Odds and Ends — 15 March 2024


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

For Leo Power Up Day, I staked 75.286 LEO.

FWIW, Bitcoin Has 6 Months Until ETF "Liquidity Crisis"

The untold story of Kickstarter’s crypto Hail Mary—and the secret $100 million a16z-led investment to save its fading brand

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Long COVID brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain

Politics:

Firm That Paid Indicted FBI Informant Tied to Trump Allies

An American company that paid the now indicted FBI informant Alexander Smirnov in 2020 is connected to a UK company owned by Trump business associates in Dubai.

Gosh, never saw that one coming…

Jury finds father of Michigan school shooter guilty of involuntary manslaughter

Conservative pundit says retirement ‘is a stupid idea.’I agree. Let us work until we die.

How Hur Misled the Country on Biden’s Memory

GOP Candidate Called for Execution of Obama, Biden

The Republican nominee for superintendent overseeing North Carolina’s public schools and its $11 billion budget has a history marked by extreme and controversial comments, including sharing baseless conspiracy theories and frequent calls for the execution of prominent Democrats.
Michele Morrow, a conservative activist who last week upset the incumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction in North Carolina’s Republican primary, expressed support in 2020 for the televised execution of former President Barack Obama and suggested killing then-President-elect Joe Biden.

FBI Warns Gaza War Will Stoke Domestic Radicalization “For Years to Come”

The FBI is investigating “thousands” of threats related to the Israel–Hamas conflict.

Schumer’s Anti-Netanyahu Speech Stuns Israel

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) speech calling for a new government in Israel landed like an earthquake Thursday, delivering a huge shock to the already tense U.S.-Israel relationship.
In addition to being the most senior Jewish elected official in the country, Schumer has had one of the longest and closest relationships with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of any U.S. politician.

Donald Trump Is a National Security Risk

The risks of denying Trump these early briefings are negligible. As we learned from his presidency, Trump is fundamentally unbriefable: He doesn’t listen, and he doesn’t understand complicated national-security matters anyway. The problem with giving Trump these briefings, however, isn’t that he’s ignorant. He’s also dangerous, as his record shows.
Indeed, if Trump were a federal employee, he’d have likely already been stripped of his clearances and escorted from the building. I say this from experience: I was granted my first security clearance when I was 25 years old—Ronald Reagan was still president, which tells you how long ago that was—and I held a top-secret clearance when I advised a senior U.S. senator during the Gulf War. I then held a clearance as a Department of Defense employee for more than a quarter century.


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Trump-backed Senate candidate faces GOP worries that he could be linked to adult website profile

Judge rejects Trump’s bid to toss documents case over ‘vagueness’


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Serendipity:

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