Odds and Ends — 7 November 2025

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

Consumer Sentiment Nears Lowest Level Ever

Worries over the government shutdown surged in the early part of November, pushing consumer sentiment to its lowest in more than three years and just off its worst level ever.

https://twitter.com/BMeiselas/status/1986441250262884827

Kazakh Crypto-Asset Fund Targets $1 Billion With Seized Wallets

Coronavirus and Public Health:

The COVID Pandemic May Have Aged Your Brain—Even If You Never Got Sick

https://twitter.com/SaraForTexLege/status/1986503538436886930

Politics:

https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1986561872674627808

Don’t throw me in that briar patch!

https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/1986422726945296580

‘Sandwich Guy’ Found Not Guilty

Sean Dunn, the man who pitched a sandwich at the chest of a federal agent in a viral act of opposition to President Trump’s law enforcement policies in Washington, was acquitted on Thursday after a jury found him not guilty of misdemeanor assault.
The verdict, which arrived after the jury deliberated for roughly seven hours, capped a nearly three-month effort to penalize Mr. Dunn for the August outburst and the resulting chase to arrest him, after the government previously failed to persuade a grand jury to charge him with a felony.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1986507904724107342
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1986534027147300964

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Judge Orders Trump to Fully Fund Food Stamps

A federal judge rebuked the administration for the way it tried to fund only partial benefits to food stamp recipients.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans, after admonishing the government for delaying aid under the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the shutdown.
But the Justice Department almost immediately told the court it would appeal the ruling. That left uncertain if and when poor families would receive their benefits this month to buy groceries, and how much they would be sent, exposing them again to the risk of severe financial hardship.

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1986597372177072458

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1986608621640126894

https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/1986610664194859352

Deal to reopen government falters over Democrats’ distrust of Trump

New York is quietly preparing for a Donald Trump takeover of the country’s largest city.
A wide range of New York’s most prominent civic leaders have for weeks been meeting behind the scenes to plan for the possibility of Trump sending in the National Guard or any other federal agents into New York City, according to multiple top elected officials.
Alarmed at what Trump may do in response to Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York City mayor, Gov. Kathy Hochul has devised a virtual war room and convened a series of conversations with law enforcement, business officials and activist groups to stop or at least mitigate any federal incursion. More meetings are being scheduled, including with New York’s leading clergy and veterans groups, some of whom will be gathering around Veterans Day next week.

https://twitter.com/royalpratt/status/1986471910591373444

Well, duh: FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1986560672017359034

The Slow Collapse: How ICE Is Gutting America’s Construction Workforce

ICE raids and mass deportations are gutting U.S. construction: projects halted, crews vanished, costs soaring, America’s bridges and homes are going unfinished.

https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1986515129576370243

Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation