Odds and Ends — 10 January 2026

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

One metric shows crypto is now in a bear market: Carl ‘The Moon’

https://twitter.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2009722152707113011

Pick a number, any number: Bitcoin Price Could Surge to $53 Million by 2050, Says VanEck—Here's Why

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Long COVID may be fueled by inflammation and tiny clots

Politics:

Trump Says U.S. Will Acquire Greenland ‘Whether They Like It or Not’

https://twitter.com/MarkBourrie/status/2009320786604212297

Jim Jordan Commits to Public Hearing for Jack Smith

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan said in an interview Friday he will invite former special counsel Jack Smith to testify in an open hearing as soon as this month in what would be a politically high-stakes event for members of both parties and the White House.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Exxon CEO Calls Venezuela ‘Uninvestable’

At White House meeting with oil executives, he vows they will spend $100 billion. The companies worry the numbers don’t add up.

———— Murder in Minneapolis ————

I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You.

https://twitter.com/kenmartin73/status/2009747268828590441

https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/2009694732545601613

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2009699361006203319

https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/2009704306140914085

https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2009693318989676895

https://twitter.com/krystalball/status/2009709734597931398

https://twitter.com/Vanessa_ABee/status/2009724193051398450

MN Attorney General, Hennepin County Attorney ask residents to submit evidence in ICE shooting investigation

https://twitter.com/alon_mizrahi/status/2009613675775373611

https://twitter.com/CameronCorduroy/status/2009651516567687323

https://twitter.com/Mollyploofkins/status/2009702854106521763

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/2009685432146010546

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

https://twitter.com/samstein/status/2009666930429571472

https://twitter.com/OurShallowState/status/2009667707676021241

———— Autocracy R Us ————

“The world must be governed by force.” — Stephen Miller

The Wrath of Stephen Miller

The man who turns President Trump’s most incendiary impulses into policy

https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/2009623759066476853

https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/2009346293446082874

https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/2009606128280261030

https://twitter.com/hecubian_devil/status/2009564100444205276

Photos: Anti-ICE Protests Erupt Nationwide After Minneapolis and Portland Shootings

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/2009804205981347913

https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/2009670072244314571

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/2009451961125630269

Four Oglala Sioux Tribal Members Detained by ICE

https://twitter.com/Mollyploofkins/status/2009654780692713781

One constant theme of conversations I’ve had over the last year has been the physical heaviness people feel in Trump’s America. I certainly felt it yesterday in the wake of that horrific murder — there’s nothing else to call it — of a mother by an out-of-control ICE officer in Minneapolis…
To me, there’s actually a simple explanation for that heaviness: It’s the weight of the shift from ‘zero to non-zero.’ There are so many aspects of our daily life that we’d never had to weigh before; so many new possible horrors that we have to carry in our minds each day. We forget how much of the basic fabric of our country has been altered in the space of just a year, how many of our freedoms have been impinged, and how many things we took for granted that now we can’t.

https://twitter.com/damintoell/status/2009494397700968497

https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/2009447436830564795

https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2009380539019469116

Trump’s Folly

The United States under Trump is dark, aggressive, and lawless. It has become, in the words of Representative Ogles, a predator nation. This period of our history will eventually be judged, and the verdict will be unforgiving—because Thrasymachus was wrong.
Justice matters more than injustice. And I have a strong intuition and a settled hope that the moral arc of the universe will eventually bend that way.

https://twitter.com/PopRelics/status/2009783394331439479