Odds and Ends — 19 September 2025

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

Bank of Italy calls for tighter rules on global multi-issuance stablecoins

https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1968656271571063028

XRP Fund Notches Biggest ETF Debut of 2025—and Dogecoin Wasn't Far Behind

Coronavirus and Public Health:

RFK Jr. Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handpicked slate of vaccine advisers voted to no longer recommend a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella for children under age 4.

As someone who had all of those as a young child, I give RFK Jr. a virtual hard slap across his face, followed by a virtual right uppercut.

Politics:

House GOP Leaders May Jam Senate After Funding Vote

House Republican leaders are discussing a plan to pass a seven-week stopgap funding measure Friday then not bring the House back into session until after the Oct. 1 shutdown deadline. No final decision has been made on House scheduling, the people said, but the move would allow the House to ‘jam’ the Senate, giving it no alternative to avoid a shutdown than to pass the GOP-written measure.

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1968750980935123384

Death Threats Against Mamdani Lead to Arrest

A Texas man has been arrested and charged with making anti-Muslim death threats against Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor and the front-runner in recent polls.

https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral/status/1968525270530539624

https://twitter.com/BlisterPearl/status/1968687855221285222

'Cataclysmic' situation in Gaza City, UN official says, as Israeli tanks advance

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

Trump Denies Knowing Ousted U.K. Ambassador

…Donald Trump said he doesn’t know the U.K. ambassador to Washington who was fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week over his relationship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, despite meeting him in the Oval Office four months ago.

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1968706792810008588

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1968773140705612037

———— Charlie Kirk————

https://twitter.com/DeanObeidallah/status/1968631185434677625 https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1968456444216213585

https://twitter.com/MeachamDr/status/1968650933237129257

https://twitter.com/DeanObeidallah/status/1968518268127195535

https://twitter.com/chrsturbo/status/1968670557898989612

———— Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee ————

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1968648634196480364

https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1968699395962007787

https://twitter.com/SaraForTexLege/status/1968695223984218474

https://twitter.com/NicoPerrino/status/1968668665248649625

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1968709023542169713

Jimmy Kimmel Didn’t Just Get Canceled

This is it. This is the fucking moment. The mask is off. The performance is over. Donald Trump just fired Jimmy Kimmel by proxy, and he did it the way a mob boss does: with a wink, a nod, and a crony carrying the threats. He didn’t bother with laws or process; he went straight to intimidation. He sent Brendan Carr, his FCC errand boy in a government-issue suit, to make the warning clear. It wasn’t governance, it was extortion — a shakedown carried out under the banner of federal authority.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1968740767930720543

https://twitter.com/hissgoescobra/status/1968464032282599608

Trump Wields Full Toolbox to Bring Media to Heel

…Trump received thunderous applause during his second inaugural address in January when he vowed to ‘immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America… Yet he is now conducting the most punishing government crackdown against major American media institutions in modern times, using what seems like every tool at his disposal to eradicate reporting and commentary with which he disagrees.

https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1968750783223959969

Trump Threatens to Ax Licenses of TV Stations That Criticize Him

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1968743718850003153

https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1968746851726934266

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1968735883617513566

Brendan Carr Targets ‘The View’ As FCC Chairman Continues Regulatory Threats

https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1968742494146887982

https://youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg?feature=shared

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/conorjrogers/status/1968461812707291245

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1968488552196378977

https://twitter.com/TheReelRandom/status/1968499156562915830

https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/1968528703857586247

Judge blocks deportation of Guatemalan children, saying justification "crumbled like a house of cards"

https://twitter.com/JessicaLBurbank/status/1968492831032430691

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1968809324773261520

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://twitter.com/maria_drutska/status/1968720721497976949

https://youtu.be/hNgnF9v6Emw?feature=shared

———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1968771752093192237

———— Mors Imperii ————

https://twitter.com/TheFungi669/status/1968570426235187565

Labor Department Rehires Staff Who Took Offer to Quit

Staffers who opted into the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, voluntarily taking paid administrative leave with the expectation of leaving their jobs, are returning to the US Labor Department. Three current DOL employees, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Bloomberg Law that colleagues who took the Department of Government Efficiency’s “Fork in the Road” offer earlier this year have returned as full-time workers, after collecting their full pay and benefits for months without performing their job duties.

‘Active Clubs’ Are White Supremacy’s New, Dangerous Frontier

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1969072111609164010