Odds and Ends — 23 November 2024

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

Jim Cramer Says Bitcoin Is a ‘Winner’—Investors Would Really Rather He Not

Another SEC Democrat to Drop Out, Leaving Republicans Running Agency by February

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

New research shows younger and middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults

Politics:

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths

https://twitter.com/CrockerBoy/status/1859598578563326089

Team Trump Wants the Poor to Suffer to Fund His Tax Cuts for the Rich

Trump’s advisers and GOP allies are discussing plans to shred America’s meager safety net to help finance tax cuts for the rich

https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/1859973042434388414

The Sexual-Abuse Cabinet

If everyone is a sexual predator, then no one’s history of misdeeds matters (or, at least, no one needs to be held accountable).
MAGA Republicans seem to be having their own #MeToo moment, except here, a growing cohort of men is essentially saying: Oh, another man accused of sexual predation? #MeToo—and so what? Being accused of sexual harassment, abuse, or assault is no longer disqualifying; on the right, it has been normalized. It may even be an asset.

https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1859737654541287644

Trump Plans to Fire Jack Smith’s Entire Team

President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against the former president, including career attorneys typically protected from political retribution.
Trump is also planning to assemble investigative teams within the Justice Department to hunt for evidence in battleground states that fraud tainted the 2020 election.

https://twitter.com/PaulRudnickNY/status/1860064564068646954
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1860059085384876258
https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1859782262369435790
https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1859955486885630372

'Terror and fear': Elon Musk opens government workers to harassment after id'ing them on X

https://twitter.com/TristanSnell/status/1859786273638224330

Inside Trump’s Rocky Transition

In any other presidential transition, such a showdown and physical confrontation between two top advisers to the president-elect would be a showstopping breakdown in decorum.
But in Trump’s freewheeling orbit, the incident was soon forgotten as his team has returned to the patterns of his first term in office — with shouting matches, expulsions from meetings and name-calling, all between the public celebrations and rocket-ship photo ops.

https://twitter.com/traecrowder/status/1858988958551777554