Odds and Ends — 5 July 2024
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:
Mt. Gox Begins Repayments in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash
Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
Why Were Kids Hit Less Hard by COVID? New Study Offers Clues
Politics:
https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1808989559037817258
Former President Trump strongly prefers running against President Biden than another Democrat, particularly after reviewing the latest polling. But he’s preparing a brutal assault on Vice President Kamala Harris if she’s the nominee, advisers tell us.
Trump’s attacks on her would surprise few. He’d argue Harris is too liberal, too hostile to business and secure borders, and too inexperienced, weak and phony to be president. But some of his advisers are quite concerned that a fresh, youthful, non-Biden ticket presents a bigger threat than Trump assumes.
https://twitter.com/DerekNeverFails/status/1808896095738867950
Le Pen Set to Fall Short of French Majority
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is set to fall well short of an absolute majority in the French legislative election on Sunday, according to projections from three polling companies.
The far-right group and its allies are on course to win between 190 and 250 of the 577 seats in the National Assembly, based on the three surveys released on Wednesday and Thursday. That would be significantly below the 289 that would enable it to pass bills easily and push through its agenda.
https://twitter.com/MarkJacob16/status/1808906647210803483
King Joe: If Joe Biden Were as Ruthless About Immunity as Donald Trump …
What might the current president do with monarchical immunity to act? Sorry, that’s not admissible.
https://twitter.com/blacklionking73/status/1809125567364518373
Big Donors Tell the Democrats They Won’t Finance Party
President Joe Biden is facing an uprising from some his own party’s wealthy donors, including an heiress to the Disney family fortune, who say they will no longer fund the Democratic Party until Biden drops out of the presidential race following his disastrous debate performance.
https://twitter.com/acnewsitics/status/1808935442638909691
Jair Bolsonaro Indicted in Brazil
https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1807876105807770022
The former president’s recent attack on Senator Chuck Schumer is like an Everlasting Gobstopper of offense, with new layers emerging one after another.
Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump’s campaign — but it may be backfiring instead
Trump’s authoritarian game plan is breaking through the post-debate noise and it’s starting to scare people
https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1808878790417805317
https://twitter.com/Bubu_fan1/status/1809057151945527319
Serendipity:
How the Salvation Army’s navy was sunk - twice
https://twitter.com/BestPixMN/status/1808899072666825181
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