Odds and Ends — 17 January 2026
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
White House threatens to pull support for crypto bill after Coinbase standoff
How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change
Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed.
Early 2026 tailwinds for bitcoin miners as hashrate falls, profitability improves: JPMorgan
Coronavirus and Public Health:
US respiratory virus activity reaches high levels as flu, RSV spread
Politics:
https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/2012203097544667530
https://twitter.com/JamieBonkiewicz/status/2012266125774471659
https://twitter.com/stengel/status/2012534394565644413
Trump Installs Loyalists on Panel to Approve Ballroom
As if this is anything new: The Right Is Furious With Liberal White Women
https://twitter.com/deenafaywinter/status/2012473375382278233
———— Murder in Minneapolis ————
https://twitter.com/lydiakauppi/status/2012381316445069358
https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/2012099204697755786
Trump’s Fight With Minnesota Is About More Than Immigration
The state embodies a civic ideal that the administration in Washington wants to discredit.
https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2012241882777043372
https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/2012207301764026577
Trump had a playbook after Renee Good’s ICE shooting. I saw up close what’s happening instead.
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2012207189847343193
https://twitter.com/TheJvandy/status/2012146120005497343
Border Patrol chief was 'outright lying' about previous ICE surge
https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/2012185613978800465
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/2012206888876716125
Former federal prosecutor blasts DOJ over Walz, Frey subpoenas: ‘Total garbage’
https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/2012329529612623895
https://twitter.com/DisinfoIsBad/status/2011529765937955323
———— The Epstein Coverup ————
https://twitter.com/JamesTate121/status/2011942409907716447
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/2012531667416571927
———— Autocracy R Us ————
https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/2011958018708214095
https://twitter.com/FrederickMelo/status/2012235717473141213
https://twitter.com/LeonaONeill1/status/2012289642943348843
ICE Has Become a Rogue Paramilitary
It’s time we see ICE as it already sees itself: a domestic army dispatched by the Trump administration to terrorize vulnerable people and violently intimidate political enemies into submission.
https://twitter.com/TheRealThelmaJ1/status/2012244604998033563
How Kristi Noem turned ICE into the Proud Boys
Footage shows the right-wing group’s founder developing the “recruit giant losers” strategy
https://twitter.com/CarolLeonnig/status/2012211150843154585
https://twitter.com/RobertFreundLaw/status/2011879908776296449
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/2012120569702195525
Democratic leaders resist call of voters to abolish ICE
As support for abolishing ICE grows among Democratic voters, party leadership continues to argue for reform instead
https://twitter.com/Mollyploofkins/status/2012482794862027016
https://twitter.com/BMeiselas/status/2012124548456702196
https://twitter.com/DeanObeidallah/status/2012129018540425676
https://twitter.com/paulmrenfro/status/2012136216603632043
———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2012143926476668945
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/2012246695791227134
https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/2012236857807942032
———— Melon Husk ————
https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/2011626984145895593
https://twitter.com/mousdrvr/status/2011845082522202359
———— Mors Imperii ————
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/2011993014881706010
https://twitter.com/mhmck/status/2012252386685812796
https://youtube.com/shorts/LYsSDTazE3g?si=yeIl_VSUui8xBXGX
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