms and he was praying, and the closer I got to this light, I knew that I had an appointment. I could see the nurses with bewilderment across their faces, thinking, “How are you alive?”‘ he said.
On ‘meeting’ Jesus on the other side, Gabe said that ‘when Jesus looked at me, he picked up my face, and said, “Gabriel, why are you concerned about that which has been paid?”‘
Gabe continued: ‘I didn’t originally see him face-to-face, because my face was down, and I was so concerned that the list of my mistakes was going to be pulled up and I was done for.’
Adding that he believed he had ‘no hope,’ Gabe said Jesus ‘showed [him] the wounds on his hands, and said, “they have a name: Gabriel.”‘
Gabe told the presenter that Jesus endured the injuries for him. ‘Like I was his only one, I’ll forever be his only one. He’d waited his entire life just for me.’
Gabe suffered a traumatic head injury (Picture: Fox News)
Gabe later said the ‘heaven that he was headed for wasn’t just a destination,’ but that it was a ‘person.’
He also claimed that everywhere he looked, he saw heaven, from the mountains to the trees. He said: ‘As the wind hits the leaves, they’ll go back and forth, and they have a note to them. They’ll sing “worthy is the lamb,” and then the waves and the rivers in the waters of life will receive that same note, and they’ll sing back, “worthy is the lamb.”
‘Even the sand will receive the waves, and they’ll sing “worthy is the lamb.”‘
Visually, Gabe added that the colours in heaven are ‘beyond description.’ He also said that when you look at the flowers, they say “Jesus, you’re beautiful,” because ‘he is all of heaven.’
According to Gabe’s experience, Jesus is ‘left, right, centre, back,’ and ‘there’s no escape’ from him.
He described his meeting as a ‘soldier freefalling into an ocean of liquid love,’ adding: ‘That was the place I found myself in.’
When asked what Jesus looked like, Gabe’s answers were quite contradictory. However, the one thing he was sure of? That Jesus is male.
‘When I hear other people’s testimonies, they didn’t meet a female Jesus; they didn’t meet a soft or a passive Jesus. Jesus is a man.’
Gabe said Jesus is full of testosterone (Picture: Fox News)
Gabe added that ‘in America, Jesus has been misrepresented. And there are so many cultural things that present him as if he’s some tolerant guy.’
But, Gabe said ‘that’s not the Jesus [he] met,’ referring to him as ‘a lion.’
‘He’s not a lion angry against me; he’s a lion angry for me. He’s a Mustang on my behalf. He did it all for me.’
Finally, Gabe described Jesus as ‘pure fire,’ who stands at a confusing height of 5ft11″ or 6ft, ‘yet as tall as eternity.’ He said Jesus looked like ‘an ocean of love’ with eyes that were ‘burning white and red at the same time.’
‘And talk about testosterone, he was like a Mustang, I’m telling you.’
Well, there you have it. Jesus is a 6ft bloke who roars like a lion, apparently.
The expansion is designed to bring fiat and digital asset operations into the same platform rather than requiring institutions to use separate providers for banking, custody, trading and settlement.
Clients can access institutional USD accounts, named virtual accounts with unique routing details, SWIFT transfers and Anchorage Digital’s Atlas settlement network alongside the firm’s digital asset custody and trading services.
“Global businesses should not have to choose between the speed of digital assets and the reliability of traditional banking rails,” Anchorage Digital CEO and co-founder Nathan McCauley said.
The company said the service is aimed at global trading firms, crypto exchanges, protocols, neobanks, banks, asset managers, family offices and corporates operating across multiple markets.
The move also expands Anchorage Digital’s presence in Asia Pacific, where the company said institutional demand for digital asset infrastructure continues to grow.
Standard Chartered Global Head of Fintech Luke Boland said the partnership combines the bank’s payments and risk infrastructure with Anchorage Digital’s regulated platform to make it easier for institutional firms to manage fiat and digital assets across borders.
Anchorage Digital said the broader goal is to consolidate payments, custody, trading and settlement into a single institutional platform as traditional banking rails and blockchain infrastructure increasingly converge.
For Democrats, the higher support level is going to Steven Horsford, a Nevada lawmaker who helped get a bipartisan crypto tax bill through the House tax committee he serves on, and Derek Tran of California, Fairshake said. Both of them have an “A” rating on digital assets issues from Stand With Crypto, as does the third recipient, Janelle Bynum.
Bynum is an Oregon Democrat incumbent who had beaten Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer for her seat two years ago. Chavez-DeRemer, who was backed by Fairshake in the prior election, went on to run President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor, though she resigned earlier this year under multiple misconduct allegations. Bynum voted for crypto bills during her first term and appeared at the Digital Chamber’s DC Blockchain Summit earlier this year.
The 32 House incumbents on Fairshake’s latest list are well targeted for the industry’s next legislative maneuvers, with many of them on the House Ways and Means Committee that will deal with crypto tax issues, and many others on the key House Financial Services Committee. Agriculture, science and judiciary panels — each promising to be important for future crypto bills — also are represented by the candidates.
Vetter said his organization has so far backed 53 winners out of 57 races in the primaries and is working toward “the largest pro-crypto caucus in American history.” In many of those primaries, Fairshake favored a candidate from the party that’s likely to win the general election — a strategy it succeeded with in the prior election.
The program also discussed Bitcoin’s price behavior in recent weeks. While a rise in the dollar index normally puts pressure on risky assets, it was noted that despite the US dollar reaching an 18-month high, Bitcoin has maintained its upward trend over the past five or six weeks. The fact that Bitcoin remained above its 50-week moving average while gold fell below it reinforced the view that the cryptocurrency has recently been behaving differently than a classic risk asset.
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Howell also believes that a rally in the bond market could be a significant catalyst for Bitcoin. Noting that US Treasury bonds are one of the fundamental collaterals in the global financial system, the strategist stated that if bond prices rise and bond volatility decreases, the collateral multiplier will strengthen, injecting more liquidity into the financial system. According to Howell, in such a scenario, Bitcoin could also be expected to rise.
Dave Weisberger similarly stated that Bitcoin reacts to perceived monetary expansion and liquidity inflows with an extremely high beta. Weisberger argued that a strong bond rally could emerge if economic growth slows, bringing with it expectations of further monetary expansion. He said it would be difficult for him to expect Bitcoin not to benefit from such a global bond rally.
Mike McGlone, however, painted a more cautious picture. Arguing that risky assets, including Bitcoin and gold, are still significantly tied to the US stock market, McGlone stated that taking positions against the Fed at current levels carries serious risk. Suggesting that Bitcoin has shown similar performance with much higher volatility in the long term compared to the Nasdaq, McGlone believes that the true resilience of cryptocurrency will only be tested if a significant correction occurs in the S&P 500.
