Odds and Ends — 26 March 2025

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

Moody’s Warns on Deteriorating Outlook for U.S.

Credit rating group Moody’s has warned on the US fiscal outlook, saying President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs can hamper the country’s ability to cope with a growing debt pile and higher interest rates.

Consumer Confidence Hits 12-Year Low

America’s economic mood continues to deteriorate as President Donald Trump carries on with his sweeping economic agenda.
Consumer confidence slid 7.2 points this month to a reading of 92.9, the Conference Board said Tuesday in its latest survey, extending a decline that began in December, after the US presidential election.

Trump Family Venture Plunges Deeper Into Crypto

World Liberty Financial, a crypto project backed by President Trump and his family, said it would launch a new stablecoin backed by U.S. government debt.

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Five years on: The countries that never locked down for Covid-19

Measles Case Confirmed in D.C.

The D.C. Department of Health confirmed a case of measles in the District on Tuesday morning.
The person who was diagnosed traveled through several places in D.C. while contagious, including an Amtrak train.

Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Patients More Ill

Doctors in West Texas are seeing measles patients whose illnesses have been complicated by an alternative therapy endorsed by vaccine skeptics including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary.
One of those supplements is vitamin A, which Mr. Kennedy has promoted as a near miraculous cure for measles. Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage.

Politics:

———— Pete Hegseth, DUI Hire ————


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The Worst and the Dimmest

These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots, but don’t let that fool you: they really are idiots.



The Scandal Will Also Be in How They Brush It Aside

There should be consequences for top government officials convening on Signal to discuss war plans. We fear there won’t be.



Trump Looks for a Fall Guy for Signalgate

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White House Aides Defiant After Group Chat Fiasco

Said one Trump adviser: “We don’t care what the media says. We can easily handle what would kill any other administration. This will blow over.”
Said another: “Trump certainly wasn’t pleased with this. But all this talk you see about Waltz not lasting is just way premature. There’s a Washington feeding frenzy. And we all know that you don’t give the mob what it wants.”


Trump’s Angry Rant Over Hegseth Text Fiasco Makes Scandal Even Worse



———— Ask and Ye Shall Receive ————

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

———— The Buck Stops Somewhere Else ————


Kabuki theater? I’ll believe when I see it: Intelligence Officials Shift Blame to Pete Hegseth

Several of President Donald Trump’s top national security officials shifted responsibility to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for sending potentially classified information that appeared in a group chat about US military strikes in Yemen that a journalist was included in.
It was a subtle arms-lengthening of one of Trump’s most controversial — and least experienced — cabinet members.


———— Melon Husk ————


———— Krasnov/Putin/Ukraine ————



EU rejects Russian ceasefire demand for sanctions relief



Putin’s Theories of Victory

Russia Sees Trump’s Dealmaking as a Can’t-Lose Proposition


https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1904574166671503388

———— Autocracy R Us ————

They Are America’s Most Powerful Law Firms. Their Silence Is Deafening.

Mr. Trump’s tactics against Big Law and other legal institutions seem clearly aimed at demonstrating there is no law but whatever deal the president is personally willing to strike, indeed no law but Trump.

Mike Johnson Floats Eliminating Federal Courts

Facing pressure from his right flank to take on judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday floated the possibility of Congress eliminating some federal courts.
It’s the latest attack from Republicans on the federal judiciary, as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration.

The Justice Department Just Debuted a New Defense of Trump. It’s Terrifying.

Alien Enemies Act Deportations Were Carefully Orchestrated To Keep Courts In The Dark

———— Mors Imperii ————

Fooking brilliant: Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs.
Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature have a potential solution: children.
The state’s legislature on Tuesday is set to debate a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days.

J.D. Vance Will Join His Wife on Greenland Trip

What possible reason would the Danes have for allowing this?

Trump Signs Order to Tighten Voter Registration

…Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that would seek to cut federal grants to states who don’t adopt tougher standards for voter registration, the latest Republican step in the political fight over access to the voter rolls.

Serendipity:

If FEMA didn’t exist, could states handle the disaster response alone?

Mud, water and wood: The system that kept a 1604-year-old city afloat

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