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

Telegram's Pavel Durov is wrong about Signal — and has been for years

What’s really happening in America’s economy (Trump and Biden spin aside)

BBC has stories in Pidgin: Africa biggest economies dey show size but no dey translate to beta lives as Nigeria drop to number 4

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

How COVID-19 'breakthrough' infections alter your immune cells

Politics:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1794533592611377477

https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1794376910061109588

Trump Ally Urges Senate GOP to Punt Funding Fight

Close Trump ally Russell Vought urged Senate Republicans in a closed-door lunch to delay this year’s government funding fight to 2025 — to maximize options in a potential second Trump administration.
It’s the latest of several early efforts to start clearing the way for an ambitious, rapid-fire start should former President Trump succeed in ousting President Biden.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1794501152622653584

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, as almost all left, center, and quasi-neutral news sites highlighted Trump’s Libertarian Party debacle; ZeroHedge ignored that and went with How Much Of India's Wastewater Is Left Untreated?

https://twitter.com/PaulRudnickNY/status/1794370342594761147

Russia Steps Up a Covert Sabotage Campaign

U.S. and allied intelligence officials are tracking an increase in low-level sabotage operations in Europe that they say are part of a Russian campaign to undermine support for Ukraine’s war effort.
The covert operations have mostly been arsons or attempted arsons targeting a wide range of sites, including a warehouse in England, a paint factory in Poland, homes in Latvia and, most oddly, an Ikea store in Lithuania.
But people accused of being Russian operatives have also been arrested on charges of plotting attacks on U.S. military bases.

https://twitter.com/thejackhopkins/status/1794251825039728983

FWIW, U.S. Made Threat to Strike Russian Troops

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview published on May 25 that the U.S. has told Russia that if it uses nuclear weapons, there will be an American response using conventional weapons on Russian forces in Ukraine.
Said Sikorsky: “The Americans have told the Russians that if you explode a nuke, even if it doesn’t kill anybody, we will hit all your targets in Ukraine with conventional weapons, we’ll destroy all of them.”

It’s probably in Putin’s best interests to threaten the use of nukes, but actually doing so is another matter. More than anything, he wants to stay in power.

https://twitter.com/spooked75/status/1794317528648569255

Senate Republicans Are Mad They Got Forced To Vote Down A Border Bill That They Like Again

https://twitter.com/RobertPicardo/status/1794458700046094578

Serendipity:

https://twitter.com/blacklionking73/status/1794567410177196384

https://twitter.com/preparedwombat/status/1794601924236603398

https://twitter.com/jordan_harper/status/1794372039358529914

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