Odds and Ends — 11 January 2026

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

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warns decentralized stablecoins still have deep flaws

BNY launches tokenized deposits amid TradFi rush into blockchain and crypto

Coronavirus and Public Health:

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left

We tried to be optimistic about the Trump administration. But we could not continue

Will mpox go global again? Research shows it’s evolving in curious ways

Politics:

‘Massacre’ feared in Iran as security forces seek to crush protests

Reports of a dramatic escalation in the use of deadly force by Iranian security forces have begun to trickle out of the country despite a severe communications blackout as authorities struggle to contain mass protests.
The Center for Human Rights in Iran, based in New York, said it received eyewitness accounts and credible reports indicating that hundreds of protesters have been killed in Iran since the government cut off the country’s access to the internet on Thursday night.

Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking immigration parole

Court grants two-week reprieve for more than 10,000 immigrants set to lose legal status next week.

https://twitter.com/JaneotN/status/2010065019808166178

This does sound quite plausible but Daily Mail is maybe not the most reliable source: Donald Trump 'orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland': US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation

According to the sources, the President has asked the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be illegal - and would not be supported by Congress.

https://twitter.com/UjuAnya/status/2010035971031740531

———— Murder in Minneapolis ————

https://twitter.com/JSweetLI/status/2010127514534846644

https://twitter.com/RetroAgent12/status/2010019691423740108

https://twitter.com/Emolclause/status/2010007910835990665

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2010074009527087512

https://twitter.com/RepJoeNeguse/status/2010187885170045330

https://twitter.com/texasgermanbre/status/2010007314129162704
https://twitter.com/Combs0294/status/2010095146797613517

https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/2010095495050612811

By Killing Renee Good, ICE Sent a Message to Us All

All of us, citizens and immigrants alike, are being ruled by people who think life is a privilege bestowed by authority, and death is a fair penalty for disobedience.

https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/2010104215020900371

https://twitter.com/stealthygeek/status/2009851480904249584

https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/2009873457304219866

https://twitter.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2009941953085862100

https://twitter.com/CameronCorduroy/status/2010116129398624678

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/2010054547004375200

———— Venezuela ————

https://twitter.com/margbrennan/status/2010091407919456648

https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/2010138063339426045

https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/2010037140735045720

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/2009835823047590264

https://twitter.com/lisa_liberal/status/2010073343337419248

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/2010033252145258947

https://twitter.com/MikeLevin/status/2009704845226201524

https://twitter.com/samagreene/status/2009422784150294981

https://twitter.com/Roshan_Rinaldi/status/2009418740153085998

ICE Barbie’s Latest Stunt Sent Trump Insiders Into Panic

“I don’t know how we recover from this,” an administration official told Politico

https://twitter.com/PabloReports/status/2009686919979118780

https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2009781241881428364

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/2009843951490982288

https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/2010102484329755087

https://x.com/pwoodreporter/status/2010012601435160642

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://twitter.com/Mylovanov/status/2010037626456404072

———— Mors Imperii ————

https://twitter.com/propublica/status/2010169818641567760

https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/2010081227982942720

House Republicans Barely Hanging On

On Thursday, neither party really had the majority in the House.
Over the course of seven roll-call votes, five times the final tally showed that the exact same number of Republicans and Democrats had voted. The actual tallies of yeas and nays varied between noncontroversial legislation passed by wide margins to a narrow victory for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), helped by a bloc of renegade Republicans.
But each side repeatedly had the same number of members casting votes, with 213 lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and a handful of Republicans missing.
That highly unusual outcome illustrates the incredible tightrope that the titular majority party — the GOP — walks every day the House comes into session.

https://twitter.com/reedgalen/status/2009984061499134220

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