Odds and Ends — 7 December 2024

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

FDIC asked banks to ‘pause’ crypto activities — Court docs

Bitcoin ETFs Now Hold More BTC Than Satoshi Amid 'Mind-Blowing' Growth

https://twitter.com/Alex_JKPGender/status/1864785807187300658

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Truth be Told: No consensus on the origins of COVID-19

DenyDefendDepose:

https://twitter.com/EastEndJoe/status/1864852039420850215
https://twitter.com/dbessner/status/1865072318390898701

https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1864850925761786226
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1865070574545891814

Politics:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1865120552983187730

Eric Adams Suggests He Could Switch Parties

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who has taken a soft touch with President-elect Donald Trump, left open the possibility of switching to the Republican Party in a pair of Friday morning interviews?

It makes a lot of sense. It’s not as if he’s going to be getting a pardon from Biden. Might as well try to get one from Trump.

https://twitter.com/7Veritas4/status/1865077153949233399

Fill the Swamp?

As the 2016 presidential election drew to an end, Donald Trump began using a new slogan: ‘Drain the swamp.’ It was a neat encapsulation of his critique of his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, and of the country’s governing establishment of both parties, which he painted as corrupt, cozy, and self-dealing.”
These days, the catchphrase has begun to vanish from his repertoire. Last month, The Washington Post calculated that Trump had used it ‘just 59 times on Truth Social, his social media site, in the past two years—fewer times than he wrote about it on Twitter in October 2016 alone.’ The shift isn’t just semantic, either. Trump’s staffing decisions, his transition design, and his own behavior show that he is uninterested in even keeping up appearances this time. Trump himself will never say it, but the credo of his second term is coming into focus: Fill the swamp.

https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/1865066916617801791
https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1865085798648848680

South Korean President Avoids Impeachment as His Party Boycotts Vote

https://twitter.com/JayinKyiv/status/1865047622421004422

Trump’s Allies Go Global

In its latest iteration, CPAC is seeking to build something of a political import-export business, seeding Trumpian politics across the globe while also hunting for ideas for use back home and like-minded leaders to amplify.
While it’s not the first time a group with ties to Mr. Trump has tried to push his brand of populism abroad — Stephen K. Bannon, a former Trump adviser, once helped set up a political training academy outside Rome — the high-profile lineup in Buenos Aires demonstrated signs of new momentum.

https://twitter.com/TheFl0orIsLaVa/status/1865017225867895135

Russia's 'meat-grinder' tactics bring battlefield success - but at horrendous cost

https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1864876147646792128