Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Bitcoin falls under $109K as traders brace for Friday’s $22B BTC options expiry
https://twitter.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1971222783981133940
How to get a refund from the Amazon Prime settlement
Unusual Trading Ahead of Crypto-Treasury Deals Draws Scrutiny From U.S. Regulators
Coronavirus and Public Health:
Chronic truancy at Louisiana schools has been elevated since COVID-19
RFK Jr. Finally Gets Around to Bringing His War on Medical Science to Abortion
Politics:
https://twitter.com/MikeNellis/status/1971271499605496085
Microsoft Disables Services for Israel’s Defense Ministry
Microsoft has disabled certain services and subscriptions by Israel’s defense ministry, after finding evidence that it used the tech company’s cloud services to surveil Gaza citizens.
https://twitter.com/wcbuecker/status/1970902005528002944
https://twitter.com/LikeATachyon/status/1970743072456949892
*———— The Epstein Coverup ————*
https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/1971185054983569436
Epstein Estate Turns Over New Documents
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has received new materials from the estate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The delivery of documents comes in response to a recent letter from congressional investigators to the estate, requesting cash ledgers, message logs, calendars and flight logs in the estate’s possession.
https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/1971387227558359474
*———— Bailouts R Us ————*
Trump Will Use Tariff Revenue to Bail Out Farmers
…Donald Trump said Thursday that he will use tariff revenue to offer cash bailouts for farmers who are struggling with trade uncertainty and other economic headwinds. Said Trump: “We’re going to take some of that tariff money that we made, we’re going to give it to our farmers, who are, for a little while, going to be hurt until the tariffs kick into their benefit. So we’re going to make sure that our farmers are in great shape, because we’re taking in a lot of money.
Is this legal? Tariff revenue (paid by Americans, not foreign countries) goes into the U.S. treasury, not into some slush fund for a President to dish out to whoever he wants.
https://twitter.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1971287991453995338
https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1971290870843593152
*———— Um, FIFA Would Like to Have a Word ————*
Trump Threatens to Move World Cup Games
…Trump suggested to reporters on Thursday that he would move matches for next summer’s 2026 men’s World Cup away from U.S. host cities that are “even a little bit dangerous.” Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump first guaranteed that the World Cup would be “very secure,” but then suggested that he would intervene and strip host cities of matches. A reporter mentioned Seattle and San Francisco, which will host six games each, as cities that have pushed back against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
*———— Autocracy R Us ————*
Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted on two of three counts sought by prosecutors — one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice — just days after President Donald Trump issued a public demand for his Justice Department to act ‘now’ to bring prosecutions against Comey and other political foes.
Pam Bondi Has Concerns Over Indicting James Comey
Attorney General Pam Bondi and other federal prosecutors have concerns about the case against former FBI Director James Comey…
https://twitter.com/Angry_Staffer/status/1971359705521144317
https://twitter.com/RobertJMolnar/status/1971367888159375391
https://youtu.be/2V_KsNZ2T2I?feature=shared
Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves. One by one, American leaders supposedly committed to principles of free speech, due process, democracy, and equality have abandoned those ideals when menaced by the Trump administration.
Justice Department Orders Probe of George Soros
A senior Justice Department official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorney’s offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor whom President Trump has demanded be thrown in jail. The official’s directive suggests department leaders are following orders from the president that specific people or groups be subject to criminal investigation — a major break from decades of past practice meant to insulate the Justice Department from political interference.
https://twitter.com/jefftimmer/status/1970906701395263547
Justice Department Sues Six States Seeking Private Voter Data
The Department of Justice sued six states, including Pennsylvania, the nation’s biggest presidential battleground, as the Trump administration escalates its efforts to obtain the personal and private information of voters. The lawsuits, filed against California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, follows similar suits that the department brought against Maine and Oregon, two Democratic-controlled states. All of those states have rebuffed previous demands from the Justice Department to gain access to statewide voter rolls that include sensitive information, such as drivers license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.
Trump and his powerful friends are creating a dangerous moment for free speech… American mass media has been transformed in these early months of President Donald Trump’s second administration. We’re about 35 weeks into a term that will last for 173 more, and in that time, we have seen a tech titan gut a once-great newspaper in an apparent act of capitulation to the commander in chief, government accounts gleefully spreading hateful memes on X (the far-right platform owned by a billionaire tech oligarch), a defamation lawsuit filed by Trump against The New York Times (and quickly dismissed by the judge as “superfluous”), and, of course, the assault on free speech carried out by Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman. Big things can happen very quickly. Here is what seems to be next: TikTok’s U.S. operations are reportedly on the cusp of being sold to a group that includes Trump allies, led by yet another tech baron, Larry Ellison.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1971248375988367606
*———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————*
Trump's Shell Game Threatens American Security
When a phantom foundation with no address, no registration and a founder who might not exist, wires $100 million to the president's crypto company, America has a problem. When that payment arrives just weeks after Trump visits the UAE and announces "$200 billion in commercial deals," the problem becomes a national security crisis. Yet, foreign policy experts continue to analyze regional threats while overlooking the elephant in the Oval Office—Trump's corruption is the single greatest threat facing America today.
https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1970985189460640160
*———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————*
https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1971124957448126960
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1971216433360273441
https://twitter.com/victoriaslog/status/1971184408603603189
https://twitter.com/JohannaNyman5/status/1971261230515093821
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1971286944769511705
https://twitter.com/maria_drutska/status/1971294424769626218
*———— Hegseth on the Rocks ————*
Hegseth Orders Rare, Urgent Meeting of Generals and Admirals
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year. The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide.
I’m guessing there’s a 54% chance that he’s letting them know that there’s soon going to be an illegal war launched (Venezuela?), a 34% chance that he’ll want them to swear a loyalty oath, a 10% chance he’ll tell them his plans for implementing martial law, and a 2% chance that it’s something even more insane.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1971218710556967062
https://twitter.com/doggintrump/status/1971261317404295272
https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1971246602250863003
https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1971339347451633730
*———— Mors Imperii ————*
https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/1971229326499774839
https://twitter.com/NickTimiraos/status/1971214605662982525
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/DrDavidVernon/status/1971276011141550392
https://twitter.com/tonytost/status/1971380384534585827
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