Odds and Ends — 20 February 2026

We went to see Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die and both loved it. Weird and over the top. Has Sam Rockwell ever had a bad performance?

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

Ethereum’s Trustless Agents standard is the missing link for AI payments

https://twitter.com/SarahLarchmont/status/2024414974840279137
- SarahLarchmont

Bitcoin is still 'signficantly undervalued,' Bitwise says.

Wisconsin scraps VPN ban from age verification bill following backlash

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Universal vaccine for cold, flu, COVID and allergies moves a step closer, scientists say

Politics:

https://twitter.com/MarcoFoster_/status/2024490001422262410
- MarcoFoster_

https://twitter.com/jenniesjoylab/status/2024417492181901720
- jenniesjoylab

Former South Korean President Yoon receives life sentence for imposing martial law

https://twitter.com/meghanncuniff/status/2024326690437263837
- meghanncuniff

https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/2024561505963008114
- FPWellman

———— Minnesota Under Siege ————

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/2024480604423598202
- kyledcheney

Poll: Immigration operations in Minnesota leave behind a more polarized populace

Minnesotans were likelier to strongly approve and strongly disapprove of Trump and his immigration agenda than national adults after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed.

https://twitter.com/SahanJournal/status/2024625774263783869
- SahanJournal

———— Stark. Raving. Mad. ————

https://twitter.com/Daractenus/status/2024611964966883453
- Daractenus

https://twitter.com/vincempls/status/2024563946322104625
- vincempls

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

https://twitter.com/reesejgorman/status/2024591241782939825
- reesejgorman

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/2024510214209192220
- SethAbramson

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/2024631513254408293
- carolecadwalla

How Epstein and Maxwell used an elite Midwest arts school to prey on girls

Years before they were convicted sex offenders, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell used his wealth to gain access to a prestigious boarding school for young artists in Michigan, using a rental lodge Epstein donated to the school as a base from which to recruit some of their earliest victims, according to Department of Justice records and former campus administrators.

https://twitter.com/crunchyrugger/status/2024497940732006811
- crunchyrugger

https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/2024507953659941024
- lawindsor

Shell-shocked, haunted photo of Andrew will be part of how arrest is remembered

https://twitter.com/TimInHonolulu/status/2024494451343970335
- TimInHonolulu

https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/2024527941338587197
- Strandjunker

———— Iran ————

https://twitter.com/JournoRehab/status/2024488865407664292
- JournoRehab

https://twitter.com/Daractenus/status/2024553973550551467
- Daractenus

https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/2024550803801821473
- NathanJRobinson

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2024527237689565687
- ReichlinMelnick

https://twitter.com/JasonBassler1/status/2024518086720892994
- JasonBassler1

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment

After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

https://twitter.com/priscialva/status/2024462937159540879
- priscialva

https://twitter.com/micyoung75/status/2024212573860848059
- micyoung75

https://twitter.com/MarkSZaidEsq/status/2024522686937072085
- MarkSZaidEsq

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

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/2024509929692819894
- JakeSherman

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/2024647988140806454
- SethAbramson

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

https://twitter.com/BraddrofliT/status/2024606516368855143
- BraddrofliT

https://twitter.com/TimInHonolulu/status/2024634679257907672
- TimInHonolulu

The Russian village that lost its men to war

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them

———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————

Supreme Court strikes down bulk of Trump’s tariffs

The Supreme Court cast aside the bulk of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs Friday, obliterating a canon of his economic strategy in ruling that his use of an emergency statute to remake global trade was unlawful.
The decision invalidates what the Trump administration called the president’s most significant economic and foreign policy initiative of his second term, a result Trump has warned could foist financial ruin upon the United States.