RNGE! Crypto! ICE! Yikes! July 10, 2026July 9, 2026 RNGE . . . . . . just announced hiring a Harvard quarterback who went on to get an MD and an MBA — which I like for two reasons. First, combined with his extraordinary business experience, it sure seems as though he could help RNGE do some really great, environmentally friendly, profitable things. Second, the fact that someone of his caliber would sign on with our little company strikes me as quite an endorsement. The stock jumped another 16% to 88 cents yesterday, up from the 15 cents we paid. I may sell a little in a tax-deferred account because I have so much of it — at this price it’s become my largest holding — but I’m betting (with money I can truly afford to lose) that the stock will be a lot higher in two or three years. CRYPTO If you were on Indivisible‘s Thursday call, you got a great education in crypto from Ben McKenzie, author of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. If you missed it, not to worry — the podcast replay will be posted sometime today. (Executive summary: The biggest Ponzi scheme in hostory. If you own some: sell. Also: how Trump made $1.4 billion on it while those he made it from lost almost everything. Plus: a bill your senators need to vote against.) ICE KILLS AGAIN This time, a 52-year-old father of three with no criminal record who had spent decades building homes in the Houston area, on his way to work. Clearly, “the worst of the worst.” And don’t you go vilifying the leaders of ICE for this, either, because, as the Washington Post recounts . . . THEY KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE . . . What had David Streever, a former journalist now working in the tech industry, done to deserve a home visit, repeated calls and voicemails, Homeland Security showing up at his hotel and the apparent tracking of his movements? He had sent one email — five months earlier. He had written to then-acting ICE director Todd Lyons criticizing the agency’s immigration enforcement operations after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti during anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis. In the email, he condemned Lyons’s defense of the shooting and compared him to the head of the Nazi security services. “You are a monstrous human being,” Streever wrote, “and will go down in history as America’s Reinhard Heydrich, the butcher.” Streever predicted that Lyons’s defense of an “obvious execution” would cause even Trump to turn on him, and that Lyons’s conscience would torment him for the rest of his life. “You will never know peace,” he wrote. “You will seek to lose yourself, to escape the burden of knowing the truth about yourself.” . . . In Trump’s America, as in Putin’s Russia or Kim’s North Korea, it’s risky to speak truth to power. All signs are that, if Trump is able to retain his lock on all three branches of government, it will get riskier still. Join Indivisible! Support the opposition!