Odds and Ends — 26 May 2025

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22 days ago

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

Musk confirms X Money beta testing ahead of planned 2025 launch

https://twitter.com/PalisadeAI/status/1926084635903025621

Rich Dad Poor Dad Author Can't Believe People Aren’t Buying Bitcoin

https://twitter.com/AskPerplexity/status/1926387407412191663

Coronavirus and Public Health:

US sees cases of new COVID-19 variant linked to surge in China

Americans deserve more news than the CDC is providing

The CDC’s reluctance to provide transparent information about current disease outbreaks leaves Americans vulnerable.

Politics:

https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1926635142589600141

Trump the central planner

Trump's extraordinary interventions — which dovetail with what some critics have labeled "MAGA Maoism" — are rattling businesses, consumers and investors, and throwing global markets into turmoil. … Trump has already stretched the power of the presidency to remake the government in his image. Now he's trying to do the same with Corporate America.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1926637950768476555

Far-right marchers attack Palestinians as Israel marks taking of Jerusalem

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/BarbMcQuade/status/1926439525376483672

Trump admin must facilitate another deportee's return, judge orders

https://twitter.com/Mollyploofkins/status/1926637653560037472

https://twitter.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1926399733280440392

———— Memorial Day ————

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1926964198015209971

Trophy Wives and Al Capone.

This Memorial Day, remember who the heroes are—and never forget the cowards and traitors slithering among us.

https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1926990889160720794

https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1927046209539080313

———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————

https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1926641448616673377

Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder

In a matter of weeks, the flood of cash swirling around the White House swamped whatever bulwarks against corruption remained in American law and culture. There have always been wealthy donors, of course. But a decade ago no one on earth had more than a hundred billion dollars. Now, according to Forbes, at least fifteen people have surpassed that mark. Since Trump first took office, Musk’s net worth has grown from roughly ten billion dollars to more than four hundred billion.
The ultra-rich have captured more of America’s wealth than even the nineteenth-century tycoons of the Gilded Age. Scholars who study inequality as far back as the Neolithic period struggle to find precedents.

I think there’s a real chance we’re on the road to 1789. Que les têtes roulent?