Odds and Ends — 14 November 2025

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

UK central bank still ‘disproportionately cautious’ about stablecoins

https://twitter.com/stelzner_n1150/status/1989028913767461118

Community Bankers Ask OCC to Block Sony's Crypto Bank Ambitions

Coronavirus and Public Health:

The not-so-hidden silver lining of the Covid-era supply chain crisis

Politics:

Britain Is Preparing Tens of Billions in New Taxes

The U.K. has long been torn between two mutually exclusive desires: Voters want European levels of welfare with American levels of taxation.
By accident or design, that debate is slowly being resolved in the direction of higher taxes, as Britain’s Labour government prepares its second major tax increase in as many years.

https://twitter.com/MikeNellis/status/1989105497652269407

Fani Willis’ Georgia election interference case against Trump will carry on for now with new prosecutor

———— The Shutdown Fiasco ————

https://twitter.com/KellyScaletta/status/1989074489737351241

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

https://twitter.com/ReneeLibby95084/status/1988795403387695530

Jeffrey Epstein Thought Trump Was ‘Borderline Insane,’ Alan Dershowitz Was Nearly There

https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1988835935014760887

Epstein files become a fiasco of Trump's own making

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1988981291237405069

https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1989164435085410701

Wait, Are the Epstein Files Real Now?

Of all of Trump’s scandals, his relationship with Epstein—if you ignore the stomach-churning human toll involved—may be the richest source of black comedy. Some of Trump’s most devoted worshippers chose the very issue of Epstein’s misdeeds and supposed cabal of elite backers as the fantasy onto which they projected a valiant role for their hero.
Trump was meant to courageously release all of the available evidence for public scrutiny. Instead, this scandal has turned out to implicate him personally…
This is a risk inherent in building a personality cult around one of the worst human beings in the United States—almost any moral violation you pick will, statistically, have a high likelihood of appearing somewhere on his résumé.

https://twitter.com/ContraPoints/status/1988851618356334761
https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1988971583491473733
https://twitter.com/TimHannan/status/1989082957295022153

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1988917257590730987

https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1988819154640462065

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

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got $220 Million

The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the ‘emergency’ at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1989153628507005197

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://twitter.com/TelvinGriffin/status/1988784171616289274

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1988879615276863905

Europe’s defense chiefs: We’re with Ukraine for the long haul

https://twitter.com/secretsqrl123/status/1988980357090406773

https://twitter.com/joni_askola/status/1989056770933944564

———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————

https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/1988802232138228101

https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1989091575985762390

The Leader makes reality: Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Relies on Trump’s Claims

A secret Justice Department memo blessing President Trump’s boat strikes as lawful hangs on the idea that the United States and its allies are legally in a state of armed conflict with drug cartels, a premise that derives heavily from assertions that the White House itself has put forward.
The memo from the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which is said to be more than 40 pages long, signed off on a military campaign that has now killed 80 people in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean. It said such extrajudicial killings of people suspected of running drugs were lawful as a matter of Mr. Trump’s wartime powers.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1989131399769526370

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1989158695016755598

———— Mors Imperii ————

https://twitter.com/BMeiselas/status/1988819759740448889

Today in Politics, Bulletin 249. 11/13/25

https://twitter.com/mrclemens/status/1989087476133294584

Record Number of Americans Want to Leave

For the second straight year, about one in five Americans say they would like to leave the U.S. and move permanently to another country if they could. This heightened desire to migrate is driven primarily by younger women.

https://twitter.com/alluring_nyc/status/1989008090973286651

https://twitter.com/AnnaBower/status/1989104329442341040