Odds and Ends — 17 June 2024

Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Will Ethereum continue to see green as self custody rises and whales sell?
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
What I saw inside the government’s response to COVID-19…
I had confronted terrible outbreaks, but none of them prepared me for the environment I would find myself in during the coronavirus pandemic.
https://twitter.com/Craig_A_Spencer/status/1802183491141898528
Politics:
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1802031424851071462
How is it possible Trump’s habitual incoherence caught top CEOs by surprise?
https://twitter.com/RepJackKimble/status/1802155557391872206
Anti-Abortion Groups Thwart Citizen Initiatives
The tactics include attempts to get signatures removed from initiative petitions, legislative pushes for competing ballot measures that could confuse voters and monthslong delays caused by lawsuits over ballot initiative language.
Abortion rights advocates say many of the strategies build off ones tested last year in Ohio.
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1802407394334445609
Trump threatens to cut US aid to Ukraine quickly if reelected
Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Quasi-Confesses to Molesting 12-Year-Old Girl
https://twitter.com/IvanasStairCam/status/1802335199948083486
Donald Trump at Risk of Losing Florida, Recent Polls Suggest
I’d hold off on celebrating that one.
https://twitter.com/leftcoastbabe/status/1801385163227877445
https://twitter.com/AuntSassyAss/status/1801388220049146090
Red States Push to Expand Power to Curb Immigration
Nearly a year since Texas adopted a law empowering state and local police officers to arrest undocumented migrants who cross into its territory, Republican lawmakers in at least 11 states have tried to adopt similar measures, capitalizing on the prominence of immigration in the 2024 presidential election.
The fate of the proposals — six have been enacted or are under consideration, with Louisiana expected to sign its measure into law as early as next week — is still being litigated. In a case before a federal appeals court, Texas is defending its law by arguing that illegal immigration is a form of invasion, allowing it to expand its power to protect its borders. Federal courts have previously ruled that, from a constitutional perspective, the definition of the term invasion is limited to military attacks.
States have tested the limits of their power over immigration before, but lawyers and legal scholars said the push this year was accompanied by what had amounted to a public-relations campaign.
https://twitter.com/StevenSenski/status/1801398490498572793
New York Post Cropped Video of Biden
The New York Post is experiencing online backlash against their latest cover story, which includes photos claiming to show President Joe Biden wandering aimlessly while watching a skydiving demonstration at the G7 summit in Italy.
Shortly after the video was posted many began pointing out that the video posted to the Post’s social media was seemingly cropped, so as not to show the other group of skydivers that Biden was turning to address.
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1802326607253610657
171,300 patients traveled out of state for abortions in 2023
Xi Jinping claimed US wants China to attack Taiwan
https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/1802391161220510128
Serendipity:
35 bottles filled with cherries from the 18th century found at Mount Vernon


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