Odds and Ends — 6 June 2026

https://twitter.com/ArbitrageAndy1/status/2063234092833952238

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

Crypto tax proposals weighed ahead of Tuesday House hearing

https://twitter.com/DowdEdward/status/2062960611093606526

Hyperliquid Hit by UK FCA Warning as Crypto Perps Face Scrutiny

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Irish GP found guilty of misconduct over Covid-19 misinformation social media posts

Iran:

Iran Demands Cash for Peace

The U.S. and Iran have spent weeks struggling to forge a preliminary deal to end the war. One major reason why they are stuck: Tehran wants early access to cold, hard cash, and it is politically hazardous for President Trump to agree.
For Trump, a decision to free Iran’s assets upfront would inevitably generate comparisons to his own attacks on the Obama administration for flying cash into Tehran in the hours after the nuclear accord was implemented in January 2016. Trump vowed this spring to negotiate a ‘FAR BETTER’ deal than that one, which he spent years lambasting and later pulled out of, partly because it provided cash to Tehran.

Smart move by Iran. Trump needs to win; Iran just needs to not lose. The longer this drags on, the stronger Iran’s position gets. The rapid draw down of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is all that’s holding gas prices from exploding. Trump’s got no good options.

Politics:

https://twitter.com/EthanforMD/status/2063048293693657510

Right-wing media melts down as Spencer Pratt sinks in vote count

https://twitter.com/realstewpeters/status/2062996443179147584

https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/2063047610886160870

Russia Floods Armenia with Disinformation

Russia has unleashed what researchers are calling an unusually intense barrage of overt and covert influence operations before a parliamentary election on Sunday in Armenia, which has sought closer ties with Europe and the United States.
Groups linked to the Kremlin and Russian intelligence agencies have for months flooded the internet with attacks against Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who has publicly clashed with Moscow after a breakdown in security cooperation between the two countries, according to government and independent researchers who track Russian influence campaigns.

CIA officer who had millions in gold bars accused of creating fake spy program

https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/2063323050540466684

Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level

https://twitter.com/ItsTheEnforcer/status/2063317610536559011

https://twitter.com/bigsnugga/status/2062717685709017367

https://twitter.com/Hoffman8Jon/status/2063294226549399922

https://twitter.com/RibGoneRogue/status/2063283584270762453

https://twitter.com/TelvinGriffin/status/2063334574692659378

———— Stark. Raving. Mad. ————

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/2063010294490911052

https://twitter.com/SkinnerPm/status/2062641642293612658

———— Screwworms ————

https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/status/2062957247873905045

https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/2062984257060888962

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/2062898294083260732

Senate Republicans Chicken Out, Again

On Thursday, Republican senators had a chance to kill Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for professed victims of ‘weaponization’ by the Department of Justice. They refused. A Democratic amendment to block the fund, as part of an immigration-enforcement spending bill, failed in the Senate. Subsequent attempts to limit or outlaw the fund failed as well.
Republicans seem to think they can walk away from this issue because Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, has said he won’t implement the fund. They’re wrong. Blanche’s corrupt deal with Trump, in which he agreed to set up the fund as part of a fake “settlement” of a Trump lawsuit against the IRS, remains intact. And it’s not just the slush fund that is very much alive. The deal also continues to guarantee—and Blanche has refused to withdraw—immunity for Trump and his family against any investigations by the IRS.

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

https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/2062726790246711645

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://twitter.com/kiraincongress/status/2062965146117427240

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/2062958399235539421

https://twitter.com/ItsTheEnforcer/status/2062985705450577968

Putin warned of a coup and mocked as he looks half dead with ‘old age’

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/2062814179644285307

Boris Johnson: Putin's defeat would be a wonderful moment - and, trust me, it will happen. We just need the guts to help Ukraine win faster

https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/2063213553251725331

———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————

https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/2063394921029992747

———— Mors Imperii ————

Trump Planned to Mark 2.7 Million as Dead

The Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts.
The previously unreported plan, which the Social Security Administration said was not carried out, would have used one of the government’s most consequential identity databases to effectively erase people from the financial system, potentially cutting them off from wages, banking, government benefits and other services.

Judge Says Trump Officials Must Restart Asylum and Immigration Processing

The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.

https://twitter.com/MrSausageGet/status/2062732779725709499

Serendipity:

https://twitter.com/A3Branden/status/2062939690177900701

https://twitter.com/ERodBuster1/status/2063046245812166925

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