Odds and Ends — 23 January 2026
Our air temperature this morning is -17°F or -27°C. A -37°F windchill is -38°C windchill. Fun fact: -40° is the only place that Fahrenheit and Celsius are the same.
It would be a shame if a bunch of our ICE invaders got frostbite today. A damn shame.
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Binance applies for MiCA license in Greece as EU deadlines loom
Former FTX crypto executive Caroline Ellison released from federal custody
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Solving Long COVID: How Decades of HIV Research Paved the Way
U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization
Politics:
https://twitter.com/JakobSkouboe/status/2014263114653405379
Kash Patel Ousts More FBI Agents
FBI Director Kash Patel has carried out another purge of the bureau’s senior ranks, forcing out field office leaders and other senior agents connected to the two criminal investigations of Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/DaniMayakovski/status/2014224027464634801
———— JV Comes to Town ————
Good luck with that: Vance Says He’ll Try to Calm Tensions in Minneapolis
https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/2014356880273912298
https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/2014400189583241630
https://twitter.com/jonlovett/status/2014433099980157385
https://twitter.com/WedgeLIVE/status/2014428085173485632
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/2014430132342047105
https://twitter.com/ReneeLibby95084/status/2014440492306469048
https://twitter.com/BrianaRoseLee/status/2014450498724589870
https://twitter.com/BulwarkOnline/status/2014429395599983030
———— Minnesota Under Siege————
https://twitter.com/D_Farmer/status/2014094647476232582
https://twitter.com/NortonMpls/status/2014344764326371351
https://twitter.com/KSTP/status/2014442156245581862
https://twitter.com/MikeNellis/status/2014472735850643890
The president has unleashed something akin to an occupying army that feels entitled to brutalize the population and routinely ignore the law. For those communities quaking in terror, simply waiting three years for a new president is not sufficient. Violence is not the answer, but calling out Trump for fomenting it, and advising Minnesotans to record agents on the streets, seems like a measured response.
Conservatives are making the same error they made during the civil-rights era, when outlets such as National Review dismissed protesters as criminals. It is fair enough to give law enforcement some benefit of the doubt, but treating its actions as presumptively legitimate even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary gives license to the sort of despotism that is staring us in the face.
https://twitter.com/RuthHay64857104/status/2014494284058124477
https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/2014204718227112279
I am taking part in this general strike: Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
https://twitter.com/lydiakauppi/status/2014476986911965425
https://twitter.com/morninggloria/status/2014432818898862245
———— Jack Smith ————
https://twitter.com/AhmedBaba_/status/2014359112759279868
Jack Smith makes first public defense of Trump indictments
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/2014385690344059339
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/2014396437186908259
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/2014398901315383801
'I will not be intimidated': Jack Smith says he'll stand up to Trump despite attacks
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2014420185558528470
https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/2014381352808742922
https://twitter.com/OurShallowState/status/2014393976200298678
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/2014379548452819351
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/2014416164630434239
———— Lying with A.I. ————
https://twitter.com/BMeiselas/status/2014390332784574831
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/2014447783625842898
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/2014480077514248408
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/2014495110256279879
https://twitter.com/adgirlMM/status/2014525735508312101
———— Autocracy R Us ————
https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/2014129395217088525
https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/2014372605449416780
https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2014404871449964615
https://twitter.com/SeidelContent/status/2014464885397029354
Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse
https://twitter.com/RYP__/status/2014139472124993744
Trump Demands Ilhan Omar Be Investigated for ‘Political Crimes’
https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/2014141112592617549
———— Bored of Peace ————
https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/2014343144691642609
https://twitter.com/Dispropoganda/status/2014325221625336318
https://twitter.com/Daractenus/status/2014300469946966315
https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/2014352062427889724
———— Mors Imperii ————
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/2014473716407927089
https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/2014173655991800255
Watching a Superpower Die By Suicide
Across the first three weeks of 2026, and especially yesterday, President Trump’s Mad King rantings about Greenland have accelerated into something far more stunning and alarming: We are watching in real-time as a superpower dies by suicide — an all-but unprecedented choice to self-immolate and torch the country’s remaining global trust and friendships.
The entire world order we built across eighty years, a never-before-seen geopolitical success that has been tended and fostered by Republican and Democratic administrations across a dozen presidencies, has been sacrificed this week on the altar of Donald Trump’s legacy-mad narcissism.
https://twitter.com/DaveMilbo/status/2014303342319804885
https://twitter.com/thewritertype/status/2014039378251731322
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/Kulambq/status/2014469852166291897
https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/2014158323424333961
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