Odds and Ends — 17 November 2024

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

Fed Suddenly Flips On Huge $3 Trillion Bitcoin And Crypto Price Boom

Bitcoin Whale Turned $120 Into $179 Million—All It Took Was HODLing for 14 Years

Someone held 2,000 Bitcoin from a price of $0.06 to nearly $90,000 before moving them to Coinbase late Thursday.

Coronavirus and Medical News, Analysis, and Opinion:

https://twitter.com/PedsGeekMD/status/1857196642643976508

Severe COVID-19 may shrink cancer tumors, early data suggest

https://twitter.com/GoldwagNathan/status/1857164535410368867

Politics:

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1857589662946127926

Trump’s Peace Plan For Ukraine Looks Like Putin’s Victory

The former president thinks he can end the war in Ukraine. In reality, he’s preparing to hand Russia a win — and the consequences will be profound

https://twitter.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1857270405696008472

Trump Boosters Expect Big Returns on Their Investment: ‘The Shackles Are Off’

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1857257235690213673

“The most lethal force in the world”: Heritage founder takes victory lap amid Project 2025 fallout

https://twitter.com/CWJediMaster/status/1857450717583208753

It’s almost as if they don’t know that American energy production is at an all-time high and we’re now a net exporter of petroleum products: Doug Burgum Gets Expanded Role

Donald Trump just announced that, in addition to formally naming Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota as his choice for interior secretary, he would appoint him as the chairman of a new National Energy Council overseeing American energy policy.
Trump has made repeated promises to slash energy costs in half as a bid to fight inflation.

https://twitter.com/BlackKnight10k/status/1857260780745572508

Trump’s Pentagon Pick Was Flagged as ‘Insider Threat’

https://twitter.com/AlanLevinovitz/status/1857424579766972814

Scraping the bottom of the barrel, Steven Cheung to Be Trump’s Communications Director

https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1857429383566307691
https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1857427546352021627

Donald Trump Floods the Zone

The sheer quantity of individually unqualified selections might perversely make blocking any of them harder.

https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/1857513389880201681
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1857571453354520728

Trump Team Compiling List of Officers for Courts-Martial

The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and exploring whether they could be court-martialed for their involvement.
Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including gathering information about who was directly involved in the decision-making for the military, how it was carried out, and whether the military leaders could be eligible for charges as serious as treason.

https://twitter.com/BErickson_BIO/status/1857517312288633286
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1857948575394681119

Serendipity:

https://twitter.com/tenfeetoff/status/1856460243800141944

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