Odds and Ends — 26 September 20241
“So many books, so little time.” — Frank Zappa
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
South Korea Reminds Crypto Scammers of Possible Life Sentence If Loses Exceed $4 Million
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1838650188082155748
Tokenized asset market to hit $10T by 2030: Chainlink report
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Doctor in tears at Covid inquiry says what NHS staff saw was ‘indescribable’
Politics:
https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1839019527092453491
https://twitter.com/RexHuppke/status/1839068523756126520
Anti-U.S. Axis Divided Over Trump vs. Harris
Russia and Iran are close partners in Ukraine and in the Middle East, but they’re intervening on opposite sides in the U.S. election.
https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1838769023430836710
The Nativists Have Taken Over the GOP
A new CNN poll showed that a majority of the Republican Party now agrees that ‘an increasing number of people of many different races, ethnic groups, and nationalities in the U.S.’ is mostly threatening (55 percent) rather than enriching (45 percent) to American culture.
This represents a sharp rise from 2019, when just 21 percent of Republicans said that this increasing racial and ethnic diversity was threatening. Back then, Republicans said by a 48-point margin that it was actually more enriching than threatening.
https://twitter.com/protecttruth_/status/1838691916197539862
New York Mayor Eric Adams expected to face federal charges
https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1839124689718858019
Secret Service Agent Accused of Assaulting Harris Aide
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating allegations that one of its agents sexually assaulted a female staff member of the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris.
The agent allegedly forced himself onto the woman and groped her in her hotel room after eating a meal and drinking alcohol with her and several other Harris campaign staffers in a restaurant in Wisconsin.
https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1838710350344081441
For more than a century, the Republican Party’s conservative wing has run against cities. Early in the twentieth century, their animus was rooted in nativism and religion. They mobilized small-town Protestant voters by attacking heavily Catholic cities as beholden to popery, demon rum, and corrupt Irish machines. Several generations later, during Richard Nixon’s ascent, the party’s right wing roused white voter antipathy toward escalating urban crime and civil uprisings, both supposedly fostered by the federal War on Poverty.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1838731059388723274
Republicans Have A Nazi Problem
Left intellectuals have argued in circles for years over whether it’s academically valid to call Donald Trump and his Republican devotees fascist.
The debate has mostly pitted practical thinkers, drawing on a nine-year record of creeping fasicsm, against territorial theorists or factionalists retreating to ever-more arcane reasons to absolve MAGA…
But now I believe the debate has become obsolete. It’d be more instructive, at this point, if we supplanted the old debate with a new, analogous one over whether the GOP is simply fascist or given over to outright Nazism.
https://twitter.com/BastianBrauns/status/1838700261335769114
I want a job writing headlines: JD Vance's favorability likened to 'herpes' in brutal poll analysis
https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1839008090391462129
In 2016, I experienced the desolation of my candidate for president losing after the most respected polling experts told me she had a 71.4 percent, 85 percent, 98.2 percent, and even 99 percent chance of winning. As a historian, I was studying how Ronald Reagan’s runaway landslide in 1980 was proceeded by every pollster but one supremely confident that the race was just about tied.”
I’ve just finished a fine book published in 2020 that confirms an intuition I’ve been chewing on since then. It turns out this is practically the historical norm. W. Joseph Campbell’s Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections demonstrates—for the first time, strangely enough, given the robust persuasiveness of its conclusions—that presidential polls are almost always wrong, consistently, in deeply patterned ways.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1839289384408862971
Newsmax Defamation Trial to Begin
Jury selection is set to begin Thursday in a closely watched defamation trial pitting voting technology company Smartmatic against the right-wing cable network Newsmax, in a high-stakes case over the airing of false 2020 election claims.
Barring a last-minute settlement, which is common in cases like these, both sides are girding for a showdown in Delaware Superior Court, where a similar lawsuit between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems was famously settled last year for a record $787 million.
https://twitter.com/Kanew/status/1837653372305801649
Serendipity:
https://twitter.com/Tier1Diabetic/status/1838700003130536111
Bees have irrational biases when choosing which flowers to feed on − just like human shoppers do
https://twitter.com/JoeBerkowitz/status/1838581320198377724
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