Odds and Ends — 25 November 2025

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

NYSE approves Grayscale DOGE and XRP ETFs, clearing launch for Monday

https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/1993116028453224734
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1993108452693160356

https://twitter.com/tomaskenn/status/1993031461063323947

Binance Faces Fresh Lawsuit Over Alleged Hamas Transactions

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests

https://twitter.com/michaelscherer/status/1992777164773642336

Politics:

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1992625211997356351

https://twitter.com/KerryKennedyRFK/status/1992984601728577558

Trump Accidentally Amplifies Call to Impeach Him

Donald Trump is struggling to stay on message after accidentally boosting a call to impeach himself.
The president went on a social media posting spree attacking a group of Democrats who last week released a video urging U.S. service members and the intelligence community to refuse illegal orders.
But while doing so, he posted a screenshot of Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired naval officer and one of six Democratic lawmakers featured in the video, from an anti-Trump account named ‘Impeach Trump a 3rd Time.’

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1993056678921883832

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1993008897402261792

The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1993014241633484878

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1993013024005718428

https://twitter.com/SykesCharlie/status/1992995333559795818

———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————

Crypto Crash Is Eroding Wealth for Trump’s Family and Followers

https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1992775194042122744

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1992978327796359339

How Putin’s money man hoodwinked Trump’s top diplomats

https://twitter.com/dim0kq/status/1992955898428526886

U.S. and Russia Hold Peace Talks

It’s no reflection on Driscoll’s abilities to point out, again, that this is an extraordinary assignment. Hollywood script writers would be turned down for such a plot.
Negotiating with top-level Russian officials is something for which top Western diplomats train for years. Driscoll has been involved in this process for a matter of days. And the stakes could hardly be higher, with tens of thousands of lives on the line as Europe’s biggest war since 1945 rumbles on.

https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1992970047459832277

78 Times Zelensky Has Thanked the United States

President Trump claimed on social media that Ukraine’s leadership has expressed “zero gratitude” for the U.S. efforts to help them in their war.
Trump’s claim is not even close to accurate.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed gratitude to the United States on dozens of occasions – 78 examples are listed below – since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of his country in early 2022. And Zelensky has repeatedly expressed gratitude to Trump personally since Trump was elected again last fall.

https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/1992977979841110229

———— Melon Husk ————

Work is “optional” and irrelevant money: Musk’s creepy utopian dream

———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1993002719444189609

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1993021669825233241

https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1993044825835266151

https://twitter.com/cturnbull1968/status/1993054927644672111

———— Mors Imperii ————

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1992919232481497529

https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/1992971779506348521

More Americans Getting Their Power Shut Off

Soaring electricity prices are triggering a wave of power shutoffs nationwide, leaving more Americans in the dark as unpaid bills pile up. Although there is no national count of electricity shutoffs, data from select utilities in 11 states show that disconnections have risen in at least eight of them since last year.

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1992957487033815390

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1992639363503489522