Uh, what are some practical ways parent can become more emotionally available to their children?

Okay.

As I said, I use the term a soothing presence rather than a soothing person.

I tell parents one of the best gifts you can give to your children is to be okay yourself.

Because as a human being, if you're filled up and you've got job stress and financial stress, and everybody's banging on you for a deadline or whatever it might be, you're not getting along with your spouse or whatever, you're not gonna be in any position to be a soothing presence for your children.

You know, people have to understand that s- a soothing presence changes over time.

You know, how do you soothe an infant, for instance? Well, you soothe them by cuddling them, cooing to them, holding them against your warm chest.

What should they do?

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Two Republican thorns in President Donald Trump's side, Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, have been ousted in their primaries by GOP voters and by very healthy margins.

But this is about much more than Trump.

All over the country, the animating issue for most Republican voters I talk to is rather simple.

Okay.

I use the term attended to because in order for children to internalize, let's say, a soothing presence, you need to attend to them.

In order for them to learn a language rather than just act on their behavior, you need to attend to them and help them develop this emotional language.

Self-esteem is a matter of mirroring and merger experiences, and you ... with their appearance, and you need to attend to them.

Children go begging with this.

And you have to understand it's not that they want the attention or to be attended to, they need it.

So what happens? I explained there's a difference between a want and a need.

How can parents communicate with their children about divorce in a way that is honest but still emotionally safe?

But David, do you wanna tell us about Grid Global Accounts, what they do, and how they help specifically with AI agents?

Yeah.

Let, let me just unpack a little bit because, like, this has been long in the making and, you know, it-- there, there's a lot of thought and work that has gone into this.

The key point that we want to try to solve is really putting the power back in the hands of people, businesses, and platforms.

And I feel like, you know, forever, all of those platforms have been tenants on someone else's payments rails and networks, and I feel like especially on the account side, that's true.

Like, if you're a large platform that is the financial nexus of millions or tens of millions of people, when you pay out money, like, the minute you pay that money out to, like, an edge bank in a random country, you lose all of the economic value of those deposits and everything that comes next.

And what Grid Global Accounts actually solve is the ability for these platforms to offer global accounts to all of their stakeholders.

Uh, can you talk a little bit about how your views around stablecoins have evolved, and where do you see Bitcoin and stablecoins being complementary? How are you seeing clients wanna interact with, with both of them?

Mm.

Because, like, the, the prerequisites, the stars were, were really not aligned, right? And right now, with the Genius Act here in the US, with MiCA in Europe, and similar legislation all over the world, plus really, really great embedded wallets.

Like, you know, the, the self-custodial wallets of, like, two years ago where you had a seed phrase that you could lose, and you would never give that to a family member because, like, they would lose money, uh, almost invariably.

Uh, all of that is gone, right? So that now you have really great wallets that you can log in with Google, with Apple, with a passkey, with any login that's familiar, and never lose your, your keys or, or your money.

Uh, and the last part of it is actually really stablecoin-backed debit cards where the networks have really leaned in hard on, and, like, now, uh, gives us an opportunity to really, uh, basically connect those dollar accounts to 175 million merchants around the world, making that balance really useful for anyone receiving money on them.

Mm-hmm.

And there's not much happening there, right? It's like there's a lot of like big news, and big announcements, and very little volume.

Uh, and that's normal because like, you know, agents are not moving money at scale, uh, by, by any stretch of imagination.

Hmm.

So now you have a balance.

You can move that balance to your local bank account in your local country, in your local currency.

You can pay anyone in the world instantly in real time.

Um, and then because we didn't think it was enough, we also added cross-chain support.

So if you wanna pay someone using USDT on Tron or USDC on Solana, you can do that too because we wanted to make sure that a dollar in a Grid global account can be a dollar anywhere.

Um, and so if you combine all of these capabilities, it's really truly the most powerful global dollar account, and it so happens to live on top of Bitcoin via Spark.

Mm-hmm.

What do you say to some of those in Congress, maybe in the House Freedom Caucus, conservatives who have their doubts about this, who are standing firm? What do you say to them in trying to work out a deal?

They should take advantage of the rights they have as members to receive classified information, to go down to the House Intelligence Committee, to talk to the people there who do the oversight over the National Security Agency and the FBI.

Not only can you go to them, but they can facilitate briefings from the executive branch on the workings of these particular statutes.

So I think it's to keep an open mind and understand this history, read up on it, and go talk to the professionals who have used this law to thwart any number of attacks against the United States and its interests around the world.

What's on your mind?

With less than two months to go before the kickoff of the twenty twenty-six World Cup, Democratic leaders in New Jersey and New York are scrambling to figure out how to get fans to MetLife Stadium.

The results would be hilarious if they did not betray such utter incompetence.

New Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill has astoundingly announced that a train ride to the eight games at the Meadowlands facility, which usually costs twelve dollars and ninety cents, will cost a hundred and fifty dollars for footy fans.

Mm-hmm

... than you are.

I was very nervous about this idea of taking away birthright citizenship for the reason that, uh, it, it, uh, citizenship gives people a little skin in the game.

And you know I like to focus on the ground, right? So I think of two neighborhoods.

I think of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and I think of Cedar-Riverside in Minneapolis.

I lived for five years in Bay Ridge.

My son went to elementary school with Muslim kids, Chinese kids, Hispanic kids, whatever.

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Sunday's two-one overtime win for the United States men's hockey team over archrival Canada is arguably our nation's most significant winter gold medal since the last time our boys were king of the sport during the nineteen eighty Miracle on Ice.

And the team's pride in its country just made it all the sweeter.

You may recall that from the outset of the games in Milan-Cortina just two weeks ago, there were American athletes chiding and criticizing our nation from their press podiums.

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Sunday's two-one overtime win for the United States men's hockey team over archrival Canada is arguably our nation's most significant winter gold medal since the last time our boys were king of the sport during the nineteen eighty Miracle on Ice.

And the team's pride in its country just made it all the sweeter.

You may recall that from the outset of the games in Milan Cortina just two weeks ago, there were American athletes chiding and criticizing our nation from their press podiums.

I think that the general message to the public needs to be that just because it is not as dangerous doesn't mean it isn't dangerous in itself.

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As sports media star Stephen A. Smith teased talk of a presidential run in twenty twenty-eight this weekend, there's one thing that he and those advising him must surely know: the Democratic Party does not nominate outsiders.

This is a lesson that Bernie Sanders learned in both twenty sixteen and twenty twenty as his populist socialist movement was blocked at every turn by party leaders.

To his credit, as a politician, Sanders and the socialists, after a decade of work, have now all but taken over the party.

We have a level of normalizing these vices that essentially make you high and are not good for you, but they're being celebrated in our current culture.

What would your advice to people be? I'm thinking, um, know the dangers and find a healthy alternative.

Would that be, would that be good advice?

What's on your mind?

As sports media star Stephen A. Smith teased talk of a presidential run in twenty twenty-eight this weekend, there's one thing that he and those advising him must surely know: the Democratic Party does not nominate outsiders.

This is a lesson that Bernie Sanders learned in both twenty sixteen and twenty twenty as his populist socialist movement was blocked at every turn by party leaders.

To his credit as a politician, Sanders and the socialists, after a decade of work, have now all but taken over the party.

The more relevant example to Stephen A.'s would-be grab for the golden ring in twenty twenty-eight is not Sanders.

Why did you decide to write this essay now?

Look, I mean, this is a company that I gave a lot to and that I care deeply about.

I took the helm in 2012, early 2012.

And at the time, the company was already in that trajectory of having a lot of consultants, having offshore development, having lost its technology edge and its innovation juices.

And I found a number of really great, talented people within the organization.

We completely changed the culture.

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What do you make of this broader fintech drawdown in stocks?

There shouldn't be two FBIs.

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What's on your mind? The postmortems for Republicans' lackluster results in this month's spate of elections in New Jersey, Virginia and beyond are in, and while pet theories abound, there's one thing almost everyone agrees on.

In the age of President Donald Trump, the GOP does not fare well when he's not on the ballot.

The question for Republicans in tough congressional campaigns across the country is how they can symbolically get Trump on the ballot and, more importantly, get his often reluctant voters to the polls to fill out said ballots.

The best way to achieve this goal is an idea that Trump himself has floated, a midterm national Republican convention that showcases the party's achievements under Trump's second term and that makes it crystal clear that Americans won't just be voting for Congress, but for Trump's agenda.

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What's on your mind? Last week was quite a week for the Democrat Party.

On Wednesday night, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, once fringe figures, held a CNN Town Hall to promote their socialist agenda.

The next night, Zany's Zoran Mamdani, the darling of the far left, took the debate stage as the leading candidate for New York City mayor.

We also learned from Axios that plots are afoot to primary Senator John Fetterman from the left, even though the hoodie-rocking senator votes 95% of time with Democrats, but he calls out communism and he supports Israel.In today's Democrat Party, those positions, they're a bridge too far.

Um, but has, has had, uh, gaps where people have stepped up and created different L1s, uh, and different projects that haven't touched Bitcoin for a variety of reasons.

Yeah, I mean, you're right.

Bitcoin is by far the most successful digital asset ever created and network ever created.

Um, but the problem with Bitcoin for a long time is that it was too slow, uh, not expressive enough in the sense that developers couldn't really build, um, on it because there were no smart contracts.

Um, and, uh, and too expensive to move.

So very secure, the most neutral form of digital money ever created, but slow, expensive, not programmable.

Um, and Lightning was, uh, a first attempt to that.

Mm-hmm.