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Odds and Ends — 14 June 2026

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Published: 14 Jun 2026 › Updated: 14 Jun 2026Odds and Ends — 14 June 2026

Odds and Ends — 14 June 2026

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

Anthropic suspends all access to Mythos model after US government bans foreign nationals use

Coronavirus and Public Health:

How long Covid’s scientific stalemate made it politically erasable

Iran:

The tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, are hitting bottom. The oil market is about to hit a tipping point

War Crimes Seem To Be Official US Policy Now

We Will Rue The Day

Politics:

The Decline of the Republic Comes with a Claw

Trump Working on Plan to ‘Expunge’ Impeachments

…Trump and his allies have discussed pushing lawmakers to pass a resolution aimed at voiding his first-term impeachments.
The resolution would allow Trump to claim a symbolic victory on a matter that has dogged him since his first term, part of a broader effort to burnish his presidential legacy. It would have little legal significance, however, because the Constitution provides no procedure for undoing an impeachment…


———— Minnesota Under Siege ————

Man pleads guilty to killing a top Minnesota Democrat and her husband while posing as an officer

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

———— Autocracy R Us ————

Postal Service Proposes Blocking Some Mail Ballots

The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don’t turn over voter rolls to the federal government.
The rule, proposed last week, is vaguely written but appears to establish broad authority for the agency to intervene in the mail voting process. It calls on states to compile lists of mail voters that Postal Service employees would use to screen ballots for eligibility. If states refuse to comply, the agency could refuse to send their mail ballots.

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

https://x.com/JonLemire/status/2065784300541251651

———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————

A Grim Milestone

The war in Ukraine has often been compared to World War I for its brutal infantry assaults and heavy casualties. Yet the idea that it could, by any measure, surpass a conflict so long and bloody that French soldiers hoped it would be “the last of the last” once seemed unthinkable.
That is just what happened on Thursday. The war in Ukraine — which reached 1,569 days, or more than four years and three months — has now outlasted World War I.

———— Melon Husk ————

———— Mors Imperii ————

Serendipity:

Scientists Concerned Latest Gene Editing of Human Embryos Could “Open the Floodgates”

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