Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue over Safer Alternatives

The POUCH Act is a beginning. If lawmakers are serious about improving public health, they must resist gravitational pull of Sinclair Trap.

by Roger Bate

In December 2024, Congress did something unusual: it introduced a bill that openly acknowledges tobacco harm reduction. The POUCH Act of 2024, sponsored by Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI) and co-sponsored by Rep. Don Davis (D-NC), aims to prevent states and cities from banning or restricting FDA–authorized lower-risk products, including modern nicotine pouches and vaping products…

Wall Street’s $4 Quadrillion Backbone To Roll-Out Tokenized US Treasuries

The SEC gave DTCC the green light to launch a tokenization service last week, and the company will be starting by minting US Treasurys on Canton...

by Tyler Durden

Authored by Jesse Coghlan via CoinTelegraph.com,

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation said it is set to bring tokenized US Treasurys onchain, and plans to expand to a “broad spectrum” of assets in the future.

The DTCC said on Wednesday that it plans to “enable a subset of US Treasury securities” custodied at its subsidiary, the Depository Trust Company, to be minted on the Canton Network, a permissioned blockchain created by the fintech company Digital Asset…

TheyLied: Death by a thousand clicks – government censorship of Canada’s internet

“state-managed digital environment that restricts what Canadians may access, share, and say online”

by TheyLied

New report by The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), Dec. 15, 2025:

CALGARY, AB: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces its latest publication, Death by a thousand clicks: The rise of internet censorship and control in Canada, authored by veteran journalist and researcher Nigel Hannaford. The report outlines how recommendations from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel in 2020 set the stage for a series of federal bills that have collectively transformed Canada’s once open internet into a state-managed digital environment that restricts what Canadians may access, share, and say online…

Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers

Back in October I wrote about Doublespeed, an a16z-backed startup that uses a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated influencers.

By Emanuel Maiberg

Doublespeed, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that uses a phone farm to manage at least hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts and promote products has been hacked. The hack reveals what products the AI-generated accounts are promoting, often without the required disclosure that these are advertisements, and allowed the hacker to take control of more than 1,000 smartphones that power the company…

U.S. Stillbirth Rates 17 Percent Higher Than CDC Reporting

New Stillbirth Data Add a Signal That mRNA Shot Given During Pregnancy are Causing Stillbirths

by Amber Baker

A significant number of stillbirths are happening in pregnancies the medical system labels as safe and at a higher rate in the U.S. than previously reported, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Mass General Brigham. The study, published in JAMA on Oct. 27, 2025, according to the researchers, “is one of the largest, most data-rich studies of stillbirth burden to date and uncovers systematic failures in risk recognition and screening…

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