Before you chase every opportunity.. there may be something deeper calling you.
Spiritually aware people often feel pulled in many directions.. helping, creating, fixing, searching. But sometimes the reason nothing feels complete is because thereβs one thing you keep being brought back to.
This week’s sky is deceptively quiet β but make no mistake, it’s the kind of quiet that precedes a seismic shift. The Full Moon in Sagittarius cracked something open last Sunday, and now we’re standing in its light, asking ourselves: what did we just see? What did we just feel? And what are we going to do with that truth? Mercury enters Cancer at the start of the week, pulling our minds out of Gemini’s intellectual speed and into the deep waters of memory, intuition, and emotional knowing. By Wednesday, Mercury is talking to the North Node β your destiny path is sending you a message, and it’s speaking in the language of feeling, not logic. But Neptune squares that same Mercury by nightfall, wrapping the signal in fog. You’ll have to feel your way through. Sun sextile Saturn on Tuesday gives us one clean moment of clarity and structure β use it. And beneath all of this, Venus is slowly closing the gap toward Jupiter in Cancer, a warmth current building all week long, softening the edges, opening the heart. Chiron sits at the last degree of Aries. The wound of identity, courage, and the right to simply be yourself is reaching its final exhale before crossing into Taurus later this month. This week holds one more opportunity to make peace with that story. This is the week to harvest your wisdom. Because what comes next β the Venus-Jupiter conjunction, Uranus square the Nodes, the mid-June activations β will require you to be rooted in something true.
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Good morning, C&C, itβs Wednesday! Your roundup includes: the Project 2025 author Kevin Warsh just hired to redesign the Fed, the three-hat bulldog Trump parked on top of the entire intelligence community, and the BSL-4 virus chief caught smuggling 113 vials of Congolese monkeypox through Detroit in a picnic cooler.
Iβll cover yesterdayβs various primary results in tomorrowβs post, when I unveil my theory about how Republicans might be quietly giving up trying to pull the policy boulder uphill in deep blue jurisdictions and instead are allowing it to roll along downhill.
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Last week, Keven Warsh was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas as our newest Fed Chair. The ceremony was held at the White House, which was not the customary spot at the Fedβs HQ. Read into that what you will. Kevin has apparently unpacked and is already smashing norms and customs. Yesterday, CNBC breathlessly reported, βFed Chair Warsh makes first hires at central bank, including βProject 2025β author.β
To say that the establishment and the corporate media are frantically waiting for their chance to criticize whatever Kevin does next is like saying that Attila the Hun considered acquiring some real estate. Meanwhile, Kevin Warsh has done an admirably Trump 2.0 job of keeping the details of his plans more or less buried in word salad. Until now.
Yesterday, Warsh placed his first two hires on the chessboard. Their credentials provide what we might call a βsignal,β in the same sense that βto carry the Attila metaphor a little furtherβ the Western Roman Empire might have described as βunrest in the plains.β On paper, it looks wonkily boring: Kevin hired two conservative economic policy researchers. Yawn. The first, Daniel Heil, is a fellow at Stanfordβs conservative Hoover Institution think-tank, where Warsh previously held a position before joining the Fed.
The second hire was much more suggestive and triggering for big-government economists. Paul Winfree is one of the βProject 2025β authors, which is bad enough, but he also wrote the chapter on the Federal Reserve. Get ready. Winfreeβs chapter described Fed reforms going far beyond any of Kevin Warshβs public calls for βregime changeβ or even βbreaking some heads.β
When I say βfar beyondβ anything Warsh has hinted at publicly, I mean like this: if Warsh staked a Fed-reform position as far from DC as Arlington, Virginia, then Winfreeβs proposals are located in the suburbs on one of Neptuneβs outer moons.
To merely call Winfreeβs chapter on the Fed βradicalβ is to do it a grave injustice. Winfree argued that the Fed has mushroomed into an overpowered, politicized institution that causes the boomβbust and inflation cycles it is supposed to tame. In Winfreeβs view, the Fed should only be focused on protecting the value of the dollar and restraining inflation, and not messing about with jobs policy, climate/ESG agendas, and βtoo big to failβ rescues.
His Project 2025 chapter offers a buffet-style menu of options to drastically shrink, tightly leash, and outright abolish the Federal Reserve as we know it. Thereβs a common theme: stop using monetary policy to βmanage the economyβ and refocus the Fed (or its replacement) on hard constraints around money and inflation. In the appetizer section of his menu, Winfree describes completely ending the Fed and moving to βfree banking,β where competing private banks, not a central planner, issue notes and deposits, and the government can no longer mint new money at will.
Short of βfree banking,β which would require an almost unimaginable act by Congress, Winfree suggests something equally wild in DC terms: returning to some form of commodity standard, such as a goldβbacked dollar. Crazy, right? He also called for Congress to explicitly bar the Fed from launching any central bank digital currency, which Winfree said would give the state βunprecedented surveillance and potential controlβ over individual financial transactions.
I may regret saying this, but once again, we must nod at the βQβ team, which predicted these sorts of themes, at least directionally. Winfreeβs proposals describe a realistic, legalistic pathway to the kinds of radical Fed reforms hinted at in various Q drops and mythologized in the QAnon community β shrinking or even ending the modern Fed, moving back toward βsound money,β and slamming the door on a surveillanceβheavy CBDC.
CNBC didnβt say it out loud, but it did strongly hint that Warshβs first two hires mean the new Fed chair is considering options once considered impossible or the stuff of conspiracy theory.
It wonβt be easy. Thereβs only so much he can do without Congress passing or changing laws. More challenging, Kevin Warshβs reforms will be opposed by some of the existing Fed governors, including Jerome Powell himself, who broke 70+ years of tradition and didnβt actually retire, but clung to his job as one of the twelve Fed governors, which he was technically allowed to doβ a bold, defiant move that previous Fed Chairs have never historically made.
So, Warsh needs leverage β not just inside the Eccles Building, but across the parts of government that hold kompromat and control the surveillance tools. That observation leads us directly to the next story.
π₯ Yesterday, the Washington Post reported, βTrump picks mortgage chief Bill Pulte to lead on national intelligence.β Corporate media reports sneered at the new appointment as βstrange.β Yesterday, President Trump appointed bulldog Bill Pulte, the Director of Federal Housing Finance and Director of Fannie/Freddie with a third job: as actingDirector of National Intelligence, replacing Tulsi Gabbard. Heβs giving Marco Rubio a run for his money in the stacked jobs department. Whatβs got everyone buzzing is that Bill has zero previous intelligence background. He is a baby in Spookland.
Alert readers will recall the clean-cut, pugilistic mortgage chief, who has referred various progressive luminaries for mortgage fraud prosecution, including Senator Adam Schiff (D-Ca.), New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Fed governor Lisa Cook. This disgruntled Democrats. Writing for the Atlantic, left-wing lunatic and self-selected elite David Frum called Bill an βultra-partisan with a highly quarrelsome personality and great inherited wealth.β
As far as I can tell, βultra-partisanβ is right of βultra-right-wing,β which right of the Third Reich and possibly as far right as it gets without the WaPo breaking out the thesaurus again.
Democrats are not taking this well. They canβt decide whether to laugh or feign outrage. A congressman you probably never heard of claimed to be terrified. βFrighteningly, heβs got more of a platform at the ODNI than as a housing regulator,β Representative Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said in an interview. βThereβs a lot of opportunity for mischief here,β he added conspiratorially.
Mischief was an odd word in this context. Iβm not sure it completely bears the load of βfrighteningly.β It sounds like Himes was describing a Dennis the Menace-style caper or something. I was only trying to help!
Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.), 71, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, who is not a little anything, was a little insulted. Warner snapped that Bill Pulte has βno time in the military, no time in Congress, no time in the diplomatic corps, no time in law enforcement.β On a four-in-a-row-βnoβ roll, Warner concluded: βIt is an insult.β But, to whom? At least he didnβt say βmischief.β
The article unintentionally betrayed what Democrats are really worried about: Congress is preparing to vote to reauthorize FISA, the controversial law allowing warrantless surveillance of foreigners overseas. The actual problems with FISA are legion, but the only problem mentioned by WaPo βabout a law Democrats lovedwhile bugging Trump officials, but that is now keeping progressive party chiefs up at nightβ is that βthose intercepts sometimes collect data from communications involving U.S. citizens.β
Uh-oh! In other words, ODNI can read and listen to Democrat politiciansβ discussions with foreign actors. Now, all of a sudden, FISA poses a crisis for democracy.
π₯ ODNI is not just another federal office to be plugged. It is one of the most critical slots in the Trump 2.0 Administrationβs accountability structure. Youβll remember that Tulsi has been building the case since last year that Russiagate was a treasonous conspiracy, and collecting evidence related to the stolen 2020 election. Even aside from those significant projects, ODNI also oversees all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies.
Media is struggling to understand whatβs really going on, and whether novice Bill Pulte will be immediately rolled by career IC operatives or possibly figure out how to βmake mischief.β It is admittedly confusing. Why assign Bill Pulte, whoβs a willing fighter but not a spook, into this ultra-sensitive role? And why also leave him in his multiple old jobs, forced to share time with the mortgage and housing finance agencies?
To be clear: I donβt know the plan. (And I donβt want to know the plan.) But there are some dots we can connect, and as usual, timing is our best clue. As todayβs first segment reminded us, Kevin Warsh just stepped up as Fed Chief and is starting to overturn tables in the Fedβs executive dining room. Maybe thereβs something there?
Curiously, there are a couple of connections between Warsh and Pulte, at least in their interests. The WaPo story said Bill Pulte βwas a leading voice in trying to oust then-Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell.β Indeed, Bill surfaced Fed governor Lisa Cookβs obvious mortgage fraud in what was, at the time, considered a pressure campaign against the rebellious Fed chief. And Pulte, from his spot at the mortgage agencies, has been intensely critical of Powellβs interest-rate decisions.
π₯ In last yearβs CNBC clip that I linked above, Bill began with a rant about the Fed. βI donβt believe for the last four years that the Fed has been independent,β Bill explained. βYou see that even right now. Youβve got Lisa Cook, whoβs being represented by Norm Eisen. Norm Eisen is the guy who tried to take down Trump, failed at it, but led the first impeachment. Heβs the lawyer for Lisa Cook. This is a raging Democrat. Then on top of it, youβve got Jerome Powell whoβs sitting silent.β
βPowell doesnβt like our president,β Bill continued. βLook at what he did the last many years with Biden right before the election. And now you have low inflation and heβs not cutting rates. And then he gets a lady whoβs alleged guilty of credible mortgage fraud, and he doesnβt even say, βhold onβ or announce an investigation. Itβs very odd.β
If itβs not a coincidence, itβs a whirlwind of related action. Tulsi tendered her resignation notice on May 22ndβ two days after Warsh was sworn in as Fed Chair. Ten days after that, Trump announced the placement of fierce loyalist and bulldog Bill Pulte at Tulsiβs spot at ODNI. It makes you wonder whether some coordination was involved.
Not only that. Bill Pulteβs appointment as acting DNI looks a whole lot like Todd Blancheβs appointment as acting Attorney General. Both men are βhyper-partisanβ loyalists; thus, neither man could possibly be confirmed in the malfunctioning Senate. Now, through careful procedural gamesmanship, both men enjoy at least a year to make big moves.
π₯ Now sitting astride the countryβs giant mortgage engines and the intelligence community, Bill Pulte is uniquely positioned to watch money move around the world, and to connect those flows to the people and groups behind them.
As FHFA director and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bill already oversees institutions that touch or guarantee a large share of U.S. mortgages, giving him access (directly or via agency tools such as antiβfraud analytics) to extraordinarily detailed, often nonpublic financial and property data on elites and institutions.
Layer on top of that his new ODNI role, which coordinates foreignβintelligence collection and analysis, including programs that sometimes sweep in the communications and financial dealings of U.S. citizens talking to foreigners, and suddenly the same hardβcharging operator willing to wield mortgage records against the Administrationβs political enemies can, in principle, crossβreference housing, credit, and ownership patterns with intelligenceβgrade information about foreign contacts, shell structures, and illicit funding streams.
Thereβs a lot of potential there. But more, if an administration seeks leverage on powerful actors who thought their finances were opaque or hidden safely offshore, putting a fiercely loyal bulldog at the junction of Fannie/Freddieβs data firehose and ODNIβs surveillance and analysis capabilities is about as close as you can get to a purposeβbuilt leverage machine. Iβm not saying thatβs whatβs happening. Iβm just saying.
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The swamp-draining and accountability at the big health agencies continue apace. Even better: More arrests! Even better than that: more arrests of Fauci-aligned scientists. Yesterday, Newsweek blandly reported, βWhy two federal virus researchers just got arrested by the FBI.βHere we go again!
Unless you are a highly educated government scientist with a taxpayer-funded travel budget, you probably do not look forward to going to the airport. You know the drill. You stand in a security line longer than the history of the Byzantine Empire. You place all your items in a decidedly unclean-looking plastic carrier, which invariably exposes to your fellow passengers various embarrassing personal objects you would prefer remained private. You stand in a high-tech x-ray scanner that probably finishes off the last heroic gut bacteria clinging to life in your stomach because, in the hyper-vigilant minds of the Transportation Security Administration, you might have a machete secreted in your jockey shorts.
You do all of this willingly, because you are a law-abiding, tax-paying citizen who understands that Rules Are Rules, and that the federal government means well and is presumably keeping us safe from the unimaginable threat of slightly-too-large bottles of Head & Shoulders.
Meanwhile, in the VIP lane of international travel, we have The Experts.β’
π According to a federal criminal complaint recently filed in a city famous for many things, such as flexible balloting, but rarely known for being the primary port of entry for exotic African viral pathogens, two scientists working for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
Their names are Vincent βHermanβ Munster, a 53-year-old citizen of the Netherlands, and Claude Kwe, a 38-year-old citizen of Cameroon. Vincent is not just any old NIH scientist; he is the Chief of the Virus Ecology Section at the NIHβs premier Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana. Claude is a βresearch fellowβ in Vincentβs section. Their job, according to official government documents, is to study βemerging viral pathogensβ and how they βcross the species barrier.β
Sound familiar? It should:
The two βscientistsβ worked in the Montana labβs premier Biosafety Level 4 laboratory. For Portland readers, βBiosafety Level 4β is the highest possible level of bio-security. It is the kind of lab you see in horror movies, where scientists wear pressurized space suits, pass through multiple airlocks, and are probably tackled by a team of guys armed with industrial Lysol sprayers if they so much as think about sneezing.
BS4 is designed to keep the most horrifying, flesh-melting viruses on Earth from escaping into the wild.
So, how did these two highly trained, BSL-4-certified global health experts decide to transport their latest research samples from the Republic of Congo back to Montana? Did they use a secure, military-grade biological containment transport system flown in on special reinforced military aircraft? Did they employ a specialized courier with armed guards and a refrigerated, bulletproof safe?
Nope. They jammed them in a plastic suitcase and boarded a commercial airliner.
π Correct! A packed commercial airplane. With regular passengers. People who were probably complaining about the lack of legroom or the fact that their complimentary bag of pretzels contained only three pretzelsβ entirely unaware that a few rows away, the Chief of Virus Ecology was flying coach with a carry-on full of monkeypox.
According to the FBI, Munster and Kwe arrived at Detroit Metro Airportβs McNamara Terminal on January 25, 2026, after a lovely getaway to Brazzaville, Congoβ which, by sheer coincidence, was experiencing an active outbreak of monkeypox (now trendily called βmpoxβ by people who donβt want to offend monkeys).
As they rolled through customs, alert Customs and Border Protection officers noticed they were hauling a βlarge black plastic case.β The officer, doing his job, inquired as to what was in the large black plastic case.
Now, if you or I were asked this question, and we had a suitcase with a bottle of undeclared Mexican Viagra, never mind full of infectious tropical diseases, we would probably pass out from sheer terror. But Munster and Kwe are trained Public Health Experts. They wield degrees, credentials, and enough smug arrogance to satisfy Stalinβs entire General Committee. So of course they looked the CBP officer in the eye and calmly explained that the case contained only βdiagnostics and testing equipment.β
This is what we in the legal profession call a βfib.β It was like getting caught with a trunk full of stacked hundreds and telling the police it was just βcurrency-testing paper.β
When the authorities opened the case, they did not find diagnostic or testing equipment. Instead, they found Styrofoam coolers containing 113 vials. One hundred and thirteen vials. That is more virus vials than you might observe in the mad scientistβs laboratory in an above-average 1950s horror movie.
π The FBI, having recently become suspicious of NIH scientists who lie about concealed virus sample vials, decided to test a few of them. As of the indictment, the feds have tested 20. The results were a delightful biological potpourri. Of the 20, 17 vials contained βdeactivatedβ monkeypox virus. 1 vial contained chickenpox virus. 2 vials contained only human DNA.
I will just say this about the mediaβs reassuring label of βdeactivated.β In 2014, CDC investigators found that dozens of staff were exposed to anthrax samples labeled βfully inactivatedβ but that still contained live Bacillus anthracis spores. In a separate incident the same year, some old vials at an NIH campus lab labeled βdeactivated variolaβ βsmallpoxβ were found to actually contain live virus, despite labeling that they were completely nonβinfectious.
Who knows what surprises could be in the other 93 vials? Ebola? Covid? The common cold? It could be the secret formula for New Coke or Doctor Munsterβs leftover botox. The point is, they broke a small volume of federal criminal laws and regulations by smuggling them onto a passenger plane in a cheap cooler that could have been purchased at a Montana Stop-and-Go to keep Coors Light bottles cold.
U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. summed it up perfectly: βThese NIH experts apparently broke our laws by smuggling viral pathogens on a packed commercial airplane from an outbreak in the Republic of Congo. Let that sink in.β
Oh, never fear, we are letting it sink in, Jerome. It is currently sitting in the bottom of our collective stomach, right next to the airport Cinnabon we regret eating.
If a conservative rancher in Montana tried to transport a cow across state lines without the proper 47-page veterinary permit, the Department of Agriculture would descend upon him with the fury of a thousand suns. If a regular American citizen tried to bring a single, uninspected lime back from a vacation in Cabo to put in their Corona, CBP would treat them like a cartel kingpin and deploy a tactical team of agricultural sniffer beagles to hunt them down.
But apparently, if you are a foreign national working for the NIH, funded by the very taxpayers you are bypassing, you can go on a biological shopping spree during a live outbreak in the Congo, pack your samples next to your spare underwear, lie to federal agents, and expect to get away with it because you are doing Important Science.
Which is probably what always used to happen in the pre-pandemic period.
Jennifer Runyan, the Special Agent in Charge of the FBIβs Detroit Field Office, felt it necessary to remind the credentialed class: βNo researchers should believe their positions, credentials, or professional status place them above the law.β
Which was a very nice sentiment, Jennifer, but letβs be honest. They absolutely believed they were above the law. And why wouldnβt they? They work for the NIH, an agency that has spent the last several years telling the American public that they are the Science, to quit doing our own research, and that anyone who questions them is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal who probably eats paste. Horse paste.
But times are changing. Munster and Kwe now face a maximum of five years in prison, and the FBIβs counter-terrorism unit is involved. Five years seems β¦ well, like a good start. That is roughly the same amount of time you would face if you cracked a joke in the TSA line about the only bomb on your person being the one you would drop if you didnβt get to a bathroom soon.
One question remains unanswered in all the many stories about this encouraging arrest: their motive. Why would senior NIH scientists risk federal prison? What were they trying to achieve that was worth taking the chance? Itβs possible they never considered it much of a risk, since they always got away with it before. They may have thought that irregularities in the paperwork would be overlooked if they deployed their NIH badges and impressed customs agents with tales of their heroic and dangerous work in the Congo.
Maybe. After all, properly declaring and packing the viruses takes a lot more effort than just jamming them into a travel-sized suitcase.
Maybe. But allow me to suggest another motive. Sneaking the samples into the US accomplishes one particularly valuable objective: it erases the chain of custody. All the pesky declarations and paperwork required by federal law would have established documentary evidence that the Congolese monkeypox traveled from its African source to the Montana lab in January 2026. If, say, a Midwest outbreak of Congolese mpox variants happened a few weeks later in February, people might start asking uncomfortable questions.
So, if the person in the middle seat has a large black plastic case and is wearing a t-shirt that says βI β€οΈ Virus Science,β you should probably ask to be reseated.
Have a wonderful Wednesday! Fly back here tomorrow morning, for a lawfully declared but slightly subversive roundup of C&C-style essential news and caffeinated commentary.
DIAMONDS ARE WORTHLESS. THE ENTIRE MARKET IS A 100-YEAR PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATION.
Diamonds are not rare. They never were. The Earthβs mantle contains an estimated 10 quadrillion tons of diamonds. Thatβs more diamond than there is water on the surface. Theyβre one of the most common gemstones on the planet.
A single company β De Beers β has controlled 85% of the global diamond supply since 1888. Not by mining more than anyone else. By mining everything β and locking 99% of it in vaults. Artificial scarcity. Manufactured rarity. The most successful price manipulation in commercial history.
A diamond you buy for $10,000 has a resale value of $1,200. The moment you leave the store, youβve lost 88% of your βinvestment.β No other βpreciousβ commodity loses 88% of its value at the point of sale. Because no other commodityβs value is entirely fictional.
β The phrase βA Diamond is Foreverβ was invented in 1947 by a De Beers advertising agency. Before that campaign, diamond engagement rings werenβt tradition. They werenβt common. They werenβt expected. In 1939, only 10% of engagement rings contained diamonds.
One ad campaign. One slogan. And within a generation, an entire civilization believed that love required a compressed carbon stone controlled by a single monopoly.
They didnβt sell diamonds. They sold the idea that your love is measured by how much you spend on a worthless rock. And they embedded it so deeply into culture that questioning it feels like questioning love itself.
Thatβs not marketing. Thatβs programming.
β De Beersβ internal documents β leaked in 2004 and immediately suppressed β reveal the full strategy. Codenamed βETERNAL HOLD,β the plan had three pillars:
Pillar 1: Control supply absolutely. Buy every mine. Lock surplus in vaults. Release only enough to maintain price. If any independent source threatens the monopoly β buy it or destroy it.
Pillar 2: Create cultural dependency. Make diamonds synonymous with love, commitment, and social status. Anyone who doesnβt buy one is βcheap.β Anyone who questions the value is βunromantic.β Use social pressure as the enforcement mechanism.
Pillar 3: Prevent resale. Convince buyers that diamonds should βnever be soldβ β theyβre βforever,β theyβre βheirlooms,β theyβre βsentimental.β Because if the secondary market ever functioned freely, the real value would be exposed and the entire structure would collapse overnight.
It worked. For 100 years. Billions of people paid thousands of dollars for stones worth less than the metal theyβre set in β and thanked the seller for the privilege.
β Lab-grown diamonds are chemically identical to mined diamonds. Atom for atom. Indistinguishable even under professional gemological equipment. They cost 90% less to produce.
De Beers spent $150 million on campaigns to convince you that lab diamonds are βnot real.β That βreal loveβ requires a βreal diamond.β That a stone pulled from an African mine by exploited labor is somehow more authentic than an identical stone created in a laboratory. The same stone. The same carbon. The same crystal structure. But one maintains the monopoly and one destroys it. So one is βrealβ and one isnβt.
The diamond market is collapsing. Lab-grown stones are flooding the market. The vault strategy is failing. Young generations are refusing to participate. The 100-year spell is breaking β not because people learned the truth, but because they stopped believing the lie.