Odds and Ends — 10 November 2025
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
https://twitter.com/raven_brah/status/1987550780916936906
Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP Jump as End to US Government Shutdown Appears Imminent
https://twitter.com/Cointelegraph/status/1987819893001998519
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Obesity drug seen as effective for long COVID, gets clinical trial
Politics:
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1987667609131663797
https://twitter.com/YAppelbaum/status/1987526251905417610
Trump Loyalists Push ‘Grand Conspiracy’
Far-right influencers have been hinting in recent weeks that they have finally found a venue — Miami — and a federal prosecutor — Jason A. Reding Quiñones — to pursue long-promised charges of a ‘grand conspiracy’ against President Trump’s adversaries.
Their theory of the case, still unsupported by the evidence: A cabal of Democrats and ‘deep-state’ operatives, possibly led by former President Barack Obama, has worked to destroy Mr. Trump in a yearslong plot spanning the inquiry into his 2016 campaign to the charges he faced after leaving office.
But that narrative, which has been promoted in general terms by Mr. Trump and taken root online, has emerged in a nascent but widening federal investigation.
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1987543479119909159
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1987559850352459888
Justices Decline to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates who feared the conservative court might be ready to revisit the decade-old decision.
Instead, the court denied an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who now faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and legal fees for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges allowed same-sex couples to marry.
———— The Trump Shutdown ————
Spineless Democratic Senators Cave on Affordable Care Act Subsidies
WTF are they thinking?
https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1987678973057265768
https://twitter.com/BraddrofliT/status/1987369495380594942
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1987322358026186832
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
https://twitter.com/mattsmith_news/status/1987563451204460773
———— JQA ————
https://twitter.com/PeterTwinklage/status/1987631314783047959
———— The Epstein Coverup ————
———— Autocracy R Us ————
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench
My reason is simple: I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom. President Donald Trump is using the law for partisan purposes, targeting his adversaries while sparing his friends and donors from investigation, prosecution, and possible punishment. This is contrary to everything that I have stood for in my more than 50 years in the Department of Justice and on the bench. The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable.
———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1987235964444377540
https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1987231457610285342
———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
70% of ammunition used by Russia made in N. Korea: Ukraine analysis
Ukraine Can Win the Energy War
———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————
https://twitter.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1987534410455888380
———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1987463883800609050
———— Mors Imperii ————
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1987392224326291760
https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1987213153877287331
https://twitter.com/PaulRudnickNY/status/1987278551616192743
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/regularaugust/status/1987216680624283861
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-century
https://twitter.com/tonyjballas/status/1987206245682717166
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So Americans will be able to bequeath their mortgages to their children (or may have to), and English people will all start registering limited companies (or may have to).
I hope the 50-year mortgage idea is just a trial balloon that dies before it becomes a reality. Didn’t Japan do the same thing right before their real estate market imploded?
It's longer than the number of qualifying years for our state pension: 46 years.