Odds and Ends — 24 September 2025

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

Bitcoin Traders Should Pay Attention to Japan as Top Economist Warns of Debt Implosion

Vitalik calls for open-source infrastructure in health, finance, governance

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Study links long COVID to higher risk of heavy menstrual bleeding

Politics:

A few months before the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence, Donald Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease. His war on speech is no drill. Late-night comedians are being targeted. Corporations like Paramount are meekly submitting to his will. Ivy League presidents and globally renowned law firms act as though the First Amendment no longer holds. Outspoken business leaders have suddenly lost their tongues. Since they have the most to lose, those with power and wealth are among the softest targets… Less than a year after Trump was elected, the separation of powers is not working. Congress is irrelevant. The Supreme Court is quiescent. The media is punch drunk. Democrats are fragmented. Independent federal agencies are losing autonomy. The markets are high on the AI gold rush, crypto deregulation and the prospect of a return to easy money.

https://twitter.com/joni_askola/status/1970450990697791945 https://twitter.com/MeachamDr/status/1970482156741742858

Man Found Guilty of Trying to Kill Trump

The trial of Ryan Wesley Routh came to a dramatic end Tuesday when he started stabbing himself in the neck with a pen after a Florida jury found him guilty of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump last year on a golf course.

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1970482945992597988

———— The Village Idiot Speaks at the United Nations ————

Trump criticizes European allies in U.N. speech: “Your countries are going to hell”

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1970505082522251389

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1970516545509171557

https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1970496124856258798

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1970498119562678330

https://twitter.com/ishaantharoor/status/1970500411267391540

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1970533820664328301

https://twitter.com/jeremymarrell/status/1970504864921985158

Trump litters UN speech with false claims about climate, inflation, immigration and world peace

https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1970661793396859196

WH demands that anyone responsible for escalator malfunction at U.N. be “fired,” turns out it was Trump’s team.

https://twitter.com/PaulleyTicks/status/1970639436754116954

https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1970512682450346005

———— Stephen Miller ————

Stephen Miller’s Hypocrisy Is Right There in His Speech

In the White House adviser’s view, violent rhetoric is allowed only when he and Trump are the ones spewing it. Stephen Miller delivered a eulogy for Charlie Kirk that served as a battle cry for the Trump administration’s state-sponsored war on his perceived foes—a war for which Miller is the primary strategist. The speech was a jarring piece of rhetoric. It is a perfect encapsulation of the ethos of Trumpism, boiling away the president’s idiosyncratic habits of mixing insult comedy and weird digressions into his rhetoric and leaving, in Miller’s tongue, the residue of pure ideology and will to power. Miller’s theme was that President Donald Trump’s side embodies pure good, his opponents pure evil, and the former is destined to utterly destroy the latter. Republicans have never stopped complaining that Hillary Clinton once described a portion of Trump’s base as “a basket of deplorables.” Yet over the weekend the president’s most powerful adviser depicted half the country as worthless, irredeemably wicked, and fated for destruction.

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1970285846571164110

https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1970592356337623176

https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1970717120679096790