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Flopping Aces
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These two moves aren’t random personnel decisions. They’re precise placements on the board. Kevin Warsh didn’t bring in some safe, consensus technocrat to run the Fed. He brought in Paul Winfree … the man who wrote the actual blueprint for taking the modern Federal Reserve apart and replacing it with something far less powerful and far less political. That’s not staffing. That’s installing someone who already has the intellectual architecture for regime-level change inside the building.
At the same time, Trump drops Bill Pulte into acting DNI while leaving him in charge of FHFA, Fannie, and Freddie. Pulte isn’t a spy. He’s a wrecking ball who already proved he’ll refer sitting senators and Fed governors for mortgage fraud without hesitation. Now he sits where mortgage data, property records, ownership structures, and foreign financial intelligence can be cross-referenced in one place.
The institutions that spent the last decade treating themselves as untouchable are suddenly dealing with operators who don’t respect the old immunities. The Fed thought it could keep running jobs policy, climate agendas, and bailouts with minimal pushback. The intelligence community thought its tools would only ever be pointed outward or at approved targets. Both assumptions are being tested at once.
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These “Strange” Appointments Only Look Random If You Pretend the Old Protection Racket Still Works
https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/these-strange-appointments-only-look-random-if-you-pretend-the-old-protection-racket-still-works
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026 ☙ C&C NEWS
New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Hires Project 2025 Author; Pulte Takes Over ODNI Intelligence; NIH Scientists Caught Smuggling Monkeypox; more.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/bugs-wednesday-june-3-2026-c-and