Odds and Ends — 15 December 2025

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

Majority of Americans Have Tough Time Buying Groceries

Standard Chartered, Coinbase deepen alliance to build institutional crypto infrastructure

Quantum Computing Unlikely to Impact Bitcoin, Crypto Prices in 2026: Grayscale

Coronavirus and Public Health:

New clues about long covid’s cause could unlock treatments

Under Trump Administration, Measles Outbreaks Spread as U.S. Risks Losing Elimination Status

Politics:

Trump Is Already Discussing Preemptive Pardons For His Lawless Administration

Florida Is Ground Zero for Coming Obamacare Storm

Florida will be hit harder than any other state if ObamaCare subsidies expire at the end of the year, which is looking increasingly likely as Republicans in Congress struggle to unite behind a plan to extend the tax credits.
More than 1.5 million Floridians could lose healthcare as monthly payments skyrocket. Average premium costs could shoot up by 132 percent, or by $521 annually, for Floridians who currently receive enhanced ObamaCare subsidies.

———— Bondi Beach ————

———— Rob Reiner ————

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

———— Autocracy R Us ————

The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown

Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”

Rep. Ilhan Omar: Trump is weaponizing fear against me and other immigrants

ICE activity in Minnesota is state-sanctioned racial profiling used as a tool of political intimidation.

What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.

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

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

———— Mors Imperii ————

Trump Is Angry at Americans for Not Appreciating His Greatness

If his current grumpiness about public opinion persists or even intensifies, Trump would not be the first leader to be undone by the sense that his country didn’t deserve him. It is, in fact, an occupational hazard for those who view themselves as world-historical figures instead of mere elected officials with limited horizons, operating within constitutional boundaries.
Given his famous unmanageability, it may be vain for Trump’s advisers to urge him to admit some shortcomings in his policies and show some empathy for those who believe they are suffering in this greatest of all moments in U.S. history. It’s going to be a long three years if he simply cannot adjust to adverse public opinion and grows contemptuous of the people whose adulation he believes he has earned.

I find it hard to believe that he’ll last another three years.

Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery demands on Trump for tax returns, psych records, and 'any' prescription meds history

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Odds and Ends — 15 December 2025 | Ecency