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https://rubino.substack.com/p/the-us-qu ... -its-banks

The U.S. Quietly Bails Out Its Banks

Once again, the regional banks are in trouble. This time, the crisis began with several commercial/industrial loan defaults and is progressing into yet another multi-billion-dollar bailout via the repo market. Here’s a concise X post with the details:

Echo 𝕏 @echodatruth

While Everyone’s Distracted… Most people have no idea what just happened.

On October 16th, 2025, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York quietly injected $8.35 BILLION into the financial system through something called a Repo Operation, and that’s just what they admitted publicly. Nearly 80% of that was backed by mortgage-backed securities, not Treasuries.

Translation: the banks are running out of cash, and they’re now pawning off their riskiest assets just to get short-term liquidity.

Let me break it down: The Repo Market is basically a virtual pawn shop for banks. They bring their “valuables” government bonds or mortgage-backed securities and the Fed gives them a quick cash loan overnight. The next day, they “repurchase” their collateral. That’s why it’s called a repurchase (repo) agreement. Now here’s the problem

When banks start pawning mortgage-backed securities instead of safe Treasuries, it means they’re desperate for cash. It’s like someone pawning their TV, their car, and then finally their wedding ring. And the Fed knows it. That’s why they quietly announced a $491.65 BILLION Standing Repo Facility for later that same day — nearly half a trillion dollars in emergency overnight liquidity. They don’t prep half a trillion unless something behind the curtain is breaking. Meanwhile, what’s trending right now?

Protests.

Political drama.

Manufactured headlines designed to divide and distract.

While the world argues, the monetary system is quietly unraveling in real time. This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s public data straight from the Fed’s own website. We’ve passed the point of no return. You can’t print your way out of a debt-based system forever. You can’t keep pretending it’s fine when the repo window is catching fire again.

Accident Waiting to Happen
Regional banks own a lot of commercial and residential real estate loans, and — with office buildings and car mortgages leading the way — much of that paper is going bad.

When one borrower defaults, everyone starts wondering who’s next. And they find plenty of likely suspects, which triggers an exodus of capital from the riskiest banks, in turn leading to a government bailout.

This shifts the pressure from banks to the currency, sending capital out of financial assets and into real things. Hence, the gold bull market.

And this is just the start. Keep stacking.

[aedens]

$1.13 Trillion to record margin debt for September.
The vortex will be ignored.
Rates are not going to make a damned difference now is it
for the tiny bubbles already labeled idiots.

[Higgenbotham]

“The End of Everything,” with Victor Davis Hanson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIkay6YiIhs

A wonderful way to spend an hour. VDH is no-BS.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/20/ ... rtnership/

Today, we’re announcing that Hanson’s popular long-form podcast is now produced and distributed by The Daily Signal. For those who have been Hanson fans for years, you’ll find the show under a new name, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” wherever you prefer to watch or listen.

[aedens]

review to debauchery
murder
usual suspects
https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/czech-molecu ... rom-a-lab/

sample:
SS income elderly people are on food stamps. I'm one of them. Plan ahead eat homemade soup and beans and rice. Stay strong Republican Congress. I think red states will figure something out. Blue states will blame Trump and not lift a finger to feed the poor.

Another conveys: prosecute these partizan judges that are endangering the public letting criminals walk free.
Charge them with rebellion and seditious Conspiracy for trying to overwhelm the justice system and bring the country to destruction.

Anchor kids from illegals.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/d ... -FINAL.pdf
Children born in the U.S. to unauthorized immigrant parents can qualify for food stamps,
also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

You will go under and rather so already have.

Zones are and will collapse as the trogan horse moon cult enclaves from open border take out.

Structual damages claiming more. Cascading failure masked as carbon removal hubris.

https://cs3.mit.edu/news-media/news-out ... rm-climate
https://frontierclimate.com/

[Higgenbotham]

From the front lines of the breakdown of Western civilization, r/Teachers...

Breaking Point’: Teachers Beg For Help As Post-Pandemic Classroom Violence Spirals

Jaryn Crouson
Education Reporter
October 23, 2025

Teachers in Modesto, California are begging their school district to institute changes to behavior policies as students are becoming increasingly violent since returning to school after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The teachers association for Modesto City Schools (MCS) confronted the district’s school board on Monday armed with photos of destroyed classrooms to voice their distress that the violence and chaos overtaking classrooms made it near impossible for them to do their jobs. Teachers said they have been bitten, kicked and cursed at, and said other students were scared, according to CBS News.

“If there’s no consistency and there’s no reinforcement, then your classroom becomes chaos,” Jennifer McGrath, president of the Modesto Teachers Association, told CBS. “Some things have to change so that we can start educating again.”

https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/23/brea ... e-spirals/

Dark Age Hovel Comment: The only solution I can see is to put a strong man or maybe even 3 in the classroom and give him or them free rein to physically control the kids, even if they have to injure them to do it. But we know that can't happen at this time and the breakdown will continue.

Which brings up another topic...

The liberal welfare state is collapsing. In the big picture Trump was just another liberal. He spent copious amounts of money and ran up copious amounts of debt, just less than the far left liberals. A conservative position would have been to issue shoot to kill orders for illegals crossing the border, not fund a wall. Bullets are cheap. The individuals that emerge out of the coming anarchy, as Navigator suggests, will do that type of thing.

It's no longer accurate to say that Trump is "just another liberal," though he is far from a conservative. At this point he really has differentiated himself, which is what he needs to do to survive...as the new dark age tightens its grip.

DOJ Warns Pelosi, Other California Democrats To ‘Stand Down’ Or Face Consequences For Threats To Arrest Feds

Hailey Gomez
General Assignment Reporter
October 23, 2025

Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche warned California Democrats on Thursday to “stand down or face prosecution” amid threats to arrest federal agents.

The warning comes after California Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi suggested Wednesday that San Francisco police could potentially arrest federal agents if they were found violating state law during U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. In response, Blanche posted a letter on X that he had sent to Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom, state Attorney General Rob Bonta, Pelosi and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.

“California politicians want to arrest federal agents for enforcing federal law. We just sent them a letter: Stand down or face prosecution. No one threatens our agents. No one will stop us from Making America Safe Again,” Blanche wrote in his post.

https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/23/doj- ... gents-ice/

[Higgenbotham]

The collapse of the welfare state is getting a tiny bit real now. Let's see how long the food stamps get cut off, if at all.

At least 25 states plan to cut off food aid benefits in November

The pause in benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program would begin in states from California to Arkansas just before the busy holiday season.

By Grace Yarrow
10/23/2025 04:45 AM EDT

Millions of low-income Americans will lose access to food aid on Nov. 1, when half of states plan to cut off benefits due to the government shutdown.

Twenty-five states told POLITICO that they are issuing notices informing participants of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the nation’s largest anti-hunger initiative — that they won’t receive checks next month.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/2 ... n-00619117