Odds and Ends — 8 September 2025

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

Bitcoin Google Searches Hit 11-Month Low as Gold Continues to Climb

Back to school: Teachers adopt new methods to tackle AI

Coronavirus and Public Health:

Politics:

Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump

The judges rejected President Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision extending presidential immunity should shield him from liability for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.

America’s Perón

Decades of personalist rule turned Argentina into a global economic laughingstock. Donald Trump seems to have misunderstood the lesson.

France is set to vote out another PM. Can anything break its political deadlock?

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

Johnson backs off claim that Trump was an ‘FBI informant’ in Epstein case

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

———— Autocracy R Us ————

Local Sheriffs Are Turning Their Jails Into ICE Detention Centers

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

Prepare for possible US troop drawdown in Europe, Estonia says

Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance

Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has dismantled the American government’s efforts to combat foreign disinformation. The problem is that Russia has not stopped spreading it.
How much that matters can now be seen in Moldova, a small but strategic European nation that has since the end of the Cold War looked to Europe and the United States to extract itself from Moscow’s shadow.
The Trump administration has slashed diplomatic and financial support for the country’s fight against Russian influence, even as the Kremlin has conducted what researchers and European officials described as an intense campaign to sway that country’s parliamentary elections, scheduled for Sept. 28.

———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————

'Tariffs are costing my business $100,000 a month'

———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————

———— Mors Imperii ————

Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

In about three weeks, the government’s funding will run out. Democrats will face a choice: Join Republicans to fund a government that President Trump is turning into a tool of authoritarian takeover and vengeance or shut the government down.

‘I’m Gonna Punch You in Your Fucking Face’: Scott Bessent Threatens an Administration Rival

The Treasury secretary's quiet tensions with housing finance chief Bill Pulte exploded at a private dinner last week.

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Odds and Ends — 8 September 2025 | Ecency