Odds and Ends — 26 June 2025

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

Real-World Asset Tokenization Market Has Grown Almost Fivefold in 3 Years

Bitcoin ‘Satoshi-era’ miners sold just 150 BTC in 2025 amid all-time highs

Bitcoin and Ethereum Flat as Iran Claims Victory Over US

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Kennedy’s new vaccine panel alarms pediatricians with inquiries into long-settled questions

Politics:

National Science Foundation to Be Requisitioned as Mansion for HUD Secretary

https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1937864438167544028

Mamdani’s stunning rise gives Democrats a playbook — and creates some perils

Mamdani prevailed by focusing incessantly on the affordability challenges faced by New York residents, pledging to ease the cost of living by providing free child care, freezing rent and making city buses free. In a city home to the world’s largest population of billionaires, he pledged to fund his ideas by raising taxes on the wealthy.
Seeking to become the first Muslim mayor of a city with the world’s largest Jewish population outside of Israel, he did not shy away from criticizing the Israeli government for its handling of the war in Gaza.

Trump Calls Mamdani a ‘100% Communist Lunatic’

Cuomo Will Drop Mayoral Bid

Andrew Cuomo will drop out of the mayor’s race after his humiliating defeat against socialist Zohran Mamdani — as the ex-governor’s donors and backers desert him and weigh whether to boost Eric Adams.
Several insiders close to the Cuomo camp said Wednesday that the thrice-elected Democrat will almost certainly not run in the general election as an independent candidate, seeing no obvious path to victory.

———— Israel/Krasnov/Iran ————

Trump Says Netanyahu’s Trial Should Be ‘Cancelled’

…Trump called on Wednesday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial to be ‘cancelled immediately’ or for giving him a pardon.
Trump’s comments in a post on his Truth Social account were an unprecedented intervention by a U.S. president in a legal proceeding in another democratic ally.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1937642222364623213

https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1937939554918600763

https://twitter.com/Weinsteinlaw/status/1937945889076592971

https://twitter.com/stengel/status/1937936645447401979

Trump Wages Fight for Control of Iran Strike Narrative

…Trump is going to extraordinary lengths to defend his claim that U.S. airstrikes ‘obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear program, determined to cement the operation as a defining victory of his presidency.
He has treated the leak of an initial Pentagon battle damage assessment as an act of sabotage, launching an aggressive campaign to discredit the report as preliminary, inaccurate and already outdated.

https://twitter.com/amvetsupport/status/1938033362750583171

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1938010267499000263

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/1937929611020800075

Trump Sues All Federal Judges in Maryland

The Justice Department sued all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland on Tuesday over an order that pauses any deportations under legal challenge in the state for 48 hours.

https://twitter.com/commons96055467/status/1937654557896769924

Despite promise to remove 'worst of the worst,' ICE has arrested only 6% of known immigrant murderers

After six months of aggressive immigration enforcement and promises to focus on deporting violent criminals, the Trump administration has arrested and detained a small fraction of the undocumented immigrants already known to Immigration and Customs Enforcement as having been convicted of sexual assault and homicide.

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1937868998902682095

https://twitter.com/MeachamDr/status/1937985075259576689

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

Trump Scraps ‘Made in USA’ Label for New Phone

The Trump Organization scrapped a reference that its recently revealed smartphone will be made in the U.S., amid doubts that such a device can be manufactured on American shores at its price tag.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

Instead, the Trump Mobile website now includes what can only be described as vague, pro-American gestures in the direction of smartphone manufacturing.