Odds and Ends — 21 July 2025

Our dog Lucy needed a formal portrait for her LinkedIn profile. Her résumé is a bit thin, but she’s looking for an internship, ideally as a food tester.

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

Strategy Boosts Bitcoin Holdings With Latest $739.8 Million BTC Purchase

ETH Could Be Worth $15K Medium Term, $4K Target in the Short Term: Fundstrat's Tom Lee

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Actually, research supports the COVID school closures

Politics:

https://twitter.com/PaulRudnickNY/status/1946942021727408454

"He's a madman": Trump's team frets about Netanyahu after Syria strikes

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1947043933374284207

Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Drags Trump Down

The very tools that helped win Trump two terms — the openness to conspiracy, the distrust of elites, the eruption of a viral moment — have now turned to bedevil him.

https://twitter.com/Mteuzi/status/1946716176467296360

———— Autocracy R Us ————

Trump Officials Regularly Defy Court Orders

“You Feel Like Your Life is Over”

Abusive Practices at Three Florida Immigration Detention Centers Since January 2025

https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1946984297703096409

Trump Posts Fake Video of Obama Being Arrested

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://twitter.com/414magyarbirds/status/1946950475003376105

https://twitter.com/Tatarigami_UA/status/1947027230573601162

———— Mors Imperii ————

https://twitter.com/jimmycamp1/status/1946709574624432215

After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them

Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet’s changing atmosphere.

https://twitter.com/PawlowskiMario/status/1946963945681478102

Hundreds of NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent

The signatories of the “Voyager Declaration” warned the space agency’s leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts that would halt many science missions.

Serendipity:

https://twitter.com/RKing618/status/1946428251536048532

Six Films Better Than the Books They’re Based On

https://twitter.com/wylfcen/status/1946868971073872125

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