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U.S. is producing a record 13.2 million barrels per day

The New York Times Still Doesn’t Get Bitcoin

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How Much Less to Worry About Long COVID Now

New cases seem to be less common nowadays, but that change is not as comforting as it sounds.

Florida Man:

Ron DeSantis Is Quietly Building His Off-Ramp

After a humbling loss in Iowa, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is starting to signal that he is building an off-ramp from the race for the Republican presidential nomination, a seeming acknowledgment of his dim prospects of defeating Donald Trump given his low poll numbers in New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Politics:

We Are Witnessing the Biggest Judicial Power Grab Since 1803

During a major hearing this week, the conservative justices made clear they’re about to gut the federal government’s power to regulate—and take that power for themselves.

A GOP Majority In Name Only

New Speaker Mike Johnson finds himself leading House Republicans with a majority in name only.
Unable to unite his unruly right flank and commanding one of the slimmest House majorities in history, Johnson is being forced to rely on Democrats for the basics of governing, including the latest bill to prevent a federal shutdown.
Approaching his first 100 days on the job, Johnson faces daunting choices ahead. He can try to corral conservatives, who are pushing rightward in endless hours of closed-door meetings, to work together as a team. Or he can keep reaching out to Democrats for a bipartisan coalition to pass compromise legislation.

https://twitter.com/loose_parts/status/1748468484479033443

UFOs Are Bombing in Yemen

https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1748720075484373351

Israel Weighs Freeing Hostages Against Destroying Hamas

After more than 100 days of war, Israel’s limited progress in dismantling Hamas has raised doubts within the military’s high command about the near-term feasibility of achieving the country’s principal wartime objectives: eradicating Hamas and also liberating the Israeli hostages still in Gaza.
Israel has established control over a smaller part of Gaza at this point in the war than it originally envisaged in battle plans from the start of the invasion… That slower than expected pace has led some commanders to privately express their frustrations over the civilian government’s strategy for Gaza, and led them to conclude that the freedom of more than 100 Israeli hostages still in Gaza can be secured only through diplomatic rather than military means.

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1748362726827552996

Paul Gosar Worries Over White People in the Army

https://twitter.com/theliamnissan/status/1748542018538598827

Anti-Abortion GOP Lawmaker Paid for Abortion

Republican State Rep. Richard Holtorf, a candidate for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, disclosed Friday that he financed an abortion for one of two girlfriends he impregnated, saying it helped her “live her best life.”
Holtorf did not appear to recognize the disconnect between his statement lauding the benefits of abortion access for his pregnant girlfriend and his staunch opposition to abortion rights, which led him to call abortion rights supporters ‘godless heathens’ last year…
Later Friday afternoon, Holtorf provided 9NEWS with a statement declining to discuss the circumstances of his girlfriend's abortion…
Around 11 p.m. Friday night, Holtorf issued a lengthy statement via Facebook blaming the "liberal news media" and defending his anti-abortion bonafides.

https://twitter.com/hd433/status/1748521280209404147

Ohio Pastor Charged for Opening Church to Homeless People in Freezing Weather

Serendipity:

https://twitter.com/EricIdle/status/1748559038613483768

Latin America’s colonial period was far less Catholic than it might seem − despite the Inquisition’s attempts to police religion

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1748825306658480575

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