Odds and Ends — 17 October 2026

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

Indonesian Stocks Plunge as MSCI Threatens to Drop Market from Indexes

https://x.com/hoplitnet/status/2111000655590748164

Coronavirus and Public Health:

More than 4,400 measles cases reported in US as CDC plans to send 'disease detective' to Pennsylvania

Iran:

https://x.com/yarotrof/status/2111004833713172697

https://x.com/Kasparov63/status/2111117205131685967

Politics:

https://x.com/TheRickWilson/status/2111126633759314111

Trump Waives Most Russia Sanctions Passed by Congress

…Trump is halting implementation of most of the sanctions that were to be imposed on Russia under a bipartisan bill he signed last month.
The announcement came in an executive order on Friday night, and was part of a broader pivot by Trump toward courting Moscow as he seeks to end the war in Ukraine and keep energy prices under control ahead of the midterm elections.

Does anyone still doubt that Trump is a deeply compromised Russian asset?

https://x.com/BriInMN/status/2111270474034434271

https://x.com/frankdpi/status/2111268912302321839

https://x.com/dolphinsands/status/2111208413556621703

https://x.com/adamsteinbaugh/status/2111127801629745309

Trump Falsely Says Election of Jon Ossoff Was Illegitimate

https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/2110896915349225595

———— Starshield/Starlink ————

https://x.com/Kasparov63/status/2110909568662270261

https://x.com/lrozen/status/2111160763712704724

https://x.com/RickPetree/status/2111157260991029366

https://x.com/peterjukes/status/2111182052124975461

https://x.com/donwinslow/status/2111195145802862641

https://x.com/samstein/status/2111204282385006980

———— A New Unit of Time ————

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2111025672361775612

https://x.com/GeoffBrown82/status/2110906998162366909

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2111149489017049578

https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/2111304937380753802

https://x.com/sandibachom/status/2111186345045397605

———— Autocracy R Us ————

Appeals court appears skeptical of Trump’s attempt to shield presidential records

A federal appeals court panel sounded deeply skeptical Friday about President Donald Trump’s effort to invalidate the Watergate-era law that governs presidential records — and played a central role in the criminal charges he faced for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

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

https://x.com/RickPetree/status/2110941679951691877

https://x.com/travisakers/status/2110854053315907660

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://x.com/Mylovanov/status/2111090682668503546

https://x.com/OlenaRohoza/status/2111096138338075024

———— Melon Husk ————

https://x.com/davetroy/status/2111047823567516055

Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the GOP

Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.

———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————

How Hegseth’s Plan for a Reality-TV Execution Imploded

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has enjoyed President Trump’s full support for any number of Trumpian initiatives: staging macho, campy shows of military bravado; trashing political opponents and the press, often by name; dissing European allies; posting videos of air strikes on suspected drug boats off the coast of Latin America.
But Hegseth apparently crossed a line with his revelation last week that the execution by firing squad of a military death-row inmate would be livestreamed to the world. Even a president who’d brought a bloody mixed-martial-arts fight to the White House lawn apparently didn’t relish the thought of an afternoon spent watching Army soldiers shoot bullets into a paraplegic.

Oh, Trump will watch it, with plenty of relish.

———— Mors Imperii ————

”I run the protection program. I’ll take care of you.”

https://x.com/caslernoel/status/2110886755444670582

Serendipity:

https://x.com/jikanart/status/2110839122235412576
https://x.com/fauxfilosopher/status/2111108680334631087

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