All are Democrats (or ran/won as Democrats). This aligns with the broader pattern — every Muslim member of Congress has been a Democrat, and the large majority of Muslim elected officials nationwide are Democrats. There are virtually no Republican Muslim officeholders at these levels.
Positions won (examples from the graphic):
Zohran K. Mamdani: Mayor of New York City (elected 2025; first Muslim mayor of NYC; also a democratic socialist).
Ghazala Hashmi: Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (elected 2025; first Muslim in statewide office in Virginia).
Others: State legislators (e.g., Virginia House of Delegates members like Atoosa R. Reaser), mayors (e.g., Abdullah Hammoud of Dearborn, MI), and various local/city council roles.
States: Multiple states, not one. Includes solidly Democratic areas (New York, parts of Michigan) and competitive/swing states (Virginia). Wins were often in specific districts or cities rather than depending on overall state party control.
Positions won (examples from the graphic):
Zohran K. Mamdani: Mayor of New York City (elected 2025; first Muslim mayor of NYC; also a democratic socialist).
Ghazala Hashmi: Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (elected 2025; first Muslim in statewide office in Virginia).
Others: State legislators (e.g., Virginia House of Delegates members like Atoosa R. Reaser), mayors (e.g., Abdullah Hammoud of Dearborn, MI), and various local/city council roles.
States: Multiple states, not one. Includes solidly Democratic areas (New York, parts of Michigan) and competitive/swing states (Virginia). Wins were often in specific districts or cities rather than depending on overall state party control.
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BREAKING: House Oversight Committee is DEMANDING documents to investigate if Sam Altman’s OpenAI was used to artificially inflate the value of other companies.
Altman reportedly proposed that OpenAI invest $500 million into a nuclear fusion company he personally invested in, which would have pushed that company's value to $35 BILLION.
This is extremely concerning‼️
Altman reportedly proposed that OpenAI invest $500 million into a nuclear fusion company he personally invested in, which would have pushed that company's value to $35 BILLION.
This is extremely concerning‼️
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RFK Jr signed a directive BANNING transgender surgeries for minors nationwide! 👏👏👏
“So-called gender-affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine—it is MALPRACTICE."
“We're DONE with junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not the wellbeing of children.” -RFK JR
“So-called gender-affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine—it is MALPRACTICE."
“We're DONE with junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not the wellbeing of children.” -RFK JR
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The PDF is the official Section-by-Section Summary of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (Clarity Act), released May 11, 2026 by Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott. This comprehensive market-structure bill (separate from the GENIUS stablecoin law) is set for markup on May 14, 2026, with a target of becoming law this summer.
Key Provisions
Title I – Responsible Innovation
Creates clear rules for “ancillary assets” (network tokens whose value depends on the ledger, not ongoing promoter efforts). It establishes a rebuttable presumption that such tokens are commodities, offers a tailored “Regulation Crypto” exemption from full SEC registration (up to $200M total), limits insider sales for 12 months, and protects assets already ruled non-securities by courts (directly shielding XRP after the Ripple case). It also modernizes recordkeeping for distributed ledgers and preempts conflicting state laws.
Title II – Illicit Finance
Applies Bank Secrecy Act/AML rules to digital asset brokers and exchanges, sets standards for crypto ATMs, and launches studies on mixers and foreign risks.
Title III – DeFi
Provides safe harbors for voluntary transaction holds requested by law enforcement, a voluntary NIST cybersecurity program for protocols, and activity-based compliance rules for DeFi platforms.
Title IV – Banking Innovation
Explicitly allows banks and credit unions to custody, trade, and use digital assets. It prohibits passive yield/interest on payment stablecoins while permitting transaction-based rewards.
The bill also includes anti-CBDC language and strong protections for self-custody and software developers.
Why It’s Perfect for Ripple & XRP
XRP was jointly classified as a digital commodity by the SEC and CFTC in March 2026. This bill codifies that classification into permanent federal law, removing any risk of future reversal and finally ending the overhang from the 2020–2023 SEC lawsuit.
It perfectly matches Ripple’s model:
XRP powers real-world cross-border payments via On-Demand Liquidity (ODL).
Banks can now confidently custody and use XRP at scale.
Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin aligns with the stablecoin framework.
Strong decentralization and developer protections benefit the open-source XRP Ledger.
It paves the way for XRP ETFs (analysts forecast $4–8 billion in inflows).
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has long advocated for exactly this type of regulatory clarity over continued uncertainty.
Key Provisions
Title I – Responsible Innovation
Creates clear rules for “ancillary assets” (network tokens whose value depends on the ledger, not ongoing promoter efforts). It establishes a rebuttable presumption that such tokens are commodities, offers a tailored “Regulation Crypto” exemption from full SEC registration (up to $200M total), limits insider sales for 12 months, and protects assets already ruled non-securities by courts (directly shielding XRP after the Ripple case). It also modernizes recordkeeping for distributed ledgers and preempts conflicting state laws.
Title II – Illicit Finance
Applies Bank Secrecy Act/AML rules to digital asset brokers and exchanges, sets standards for crypto ATMs, and launches studies on mixers and foreign risks.
Title III – DeFi
Provides safe harbors for voluntary transaction holds requested by law enforcement, a voluntary NIST cybersecurity program for protocols, and activity-based compliance rules for DeFi platforms.
Title IV – Banking Innovation
Explicitly allows banks and credit unions to custody, trade, and use digital assets. It prohibits passive yield/interest on payment stablecoins while permitting transaction-based rewards.
The bill also includes anti-CBDC language and strong protections for self-custody and software developers.
Why It’s Perfect for Ripple & XRP
XRP was jointly classified as a digital commodity by the SEC and CFTC in March 2026. This bill codifies that classification into permanent federal law, removing any risk of future reversal and finally ending the overhang from the 2020–2023 SEC lawsuit.
It perfectly matches Ripple’s model:
XRP powers real-world cross-border payments via On-Demand Liquidity (ODL).
Banks can now confidently custody and use XRP at scale.
Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin aligns with the stablecoin framework.
Strong decentralization and developer protections benefit the open-source XRP Ledger.
It paves the way for XRP ETFs (analysts forecast $4–8 billion in inflows).
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has long advocated for exactly this type of regulatory clarity over continued uncertainty.
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Senate Banking Committee draft of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (also called the CLARITY Act, H.R. 3633).
Section 604 is the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA), and Section 605 is the Keep Your Coins Act. These provisions are in Title VI of the bill (focused on developer protections and innovation safeguards).
What Section 604 Actually Does
It creates a safe harbor for “non-controlling” blockchain developers and providers:
A “developer or provider” is anyone who creates or publishes software to facilitate the creation or maintenance of a distributed ledger (or a service associated with one).
A “non-controlling” one is defined as someone who, in the regular course of operations, does not have:
The legal right or unilateral ability to control, initiate upon demand, or effectuate transactions involving digital assets without the approval, consent, or direction of a third party.
Key protections (directly from the text you posted):
Such non-controlling developers/providers shall not be treated as:
A money transmitting business under 31 U.S.C. § 5330 (FinCEN registration).
Engaged in money transmitting under 18 U.S.C. § 1960 (the main federal criminal money transmission statute).
They are also shielded from substantially similar state registration requirements solely on the basis of creating/publishing software, providing hardware/software for self-custody, or providing infrastructure support for a distributed ledger.
Important limitations (the bill is explicit about this):
It does not protect anyone who acts with intent to transfer funds they know are derived from a criminal offense or intended to promote/support unlawful activity (this is subsection (d), which preserves 18 U.S.C. § 1960(b)(1)(C)).
Rules of construction make clear it doesn’t override other federal/state laws based on conduct outside this safe harbor, doesn’t affect intellectual property laws, doesn’t stop states from enforcing consistent laws, and doesn’t create new private causes of action.
In plain English: Writing and publishing open-source blockchain code, building/maintaining non-custodial wallets or self-custody tools, or running nodes/infrastructure — without controlling user funds — is not money transmission. This has been a major source of legal uncertainty and fear for developers for years.
Section 605: Keep Your Coins Act
This explicitly prohibits federal agencies from prohibiting, restricting, or impairing an individual’s ability to use a self-hosted wallet to custody their own digital assets (while preserving all existing authorities to enforce AML, sanctions, fraud, etc.).
Current Status (as of May 12, 2026)
The House passed its version of the CLARITY Act in July 2025 with strong bipartisan support (294-134).
The Senate Banking Committee is holding its markup on this exact draft tomorrow — Thursday, May 14, 2026, at 10:30 a.m. ET.
This is the most advanced comprehensive crypto market-structure bill has ever been in Congress.
Is This a “Massive Win for Ripple & XRP”?
It is a significant positive development for the entire industry, including Ripple and the XRP ecosystem:
The XRP Ledger is designed as a decentralized public blockchain. Ripple develops and publishes open-source software for it, provides tools/infrastructure, and supports validators/nodes — but does not control user funds or unilaterally initiate transactions on the ledger.
This provision directly reduces legal risk for that kind of activity (software publishing, self-custody tools, node operation, etc.).
It benefits any project with truly non-custodial, decentralized architecture (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, etc.).
The enthusiastic post you shared is directionally correct in substance (this is indeed a major clarity win for open-source developers and self-custody), though the “buried on page 230 of the 309-page bill” framing is typical hype — it’s a prominent, dedicated section (604) in a major bill, not hidden in fine print.
Section 604 is the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA), and Section 605 is the Keep Your Coins Act. These provisions are in Title VI of the bill (focused on developer protections and innovation safeguards).
What Section 604 Actually Does
It creates a safe harbor for “non-controlling” blockchain developers and providers:
A “developer or provider” is anyone who creates or publishes software to facilitate the creation or maintenance of a distributed ledger (or a service associated with one).
A “non-controlling” one is defined as someone who, in the regular course of operations, does not have:
The legal right or unilateral ability to control, initiate upon demand, or effectuate transactions involving digital assets without the approval, consent, or direction of a third party.
Key protections (directly from the text you posted):
Such non-controlling developers/providers shall not be treated as:
A money transmitting business under 31 U.S.C. § 5330 (FinCEN registration).
Engaged in money transmitting under 18 U.S.C. § 1960 (the main federal criminal money transmission statute).
They are also shielded from substantially similar state registration requirements solely on the basis of creating/publishing software, providing hardware/software for self-custody, or providing infrastructure support for a distributed ledger.
Important limitations (the bill is explicit about this):
It does not protect anyone who acts with intent to transfer funds they know are derived from a criminal offense or intended to promote/support unlawful activity (this is subsection (d), which preserves 18 U.S.C. § 1960(b)(1)(C)).
Rules of construction make clear it doesn’t override other federal/state laws based on conduct outside this safe harbor, doesn’t affect intellectual property laws, doesn’t stop states from enforcing consistent laws, and doesn’t create new private causes of action.
In plain English: Writing and publishing open-source blockchain code, building/maintaining non-custodial wallets or self-custody tools, or running nodes/infrastructure — without controlling user funds — is not money transmission. This has been a major source of legal uncertainty and fear for developers for years.
Section 605: Keep Your Coins Act
This explicitly prohibits federal agencies from prohibiting, restricting, or impairing an individual’s ability to use a self-hosted wallet to custody their own digital assets (while preserving all existing authorities to enforce AML, sanctions, fraud, etc.).
Current Status (as of May 12, 2026)
The House passed its version of the CLARITY Act in July 2025 with strong bipartisan support (294-134).
The Senate Banking Committee is holding its markup on this exact draft tomorrow — Thursday, May 14, 2026, at 10:30 a.m. ET.
This is the most advanced comprehensive crypto market-structure bill has ever been in Congress.
Is This a “Massive Win for Ripple & XRP”?
It is a significant positive development for the entire industry, including Ripple and the XRP ecosystem:
The XRP Ledger is designed as a decentralized public blockchain. Ripple develops and publishes open-source software for it, provides tools/infrastructure, and supports validators/nodes — but does not control user funds or unilaterally initiate transactions on the ledger.
This provision directly reduces legal risk for that kind of activity (software publishing, self-custody tools, node operation, etc.).
It benefits any project with truly non-custodial, decentralized architecture (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, etc.).
The enthusiastic post you shared is directionally correct in substance (this is indeed a major clarity win for open-source developers and self-custody), though the “buried on page 230 of the 309-page bill” framing is typical hype — it’s a prominent, dedicated section (604) in a major bill, not hidden in fine print.
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BREAKING: Here Are the Five South Carolina Senate RINOs Who Voted to Block Redistricting
Sean Bennett
Chip Campsen
Tom Davis
Greg Hembree
Shane Massey
Get them out.....
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/breaking-here-are-five-south-carolina-senate-rinos/
Sean Bennett
Chip Campsen
Tom Davis
Greg Hembree
Shane Massey
Get them out.....
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/breaking-here-are-five-south-carolina-senate-rinos/
The Gateway Pundit
BREAKING: Here Are the Five South Carolina Senate RINOs Who Voted to Block Redistricting * The Gateway Pundit * by Cristina Laila
The South Carolina Senate on Tuesday rejected the House-passed resolution to extend a legislative session to consider redistricting.
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The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) — Russia’s largest securities exchange — is launching the💱 MOEXXRP 💲 price index today, May 13, 2026, along with new indexes for SOL (MOEXSOL), TRX (MOEXTRX), and BNB (MOEXBNB).
This expands MOEX’s regulated crypto benchmark suite beyond its existing Bitcoin (MOEXBTC) and Ethereum (MOEXETH) indexes.
What exactly is launching?
Official price indexes (not spot trading of the tokens themselves).
Real-time benchmarks updated every 15 seconds during trading hours.
Pricing is aggregated from major global exchanges: 50% Binance + 20% Bybit + 15% OKX + 15% Bitget.
Aimed at professional and institutional investors, giving them standardized, transparent tracking of these assets in a regulated environment.
This is infrastructure-building. Russia is creating domestic crypto benchmarks on its own terms while tightening rules around self-custody and foreign platforms.
Quick context on the bigger picture
Russia has been gradually expanding crypto’s role in its financial system (legal mining, pilots for the digital ruble, interest in crypto for cross-border settlements). Adding these altcoin indexes is another deliberate step — even as they keep tight control over how individuals hold and move assets.
Some reports also indicate cash-settled futures on the SOL, XRP, and TRX indexes could launch as early as May 14 for qualified investors. That would be the next logical layer.
For XRP specifically
This is meaningful institutional-grade recognition. XRP now has an official, regulated price benchmark on one of the world’s major exchanges. It doesn’t mean immediate massive volume or direct retail trading, but it’s another brick in the wall of global legitimacy — especially relevant given XRP’s strengths in fast, low-cost cross-border payments, which aligns with Russia’s interest in alternative settlement rails.
The XRP community on X is already buzzing about it this morning.
Bottom line: It’s a solid, regulated development — not hype, but real infrastructure progress. Russia is clearly comfortable putting XRP (and these other majors) on the map in its financial system.
https://www.ccn.com/news/crypto/russia-crypto-push-moex-adds-sol-xrp-trx-and-bnb-indexes/
This expands MOEX’s regulated crypto benchmark suite beyond its existing Bitcoin (MOEXBTC) and Ethereum (MOEXETH) indexes.
What exactly is launching?
Official price indexes (not spot trading of the tokens themselves).
Real-time benchmarks updated every 15 seconds during trading hours.
Pricing is aggregated from major global exchanges: 50% Binance + 20% Bybit + 15% OKX + 15% Bitget.
Aimed at professional and institutional investors, giving them standardized, transparent tracking of these assets in a regulated environment.
This is infrastructure-building. Russia is creating domestic crypto benchmarks on its own terms while tightening rules around self-custody and foreign platforms.
Quick context on the bigger picture
Russia has been gradually expanding crypto’s role in its financial system (legal mining, pilots for the digital ruble, interest in crypto for cross-border settlements). Adding these altcoin indexes is another deliberate step — even as they keep tight control over how individuals hold and move assets.
Some reports also indicate cash-settled futures on the SOL, XRP, and TRX indexes could launch as early as May 14 for qualified investors. That would be the next logical layer.
For XRP specifically
This is meaningful institutional-grade recognition. XRP now has an official, regulated price benchmark on one of the world’s major exchanges. It doesn’t mean immediate massive volume or direct retail trading, but it’s another brick in the wall of global legitimacy — especially relevant given XRP’s strengths in fast, low-cost cross-border payments, which aligns with Russia’s interest in alternative settlement rails.
The XRP community on X is already buzzing about it this morning.
Bottom line: It’s a solid, regulated development — not hype, but real infrastructure progress. Russia is clearly comfortable putting XRP (and these other majors) on the map in its financial system.
https://www.ccn.com/news/crypto/russia-crypto-push-moex-adds-sol-xrp-trx-and-bnb-indexes/
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UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧 King Charles: "My ministers will proceed with the introduction of Digital ID."
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