Odds and Ends — 6 October 2025

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

Crypto’s meteoric rise could make or break Africa

https://twitter.com/Jesse_Brenneman/status/1974546533694718389

Grayscale Ethereum ETFs Are First in US to Add Staking

https://twitter.com/RKing618/status/1974580307283325280

The Puck News story is available in full here.

Coronavirus and Public Health:

US COVID activity falling

Politics:

https://twitter.com/EastEndJoe/status/1974972123778359740

French Government Collapses Again

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu of France resigned on Monday less than 24 hours after forming his cabinet, catching the nation by surprise and making his government the shortest-lived in modern French history…
The resignation immediately ratcheted up pressure from opposition parties on the left and far-right that are pushing Mr. Macron to call snap parliamentary elections.
Mr. Lecornu, a close ally of Mr. Macron, was appointed less than a month ago. He is the third prime minister to leave office in under a year, a near-unprecedented level of turmoil in France’s modern political history.

https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1974865506034483603

———— The Trump Shutdown ————

Congress remains deadlocked on shutdown ahead of Monday vote

The Project 2025 Shutdown Is Here

It’s become another avenue to turn power into partisan gain.

Shutdown Threatens to Drag On as Positions Harden

Buckle in — this shutdown might last a while.
With federal agencies closed going into a second workweek, there are vanishingly few signs that a bipartisan breakthrough is imminent. To the contrary, all indications are that leaders in both parties are only digging in deeper, and efforts to forge a compromise among the Senate rank-and-file are so far sputtering.

Trump Won’t Budge on Key Shutdown Demand

Infuriated by Trump’s aggressive use of his executive authority to rescind or withhold money approved by Congress, Democrats put language curbing it in their alternative spending bill. Even some Republicans have joined them in fuming as the president’s budget chief reverses Congress with rescissions or spending freezes in red and blue states.
But the chances of Trump signing a bill that cuts his own power are near zero.

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

https://twitter.com/JasonKander/status/1975018340453351824

US Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal in Epstein case

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1974923880658882809

https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/1974956194792972710
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1974981233609462189

Illinois and Chicago Sue Over National Guard Deployment

The state of Illinois and Chicago on Monday sued the Trump administration over its move to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago as the White House targets Democrat-led cities amid weeks of protests against the federal government’s immigration enforcement campaign

https://twitter.com/RoguePOTUSStaff/status/1974987972077555930

Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women

https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/1974664856281530411
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1974688992378679617

Stephen Miller Lays Out the Plan in Public