Odds and Ends — 4 June 2025

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

Czech Government Faces No-Confidence Vote Over $45M Bitcoin Scandal

https://twitter.com/Steph_R_Alston/status/1929665112740331557

Google’s New AI Tool Generates Convincing Deepfakes of Riots, Conflict, and Election Fraud

Coronavirus and Public Health:

COVID vaccine changes confuse and upset some parents and families

Politics:

https://twitter.com/JohnSimpsonNews/status/1929930136377348186

Iran’s Supreme Leader Rejects U.S. Nuclear Deal Offer

Lee Jae-Myung Elected President of South Korea

Lee Jae-myung of the center-left Democratic Party won the South Korean presidential election on Wednesday, riding a wave of anger against former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his People Power Party after months of political turmoil.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1929769048046207294

Dozens reported killed as Israel acknowledges troops opened fire near Gaza food point

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1929947969471619556

Judge orders Trump admin to maintain gender-affirming care for transgender inmates

CBO Says Trump’s Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday released a revised estimate of the cost of President Donald Trump’s tax-cut bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, concluding it will add $2.4 trillion to the federal government’s $36.2 trillion debt.

———— Autocracy R Us ————

Could You Prove You’re a Citizen?

For Americans wrongfully detained by ICE, it can be nearly impossible to escape.

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1929864674859790615

Newark’s Mayor Sues a Top Trump Lawyer, Claiming Malicious Prosecution

https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1929932231948079401

Homeland Security pulls down list of 'sanctuary' cities and counties after backlash

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1929998187491692698

I Criticized President Trump. Now He is Accusing Me of Treason

“This is much bigger than me. This is about whether we will allow the President—any president, of any political party—to criminalize criticism.”

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1930036845745729611

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

https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1929928851796230356

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

Krasnov and Putin will just love this: NATO leader Rutte inviting Zelenskyy to upcoming Summit in The Hague

https://twitter.com/secretsqrl123/status/1929707197228879920

https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1929349149104779752

https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1929894575369302054

Ukraine Attacks Kerch Bridge

Ukraine said on Tuesday that it had hit the bridge connecting Russia and the occupied Crimean Peninsula with explosives planted underwater, in its third attack on the vital supply line for Moscow’s forces since the full-scale war began in 2022.

Chinese Social Media Applauds Ukraine’s Strikes On Russian Airfields, Mocking Moscow

https://twitter.com/JeffFisch/status/1929872666506219872

https://twitter.com/Bricktop_NAFO/status/1929900033115079109

Trump official who shut down counter-Russia agency has links to Kremlin

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1929954166644060221

———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————

Trump doubles tariffs on steel and aluminum, raising ire of Canada and Mexico

https://twitter.com/RetroAgent12/status/1929724572603240524

Trump Officials Delayed Farm Trade Report

Trump administration officials delayed and redacted a government forecast because it predicts an increase in the nation’s trade deficit in farm goods later this year.
The numbers run counter to President Donald Trump’s messaging that his economic policies, including tariffs, will reduce U.S. trade imbalances. The politically inconvenient data prompted administration officials to block publication of the written analysis normally attached to the report because they disliked what it said about the deficit.

———— Melon Husk ————

Elon Musk Calls Trump’s Bill a ‘Disgusting Abomination’

———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————

https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1929974342172983307

Hegseth’s Press Secretary Is as Extreme as They Come

The Pentagon’s new press secretary is a chronically online 26-year-old white nationalist who believes in the ‘great replacement’ theory, thinks Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy is an ‘entitled midget,’ and pushed an antisemitic conspiracy theory about Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched after being falsely accused of murder in 1915.
Kingsley Wilson, who has served as deputy press secretary since January, is the daughter of right-wing talking head and former Trump adviser Steve Cortes and previously worked for Center for Renewing America, a think tank founded by Project 2025 architect Russel Vought. She will now act as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s primary mouthpiece at the Pentagon, a department that has not had regular press briefings for some time now.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1930050233104527367

———— Mors Imperii ————

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1929918055842533573

Another Day in the Trump White House

Legal experts said it was highly unusual for an administration to give a cooperating witness in an ongoing investigation a White House job.

https://twitter.com/RossKneeDeep/status/1929866593288306804

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1929956297924841962

Serendipity:

A taekwondo class in rural Alaska may save the community’s school

https://twitter.com/corbinwilliams/status/1929674190678118432

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