Odds and Ends — 17 October 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
5 reasons why Trump’s World Liberty Financial token crashed and burned
The U.S. economy under Donald Trump and Joe Biden, in 3 charts
ECB cuts rates again as euro zone economy stagnates
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
US FDA pauses Novavax's trial of combo COVID-flu shot on safety concerns
Politics:
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1846680924982747188
https://twitter.com/DrGJackBrown/status/1846720165159055414
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1846690838719422674
Fox News Packed Town Hall with Trump Supporters
Fox News hosted an all-women town hall with former President Donald Trump, billed as an opportunity for female voters to ask the Republican candidate questions that matter to them.
But Fox News did not disclose that the female audience it selected for the event was packed with local Republican supporters and the network edited its broadcast to remove some of their vocal advocacy of Trump.
https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1846639997795160339
Trump makes at least 19 false claims in one-hour Fox town hall with women
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1845084059833118793
https://twitter.com/MrJonCryer/status/1846198347037601810
Republicans Tell Trump Musk’s Super PAC Is Blowing It
Donald Trump has largely outsourced his 2024 campaign’s get-out-the-vote operation to a Super PAC bankrolled and directed by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.
In recent weeks, several Republican operatives and other figures in the national party have bluntly and directly informed Trump they fear Musk’s organization is falling down on the job of mobilizing voters to cast their ballots for the Republican nominee.
https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1846237162989117830
Donald Trump bears responsibility for Jan. 6 attack, Jack Smith argues in new filing
The special counsel says Trump “willfully caused his supporters to obstruct and attempt to obstruct” the certification of Joe Biden's victory in 2020.
https://twitter.com/bobcesca_go/status/1846280054013415694
Alabama Voter Roll Purge Before Election Is Blocked
A federal judge blocked Alabama election officials from carrying out a last-minute purge of names from lists of registered voters, finding the state ‘blew’ a 90-day nationwide deadline to maintain the status quo ahead of the November election.
https://twitter.com/realKyleKeegan/status/1846277967238123680
Omarosa: Trump ‘dictated’ doctors’ letters about his medical history
Donald Trump has made courting younger voters — and younger men in particular — a public pillar of his 2024 campaign. But he is conspicuously absent from one platform where they gather in large numbers.
Mr. Trump has not bought a single advertisement on Snapchat, effectively ceding the popular digital messaging platform to Vice President Kamala Harris, whose campaign has spent more than $5.3 million on ads there, according to the company’s disclosures.
https://twitter.com/KnowaWasTaken/status/1846322609702731946
Trump Tried to Silence Stormy Daniels Again
Donald Trump tried to launder a new hush money payment to Stormy Daniels to silence her weeks before the 2024 election, MSNBC reports.
Daniels did not make a deal with Trump.
Who’s Making Trump’s ‘Swiss Made’ Watches?
https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1846528001330024537
FEMA workers threatened by armed group in Tennessee
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1846563600187482277
https://twitter.com/MW_Royers/status/1846566538716873108
Serendipity:
Microplastic pollution is everywhere, even in the exhaled breath of dolphins
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