Odds and Ends — 6 March 2026

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about 11 hours ago (Edited)

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

The debate over Bitcoin’s four-year cycle is over: Benjamin Cowen

https://twitter.com/calvinfroedge/status/2029582119194722584

Nigel Farage Confidant Linked to $550K Loss On Iran Strike Polymarket Bet

Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise'

Flash Fiction:

”The quarterly figures are horrendous, with one standout exception. Our man Shobby in Peoria put the rest of you to shame. Study what he did! Internalize it! Write it all down in your book of method and underline it! Now go out there and make Shobby proud!”

Written for this prompt.

Coronavirus and Public Health:

The Covid-19 inquiry is sounding a clear warning. If it’s not heeded, yet more lives will be lost

Iran:

https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2029607405323993559
https://twitter.com/guy_laron/status/2029538695838093610
https://twitter.com/shanaka86/status/2029448260952473744

https://twitter.com/PaulRudnickNY/status/2029677263218712825

https://twitter.com/jonkarl/status/2029654727093325965?s=20

Trump says no deal with Iran to end war without ‘unconditional surrender’

Just spitballing here, but unless he means unconditional surrender by America, Iran probably won’t be interested in the deal.

https://twitter.com/AcademicAgent_X/status/2029368986534638046

https://twitter.com/propandco/status/2029553178614599808

https://twitter.com/WarrenDavidson/status/2029649824887242902

https://twitter.com/reedgalen/status/2029571080822907150

https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/2029655875963830601

Iran Is Built to Withstand the Ayatollah’s Assassination

The U.S. and Israeli militaries are targeting Iran’s leaders—but that may only strengthen the state.

https://twitter.com/YousefMunayyer/status/2029591307065405505

https://twitter.com/NafeezAhmed/status/2029533912314040525

https://twitter.com/DamonLinker/status/2029529456541339781

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/2029597218492105018

https://twitter.com/RanaAyyub/status/2029594107736404205

https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2029600681120645491

Trump’s War

Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. “I guess,” he says. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die."

https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/2029616758747709447

https://twitter.com/LongArcNews/status/2029483073897926708

https://twitter.com/praveenswami/status/2029396532563227063

https://twitter.com/edels0n/status/2029385860995555766

The Invisible Siege: How Insurance Markets, Not Missiles, Closed the Strait of Hormuz

And Why the Disruption Will Last Four to Sixteen Months Longer Than Any Model on Wall Street Currently Prices

https://twitter.com/alexbkane/status/2029664938604605646
https://twitter.com/NiallStanage/status/2029547674052002069
https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/2029650371912642850
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2029696037573542095

Politics:

https://twitter.com/adammocklerr/status/2029915201466740820

The world is watching America lose its moral compass and its global credibility

https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/2029637915807019036

The Predatory Hegemon

Trump has been called a realist, a nationalist, an old-fashioned mercantilist, an imperialist, and an isolationist. Each of these terms captures some aspects of his approach, but the grand strategy of his second presidential term is perhaps best described as “predatory hegemony.” Its central aim is to use Washington’s privileged position to extract concessions, tribute, and displays of deference from both allies and adversaries, pursuing short-term gains in what it sees as a purely zero-sum world…
If it continues to define American strategy in the coming years, predatory hegemony will weaken the United States and its allies alike, generate growing global resentment, create tempting opportunities for Washington’s main rivals, and leave Americans less secure, less prosperous, and less influential.

https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/2029338638547325323

———— Kristi Noem————

https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/2029636916191105431
https://twitter.com/RachelBitecofer/status/2029639264200446120

https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem/status/2029641118405521866
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/2029707075496939527

https://twitter.com/bdquinn/status/2029670808738525284

https://twitter.com/DeanObeidallah/status/2029669393521660013

https://twitter.com/sambrodey/status/2029638246473314392

———— Autocracy R Us ————

Lindsey Halligan Under Investigation by the Florida Bar

Lindsey Halligan, the former U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against President Trump’s enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida’s bar association.

Vance entered the White House as a man full of ideas—about a more modest place for the United States in world affairs; a new, worker-friendly version of Republican economics; and aggressive, Teddy Roosevelt–style regulation of Big Business. Yet Iran is just the latest example of a noticeable trend: Within the Trump administration, Vance’s opinions seem to matter less and less.