Odds and Ends — 6 July 2026

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A caterpillar on our back deck, species unknown to me, about 3 cm long.

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

Trump’s memecoin holders have lost over $3.8 Billion

Internal Report Warns About the Dangers of an AI Bubble

A draft report inside the Treasury Department is set to warn of the risks posed by the artificial intelligence market, likening key aspects of it to the dotcom bubble that upended the U.S. economy when it burst in the early 2000s,

New UK Election Funding Rules Could Hit Reform's Crypto Billionaire Donors

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Ramaswamy’s misleading COVID attack ads on Acton omit his own pandemic advocacy

Iran:

Iran begins long farewell to former supreme leader with calls for Trump’s death

Iran and Oman negotiate a pay model for the Strait of Hormuz

Politics:

https://twitter.com/malonebarry/status/2073527619241255014

Planned Parenthood Wins Back Federal Funding

Planned Parenthood’s beleaguered network of clinics will regain access to hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding this weekend — the fallout of Republicans’ failure to pass an extension of the one-year defunding provision they approved last year.
Starting July 5, clinics around the country can once again bill the federal program for reimbursement after providing non-abortion services, like birth control and screenings for sexually-transmitted infections, to low-income patients. Though other funding threats loom, it’s a lifeline for the struggling organization, which has closed nearly 30 health centers nationwide that collectively served more than 40,000 patients since the defunding provision in the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act took effect in July 2025.

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2072824006160290078

Judge Demands Answers About Plans for Trump’s East Potomac Golf Course

In a fiery hearing, Judge Ana C. Reyes hammered the government over denials that the president was forging ahead with plans to renovate the course without approval…
“I’m not going to have the president of the United States and the secretary of interior say something in the public — say something very concrete in public — and then come in here in court and say that what they’re saying isn’t actually what they’re saying,” she said.

https://x.com/adverb/status/2072096642874912924

Trump Suggests Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Is a Stalker

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2072004692956094722

Almost 60,000 far-right extremists in Germany, intelligence agency says

https://x.com/covie_93/status/2073560872316801500