Odds and Ends — 14 September 2025
“So many books, so little time.” — Frank Zappa
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Investment giant Capital Group’s $1B bet on Bitcoin treasuries balloons to $6B
Publicly, this industry has been mostly quiet about MAHA. Privately, they’re panicking.
Solana Firm SOL Strategies Hits the Nasdaq: 'Being Underestimated Is an Advantage', Says CEO
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Experts warn loss of USAID endangers the fight against deadly TB
Politics:
https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/1967245337393090633
Hunter Biden Seeks Arrest of Former Overstock.com CEO
Hunter Biden is asking a federal judge to order the arrest of former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne for ignoring court orders in a libel suit Biden filed against the conspiracy theorist and conservative political activist.
Brazil Keeps Telling Trump to Get Lost
…Trump made his demands to Brazil very clear: Drop the charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro of attempting a coup.
To show he was serious, he hit Brazil with punishing tariffs, launched a trade investigation and imposed some of the most severe sanctions at his disposal against the Supreme Court justice overseeing the case.
Brazil responded on Thursday by convicting Mr. Bolsonaro anyway, sentencing him to more than 27 years in prison for overseeing a failed plot to stay in power after losing the 2022 elections.
Defiance has defined Brazil’s response to Mr. Trump since he began trying to bully the country. So far, it hasn’t resulted in disaster.
https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1966600606925135952
———— Brian Kilmeade ————
https://twitter.com/Matthewtravis08/status/1966829537628704886
https://twitter.com/ifudontlike2bad/status/1966878201915076658
https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/1966865616155144479
———— Charlie Kirk ————
https://twitter.com/BarryMarkson1/status/1966659464704242000
Trump Escalates Attacks on Political Opponents
President Trump and his top advisers are escalating their attacks on their opponents in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, placing the blame for political violence on Democrats alone and signaling a broad crackdown on critics and left-leaning institutions.
Toxic Rhetoric Proliferates After Charlie Kirk’s Killing
The most concerning messages are proclamations from far-right activists, Republican politicians and conservative influencers about a coming civil war and the need for retribution or payback against the left for Kirk’s killing. The phrase ‘civil war’ has spiked on social media and in Google searches.
https://twitter.com/JustTheFacts_68/status/1966873947817078793/photo/1
https://twitter.com/aintscarylarry/status/1966908655581925421
https://twitter.com/IvanTheAmenable/status/1966595420143960367
———— Autocracy R Us ————
https://twitter.com/MarcoFoster_/status/1966856205512687908
https://twitter.com/NickyFrank30/status/1966699902815052195
Symptoms of a Fragile Democracy
At no time in living memory has this country’s democratic system appeared more fragile. A question now is whether the values upon which that system was built are capable of repairing it.
https://twitter.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1966984193008652613
———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1966826163151462667
https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1966663208065994918
https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1966759444575912083
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1966757933166809154
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1966670163903725737
https://twitter.com/RealJakeBroe/status/1966752397771907504
———— Stephen Miller ————
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1966837266963402976
Inside Stephen Miller’s Reign of Terror
More than seven months into Trump’s second term, Stephen Miller has become America’s — if not the world’s — most powerful unelected bureaucrat. With Trump’s blessing, Miller has been allowed to run and remake the country in a manner virtually unheard of for a U.S. government official of his rank. Think of any egregious policy from the Trump administration: Chances are, it was driven by Stephen Miller.
All of it bears Trump’s signature, but the president is not the one spending his nights writing executive orders and bending legal theory to his will; nearly all of this bears the authorship (or, at least, co-authorship) of Miller. Everything you loathe or love about Donald Trump’s America, you hate or cherish about Stephen Miller’s republic of fear.
https://twitter.com/TheRealThelmaJ1/status/1966764407498960915
———— Melon Husk ————
https://twitter.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1966887984424439927
———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————
Secretary of Culture War: How Hegseth wields power at the Pentagon
———— Mors Imperii ————
Mr. Trump has long made clear that coming together is not the mission of his presidency. In an era of deep polarization in American society, he rarely talks about healing. While other presidents have typically tried to lower the temperature in moments of national crisis, Mr. Trump turns up the flames.
He does not subscribe to the traditional notion of being president for all the people. He acts as president of red America and the people who agree with him, while those who do not are portrayed as enemies and traitors deserving payback.
https://twitter.com/WokeMitt/status/1966686384263229745
Nebraska Republican escalates Trump criticism over Ukraine: ‘You’ll be judged in the history books’
https://twitter.com/DavidShuster/status/1966954630572601588
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/Todd_Spence/status/1966612955417747668
https://twitter.com/kleeposting/status/1966597057335980409
https://twitter.com/_motherslug/status/1966752634112463040
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STOPThat Capital Group jump to 6B says the big money is treating Bitcoin like a trea/sury asset now. It pushes BTC deeper into the makret plumbing and makes pullbacks feel more like accumulation zones < even if headlines stay loud. The spillover to equities and credit feels inevitable, and yeah, it’s a bit funny how fast “experimental” turns into “standard issue.”