Odds and Ends — 4 July 2026
https://x.com/alphafox/status/2073241025322123514
Half of Americans Don’t Know What July 4th Celebrates
https://x.com/mmillerwtop/status/2073398580006551652
https://x.com/covie_93/status/2073450966699921732
https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2073428550577787282
https://x.com/WUTangKids/status/2073440016991154303
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Revolut to delist USDT in August, citing regulatory and risk concerns
Farage Reported to UK Standards Watchdog Over Alleged Crypto Lobbying
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Iran:
Iran’s New Leadership Is Younger and Even More Hardline
The death of Iran’s supreme leader on the opening day of the war raised U.S. and Israeli hopes that the regime he led — and that has held the country in an Islamic vice grip since 1979 — had been pushed to the brink of collapse.
Four months later, however, as Iran stages a belated state funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the burial rites testify instead to the Islamic republic’s survival and mark the ascendance of a new generation of leaders that is more entrenched and hard-line.
Politics:
https://x.com/Hqdepot1/status/2072821203417317430
https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/2072728714073317392
https://x.com/BlockheadNYC/status/2072717114205458641
———— The Epstein Coverup ————
https://twitter.com/MeidasClips/status/2073238489752088791
https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/2072853314610368728
Why Does Todd Blanche Keep Protecting Ghislaine Maxwell?
The Acting Attorney General has spun an incredible web of lies to protect Jeffrey Epstein's coconspirator.
https://x.com/sarrah_bellus/status/2073467424859410435
———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————
https://x.com/TrumpsPortfolio/status/2073404236667252998
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2073434375966843151
———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/2073342563797381264
What Russia Believes: Weekly Reports Reveal the Kremlin's Distorted Worldview
Every week, the Kremlin tells the world what's on its mind. The Security Council of the Russian Federation (the SCRF, or “Sovbez”) publishes a substantial Russian-language digest — its Weekly Information Bulletin — with play-by-play reviews of the latest security developments, as seen from Moscow. These reports are useful analytical artifacts not because they accurately portray world events, but because they reflect the stories that the Kremlin tells itself and its network of allies to sustain a war that most Western observers see as a disastrous folly…
We collected SCRF reports from the last three months and analyzed them to extract common topics and themes — and the Kremlin's takes are so misaligned with Western perspectives as to seem ludicrous. But it is precisely this misalignment that leads to gaps in our strategic response. When we fail to understand the worldview of our adversary, we will fail to anticipate their behavior.
https://x.com/Kasparov63/status/2073484514215497766
———— Mors Imperii ————
Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately
The weather report is rarely spot-on, but if forecasts have seemed particularly inaccurate recently, it’s because they have been.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was among several agencies gutted by the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency in 2025… These sweeping staff cuts forced the National Weather Service, the forecasting arm of NOAA, to halt or reduce weather balloon launches at 11 locations.
https://x.com/covie_93/status/2073153008548852151
Serendipity:
https://x.com/yu_iwa3/status/2073211944325026300
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