Odds and Ends — 26 January 2026

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

Crypto funds see $1.7B outflows, biggest since November 2025

But the real story is silver: Gold Beats Ethereum to $5K Milestone, Hitting Record Above $5,100

Coronavirus and Public Health:

COVID's long shadow is looming over a new generation of college students

Politics:

https://twitter.com/joakial_/status/2015255222478630993

What Trump Is Thinking About

https://twitter.com/TheRealThelmaJ1/status/2015509853624803548

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/2015491259742232786

———— Same Story, Different Framing ————

The Minneapolis Urising

A series of street-level clashes have snowballed into a larger fight against autocracy.

Welcome to the American Winter

In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

———— Minnesota Under Siege ————

https://twitter.com/nickmmark/status/2015262649916047856

https://twitter.com/gailinmn/status/2015447083373789242

https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/2015505506610171969

Lawmaker says plan for ICE detention center in Shakopee has been abandoned

https://twitter.com/davehomeless89/status/2015423744521404926

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/2015429693059580346

Alex Pretti Was a Good Man at a Time of Great Evil

The 37-year-old ICU nurse was killed helping another ICE victim. We must honor his sacrifice.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2015488317706416529

https://twitter.com/WedgeLIVE/status/2015276239037079697

https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2015469361239097478

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start

Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct

https://twitter.com/RealHousewifeMi/status/2015424943446499472

https://twitter.com/mnhouseDFL/status/2015509073391763861

https://twitter.com/BrianaRoseLee/status/2015413602849640731
https://twitter.com/MinnesotaDFL/status/2015588624302067857

https://twitter.com/lydiakauppi/status/2015806533435527237

———— JD Vance ————

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2015421771235668387

https://twitter.com/theliamnissan/status/2015587637264781731

https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/2015531014987370801

———— General Strike? ————

https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/2015472937155866716

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/status/2015526688294043978

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/2015547216124125435

https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/2015601043753549893

https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/2015452349943234864

https://twitter.com/missmayn/status/2015247468737565133

Yes, It’s Fascism

Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny…
Over Trump’s past year, what originally looked like an effort to make the government his personal plaything has drifted distinctly toward doctrinal and operational fascism. Trump’s appetite for lebensraum, his claim of unlimited power, his support for the global far right, his politicization of the justice system, his deployment of performative brutality, his ostentatious violation of rights, his creation of a national paramilitary police—all of those developments bespeak something more purposeful and sinister than run-of-the-mill greed or gangsterism.
When the facts change, I change my mind. Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse. That is not because of any one or two things he and his administration have done but because of the totality. Fascism is not a territory with clearly marked boundaries but a constellation of characteristics. When you view the stars together, the constellation plainly appears.

https://twitter.com/JohannaSaunders/status/2015131308612108427

https://twitter.com/Joseph_Fasano_/status/2015222856200683639

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/2015252291066921388

https://twitter.com/awinston/status/2015453722642395570

https://twitter.com/johnbourscheid/status/2015414826487493016

https://twitter.com/RadishHarmers/status/2015225343951467007

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

———— Mors Imperii ————

https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/2015512775787938225

https://twitter.com/Joseph_Fasano_/status/2015423267494879447

https://twitter.com/ronnui_/status/2015464555946688591
https://twitter.com/brianros1/status/2015491666635796857

Serendipity:

https://twitter.com/NiecyOKeeffe/status/2015455309616066601

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