Odds and Ends — 15 August 2026

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

Bitcoin could bottom in October, altcoins are ‘basically dead,’ Swan CEO says

https://x.com/BillKristol/status/2088267574622457944

Meta Patents Cameras That Recognize Faces and Log Your Actions

The filing would turn raw footage into labeled clips of who did what, without anyone opting in.

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Leading Republicans push brazen falsehood on Covid vaccines and miscarriages

Iran:

Trump Says He’ll Declare Strait of Hormuz a U.S. Territory

…Trump said Friday that he plans to declare the Strait of Hormuz ‘a territory of the United States’ after the Iran war.
Said Trump: “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated — pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.”

https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2088315745490927713

Politics:

https://x.com/lauferlaw/status/2088364207683096996
https://x.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/2088487780590432713

https://x.com/TheRickyDavila/status/2088113389705076778

https://x.com/samstein/status/2088257512126472351

———— Pick a Lane ————

Trump Urges Americans to Accept High Gas Prices

JD Vance Says Low Gas Prices Is Top Goal in Iran War

———— NATO ————

https://x.com/ruth_deyermond/status/2088265695679176986

https://x.com/PawlowskiMario/status/2088325748297793765

https://x.com/WalshFreedom/status/2088330816900542579

———— Bernie Moreno and Max Miller ————

https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2088262369617011008

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/2088025410168893781

https://x.com/Acyn/status/2088049814168871319

https://x.com/caslernoel/status/2088368941441630224

https://x.com/ByChrisBrennan/status/2088276887793451068

———— Air Farce One ————

https://x.com/tmbg13/status/2087986456128008267

https://x.com/angel_0f_deathx/status/2088365733747331398

———— The Surveillance Society ————

https://x.com/Villgecrazylady/status/2087924887247532040

https://x.com/HackingButLegal/status/2088449257002942510

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://x.com/K8brannen/status/2088078996772622541

https://x.com/DougBockClark/status/2088306169588679132

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

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2088048523140886629

Trump’s Gift to the Money Launderers

Treasury isn’t merely shutting down an anti-corruption database. It’s deleting the data so future investigators can’t use it.

https://x.com/anneapplebaum/status/2088293322922053903

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2088399504546668586

https://x.com/ShaunPinnerUA/status/2088177629585125449

https://x.com/SenWhitehouse/status/2088272048556495337

———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————

https://x.com/halbritz/status/2088375732355400051

———— Mors Imperii ————

https://x.com/JamieBonkiewicz/status/2088062687406080053

https://x.com/UnrealBluegrass/status/2088399777624940595

Serendipity:

https://x.com/20th_Centurygal/status/2087890458831700313

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