Odds and Ends — 22 August 2024

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

CZ and Binance face new lawsuit for alleged laundering of stolen crypto

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Expected to Set Stage for September Rate Cut

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Covid tied to higher risk of depression, anxiety, PTSD and other conditions, with the unvaccinated most affected, study shows

Politics:

Trump's lead in Pennsylvania is gone. Vance's solution: Just don't believe it. No, really.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1826303964792414306

Buttigieg: Trump campaign ‘might not recover from’ Project 2025

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1826304750679458134

Trump Humiliated After Claiming He Graduated ‘First in His Class’ From College — Wharton Proves He’s Lying (With Receipts!)

https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/1826313696546631721

Democrats Use the Convention to Try to Define Trump as a Self-Interested Fraud

The goal of Ms. Harris’s anti-Trump messaging is trying to shrink her opponent in order to rise above him, minimizing him and disengaging from him to avoid getting drawn into reacting to his every provocation. There is less engagement on highlighting Mr. Trump’s racist statements or casting him as a threat to democracy, than focusing on a portrait Democrats believe will resonate with voters: that of Mr. Trump as a meanspirited fraud who only cares about himself and his billionaire friends.

https://twitter.com/maddenifico/status/1826021754139193842

Trump Alleges Scheme Around U.S. Economic Data

Donald Trump introduced a new premise for doubting the election results in advance on Wednesday, turning routine professional revisions of government economic statistics into a baseless allegation of political manipulation.

https://twitter.com/CoffeyTimeNews/status/1826329454458654729

Desantis Trying to Rig Abortion Referendum

https://twitter.com/samhaselby/status/1826038795336327412

Trump Says He’ll Be ‘Mean’ to Kamala Harris

Donald Trump has no plans to heed the advice of his aides and limit himself to policy contrasts when he debates Kamala Harris. He wants to make it personal.
Said Trump to a confidant: “This is just the way I am. I hate my opponent. I hate my opponents.”
He added: “Hillary, Joe, Kamala. It doesn’t matter. I just hate them.”
To another adviser, Trump was blunt about taking on Harris: “I’m going to be mean.”

https://twitter.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1826338226384056748

The Secret to Harris’ Recipe: Narrowing Trump’s Lead with Low-Engagement Voters

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1826046608816963949