Odds and Ends — 1 June 2026

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

For Hive Power Up Day, I staked 185.671 HIVE.

https://twitter.com/davidzmorris/status/2061171038453485818
- davidzmorris

CFTC Approves Bitcoin Perpetual Futures on Prediction Market Kalshi

https://twitter.com/bryanrbeal/status/2061093930985193817
- bryanrbeal

Coronavirus and Public Health:

The Painful Truth About Long Covid

There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it.

Iran:

https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/2061220035440378268
- TheMaineWonk

US, Iran exchange fire as Trump insists ‘it will all work out well’

Politics:

The U.N. is Going Broke

The United Nations is going broke as the U.S. and China withhold payments to the institution in a jostle for control.
The U.N. relies on U.S. and Chinese money for 42% of its basic funding.

Pence Calls Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund ‘Deeply Offensive’

———— Stark. Raving. Mad. ————

https://twitter.com/covie_93/status/2060834238899872035
- covie_93

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/2060838721033842989
- atrupar

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

Epstein Truth Commission holding first public meeting

———— Because Of Course ————

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/2061272676539552118
- WalshFreedom

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/RobertDownen_/status/2061100907270472071
- RobertDownen_

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

https://twitter.com/TheRealThelmaJ1/status/2061215013302685907
- TheRealThelmaJ1

https://twitter.com/dfriedman33/status/2061208183570374885
- dfriedman33

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/2061026182565429636
- JayinKyiv

https://twitter.com/general_ben/status/2061070442761158999
- general_ben

Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: Putin’s cabal must be brought to trial for crimes in Ukraine. With this plan, the world can do that

Vladimir Putin should be worried. Not since the trials of the Nazis at Nuremberg and the Japanese war criminals in Tokyo have so many world leaders made common cause to bring to justice the perpetrators of crimes that have brought terror, death and misery to defenceless millions.
The decision to prosecute Putin’s cabal for the crime of aggression, reached this month after an agreement between the Council of Europe and the European Union, is historic and offers hope in an age of chaos and fracture. This special tribunal is a mechanism of practical intent but, more than that, it is a statement: that there will never again be any hiding place for those guilty of war atrocities and the needless destruction of civilian life.

But how to take them into custody? Germany and Japan were both occupied. Even if/when Russia is defeated in Ukraine, it won’t be occupied. Maybe a successor government would hand over the perpetrators, but that’s very speculative. On the other hand, Ukraine’s going to have a long memory. I wouldn’t be surprised if it used special forces or intelligence assets to kill at least some of these people.