Odds and Ends — 11 May 2025
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Why Wall Street Won’t Embrace Crypto Without Zero-Knowledge Privacy
https://twitter.com/zenahitz/status/1920953428622082246
How Part-time Jobs Became a Trap
For millions of American low-wage workers today, the problem is not overwork—it’s underwork.
Coronavirus and Public Health:
RFK Jr. Misleads About Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine in Children
Unpacking RFK Jr.’s ‘doublespeak’ on vaccines
Politics:
https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/1921224726745117156
Republicans’ partial tax plan estimated to cost $5 trillion
An early version of the House GOP’s tax plan would cost nearly $5 trillion, according to a new estimate from Congress’s non-partisan tax scorekeeper.
The cost far exceeds what is permitted by the budget resolution Republicans adopted earlier this year, which set the parameters for the massive package of tax cuts and extensions, energy policy and border security investments the party wants to pass in the coming weeks.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1921358760443789527
———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————
Trump to Accept ‘Palace in the Sky’ as Gift from Qatar
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1921568691759600065
———— Autocracy R Us ————
https://twitter.com/CameronCorduroy/status/1920998916197163339
In response to adverse rulings in numerous immigration cases, Stephen Miller is raising the specter of suspending habeas. His argument is factually and legally nuts, but it's worth explaining why.
https://twitter.com/Home_Mentions/status/1921180197107147261
Federal judge warns Trump executive order not ‘run around’ for sanctuary cities ruling
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1921257257280401546
Karoline Leavitt Sends Ominous Warning to Recently Freed Tufts Student
https://twitter.com/davematt88/status/1921021173313237465
https://twitter.com/GichuhoMungai/status/1921319127341215916
Judges Say Pizza Deliveries Are Meant to Intimidate
https://twitter.com/RYP__/status/1921363015984947251
———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————
https://twitter.com/cwebbonline/status/1921308527504887902
Obscure Court Is Set to Decide Fate of Trump’s Tariffs
The Trump administration’s global tariffs face their first major legal test this week when a little-known Manhattan court considers one of the president’s most sweeping assertions of executive power.
A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade will hear arguments Tuesday on whether to halt the levies, which have unleashed a trade war with the world and threaten to upend the global economy.
The federal court, which has nationwide jurisdiction over tariff and trade disputes, operates for the most part in obscurity, rarely garnering a mention in major publications and staying off the radar of most attorneys.
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1921263902416912689
———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1921209811477098570
Ukraine Insists Truce Must Come Before Peace Talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Vladimir Putin to implement a full cease-fire starting Monday in order to facilitate talks on an end to the war, countering the Russian president’s offer that said talks should come first.
Putin a day earlier rebuffed the latest cease-fire ultimatum from Kyiv and its Western allies, instead calling for direct talks aimed at achieving his goal of weakening Ukraine and pushing back NATO.
European leaders had threatened new sanctions on Russia if it didn’t sign up to an unconditional 30-day pause in fighting backed by President Trump.
European leaders gave Putin 36 hours to agree to a truce or else.
———— Melon Husk ————
Surprise, surprise: Elon Musk's regulatory troubles have begun to melt away in Trump's second term
The Trump administration has halted some regulatory matters involving Musk's companies and fired people from agencies investigating Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink.
———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————
Pete Hegseth Plagiarized Parts of His College Thesis
A review of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s thesis by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three experts on plagiarism, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying in his senior thesis.
———— Mors Imperii ————
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1921278698935791694
https://twitter.com/CaptMarkKelly/status/1921350314097098850
In The Trump II Presidency, Things Can Always Get Worse … And Often Do
https://twitter.com/AriaHafezi/status/1921351898608660921
https://twitter.com/commons96055467/status/1921008303431446553
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1920891675771130206
https://twitter.com/CinemaTweets1/status/1921325889117446336
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