Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, AI, and Debt:
Crypto Slides into “Extreme Fear” as Bitcoin Tumbles
Economy Shows Signs of Trouble
The shutdown is compounding problems that have intensified broader anxiety over an economy that in recent months has been marked by lingering high prices for many consumer goods, rough jobs numbers, mass layoffs at major companies — including Amazon and Target — and an uptick in inflation. That stagnation has in recent months eroded the high approval marks President Donald Trump once enjoyed on the economy. The bleak picture has some Republicans sounding the alarm to the White House — even though delivering the news isn’t easy.
The Ghostwriters in the Machine
Arcadia Publishing built its empire on small-town storytellers. Now it wants to sell their words to an A.I. company no one will name.
Coronavirus and Public Health:
COVID vaccination cuts risk of long-term symptoms in teens by over a third, data suggest
Politics:
U.S. Seeks U.N. Approval for Gaza Security Force
The U.S. sent several UN Security Council members a draft resolution on Monday for the establishment of an international force in Gaza for a duration of at least two years.
The General Assembly would almost certainly have voted it down, but is the Security Council likely to agree?
Jack Smith Shifts From Defense to Counterattack
Mr. Smith, the special counsel who twice indicted Mr. Trump, appears unintimidated by the president’s demand that Republican lawmakers investigate him and that the Justice Department put him in prison for as-yet unproved and unspecified crimes. Quite the opposite, in fact. Mr. Smith, who spent more than two years aggressively collecting evidence to prove Mr. Trump mishandled classified documents and tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, appears eager to publicly challenge a foundational pillar of MAGA canon: that the president was a sinned-upon innocent who did nothing to deserve scrutiny, much less two prosecutions. Mr. Smith has told people in his orbit that he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against Mr. Trump denied to him by the Supreme Court decision asserting broad presidential immunity from prosecution and adverse rulings from a Trump-appointed judge on the federal bench in Florida.
https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/1985452069608644926
A Step Closer to the Release of Volume II of Jack Smith's Final Report
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals tells Judge Cannon to fish or cut bait on the 8 month old motion to release Volume II.
Trump Officials Blocked Nvidia’s Push to Export Chips
Shortly before President Trump met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea, an urgent issue emerged. Trump wanted to discuss a request by Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang to allow sales of a new generation of artificial-intelligence chips to China. Greenlighting the export of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips would be a seismic policy shift potentially giving China, the U.S.’s biggest geopolitical competitor, a technological accelerant. Huang—who speaks to Trump often—has lobbied relentlessly to maintain access to the Chinese market. As they prepared to meet Xi, top officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Trump the sales would threaten national security, saying they would boost China’s AI data-center capabilities and backfire on the U.S.
*———— The Trump Shutdown ————*
SNAP update: Trump admin will pay 50% of food stamp benefits in November amid shutdown
Will the two judges who ruled against Trump on SNAP payments accept this arbitrary half measure?
*———— The 60 Minutes Interview ————*
https://twitter.com/MikeNellis/status/1985179246545752179
https://twitter.com/DoctorHenryCT/status/1985331282633478190
https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1985356909323461055
Trump Lied 18 Times During ’60 Minutes’ Interview
President Donald Trump littered his new ’60 Minutes’ interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked.
https://twitter.com/hissgoescobra/status/1985197877837320411
https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1985399279146713182
*———— The Epstein Coverup ————*
https://twitter.com/RubenGallego/status/1985377639004045543
*———— Stark. Raving. Mad. ————*
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1985473567002149196
*———— I Know Nothing! ————*
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1985367817609195556
Speaker Wants You to Believe He Lives Under a Rock
Mike Johnson has a reflex. When asked about a major breaking news event that is dominating headlines and conversations around Capitol Hill’s proverbial water coolers — usually the president’s latest authoritarian endeavor or national humiliation — Johnson defaults to pretending he has no access to the internet, newspapers, or staff who are quite literally paid to keep him informed. The House speaker wants you to believe he lives under a rock, that he’s so busy refusing to swear in duly elected members of Congress and plotting ways to strip health care and food assistance from poor people that he simply cannot be bothered to keep up with the news. It’s the least believable schtick in Washington, D.C.
https://twitter.com/ok_post_guy/status/1985391999302946882
*———— Autocracy R Us ————*
https://twitter.com/TheJFreakinC/status/1985209605211726234
*———— Blatant In-Your-Face Corruption ————*
https://twitter.com/TheMaineWonk/status/1985375587934826980
https://twitter.com/MikeNellis/status/1985363612655898762
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1985413628107911579
*———— Putin&Krasnov vs. Ukraine ————*
https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1985357247711510719
https://twitter.com/RealJakeBroe/status/1985159695859134947
https://twitter.com/Beefeater_Fella/status/1985249410901537261
*———— Smoot-Hawley 2.0 ————*
An Eighth Grader Could Figure Out the Supreme Court Tariffs Case
*———— Mors Imperii ————*
One in Four Americans Think Political Violence Is Justified
Does Donald Trump realize that he has ceded world leadership to China? Probably not: During his recent Asian trip, foreign leaders flattered him and showered him with personal gifts, so he came home with his ego even more inflated than usual. Nobody close to him would dare tell him that if you look at the substance of what he agreed to, it amounted to an ignominious retreat. When Chuck Schumer pointed out the reality of what Trump didn’t accomplish, his reaction was hysterical. Well, if this be treason, make the most of it. The whole world knows what Trump’s sycophants won’t tell him: His confrontation with China has ended up demonstrating Chinese strength and American weakness.
Trial Begins for Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
The trial of a man charged with assaulting a Customs and Border Protection agent by throwing a sandwich at his chest in protest began on Monday, several months after federal prosecutors failed to persuade a grand jury to approve a felony indictment against him over the incident. The case stands out for its unusual facts and the Trump administration’s determination to prosecute the man, even on a lesser charge. But it is one of a number of unusually minor cases the government is bringing to federal court at Mr. Trump’s direction.
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