Odds and Ends — 15 September 2023

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about 1 year ago (Edited)

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

For LEO Power Up Day, I staked 501.315 LEO.

Decentralized stablecoins could dominate crypto: MakerDAO founder

A Year After Ethereum Merge, Net Supply Down Nearly 300K Ether

https://twitter.com/VisualCap/status/1702094984701239593?s=20

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Half of Americans interested in updated COVID vaccine, poll finds

Is it an actual cause and effect situation? Correlation/causation or not: I-Team Exclusive: Drop in Baltimore homicides due to COVID-19 fraud prosecutions, US attorney says

Florida Man:

DeSantis Took Undisclosed Private Flights with Donors

Politics:

https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1702382440889623010?s=20

Congress Needs to Show Samuel Alito and the Supreme Court Who’s Boss

The fact that Alito feels empowered to express his opinion on pending legislation that would likely be litigated before SCOTUS reveals the growing dangers posed by today’s high court.

A constitutional revolution is underway at the Supreme Court, as the conservative supermajority rewrites basic understandings of the roots of US law

https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1701737875488797056?s=20

White Man’s Burden

One of Donald Trump’s signature political achievements, which like most of them owes to his genius for shamelessness, has been to convert self-pity from a Republican vice into a virtue. He has likewise turned claims of victimhood inside out, from confessions of weakness into boasts… He has called one source of his suffering ‘the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country’, and another, simply, ‘a lynching’. It may be the only Trump whine he has ever managed to sell, but, as he exhorts his supporters to feel sorry for themselves and to rage at their oppressors, and presents himself as their persecuted billionaire champion, they gulp it all down.
As effective as this Trumpian theme has been, one category of Republican politician seems particularly reluctant to adopt it: non-white ones.

Inside Exxon’s Strategy to Downplay Climate Change

Jury Awards $100,000 to Couple Denied Marriage License

A federal jury has awarded $100,000 to a Kentucky couple who sued former county clerk Kim Davis over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1702081143972012324?s=20

Donald Trump Has Never Had to Hide in a Fridge

In Britain, a televised interview with a politician is a chance to hold power to account. The American broadcast media, with few exceptions, prefers to lob softballs instead.

The End of the Pro-Life Movement

https://twitter.com/mrbromwich/status/1702395015094231124?s=20

Brazil Rioter Gets 17 Years in Prison

Brazil’s Supreme Court handed a 17-year prison sentence Thursday to a supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed top government offices on Jan. 8 in an alleged bid to forcefully restore the right-wing leader to office.

James Comer Is Lying About His Requests for Hunter Biden’s Bank Records

https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1702401495344488673?s=20

Trump says it’s ’very unlikely’ he’d pardon himself if elected

Chinese defence minister under investigation for corrupt procurement

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1702118781873455239?s=20