Odds and Ends — 24 January 2025


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

Bitcoin Donations Are Pouring In for Ross Ulbricht—Who Might Already Be Sitting on $47M in Old Wallets

MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

OpenAI Goes Full MAGA

Sam Altman has once again put himself in a position of power—this time by sidling up to President Trump.

Amazon to close Quebec facilities, insists it's not because of new union

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Analysis shows significant financial burden of long COVID in US

Politics:

Well, that didn’t take long: Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

In a hearing held three days after Mr. Trump issued his executive order, a Federal District Court judge, John C. Coughenour, sided at least for the moment with four states that sued. “This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” he said.

Trump orders release of last JFK, RFK and MLK assassination files

Trump Demands That Interest Rates ‘Drop Immediately’

“I’ll demand that interest rates drop immediately. And likewise, they should be dropping all over the world. Interest rates should follow us all over.”

In related news, Canute demands that the tide not rise.

A Terrifying New Chapter in Blurring the Past

Anyone who treats or talks about history as a fixed narrative knows nothing about history at all. History yields to fresh insights and new research. It’s hijacked by agendas. After being written by the victors, it sometimes allows the losers a few edits. It’s reinvestigated, relitigated, recast.”
But the makeover of Jan. 6, 2021, just four short years later stands disturbingly apart from that. It adds a chilling contemporary twist: What happens when a demagogue with grandiose ambitions, few if any scruples and little regard for honesty has, at his disposal, an utterly corrupted information environment like ours? When he enjoys a playing field so ideally suited for lies?

Johnson aide discouraged Hutchinson subpoena over concerns about lawmakers’ ‘sexual texts’


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Mississippi politician files ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’

As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”


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Rep. Ogles Proposes Amending the 22nd Amendment to Allow Trump to Serve a Third Term

He’s angling for a Brown Nose Award? Zero chance this happens. Zip, zilch, nada.

“Donald Trump has, time and again, convinced me that he is the most dishonest elected official that I have ever — excuse me — that the public has ever had to interact with. And the paradox with Donald Trump is he seems to make dishonest statements just for the fun of it, as a challenge to see if anybody has the gumption or the wherewithal to take him to task for the dishonest statements he makes.” — Former Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL)

Vulnerable Republicans Warn About Cutting Obamacare

House Republicans in competitive districts warned GOP leaders Thursday: We could lose our seats if you gut Obamacare to pay for a massive border, energy and tax bill.
GOP members are already concerned that they’re poised to lose their trifecta and a swath of seats in the 2026 midterms — they worry GOP efforts to pare back the Affordable Care Act could pour fuel on the fire.

Trump moves to close Pentagon office focused on curbing civilian deaths

The Trump administration is moving to abolish a Pentagon office responsible for promoting civilian safety in battlefield operations, suggesting incoming Defense Department leaders may attempt to loosen restrictions on U.S. military operations worldwide.

Pete Hegseth paid $50,000 to a woman alleging 2017 sexual assault

US climate denial group working with European far-right parties

Serendipity:

Even before the LA fires, Californians fled for 'climate havens'

Ozempic and similar weight loss drugs may lower risk of 42 health conditions, but also pose risks

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Federal District Court judge, John C. Coughenour is a Regan Appointee from 1981. I'd speculate he has a traditionally conservative interpretation of the Constitution.

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