Odds and Ends — 21 September 2024

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

Elon Musk starts to comply with Brazilian court orders, suspends accounts on X

US SEC intends to seek sanctions against Elon Musk in Twitter probe

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Hybrid COVID variant XEC is more contagious

Politics:

https://twitter.com/ethanclynne/status/1837098098323054767

Georgia Election Board Goes Rogue

The Georgia State Election Board is set to vote on Friday on a package of nearly a dozen rules that would change the way elections are conducted amid growing pressure from almost every level of Georgia state government advising the board that it is operating outside of its legal authority.

https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz/status/1837156691348992061

Trump Keeps Promising a Doom That Never Comes

If the election does not go his way, the economy will tank, Christmas will be canceled, and America as we know it will be ‘finished,’ Donald Trump promised in the run-up to the 2020 election.
That race did not go his way, of course, and none of Trump’s prophesied cataclysms materialized under Joe Biden’s presidency. But that has not stopped Trump from recycling some of the same dark portents about a Kamala Harris presidency.

https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1837324381254541405

America’s First True Dictator

America’s first true dictator disguised himself as a friend of “the people.”

https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1837026213438836924

How the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting Rights

Most women vote Democratic. And most still change their name when they marry. And that’s where the GOP sees an Achilles’ heel.

https://twitter.com/jaysbookman/status/1837163275307430306

Mark Robinson Proves—Again—That the Republican Party Is a Failed State

Robinson is going to lose this race. He’s going to lose it so badly that he might pull the top of the ticket down with him. And he’s going to lose it dishonorably. He isn’t Barry Goldwater going down to defeat because of his principles.
What happened is that the Republican Party of North Carolina got hijacked by an insane person. And when the shit hit the fan, the NC GOP didn’t have the ability to push this insane person aside.
This is the difference between a healthy institution and a failed institution.

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1837313212284555401

A Dramatic Rise in Pregnant Women Dying in Texas

The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state’s 2021 ban on abortion care — far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation.
From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1836850088439685456

Georgia Election Board to Require Hand Counted Ballots

The Georgia State Election Board approved a rule Friday requiring counties in the critical presidential battleground to hand-count all ballots this year, potentially upending the November election by delaying reporting of results by weeks if not months.
The change was spearheaded by a pro-Trump majority that has enacted a series of changes to the state’s election rules in recent weeks and approved the hand-count requirement despite a string of public commenters who begged them not to. Critics included democracy advocates who accused the board of intentionally injecting chaos and uncertainty into the presidential contest as well as election supervisors and poll workers who said hand counts would take too long, cost money and almost certainly produce counting errors.
The office of the Republican state attorney general, which is responsible for advising the board, wrote in an opinion that the change was unlawful.

https://twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1837125401799278982

Trump’s shutdown push falls flat with Republicans

https://twitter.com/liesandperfidy/status/1836865480700875091

India rejects report on transfer of ammunitions to Ukraine as 'speculative'

https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1837185580985143601