Odds and Ends — 22 October 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Bitcoin hashrate hits all-time high, boosting network security
Why Chinese Are Rushing Into a ‘Casino’ Stock Market
Solana Protocol Elmnts Launches Tokenized Mineral Rights Platform
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
New Study Reveals Hidden COVID Proteins in Blood of Long Haulers
Politics:
https://twitter.com/TallbarFIN/status/1848272406068035894
Behind Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan
The deep purpose of a mass deportation is to establish a new sort of politics, a politics of us-and-them, which means (at first) everyone else against the Latinos. In this new regime, the government just stokes the fears and encourages the denunciations, and we expect little more of it.
PAC Paying Trump’s Legal Fees Runs Dry
Save America, the leadership PAC that Trump has used to pay his legal bills and those of some of his associates, raised $1.4 million in September and spent $4 million, most of it on lawyers, demonstrating how the former president’s legal problems have continued to strain campaign resources.
The group had less than $2 million left in cash and owes nearly $5 million in legal debt.
Trump Now Wants to Make Voting Easier in North Carolina
Donald Trump’s years-long effort to restrict mail balloting and early voting has skidded into reverse in North Carolina, with the Republican presidential nominee demanding the kind of easier voting access that he labeled fraudulent when Democrats pushed similar measures during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
The 100 Worst Things Trump Has Done Since Descending That Escalator
https://twitter.com/preparedwombat/status/1848444914641551496
How Trump could make Social Security's fiscal outlook gloomier
https://twitter.com/MattMetcalf/status/1848403430538416587
https://twitter.com/padresj/status/1848639872413642842
The Biggest Mystery Of January 6 Remains Unsolved
https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1848449413439725637
Meme Rehashes Old, False Claim That J6 Committee Destroyed Evidence
https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1848537108115230722
Bank account used for Trump's hush money payments got cash linked to Russian oligarch
Defenestration never goes out of style: Former Russian oil executive found dead after ‘fall’
https://twitter.com/Locati0ns/status/1848559465840165151
UN 'deeply concerned' Kenya returned Turkish refugees
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1848340709641998478
A closer look at the AirPods Pro’s new hearing aid features
https://twitter.com/fpaulwilson/status/1848473243277258860
For those who don’t understand the reference, Wilson wrote a great book called The Keep that was the basis for a terrible movie.
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