Odds and Ends — 22 June 2025

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

Texas governor signs bill adding Bitcoin to official reserves

Crypto Market Liquidations Top $701M as US Strikes Hit Iran's Nuclear Facilities

Texas Sheriffs Crack Bitcoin ATM With Power Tools to Retrieve $32,000

Coronavirus and Public Health:

While North Korea denied Covid-19 cases, the virus was widespread and barely treated

Politics:

https://twitter.com/theliamnissan/status/1936179109660393500
https://twitter.com/KellDA/status/1936255271019405563

Trump Says He Wants to Fund More Trade Schools. Just Not These.

https://twitter.com/ArtCandee/status/1936418471308411253

———— Welp, We’re At War Now. ————

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1936432509526356324

Trump says U.S. 'completely and totally obliterated' nuclear facilities in Iran

Call it a guess, but that’s quite possibly a lie. The Fordow site would be particularly hard to knock out, even using the GBU-57 MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) for bombing.

https://twitter.com/AmoneyResists/status/1936578019138867600

What Iran Knows About Trump

The mullahs of Iran join the bet that Trump always chickens out.

https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1936578902031233383

https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1936585896242946331

Crimes of the Century

How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1936598044260131302

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1936617722475061305

The United States Bombed Iran. What Comes Next?

President Trump is taking an enormous risk.

https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1936665038166905074

———— Autocracy R Us ————

American Siberia

Donald Trump is enacting his darkest agenda in the backyard of a small Louisiana town. Absolutely no one there wants to talk about it.

America slides into totalitarianism — and it won’t be easy to reverse

”Authoritarianism” is so 2018 — Donald Trump and his minions want to conquer all of civil society

———— Mother Russia ————

https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1936266587012841598

Russian government clearly nervous as country faces economic challenges

https://twitter.com/loose_parts/status/1936455151293747659

———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————

https://twitter.com/ItsDeanBlundell/status/1936048488292241759

———— Mors Imperii ————

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1936421723382898960

https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1936196301542035929

https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/1936467910576202014

Serendipity:

New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect

People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug

Most in a small group of patients receiving a stem cell-based infusion no longer needed insulin, but the drug may not suit those with more manageable type 1 diabetes.

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