Odds and Ends — 3 February 2026

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

What a shocker: Suspicious projects outpublish legitimate ones in crypto press releases

Bitcoin Falls Into 'Extreme Fear'

Flash Fiction:

Don Luigi was not impressed by the badly made gown you presented his granddaughter. You expected her to go to her prom looking like she chooses her attire at a strip club? The prom’s tonight, you have one chance to make it right. Fail again and find out what it’s like to have your throat filled with silk.

Written for this challenge.

Coronavirus and Public Health:

New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID

Politics:

https://twitter.com/caslernoel/status/2018446297460887586

Nancy Mace Is Not Okay

“Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere.”

https://twitter.com/SeanCasten/status/2018364165266518058

———— Minnesota Under Siege ————

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/2018459602841387231

https://twitter.com/SenTinaSmith/status/2018424576313622644

Right-wing claims about anti-ICE protesters causing vehicle damage in Minneapolis are false

https://twitter.com/vincempls/status/2018489441069797524

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/2018449665079836828

https://twitter.com/MikeNellis/status/2018376462793937062

https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/2018421208723657027

The Epstein Rot Goes Deep

The Epstein files offer America the opposite of closure. They are the latest widening of a scandal that has become a leitmotif of our time — not only because half the material remains unreleased. A budding Vladimir Lenin, or Benito Mussolini, might see the files as kindling awaiting a revolutionary spark.
On the basis that politics is downstream of culture, today’s public moral outrage will further corrode faith in U.S. democracy. How can you throw the bums out when they span the system?
By that measure, Donald Trump is a short-term beneficiary of the latest 3 million or so page release.

https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/2018455887514681349

https://twitter.com/broderick/status/2018472512578052194

https://twitter.com/doggintrump/status/2018200839777833306

———— Tulsi Gabbard ————

https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/2018346208931000604
https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/2018362676167000085
https://twitter.com/kinsellawarren/status/2018368039419355581
https://twitter.com/d_h_sanders/status/2018465803386179671

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/2018362336977748454

Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ elections

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/2018099059114848444

The Case Against Don Lemon Is Junk

On the basis of the record available so far, the case against them appears factually weak, legally shoddy, and marred by a baffling series of procedural irregularities that raise serious questions about the Justice Department’s ability to win in court.
This prosecution is best understood not as law enforcement but as propaganda, junk intended purely to get attention. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t dangerous.

https://twitter.com/LittleCongress/status/2018336183923749188

https://twitter.com/vincempls/status/2018322876630188257
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/2018242245086875754
https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff/status/2018368825096294445

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from ending TPS for Haitians

https://twitter.com/MilesTaylorUSA/status/2018358489274286418

https://twitter.com/L_Toczylowski/status/2018196199447376166

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/2018378332757225617

https://twitter.com/gaughen/status/2018235197926302005

The Trump administration has disrupted data collection on everything from homeland security, maternal mortality, hunger, drug use, education, disaster preparation and the economy…
Researchers estimate that well over 3,000 data sets have been removed from public access. The current reality is that the federal government is no longer a reliable source of widespread data collection.

https://twitter.com/TheFungi669/status/2018459569543065950

https://twitter.com/missmayn/status/2018473000245645800