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

BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF Nears 200K BTC, Passing Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy

Olive oil becomes most wanted item for shoplifters in Spain

Jamie Dimon and Ray Dalio Warned of an Economic Disaster That Never Came.

The experts were way off. They underestimated the impact of government stimulus and the resilience of consumers and businesses. And they were too skeptical of the Federal Reserve’s ability to push inflation lower without sparking a recession.
The economy continues to grow at a steady clip. Inflation is getting closer to the Fed’s goal of 2%, unemployment remains near a half-century low and the stock market is near record highs.

The mysterious rise of the Chinese ecommerce giant behind Temu

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Rage, waste and corruption: how Covid changed politics

Four years on from the start of the pandemic, the drama may have subsided but the lingering effects go on. Are we suffering from political long Covid?

Trump’s vaccine rhetoric sends chills through public health circles

Politics:

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’

It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too

How Trump Fumbled His Attack on Biden’s Age

For a long time, Republican politicians and political operatives understood that Fox News and the rest of the Right Wing media were propaganda operations designed to excite the base and damage the opposition. They were in on the joke. But in the Trump era, most of them followed the former President down the rabbit hole. They stopped getting their news from legitimate sources and live entirely inside the MAGA media bubble. They turn on Fox and think it’s a window instead of a mirror. They believe voters — the vast majority of whom could not find Fox on their cable package — see the world the same way they do.
They are shocked when the real Joe Biden appears. Sure, he looks a little older than he used to, but he is still sharp and full of fight. Marjorie Taylor Greene seemed legitimately shocked when Biden didn’t collapse on stage while she tried to engage him on border issues.
Biden’s age is still a legitimate concern for voters. One speech does not make it go away. Reassuring them will be a theme of the entire campaign, but Trump and the Republicans are overplaying their hand.

NYT finally sort of fact checks Katie Britt’s lies in her SOTU response

At least they credited Johnathan Katz for breaking the story. It would have been nice if they’d done more than that and said that basically their entire fact check was based on his investigative reporting.

Laugh Riot

To understand Trump’s continuing hold over his fans, we have to ask: Why do they find him so funny?

Biden Breaks with Netanyahu, Sticks with Israel

President Biden has begun a tricky maneuver: breaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Gaza war strategy — while sticking with Israel and its fight against Hamas, which is still holding hostages.
No one incident led Biden to start changing his course with Netanyahu, whom he has known for 40 years. It’s an accumulation of events and decisions by the prime minister over the last few weeks.

Russia has recruited as many as 15,000 Nepalis to fight its war. Many returned traumatized. Some never came back

Why Trump Will Need A Lot More Than $540 Million

Even if the ex-president figures out how to pay his mounting legal fees, he’s still going to be scrambling for cash for years to come.

Serendipity:

Teenagers often know when their parents are having money problems − and that knowledge is linked to mental health challenges, new research finds

Researchers enhance peripheral vision in AI models

By enabling models to see the world more like humans do, the work could help improve driver safety and shed light on human behavior.

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