Odds and Ends — 1 April 2025
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
For Hive Power Up Day, I staked 123.906 HIVE.
As of today, I’ve now been on this blockchain for eight years. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
https://twitter.com/benFranklin2018/status/1906048248437194909
Binance ends Tether USDT trading in Europe to comply with MiCA rules
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Schools scramble to pay bills after Dept. of Ed. declines to pay COVID relief
Politics:
Straight out of Kafka: ‘Administrative Error’ Sends Father to Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.
Trump is plotting the biggest tax rise in global history
The burden for paying the bulk of the president’s Liberation Day tariffs will fall on consumers, potentially at some $600 billion a year.
https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/1906694243684360556
Stagflation Would Blow Up Trump’s Second Term
…Donald Trump is pushing the economy to a breaking point with sweeping tariffs and rapid cuts to immigration and the federal workforce. There is growing fear of not just a recession but stagflation, a frightful situation — not seen in the United States since the 1970s — in which the economy contracts and people lose jobs but prices remain high.
This is a self-inflicted wound from Trump. Many of his economic advisers, including Larry Kudlow and Stephen Moore, are urging him to show restraint on tariffs. But Trump is set to unleash the biggest increase in tariffs since the Depression era on Wednesday. He’s calling it ‘Liberation Day.’ It may turn out to be Stagflation Day.
Europe Turns a Blind Eye to Erdogan’s Crackdown
Turkey’s suppression of democratic opposition would have elicited strong protests from Europe in the past. But now, the worst rift in trans-Atlantic relations in generations and the growing threat from Russia are trumping those concerns.
———— Kalaallit Nunaat ————
https://twitter.com/CDNPolicyHawk/status/1906558492774707648
———— Autocracy R Us ————
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1906481939768381626
Trump’s WH Directly Fires Two Prosecutors In Stunning Escalation Of War On DOJ Independence
What America could look like a decade from now
Political scientists and historians weigh in on authoritarianism’s impact on the United States…
“They are not going to go that far” has been proved wrong over and over again. The idea that “they won’t be able to do this” seems similarly unfounded. Let’s finally discard whatever notion of “it cannot happen here” that is still floating around.
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
Setting the Record Straight on the Anti-Trump Injunctions
President Trump and his supporters are mounting increasingly noisy attacks on lower-court judges. But their claims combine shameless hypocrisy with shameful distortions of the facts.
https://twitter.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1906340310340251693
———— Melon Husk ————
https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz/status/1906506802742939842
The Proud Boys and Militias Come to Tesla’s Defense
Over the weekend, thousands of people joined the ‘Tesla Takedown’ protest movement at the company’s showrooms across the country. At the same time, a much smaller number of Elon Musk supporters turned out at Tesla locations for a counterprotest movement that some participants dubbed ‘Tesla Shield.’
While the protest movement comprises people angered at Elon Musk’s role in the dismantling of federal government agencies, the counterprotest movement that showed up this weekend was peopled mostly by MAGA supporters. Among them were an array of far-right extremists, including members of the Proud Boys, armed militias, and at one event in Idaho, a guy dressed as Hitler.
https://twitter.com/svtshultz/status/1906539472902304050
———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
https://twitter.com/theliamnissan/status/1906774421873758575
———— Mors Imperii ————
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1906911090082246869
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1906523676738011273
https://twitter.com/ArmandDoma/status/1906379033451139320
Read this: How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
https://twitter.com/secupp/status/1906548602819780721
U.S. Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants
Five senators who visited the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, criticized the migrant mission there over the weekend as a waste of resources, after the Pentagon estimated that the operation had cost $40 million in its first month.
Shooter Believed He Was Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes
Patrick Crusius believed he was acting at the direction of President Donald Trump when he murdered 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in 2019.
Said defense attorney Joe Spencer: “He thought he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him… He thought, if he doesn’t do it, then nobody’s going to do it. He’s got to start.”
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Re Musk's imaginary periods etc:
We had a student who doctors estimated was having continuous tiny epileptic seizures at the rate of about every three words. She just blanked at that rate.
That’s wild, didn’t know about that aspect of epilepsy.
For Musk, maybe too much ketamine?
Could be.
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