Odds and Ends — 7 January 2026
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
SEC now fully Republican, set for pro-crypto rulemaking in 2026
FWIW: Bitcoin to $200,000? Arthur Hayes says Maduro capture will fuel price rally
Coronavirus and Public Health:
In utero COVID exposure linked to brain changes, developmental delays, anxiety, and depression
Politics:
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/2008610375491874886
A Strongman’s View of the World
Stephen Miller has spent the bulk of his White House career furthering hard-right domestic policies that have resulted in mass deportations, family separations and the testing of the constitutional tenets that grant American citizenship.
Now, Mr. Miller, President Trump’s 40-year-old deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, is casting his hard-right gaze further abroad: toward Venezuela and the Danish territory of Greenland, specifically.
Mr. Miller is doing so, the president’s advisers say, in service of advancing Mr. Trump’s foreign policy ambitions, which so far resemble imperialistic designs to exploit less powerful, resource-rich countries and territories the world over and use those resources for America’s gain. According to Mr. Miller, using brute force is not only on the table but also the Trump administration’s preferred way to conduct itself on the world stage.
Some Republicans Push Back on Trump on Greenland
President Trump’s insistence in recent days that the U.S. should take control of Greenland was met with disbelief and dismay on Capitol Hill, with some Republicans warning that a seizure of the island was too dangerous to even contemplate.
https://twitter.com/stats_feed/status/2008673054717866227
Trump May Have Accidentally Pardoned the Pipe Bomber
As many in Washington were easing into the new year, there was a flurry of activity last week in the prosecution of Brian Cole Jr. — the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters the night before Jan. 6, 2021. The Justice Department obtained an indictment from a grand jury and, following a court hearing, persuaded a judge to keep Cole detained pending trial.
But there may be a serious problem on the horizon: Trump may have pardoned Cole last year as part of the sweeping clemency that he gave to Jan. 6 offenders on his first day back in office.
Accidentally?
https://twitter.com/nickturse/status/2008394827977625828
———— Venezuela ————
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/2008697550455677375
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2008700721487900947
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/2008725976289866224
https://twitter.com/dieworkwear/status/2008728930187178343
https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem/status/2008389846365008052
U.S. seizes Russian-flagged tanker that fled Venezuela blockade
https://twitter.com/LarrySabato/status/2008324631984533835
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/2008544340910764102
https://twitter.com/DougWahl1/status/2008558633282662500
GOP Lawmakers Say ‘Running’ Venezuela Will Work Out
Congressional Republicans say they’re confident that whatever happens next in Venezuela will work out in Americans’ favor.
Their rosy outlook defies the lack of detail available about what it means that the U.S. is ‘running’ Venezuela. And there’s a long list of U.S. involvement in regime changes that Democrats, and even some conservatives, are pointing to as reason to take a more measured tone. But still, many Republicans say it’s different this time.
https://twitter.com/TotalSeasons/status/2008662259263017041
———— The Epstein Coverup ————
https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/2008645296671387965
———— Mors Imperii ————
https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2008390644390088795
https://twitter.com/electionsjoe/status/2008603344773042272
https://twitter.com/TheJFreakinC/status/2008327251981463774
The National Rifle Association is suing its own charitable wing in federal court, alleging that the nonprofit NRA Foundation, which it founded in 1990, is unfairly using the NRA logo to attract a rival donor base and undercut it.
https://twitter.com/preparedwombat/status/2008600950970433729
https://twitter.com/crampell/status/2008563081316888796
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