Odds and Ends — 8 November 2025

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

New Bitcoin highs could take 2 to 6 months but data says it’s worth the wait: Analysis

https://twitter.com/AaronRegunberg/status/1986513961932488856

OpenAI Sought Government Loan Guarantees Days Before Sam Altman's Denial

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Kids With Eczema See Surprising Benefits From the COVID Vaccine

Politics:

https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1986526478943523307

How Trump Is Giving More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors.
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service, through a series of new notices and proposed regulations, are giving breaks to giant private equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real estate investors, insurance providers and a variety of multinational corporations.
The primary target: The administration is rapidly gutting a 2022 law intended to ensure that a sliver of the country’s most profitable corporations pay at least some federal income tax.

https://twitter.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1986541739989930058

Former Capitol Police officer a forensic match for Jan. 6 pipe bomber, sources say

The pipeline that Russian oil for Hungary uses runs through Ukraine. Just saying.

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Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired or sidelined at least two dozen generals and admirals over the past nine months in a series of ousters that could reshape the U.S. military for years to come.

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Tulsi Gabbard’s Quest to Bring the ‘Deep State’ Under Her Control

Dick Cheney: The Trump Before Trump

There was something perfect about the Supreme Court’s review of President Trump’s tariff spree the week Dick Cheney passed away. What the court was weighing, after all, was Cheney’s core legacy: the limitless executive power now claimed by Cheney’s Frankenstein monster, Trump.
In that sense, Dick Cheney pioneered the Trump presidency. Without Cheney and Addington, no Trump and Vought. Cheney was never a constitutional conservative; he was always an extremist, a pioneer of an elected, unaccountable, and secret monarchy that has reached its zenith in the GOP today. His attempt to cast himself in recent years as some kind of principled, old-school constitutional Republican is classic Cheney: i.e. shameless misdirection, calculated spin, and a big fat lie.

https://twitter.com/jaynordlinger/status/1986558173021388869

https://twitter.com/SplendorEternal/status/1986441546401505476