Odds and Ends — 29 January 2026

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

Gold in 'extreme greed' sentiment as it adds entire bitcoin market cap in one day

https://twitter.com/NotHoodlum/status/2016620480224973075
- NotHoodlum

SEC Says Tokenized Assets Are Securities First, Technology Second

Coronavirus and Public Health:

COVID-19 viral fragments shown to target and kill specific immune cells in UCLA-led study

Politics:

https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/2016519012755062840
- gtconway3d

Fuck Around and Find Out

Nine progressive prosecutors from cities around the country are launching a coalition to assist in prosecuting federal law enforcement officers who violate state law.
The organization, which is called the Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach… Its acronym, F.A.F.O., references a slang term for negative consequences…

https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/2016579782121599020
- CathyYoung63

———— Minnesota Under Siege ————

“This is moral injury that we’re living through. They still have an active federal investigation into the wife of Renee Good. And that is demented shit right there.” — Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in an interview with The Bulwark.

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/2016510320366256305
- JuddLegum

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/2016598770230714447
- BillKristol

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/2016504011856208023
- kyledcheney

https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/2016673650867384720
- NewsHour

Pam Bondi Presses Minnesota for Voter Data

For months, President Donald Trump’s administration has been trying to force Minnesota’s Democratic leaders to turn over detailed information about the state’s voters, including driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.
State officials have said no. Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi is repeating those demands in a letter that also references the federal government’s aggressive deployment of immigration agents to the streets of Minneapolis.

https://twitter.com/mynamehear/status/2016362327633703287
- mynamehear

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/2016511614778851528
- kylegriffin1

https://twitter.com/kylietcheung/status/2016337417842643290
- kylietcheung

https://twitter.com/BrentTerhune/status/2016624356139438500
- BrentTerhune

How Trump Realized He Had a Big Problem in Minneapolis

Mr. Trump has honed a survival tactic over many years facing criticism in the public eye: He creates diversions to barrel from one news cycle into the next. But in other moments, when he has faced particularly intense — and politically damaging — public outcry, he has taken stock of news coverage and decided to take a different tack, often temporarily.

https://twitter.com/LePapillonBlu2/status/2016319631380603153
- LePapillonBlu2

https://twitter.com/vincempls/status/2016625131250930021
- vincempls

https://twitter.com/vincempls/status/2016625929154330858
- vincempls

ICE officers in Minnesota directed not to interact with 'agitators' in new orders

https://twitter.com/jkimballcook/status/2016219192379269131
- jkimballcook

https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/2016595031646200298
- taliaotg

https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/2016649437234217316
- lawrencehurley

https://twitter.com/nxthompson/status/2016591428139221171
- nxthompson

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/2016393305991389354
- Max_Fisher

Search warrant FBI served at elections office near Atlanta seeks records tied to the 2020 elections

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2016567990427197599
- RonFilipkowski

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/2016687705464127934
- willsommer

https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/2016681563203797004
- adamscochran

https://twitter.com/DougBockClark/status/2016647723500331052
- DougBockClark

https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/2016720714573684817
- lrozen

What Should Americans Do Now?

A lawless regime is an illegitimate one. If the country seems to have reached a breaking point in Minneapolis, this is why. And yet Minneapolis also offers a compelling answer to the question that democracy-loving Americans have asked for the past year: What can I do?