Odds and Ends — 1 June 2025

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:

For Hive Power Up Day, I staked 148.132 HIVE.

Here's What's at Stake for Crypto in South Korea's Upcoming Election

The High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers

Jamie Dimon Predicts ‘Crack in the Bond Market’

JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon delivered a dire warning for the markets, predicting a crisis unless the U.S. takes steps to address its spiraling national debt.
Said Dimon: “You are going to see a crack in the bond market. It is going to happen.”

Coronavirus and Public Health:

FDA approves Moderna's new lower-dose COVID-19 vaccine

Trump administration ending multiple HIV vaccine studies

https://twitter.com/DrNeilStone/status/1928806894765822173

Politics:

The Hypocrisy Meter is off the chart: Trump Questions Europe’s Commitment to Democracy

The Trump administration is stepping up its criticism of long-standing U.S. allies in Western Europe over free speech and other democratic ideals, even as President Donald Trump has pledged to stop lecturing foreign nations and dramatically softened Washington’s approach to the world’s autocracies.

Trump’s Military Parade Will Cause $16 Million in Damage

As much as $16 million has been earmarked for filling in the damage left by tanks rumbling down civilian streets… Steel plates at least an inch thick will be laid across sections of the route where M1A1 Abrams tanks, each weighing around 140,000 pounds, and other treaded vehicles will make turns. Similar protection will not be laid out along straight sections of the roadway.

———— Palantir ————

https://twitter.com/TrumpFile/status/1928630162670686615
https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/1928832322851225716
https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1928512315760009469
https://twitter.com/anyonewantchips/status/1928892635470557202

———— Autocracy R Us ————

Trump Championed Rulings Now Used to Check His Power

During the Biden administration, conservative challengers won Supreme Court victories that limited the president’s power to craft policy in matters from student-debt relief to air pollution.
Now, those precedents are returning to haunt one of their greatest champions: President Trump.

https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1929012953170272364

———— Medicaid ————

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1928927862209323470

———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————

https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/1928546318596624672

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://twitter.com/Mylovanov/status/1928357342308884607

Ukraine drone attack hits more than 40 Russian bomber planes, claims Ukrainian security service

https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1929156631197089832

https://twitter.com/Mylovanov/status/1928901116336467973

———— Melon Husk ————

https://twitter.com/AnnieForTruth/status/1928796080801722696

https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1928828944742003056

———— Mors Imperii ————

Does Trump Actually Think He’s God?

The president’s messianic rhetoric has soared since the “assassination attempt.”

https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1928979623519408233

https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1928588268964024674

U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

As the Trump administration moves with abandon to deny visas, expel foreign students and slash spending on research, scientists in the United States are becoming increasingly alarmed. The global supremacy that the United States has long enjoyed in health, biology, the physical sciences and other fields, they warn, may be coming to an end.

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1929015182727995526

Serendipity:

https://twitter.com/adrianmckinty/status/1928816422613864765

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