Odds and Ends — 17 November 2025

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Why Brazil is using Bitcoin as a treasury asset and what other nations can learn
https://twitter.com/AJDelgado13/status/1989326765936767360
Strategy Shares Dip Despite $835 Million Bitcoin Purchase—Its Largest in 4 Months
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Florida's COVID deaths have crossed 100,000, but it's no longer a leading cause of death
Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests
Politics:
The ‘Easy Way’ to Crush the Mainstream Media
FCC chair Brendan Carr is on a crusade to Trumpify the airwaves.
Two US marines implicated in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting, expert tells BBC
https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1990308573331820887
———— The Epstein Coverup ————
https://twitter.com/ZackBornstein/status/1989800412690739651
Trump Plays Hardball With GOP Lawmakers on Epstein
…Trump is making a last-ditch push to dissuade House Republicans from supporting a measure this week to release files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in what is shaping up as a major test of GOP loyalty to the president.
Trump failed last week to stop a House petition from reaching the critical 218th signature, including those of four Republicans, prompting the House to hold a vote this coming week mandating that the Justice Department turn over its Epstein-related files. While the proposal is expected to pass with all Democrats and at least some Republicans in the narrowly divided chamber, broader GOP defections could show the limits of the White House’s power.
And then, Mr. Mercurial does a 180.
https://twitter.com/BMeiselas/status/1990250608436342894
https://twitter.com/JamieBonkiewicz/status/1990410899555758445
Massie predicts a ‘deluge’ of House Republicans will vote to release Epstein files
The Kentucky Republican on Sunday indicated that he hopes to secure a veto-proof majority — two-thirds of the Democrats and Republicans — in support of the effort.
https://twitter.com/golub/status/1989941847805006215
https://twitter.com/JSweetLI/status/1989006939578315091
https://twitter.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1989377669893689385
https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1990412928193814984
———— Autocracy R Us ————
https://twitter.com/SkylineReport/status/1989795936051114290
About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard…
The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time… They attempted to grab others, too.
https://twitter.com/AhmedBaba_/status/1989882821574382022
https://twitter.com/BMeiselas/status/1990142499361579442
———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————
https://twitter.com/Tennesseine/status/1990117774711050556
https://twitter.com/BarbMcQuade/status/1990403219621626029
———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
How Britain replaced the US as Russia’s villain of choice
Polish railway track blast an 'unprecedented act of sabotage', PM says
———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————
https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1990209407288746404
———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————
https://twitter.com/KellyScaletta/status/1990060260032483563
———— Mors Imperii ————
https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1990106945622249875
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1990114830796095732
https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1990234590917865593
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/adrianmckinty/status/1990055729345302716
The Aussie giving War & Peace a 'bogan' remake
https://twitter.com/TheCinesthetic/status/1989195336158417230


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