Odds and Ends — 22 October 2024


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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:

Central Park 5 Sue Trump For Defamation After He Again Blamed Them For Crime During Presidential Debate

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

How Trump could make Social Security's fiscal outlook gloomier


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The Biggest Mystery Of January 6 Remains Unsolved

Meme Rehashes Old, False Claim That J6 Committee Destroyed Evidence

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’

UN 'deeply concerned' Kenya returned Turkish refugees

Serendipity:

A closer look at the AirPods Pro’s new hearing aid features

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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